The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-20

$40 in his coat pocket, and the robbers got
this, together with his pack. He is badly
hurt, it is thought the blow on his head hav-
ing been meds with a hatchst. 1t is said
| that the wound is very ugly one The re-
| port is that Epstein has recovered his horse
and wagon, but his pack, amounting to
perhaps $50 in value. was successfully car
ried off by the negroes.
FLORIDA.
| Hon. d. B.. johnson has rendered his
resignation as mayor Of Jasper.
The Florida Sugar Manufacturing Com
pany are still planting cane at st. Cloud.
A fine crop Of oranges will be gathered
from trees in Tallahassee and in Leon county
this year.
One farmer brought two bales of cotton
to Starke last week that he had been saving
for two years for better prices.
From / a acre, containing 100 trees, DR..
Chase of South Lake Weir has sold 1864 so
worth Of oranges and from the remaining
eight acres Of his grove has Melted $1,000.
The second annual convention of the
| WomRn's Christian Temperance Union OF
| Volusa county will be held at Lake Helen
on Nov. % and %, commencing at 10 O'clock
| a. m.
Mrs Strong of Starks had persimmon
last week that weighed l d pounds, and e
| LUuDuS.
Mrs. Strong had also shipped the first pears
of the season.
The expenses of the last term of the cir
cult court in Nassau county amounted to
| Sl,lS4,75, itemized as follows: StenoR-
rspher, 500; II jurors, SOIL 80; eighty-seven
witnesses, 1913 As.
A special train of thirty-two cars OF
phosphate entering Tampa Thursday had a
bad accident. A journal on the fifth car
| from the rear Of the train crashed through
q small trestle near Ybor City depot. The
| track wss badly torn up.
Oscar Robinson (colored), known about
Tampa as Shorty" and who forged a
check on q. Hening a few weeks ago at
Tampa end skipped, was arrested at Are
donda, Alachua county, Tuesday, under the
name Of Oscar Summerlin.
The monster plate glass used in front of
Twemey & Hyde's store in Gainesville was
manufactured at Alexandria. Ind. The
average weight of each glass is 270 pounds.
The cost of each glass at the factory was
S65. The number of glass windows in the
front Of the building is fourteen and they
cost Mr.. Hyde, placed in position, nearly
500 each.
Some time during Wednesday night the
prisoners in the county jail at Starke made
their escape. They had been supplied with
q strong crowbar, with which they forced
their way through the steel bars of the COR
ridor and then through the brick wall,
There we're four white men in the Jail at
the time, two serving sentences and two
awaiting trial, one for selling mortgaged
property and the other for horse stealing.
The Arm of John o. Ball & Co. of Tampa
have purchased the opera house lot from ii.
l.. Branch, and as soon as the possession can
be secured will proceed to erect a story
brick block on the same, with two large
store rooms below, and the upper stories for
such use as may be most benedolal. The
building will be OF q fine modern architect
ural design, and an ornament TO the CITY.
The cost OF the lot and buildings viii repre-
sent an outlay OF $4,000, and will undoubt-
eddy be the finest business location in
Tampa.
Green Cove Spring: A pretty good fish
story Is told OH Uncle Jimmy Case a good
man aud fine fisherman. Recently he was
out fishing and hooked what he Judged was
monster trout, but before the fish was
landed the line broke and the fish made his
escape, carrying with him line, cork aud
hook, Uncle Jimmy lamented much over
his hard luck and told his friends of his mis-
fortunes, intimatinR that the trout would
tip the beam at or near the l0-pound mark
All went along we'll enough for a few DAYS.
until John McCloud happened TO be ont on
the river, and, seeing stray cork acting in
a suspicious manner. hauled it in, and.
much to his surprise, found Uncle Jimmy's
monster trout still fastened to the hook.
But alas! the trout weighed only two poundsl
Uncle Jimmy was joked no little by his
friends, but he says the weight of fish on a
line is mighty deceiving," and no doubr
his version is the correct one.
Orlando Reporter: Thursday morning
about o'clock Marshal Preston discovered
a young white man asleep in the old
| Florida Central and Peninsular freight
warehouse and arrested him. He gave his
name as George Kingston, and claimed that
he was a resident OF Daytona. His apparel
and appearance indicated that he had been
on prolonged tramp, but he carried with
him a fine russell leather sachel which the
officer decided to examine. Upon exami-
nation IL was found to contain black suit
of clothes, with a cutaway coat oil ia splen-
did condition, fine plush shaving set with
nickle plated mug, combination brush, two
razors, fancy soaps, ETC., two pocket books,
one new and the other old and almost worn
out, the latter containing two $40, two SIS,
two 81 and one 81 bills, and brand ne
| snap purse containing tweuty-six l0-cent
pieces, fourteen quarters. one 50-cene piece
and one silver piece OF the denomination of
81 In the mayors court this morning he
was fined IS for sleeping in a vacant house
| and was sentenced to two days confinement
in the city jail for carrying concealed
| weapons.
DeLand Record: Now who can count the
candidates for postmaster Of DeLandl
They are as thick as pease. DR.. Tanner.
who had the appointment under Cleveland
before, has announced in card in the Rec
ord that he is a candidate for the office. j.
l.. Nuckels also says he is In the field. ]. r.
WeUherel is also striving for The office. and
has already started his petition. b. e. Pre-
watt of the Record is also an aspirant, aud
in view OF the fact that his was the frat
paper in the district TO sugRs"t the name Of
| Charlie Cooper for nomination for congress
and is warm personal friend aud old
schooimate Of the congressman, it is no more
than reasonable to suppose he will have a
strong pull, and If Mr. Cooper has anything
to say in reference TO the appointment, he
will probably get the plum. On the other
hand IT is rumored that William Dunn has