The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-04

| City, 6uQ 20 CDhuR6 bue ubLDo VI ZIG AhksoE
place 10 Fitzgerald.
road between his home and Longwood on
Monday afternoon. It is supposed that he
was overcome by the heat.
Monday a prominent merchant OF Gaines'
Vile received two letters from different
green goods" men, both stamped at the
! New York postofflce and mailed the same
day.
Orlando Sentinel: The lakes around Or
! lando are getting lower acd lower, ana we
| are afraid that unless we have some heavy
rains soon some of them will disappear en-
tlrely.
D. N. Hall of Jasper set out hook in the
Suwanee river, near his house, one evening
| last week. On going TO 1t next morning ne
| found large catfish and moccasin snhke
| four feet long hung on it.
At Brooksville a day or two ago man
named Byrd struck Seotionmaster HUDSON
of the Florida Southern railway on the
head with a spade. making an ugly gasn
aud inhictiug very painful though not
| serious wound.
An immense tooth from the phosphate
mines at Dunnellon was exhibited at the
! GAINESVILLE museum. IL is about 1901
across the cop one way and six lnones tine
other, is evidently a molar and weighs
about twenty pounds.
Jacksonville was never IN a better sani-
tary or more beautiful condition than at
present. Health officer Burroughs said
| Tuesday that he was gratifed at the pres
ent condition of the city. scarcely any
fever Of any kind is reported.
| Bud Jernigsn, while returning 20 his
home near Bsgdad Thursday night in
skiff. was run over by the steamer Flanders.
The skif was sunk, and Jernigan was
severely injured. The steamer picked him
| up and took him to Milton for medical
treatment.
T. D. SeaIey, who lives few miles west
Of Lake City, has three or four acres Of
bottom land in rice from which judges say
he will harvest fifty to sixty bushels per
acre. The rice crop OF Columbia county
will be OF considerable Importance this year,
as well as that of tobacco, Of which latter
Mr.. Sealey also has several acres.
Sunday afternoon at O'Clock Reuben
Powers, VINO resides one mile from the Con-
way store in Orange county, while driving
some cattle was thrown from his horse, and
in all proba bility fatally injured. He was
thrown upon his head, and 1t is thought the
horse slso rolled over him. His skull was
fractured at the base Of the brain. He died
Tuesday.
A Cleveland and Stevenson club was
organized at DeLand Friday night with
seventy-three members. The officers elected
are as follows: President, Hon. G. P. Will
iams first vice president. J. W. Perkins
second vice president, E. D. Mcleod; SEQ
rotary, 9. o. Codrington; treasurer, Will
lam Dunn. Tho club proposes TO give
speakings and entertain visiting speakers.
Thirty-six Cleveland beavers have been
ordered for 1t by the members, and another
order will be sent out soon.
A meeting was held at Eustis Saturday
IN the interest of the Tavares, Atlantic and
Tampa railway, at which Maj. Alex. st.
Clair ABRAMS and DIR. Spencer of Boston,
Mass, explained the proposed route and
purposes OF the company. They demon
strated that this line is to run from the
principal phosphate fields OF South Florida
and the pure white kaolin OF Lake county
by the shortest route to tide water at New
Smyrna, connecting at Blue Springs on the
st. Johns river with the Atlantic and West
ern railway, and either buying, leasing or
amalgamating with that line These pure
white kaolin deposits are said to be the only
ones OF 30 pure a nature in she y nited
States, all Others being, at best, largely
stained with irox thus rendering them IN
at for the finest work. This fine kaolin is
worth SIC ton delivered in New York, but
the present long railroad haul at the best
rates offered forbid its export at present.
Maj Abrams said that they would be able
to ship this kaolin at rs cents a ton, against
81 80 now charged by the active railways
! of this day, a gain Of 81 rs per ton on
freight rates alone. He also pointed out
that the route from Tavares TO the Blue
Springs would be via Seneca, and the most
direct route then would be TO pass south Of
Crooked lake, and north OF Lake Gertrude
then by reverse curves rise the hills and pass
east of Lake Joanna. The next shortest
route, about one mile longer, would be to
follow the west side of Lake Joanna, where
there are tine groves and good vegetable
| land; to take it by Eustis would be to
| parallel the Florida Southern railway, and
| would increase the distance one mile and
| eleven-fourteenths, and would cost nearly
80, 500 extra to grade and tie and about
| $4,000 more for rails and fastenings, the
rails 70 be steel sixty pounds. The pro
| jectors therefore ask the people of Eustis to
take sl2, 600 in noz-assessable stock, to be
| paid. 20 per cent. az call, and five other pay.
ments, at not less than thirty days call on
each payment The bonds for construction
are to be at 81, 900 per mile, and the legis-
lature has granted l0. 600 acres per mile.
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