The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-21
ORANGES NOT DROPPING.
Hotel Men Getting Ready for a Pros
perOuS Season.

The Popularity of the Morning News.
The Conversion of Senator Ham
mond-It Causes Surprise and Pleas
ure - Something About Performing
Alligators.
Sanford, Fla, Sept. 800 far sthe
steady rains have not caused much drop
ping of oranges, and the trees are putting
on a fine growth.
Sanford is just now rejoicing over the
expected presence here next week Of the
Clyde Line river steamer Fred de Barry
to resume her regular winter trips be-
tween this city and Jacksonville. She
will be soon followed by her larger and
more elegant companion steamer, the
City of jacksonville. Then business wall
start up in earnest. and the tide of win
ter travel begin to pour through this
Gate City of South Florida" Hotel
men are already preparing 10 put their
houses in order for a good business, and
for the first time in several years the ele-
CANT hotel at LOngwOOd, greatly i'm
proved. viii throw open its doors. This
fact is taken as a sure indication that eX-
perienced hotel men anticipate rush to
Florida this winter, tourist rates having
been arranged in most satisfactory
manner
APPRECIATED WORDS OF CHEER.
The Gate City Chronicle of this city,
one of the most successful and progress
sive papers in the state, under the head
of "A Splendid Newspaper thus COM
pliments your highly appreciated and
old reliable journal:
The Savannah MORNING News is de-
termined TO give its patrons the best that
can be had in the way of news and at the
earliest possible moment. The daily
comes to South Florida on the same mail
that brings the jacksonville dailies,
while the weekly-one of the best in the
country-nOw comes twice a week, and IS,
therefore, always fresh and spicy. Col.
Estill is a veteran newspaper man, and
wins abundant success by his constant
efforts to deserve it,
might add that wherever I go in
Florida there seems to be the same spirit
of kindly appreciation of the MORNING
News For more than twenty years
have noted its devotion TO Florida inter
ests, and its efforts to give the people of
this state a live, reliable newspaper,
one especially valuable to business men.
1t has seen hundreds of daily papers rise
and fall in Florida, but it has pursued the
even tenor of its way" steadily growing
in circulation and in the confidence of the
best class of people throughout the state.
REMARKABLE CAREER.
From parties Just back from summering
at Melbourne beach, on the east coast |
learn that there is now but little doubt
that the notorious forger and confidence
woman, Mrs Hicken, in Jail at Atlanta, is
no other than Mrs Mctadden of Mel
bourne beach, and her associate, who
passes as her husband, is one Thomson, a
boat builder, who left Florida about the
same time Mrs McFadden de-
parted. AS they are humble and
respectable people, industrious and pros
porous as boat-builders and seafaring
men, her husband and sons can in no way
be responsible for her remarkable career
in crime. She seems TO have stepped out
of her humble sphere here in Florida and
suddenly become a successful and dan
gerous forger and swindler in Chicago, at
Boston, in New York and other large cit
les, finally landing with her bogus hus-
band in jail at Atlanta. Her history is
equal to a dime novel sensation.
SENATOR HAMMoND's CONVERSION.
No event in Florida of late has caused
more real qualification than the con-
version of Hon. Ed. NJ. Hammond of Or
landO, late state senator. His genial
manners and brilliant talents as a lawyer
and statesman had made him universally
popular, and but for his love of the social
glass he could have been chief Justice
governor or United States senator Sud
denly, to the great Joy of his family and
friends, he became an humble seeker after
the grace of God and the pardon
of his sins. These secured, he at once
turned his great gifts of oratory
and intellect into the service of the cause
of Christ. After two weeks faithful
work in Orlando he went TO his old home
in Atlanta and surprised his former gay
associates by his earnest and eloquent
discourses. Next week he will be in
jacksonville to help in revival meeting
there. 1t is probable that Senator Ham
mond will enter the active ministry as
his life work, and if he
does he is sure to become
one of the ablest and most eloquent
divines in the Southern Methodist church
He comes of a religious family His
father, the late Judge Dennis F. Ham
mond, was an earnest local eXhorter, and
his brother. Judge w. Il. Hammond of
Atlanta, is noted for his christian and
temperance labor in that city; while his
brother, Rev. DR.. John d. Hammond now
president of Central College in Missouri,
is foremost educator and divine of the
Southern Methodist church. His sister
is the wife of Hon. a. ID. Adair, a leading
cotton merchant Of Atlanta, and one of
the most Jealous and liberal supporters of
the Southern Baptist convention mission
airy work in Cuba and elsewhere With
such an environment it is quite reasoua-
BILE TO anticipate for Senator Hammond
in his new field OF labor a success most
gratifying 10 his nearest and dearest
friends.
THOSE PERFORMING ALLIG ATORs.
The announcement that Down in
Dixie" the new spectacular play, has the
only two performing alligators extanJ is
hardly correct. A few years ago Deacon
L. G. Hungerlord, the well known Ches-
ter, Conn, banker ana philanthropist
purchased two good sized alhgators in
Orlando and put them in Lily Lake. in
the city park, fronting his elegant winter
residence at Maitland. Assisted by Dr
G. Q. Haskell and Others, he succeeded
in demonstrating these saurians and il
time learning them 10 perform
various tricks in exchange fol
fresh meat and other articles OF
food. In this way they became some
what famous, and not uufrequentll
in the winter several carriage loads OF
visitors can be seen around the lake from
Seminole hotel at Winter Park and tn,
Altamonte Springs hotel watching thes,
alllgatorS perform. n response TO
whistle they will come out into the parl
quite distance after the prodered food
But If they are called out several time
and not fed, they get mad and make tn,
lookers-on scatter A brilliant younl
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