The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-17

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armory with drill halls, meeting rooms,
gymnasiums. magazine attachment, and,
| INTACT, arranged with all the conVenlences
with which an srmory should be equipped.
FLORIDA.
The women Of the south are coming TO
the front Mrs. II. s. Chubb OF Winter
PARK has applied for several patents.
W. a. Papy is organizing bicycle club
at Tallahassee. There are fifteen names en-
rolled on the list and the bicycles will be
ordered 10 a few days.
The democratic rally with which the
democracy of Pensacola Tuesday night hon
ored itself was a success. II was a success
f. the Jest sense OF the word.
JASPER Netos: The Hamilton democratic
club at their last meeting appointed J. D.
Tuten, Sam Tavell and J. h Lee as a ma
! tional, congressional and state executive
committee for Hamilton county. J. D.
Tuten Of Jasper is chairman.
| Sumter County Times: AT the speaking
| OF last Thursday at Sumter's capitol Hon.
| c. M, Cooper was heard 20 say that the
democrats of Sumter county displayed
more enthusiasm than those of any other
county he had visited during his campaign
ing.
Jacksonville Times. linton: Yesterday
morning youth from Tampa by the name
"a W aa1AukbOu, 1EEANcu III buc ClbI III
Spouse TO q telegram stating that his father
was quite Ill here. After visiting all the
boarding houses and hospitals The little fell
low gave up trying to find him. He was
greatly distressed.
Got. 10 Is going to be a grand day In
Pensacola. The tobacco exhibition Of itself
will be worth coming hundreds OF miles TO
see, and then the fremsn's contest for the
800 premium offered by the CITY commits
q nil Nynph1Ffullu ~ fun
feature. Who will put up money for o
pyrotechnio displayf
The Gainesville Leader, 2 new morning
paper, has been issued. Charles II. Pratt
and 0. b. Robinson are the editors and &.
J. Williams the business manager. They
are competent newspaper men and it fol-
lows as q matter OF course that the Leader
is bright, newsy and attractive. As Gaines
vile is rapidly growing no doubt it Is rich
enough to properly support both Of its
dailies.
Manatee Journal: Several thousand
neat wooden boxes in several sizes about
five inches long and under lay at the wharf
on their way to Mr.. HiEel of Venice, who,
1t is rumored. intends packing them with
guava marmalade for shipment. II Mr..
Higel is successful In bis enterprise il will
certainly prove popular one, and consid
ering tue way in which guaves grow should
prove paying one.
Florida Mirror: Nearly 5000 tons of
phosphate have been shipped from Fernan-
dina during the last two days, distributed
as follows: Sept. 1S-Steamship Bedling-
ton, 1000 tons, for Lynn, England, schooner
Blanche Hopkins. $50 tons, for Baltimore;
steamship Phoenix, !, 965 tons, for Stettin,
Germany, Sept 14-Steamship Storra Lee,
1850 tons, for London. The last named
vessel will finish her cargo with cotton from
Brunswick.
Chicago TtnbeTn1un: The st. Marks
Lumber Company, at st. Marks, Fla, in
addition to their shingle mill which is al
| ready completed and has a capacity of $50,
600 per day, are now building an immense
saw-mill with capacity of $50, 900 feet per
| day. AS soon as this is completed they will
| commence the erection of a SASH door and
blind factory, and shortly aftsrward will
add spoke, hub. rim and barrel factory.
| Five hundred operatives will be employed.
Gainesville Leader: To convince those
who may have doubts as TO the immense
shipments Of vegetables from this point, we
have taken the pains TO ascertain the num-
Der of barrels OF lettuce shipped from Gaines
Vile proper during the month OF February
1892 The following figures, which are
semi-oticial. tells the story: Shipped
to New York 1923 barrels, to Phila-
delphiR 55l barrels, TO Baltimore 80 barrels.
to Washington city l05 barrels; total ship
nents oy Solthern Express Company 1,061
barrels
Orange City Times: A few days since
we visited the viusya ard Of Capt and Mrs,
Haley, which is IN the southern part of
town. The vineyard consists OF one vine
only, which was planted twelve years
ago and is of the scuppeTuouE variety
The Arbor now covers 5000 square feet Of
ground, the vine is growing fast and the
arbor will be extended soon. Three hun
dred quarts have been picked SO far this
season, and 100 or more quarts can be
picked, Last year they sold 1884. The
grapes are now SELF ng in the stores at 10
cents quart.
Monday morning in the criminal court Of
record Judge Philips called up the prisoners
who had been convicted and pleaded guilty
for sentence, and among them we're Alonzo
! r. Jones and Dan Tresvant, prominent coll
ored men Of the city, who had been con-
voted of melting riot there in July last.
The Judge sentenced them as follows:
Alonzo r. Jones to pay fine Of
! $500 and half of the costs OF
court and TO serve nine months in the
chain-Rang, and in default of payment to
serve an additional two months. Dan Tres
want to pay 800 and costs and to serve
eight months in the chain-gang, and in de-
fault Of payment TO serve two additional