The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-13

to enjoy the affair hugely.
FLORIDA.
a new jail is being built at Westvnle
/ At Quincy tobacco in the barn is selling
/ at 10 TO 80 cents per pound.
Forty more settlers arrived at Veto
ria, Friday evening, most of whom are
men.
suwanee river is higher now than it
/ was a few weeks since, and is rising every
day.
Circuit court in and for Jefferson coun-
/ " will open on Monday, the 18th day Of
/ November.
Another new town is being plated four
miles north of Linton. 1t has not yet
been named
/ L. c. Oliver, a we'll known lumber dealer,
| late of Tltusville has erected a novelty
/ works al West Palm Beach.
Burglars entered the store Of Coleman
/ & Ferguson at Dade City, Sunday night
and carried off lot of goods.
Hon. j. W. Dickens ex-clerk of Volu-
STA county, died at his home in Enter
/ prise, Friday, at the age of 20 years.
S. L. Mccall has sold out his stock of
| goods at Monticello to j. W. Taylor,
and will soon leave for Atlanta TO reside.
The vegetable crops of Alachua county
are looking exceedingly well, and the
truck farmers are hopeful Of a good
| season.
Mr. Malet. from North Carolina, has
purchased property and moved to Una
| sheep-raising business.
"Fuller's earth" is a growing industry at
quincy, and the demand is greater than
| the supply as now furnished There's
| plenty Of it in the county
Pat Campion, a we'll known engineer
| on the Pensacola and Perdido railroad,
| met with an accident on Saturday morn
ing, by which his leg was broken
There are eleven guests at the Odd
| Fellows Home in Gainesville, at pres
] emf, and number are expected to ar
! rive there in a few days from the north.
Mr.. Masters of St. Augustine bewails
the absence of about 100 head of hogs.
| Whlch ne thought were fattening in the
! woods north of town until he went TO
| view them Monday.
! Circuit court was convened at St Au-
! gustlne Monday by Sheriff c. ]. Perry,
and Immediately adjourned by the officer
sine die. The opening and closing Of
the court cost just SOB.
The last few days mullet have been
very plentiful at New Berlin. Large
| schools of them are making their way
| toward the ocean. A number of the FISH
ermen have made some very large
! catches.
| are now erecting tWo-story brick
building, and a. L. Wilson has COM
meneed excavations for another and r.
| mess lot for same purpose.
The largest and most valuable consign-
ment Of sponge that was ever shipped
| from IarpOn Springs was sent to Phila-
| delphia Saturday morning. 1t consisted
Of lls bales, valued at about $1,000. 1t
was shipped by w. W. X. Decker.
Circuit court was in session at West
/ Vile last week Dave Wilson, the man
who killed his brother, was indicted for
murder but had his case continued, and
was sent back to jail. Indictments We're
also found against Hemby, Pelham and
stevens, who were charged with rob-
Ding old Jesse Beck a short time ago.
AT a business gqeaffpor Of tho Copurarra
uonal church at Mount Dora last Thurs
day night, Rev. ID. NJ. Breckenridge, from
| Wisconsin, was given a call TO serve as
! pastor for six months. Delegates We're
also elected to attend the South Florida
| conference Of Congregational churches,
to be held Nov 20 and 81 at Sanford.
An election has been ordered at Una
| una for Nov. 26 to decide the question
! Of license or no license to sell liquor
! Lake county has hitherto contained but
! one saloon, and that was at the county
seat Some misundersta nding is under
stood to have taken place between Mai
! Abrams and the proprietor, and the for
mer now wants that closed.
Inverness Chronicle: j. Buellgenbacb Of
| Belgium, who has spent some time in this
| state inspecting phosphate plants with a
! view TO purchasing, closed a trade with
/ county last week, the consideration being
| $4,000. This is said to be the largest
price ever paid for twenty-acre tract of
phosphate land in Citrus county.
Horace L. Weller, formerly a resident
OF Jacksonville, but of late years a jew
eler of Ocala, died Monday morning at
the home of his sister, Mrs w. A. Bours
! at Jacksonville. He had for long time
been sufferer with consumption The
deceased was the eldest son of Rev. r.
! H.. Weller OF the Episcopal church. A
wife and five children survive him.
Last Saturday while Walter Mcleod
! was fishing in lake near Melrose he
/ fell overheard and was drowned in about
slN lncnes OF water. lie was subject to
/ hts ana II was during one of these par
/ OAysms tnal the accident occurred Mr.
| Mcleod had been dead about half an
| hour when he was found. He was a
brother OF DR.. Mcleod of DeLeon Springs
Last week Mr.. Bryan encountered
/ qulcksand in boring the artesian well at
! Monticello, at a depth of about 130 feet
lie has, gone through about thirty feet
! of hard rock. This quicksand necessi-
tated putting down pipe through it,
and to do this he would have to use
! smaller pipe or begin again at the top
| OF the ground. a meeting of the council
was held, and it was decided to make an
4 other Well that it may be the proper
size when finished
New suits are constantly being filed
/ in the United States court at Jackson
vile by the receiver of the First National
/ Bank of Ocala, against the parties who
are indebted to the bank. Monday two
/ suits We're filed in which G. c. Stapvl-
] ton, as receiver of the bank, is plaintiff
/ ana Il. Z. Chambliss IS defendant. The
/ suits are for assumpsit damages in the
]
| the praecipes for summons We're filed
and the grounds for the suit is not YET
j known.
That some of the foreign exhibitors at
/ the Atlanta exposition VIII take their ex-
/ hibits to St. Augustine for the winter sea
/ son is believed TO be almost settled and
/ efforts are being made to secure the par
/ Tors and rotunda of the Hotel Cordova for
I their accommodation. Heth Garfield who
/ has the subject in hand, has received a
/ letter from one firm. asking for about 800
| square feet of space. Answers from sever
/ al others are looked for. Should the re-
mainder Of the exhibits require no more
than the above, they can easily be accom-
modated.
+ Tampa Times: The lawyers are telling
/ two good jokes on States Attorney Car
/ ter. He was examining a witness in a
/ cattle-stealing case at the recent term
! of the De Soto court, and asked what
1 were the marks Of certain animal The
4 witness answered: Swallow fork upper
/ bit in right ear, split crop in the other
/ and dewiap." Well" asked Mr. Carter.
/ which ear was the dewlap imp In a hog
l stealing case a witness testified as to the
/ marks in a hogs ear. This did not satisfy
/ the states attorney, so he asked, ''H Nv
was the hog branded?'
1 Secretary Smith of the Jacksonville