The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-25

Petersburg.
! Tbe.aes>Sub-T Tropical exposition at Jackson
I vile opened Wednesday under the most favor
/ able circumstances.
The firm Of OImsted & Lynn Of Gainesville
/ has been dissolved. Mr.. Olmsted VIII continue
I the business in his name.
The Gainesville ice factory is now running
/ day and night making preparations TO hl
orders from strawberry growers.
/ The town Jail at New Smyrna burned Monday
/ night, and an unknown man, locAsI up Tor
( drunkenness. was burned 70 death.
! Truitt & Co OF Bueus Vista bought from the
| Indians last week between eighty and hundred
splendid otter skins which will 20 to the turTers
next trip of the Rowena.
There are no delinquent taxpayers in santa
| Rosa county. The property owners OF tnat
county paid their taxes promptly and saved the
cost # advertising and certificates.
Two new dredges, 90 feet long b. IS feet wide
are being built at New Smyrna TOT the Eas.
Coast Canal Company. They are said 10 be the
heaviest yet built by this company.
Last Friday afternoon John Bass OF Sarasota,
while hauling wood on his sharpe IN sarasota
bay and being slightly under the influence OF
liquor, fell from the boat and was drowned
J. c. Mathews Of Citra, Marion county, has
authorized the president Of the Confederate
Veterans Home Association to draw on MIN for
| 500, and has donated his pension OF $50 per
annum to the old confederates Mr. Mathews
was a fedora soldier.
The Pensacola Neios has reliable information
that a company OF the Apache Indians who
we're enlisted In the United states army have
been ordered by the war department TO JON the
garrison at Fort Barrancas. Arrangements are
now being made for their residence at the fort.
There are now in full blast in Florida two
Chautauqua assemblies-On at De Funiak
Springs in Walton county, holding its tenth
annual session, the other at Mount Dora IN Lake
county, holding its seventh annual session.
The latter is to continue two weeks, the former
nearly five.
W c. Lghtfoot Of Braideutown announces
the purchase Of q half interest in s. J. Tyler s
property on Palma Sofa bay. 1t comprises
ninety five acres Of very fine land, containing a
grove Of 400 bearing orange trees. These gen
tlemen propose 70 set out a lemon grove on the
property at once.
Several persons interested in the case Of E, A.
Cheiriton, the Englishman who was convicted
at Tampa at the fall term OF the circuit court
for 1891 for this county, of obtaining money
under false pretenses aud sentenced g seven
years Imprisonment in the state psDitentlary,
are getting up petition for pardon for him.
Key West Pennant; The Concho, on her down
trip, passed Tuesday a British bark ashore on
the Florida reef Off Memory rock. The Concho
laid by near the vessel. but she asked no assist
ance and after waiting about half an hour the
steamer proceeded on her voyage. The bark
had all sails spread and seemed to be trying 70
beat over the reef
The case OF John r. Cook VS., NJ. F. Collins,
administrator of the estate of Mary Jane Cook,
deceased ct al, concerning the disposition of
100 acres Of land, was called Ia Judge Fried
mans court at Quincy Wednesday of last week.
DR.. J. w. F. King, a witness. was examined and
the direct testimony Of Mr. Cook was taken,
and the case was continued to a future date not
fixed upon,
The consolidation of the Canada, and Atlantic
and Plant steamship lines, with a capital of
81, 100000, was announced last week, says the
Boston Home Journal, the new combine taking
in Halifax, Boston and New York capitalists,
under the direction of II. B. Plant. Steamers
are to be run to Halifax and other ports in Nova
Scotia, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island
during the summer months. while in winter
they will be operated In the south, running be-
tween Tampa, Fla, Key West, Havana,
Jamaica, Nassau, Mexico and South America.
Buena Vista is q new town situated on the
west shore OF Bay Biscayne, Dade county, Fla,
and is about half way between Miami on the
south and Lemon City or Motto on the north.
At this point the bay is several miles wide with
a narrow strip OF wooded land intervening be-
tween the east shore and the Atlantic ocean.
little to the southeast is a narrow inlet TO the
ocean, which gives very fine view from Buena
Vista. There IL store, postotiice and first
class hotel already established at this place and
the proeridtors seem TO be doing thriving
business.
Key West Equator: The report of the revenue
Office for 1891 included all cigars and cigarettes
IN one sum and showed that the total output OF
Key West was o. ,597 $40 cigars and cigarettes.
The reports Of 1899 show that there were manu-
featured in Key West 81, t92 1871 cigars and 235,
400 cigarettes, making 9S,827s21, or gain OF
S,H4u, OIL cigars anu cigarettes. IL II Dell1feO
that the manufacture OF cigarettes did not in
crease any over the output of 1891. If that be
true the sum 2,2303li represents the gain In
cigars alone, which is probably correct. The
material used in cigarettes in 1892 was S61 Coz
POUNDS OF tobacco, and for cigars, stemmed to
baccO 253,2'f pounds; unstemmed 1905, 4Sl
pounds. The total amount OF tobacco, there
fore, manufactured In Key West during 1895
was 2,219,752 pounds. This shows a substantial
gain in the output of Key West during the past
year.
Mariana Democrat Col. Harry Thompson
large tobacco grower OF Winchester, KY.
and Col. II. I. Groom, editor of the IHdltstridl
american OF Lexington KY, representing a
syndicate, have recently purchased all the rail-
road land in Jackson county, north of the
Pens acola and Atlantic railroad known as the
Reeves lands. The lands aggregate about
10000 acres and lie between Chipley, Campslton
and Cottondale. Coils, Thompson and Groom
arrived in Chipley Saturday morning and i'm
mediately drove out to examine the hagerman
lands, lying adj acent to their former purchase
embracing 1900 acres, with the intention OF
buying these also, and probably ere this the sale
is contaminated. The price paid for the
railroad land was 81 90 per acre. The above
large tracts embrace some of the finest timber
and agricultural lands in the state, peculiarly
susceptible to fertilization and capable of the
highest degree OF cultivation. The timoer alone
| is we'll worth double the amount of the purchase
money IL is the intention Of the purchaser &
convert part of the land into tobacco farms as
fast as poss BILE, and, If necessary, will import
| Swedish and German lRborers. The soil ha:
been carefully examined by expert tobacco
| growers and pronounced especially suitable T.
the growth OF the finest cigar leaf. equal il
| every respect to that grown in Cuba. Samples
| OF tobacco grown on the land were exam
| ined and found to be exceptionally
| fine, although grown by new beginners ant
| cured by crude process. stock farm for The
| breeding and raising Of fine horses will be es
| tablished on the lands and stocked with blue
| blooded horses from the Blue Grass region OF
| Kentucky, the mildness of the winters here
being of great benefit in such an enterprise
Fruit growing on a large scale will also be com
menced on land especially adapted therefor
| and several large orchards will at once be put
| out. Il has been frequently demonstrated tina
pears especially, thrive in this climate and can
not be eXcelled anywhere for size and flavor A
number of other improvements will be made.