The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-31

FLORIDA.
Ocala is to have a new fertilizer factory,
capitalized at S200.000.
A colony Of 500 HOllanders will settle
in Florida If sufficient inducements are Of
fered
A cable is TO be laid across Lake Worth
to connect with the Bahama ocean cable
at Jupiter.
corn 10 the acre this season on his land IN
Walton county.
It is said that it will cost Orange county
about $500 to keep her roads in repair
during the next fiscal year.
Tampa Tribune. The gopher industry has
so expanded in Lake county as to require
a farm. 1t is at least, an occupation that
can be followed on Sundays as we'll as on
week days, since nothing could be more
"hOley."
A new company has been organized at
St. Augustine under the name OF the St.
Augustine Light Infantry, with excel.
Eugene Masters as captain The suppo-
sition in military circles is that they VIII
take the place OF the Guards.
,Tiis best orange in this section OF Os-
ceola county is that on the county poor
farm. Through some interpOSitOn OF
Providence the freeze played less havoc
with this grove than with others even
further south.-kissimmee Leader.
St. Augustine Herald: Mrs. b. F. Div
eros has pet rooster which viii eat moth
ing but ham and eggs. Ask the general
about it. The rooster was imported from
TO be cross between an ostrich and
marsh hen.
Arcadia Arcadian: W. Fl. Odiorne, in his
grove south of the city, has tree upon
the sprouts OF which are nearly two dozen
well grown oranges. The fruit is set upon
sprouts that have grown since the freeze.
There are some sprouts in Mr.. Leslie Pell-
Clarke's grove in the city. This is evil
dence of the reproductive nature of the
orange.
New corn is offered at 40 cents per bush
al IVr Of 81. nFa.I 10
1t is thought by many that 1t will go lower
than that. Another party offered to de-
liver one thousand bushels of potatoes at
20 cents per bushel The prices offered for
pears and peaches are so low that many
growers are converting them into some
thing drinkable.
Orlando Sentinel The South Florida
Foundry and Machine Works, of that
place, will furnish a large quantity of the
castings for the bridges to be built along
the extension of the Florida East Coast
has been able to meet the prices of foun-
dries in other sections of the country, for
the extension is being built by contrac-
tors, who give such orders to the lowest
Florida Daily Citizen: A large number of
cigar factories have been located in Flor
ida during the past year or two This
should tend to increase interest in tobacco
culture in the state. Manufacturers will be
obliged to pay high prices for Havana to-
bacco for several years to come, because
country. Tobacco grown in this state ranks
next to that grown on the island of Cuba,
and with proper cultivation a domestic
leaf might be grown as good as that i'm
ported from Cuba. In that case Florida
growers would have a monopoly of the
market during the continuance Of the eX-
listing duty of $1.50 per pound on wrapper
tobacco brought from Cuba and Sumatra.
The laying of the corner stone of the
new Jewish synagogue on East Chase
street, Pensacola, on Monday evening was
a very imposing and beautiful ceremony.
The stone was laid by the Masonic Fra
ternity with all the impressiVeness of
their ritual. On the platform was large
number of invited guest, including Mayor
McHugh and members of the city coun-
Gil. President Morris Danheisser of the
Congregation Bethel presided, and in
opening the exercise spoke in substance
as follows: I'VE are here now" said
he, Ito raise another edifice. In this work
we acknowledge the hand of God, our
creator, but as a congregation we are weak
in numbers and without the aid of our
Christian friends we should have failed.
BY their assistance we are able to go
forward with the work. lay this corner
stone and erect temple to the glory of
the great and living Cod
Citizen: A tall, stout and exceedingly
dark-complexioned woman was walking
along Main street at Jacksonville at dusk
Wednesday night. Trotting beside her
was a very small ebony-hued baby just
to get slightly ahead of the portly woman.
when q gay cavalier Of the same color
came dashing down Main street on a fiery,
unframed, solid-tired bicycle of the model
of "a. The grace and ease of the rider,
as he grandly drew his handkerchief over
hfs face while he endeavored to keep the
front wheel of his bicycle from pursuing
a szlgzag course, attracted her attention,
and while she turned her mead, the baby
fell and she planted her pedal extremity
which some call a foot but which was
fourteen inches if anything, squarely on
the fallen child. With a howl she jumped
in the air, and when she struck the ground
she grabbed the bowling mass and hur-
riedly changed her course, murmuring
dat poor woman's chile; she won't know
her poor little honey" The lungs of the
child were not impaired, as tire screams
could be heard for some distance from
the scene OF the trouble.