The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-12
CLEANED AT GAINESVILLE.
A Cheap Water Lifr-A Battle Bstwee
Two Toads.

A Cheap Water Lift-A Battle Between
Two Toads.
GAINESVILLE, FLA, July 11.-At the
rate it rains in this section at present and
past two weeks Psyne's prairis will soon be
Alachua lake again.
While at Jacksonville with the Gaines
vile Guards your correspondent saw and
had explained to him most effective and
cheap water lift. 1t loses no water, and its
capacity is from a half barrel by hand
power every fifteen seconds, to
ten barrels In the same short
space OF time by steam power, raising
the water from water level to hight OF
$50 feet. They will only cost from $50 to
question of irrigation everywhere. | saw
two men lift gallons of water 400 poundsl
ffty-hve feet high in twenty seconds. The
dam built by the SRW-mill men at the out
let OF Newman's lake to keep the water in
the lake during the dry spell, TO better
enable them to float their logs to the mill,
was covered with water last week for the
first time within year. AS soon as the
water began to flow over the dam Dream,
perch, trout, Gars and all sorts Of fish began
to pour over with it. At very nearly the
same time boys with iron barrel hoops
Strengthened and pine slaves bsgan also TO
pour in upon the dam and the fish. In
very short time the banks of the stream
was white with hopping Hopping fish OF all
sizes and descriptions. They were making
for the better feeding ground and the wider
expanse of Payne's prairie.
Writing Of water and fish calls to mind
terrific battle to the death that your cor
respondent witnessed a few days ago at
Summers phosphate mine, between two
kinds of toads. In a shallow pool, made by
the miner as reservoir, several hundred
small water toads had taken up their abode.
For what reason l cannot comprehend, IN
less to deposit their spawn, alike number
of the common high land toads, about three
times the size Of the aquatic ones, went into
the pond. Nearing the pond in the fog OF
the early morning, | at first thought the
commotion was made by fish. but remem-
boring that the pond had only been there q
couple of weeks, abandoned that idea
and began to investigate. In almost every
instance a small toad was mounted on the
shoulders Of one Of the large toads, and
from two to three others would be fastened
to its side, throat and flank. The
top toad would tear into its victims flesh
just where the skull and spinal column
Joined while another would tear it's throat,
another its heart and lungs and still another
its entrails. As soon as one was put to death
another was seized and killed until the bot
tom of the pool was sDeckled with dead
smaller ones would chase it down and drag
it back into the pool and murder it. The
water skunk with the deceying bodies of
those killed the dav before. must have seen
hundred dispatched in the half hour
watched the massacre.
Little Lucille Colclough few nights ago
caught large beetle and placing it on a
table and undernea a goblet, was much
surprised, aud at the same time pleased, to
see the beetle move the goblet along the
surface of the table. After calling her
father to witness the Ito herr wonderful
strength Of the great bug, and desiring to
exhibit it's powers to her playmates next
day she placed small weight Of some kind
on the goblet, and thinking she had his
bugship safely imprisoned retired for the
night. During the night there came TO the
ears Of her father crash and the sound Of
breaking glass. alarmingly suggestive of
burglars. Upon examination he found that
the beetle had cur hole in the cloth cover
of the table large enough to get its body
through, AND being provided with foot
ing by the pressure of the cloth on his back
and leverage given by the raising of the
cloth by its body, 1t lad inched the goblet
and its weight to the edge of the table and
tumbled it on the floor.
All Of the candidates for the legislature
In this county save one have been brought
TO the scratch by their constituents, or
hoped for constituents, in regard to their
position on the subject of q new railroad
commission aud more comprehensive pow
ers to the same. All save J. B. Dell have
said they would struggle" for new COM
mission.