The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The Florida Public School Teachers
| Convention convenes in Orlando Dec. 81.
The Hillsborough county public schools
close Dec. p till Jan. z, for the holidays.
The Seminole hotel at Winter park opens
Thursday under the management Of d. p.
Hathaway.
\ negro section hand walked from Mo
haWk 10 Knoxville, Tenn, this week, to
collect a dollar due him by the railroad.
II is predicted that 5000 tons of phos-
phate is the amount of rock that will be
shipped through Fernandina this month.
Last month 2.O99.1O5 feet Of lumber coast
wise and S)O,765 feet foreign, and $3.50 tons
OF phosphate were shipped from Fernan-
dina.
Rev. W. T. Hundly of Greenville. S. C..
has accepted the call from the Baptist
church. Of Gainesville made several
weeks since.
Rev. E. ". Butler of Denver, Col, has
! recently succeeded Rev. J. Charles VIII
iams as pastor of the Conversational
/ church at Melbourne.
FRANK Cunningham of Dunnellon, who
| was arrested and taken to Key West
charged with embezzlement, has returned
\ nome. He was acquitted.
Madison has another merchant in the
! person of ]. w. Williams who on We'd
hesday last purchased the Irvine stock
Of goods from r.. K. Shaw.
Walter A. Lynn, eldest son of Mr.. and
/ Mrs Joseph Lynn. died at the home of
I his parents at st. Augustine Friday after
noon, In his 24th year. of consumption
Harry BROKER, colored, who killed W.
I n. SilcoX, white, by striking him on the
/ mead with a jug at Bostwick Putnam
county, about two weeks ago, has been ar
rested in Columbia county.
| Three freight cars were burned at St
Augustine Thursday night. The cars
whlch We're destroyed were S. and w No
| 1854. ). +. and w. No. 630 and A. and M
No S24. The three cars were valued at
| $3.50.
/ Placing boats on the lake to mine the
| rich beds of phosphate recently discovered
and erecting a new phosphate plant at
Inverness is a great thing and will do
much to infuse new life into that progress
sve little city.
The publication of the Florida MONTHLY
Tampa's new illustrated journal has been
delayed on account of the serious and prob
ably fatal Illness of the wife of the mana
I ger. As the year is so near its close il has
been decided to make the January num-
Der the first issue.
! J. W. Miller, the son of Architect Miller
of Tampa, had his leg broken Friday. His
] horse tried to run before he got into +ba
Z
held onto the lines trying to check the
horse, and was dragged some distance.
breaking his leg in two places.
Mr. Jerome, who has charge of the life
saving station near the inlet at Fort
Pierce, has resigned his position as keeper,
to take place next spring He has been ap-
| pointed agent for the Globe" naptha. en-
gines, and after his retirement from the
service of the government, will devote his
time to it.
Deputy Sheriff L. G.. Lester has returned
| to Tampa from Brooksville with Julius
/ Mills, negro wanted at Port Tampa on a
/ charge of assault with intent to murder.
| he made an assault on a negro woman.
! Florence St Clair, about a month AGO,
He was captured by a deputy sheriff in
| Brooksville.
| Madison Recorder: A few nights ago a
/ large wild cat came within a few wards
Of the house of j. H. Oglesby in the lower
1 part of this county and caught a mig
which it was making off with. Mr.. Ogles.
by put his dogs after it and for time he
witnessed a royal battle which resulted in
the cat being killed. It's hide was the
largest seen here for long time
The city council of Madison and the
water works contractors have compro
missed their differences regarding the ma
| terial for the stand pipe, by the con-
| tractors giving bond insuring the ma
terial to be used for ten years and furn
/ ishing the city with a boiler the cost Of
which is to be equal to the difference in
the cost of the material over which the
difference arose.
Orange Bend, on the st. J. & L, 2. rail
road, is one Of the liveliest places In Lake
county just now. Oranges are being gath
cred. packed, and shipped. and the cron
/ of the Bend is estimated at from 60 O00
to 10000 boxes. The groves are well cared
! Ff,s. lv~r, ,...f... 4
markedly well. Some vegetables are also
planted there, from which good money is
| received.
S. B. Crosby and Frank Ghira of
Tampa went down to the island fats
about two miles out in the bay. Thurs.
day afternoon to try for fish. AS the tide
did not run until late darkness drove
them in after about two hours of snort
In that time they landed about eigb+1,
pounds of trout and red bass. The FISH
ing Is remarkably good this winter, as the
luck of these gentlemen testifies
Lake City Tobacco Plant: 1t was current
report on the streets here Tuesday that
three crews on the Georgia Southern ana
Florida were held up one after the other
by three armed negroes and made 10 de-
liver up the money that they had lust re-
| ceived from the pay car. The amount re-
ported to have been secured by the rob
bers was between $125 and $3.50 We were
unable to verify this rumor and just give
1t for what it is worth
Henry c. Baldwin of Nauratucl. e
building a cottage on the corner of Quail
and Bellamy avenues at Melrose. Mrs
Rood of New Haven, Conn. has mr.
chased the handsome lot on the corner
OF Park and Quail avenues, on which she
WIZ build a cottage. Mrs. LeClare Of
Kansas has bought a lot on South Quail
avenue and will build a fine cottage ar
once. There are a number of peoude |
looking around, and inside of a month
eoll,racts VIII be given out for several !
more new cottages.
Sanford Times: Mr.. John Dodd cam
menced the erection on Tuesday last of
three ten-room residences in one bIocl |
on the corner of Second street and Pal
metto avenue, extending mainly along the |