The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-07
the brain. There was severe bruise on his
forehead which he received in the fall.
FLORIDA.


which he paid $400 TWO months ago.
The Florida Rice Manufacturing Com
pany IS now shipping several carloads OF
rice. which was gathered and milled in
Osceola county.
Bees are doing extremely well on the east
coast the present year, the dry weather
being favorable for the storage Of honey.
So say apiarists.
h. V. Morrow is announced as a caDdi-
date for the office of county judge Of Madi-
| son county, subject to the result Of the
democratic primary election.
| R J. Paterson Of Madison reports a large
/ 1t this season eight barrels of merohantable
| pears. The same tree bore six barrel last
| year.
DR.. L. H. Hall of Salt Lake City Utah,
formerly professor OF Ann Arbor Uni
versity, has recently purchased some land
at East Melbourne aud went down there a
! few days since to plan some improvements.
Messrs. Willis & Broughtou the con-
| tractors. have commenced tine foundation
| OF the First Baptist church al Pensacola.
| About 5000 brick have been laid, but work
has been suspended for few days awaiting
the arrival Of more brick.
j. s. Watson OF Titusville recently
visited A. 3. Lee at Waukesha Wis, aud
Rico pineapple slips. This looks as If the
| Hotel Indian River was to have an extern
| siye pineapple plantation in connection.
At Clear Water Harbor, Mitchell Rogers.
age z, while riding horseback too rapidly
last Saturday afternoon, lost control Of his
mount, which went under low pine tree,
| brushing him Off with limb. He fell on
his right arm, fracturing it below the
elbow.
The Pensacola and Perdido Railway Con-
pany have brought suit against S. F. Chip
ley, W. q. Chipley and c. NJ. Boulder In
the sum of $1,000. The case grows out of
the recent unpleasantness between the PEN
saoola and Perdido company and the Pen
sacola Terminal Company.
There can no longer be any doubt as to
the adaptability OF the soil of Madison
county to tobacco culture, The crops
planted this year in the different sections OF
the county are sufficien. proof Of the fact,
as samples therefrom show up to fine adj
vantage side by side with samples from
other counties.
G. P. Healy has received an addition to
his force OF mon who are grading the new
railroad from Titusvil!e to the head of the
river, three carloads Of negroes arriving
Thursday. Over two miles OF the road are
already graded and within a few days be-
tween 500 and 600 men will be at work on
that part of the contract.
At Orlando the pecan tree at the Central
house is a living curiosity About head
high, the trunk of the tree on the surface
including the bark and outer wood, is per-
fectly dead and partly rotten, for the space
OF more than foot in length and com
pletely around the trunk, yet the top of the
tree is IN full leaf and apparently growing
and tourishlng.
At Jacksonville Friday Deputy Sheriff
Williams, through instructions from the
circuit court attached the goods in the
Everett block hardware store in the suit of
the Gibson Love Manufacturing Company
OF Chattanooga, Tenn, against the Adams
Hardware Company OF Jacksonville. The
amount claimed 20 be due exclusive of cost
Is 1913 90. The store is closed and the
deputy sheriff is taking an inventory Of the
stock.
A poultry man in Bradford county. who
has been annoyed by hen thiefs, the other
night strewed a lot of thick paper slips
smeered with tar, around his hen house
he was soon awakened by a uegro who
begged for some coal oil. He had come
barefooted to steal chickens, and his feet
were loaded down with tarred paper, sand
and briers, which could not be removed by
hand. He got the oil, likewise u sound
thrashipg.
The Black River Phosphate Company of
Middleburg Is now mining phosphate by the
hydraulic process. A 10>inch Centrifugal
pump has been put in. This pump draws
the rock and water up from the bottom OF
the well and propels it through 450 feet Of
1O-lnch pipe. The raise Is over 80 feet to
where the phosphate and water are poured
into sluice, In which the phosphate is car
ried distance OF 900 feet to the creek.
where it is loaded into lighters The rock
IL NnfNo nA Egxsa
by large Dean hydraulic pump with a
pair OF l4>inch cylinders. and is not handled
at all from the time it leaves its bed un:il it
reaches the lighters. The company now has
1900 tons OF wet rock and / $40 tons Of drv
rock on hand; and its plant has a capacity
OF almost 100 tons a day.
Charles Merriam Cooper, the democratic
candidate for congress from the Second
Florida district, was born at Athens, Ga.
Jan. 70, 1856. He was brought to Florida
by his parents in August, 1864. The
Coopers lived in Alaohua county first. where
he was for time under the tutorship of
Rev. DR.. Watson, a Methodist minister AID
classmate Of Gen. r. h. Lee ut West
Point. he attended the Gainesville
ACADEMY Tor about two years, when his
family moved to Fernandina. There rs
was put under the tutorship of Rev. DR..
Frank johnson, learned minister, from
Az oOdutAO A a tuuTOuRn KNOWLEDGE
or Greek, Latin, and other ancient
languages. This completed his general
education, and he then studied law
with his father. The last year of
his legal studies was under Judge
Emmons, afterward attorney general
of the state. He taught himself French and
Spanish; the latter language be studied for
the purpose of more fully inves .igating thu
Spanish grants which ara SO closely con
nected with the land laws of Florida. Un,n
these questions he is an admitted authority
lie commenced the practice Of law with
Judge Emmons, and moved to st. Augus-
tine In short time. He was sent to the
legislature from st. Johns county in 1880.
and served one term. On his first appear.
ance in the legislature be was made chair
man of the judiciary committee aad of Sc -
eral others Of equally great Importance. He
was sent back as state senator, where he
remained for only few months, being ap-
pointed attorney general by Gov. Perry TO
succeed Judge RaIney. He was soon after
ward rendered Judgeship on the supreme
bench, which he declined. In 1888
he married Miss Rosa Leonardv OF
St. Augustine, q niece of Gen. William and
Il. I. Baya Of this city. When his tims
expired as attorney general he went
into the practice of law with Col. c. =.
and j. c. Cooper, his father and
brother. He gained great reputation as a
lawyer in the case of those charged with
political offences, who were tried in the
United States court. He gratuitously de-
Tended them and did more uhan aly other
man to break the backbone