The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-03


T The appointment takes effect from Jan =,
I al SID year Mr.. Rose VIII accept and
Z enter az once upon the duties assigned
tended with the rrecZe AZ Urmond. ne
Hotel Orm0nd cut over a ton Of ice. which
was frozen IN two nights. The hotel has
n pipe, standing about thirty feet high,
running from one OF the wells, and as the
water dropped q would freeze. and 81
was from this that the hotel obtained its
crop Of ice.
Little Mamie Beasley. the 4-year-old
daughter of j. r. Beaslcy OF Arcadia. had
a narrow escape from death by fire Friday
morning. She was playing BY a stove ira
I the sitting room when her dress caught
IRE. and in a second was IN a blaze. Her
mother, attracted by the child's cries. ran
20 her assistance and eXtinguished the
IRE with bucket Of water. The back OF
the child's head was burned and her body
blistered.
Hawthorne continues 20 grow in size
and beauty There have been several beau
tiiM structures erected there in the past
few months, among them the Alachua In
stitute, which, in size and appearance.
cannot be eXcelled in Florida. Nearly
every house in town has been recently
treated TO a new coat of paint. The Cath
olics have begun the erection Of church,
the work being done by Cooper q Co. of
Gainesville.
W. owen Jacobs was found dead in his
bed az Sebastian Saturday. He and G. J.
Harqee were staying alone at his place.
Mr.. Hardee, when he had prepared break
fast went TO awake Mr.. Jacobs, and after
calling several times and receiving 10 re
spouse, he went into his room to find him
dead. Mr.. Jacobs was Justice OF the peace
and had for several years represented the
Sebastian River Land and Improvement
Company as their agent.
At Tampa Tuesday Drs. Wall and steb-
bins performed delicate operation upon
Willie Alderman. the l2-year-Old son Of VI
A. Alderman, a resident on the Alaila
river, removing a flbrOid p0lypus which
IlI of FTH O.
throat About year ago Or. Wall had
removed the same formation by the use
Of the ecraseur, but it had again grown 70
the size OF small hen egg. In this opera
ton they introduced into the nOstrls
galvano cautery snare and then applied the
current The formation was instantly de-
tached, dropping into the mouth Of the
patient. who spat IL out. The physicians
are of the opinion that the effect of this
operation VIII be TO eliminate the growth.
At Interlachen the freeze Of Saturday
night, although the mercury did not 90
as low By 352 degrees, probably increased
the damage of the previous nights freeze
materially Most Of the bearing grape
fruit trees are probably ruined, being
split 10 the ground. and the bearing mood
Of tho trees generally will be found dead.
while the general opinion. after critical
examination, is that few bearing trees
about lnterlachen are killed The bear
ing Satsuma trees show no indication Of
being hurt, and in some cases the leaves
will not fall. The Interlachen nurseries
Friday night, and It viii not be safe to
make an estimate of the percentage Of
destruction till a week later. Probably
tWo-htths of the crop had been shipped.
T. 5. Brown had 1000 boxes on the road
unsold which VIII fortunately net him good
prices.
The reports Of the extent and damage
of the frieze at R0ckledge are discourage
ing, and grow no better as time goes ON.
When II is said that not half of the i'm
mense indian river orange crop had been
81 E Hg tod a
sands OF dollars worth of fruit remained
on the trees. Old men who went to Rock
ledge twenty-five years ago and have en-
dufed the privation Of pioneering In the
effort to acquire "A home and competency
VIII have to begin over again. for not
only IS the fruit killed, but the trees that
have borne profusely for many years are
withered. Rockledge, the beautiful IS
shorn of much of her pride Tropical
vegetation is parched as If by fire. Stately
groves of lines, lemons and oranges that
on Christmas mornings for many years
have looked glorious are now unsightly
and Improbable G. S Hardee. owner of
a thirty-acre grove, has lost 81 900. c. w
Harrison owns ten-acre grove, from
which he says he loses 1000 boxes of or
anges.
A good many facts and incidents con-
nected with the weather and the fruit
trade are coming to light at Orlando. Sew
oral of the large buyers had bought fruit
on the trees, and were holding it until
they could get to the gathering of it,
In some instances entire payments had
been made. In others. only a portion had
been put up at the time of the bargain
some of the buyers had several thousand
dollars each invested in this way out OF
which they viii not realize a cent one
instance is mentioned where a verbal con-
tract had been made between a buyer
and grower for the entire crop, the con-
stderation being $500. No money had
been put up but the agreement had been
reached. On Saturday morning, after an
hope of saving the fruit was gone the
buyer went around and made out his
check in full for the amount agreed upon
IT Is safe TO predict that
hereafter by men who may have
fruit to sell. Other instances of heroic
square dealing are coming to light.
Edward Robertson, colored who has for
some years lived in and around Lakeland.
got drunk early Saturday morning and
order, whereupon he was promptly ar
rested by Policeman Timer and when he
was brought into the mayors court his
wife and l2-year-Old step-daughter ap-
peared against him, and from their testi-
mony comes a story of am ost brutal af-
about two weeks ago Robertson outraged
his little girl and threatened TO kill her
II she diVulGed the secret, but the child's
mother found out that something was
wrong and made the child confess. Rob
ersOn was bound over to the circuit col1rt
the arrival of the sheriff, but a mob of
some fifty of seYenty-five negroes CON
gregated around the jail for the purpose
of lynchtng him, but not having a leader
and being headed off by a deputy sheriff
who hurried the prisoner off to the county
jail at Barlow, their plans were frus-
trated.