The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-03
FLORIDA.

F. E. Harris Of Ocala is a candidate for
clerk OF the court Of that circuit.
J. w. Williams of Gainesville has sold
| his extensive furniture business 60 George
| Ozias of Pennsylvania.
Over ell 900 worth of property has re-
Gently changed hands in the Hawthorn
| neiKhborhood near Gainesville.
| Sales of oranges for delivery next fall
have already been made in the eastern part
Of Alachua county at Sips per box.
! On Friday of last week 400 pounds OF
| Spanish msckerel and Saturday !, 800 pounds
were caught fro the wharves at St Peters
| burg by the northern tourists sojourniug
| there.
Great quantities OF tomato plants are
| being shipped from Braidentbwn to those
| northern counties where tender vegetation
was killed by frost. One party has an order
| for 100000 plants.
! Mrs. Samuel Cox OF Brandon, Hillsboro
| county, lie probably the oldest woman in the
state. She is IL years old, all owing to the
climate The old lady has enjoyed good
health until recently. She is just beginning
to fail.
E. Leybourne OF Gainesville shipped
| Thursday 1900 quarts of straw berries
| Berries are falling short on acco unit of the
recent frost having cut the bloom In ten
or fifteen days the supply, it is thought,
WAL 10 80
A corps of engineers of the government
| coast survey is at work making a survey
from ST. Augustine across the state 20 Ce-
| dar Keys for the purpose of ascertaininR
! the difference In elevation of the Atlantic
and Gulf coast.
Rev. L. b. Plummer suggests that the
| railroad companies of Florida donate 4o. 600
acres Of land for the Florida exhibit, which,
at 81 % an acre, is equivalent to $50, 0O0 On
81, L. L.
| S25, 900 could be secured by mortgage.
Will Woodruff and Win Powell, two
| notorious inmates Of negro gambling dive
near the South Florida depota at Barlow, got
into dispute over q game of skin" Thurs
| day. 1t resulted in the latter being killed
| by the former with q razor. Woodruff was
| captured.
A sad accident befell J. A. Souvill, the
| Sanford house gardener, on Monday last
Il occurred at Golden Lake, near Fort
| Reed, at the place Of Mr.. Schwarz, where
he has lately been employed. His horse
| took fright, ran away, threw him out and
| his foot catching in the wheel his leg was
| broken IN three places.
| The copartnership in the publication of
! the Sanford Journal heretofore existing
between w. A. Cook of Sanford and Wiz
| lard West of North Carolina under the firm
name Of Cook & West has been dissolved
OOANSNNs
Journal being continued by Mr. Cook,
| Mr.. West retiring from all connection with
IT,
On Tuesday some person or persons set
| fire 60 the grass on Biveas farm, two miles
| southwest OF Gainesville. The fire rapidly
spread until 1t reached the bearing orange
| grove Of DR.. w. H Bracey, which it totally
| destroyed, together with several hundred
| yards Of fencing. Who the parties are who
| fired the woods are not known. DR.. Bracey
estimates his loss at 81 900.
Pebble phosphate is being mined about
| half a mile west of Gainesville, also on the
| premises of Mr.. Magee in North Gainesville
| on Rnttlesnake branch and at Paradise,
four miles north Of Gainesville, There is
an inexhOustible supply Of this phosphate
1 reaching all the way from the Floriia Gem
trial and Peninsular railway on the south
70 Paradise on the north, distance of four
| miles
Madison Recorder: Last Wednesday
Robert johnson, q young white man of this
| county, was arrested by the sheriff and put
| in Jail on q warrant charging him with the
murder Of Charley Smell some months ago.
| We learn the warrant upon which he was
| arrested was made upon the evidence of old
| man Hyers, whose sons have been charged
! with the crime for several months. Mr.
| johnson is said to have been a very intimate
friend of the murdered man.
For several months past South Florida
has been flooded with counterfeit money.
| Last Sunday night the officials OF De SOTO
| county captured near Arcadia Matt Thomp-
SOD, John SHERIFF, q man named Cooker
and several others, together with 1924 of
the spurious coins and complete outfit for
their manufacture. Thursday morning the
deputy sheriff of Polk county arrested Bar
tow Tatum as one of the oountertelters, bu 9
In some manner Tatum evaded the sheriff
and made his escape. Col. W. D. Bartholo-
NEW, United States district deputy marshal
at Tampa, received a message by wire or
derlng him to 60 to Arcadia, where six
persons have been arrested, charged with
| oounterfeitiug.
Tampa Tribune: Thursday night about
z O'Clock, four pistol shots were heard near
the Office of the Tampa Lumber Company
Investigation developed the fact that Walter
Webster "a mulatto, had shot Harrison ia
cobs, also colored, in the right foream and
left groin. DR.. Jackson was called and re-
heved his sufferings. but up TO tais after
noon the balls had not been removed. Web
ster has escaped. DR.. Jackson reports Ja-
cobs as seriously and perhaps fatally
shot. The trouble is rumored to have arisen
over some unwelcorne attentions on the part
Of Jacobs TO Webster's wife If report is
true, other colored men have threatened b
shoot Jacobs il he did not cease his often
sive attentions TO their wives.