The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-09
FLORIDA.

The colored Baptists of West Florida
have established a high school at PEN
sacola.
Congressman S. NJ. Sparkman will adj
dress the people Of Citrus at Inverness
on the 18th. There is some talk Of bar
becue in his honor.
Alexander Clayton, an Englishman. has
purchased five acres Of the Binkley tract
on California avenue at $50 an acre and
"il improve II at once. 1t is his intention
10 raise poultry for the Tampa market.
Yesterday makes the eighth day since
the John Sylvester left New York and
the seventh for the City of Jackson
vile. The steamers are not long over
cue, but with fair weather the run is
usually made in five days.
Much cotton was damaged in the middle
portion Of Bradford county and IN tba
northern and western portions of Ala
chua county The impression Of the cot
ton growers In those sections is that
they will gather but little more than n
half crop.
The handsome residence OF ]. r Wal
ton on East Intendencia street at Pen
sacola was destroyed by fire Saturday
The roof was all ahre before an alarm
was sent in. There was a stir wind
blowing and other houses caught, but
were saved.
The Ybor City Box Company has now
been merged into the Tampa Box Com
pany, stock company in which August
Roesler Of the William Wicke company
OF New York is president, A. A. Wood of
the Ybor City Box Company is treasurer.
and Henry Leyman OF New York is sec
rotary.
Key West Herald: Ridiculous and IN
founded rumors are afoat about a part
of the crew of the lost schooner Lilly
White being rescued off the coast of
Cuba. No news at all has been heard
from the Inflated boat and there Is no
longer doubt that she and all on board
were lost.
Key West Herald: There has been an
ice famine in the city for two weeks. Ice
has readily brought from five to ten cents
pound, and very little could be had at
any price. The soda fountains. ice cream
saloons and all cool drink places have
been out. The ice plant has been out OF
order and the manufacture of it has been
suspended for a fortnight.
Judge Titcomb, with the Dunneuon
mining folks and half-dozen phosphate
brokers and miners, had big argument
at Ocala Saturday as 20 how much phos-
phate "A negro could load with a wheel
barrow in an hour onto car. The Judge
said twenty tons, but this the bystanders
ridiculed From assertion IL came to bets.
ises to pay was stacked up on the re-
suit The trial win come off later on.
A 4-year-old colored child named Laura
drummer. living on the corner of Main
and Blake streets at Palatta, was badly
scalded Saturday. 1t seems that the little
one asked her older sister for something,
whereupon the latter pushed Laura
against a stove upon which was a kettle
OF boiling water, and In her efforts TO keen
from falling, grabbed the vessel turning
So contents over on her The lower part
OF her back was almost cooked, also one
OF her legs.
The sudden rigc Of the Ocklawahn
river, owing TO the late storm. Is having a
DISASTROUS effect on the fish at Moss
blur. They are dying by tho hundreds.
and are creating stencil that rs almost
unbearable Squire White Of Moss bluff
says that the death Of the nsh is caused
By the eating of "a certain hcrb while
others say that the waters have been
houred by tho overflow into the marshes