The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-23

A packet line is 10 be established be-
tween Tampa and BALTIMORE The hrst
schooner to be sent out viii be the Carrie
A. Lane. which is now loading in Balt-
more.
Bishop Bros are beginning work on
their turpentine farm in Madison coun-
ty They made purchase OF several
thousand acres of the finest timber in
the county, and expect to do business ON
a large scale this winter and next sum
mer.
Another mass meeting was recently
held at Newberry 10 make nominations
TO ill four vacancies in county offices.
Nominations were made as follows: Al
derman, DR.. ID. g. Rowland; treasurer,
assessor James Bowler. At this meet
ing Mayor r. Heasn was asked to re-
sign, owing to the fact that he is abb
sent from Newberry most Of the time.
S. W. Eldridge of Apopka is supplying
A. w. G. Smyth, who was for several
years prior to the freeze, engaged in the
orange shipping business at Orlando, but
is now in similar business i'm the City
Of Mexico, with all the orange box mate
rails which he will use while in Mexico
this winter He has sent forward several
carloads already and two more cars are
being prepared for shipment this week.
The city council of Fernandina at a
meeting held Wednesday night, voted
$500 to the board of public works, to be
used in increasing the flow Of the city
well. 1t is the opinion of experts that the
decreased flow is caused by rocks chok-
ing the bottom of the well, and that a
deepening of the well will readily improve
the trouble. Another important action of
the council was the election of n b. BOr-
den as councilman for the Fourth ward
in the place of A. W. Lehman, resigned.
c. c. Warren, one of Sheriff Tillis' dep
uties, was riding by huge rock near
the road i'm the vicinity of Alachua Thurs
day. Nobody was in sight, and Mr. War
rem was unconscious of the fact that
a powerful dynamite cartridge had been
applied to the rock and that the fuse
was rapidly growing shorter. When
within a few feet of the place Mr.. War
rem heard tremendous crash, and large
pieces Of the rock flew all around him
in every direction. One of the pieces fan
ned his face.
The ladies' Improvement Association of
Gainesville has decided to resurrect the
cow issue. At a meeting of the associa-
tiCn Thursday afternoon, the city council
was petitioned through the mayor to
make necessary arrangements for enforc-
ing the COW law, assuring that body that
the association would stand by them in
the fight. This is a VeXatiOus question
to handle. and one that has been the di-
rect cause OF much trouble IN that city.
The pound has been destroyed and set
on fire, guards have been assaulted, and
almost murdered on account OF this or
dinance.
The British steamship Buckminster.
now at Fernandina, has been engaged Tor
three years in the Cuban trade, and left
Santiago de Cuba with cargo of iron
ore TOT 1dlllllOEE OILY III tt weeks ago.
Capt John Elmes, master of the Buck
minister, was at Havana about six weeks
ago He says that he saw there the ar
rival of 900 troops fresh from SPAIN and
that they were the worst looking lot of
men he ever saw together. Five hundred
picked men paraded the streets of the
city and were enthusiastically cheered by
the Spanish population. They resembled
a brigade of tramps more than they did
soldiers. The captain says that the
Americans living on the south of the is
To- cold tidinUG z~1-
until the New York newspapers reach
there
The kola nut, which found its origin in
Central Africa, and which has become
famous throughout the world as an in
valuable addition to medical science, is
to be introduced on the east coast. D. G.
Sutton of the land department Of the
Florida East Coast railway, has received
five pounds that will be used for ex-
perimental purposes by the colonists at
Linton, and at other places along the
Florida East Coast railway. The kola
tree grows to a hight Of about forty feet,
and one tree has been known to produce
a crop of from 800 to 800 pods. Each pod
generally contains four seeds, fifty of
which will make a quart of one and a
one-Quarter pounds, which is sold at $l.25
per pound and upward The tree bears
twice each year. The first fruiting occurs
five years from planting, but the maxi
mum yield is not reached until the ninth
or tenth year
The supreme court at Tallahassee
Wednesday, in an opinion by Chief Justice
Mabry pronounced as unconstitutional
and void an act of the legislature, passed
at the last session and known as chapter
4H4 laws of 1895. The matter was pre-
scented to the court on a motion made by
Messrs. A. w CockreI & Son of Jack
sonville, praying for the issuance of a
writ of error in the case of Nathaniel
Webster VS.. John Dowell, in which no
bond was fled as reouired by CHAPTER a. 14
laws of 1895 The clerk had declined to is
sue the writ, as the statute requiring the
giving of a bond had not been complied
with The court decided that the act re-
curing the giving of a bond before writ
of error can issue, is unconstitutional,
because the title of the act does not con-
form to the constitutional requirement as
to the title to acts: and directed that the
writ do issue, notwithstanding no bond
has been given. As result of this de-
cision, the supreme court has amended
rule of the new rules so that no bond
is required before writs of error can is
sue