The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-24
FLORIDA.


People in Lake county are buying large
quantities Of tobacco stems for their orange
groves.
H. a. Fullers packing house, at Tampa, has
started up again. They expect TO PACK 1000
boxes of oranges yet this spring.
hecolored man Diamond, a state prisoner,
who recently escaped from the county jail. was
captured Wednesday afternoon at Port Tampa
He mas again been placed in jail.
p. C. Leonardo of Tampa has Just received a
United States patent for SO acres of land To-
Gated In the town of New Smyrna. 1t Is 10 the
center of the town, facing the sea and is very
valuable. The title to the land comes through
an old Spanish grant to his grandfather.
Driver & Bigham Of Archer are circulating a
petition, which will be presented to the legis-
lature OF the state, asking that body 10 pas a
special act to refund the amount paid to the
state by that firm as license to sell splrituous
and malt liquors. The circuit court of that dis
trict enjoined them from selling iDtoxlcants IN
der the license.
A novel craft is in course of construction at
the Wilson Lumbe Company dock al palatta
Il is intended for the use of O gang Of cypress
tim bermen, and consists Of a large lighter with
a history house built on it. The lower story is
70 be used as dining room, kitchen aud closets;
the upper story, fitted for sleeping apartments,
having windows and ventilatoTs, the latter coy
erved with wire gauZe. This craft will accom-
modate comfortably dozen men.
The cas- Of the state of Florida vs. John Cunso
was brought I'D before judge Harrison az
Rock, the complaining witness, asserted that h
was occupying piece Of fenced-in land on the
reservation, as agent of Alexis Sefar and that
CuneO entered upon the land aud brought lum-
Der and built house thereon, thus committing
criminal trespass. Messrs Guuby aud Stevens
attorneys for Cuneo, filed special plea claim
ing thai the court had no criminal iurisd C ion
in the matter. After Weighing the matter,
Judge Harrison decided that he had no juris-
diction in the case and discharge it.
The 4-year-ol1 son of J. NJ Murphey of Geneva
had his clothes burned off Monday afternoon,
and died that night little after 9 O'Clock. Mr.
Iurphey keeps little store at Buda and is
postmaster at that place He had gone to
Orlando leaving the child in care of his two
older children II appears that the little fell
low had gotten box of matches and was try
ing to make fire in the stove and set his cloth
ing on fire. Mr.. Nurphey returned home and
was the first to discover that his child was ter
ribly burned and Just in time to save his house
and contents, as two beds in the house were on
fire The suDpostion is that the child had
jumped into the bed while its clothing was on
nre, and IDENTITY had LETT the first and gotten
into the second bed. When Mr. Murphey ar
rived the child was in the hall without vestige
OF clothing on.
Tampa Tines: During the winter thousands
OF PEG 10 have examined with gr. al intereEU he
ancient leather shield that has been on exhibit
ton at the jewelry store o. Capt. c. L. Ayres
1t is of an oval shape slightly cut out at top and
bottom, and in surface dimensions about two
feet high aud two feet broad. On its face is an
ancient Spanish coat of arms, painted in such
| lasting and wonderful ColorS that they have
wthstoOd the vicisstudes of centuries and still
| convey to the eye the designs placed tuerr by
! the unknown artist whose bones have mCldered
| in the tomb for centuries. The various layers
| Of leather are bound together by marrow leather
| thonRs, arranged IN symmetrical designs On
the reverse side are the two broad bands throue b
! which the ancient warrior placed his left arm
| Numerous dents on the face Of the
| shield vividlr tell Of the arrows
and spears that It has faithfully turned aside
| from ats valiant owner. We would like to know
the history OF this ancient relic, but all that we
know definitely is that il was eXhumed by a
! civil engineer named Won Call. while construct
| ing railroad between Victoria and Tamplco
| in the state Of lamaulipas, Mexico, 8 few
! years ago. The Spanish inscription is in the
old tongue aud some of the words are now OBJ
| soete. IL is follows: "AsombrO soy de
! Paganos enmostradO, nj corona, y 81 infieles no
| logren, Pongamos, manos a la oDra. - A learned
| Spanish scholar of Tampa translates this as
! follows: Il am the wonder OF paganb; have
! shown my crown, and il inhdes do not succeed
! LEI us place our hands 70 the work. We re-
/ gret that this treasure will leave Tampa, but
! after great efforts 1t has been purchased for a
! large sum by Dr.. II. A. Lawton of Brunswick,
! Ca, and will soon be taken TO Chicago and
placed on exhibition at the Columbian exposi-
| ton.
AT Jacksonville Monday afternoon, the peo.
! pie around the Savannah, Florida and Western
! depot were startled by the sound of pistol
! SHOT coming from the ladies' waiting room.
| Stationmaster W. II. Meynardie ran into e
! rOom but, seeing three women sittiugothare
| quietly. be did not know which to turn'to. He
| then noticed that one Of them. who was sitting
! near the window at the southeast corner ap-
! peared TO be swooning. He at once ran to her
| and found that she had a 3S-caliber Smith &
| Wesson revolver in her hand, which be prompt
/ " took away and found one of the chambers
| discharged. Whether or not the woman at
! tempted suicide is not known, but she had not
harmed herself. II she meant to take her lite it
| is supposed that under the severe nervous strain
| the pistol turned as she pulled the trigger
and the ball LODGED In the wall Her dress
| was burned by the revolver as it fired. 1t vas
| learned afterward that she has been following
| some man from out west and reached that city
! Sunday night and went to the Hotel Placide,
/ where she re yistered as -. NJ. Brown, Calves
/ ton, Tex She pointed out the name of a gen.
! teman who had registered from Galveston on
! Friday night, saying that he was the man she
! was looking for. The gentleman in question
/ bad left however, Saturday morning. she
! took only lodgings at the hotel. and left Mon
! day morning IL seems that she found ths man
/ at the st. Johns house; but what passed be-
| tween them could not be ascertained. She next
| met him at the Savannah, Florida and Western
| depot, where, It Is said. he threatened to have
| her arrested, and went uptown. but. after Civ
! Ing her the Blip returned and left Tor Orlando,