The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-02

cite street, opposite the Tampa Bay hotel
on the south, on which it is proposed TO
erect large hotel s. A. Jones is managing
the scheme ami the trade will probably be
closed by next Tuesday.
One Of the regulations Of the Florida
state board Of health reads as follows:
After Oct. ], 1883, superintendents of all
institutions OF learninRs and all school
boards and principals OF schools in the state,
in Incorporated cities and towns Of over ,OOO
inhabitants, are forbidden 70 admit as a
pupil any child or person who cannot pro-
duce satisfactory evidence OF having been
successfully vaocinRted"
Palatka Advertiser: The appearance Of
the orange trees throughout the city is very
healthy and prolific, although a large yield
of fruit is not expected. The rich. dark
green color Of the foliage and the luxuriant
growth OF the trees within itself is enough
TO inspire growers TO feed their groves more
generously than ever before so as to be able
next season e. reap handsome returns for
their outlay.
MdnGtee RiUer Journal: Last Friday
morning Cap. Alexander Black joined the
/ silent majority. Capt Black was a native
Of MASSACHUSETTS,, and although his exact
1 age was not known he was probably about
/ So at the time of his death He came 10 the
| MauRtee river in 1856 as gunner on board
| the cruiser Gray Cloud which carried pro-
/ visions and recruits to the Indian war then
| in progress. While lying ia Tampa bay
| slgnaman named Rofeno was accidently
shot, having come in the way OF the cannon
/ when in the discharge OF his duty ana the
| responsibility OF the accident being laid upon
| Capt Black, he was discharged from the
service. His family having died in Charles
ton of the fever and having no ties to
| bind him else where he remained upon the
| river until his death. He was carpenter
by trade and many houses in the vicinity
bear evidence Of his workmanship.
Orlando Reporter: Judge c. G.. Butt en-
| Joys the nice distinction Of which few meu
can boast-viz. that Of being rescued from
| what was at least a remotely possible
| wAtery grave. While out bathing on Or
mond beach with two Orlando young ladies,
| Wednesday afternoon, he was seized with
| an adventurous tit-disengaged himself
from their hold upon him, and went out
| into the surf beyond his depth. After
vainly endeavoring to regain the shadows
! he yelled for assistance, and Misc Maggie
| Fits, who is more than his equal in hight,
as well as in many other respects, boldly
waded out, and safely towed the judge to
the shore. Beyond being externally aud in-
| ternally saturated with salt water, he suf-
| fered no serious Inconvenience. Miss Fits
should be attached to the life saving serv-
ice.
Orlando Reporter: Clarence Hicks, while
wheeling on Ormond beach conceived the
idea that the wind, which was blowing
pretty strongly nearly parallel with the
coast line, could be made to take him and
his wheel along in its course. He, there
fore, concluded to try the experiment Not
| having sail, he used an umbrella instead,
| opening and holding it so as to catch the
wind. In this manner he went several miles
| down the coast, at the rate of eight or ten
knots an hour, and that. too, without touch
| frar ha oil 20 aiafa han h,
| turned back, by an ingenious method Of
holding the umbrella 50 as to take the best
| advantage OF the winds force, sailed nearly
all the way back against a Quartering
breeze. He says he Is going to rig sail on
| his wheel.
| Florida Dispatch: Mrs. Increase Sumner
of Starke, Bradford county, raises her own
tea and has treated her guests to cups OF
the homemade beverage, which was pro-
nounced delicious. She says that owing to
rapid growth she has to out Off the bushes
every three or four years, while in China
this is done only once in seven years. She
gathers three crops year; the finest tea
costs Sl5 q pound but will not stand sea
voyage, and never gets farther than Rus
STA, but her bushes furnish it to her for the
picking. She shows olives that bore fruit
in 1856, but none since Col. Coles of
Orange Mills has a cork oak tree
| (Quercus suber), which is thus
| described: About twenty-five years old,
eight inches in diameter. fifteen feet high
and had cork upon it varying in thickness
from half TO an Inch. In appearance the
tree was much like the scrub oak, but 81
far as my informant knows, had produced
no Rcorns. There Is another one at Lake
| City which was planted by Capt E. R. Ives
in 1885, the acorn being one that had been
sent tn him by the patent office. The tree
was about thirty-five feet high and could
have been stripped OF cork twelve years
before. Ii replaces its bark whenever
stripped-say ia two years; bears no acorns:
is fifteen inches il diameter and grows in q
sandy loan, but has not had fair chance,
being crowded by other trees much Of the
time.