The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-20

Large number of people are settling on
inc lower east coast of Florida. Many
OF them are from the northwest.
The contract TO build the new Metho-
oist church at Quincy has been awarded
70 W. 7. Davis OF Madison, the price
at Jacksonville Thursday evening, and
I left Friday for the new Town Of Linton.
OF which he is the founder. down on the
east coast.
Four new liquor saloons have been
opened in Tampa since the LIST inst. and
IN the same time two new ones have
Fort Brooke.
party of Cubans are visiting Mana
! tee county with a view of organizing
companies to plant, cultivate and cure
tobacco, particularly the finer qualities,
Tor the Manufacture of Havana cigars.
The Rosemary fertilizer factory. one
OF AlbiOns new industries, VIII COM
mence the manufacture Of fertilizer this
week. They will make five grades Of fer
I tilizer and intend operating on an extern
sive scale.
meeting of the citizens of Palatka
was held Monday to confer with Mr.. Sell
den, who wishes to establish a sash door
and blind factory either at Palatka or
Jacksonville. The best arrangements Of
fered will secure it.
The register and receiver Of the United
States land office at GAINESVILLE nave an
nounced that EsterO Island light house
reservation, embracing 600 acres of land.
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already been made
At Crows Bluff logging is in full blast
now. The Wilson Brothers will send
of three large RATS of about 600 logs on
the 10th. Air. Jorden will also send two
about the same time, containing some
two or three hundred logs.
At the meeting of the city council at
Orlando Thursday night a resolution was
adopted providing for an appropriation
of $500 per annum for the fire department
to pay for rental of building. This allows
the tireren to select their own quarters.
Howard Smith, president of the Alachua
County Society of Scientific Research. has,
among other interesting relics, a pair of
/ slippers worn by the late Maj. Gen. Lor-
/ ing, formerly of Gainesville, and who was
[ for ten years commander-in-chief of the
/ Egyptian army. The slippers were worn In
Cairo. Egypt.
! Tallahassee's municipal middle has been
/ Strengthened out. Mayor Gilmore has re-
/ signed, ard the council elected Robert
/ Gamble, as to whose nativity there can
be no question, as he is a Tallahasseean.
/ 1t Is claimed that Mayor Gilmore was
| ineligible on the ground that he was not
| an American citizen.
Or. ]. B. Fernandez of Jacksonville
was summoned to, Fernandina yesterday
| to consult with DR.. Horsey about the
! condition of the leg of b. T. Burchar1i,
which was broken and crushed at the
/ creosote works the day before. Amputa-
| tion was found necessary, and the leg
was taken off Friday night.
The schooner Corinne twenty-seven tons
/ burden, owned ana commanded bN Eman-
! uel Knowles, was wrecked at Lake Worth
Inlet. near West Palm Beach Friday af-
| ternoon. She is total loss. The rigging
has been saved None of the crew was
lost. The Corinne has been plying be-
tween Hobe sound and the Island of Mat
hcomber, carrying pineapple slips. She
by northeast wind She tried to put in
at the inlet and was wrecked.
The National Bank of Jacksonville
Thursday brought suit against the con
troller of the currency to recover &c.
l0S.Sl and other moneys from the First
| National Bank of Palatka, which sus-
pended July Z, 1891. The complainant
/ prays that the defendant may be decreed
/ to allow the claim of this complainant
against the Palatka bank of SIC, 1881, and
| that dividends may be paid by the de-
| PENDANT on that amount Also, that there
be paid a dividend of IS per cent. upon
| 81, go, with interest from day of suspen-
sion, and that there be paid In the future
| distribution of the assets such sum as
| bears the same ratio to the whole amount
/ distributed as its debt of SIG, 103S 81 bears to
the whole amount OF its indebtedness.
Mr.. Selden. of the firm of selden & Van
/ WAGNER, manufacturers of doors, sashes,
| blinds and mouldings, of Rome, N. y
who is prospecting for location for his
| plant, which will be moved to Florida
| Is at Jacksonville again, having returned
| from Palatka. He now has Jacksonville
| and Palatka under consideration Palat-
1 ka is willing to offer bonus for the fac
! tory. Jacksonville has made no offer. Mr.
| Selden, however, is in consultation with
members of the board of trade, and some
thing may be done on that line. The Rome
| plant OF the factory, which will be re-
moved to Florida. contains a floor area
| OF 10000 square feet. From 100 to 300 men
| are employed.
bn TayaT Pss Herald Easddi, Eli Jqhas9n Of Lees
against Mr.. Woodward, the adj
ministrator in charge of the estate of
Mr.. Childs, for damages for breach of
| contract 1t seems that some wears ago
! Mr.. Childs, then alive. had some land in
Leesburg which he desired plated ont and
SOLD He entered into written contract
| with Mr. Johnson, by which Johnson was
to have the land plated and to have ire
sale of IT, and all sums over $500 per acre
/ We're to be divided equally between them.
Johnson claims that he had the land sur
veyed and plated and sold one piece when
| Childs repudiated the contract and sold
the land, realizing considerable sum over
$zOO per acre, and refusing to pay johnson
| his part of the surplus Since Childs'
| death Johnson has been endeavorinp 10
| obtain settlement with the administra-
tor ana failing to do so has brought suit
A special from New York says that
every agent of the Plant system in the
orange belt has had orders to report the
future prospects of the orange industry
and that of those reports so per cent are
encouraging, some of them going to the
extent OF saying that in FIVE years there
viii be as large a crop of oranges as
Deiore the freezes of last winter; that.
IN view OF these reports the Plant svs-
tenn VIII spare no pains or expense in
its advertising department at the atlanta
exposition; that Mr.. Plant Is neeotiatinS
a loan, under the mortgage of the Flor
ida southern railroad which mortgaea
mas already been recorded in every cour-
| ty through which the Florida Southern
runs, and which mortgage is not to ex-
ceed $o,OO0,OO0 for the purpose of widen
ing the gauge and of completing the road
as originally surveyed, to Tampa; and
of otherwise improving the condition Of
the Florida Southern. This will shorter
the fast mail route about tbirtv-fS,a
miles. Also. that the Silver Springs
Ocala and Gulf railroad is to be extende1
in the near future, from Honosassa n
Rrooksville, where t will connect with
the through mail line to Tampa. This
latter exteneion will open up 100. 900 acres
of the finest hard wood land the cele1
brated Annataliga hammock, in the stafe
rivaling the rich tobacco lands of C,nha
into which Cubans will be invited to mi,
CRATE to grow tobacco.