The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
FIORIDA.

! FLORIDA.
a fine lot Of honey will be made in
| Orange county this summer.
| one contractor in Tampa has over $4,000
worth Of cottages to build.
| Henry Manuel and wife. colored. Of
| Gainesville, claim to be ll5 years Of age
At the railroad shops in Fernandina all
| employees are busy and working ten hours
| per day.
Capt r. H. Marks is preparing an evap-
| orator in Orlando to convert watermelons
| into syrup.
There is a movement on foot with the
| leading business men Of 81. Augustine to
| organize a club and erect suitable quarters
| on the river front
! The proposed confederate reunion OF
! Florida has been postponed until october
| by Gen. Dickson and Fred Robertson,
| commander and adjutant respectively.
Senator Call has written to friends in
| Florida that he Will be candidate Tor
| reelection TO the United states Senate
but not Tor the nomination for governor.
The Dade County Guards is the name of
| the new organization just started at West
| Palm Beach, with James T. Sanders, cap
| tain, and Frank Il. Brown, first lieuten-
| ant.
Two skeletons, perhaps OF Indians, or
! prehistoric natives, were unearthod near
| the railroad track at Carabelle a day or
| so ago in an old Indian field. The jaw
| bone and teeth were in a good state Of
| preservation.
The Volusia county school board, after
prolonged session of three days. has
just decided on the location of the Pea
body Normal school, Daytona is the for
tunate place The school will open on
Monday and continue eight weeks.
The Secretary of War approves the
Plans for The rebuilding Of the lafayette
river at Tampa. There are $50 feet OF steel
work, the draw span being us feet, with
one fixed span on the east and two on the
west.
one man in Orlando reports that on his
lot he has four watermelon vines from
which his family has been supplied with
plenty of fine melons for two or three
weeks, and over hundred fine ones are
on the vines, few of which are smaller
than his head and many very much larger.
At Ocala Friday Court Commissioner
r. l.. Anderson granted an injunction
against the sale of the McGrath stock
advertised for July. The plaintiff was
the surviving partner Of Ingram & Co. OF
Charleston. and the alleged claim dates
back number of years.
Prof w. "a. Cawthon of DeFuniak
Springs, one of the few teachers in the
state holding state certificate, was one
of the corps of teachers selected for the
summer normal work, and was assigned
position in the colored normal at Tai
lahassee. Prof. Cawthon promptly de-
clined to accept, believing colored teachers
should teach colored people.
The municipal budget of st. Augustine
causes considerable discussion among tax
payers, owing TO its calling for more than
twice the amount of the budget for the
year 1895. Among the items are $4,000
for the streets, contingent fund of like
amount; gas, 5000, and water, $1,000.
Salaries will cost cost the city $500, scayan-
ger work, $500; rent of city building,
$1,000 and fire department.. $1,000.
Last Monday about 1;3O p. m. James
McNealy went down to the river at Ma
rianna and took, bath, then swallowed
an ounce of laudanum, a large capsule of
morphine and near pint of whisky.
Finding that the drugs worked slowly he
walked up to his home nearly a mile.
where he told what he had done. Drs.
Pierce and West were hastily summoned
and, after heroic treatment, saved his
life.
The correspondent of the Morning News
at Apalachicola writes as follows: Fred
Sawyer and Miss Rosa Sharit were mar
ried at the Episcopal church tonight and
left on the steamer Queen City for an ex-
tended honeymoon-United States Com
missioner Sheppard tried Nelson Gardner
a sailor, for an assault on the first mate
of the schooner Geo. H. Drake He was
bound over in default of a bond for siOO
The teachers of the summer normal that
is to be held here are DR.. c. P. Walker,
principal: w. A. Little and I. NJ. Rivers
assistants.
Mrs. George Higginbotham of Bronson
was attacked by a large catamount on
the Suwanee river recently. Mr. Hig-
ginbotham was away from home, and his
Wife and children were the only persons
on the premises. The catamount made its
appearance some time during the day,
and attacked the chickens Mrs Higgin,
botham attempted to shoot the animal
but the gun failed to fire, whereupon the
animal sprang upon her. She is a bravo
woman, however, and fought desperately
| for the lives of herself and children. AT
| ter fierce struggle of several minutes
! she succeeded in killing the animal. II
was larger than an ordinary dog.
Tavares Herald: Vegetable shipments
| from this point have practically ceased,
! and the tomatoes, canteloupes and other
vegetables in the fields are ripening and
| rotting as they stand. Not a single farmer
| in this vicinity has got back even the
| cost of the fertilizers, and the loss is con-
| sequently heavy. Many say they will not
| plant another year, which makes the out
| look gloomier still. Advices from Grand
| Island, Clermont and other points In the
| county tell the same story. However, the
| corn and potato crops are large, and the
! people will have plenty to eat but the
! prospects are that for the next few years
| the dry goods business in Lake county
| will be exceedingly limited as the people
| will be very apt to stick to their old
clothes and not go north on a summer
| trip.
A special from Cocoa TO the Jacksonville
| Citizen says: What is beyond doubt the
smallest body of land ever granted by the
| United States as homestead is In South
| Florida, and there are some interesting
| facts in connection with this settlement
! The homestead is in Dade the extreme
! southeastern county of the state of Flor
! ida, consisting of a small island in the
| north END OF Lake w Ortn. ms island
| is two rods less than one-fourth of an
acre in extent. yet the claim for it was
| entered in the United States land office AT
| Gainesville; final proof was duly made
and the owne@ took possession. The own
| er is a bachelor, John j. Haley of Rhode
Island, and came to Florida about seven
years ago, saw on his travels this delect-
able spot, selected it, and went through
| the preliminaries required by homestead
! law to secure it to himself and his heirs
forever. After paying his s. entry fee
| (Which is required for all homestead en-
! tries, no matter how large or small they
| be-, Mr.. Haley decided to pre-empt: thai
| is, to buy his land in at 81 Is per acre after
| the first year. and not to wait the fun five
! years before the fun honest id period had
| expired. This he proceeded 20 do. and for
| the sum OF ~ cents secured the smallest
| one of the neatest, and secrtafnly the
| most remui erative for its size, homestea ds
| in the union. This island-known as
| Haley's Islands, but a small sand spit
some thirty Il in length, situated about
one mile from the ocean, whose tide flows