The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-19
pretty good state Of preservation, and are
very much priced by Mrs. Godfrey.
FLORIDA.

FLOHIDA4
The fig crop in Santa Rosa county is
| abundant and Is now ripening.
Crops around Perry have been consider
ably damaged by the recent high waters.
About 100 carloads Of phosphate is on the
| yard at Lakeland now, waiting for a
/ steamer to ship 1t to different parts Of the
world.
Capt. George Newman Of Milton exhibited
a beet which Is fair sample of the product
of Santa Rosa "sand.n 1t measures thirteen
inches in length and fourteen inches in cir
conference.
Mrs John King, wife of the master com
missioner of the Florida Southern and
Florida Midland railways. died from blood
poisoning at st. Augustine Sunday after q
brief illness.
A gentleman writing from ST. Andrews
says that the recent rains In that section
have filed the bay with black water from
the woods which will, 1t is thought, greatly
injure the oysters.
Some Of the poorest land In Columbia
county has produced good crops Of tobacco
this year with an average cost Of but SIG
per acre for fertilizer. Tobac o cutting
and housing is now steadily progressing.
Prospective Legislator Allen of Mcintosh,
Marion county, made a crop Of 175 crates
of cabbage to the acre for which he netted
% w pCE craze anu HOW Tue shINb kEbuuu
is covered with promising corn crop which
will yield forty bushels to the acre.
John f. Grady Of Apalachicola is in re-
ceipt Of a letter from a member Of the
Tammany organization in which it is stated
that Tammany will unite to man on
Cleveland; that the democrats are certain
to carry the state, and that large odds are
offered on Cleveland
Rumor has it that Collector OF Customs
Mizell is in danger of being removed from
Office 1t is alleged thet certain ones OF
Collector Mizell's negro inspectors smuggled
In and landed three overcoAts without pay
ing duty thereon. 1t is also said that other
irregularities and complications exist.
Lake City Tobacco Plant: AS an evil
dence Of the wonderful productivsness OF
the fiat woods" lands of this section, We
are cited to q yield on the farm Of Robert
II. Church, about ten miles north Of Lake
City. He harvested forty-dve bushels If
corn per acre, and he thinks the present
years crop will 60 to fifty bushels per acre.
Lake City Tobacco Plant: The Ashley
lands. aggregating about 81, 900 acres, have,
we understand, just been sold to parties IN
Kansas City. This body lies principally
east of town, in what is known as the flat
woods" and less than a dozen years ago
had but small value. 1t has doubtless sold
for so to rs per cent. over the original in
NeeLlnenU price.
William Revels of Aston has been
. awarded the Agriculturist prize for the
best field Of onions from oue-fourth of an
acre Of land. Mr. Revels planted his
onions Oct. 20 and Nov. II, arvesting
seventy-eight bushels and twenty pounds
on May 90 Tie total cost of producing
this extraordinary crop was only IS 55, the
net income from the sale being at the rate
of 1877 80 per acre.
Friday night lot Of geese shipped from
Tennessee managed to escape from the
train at McDav.d The next morning the
people OF that vicinity were surprised to
find almost featherless geese all about their
premises. The general suppositio was that
they had been rained down In the nights
heavy storm and that they struck the
ground 30 hard that the feathers we're
knocked off. The geese are there yet
Lake City Tobacco Plant Thousands Of
cords OF material that might be utilized for
lathing, or in other articles. or for fire.
wood, go to waste, or is burned as such, at
the various saw-nills within easy reach of
Lake City. Could not this mill refuse be
supplied to the public In some way at a
price which would enable and induce them
to use it, and 80 put an end to the waste
that is helping to eat up the timber supply
OF the countryl