The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-10

will be held in Tampa. beginning on the
Thursday before the second Sunday in
November, 1895.
The talk Of a bank for Apalachlcola is
/ once more revived.
Strawberry growing now absorbs the
farmers in Putnam county.
Five hundred bushels OF rice. grown at
st. Cloud, is being hulled in Orlando.
The census of Tarpon Springs was COM
pleted last week and shows total per-
manent population of coo.
Every time the new rifle mounted at
| Fort Marion, St. Augustine, is discharged,
| il Will cost 500 in ammunition.
People from Fort Valley Ga, and
| Michigan will soon be prospecting for
| homes in the Kissimmee section.
AT the late term Of the United states
| court at Tampa, $1,000 was collected IN
/ fines for violating the internal revenue
/ laws
Work on the Tarpon Springs hotel is
] progressing nicely. The Singing OF the
/ main part of the house has been com
/ pleted.
The fremont hotel at Jacksonville has
! been leased by w. j. Simpson of st.
Louis, Mo, and it win be opened on
/ Dec. l.
Sam Johnson and Dick Porter returned
| to Apalachicola from Dickerson's Bay
| Sunday with 100 ducks and Is geese, the
! result Of two days hunt
The store of the F. NJ Bowling Grocery
| Company, at Jacksonville was entered by
burglars Friday morning, the safe blown
| open. and sos in cash stolen.
From figures so far obtained. it is es-
| timated that the census report OF 1893 VIII
| show De Soto county to have popula-
| ton Of between 12,00O and 1900.
Senator Matt VI. Quay of Pennsylvania
| passed through ST. Augustine Friday, en-
| route to his home on the San Lucie river.
4 party Of friends accompany him.
The Manatee brought to Tampa. on
Monday thrty-two boxes Of oranges from
the Manatee river. The fruit was Well
matured and was shipped to Atlanta.
State Senator j. B. Norman of Georgia
| is having tools, commissaries, etc, hauled
| to his camp west of WilliSton, preparas
| tory to opening a large turpentine farm.
The Polk county commissioners have APP
| pealed to the supreme court IN the case
| in which Judge Phillips decided that sa-
| looms could be legally opened in that
| county.
The fifth annual convention of the Hills
| borough County Union OF the Society OF
| Christian EndeaYOr viii convene IN ram
| pa, at the Congregational church, on Nov.
| Is, and Will continue three days.
Mr. Morris Of Morriston passed through
Ocala, Friday with some twenty-odd con
| Victs, to open a new turpentine farm at
Summeriield. where a syndicate controls
some 1500O acres of pine timber.
The big pier upon which is to turn the
ponderous draw Of the new Lafayette
street bridge at Tampa, is now nearly
completed, and the solid masonry can
now be seen above the edges of the Golfer
dam.
A bill for divorce has been filed for record
in the county clerks office at Jacksonville
in the case Of A. J. Crosby VS.. Eddie Cros-
by. The couple was married Nov. Is, 1881
and separated Jan. 10, 1883. The allegation
| is desertiOn.
Rev w E. Jackson and a portion Of
his family passed through Umatilla FRI
day from Detroit Mich. His objective
point is Biscayne Bay. via Titusville. He
came overland, and has been seven weeks
on the trip.
I " w
Thompson of Hun, died very suddenly
at the Kinsey house in Arcadia Thursday
night. She was attacked with vomiting
and ruptured blood vessel, which caused
death. She leaves three small children.
Word has just been received that the
Cruft heirs have sold the San Marco hotel
property at st. Augustine Neither con-
sideration nor name of purchaser was
given. Should this prove correct the
house will probably be renovated and
opened.
Steps are being quietly taken and wires
laid looking toward the division of Bre-
the upper half, with Titusville as the
county seat. Another element in county
politics advocates only change in the
county seat.
j. NJ. Tarble, former republican mayor
and collector of customs Of Pensacola,
n now residing in Chicago, is in Pensacola
with a party of Chicago men, for the
| purpose of selling them his CTarble' 81
land at Millview, where they will estaO-
lish winter homes.
Work on the foundations Of ]. S. Eden
fields new house, on the corner of Cen
trail avenue and Eighth avenue, at
Tampa, is progressing rapidly, the brick
| piers having already been completed On
:. the opposite side of the street WORK has
begun on the brick foundations of Judge
HarFisons residence.
f. A. Emmons junior editor of the st.
| Andrews Buoy, was on the schooner Net
| tie, which was wrecked at Sabine Pass,
| near Pensacola, last Tuesday week He
had a very narrow escape from drown
ing, being knocked overheard by the main
| boom the blow breaking the bones in
his right hand. He is now in Tampa.
At Gainesville Friday Judge Mason is
sued six marriage licenses, the greatest
| number issued in one day in Alachua
county fer some years. Many OF the
young people in the west end of the coun-
| ty who are under q years OF age are
| marrying for the purpose OF emitting
. | them to homestead naval reservation land.
At Ocala Friday, John Mulvaney had a
warrant sworn out against James ".
Sanders for altering a receipt with in
tent to defraud. Judge Hill heard the
case and promptly dismissed defendant.
| Mr. MulVaney loaned Mr.. Sanders money
on a mortgage and this receipt was given
for interest money. The complainant as
serted the figure in 1892 was altered to
1894 After Mr.. Sanders was dismissed he
entered suit against Mr.. Mulvaney for
5000, for defamation of character.
Mr.. FIagler has just completed the pur-
chase of the Vail block at st. Augustine,
/
the Countess Eudoxia de Vernio Bon
neuil, sole surviving heir of the late Mar
ausse de Fougierel of Paris The consid-
; Grafton was 5000: The. proper
ty in its entirety has cost
over $50, 900, Mr.. Flagler having
paid to Capt. Vail for the different leases
! and holdings he had about $4,000 1t oc-
cupies the site Of the old st. Augustine
hotel.
The tax rolls for Duval county, which
were submitted to the county commits
sioners by Assessor Turner at their meet
| ing on Thursday, show the following to-
tails; Real estate, S6,257O50; railroads and
telegraphs, $l014,019; personal property
and poll taxes. SLIPS. 6S8; making total
of S8,793, 757 The amounts assessed are
apportioned as follows: Real estate, state,
$2S, IA; county, 81, $500; telegraph and
railroad property, state, S4,56S.11; county,
$l1. 661. %; personal, state, S6840.S5; county,
ST. 49, The polls that are are assessed
amount to $S,501.
Thursday Engineer Aleck Perry, Car
Inspector James Swift and Robert Pate.
Esq. were aboard the engine which pulls
the noon train from Punta GOrda The
engine was switching about the dock get
ting up fish cars and making the train
, ready, and just as it had cleared Smith