The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-25
FLORIDA.

and the lucky number was among them.
FLORIDA.
A street railway is to be built at Crescent
City.
An electric light plant IS to be put in at
Arcadia by a st. Louis man.
Jacob c. Miller an old citizen of Lake
City aged so years, died Saturday even
ing.
A man named Nick Farrar died suddenly
Saturday morning at Osceola hotel at
Palatka.
]. W. Best of Barlow has commenced his
business of extracting essences from
fruits. He has been very successful in
this line
Mrs. G. II. Case Of Kissimmee suffered
an appopletic stroke Friday between Il
and y O'Clock, which resulted in her death
about two and half hours afterward
Mr. Upchurch of Callahan. and Mr. Dyal
of Dyal Station, Nassau county were at
Taylor last Wednesday looking al the tim
Der with view TO erecting a saw mill
The body OF Capt. Lawrence w. Waits,
who was drowned in the St. Johns river
Saturday afternoon by the sinking of the
steamer Active, was recovered at 10:15
Sunday morning.
Mrs. Mittie Stanford, the widow of the
late DR.. Stanford, and mother of Col. Os-
car T. Stanford, a prominent attorney of
Arcadia, died Friday afternoon at her
home in Arcadia.
The famous Blue Springs property near
Ocala has been sold to a northern syndi-
cate. An extensive mining plant is to be
established. The syndicate viii also erect
a fertilizer factory. For a long while the
property was in litigation.
The residents of Idlewild Park are walt
ing the preliminary arrangements of the
postoftice department to get their new
postoffice. A strong effort has been made
to have the name of IdleWild Park re-
tanned as the name of the office.
News has been received at Pensacola of
the serious stabbing of United States
Deputy Marshal A. j. Matthews near Ger
70 Gordo by a man named Barton. Mat
thews is seriously cut, but is still alive.
The difficulty is said to have grown out
of an arrest made by Matthews some
time ago.
DR.. Miles Mountein, an old and highly
respected citizen of Washington county,
was stricken with paralysis very sudden
ly last Friday, at his home in Vernon. The
doctor had purchased some corn and was
in the act of closing the barn door, after
the corn had been delivered, when he fell
almost sense1ess on the ground. He is at
present very ILL.,
George Keen and Miss Annie Goldman
have disappeared from North Gainesville.
and it is supposed that they have eloped
for the purpose of being married. Keen
secured a marriage license from county
Judge Taylor on Thursday. The couple
were seen travelling in the direction of La
/ Crosse, where they were married. The
! elopement was caused by the opposition of
the girls parents.
Ex-senator c. B. Parkhin met with a
very painful accident at Pensaesia- be-
tween and O'clock Thursday evening
He was standing near the curbng on
Palafox street conversing with several
/ gentlemen. The sidewalk was thronged
with holiday shoppers, and in the crush
little child was pushed between Mr..
/ ParkhilPs legs. In his effort to avoid
hurting the child he lost his balance and
/ fell on the brick pavement of the street.
1 The shock was so severe as to render
! him almost unconscious, but physicians
were called who quickly revived him. His
nose and mouth were cut, but the injuries
| are not serious.
At st. Augustine Saturday Maj Thomas
/ II. Hanbury opened bids for the dredging
of 1000 cubic yards in Charlotte harbor,
! in compliance with provision of the
river and harbor law passed at the last
session of congress There were three
/ bids. as follows The Rittenhouse- Moore
| Dredging Company of Mobile, Ala so
cents per cubic yard. the Virginia Dredg-
! ing Company Of Richmond, Va, 81 cents
| per cubic yard; James A. Bryan, Tampa,
| Fla, "a cents per cubic yard. The latter
being the lowest bidder, will secure the
contract for $16.s0O. This is the second
contract that has been secured by a Flor
ida firm for work recently let by Maj. Han
bury.
H c. Lampden. an unfortunate man
| who has become demented recently and
has been confined in the county Jail at
/ Orlando, for want of a more suitable
place. was sent to the state institution
| at Chattahoochee last night. He could
| hardly give an intelligent account of him
| self, at one time claiming to be an Eng
lishman by birth, at another claiming to
| have been born and raised on the coast of
/ Maryland. In one interview he stated
that he had been in Florida eleven wears
! and had made his home at DeIand. As
all of his statements were more or less
| incoherent, 1t was exceedingly difficult to
learn anything reliable about his former
| history
Walter Hawkins of Jacksonville has in
his possession curiosity in the way of an
| envelope that has been on its travels to
some purpose. The letter it covered was
| mailed in New York on Nov 26 1891. and
arrived in Jacksonville three days later
Mr.. Hawkins was then In the north and
! the letter was mailed to him at Balti
| more. It then followed him on to Chi
! cago, arriving there on the 18th, and since
then has probably been awaiting its turn
in the dead letter Office. The letter COW
! cred one Of those little applications for
! pass which railroad men count among the
! supreme joys of existence, and though Mr.
| Hawkins has just got the letter. the gen