The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-30
FI.ORIDA.

Work on the new artesian well at Fer
nandina is progressing satisfactorily.
The Florida Baptist state convention
will convene in the First Baptist church
of Pensacola on Jan. SIP.
West DeLand will hereafter be known
as Stetson. 1t has become a postoffice,
with d. A. Morrison as postmaster
]. W. Whitcomb ofsDeLand has invent
ed brake for a bicycle. 1t does the work
instantaneously. He Will have it pat
ented.
The Palm Beach pier is on the road to
completion, and the first steamship to
leave the new port will be the Northum-
berand on Jan. l6.
Rev. DR.. Davies, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church at Fernandina, who
owns a fine orange grove and saved Il
from injury from the frost by building
fires around 1t, has a good crop this sea-
son. He is selling the fruit at Sc per box.
Evidence is daily accommodating that
demonstrates that there is a general to-
baceo boom throughout Florida. At the
culture at Tallahassee there are now over
800 names enrolled of farmers from almost
every county in Florida, requesting that
tobacco seed be sent them.
An unknown dead man, whose boAy
was in an advanced stage of decomposi-
ton, was found by workmen on the Stet-
son place west of DeLand last Friday
morning, with nothing on his person TO
identify him or where he came from. He
around town the week before.
The truck farmers of North Gainesville
and Rocky Point, and in fact as far south
as Boardman, are looking forward to a
successful season. The conditions now
appear very favorable. There is a pros
poet thai cabbage will bring paying prices
and abundant promise is given of a good
yield from the small acreage. There is
parody half as many planted this yeaI
as has been customary, and this fact slim
ulates the belief that prices viii be good
A great deal Of lettuce is now going for
ward and fair prices are being received
All who planted this crop will make
money as a result of their labor.
sallie Willie, charged with being an ac-
cessory 10 the murder Of Henry Cooper
at ARCHER last Friday, was given a pre-
ltminary trial before Justice Colman Fri
day. Sallfe was charged with the crime
the killing. She was with her husband al
the time he fired the fatal shot, and II
was due to her misrepresentation of facts
that Cooper met his death. There was
no testimony adduced, however, to prove
that she had aided or a.betted her hus-
band in any manner, ana the commfttinp
magistrate discharged her. Willie the
man who did the killing, has not been cap
tured.
Gainesville Sun: The success that has
attended the Florida Woodenware Man.
utacturing Company of this city has slim.
ulated others 10 establish plants Two
new plants will be put in operation in Ala.
chua county in a few weeks-one al Ala.
chua and the other in Micanopy, There
IS an abundance of timber in either OF
these two sections. A wagon spoke am
Teller factory is also being talked OF an0
will be established, perhaps, In the course
OF a few months somewhere in this vi.
cinity, where there is plenty of hard
wood. The demand for the goods manu-.
featured in this city is gradually increas.
ing, and orders are coming IN from an
sections Of the country.