The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-06
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J vote of thanks 10 the Womans Missionary
Society OF the First Presbyterian church
git.
/ The Baptist people al Palatlsa have ac-
/ cepted the bid of Hcston Bros. cOntrac-
/ tors, for the proposed enlargement Of the
/ church. and work was cOnmepced Monday
morning.
/ Mrs. Nary R. Austin. VIE of Prof
Austin OF Rollins College, Winter Park,
/ died sunday after an Illness Of several
months. The remains Will be shipped 10
/ GAINESVILLE. o.. for .nterment.
/ wrecked sail-boat containing an as
n the lake near Lake Worth On Satur-
day. Three sunken rOwbOats were seen
also floating in the lake Sunday.
! Fifty cabbage palmetto trees are being
/ transferred from the St Johns river
/ swamp 70 the grounds OF the CollegC
| Arms at De Lano. Some Of them are
/ not less than fifty feet IN height.
c. Davis English OF Philadelphia ar
/ rived az West Pam Beach IN q canoe
/ on Saturday. lie made the entire Dis
I lance in his canoe. AR. English is regis
tered al the Hotel Royal Po.nciana.
During the rush at the union depot az
| Jacksonville Monday morning 3. w. Mac
I Rae OF Clarksvlle, Tenn, was relieved Of
black sealskin poclIetbook. which con-
tanned $3.50 in money and two sight drafts
| for 500 each, payable 70 Mr. MacRae.
Horace w. Mccall exhibited British
| coin a. the o-h-e OF the Ocala Capitol
ges MA sv ee 5qqna IN last Tbs
day, while exploring it with a party OF
/ Philadelphia is!tcTs. The coin bears the
| quite thick.
Judge Broome OF DeLoach is in receipt
[ Of Uncle Sans check for SS40, the amount
/ due the Broome estate from the passage
! OF the direct tax act by congress last year.
/ This is a tax collected unlawfully from the
southern states during the war About
/ S5J,O0 came TO estates in Florida by the
/ passage of the act.
The Orange county Sunday-school con-
vention has closed its session and ad-
/ journed. The following officers were cleo
OF Orlando, presidents F. s. Ensmlnger.
| Sanford secretary; w Fletcher, Long
wood, treasurer; F. A. Curtis. g. J. Laid
and Mrs. Guffln, executive committee
Rev. John Bridges of Coleman shipped
five boxes of tangerines to a commission
| house In Washington, and after some time
had passed he. wrote about his oranges.
] They answered that the fruit was green.
/ He replied that If they would return the
oranges he would ripen them and then
/ send them back. They took him at his
| word, and now the oranges are in the
depot, ripening to be shipped back.
a fire occurred Saturday morning in
! Aliens bakery at Tampa. Tho prompt
ness of the department saved the build
ing. Mr.. Allen who was asleep upstairs,
| ran downstairs, forgetting $500 which he
had under his pillow. one Of the en-
| ployes threw the bedd ng out the window,
/ and Mr.. Aliens money was scattered
| broadcast. He cannot say how much he
!
more than 800
Sunday Dr. j. G. Davis and wife and Mrs.
| Fits, while out boating on Spring Lake,
at Orlando, went very close TO the shore
at one point, and were fired upon with n
pistol several times, the bullets going
unpleasantly near the occupants of the
boat, who saw the smoke and the colored
man who did the shooting. Deputy Sheriff
[ Gordon was hastily sent for and conducted
I to the point named, where he found John
Hal, with a pistol In his hand. lie ar
rested and locked him up.
The city election held ut Sanford Sat-
urday was a free-for-all race. No con-
Test was made for the mayoralty OF
clerkship, and it was doubtless due to this
fact that such a light vote was polled
but the woods were fun of aldermanic
candidates. The total vote cast was 25S
For mayor, Forest Lake received 221
votes; for clerk, treasurer, and assessor
ID. Z. Manley, PIG; for marshal and col
lector Joe Cameron. 167. and D. A. Camp
bell So; for alderman, three to be elected
| f.. +. Barnes received 1855 votes, Z. M
McRae l62, p. J. Parramore 125. T. J. APP
pleyard 81. and Max Myerson 81, and ia
scattering.
The shipping facilities of the docks at
Port Tampa are to be greatly improved
by two large elevators, which the Plant
Belt Engineering Company of New York
These elevators are to be seventy-four
feet high, and will have a capacity of
$50 tons an hour, or q guaranteed capaci-
y OF 800 tons per hour. They VIII be
placed between the tracks, and can I'M
Load twelve Sass cars Ct phosphate at one
weeks. and are to be runs exclusively by
electricity from the power house at Port
Tampa City, 10000 feet away. The present
steam elevator win be changed to an
electric one, and all the steam wenches
on the docks are to be operated by cleo
tricity. This viii then be the finest
equipped dock in the south. and viii very
materially facilitate shipping.
Inverness Floridian: stranger who
professed to be selling an article with mar.
: Z NHl0IlE nTOneTTiHG visited ~
some of the people residing on the wesi
side of the town Saturday, and was sue.
upon what, no doubt, then appeared Il
him, to be very favorable terms. He was
fortunate in selecting houses where he
found the males had left for their work
and after introducing himself to the la.
dies, he explained the virtues of his ware
which he wal selling in half-dollar quan.
titles. Upon receipt of the money he woulc
present the lady with a book or a picture
and inform her thet his partner woUlt
soon be along TO deliver the goods We
have not heard of an instance in which
the partner turned Up, but in one case ht
certainly did not materialize. and one OF
our citizens, getting wind OF the gentle
mans operations, had him arrested.
The beautiful pavilion at North Beach
a suburb of St. Augustine, was completelN
destroyed by hre sunday night also three
cottages to the south Of the pavilion ant
all the bath houses. The fire originated
in the roof of the building, and is supposed
10 have been caused by defective fiue
The loss IS in the neighborhood of Sl5. 900
The pavilion cost ST 900, and the cottages
about $500 each. The bath houses were
built last summer, at an outlay Of ovei
81 600 The pavilion was insured for 81 900
! to cover a mortgage for that amount
North Beach, as q resort has had a check
cred career. 1t was bought about five
! years ago by 4 synd cate " n s1O0 GOA TIL.
St. Augustine and North Beach railroad
was built. Including an expensive bridg,
7cross the North river, at point about
/ four MILES rorth of his CITY. The rom
panv then erected the handsome Nortt
I Peach pavilion. using in its construction
the very best material that could be Oh.
| tanned.
Saturday night difficulty occurred one
mile west Of Melrose IN which BIZ James
1 colored was shot and probably fatally
IL a.