The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-14

I TO to - cents per quart Tor them nome
/ trade There is money in strawberry cul- /
/ ture from Linden to San Antonio. The
| latter place has shipped three thousand !
| quarts per day this season.
During a rainstorm at Orlando Wcdnes
/ day a somewhat phenomenal electrical
/ discharge occurred. There had been very
1 little electrical disturbance, when suddenly
/ there came a binding flash, followed by
| four or five heavy reports. following each
other so closely TO sound almost Ike
one continuous discharge. The intervals
between reports we're We're 50 brief IS to
be almost impercepuble. Later inquiry re-
vealed the fact that four or five large
pine trees near the residence Of /. III.
/ Davis had been struck. oscar Isaacson.
the contractor. who was working on a
building for Mr.. Davis at the time, was
knocked insensible by the discharge. but
speedily revived, and is little the worse
Tor the shaking up.
F.. c. Aicher, the commissioner to the
Atlanta exposition from Dade county at
Jupiter, is making arrangements for an
| EXHIBIT OF the sisal hemp at the exhibit
tlon. Mr. Aicher has about 5000 fine
plants that are doing nicely. They are
quite large, and present a first-rate APP
pearance. They somewhat resemble the
famous century plant and have bloom
somewhat similar. The bloom appears
once a year. The plants were once owned
by John Clemnson, who has about 5000
of them on his place near Jupiter An
effort will probably be made by Mr..
Alcher TO have also on exhibition a ma
chine used in extracting the fiber from
the leaves of the ssal hemp, which are
hye feet or more in length. Several kinds
OF machinery are used for extracting the
fiber on the different estates, and each
machine VIII clean from 5000 to 100 001
leaves per day. That is equal to about
500 pounds of dry fiber. Mr. Aicher does
not anticipate any trouble in getting the
plants to Atlanta. Taey will be trans
planted in tubs.
A corporal and private Of the st. Au-
fence Wednesday night, and came Very
near being shot. They were sent out by
Lieut.. Howatt TO bring in an absent
man to drill. They suspected him Of
being at certain young lady's house,
ana marched directly to 1t. The corporal
was cautious and wanted to make sure
their man was there before making the
demand for him, so they marched around
the mouse, and looked through the fence.
Suddenly head appeared at the window
ABOVE, and female voice in stern COM
mand ordered them to move on, or she
would shoot them, and at the same time
pointed her pistol at them. The soldiers
ala not stir, and she made a second
| threat then the mother appeared ON the
| porch and it was found out they were
soldiers. The lady at the window was
very profuse in her apologies, and ex-
planned that she thought they were ma
| RAIDERS, and intended to scare them off.
me corporal then asked for his man,
1 but the ladies declared that he was not
there, and had not been there that even
ing, so the corporal and his guard returned
TO the armory alone. 1t turned out, how
ever, that the man was in the house
hiding at the time the corporal was there.
The correspondent of the Morning News
at Welaka writes as follows under date
of June II: Some months have passed
since the freeze, and the suffering and
hardship and want predicted by some
northern papers have failed to material
/ ize Our groves are dead, there Is no de-
/ nying 1t. The Morning News predicted
| that Florida would hold her own and come
l out all right, and TO see the green crops
/ now growing is ample proof. There arc
/ fields of corn looking like Kentucky bot
| tom corn. Large quantities Of Irish po-
/ tatoes have been raised, to say nothing of
/ our well known crops of peas sweet
/ potatoes, peanuts and many other things
! The people show determination to grow
/ crops and when 1t IS understood that
| many of the large, valuable groves were
! owned by northern men, and run by north
! ern capital and that their absence VIII
! not greatly affect the state, and that
! those who came here and worked out
| their homes and have always been farm-
ers have always raised much of their
| living and are getting in shape TO be
! independent, it is easily seen that Flor
ida will build upon sounder basis than
4 ever. Furthermore, the orange industry
| represented only One-twelfth Of the prod
ucts of the state, so 1t was not the or
ange, or nothing. The small farmers
many from the southern states, and com
/ prising ex-soldiers from both sides, are
| the best off of any. The moss manufac-
turing business has largely increased, and
across the river from this place is the
! largest cypress logging business in Flor
| ida, employing many hands, aud with
/ the power used pulls out huge logs 1000
feet from the river"
Jacksonville Times Union: A number
| of claims have just been adjusted that
| Will place a large sum of money in the
| pockets of several letter carriers This
| money is compensation for overtime, and
| aggregates $500 In December, 1892, the
! letter carriers placed claims for over
! time in the hands of James r. Challen.
| Mr.. Challen took the matter to the court
| OF claims, in Washington, where il has
been pending for the past two or three
years. A commissioner was appointed by
! the court TO take testimony This COM
! missioner reported that the sum of SG,697.-
| 06 had been found due. There are twenty
claimants in the Jacksonville postoftice,
and number in other places. The claims
! range from 1926 TO 1888. Mr.. Challcn
has another series Of claims now pending,
| or not the Postmaster General had a
| right to forbid the carriers from work
! ing overtime, or taxing the overtime
| against the government, II made This
/ question has been decided against the
! carriers by the court of claims, and is
/ now on an appeal to the supreme court
/ of the United States. The counsel for
! General cannot forbid the execution of
! the law, and relies on the fact that this
/ law was passed for the express purpose Of
! preventing postmasters from oVerWork-
ing the letter carriers-it having been
! shown to congress that they were COM
PEELED 10 work TO- ~ and IL hours a day
when by law hours was a legal days
| over hours that any carrier is allowed
! to make he is entitled 10 be paid for extra
| at the same rate that he Is paid for
/ hours per day. This question has been
! fully established by the Judgment in
these cases.