The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-23
FLORIDA.

The mill at Eilaville will shut down on
June 10. ia
Mrs A. R. Seabrook Of Milton has corn
In her garden which is tRsseing and stands
from to 10 feet in hight.
The Gainesville bar met Wednesday and
paid tribute to the memory Of their late
brother attorney, Judge John w. Ashby.
1t is said that Putnam county will pre-
sent the name OF ex-State Treasurer E. s..
Grill to the Tampa convention for the NOM
ination of governor.
Lochloosa lake, in Alachua county, that is
strongly impregnsted with sulphur. clear,
and 52a temperature.
The Bagdad mills at Milton are running
night and day. The hands from Chaffins
mill are used for the day shift and the
regular hands for the night force.
The Presbyterian church at Brooksville is
being torn down. r. d. Kirk will use the
lumber in the construction of his residence
on the corner of Lula street, just south of
the church.
N. B. Rhodes of Brooksville had his nose
broken last Monday by Frank Saxon's
horse striking him. He was giving the
horse pill and the horse threw his head to
one side with the above result.
The four gold medals to be awarded at
the (Gainesville) East Florida Seminary
this week to tho pupils were recently con-
trlbuted by the business men, by the physi-
clans and by the lawyers Of Gainesville.
In the circuit court at Gainesville Friday
Sam Ingram was sentenced to seven years
in the penitentiary, but got up and cursed
the court and resisted the officers. The
judge added three years more to the sem
tence.
Ras Williams and Albert Harris were
sentenced to six months. George Stewart to
ten years. and Joe Adams to two years and
six months In the state prison, in the circuit
court at Gainesville, last week for house
breaking.
The Quick, a government surveying
boat, has been lying below the bridge at
Milton for the past week. The officers are
closing up their seasons work preparatory
to going to Yellowstone park for service
during the summer.
A gentleman at Winter Haven put in
twenty acres in tomatoes. Up to date he
has shipped 5000 ,crates. and received re-
turns on 800 crates, on which he realized
So per crate or "a, 500 with half of his ship
ment not yet heard from, and half of his to-
matoes yet to pick.
The officers Of the State homeopathic
Medical Association elected at Eustis con-
vention Wednesday were: President, DIR. G..
W. johnson of Jacksonville: vice president
y :
Or. Ida Bruce of Tampa censors. Drs. E.
p. johnson Of Jacksonville, Blanding of
Palmer, j. K. Webster of Altoona, Linsey
of st. Augustine, and E. f. Brown Of Kis-
simmee.
Mrs. Perkins. an old lady 63 years of age,
crippled and troubled with asthma and
dropsy came all the way from Minnesota
by herself to take up government home
stead in Orange county. She has already
located one of 120 acres on the Big Econ
lockhatchie, near the new bridge, at
Hodges Ford. She is highly pleased with
the country and with her selection, and has
provided for two other homesteads near
her.
George N. Footman writes from Chaires
to the IdLIdhdSseedn as follows: my little
boy Tom was driving COW with a calf just
three days old, and as he drove them into
the yard, the calf ran and jumped into ap
old well that was over 80 feet deep, but
strange to say the calf was taken out alive
and not in the least hurt. A mocking bird
built a nest and finished 1t on Monday, and
by Wednesday evening 1t had four eggs in
it's nest, and by the next Wednesday morn
ing it had Matched; IL just set one week. 1t
laid two eggs each day."