The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-16
FIORIDA

day. He informed Mr. Mason of this
fact
FLORIDA.
CarrabeHe wants some one to go there
and open a house for purchasing sponge.
An emigrant wagon passed through
Lakeland last week. and among its con-
tents were ten dogs
The state conference of the seventh
Gay adventists for the session Of 1895
was held Tuesday in Orlando.
The annual convention of the district
union of the Society for Christian En-
deavor is in session at Tampa.
Conkling Bros of Tillman expect 10
gather over 1000 punches of bananas dur
ing the season. and all Of the banana
plants have come out since the freeze.
The passenger ana freight steamboat
| City of Brunswick, owned by Capt Wood
of Brunswick, Ca. is to he placed on the
ST Johns river, between Jacksonville and
Mayport.
At a meeting of the board of health at
| Fernandina Thursday it was ordered
that quarantine be raised. An inspection
of vessels from infected ports viii still
be maintained.
The vegetable growers will receive an
answer from the Plant system relative 10
cheaper freight rates asked by the farm
ers, some time during the month. II is
anticipated that the answer viii be fav-
Orable one.
j. ID. Pirrong Of Calhoun county has
received an appointment to gather up
data as to freight charges on fruits and
/ vegetables from this state 10 market.
| The interstate commerce commission ap-
] pointed him.
A crop of sugar cane is being put in on
/ the St. Cloud farm at Kissimmee as ia a.
/ time and labor will permit. There win
/ be about three hundred and fifty acres
! planted for next years crop. the remain
! der of the farm will be planted in other
/ crops.
Mr.. Moses of Longwood realized sixty
| barrels of Irish potatoes from two bar
rels of culls, costing 81, that he planted.
Albert Mickler and a. l. Rogero WIN
start on ride from St. Augustine to
| Atlanta and other points north.
| While all the jail officials were absent
from the Jail at Fernandina Thursday,
three negroes improved their opportunity
| and escaped. They are Charles McCray,
| held for breaking into house on Tiger
| murder and Jim Johnson, who broke into
and robbed a store at Callahan not long
since.
An experiment in the use of shells for
| ballast is being made on the Florida East
Coast railway at two points between
Jacksonville and st. Augustine. In one
case 1900 feet of track through a marsh
has been filled in with shells brought
from a point 300 miles down the road
where the company has an available
shell mound. The results SO far have
shall prove to be as well adapted for
ballast as it is thought that it win be
further use of it will be made, and a
When the branch postohice was estab-
lshed in Ybor City the management of It
was given TO Americans, but after chang
| ing hands twice it has come under the
| management Of two Spaniards. This turn
in the affairs of the office has caused in
dgnation among the Cubans, who dislike
to have their mail handled by Spaniards.
especially at this time. when letters of
greater Importance than usual are passing
through the mails. A long petition has
been prepared, which will be forwarded
to Washington, praying for the removal
of the Objectionable parties, and asking
that the office be given to Americans.
Judge Hooker has granted the alterna-
tive writ in the mandamus suit of c. b.
and J. d. Easterlin against the Alachua
county commissioners The commissioners
are asked to grant the petition of c. b.
and j. d. Easterlin to sell wines, liquors
and beers in Election district No. Is, Il
Newberry, or show cause why they de-
cline to do the same. The case will come
up for a hearing on the 18th inst, before
Judge Hooker at Ocala. 1t is understood
that the county commissioners will fight
! the case to the bitter end. In this they
will be assisted financially by citizens of
/ Newberry, who are opposed to the sale of
s intoXicants in that town.
, Some time Wednesday night some one
entered County Judge A. e. Poser 5
, office. at the court house at Arcadia and
! opened his safe and robbed ii of about
! $50 in cash. The thief entered by raising
the window. The court house has a
night Waterman, and he did not hear any
one. Judge Poser LEFT his office at noon
. have entered about dark. Thursday
morning the combination to the safe was
! found within piece OF paper on the floor
/ near the safe. The safe has been used
! for years in that office, and it is thought
, that some one watched and caught the
combination, or it was some one that
. knew it before. as the combination has
never been changed.
r E D. Brown, travelling representative
, of a large Baltimore tobacco house, who
B, is at present in Pensacola, is the hero of
J haF cd
/ | train coming out of Atlanta a few nights
I since. A party of drummers was on the
/ train, and the conversation turned upon
e train robberies. Mr. Brown said that he
! | would resist any man who attempted TO
] | rob train that he was on. The drummers
I 1 determined to test his nerves, and short
? / lv afteruard one of the number made mr.
Q | as a typical train-robber, entered the car
d with pistols in hand, and yelled Hands
3 / up gentlemen The drummers who were
: in the secret suddenly disappeared be
o meath the seats, but Mr.. Brown, believing
the man TO be genuine robber, drew 9
= pistol and opened f1re on him. One bal
5 | passed through the supposed robbers hat
y | and two others whiZZed uncomfOrtably
]. near him. BY this time the bogus robbel
II was nearly frightened out Of his wits, anC
= the other drummers, realizing that Mr.
5 Brown was terribly in earnest came on
=, by the arms, explained the situation.
d The following circular letter has beer
e sent out to all the creditors and thos'
4 holding the banks redemption certh
D tdAtS bl kllt + tIst 4NdAloltdA Ddllk VI vi
d lando, and it speaks for itself: "Our book.
e show that you are a creditor of this bank
S and the evidence of your claim is in tn,
i nature Of ume-ceruhcates issued TO yOl
" as part of the plan of resumption of The
/. First National Bank which certificate.
e fall due, respectively, Nov. 25, 1895; May %
q 1896, Nov. 26. 1886 and May, 25 1897. Since
o the resumption of the bank we have beer
e using our best efforts TO realize from the
r assets which came into out hands. and b,
e a regular banking business. sufficient
. funds to meet these certificates as they