The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-16
FLORIDA'S ORANGE CROP.
II Promises 10 Be a Very Fine
One.

Winter Park, Fla, Aug. 15.-The heavy
thunder storms of the past month have
ceased their daily visits, and we now have
occasionally two or three days without
much rain. The storms this summer have
not only been more frequent, but also
more severe. and damage from lightning
has been greater. OF course, everything
in nature has taken on a remarkably fine
growth, and crops of all kinds now prom
Use well. Groves are looking well, and
fruit is not dropping more than is usual
The South Florida railroad has made
some improvements here, and probably
intend TO meet any competition at this
point from the Florida Central and
Peninsula railway this winter, IN con-
nection with the Seminole hotel and
the public generally. From the
Park station, about a mile beyond
here, to the Mayo station, new steel rails,
seventy-pounders, are soon to be laid.
This will give the road fine seventy-pound
rails all the way from Sanford to Tampa.
new section master has just taken
charge of this section, and as he is pop
ular young Georgian, his friends in your
state will be glad to hear of his success
in Florida. His name is Leonard Will
liams, and he is a son of Mr.. Samp Viii
firms, one of the most thrifty farmers
around Cairo, and a large shipper of
watermelons. Young Williams has been
doing good service down at Kissimmee,
and so Supervisor Weatherby transferred
him TO this important section.
CONFEDERATE HISTORY DISTORTED.
Under the head of Last Meeting
Place of the Confederate Cabinet" the
July issue of blue and Gray magazine,
published in Philadelphia, presents a fine
picture of the BERT mansion at A bbeville,
S c. as the place where the confederate
cabinet held its last meeting, according
TO the universally expressed opinion of
the people of that town. But the truth
of history will hardly allow this claim TO
stand.
President jefferson Davis and his cabi-
net crossed the Savannah river near Able
vile and passed on to Washington, Ga,
where, in the old Branch Bank of the
State of Georgia, the last cabinet meeting
was really held and the last order issued,
May >, 1865, the manuscript of which is
now in the state library at Atlanta. The
members of the cabinet then in session,
as well as President Davis and Vice
President Alexander II. Stephens, are all
dead, except Hon. John H. Reagan of
Texas, VINO was Postmaster General. and
is now the sole survivor of all the various
cabinet officers of the ConfederacY at any
time in Office.
AN UNFORTUNATE DEFALCATION.
There are some very sad features con-
nected with the downfall of Gen S. w
Ferguson, late secretary and treasurer of
the Mississippi river levee board. A ma
tive of South Carolina, he went to West
Point Academy in 1852 and graduated in
1857, standing No 70 in a els = of thirty
eight. And such class-E. Kirby
Smith, Richard L. Meade, e p. Alexan-
der. Robert II. Anderson. John S.
Marmaduke. Beside Alexander and
Anderson there were Aurellus F. Cone and
George A. Cunningham and Thomas j.
Berry of Georgia in the class, and Capt.
George A. Kensel of the Fifth United
States artillery, so well known in Savan-
nah. Ferguson was a fine officer, and
was appointed TO the Dragons, but re-
signed in 1861 and entered the confeder-
ate service, where he became brigadier
general. After the war he practiced law
at Greenville, Miss, until he went on the
levee board. AS a rule graduates of
West Point in the old army have
furnished very few cases of defalcation,
Maj. ]. r. Wasson's case being the worst
on record.
THE LATE REV. DR.. M'FARLAND.
have the most pleasant entrances
of the Rev. d. X. Mcfarland, D. D., some
years ago the faithful and Jealous pastor
of the Presbyterian church in Savannah.
His old friends, as well as parishioners in
your city, will be gratifed to learn that
when the fund was raised to place in the
First Presbyterian church at Stanton.
Va, memorial tablet to this eminent
divine, pastor of that church, the love of
the community for the dead minister in
creased the amount beyond what was
been devoted to the erection Of a memo
rial stone over his grave in Thornrose
cemetery. II is of white marble and
gothic in style, and bears the following
inscription:
Rev. D. X. Mcfarland, D. D.,
Born. March 10th 1S4S
Died Feb. 2Sth. 1893
Sacred to the memory of this honored ser
want OF God, whose abundant labors for the
cause Of his Master, and the good of his fell
low men, endeared him to so many in this
city; that with tenderest recollections OF his
life and work, they mark and cherish this
the place where he sleeps-till the resurrec.
ton OF the Just.
Il shall be satisfied when awake with thv
likeness"
Come Lord Jesus, come quickly"
wAYsIDE NOTES.
Contractor LeGreve of Lake Howell
is now at work building a sub
stantial packing house in the fine Apger
orange grove at Altamonte Springs.
Mrs. Foulkes of Maitland has DUR
Cudo6u f1Olu6u SdWmlll, between that
place and Winter Park, and it is now be-
ing run by her three sons, two of whom
were formerly with Holden
Postmaster John j. Heard of Maitland
Is reconstructing the Morris house and
will soon have IL transformed into an ele-
CANT residence. Rumor saws he will
bring TO it in the near future a charming
young bride.
Some years ago Editor Charley Pendle-
ton Of the Naldosta Times made quite an
exploration of the, then, little known,
Okefenokee swamp. His brother, Louis
Pendleton, who has become quite a lit
erary character, is now contributing Sc
ries of illustrated articles (twenty-seveu
in number) TO the Youths Companion of
Boston, entitled In the Okefenokee. ~
which are full of thrilling incidents.
The success of Hiram Maxim, the IA
nous inventor, with his flying machine,
as noted in the MORNING News, will en-
courage Rev. DIR. T. W. Moore. late of
Sanford, Fla, but now pastor of the
Methodist church at Barlow, to push
ahead with his aerial bicycle mentioned
several months ago in this CORES pom
dence. While he has modified some of
his plans, and changed the character of
material used, yet he is still hopeful OF
final success.
THE HEALTHIEsT CITY.
The Remarkably Low Death Rate OF
Thom6sville.