The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-04


The Monticello Constitution Is 81 years
old.
Mrs. John B. Dell died Of paralysis in
Gainesville Saturday.
There we're 1888 marriages in Orange
county during The year just closed.
Sno fell In Leon county on the night Of
Monday, Dec. %. On Tuesday morning
the roofs at Tallahassee were covered with 1t.
Last week some little boys in Sanford
filed an old gun barrel with powder aud
exploded it. The result was a burst bar
rel and the breaking of a plate glass front
in a store, costing S75.
Tarpon Springs Truth: Quite heavy
frost visitei US Wednesday AMI Thursd v
nights, aud yesterday morning a number
OF fish died in the bayou from the effect OF
the cold. The water 80 ohillel the tarpon
in the spring that Capt. SWEET aud Mr..
Clemson tried their skill at throwing the
graius at them, bus missed their mark every
lime.
A few days ago, while the ~ year-old son
OF John SHELTON Of Key West was playing
with q colt on the Harrison beach, he met
with q serious accident. He had his arm
around the COLTS mex when horse ran up
aud jumped upon him, knocking both the
boy aud colt down. The boys left arm
was knocked out Of place at the elbow joint
eoN LIS Is AA oAN hAo OONJ Woe bnAAs
bruised.
De Land Record: The Orange City Water
Works Company is having all its pipes for
the works brought from Philadelphia "a
New Smyrna. The schooners, drawing
from ten to twelve feet, pass over Mosquito
inlet without the least trouble. The day
will come when a large percentage OF the
commerce Of the state will pass through the
inlet. With improvements IL can be made
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Florida.
james r. Challen Of Jacksonville has re-
ceived box Of gum arabic seed from the
desert of Sahara. Africa. HAtton Turner
who sends them, writes that they grow very
rapidly, and from the first year the leave,
and flowers are beautiful; that they are
very handsome, quickly rowing acacia
making large tree, giving dense shade
Any oue who will cultivate them and tes
their value as Florida product, will TO
ceive a few seeds by applying 20 Mr.. ChAl
len.
Rev. William Crane Gray, D. D., Oh,
| newlv-elecCed bishop of South Florida, was
born In Lambert lille. N. j., Sept. 6, 1885
His parents were Joseph Gray and HANNAH
Prios Crane. Through the latter he wal
related to the late Bishop Croes, first bishoI
of New Jersey, and the late Bishop Whit.
tingham Of Maryland. When he was II
see and.there his " hole life has been spent
He graduated from Kenyon col!ege Gam
bier, o., In the year 1859; was ordained
deacon in Christ church, Nash vife, in Jun,
Of the same year by the late Bishop J. H
| Otey. He was advanced to the priesthood
the following year in St. Peters church
| Columbia, on Ascension day. The hrs
eighteen months of his ministry we're spen
in the missionary field of West Tennes
see. He had but two parishes, St
| James church, Bolivar, IN West Tennessee
where he spent over twenty years, and TIL
Church OF the Advent, where he has beer
| nearly Twelve years. While in Bolivar h,
| built ST. James church aud founded st
| James hall, u school for girls, and built ST
| Phillips church for oolored people He ha
had but these two parishes since he wa
made priest in 1859. Going to the Church
| of the Advent, he has removed the larg,
debt that rested on the congregation AMI
| completed the church. which was consecra
| ted Easter Sunday, 1887. The degree O
| ID. d. was conferred on DR.. Gray by Ken
| yon College in 1881. He is a sound church
man, a ripe scholar and an indsfatigabl
worker. DIR. Gray has been twice married
| His first wife was Maggie Locke Trent o
| Tennessee, his present wife being Mis-.
Fannie Campbell Bowers, daughter of tn
late William Warner Bowers of Philadel
! mia.