The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-21

! No tune that is played will ever be PLAYED
on the chimes again. Every time the
chimes ring they will ring a new tune
Ana all or 1.-THE composition Of the
music. the physical execution of the air
everything VIII be the work Of one wO-
mans hand and brain Mrs. Griffith, a
handsome brunette lady, whose home Is
m Atlanta VIII do the work, She has
I the music. over 800 airs viii be re-
| quired, as It is the purpose OF the expo
I siuon TO use no piece twice. Every air
| will be original and every one viii be
/ appropriate. Mrs. Griffith Is extremely
I busy devising airs and writing music
/ and the mental strain is something that
I no ordinary mind could Withstand. In
4 addition TO the mental strain. great phys
zeal effort Is involved. The ringing Of
/ the chimes Is work that requires quick.
I active hands, steady nerves and strong
/ muscles. Mrs. Griffith is preparing for
her work by rigid course Of exercise.
FLORIDA.
Tampa is to have a walking match
Good earthenware is made Of Polk
/ COUNTY clay.
a move is on foot at Jacksonville to
| organize Zouave company.
! The Sydney settlement in HlIlsborough
/ this season S3,479.20 on Strawberries.
The street wires Of the Palatka Electric
/ Light, Power and supply Company are
being taken down and coiled by gang Of
/ men.
! A new boundary line Is to be established
between Alachua and Levy counties.
| and the legislature viii be asked to rati-
| fy it,
The Orlando Novelty Works has secured
/ a contract for making the pews and fur
| niture for a new church recently erected
I at Haines City.
| The contract to build T. Garcia e. Co.'S
/ brick cigar factory at Tampa has been
4 awarded and IL is to cost S14230. IL will
be 50x1i0 feet three stories
An association of veterans of the civil
1 war has been organized at Palatka. which
/ Is to be made up Of ex-soldiers of both the
confederate and federal armies.
At Ocala It looks as though an effort
| will be made TO bond the city for $4,000
| 20 take up city scrip, build ward school
houses and purchase the city water
works
Heth Garfield, Of St Augustine, has
received an order from New York for
/ 100000 cypress shingles which will be
manufactured at the Builders Supply
I Company's mill at Woodland.
Thomas MeMurray of Jacksonville viii
send carload of horses, runners. trot-
/ tiers and PAGERS to Tampa the first Of
next week, to take part in the weeks
races that are to be held at that place.
The Alliance Exchange OF Tampa has
gone out Of business The entire stock
/ Of goods was sold al a small discount 10
] T. G. Taliaferro, who resold Il TO Capt.
Scott Walker and Thomas Walker, who
/ have opened store at their mill.
NJ. s. Dowden, manager OF the Whita-
ker Phosphate Company at Homeland,
IS just in receipt of AN order for a ton of
the famous ground phosphate to be used
on President Cleveland's grounds at
Gray Gables" his summer home.
A boy named Ira Glass living five miles
from Westville, was accidentally killed
Friday morning. Another boy his uncle,
was taking a gun down from the rack,
when u was discharged, the load striking
little Ira in the head killing him instantly.
The Seeding orange groves are coming
on finely In Hillsboro county Some of
he al Ind Hsatr ,ed
bloom buds. but there Is no expectation
OF any fruit. even from the largest and
most advanced growth on the Seeding
trees.
The stockholders of the Tampa Building
and Investment Company held a meeting
at their office in the First National Bank
their capital stock from 100000 to $4,000.
IL is probable that the whole amount will
| be invested in Tampa.
| Miss Annie Appeyard of Sanford has
! been invited by Mrs Ellen Call Long to
deliver a recitation at Tallahassee on Me-
mortal day. Miss Appleyard Is talented
young elocutionist. and has accepted the
invitation. She has selected for the occa-
sion, THE Sock that Baby Wore"
Mrs. Elizabeth Smoke died April Is. at
her home in FIT White, in the SD year of
her age. Deceased was the wife of Sam
Lieut.. Samuel A. Smoke, Nineteenth Uni
ted States infantry, and W. H. Smoke,
M. D., of Luraville, and Mrs j. s. Lewis
of Palatka.
Joe Papino, an Italian, attempted an
unmentionable crime on l2-year-old Rosa
/ Castoria, at the corner of Seventh avenue
and Twentieth street, at Tampa at .
! o'clock Wednesday evening The officers
/ were not notified until 8 o'clock. Every
| effort has been made to apprehend Pap
/ mo, but in vain.
/ Word has just reached Sorrento that
/ Joseph Tucker, living at Senica, had
/ killed himself by shooting himself through
the head with a shot gun. Mr., Tucker
/ nr.aa aafn nf hA
| freeze he had become respondent. and
| had made the remark to friends that he
! did not care to live longer.
| A force of carpenters will begin work
! Immediately in building an addition to
| the Flagler cottage at Palm Beach. When
/ finished it will be used for Mr.. Flagler's
/ private offices. His private secretary and
| assistants will occupy the building. A
studio of the bungalow style will also
be erected on the grounds this summer.
Lieut. Charles w. Hobbs post quarter
master at the St Francis barracks at St
| Augustine, opened the sealed proposals re-
4 ceived in reply to the advertisement for
/ bids for constructing a mess hall and
! kitchen and the removal and reconstruc-
/ tion of other buildings in accordance with
| the instructions furnished. Three local
! firms submitted estimates and one from
! Jacksonville. and with one exception, the
/ bids were fairly close together. More than
5000 is TO be spent in improvements.
The sensational report sent out from
! Gainesville some time since, in regard to
black fever, being prevalent in the west
ern portion of Alachua county is denied
4 by DR.. r. A. Cloud of High Springs. In
a conversation with this gentleman in re-
gard to the disease, he said that there
were quite number of cases of pneumonia
| in the vicinity mentioned, but that the
4 death rate was not one-tenth as large
as the report stated. He says the prev
| alence of pneumonia is due to the unusu-
ally severe winter. for which the people
were not properly prepared
Henry NJ. Flagler and J. r. Ingraham
returned to st. Augustine Friday night
from Palm Beach and deny the statement
/ recently published that "E. r. Chapman
as agent for Henry NJ. Flagler, had Sc
cured many of the Florida keys for that
| gentleman" who, the dispatches also said,
secured the keys for the proposed rail-
| way extension from Palm Beach to KEY
| West" The keys in question belong to
the land grant of the Atlantic and West
ern railway, operated between Orange City
| and New Smyrna. Mr.. Chapman's Key
/ West mission was to record the deeds Tor
| the trustees of the railroad lands Mr.
| Flagler purchased the Atlantic and West
| ern railroad, not its lands.
That Lake county is rapidly recovering
| from the effects of last winters freeze
-asaay