The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-11

ment of the Gainesville city property &C
eordlng to the apportionment OF the va
rious funds. The valuation Of property
since the changes have been made BY
the city council is: Real estate, $3.50, 499
personal, $139, $50; total $3.50 429.
over 100 students are enrolled at Stet-
son University at DeLand and others are
coming in on every train. All of the
various classes, representing eleven years
work, three in the grammar school, four
/ in the academy and four in the college
| department. were formed on the opening
/ day.
F. G. FELTON, of Bay City, Mich. was in
Gainesville Wednesday. He has been
making tour of the state, looking at the
/ cypress timber, with view to establish
/ ing an extensive saw mill in some part
[ Of the state. If he decides to locate at
/ Gainesville he viii employ upwards or one
\ hundred men.
| A number of the lady bicycle riders of
Jacksonville met at the residence of Mr..
| and Mrs. 3. b. Pope Wednesday even
ing, and organized a ladies' wheeling
| club. The idea OF the organization was
| entirely social, and the intention was to
have weekly rides and finish the evening
/ at the home of some member of the club.
The Jacksonville Board of Trade win
make an effort to secure the presence in
/ Jacksonville of Gen. Craighill, Capt.
/ Black and Maj. Handbury of the govern
/ ment board of engineers for the purpose
Of having their aid In obtaining further
/ ing the st. John river from the city to the
| bar.
John Christie, stevedore. was severely
| injured at Pensacola Wednesday on board
the British steamship Zanzibar which ne
was loading. A piece of timber on the run
| struck the end of skid, the latter flying
| up and striking Mr.. Christie about the
| head and body. knocking him down and
rendering him CONSCIOUSNESS for a time
\ The wounded mans injuries were found to
/ De seNtIdi severe contuSlOnS ABOUT the
/ head, the left thumb broken and bruises
about the chest.
The ginning establishment of H. +. Dut-
/ ton, at Gainesville, is now being run in full
| force. Thirty-eight hands are employed
| daily and twelve gins are constantly oper-
| ated. Fifty bales of sea island cotton
We're, shipped TO points in Connecticut
| Monday, and fifty-three bales of cotton
and a carload of seed were shipped to
Liverpool on Saturday. Large quantities
or cotton are arriving daily, and the indi-
cations are that the force will have to
be Increased or the gins be operated at
! night.
Orange trees in Leesburg and VI
entity. says the Commercial, are
this week showed the editor of
taken from six-foot high buds of grape
fruit and orange trees in his eclipse grove,
and said he had a thousand buds of equal
| luXurance. Before the freeze eclipse
grove would easily have brought $4,000,
Will not be long before it reaches that
value again.
Sheriff Bowden of Duval county has
served &c, a distress warrant in the case or
| the Florida Central and Peninsular Rail-
| road Company VS.. E. I. Paine and J
Overton Paine, doing business under the
name of the Paine Fertilizer Company
The case Is an action for damages in the
amount of $500, claimed as rent due the
above company. All the machinery and a
lot OF household goods belonging to the
Paine Fertilizer Company have been az
tached, and are now in the possession
| of the sheriff.
:. The Mallory. Steamship Line is still hav-
ing trouble with the knights of Labor az
| Fernadina. According to Master Vorlr
man Joseph Jones, the agreement of thar
docks did not include the loading Of the
| Mallory ships, which, he claims. requires
skilled labor and is job work, occupying
men say that they will hold ont for %
cents per hour. Meanwhile the Mallory
pSgPIe are IoSdlng the ships with non
union men ana the crews of the vessels
The officers in charge of the Seventh
! nshthouse district, with headquarters al
/ PENSACOLA, are considering the necessitv
OF too replacing the present lighthouse
noat. me Laurel has been in active SER
wee Tor seventeen years. and owing to
! the large extent of the district and the
! increasing demands of the service
] she IS now found to be inadequate. The
district extends from Pensacola to and
and the commerce of the gulf might sui,
Ter severely IL one of the FIRST order
ns1ts IN the strait should be rendered
1 County Judge NJ. l. Coke. after a thor
ough examination and investigation of
the assassination of ]. p Lamb al the
FRANK ford of Camp branch in Putnam
county, near Horse Landing on last
Monday for which b. F. Squires was
neld, has dismissed the case against
/ Squires for want of sufficient evidence
| TO commit him to answer the charge in
| the circuit court. The mandamus case
before the supreme court, to try the
question of the jurisdiction as to whether
under the acts of the last lee-isIa tllre .
/ fernando and Citrus counties belong ~
| the Fifth or Sixth circuits, has been de-
cided in favor Of the Fifth circuit
Jacksonville Citizen: The statement
| that the three remaining sanitary bonds
/ OF the old issue, that were unpaid we've
/ IN the possession of Mrs. E. c. Cofin
| proves to have been erroneous. She pre
scented two of these bonds to the cifv
| treasurer. for payment Wednesday, ana
received for them, principal and aeon,
mulated interest, $225.72 The cancella
/ ton OF these bonds leaves but one bond
/ OF the entire original issue of $3.50 600 still
unpaid. This is bond No. 81 for 500 and
/ II was sold to- G. L. Robinson in 1874 f,ne 1
| last installment of interest that was najS
/ on this bond was paid by CITY Treas
/ urer Scott in February, 1894 SO that two
1 years interest is now due on II hesideS
/ the principal When this bond shah have
1 been paid, the accounts of the SANITARY
| bond trustees can be finally closed up.
/