The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-26

The streets OF Quincy are 10 be llghleu WIN
electricity.
The First National Bank of Gainesville has
received 3 900 silver quarters and 1000 dimes
which have been coined this year.
The Holmes estate of Jacksonville has dis
posed of it's final interests in the famous
spring at Green Cove TO Col. Houston Clinch
for $500.
Florida has grape fruit trees that bear
about nine boxes of fruit at one picking.
z. a. Hem of Paisley, has tree which did
this, and it Is not a very large one either.
DR.. b. G., Abernethy has about one hundred
boxes of oranges from the June bloom in his
Sewell grove. near Altoona; these Will bring
him good price in a few weeks from now.
The fight over license or no license at Or
lando is growing hot and every one is taking
sides. Many have pledged themselves not TO
sign any petitions for license, and the deal
ers-at least some of them-are said TO be
losing heart.
Mrs. H. b. Davies has purchased the Weld
man estate on South Charlotte street, at St
Augustine, near the barracks There Is
2-stOry cottage on the property which is a
part of the old Llambias grant The property
IS being improved and will be occupied by
Mrs Davies and family.
At Orlando the small frame building on
Orange avenue between DIR. Butts drug store
and the First National Bank, lately occupied
by Mrs Il. G.. Dick as q millinery store, has
been torn down during the past few days to
make way for brick structure, which will be
occupied by j. r. Peels dry goods store
At Jacksonville Tuesday Constable Frank
Land arrested January Fielder George
Hedges, Berry Wade, Ned Young and Fred
Ponder, colored men, charged with stealing
church record book from the st. Paul's church
(colored), in Brooklyn, valued at 500. The
warrants were sworn out by Prince Ward, a
colored deacon of the church.
Orlando is rapidly coming to the front as a
pineapplegrowi center. There are now
three large patches under substantial cover,
agRregating ten acres, all of them fine varie
ties. George j. Russell is the pioneer in this
business and has been remarkably successful
From a small beginning he now has 10000
plants, about half of which are bearing, and
he is now preparing TO set six acres more and
has the posts for the shelter on the ground.
Some men who were digging well on the
place of II. G, Dcnham at Live Oak found,
about ten feet below the surface of the
ground, a petritied tree. The petTihcation
being only on the outside an inch or two, the
trunk was soon split open; in II was found a
soft, sticky mass adherent to the sides of the
tree; and on tasting this it was found to be
honey which had been shut up in that tree
for it was impossible to say how many years.
Winter Park is very much excited over the
new charter, and its opponents are now threat
! ening to take the matter into the courts. The
! other side seems willing to fight il that way,
/ if it is necessary. On the morning after the
| passage of the bill a grave yard was found
/ near the South Florida depot with number
! of new-made graves, each supposed TO con.
| tain a political corpse. They were labeled
with the names of the present officers OF
! Winter Park and of Senator Marks and Judge
| Nolan.
One of the good things of the sad accident
| to Messrs Snead and Van Wrinkle who were
! so severely injured in the fall of the elevator
| at the government building at Jacksonville
! last Friday, where they were employed, is the
fact that their employers, the w. @. Greer
| Com pany, had them insured against loss by
| accident or death, while at work on the build
| ing. The employees OF the company at worl
| on the building are insured in the Employees
Insurance Company, OF Liverpool, England
i for S20. 600, represented at Jacksonville by j
H. Norton, and the agent is figuring on the
amount of damage and the proportion due thu
two wounded men.
Little Bros phosphate works in Soutl
Jacksonville came near being the scene of
fatal accident Tuesday afternoon. About
o'clock William Dumas, coloed employe
was at work in the big chamber about fort,
feet from the floor. and in some way lost hi
balance and fell, landing on pile of phos
phute. DR.. r. Is. Burroughs was telephones
for and at once responded. He found the un
fortunate man painfully hurt, and, as the las
! ferry was about to leave. had him brough
over and taken to his home at the corner q
| Cedar and State streets. Here an examine
| ton was made and it was found that his lef
hip had been dislocated and other parts of hi
body badly bruised.
Ed Durham and City Clerk J. l.. Pinney
Pensacola had the good fortune to save fiv
or six reckless youths from drowning in tn
bay late Sunday afternoon These boys wcr
outside the shipping sailing the Maggie ,whe
MeSSrs. Pinney and Durham. who were in tn
latters boat, Millie D. noticed the rockies
manner in which the Maggie was being sale,
Fearing that something would occur the
kept close in the wake of the boat. Present.!
. in attempting to put about, the Maggie WI
, | CupSized and the boys thrown into the waite
/ | The Mile d. was at once steered for the cal
: sized boat. Three Of the boys were take
a / aboard and the boat righted. The Other