The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-28
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Washington Mills was shot at Live Oak
Wednesday night.
Columbus Richmond Mobly was jailed al
Live Oak Tnursdsy for stealing horse
A bar Of iron OF sufficient sizs to wreck a
train was found on.the Savannah, Florida
and Western track at Branford Wednes-
day night.
Four Of the main business houses of Bran
ford were broken open and robbed Wednes-
day night. The robbers secured quite an
amount Of booty. There Is no clew 20 their
identity.
The Sanitary Auxiliary Association of
Jacksonville will meet at the board Of trade
rooms tomorrow afternoon to consider the
question Of donating g.. 500 to the starving
Russians.
A sale has bean completed OF 800 acres of
land in the Peterson hommock, back Of
Palmetto, to a company Of capitalists, III.
E. Gillet of South Lake Weir, manager,
who will set the entire tract in superior
variety Of lemons.
The piece of land known as the Atwatar
place, lying in and adjacent 10 the north
western part Of Quincy, has been purchased
by Mr.. Marstelh Of Virginia. Mr. Marstelli is
a commercial Traveller, having for his terri
tory the country from Virginia 70 Florida.
A private car stopped at the depot of
Quincy last Wednesday, having on board O
party of capitalists from New York. They
stopped over Wednesday and Thursday
viewing the country. and it Is said that they
contemplate investing heavily in the TO-
bacco lands of Gadsden county.
A deer chase is one Of the novel entertain
ments being arranged for Ponce de Leon
park at st. Augustine. Three deer have
boz 10 II l..
the park. A pack of hounds, with the as
sistance Of the deer will give an exhibition
of running. No harm can befall the deer.
as cover will be built for them to take re-
fuge in when tired.
The Catholics through Rt. Rev. John
Moore. bishop of st. Augustine, and Father
Patrick Donlon, have purchased the former
residence and grounds Of ex-Gov. Stearns
at Quincy for the purpose of using it as a
convent. Efforts have been made for some
time to secure permanent priest there, and
the st. Augustine society was formed for
the purpose of furthering the efforts 50
made.
At TitusvilIe a day or two ago Sheriff
a negro named John Paterson, alias
John johnson, who has Oeen working as o
deck hand on the steamer Progress for q
week or two. He Is an ESCAPED convict
from the penitentfary, having been sent up
from Duval county for five years. Sheriff
Bowman spotted the man about week ago,
but on going down Co the boat to get him
at that time, could not find him. Areward
of $50 was offered for Paterson.
Rev. John B. Culpepper has Just closed q
weeks revival at Starke It is said that
there were 200 people converted at this
meeting. l4l of whom will join the various
1k.U T.. ~,
about twenty c9lored people who will be-
come members of the various colored
churches. Collections were taken up at
various times amounting to about $500. OF
this amount the orphans home which he
represents will get about $3.50, and the ex-
penses of the meeting were about 500.
The switch on the "Y" of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railroad, within the
Incorporation of Live Oak, was changed
w ednesday night by some unknown person
and the passenger train from Savannah
Thursday morning ran into box car
on the ny" badly smashing up the car,
breaking the cow-catcher aud knocking Off
the smokestack. A fireman had his ankle
hurt The switch Is said to have been
changed twice during the night by some
evil disposed person. The passenger train
was delayed about two hours
A stranger at Titusville day or two ago
attempted 70 take q short cut from the CITY
dock to the Indian River hotel by walking
over the mud and decayed grass projecting
out from the river shore. Its appearance
led him Co think il was hard enough to sup
port his weight, but the first stop on the
boggy surface caused him to sink down 70
his waist In water and mud, and he made
his way TO shore as rapidly as possible. The
recent north winds had lowered the water
"a. ,.,,1 49, l. 4
water and looked as though it was hard
ground.
ST. Augustine correspondent Jacksonville
Times Union: While the question of what
will Florida have at the Columbian exposi-
tion Is occupying the minds of those who dc
not fully understand the latent and appar-
ent wealth of Florida, tnere are men, me-
chanics, who are hard at work devjsinS
machinery to clean the fibers which grow
in such liberal profusion in this state ThesC
men cannot understand why the people OF
Florida should not furnish a goodly share
of the 1900, coo tons required annually tC
supply the demands Of Europe for flbers.
Florida is able to utilize her millions OF
acres in producing banana and p.antalr
trees tmanillal, over 10000 tons
of which fiber Is annually shipped
from the Philippine islands. Think OF
the vast sum of $500, 900 being expended
in the cultivation OF sisal hemp on the Ba
hama islands. when the sisal, plantain, pitt
Tor silk grass, pineapple leaves, another
silk~giving plant, the Spanish tayonet enc
in fact all the species of the cacti family arr
prolific in their growth in Ehis state tina
up to the present day tho settlers hav,
turned their labors to the destruction O
millions OF dollars worth of this God-givins
blessing-the fiber of Florida. j. e. Nor
gan, a young mechanic, an account o.
whose efforts in developing the fiber indus
try was published in the Times Union sew.
eral months ago, is still hammering ava,
away at his work, and now that he has al
opportunity of securing a machine to sep
arate the fiber from the matrice IL cnly
remains for few men OF capital to put thi
great industry on firm footing and sell Il
tho markets Of the world the tlbers o
Florida.
GEORGIA POLITICS.