The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-18

FLORIDA.
The Shepherd Horseshoe Company OF
Jacksonville has been organized with a
capital stock of $4,000. The company will
incorporate at once under the state laws.
At a recent meeting of the city council
at Gainesville an ordinance was passed
providing for the closing of barber shops
on Sunday. 1t goes into effect immedi-
ately.
The governor has appointed and the Sen
ate has confirmed the appointment of II.
X. Fuller. c. o; Warner. J. N. Whitner II.
II. Dickson and j. II. Lee, county commits
sioners of Orange county.
Several mango trees in Manatee county
which were not cut down after the freeze,
owing TO the absence of their owners, are
putting out a new growth, in some cases
eight feet above the ground.
1t Is said that the engagement of one
complished young ladies TO prominent
and successful business man of Philadel-
phia viii soon be announced.
Charley johnson, teller OF the state
Bank al Jacksonville, has been i'll for
two weeks. He recovered sufficiently to
get out few days ago, but he grew worse
again, and is now confined to his room.
Macon Junction, the South Florida and
s. and St p. railroad transfer station, at
Lacooche. has changed its name to Tril-
by. There has been quite lot OF work
done there by the Plant system Milling in
and making sheds.
Robert Clark, formerly mail carrier from
Tarpon Springs to Anclote, a distance of
about three miles, has sub-let TO Mrs. Otis
Curry, who takes the trip once day, he
having accepted the appointment Of quar-
antine officer
Jennie Harris, colored, one OF the oldest
residents of Duval county, died Tuesday
at her home in South Jacksonville. The
deceased was 9s years of age, having been
born in 1891 and went TO Jacksonville
when she was IA years old.
Gonzala de Quesada, secretary Of the Gu
NJ. Cespedes sailed Thursday from New
| York for Jacksonville and from there will
go TO Tampa. They will address public
meetings and solicit subscriptions in be-
| half OF the cause of Cuban freedom.
J. w. Roberts sold his Hyde Park res
idence at Tampa Wednesday to Mrs. Mel
vina Masters and she In turn sold it to
Mrs. Bette Is. McDermott Mr.; Roberts
bought of Mrs. Masters for 81 100 lot on
the corner of lack street, Florida avenue.
50xlO0 feet. He win put handsome two
story brick building on IT.
An unusually interesting case, in which
three gentlemen Of Leesburg are involved,
has consumed almost the entire attention
| Of County Judge Whites court at Lees.
| burg this week. The suit Is for breach of
contract, brought by w. l.. Hopson against
Msude & Neve. The case has been in court
| the jury at each attempted trial
The gold medal which is annually Of
fered by Hon. w. ID. Chipley as a prize
| to the pupil of the public schools hav-
pertinent and attendance was awarded al
| Pensacola, Thursday for the session of
| 1S94-'95, to Miss May Claire White, daugh-
ter of H. S. White, the job printer. Miss
| May is a member of the fifth grade of
| school No. l.
The Norwegian ship Einar, Capt Is
| aacksen. which sailed from Pensacola with
| a cargo of timber in January, was last
| spoken of the Irish coast in February.
| and since then nothing has been heard of
! the vessel or the crew. Capt. lsaackson had
Il sNFln 4n Fr.Hg hnf.
ing, and expressed fear of the voyage.
| There is no hope of the vessel or crew ever
| being heard from.
Three of the clerks in the Jacksonville
postoffice were laid off Thursday morn
ing by order of the postoftice department,
| In spite of the efforts of Postmaster Clark
to have the office kept up to the present
! standing of efficiency. The men who have
been laid off are w. J. Henry, assistant
money order clerk; Carroll II. Taylor,
sistant delivery clerk, and w. j. Willard,
| newspaper and package distributing clerk.
The vines of the Niagara Vineyard
| Company. whose place is about two and
4 half miles northwest of Orlando, prom
| Use a large crop Of grapes this year Mr.
King, the manager of the company, says
| that the yield will be about 100 tons. The
! grapes are shipped to various northern
/ structive hailstorm that swept through
| that section just before the grapes were
! ripe, the vineyard yielded only about II
| tons of good fruit.
G. e. Noblit has the contract for build
! ing the sea wall In front of George Glenn
sons and the property formerly owned
| by Mr.. Thornton, Mrs DeGolia's and Mrs
| Biglow's at Tarpon Springs The fence
will be moved in ten feet, making the
street wider, and concrete pavement
| Will be laid where the fence now stands
The street will be clayed from Mr.. Diss-
toms (where the clayins was stopped be-
fore) to Mrs. Ramsteds property The
cost will be $1,000 or 5000.
| While digging for earth worms Thurs
| day on the edge of the small branch wost
| of Springfield, a suburb Of Jacksonville
! Richard Daniels, colored, came across a
/ human skull, buried about foot beneath
| the surface. He continued digging and
| close by the side of the skull, he found an
| old AK, nearly eaten up by rust. lie picked
| up the ak, and, knocking the dirt off IT, saw
that IL must have been buried for years
| The skull was not crushed in and was in
| a comparatively good state of preserva-
tlon.
A special from St Augustine to the
! Jacksonville Citizen says: Dennis
| O'Keefe relates that about three weeks
| ago he set hen on a setting of thirteen
| eggs. After sitting on them for three days
! she abandoned the nest. Mr.. O'Keefe.
| knowing that the eggs were worthless eX-
| cept for Matching, set his wits to work
| to think out some scheme whereby he
| could save his setting and get some duck
| lings. In the house was a cat that was
| very lazy, and also very fat. Its rotun-
| dity probably had something TO do with
] its excessive laziness. Mr. O'Keefe in
| the course of his cogitations, thought that
| he would try the cat on the eggs, and pus-
| sy was installed as foster mother to thir-
| teen unmatched ducklings. The animal
| seemed TO realize what was expected Of
her, and she conscientiously performed her
| part of the contract, only leaving the nest
| to feed Last Tuesday the climax oc>
| Cured, and pussy refused to have any
| thing more to do with such unearthly deal
| ings So long as the eggs remained pas
/ sive the animal moved very cautiousIv
and did not object to what she was pat