The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-26

Last week the Tampa Bay hotel paid 500
for 100 cucumbers.
Alonzo Brown Of Palatka, an old colored
man Of 20, invested in marriage license
Tuesday, and was married TO damsel Of y.
Col. George F. Foote, commander OF
Z. s. Grant post of Orlando, is candidate
to succeed Col. J. d. V. Hazard of Eustis
az department commander of the grand
army.
W. J. Ross died Tuesday night at bis resi-
deuce in Riverside. suburb of Jackson
vile. Of senility. Mr.. Ross was one OF the
Oldest Odd Fellows in the country, having
been a member for over fifty years.
The livery business Of J. W. Girvin
located in LAVilla, a suburb of Jackson
vile, IL In charge Of Deputy Sheriff Ed
Williams The levy was made Tuesday on
judgment held by Mrs. Wilhelmiua Fritz
for $50.
at Jacksonville during the year 1892.
City Treasurer Kenyon collected 1892, =
3S1 So and disbursed s173 .047 10, leaving a
balance TO the credit of the city Jan. /,
1898, of $40 1884 70. Besides this a floating
debt Of over SO, 900 was paid and $40 600 of
sanitary improvement bonds retired.
Tampa Tribune. 1t is possible that the
stories printed in the northern papers, tell
ing Of the large quantities Of frozen fish
picked up on the shores Of our bays and
streams may be misleading. IL is well
enough, perhaps, to remark that the fish
thus found are Of the variety most sensItiv q
10 cold and are left ashore by the recedinR
tide.
Clarence Saunders has recovered his
bicycle which was stolen from IN front Of
Kohn, Furchgott & Co. g store at Jackson
vile one day last week. The wheel was
found Tuesday morning by some plumbers,
covered up with trash, under the Congrega-
tional church. Ii is supposed that the thief
hid it there with the intention of getting it
out when all search for it had stopped.
The Foote Phosphate and Fertilizer Com
pany, composed of New YORK capitalists,
has closed p contract with H. F. Mayfeld
to erect a l00-ton plant on its valuable land
near Barlow. It will cost about S12, 900,
and it Is considered by eminent authority
TO be one of the cheapest, most simple and
most practicable plants that has been erected
in the state. Work commences at once and
the plant will be finished by June l.
Ocala Capitol: One of the neatest Invent
ions that have recently been brought to the
attention of the Capitol is that Ingenious
device for opening and closing railroad
switches that sprang full-hedged from the
brain of an 1S-year-old boy The device is
simple. the working model admirable.
Spread out for examination il presents q
railroad track in miniature. ending in a
switch and bearing little locomotive. Up
the track, projecting from the switch, ex-
tends long rod, bearing at each
diamond-shaped block. The mimic
engine passes down the track, the
switch signal shows which switch is
open, a cord is pulled, pin drops In front
Of the engine, and, striking one side or the
other OF the block at the end of the rod con-
Meeting with the switch, shifts the rails to
one side or the other The davica il q usa-
full one. By its use the engineer of a train
in rapid motion would be enabled to avert
the disaster involved IN running upon a
switch already occupied and throw open
for himself the unoccupied side Of the track
It was invented by an Ocala boy. His
name is Walter Munden and the world il
going to hear from him.