The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-28

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J he will De caught The sheriff has sent
/ out a description OF him 20 the leading
I places, ana everything VIII be done TO
/ capture him II Is presumed that ne Is
I with friends somewhere IN that section.
] Highsmith's relatives have been tele-
J graphed for but they Will not come. The
I bodies were buried Tuesday evening
Material is now on its way for the dec
I grafton Of queensware at Anthony. II b.
GrOcOtt & Son are moving their entire
! stock OF crockery from Wheeling W. Va,
u to Anthony where they will decorate the
same. The Inducements offered at An
I thony have succeeded in capturing the
factory, which they will soon open for
, the purpose Of manufacturing and decor
/ ating pottery and table ware OF all de-
I scriptions.
/ Friday afternoon, ". Y. Knott who
/ was employed 10 investigate Tampa's
I financial condition, made his report to
I the council and the board OF public works.
I The statement is comprehensive one
and shows, ia detail, the exact financial
condition Of the city. He shows THAI
I Tampa has only S94.05.Z9 in outstanding
scrip. which in addition 10 100000 bonded
Indebtedness and SS,l69.65 due on fire
l equipment. make the total debt Of the
city 500, 17i.s3.
The land commissioner Of the East
Coast railway has just closed the sale
OF a large tract Of land in the Biscayne
country 10 a party In ST. Louis. Mo. num-
bering twenty. This number viii be large
~ increased soon. Mr.. Ingraham goes on
Monday 70 lay out three towns for set
tiers about 10 come. Linton and Lauder
dale Will be located on New river, on the
west bank Of the beautiful bay opposite
the inlet, and upon the tract known as
the d. L. Fletcher sisal hemp farm.
Linton will be on the Hilsborough river
tSouth), and Is named for Congressman
Linton OF Iowa, now engaged in procur-
ing settlers for the lands of the rail
way and canal companies.
An interesting case was before the
criminal court of record OF Hulsboro
county a short time ago. Mrs. J. w.
! Ieasley and Mrs. Lichterman rented a
NAT over the Bay pharmacy at Tampa
ana furnished it, They were partners and
shared alike the expense. One Of them
As married woman, the other a grass
WIDOW. Everything went on smoothly
enough until man appeared on the scene
ana began to make inroads upon two
fond, but unsuspecting hearts. This pro-
duced the usual effect and dissolution
was the result one claimed the furni-
ture, the other denied the claim. and
charges and counter charges were hurled
pack and forth, till finally one had the
other arrested for adultery. The case
was tried and dismissed. The county court
was then appealed to to determine who
owned the lease of the fiat, but the case
was dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
II Is now before the circuit court on
plea for the appointment of a receiver
10 sell the furniture and wind up the
audlrs of the firm.
The annual report Of the various United
States government offices at Tampa for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1895. have
been completed and make an eXtraordi-
nary showing for Tampa. The custom
mousse report is as follows: Imports, $780,
69yll warehouse Withdrawals 1909 SOC Ia
re-warehouse Withdrawals S17 1913 "A; ton
mage tax, S3474.9O; storage 81 $685. fines
ana penalties, 81. 43S50; surveys, $50 60;
clearance of vessels, $3.50; permits SlO2;
recording manifests, etc, SS4; health GER
tincates, 1880; miscellan eous $2I. 80. Grand
total, S26, 1884 Grand total, 1894 S407,-
$50 50; gain in twelve months. S21S.57S69.
Inc increase IN customs receipts is
shown to be over so per cent. There were
l6,ls5 bales OF tobacco. weighing 1,654,S70
pounds imported in the past year, against
IVUfS bales, weighing l,033,529 pounds in
lS93-'4. There we're eighty foreign and
$50 coastwise vessels entered. and about
100000 tons Of phosphate shipped against
slXty-four foreign and 224 cOastwise YES
sells, and l39, 2l6 tons of phosphate in 1893
80. The sale of stamps for cigars during
against Sl35OOO for 1888 a. The total num-
Der of cigars manufactured in this district
TINS year was 7S,89,276, of which only
Tampa. The output of Tampa cigars
therefore, was 1928 59s against As Dos OOO
in 1894 gain OF about Is per cent The
revenue of the Tampa postoffice from the
sale OF stamps for the past year was $751;
O67, against S15,76772 In 1s93-94; a gain of
about 40 per cent.
A special from Gainesville TO the jack
sonVllle Citizen says: THE report re-
Gently sent out from Washington that
discovery had been made affecting the
land embodied in the naval reserve of
Alachua county has created much OF a
disturbance in this section. The report
IS 70 the etfect that the land belongs
70 the state under the act of congress Of
1880, and that ii is liable for sale by the
state at this time This is one of the
finest sections of land in the state heav-
lily timbered, and adapted to farming
purposes. 1t was declared open to settle
ment several years since by the general
land office, and hundreds of hard work
ing young men have taken homesteads
and have worked hard to clear up the
land and build their log houses. If the
state sells the land or donates it to the
railroads under the internal improve
ment act, the settlers viii lose all of their
time and trouble and the money they
nave expended in building their homes
They are generally young men who Sc
cured the homesteads as a start in life
and who win be greatly discouraged
should the land be taken from them Re
ceiver Wainwright of the United States
general land office in this city was seen
by the Citizen correspondent this morning
in regard to the Washington report and
said: 1T may be that the report is cor
rect, but l seriously doubt It, There is
not a record in the land Office to show
that the land belongs to the state Under
the act OF congress Of 1850 the land must
have been selected before the state could
own it. There may be records in the state
land office TO show that this was done
but doubt it, 1t does not appear reason
Of timbered land in such a desirable To-
cation as on the banks of the Suwannee
river would have been owned by the
state for nearly fifty years and no dis
position made of it. I believe that If the
land was owned by the state, the railroad
companies who were granted land by the
state would have taken this tract years