The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-04

from St Francis. was bitten by moccasin
snake last Sunday. She was resting we'll
/ at last accounts. and will recover.
! The Florida HOnleseeker Of Avon Park.
/ y. M Crosby editor, has lust been entered
{ as second-csss matter and begins its mis-
I sion, as its name indicates. to bring home
seekers and settlers TO Florida, a work sue
cessfully conducted by MIR. Crosby for many
/ years
! The Tuscawila hotel at Micenopy was
! burned "wednesday. Fl. l.. johnson was
| the owner and proprietor Very little was
1 saved. The loss is 81, 900 and the insurance
| $500. The fire caught in the lumber room
/ on the second story, probably by rats gnaw-
| ing matches. 1t was the only hotel 10 town
and had forty rooms.
| In the race at Palatka " ednesday for
| $50 side between the yachts Pearl, Capt
| Corbett, and the Wabun, Capt. Heston. the
/ yachts failed TO make the round OF the
/ course in the five hours agreed upon. The
/ race was sailed in a very light breeze and It
/ will have to be resailed. The Wabun fin
/ ished in minutes and 40 seconds ahead OF
| the Pearl actual time.
| Palatka Advertiser: Four years ago j. +.
Manucy bought two pair Of geese. Though
/ they were not of the variety that lays the
| golden egg, Joe has found them profitable.
| From the original four he has raised enough
TO furnish feathers for two large beds, has
| sold great many geese, has had one for
dinner when he desired it. and yet has sew
| enteen Of the birds, from which he is saving
up feathers for another bed.
Some sooundrels have been shooting at
negroes from ambush near Plant City
| Heretofore white men have been hired TO
| pick oranges in that locality, but this season
negroes were hired in some groves. The ne
groes we're warned by white ruffisus they
/ must leave that section, but they paid no
| attention to the warning and Friday evening
on returning home from work, two were
/ shot from ambush with small shot, Alfred
| Glover in the left leg and the other in the
side and thigh.
On Thursday last the fishing smack J. p
| Allen, owned by E. f. Saunders & Co. of
! Pensacola, was capsized about seventy miles
east OF the city. The smack had been out
some days and was returning with good
| catch OF fish, when she was struck by q
sudden squall and capsized Nothing was
saved excepting a small dory in which the
| crew succeeded in making their escape,
| The vessel was about five miles out when
| the accident occurred The vessel was
valued at $4,000, with no insurance.
Jim McEwen stole the chestnut horse Of
| w. G. King Of Eustis three days ago, He
| took the horse to Orlando and offered It
| to Maj. Cotfey, the Orange avenue dealer,
who declined to buy. Then be met Stephen
Damn of Clarcons, and sold it to him for
$50. AS Mr.. Damn didn't have the money
in his clothes he took McEwen home to bis
| place near Clarcoua. Wednesday morning
McEwen was arrested, and owned up at
once. He said it was his first THEFT The
| prisoners relatives live at UmAtllla. Mr..
King values the horse at $50.
The fishing smack Althea Franklin ar
rived at Ware s wharf at Pensacola Sun
day. In long. So 30 lat "A 32 on Oct.
49, the crew picked up eight bales of cotton.
! The bales were floating in close proximity,
none being more than quarter of a mile
apart After picking up the cotton Capt.
! Melvin Johnson assembled the rigging and
looked around for other stray foaters, but
none we're in sight. The cotton was picked
up 500 miles due south of Pensacola. The
crew OF the Franklin numbered six, all told
She also brought in good haul of snap
pers.
Orlando Reporter: James Mott, the nur-
serymsn, has Just returned from visit to
Tangerine and adjacent settlements, and re-
ports the orange crop in that section a third
larger than ever before. He states that
Dudley w. Adams of Tangerins will have
about 4 800 boxes to ship. about 200 boxes
more than be has shipped any previous year.
W. H. Earle will have 900 boxes from a
young grove which has borne only 100 or
200 before, and in fact, the crop of the
whole section of this portion of the county
ia more promising than at any previous
period
just opposite Pslatka is the DEVILS Elbow
swamp. From the city TO point five or six
miles beyond the Devils Elbow, the river
runs east and south. then takes o sudden
turn to the west, running to Buffalo bluff,
thus forming kind of peninsula two or
three miles wide and about eight miles
long. The greater part of this peninsula is
covered with water, cYpre'5 knees. tie-ties
and saw palmetto, infested with frogs, al
ligators, snakes and water fowls. Very few
persons, if any, have ever penetrated this
wilderness, except the western part, where
the ground rises above the water level and
forms a kind of hummock, cover ed with
hickory, ash and magnolia. Here is found
such game as SQUIRRELS. quail and wild tur-
key. Thus We have at our very doors a
bowling wilderness filed with wild animals
that can never be subdued as they oan
elude their enemies by Withdrawing farther
and farther into this impenetrable jungle.