The morning news., 1894-08-28

the cans of every dealer, and the lactometer
showed each sample to be above the stand
ard 100 degre es.
1t is reported that an independent boat
Will be put on the ChattahOochee river by
Oct the capacity Of which will be OOO bales
OF cotton.
A wagonload of watermelons was over
turned saturday at the corner Of Hogan and
Bay streets, at jacksonville, and hackmen
baggagemen and bootblacks had feast
There are two applicants for collector Of
the Ocala SUPPORT of entry-AleX. Mcintyre,
eX cashier of the First National Bank, and
John X. Martin, one OF Ocala's largest cigar
manufacturers. Both have petitions largely
signed by citizens
L. S. Light OF Reddick has Just closed a
sale of 1900 acres Of timber land in Ala hua
county, near Rochelle, and viii soon remove
his large saw-mlll TO that place Mr. Light
is an energetic and hustling business man
and Marion co nty will lose good citizen
should all reports be true.
About o'clock Sunday morning at Pensa-
cola, young Irish sailor named Thomas
British steamship Teutonia. fell overheard
aud was drowned before assistance could
reach him. The body was recovered and was
buried in ST. Johns cemetery.
The wharf OF the South Florida division OF
the Savannah, Florida and Western railway.
at Sanford has been undergoing extensive
improvements the past few weeks amounting
virtually to new structure being built. 1he
its reconstruction over $4,000 feet OF lumt er
were used.
The Jacksonville custom house has received
consular invoices from Havana Of tobacco on
the wing. There are ten bales OF Havana to.
bacco for FL Modelo cigar factory and four
bales for G NJ. dc Huau. The exact amount
Of duty VIII not be known until the tobacco is
examined and weighed, but will be in the
neighborhood OF II 900.
The Orange Spring Dispatch says that a
rattlesnake nearly seven feet long was killed
recently near the Thursuy's front stems nt
Blue Spring. He had thirteen rattles and a
button. proving him to be nearly l6 years
old. Some of the rattleS had holes in them
This makes the third large rattlesnake Killed
on the Thursby premises within the past two
years.
Ground has been broken at Jacksonville
and the foundation laid for a four. story brick
building on Forsyth street, Just east OF the
Cleaveiand Con pany large furniture build.
ing 1he structure is being erected by w. w
Cleayeland. The building will be forty-one
feet wlde by seventy feet in length The walls
will be twenty inches thick for the first story
and regulation thickness the other three
stories.
Miss Mary Cvorouska committed suicide
saturday at Quincy by taking parts green
She was from New York, and had been ia the
employ OF the owl Cigar Company but was
discharged few days previous 10 killing her.
sell on account OF her incompetence as a
cigar roller. she attempted before TO kin
herself by taking paris green. but the doctor
was summoned IN time 10 prevent the poison
from doing It's deadly work. Lack OF em-
ployment is said 10 be the cause OF her rash
act.
Saturday night about $50 o'clock L. l..
stephens, who with his clerk was sitting in
front OF MS leWelry store on Bay street, Jack
sonVllle noticed two negroes In the rear OF
the store one OF them was opening drawer
containing watches, and the other was pre-
pairing TO help himself As soon as the men
We're Were seen Mr.. stephens and his clerk rushed
after them, but the negroes Jumped through
the back window, whore they came in, and
made their escape. No watches we're taken.
but the clerks coat was gone
The first flash Of lightning in the heavy
thunder storm at Jacksonville saturday after.
noon struck the schooner John Peiree. which
lies az the dock near the city Jail Ii splin-