The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-29
FLORIDA.

The highest grade of phosphate rock
that has been shipped from Florida was
the product of the Piedmont mine near
Ocala. The cargo averaged 62.l4 per
cent Of phosphate.
DeLand Record: A wife-beater, or
! literally speaking, "wife-biter,' of Palm
| Beach received sixty good and true lashes
! laid on with ropes end by Infatuated
neighbors one day last week.
/ Juno Tropical Sun 1t is said
that at least one-third of the net
/ returns for the orange crop of the
/ section the past season is going TO defray
! the expenses Iof our people to resorts
north and to the worlds fair.
Juno Tropical Sun: The Pinder Broth
! ers, of Malta Cumble key, who are amopg
| the largest of our pineapple growers, have
| erccteda canning factory and will do u
| large business in this line. Edward
| Riggs, Of Elliot's key has been canning
! tomatoes and pineapples in small way
! for some time.
Ocala Capitol; The Capitol learned
/ from a reliable source late this afternoon
/ that a black brute attempted to commit
| u namelCss crime on respected and
| highly connected white married lady at
! Mcintosh yesterday evening, but she sue
ceeded in frightening him away. After
he found out he could not succeed he went
to the gate and dared the lady to show
herself, saving that if she did he would
! kill her. She got q gun, but the negro
made for the woods The country is being
secured for the villain.
| In the slip back of the pilots Office on
Palafox street at Pensacola, is lying a
small sail boat, IA feet long, 81 feet beam,
| known as the Flying Dutchman, formerly
| the SapoliO of Mobile. The commander
| and sole occupant of this little craft is
/ John Lewis Johnson, native Of Sweden,
/ who is bound for the Congo river on the
west coast Of Africa. He made the trip
! from Mobile to that port in ID hours, and
! thinks that he will make the long voyage
across the ocean in the little craft safely
| and in good time. Capt. Johnson will re-
main there two or three weeks, before
! embarking on his long voyage.
Lewis Cook, well known colored mu-
stefan of Pensacola, was painfully and Sc
riously cut on Muscogee wharf at a late
hour Monday night by Sidney Hale, also
colored, and well known as a hotel pOr-
ter and hack driver. The particulars of
the cutting, as far as could be ascertained,
are as follows; Cook and Hale, with a
number of colored women, We're on the
wharf Cook began using vulgar Ian
guage and Hale reproved him. This an
! gered Cook and he began cursing Hale
and followed up his words with a blow.
When he received the blow Hale drew a
| knife and cut Cook, infiicting long and
serious cash in his left side.
Pensacola News: On Wednesday of
last week the dredge at the Pensacola
| bar brought up a mOnstrous shape, which
was Immediately christened the PensacO-
la sea serpent, and sent by friend to the
| Daily News. A distinguished scientist
saw it only after it had become somewhat
| decayed so that absolute Identification
/ irnpDeeihln h,1t pnO11Qb ppO1Inn1 n
make certain the following facts about it,
In size it was abnormal-plobably the
largest ever seen in this country. 1t was
a sand worm or arenicola, which burrows
in the sand and throws up mound like
the pouched rat, which is called
the salamander in Florida. An
allied form is much used for bait
by the fishermen of the English ana
French coasts but our specimen present
ed an appearance too formidable to make
handling pleasant. Its head is not notice
able because it presents to the eye no or
gans which usually mark that important
part even in lower forms of life, and the
presence of what looks like punches of
moss on each segment is a noticeable feat
ure But these lunches are its arrange
ments for breathing, and the habit of
wearing its lungs outside the body may
be a special provision for hot weather
Smaller forms are found at PASSPORT, Me.
and along the Atlantic coasts of all the
southern states.
Fire broke out at II o'clock Sunday
night in the large two-stOry wooden store
building at New Smyrna owned by p. n
Bryan. The fire seemed to have caught
from the inside of the building near the
partition that separates the warehouse
from the main building to the left of the
door connecting the two buildings to
wards the river, and consequently had
such full sway before being discovered
that every effort to save the building OF
goods was in VAN. The newly erected
twO-story wooden building owned by
Captain Douglas, adjoining Bryan's, next
caught, and was rapidly swept by
the angry flames which seemed only
to increase by the numerous streams
of water that were constantly
poured in upon them. The wind blew
strong from the southeast, and had it not
been for the quick work Of the many will.
ing hands, and the explosion of several
kegs of gunpowder at Bryans, which
scattered the timber and lessened the
fire the whole block of buildings along
the river front north of Bryans would
have been burned. The building owned
by p. n Bryan. valued at 81 600 was in
sured for 81 900. The general merchan-
disc owned by Milton Bryan, invoice and
insurance not learned. Pool and billiard
tables owned by T.. X. Lowd in second
story. valued al $500, no insurance. Dou-
glas' building, valued at 81 600, not com
pleted, no insurance; lost by the contrac.
tor II. L. Mason.
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