The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-11

T. ". Harris is to start another daily
paperin Ocala.
Bearing almond trees are 10 be seen
around Lake Worth.
Mrs. Jane Segul died in St Augustine
Saturday aged rs years
ST. Johns county has eighteen prisoners
now at work on her roads.
Judge Cone Of San Mateo lost 300 bushels
Of potatoes by the freeze.
Hon. f. b. Genovar Of ST. Augustine has
taken out Tontine policy for $4,000
\ salt water pike, weighing rs pounds
was one of ST. Augustine piscatorial curl
Ostics Monday
Postmaster \. Y. Strunk Of Spring
Park has converted into wine the remain
der of his orange crop. which was injured
by the freeze.
Circuit Court Judge Barnes has decided
that Westville is the proper county scat
for Holmes county and there 1t will be
for the next ten years.
s A Waldrop & Co. have leased II. r.
kinyon's new building, corner of Frauk-
lin and CaSs Streets at Tampa. and will
open the famous general merchandise
business there Saturday. The firm is from
Albany Ga.
Lettie Dickson. the murderer Of Jose
phine Johnson tboth colorcO at West
Palm Beach, was arrested Monday
while trying to escape TO Key West in
mans attire. She had eludcd the officers
Cor two weeks.
The Spanish speaking Masons of Tampa
have taken the necessary step toward or
-8uizng "a lodge i'm Tampa A large
number Of gentlemen, late Of TeHS Narela
Lodge, Key West, Will form the nucleus
for its organization.
The sponge feet has returned to Sponge
Harbor from Rock Island after a most
successful trip-the most successful I'm
years. Some of the boats will clear from
$500 to $3.50, which is doing splend,dly for
the time they were out.
John Baker, colorcd. was arrested at
nd .IfNH
botham, upon information from the sher-
if of DuVal county, for an assault com
mitted in Jacksonville on oct. % upon
Mrs. Wells, an old colored woman The
parties are all Fernandina negroes. and
IL was during an excursion to Jackson
vile that Baker beat Mrs. Wells very
badly.
TheYoung Mems business League of
Orlando has taken up the subject of road
Improvement aud is now planning to i'm
prove the public highway btween Orlando
and Oakland, distance of sixteen miles.
The present plan is to cover that portion
OF the line known as the sand hills" with
clay. The material has been found at
several points along the route, and the
plan is thought to be feasible.
At Orlando there is no longer any cues
ton about the powers of endurance of
orange trees. They have survived the
recent severe cold which gave us tenn
perature of Is degrees above zero. All
doubts Of their not having lived through
have been dispelled by the warm weather
of the past two days. The dead leaves
are falling rapidly, and In some instances
new buds are appearing. The vitality
of the trees has been demonstrated.
Col. c. p. Cooper one of the Oldest
citizens of Jacksonville and a distin-
guished member of the Florida bar died
Wednesday night at 7:30 O'Clock at his
home No 81 East Monroe street after
an illness of nearly "a month. Col Cooper
was senior member of the law firm of
Cooper & Cooper, which stands among the
foremost in the state. The surviving
members of the firm are John g Cooper
and Congressman Charles NJ. Cooper.
his sons.
Mrs. II. Tyler Wilcox. NJ D. received
a painful fan at st. Augustine Wednesday
evening She was descending the steps that
lead from the St. George hotel to the
street when she slipped ana fell headlons
to the street. The fall was not a very
high one, luckily for her, ana she es-
capped with only a badly sprained ankle.
Two gentlemen who were passing at the
time of the accident assisted her 10 her
partments in the Lyon building. where
she received attention and was soon rest
ing easily.
Barlow Courier-Informant: LYLE & Co
had about IS acres in cabbage when the
cold came and the same land has ali been
replanted. and the plants are up again
This county beats the world as "A place 10
make things move. On Monday mornine
after the cold Mr.. Lyle planted cabbage
seed and on Friday morning following
they were up above ground. Before plant-
ing the seed had been soaked and thev
terminated and We're above ground in four