The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-14

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John Balfour and Jere Rogers. CHARGED
Win smuggling. were before Judge Crane
al Tampa Thursday afternoon fIs,-
Were committed 10 jail in default OF $50
bond apiece
The 81 Johns Presbytery is in session
a Iceland. Nee tings are being held morn
ing afternoon, and evening in the Presby-
terrain church. About twenty-five dele
gates are in attendance.
The turpentine still Of D. B. Paxton,
Tour miles east of Seville is in fun work
ing order He has already run $50 bar
rels Of spirits. The recent cold weather
mas caused delay, as the gum does not
run as free.
At Charlotte Harbor the luxuriaat
growth Of foliage of the orange trees.
now generously sprinkled with bloom
vii Viii soon hide all traces Of the late freeze.
looking well.
Mrs. Margaret Townsend. one Of Jack
sonNllle Oldest and most highly respected
cltizens, Cied at 1 o'clock Saturday morn
ing or paralysis at her home, SIC East
forsyth street. Mrs. Townsend was %
years Of age.
AT Ocala Thursday the criminal court
devoted its labOrs to white offenders and
disposed OF the win Spearman case for
CaIhal intercourse with Anna Childers,
who was under Is years of age. He was
nned $50 and costs.
". Busullo Of V. Bustilo &
MUS large clear havana
clgar manufacturing concern of
Havana, arrived at Tampa Sunday. He
is there Tor the purpose of establishing
a branch of his business in that city.
The large sawmin of Coglin & Clark,
being erected on the line of the Jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West railway, one
mile south Of Seville, is rapidly approach
ing completion. The machinery has ar
rived and Is being put in position. They
expect to saw 10000 to $1,000 feet Of lumber
per day.
The principal officers of the Plant sys-
TEN visited Fort Myers, Fla, a few days
hdent that the Plant system will soon
build branch road from Punta Gorda to
Fort Myers. An electric road to Punta
Gorda is to be built by local capitalists
during the summer
The sheep raisers of the south end of
Nolusia county are busy clipping WOOL
In the Osteen settlement sheep raising
has become a big and paying industry.
Messrs. Ditson & Osteen have just I'm
ished clipping a heard Of ] 200. There is
so much money in the wool that they never
sell sheep or lamb.
The negro. Watson, who tempered with
and attempted to get the cash from the
DeLand postoftce on money order not
belonging to him, was convicted in the
United States court of the crime this
week, and sentenced to eighteen months
at hard labor in the United States peni-
Tertiary in Kings county, New York.
Phosphate shipments are heavy a pres
ent, the deliveries in April viii probably
be heavier than for any one month since
Florida rock has been sent abroad One
company is loading five steamers during
the month, the product of one mine, being
by far the heaviest shipment by any one
company recorded UP to date. This com
pany alone win ship. at its European
value, $4,000 worth of rock in thirty days
The Florida Dredging Company of
Tampa, which was awarded the contract
of dredging Punta Gorda harbOr, arrived
several days ago with their barges, boats,
etc, and are now at work on Cape AGze
bar The last appropriation was $4,000
nd $4,000 was left over from the first
making together $35,0O0 to be expended.
This will give 10 feet over the bar. With
another appropriation of $4,000 II could
be dredged to p feet
w Ogden Hugarts handsome barn, with
its valuable contents, was burned
at ZellwOod Wednesday night. His horses
fortunately were saved. The origin Of
the fire is a mystery, but incendiarism Is
not suspected. The colored hostler, who
slept in the second story, was walked about
a. m, and found himself surrounded
by flames. He had to jump from the sec
one-story window, and cut himself Sc
verely on the window glass.
The. state board of medical
examiners, al their session at Tampa,
granted licenses to DR.. J. d. Roberts of
Dade City, DIR. Charles W. Bartlett of
Ybor City, DR.. Y. Il. Wright of Wauchula,
and Drs. G. V. Smith and r. c. West,
colored, of Tampa. DR.. NJ G. Mclean of
Port Tampa City and DIR. Frederick
Weightnovel, Russian refugee, who has
made Tampa his home for a number Of
years, were the new applicants for exam
ination.
The Indian River and Lake Worth Pine
apple Growers Association has been max
ing Investigations regarding the prospects
of pine shipments this summer, and It
is conceded that at least $500 crates Of
pines win be shipped, and with favorable
conditions of the weather the amount
may reach as high as 1900 crates. The
bulk of the crop this year will come from
the St. Lucie river and points south Of
that stream where the plants were in
jured less than at Jensen, Eden and
Ankona.
The officers have not yet been able to
capture the notorious negro desperate
killed Conductor Brook McCurdy of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad some
time ago, and has dangerously wounded
several other men, and last Saturday
of the posse that had him surrounded in
an old barn. The governor of Alabama
has offered $50 reward for him, and TIE
Louisville and Nashville railroad has add
ed $3.50 to this.
There are more business houses now in
course of construction, and for which
plans have been drawn and the contracts
ready to let, in Jacksonville than for
many years previous. All the buildings
are fine, substantial structures two or
three stories in hight and are credit to
any portion of the city. Besides these
buildings, numerous cheaper structures
have been erected, especially in the vicin-
ity of the terminal station, which is at
present outside the fire limits. All these
are in addition to the large number of
residences, many of them costly and hand
some, that have been. and are now be-
ing, erected in the suburbs of the city.
Some three weeks since l.. b. Skinner
of Tampa accompanied Col Thompson
down the bay to select a site for the
erection of a number of cottages to be
used by wealthy northern people as win
ter homes. Col. Thompson represented the
great Snowman, Forepaugh, and other
wealthy people Sarasota, opposite the
bay was selected, and lumber and other
material is already on the ground for the
erection of twenty-eight cottages or vii
las The buildings are being erected by
labor brought down from the north but
much of the material has been purchased
at Tampa. Work is being pushed rapid
ly, and by winter not less than fifty cot
tages will be built there.
Mrs Brown, a guest of one of the
hotels here, had a narrow escape from
drowning in the Casino pool at St Au-
gustine Friday afternoon. She became ex-
hausted and seized with a cramp while
in the deep part. She managed to get
the rope, but being slack she pulled IL
under with her Mrs. Scott, the swim
ming teacher, went to her assistance but
was not equal to the occasion. Two men
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