The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-16

FLORIDA
Gov. Mitchell has rendered the position OF
trustee OF the state Agricultural College al
Lake City 10 +. e Harris. editor OF the OcaIa
Banner. He has accepted.
A telegram from New York states that the
first car Of Watermelons shipped to that mar
ket BY Il. T. Paine & son OF JacksOnvllle sofa
for 1856 49, The price being obtained at pres
ent for his melons averages IS cents.
At the meeting Of the Marion County Medi.
cal Society held last Monday the question or
pushing the erection OF a county hospital was
taken up and thoroughly debated. TWAS the
sense OF the entire body TO push the matter at
once.
The Piedmont Phosphate Company, located
at Rock Springs, and Of which H. Hitler is
manager Is now busy filling an order for
$4,000 worth Of phosphate. This ls said "a
be the largest order ever received by any
company yet.
A meeting Of the Jacksonville camp of the
Sons OF Confederate Veterans was held Wed
nesday night at the camp room and was at
tended by all of the members OF the organlZai
ton who are at all interested in the cause
that IL cherishes the memory Of. The imam
eiai condition Of the organization was dis
cussed and number OF other important mat
tiers brought up. The annual election OF ON,
GERS was TO have been held, but on motion Of
F. b. Matthews was postponed until the next
meeting. .
Robert Brooks, light mulatto, committed
suicide at Ocala Tuesday night by taking
at the bottom of it. Robert was a clerk in
the Ocala commercial and bazar store, and
had gone to St Augustine Saturday to meet
his intended and marry her. The parents and
brother objected and spirited the girl away.
Unsuccessful In finding her, he returned
home, deliberately purchased dose of laud-
anum at the Autobiography drug store, went
with his friend, Monroe Sims, into Culver
house s saloon and swallowed it, saying his
girl had gone back on him and he was tired of
life. DR.. Lloyd attempted to save his life but
but failed.
st. Augustine News: The wild fig tree is
found at various points along the southern
coast being entirely tropical and most every
island in the Everglades contains more or less
of them. This is a remarkable tree. 1t first
makes its appearance as the creeper and
seizes on the largest tree IL can find. continu-
ing 10 enctrCle in its mesheS until IL deprives
1t Of life, when IL feeds upon the decayed mat
ter and becomes beautiful tree. On one Of
the islands in the Everglades during Gen.
Harneys operations two of these large wild
fig trees were discovered, standing about ten
feet apart. which decorated the center OF the
island. They had each attacked a palmetto
and one of them was dead, but the top of the
other was still blooming in the center, al
though completely surrounded. The Indian
name for the wild fig tree is "Ho eo-moth-
lOccO.h
A correspondent writing from DeFuniat
says: Although Del'uniak failed in securing
the Odd Fellows sanitarium, IL has secured
something in the same line, which will proba-
Dly result Ia rs great tnlngS IOr the tutufe
prosperity of this place, in the closing of the
contract between J. G. Scott, owner of the
New York house and adjoining buildings, and
the Bon sanitaTlum syndicate Of Meadville,
Pa. BY terms of contract work will be begun
at once in putting IN a system of water works,
sewerage electric call bells and medical bath
rooms. The work is TO be completed
and the sanitarium opened by Oct /,
1893. They win use the Gale remedies
for the treatment of the liquor
and opium habits. consumption, kidney
diseases, etc. Tho Bon system already en-
braces about dozen sanitariums scattered
over the north the one at Lakewood, n. Y,
costing S2h0 900, and after years careful in
vestigation the manager selected this place
as the most promising point for a southern
branch DIR. Cham erlain of the Meadville
concern will travel through the west and
northwest this summer advertising this
branch of their business, reaching this point
In time to take charge OF it in October at the
opening. Dr. Thompson of Kalamazoo, Mich,
has signed two years contract with them as
one of the DeFuniak's corps of physicians"