The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-19

don of Montclair planted last year a half
acre in sugar oane. Seed stalks cost him
81. He ground part of the crop. sold
part and retained enough to plant another
half acre. From that which he ground he
made one hundred and ten gallons OF
syrup of quality that retails in this mar
ket for so cents gallon. He sold to his
ncighbOrs So. so worth of seed cane and to
Leesburg grocers $29.69 worth to retail for
chewing. Adding these amounts together
and estimating the seed he retained as
worth s., we have $l45.19 as the value OF
the total net receipts from the half acre
of cane planted by Mr.. McLendon.
I. Grunthal, who until recently was in
the wholesale business at Jacksonville,
went before Justice Smith Saturday MORN
ing and swore out warrant for the ar
rest of Il; Gibbons, charging him with
legged affidavit, which Mr.. Grunthal says
Mr. Gibbons filed in the county clerks
office, charging that Mr.. Grunthal would
fraudulently part with his property before
Judgment could be obtained against him,
and that he was secreting the property al
ready, Mr.. Gibbons is the agent at jack
sonville for the Engelke q Finer Milling
Company of Missouri. to which Mr.. Grun-
thai was Indebted in the sum of $685..
Gambler correspondence Morning News:
The people of this section of the state
feel greatly encouraged over the situa-
ton as regards the orange and lemon
groves. The trees have passed through
beautifully Capt. Frank Lytle on Lake
Weir expects to ship a car load of oranges
next winter from his beautiful Lakeview
groVe.--W G. Eagleton will have a good
deal of fruit on Orange Island. as will
Capt j. l.. Carney.-The trees are bloom
ing now The groves that were not killed
down to the roots are rapidly recovering
and with favorable seasons this section
will soon have oranges and lemons again
in abundance.
Tallahassee correspondence Morning
News: Rev. ]. B. Gey pastor of the
Methodist church here has Just had is
sued from the Tallahassean press a SOU
venir year book of the Florida conference,
M. Il. church. south. The book comprises
about two hundred pages, is neatly print
ed and contains many portraits of prom-
nent Methodists and handsome Florida
churches From this valuable compila-
ton it is learned that the denomination
has in this state 2S9 churches, valued at
1854, $780, eighty parsonages, valued at S92 =
4l3-value of all church property, $3.50 465.
There are 149 local preachers, d ,205 mem
ers, 2S5 Sunday schools, 1,7S2 officers and
teacherS ana lI,6S4 scholars. Inc "a Ep-
1.15O. The collections from all sources
last year aggregated $70S64.3S, and the ex-
amounted to $14,S50.u.
When the special engine that hauled sew
eral empty cars to Palatka Sunday night
| arrived at st. Augustine Monday morn
ing, the engineer and fireman were horri-
fed at finding the cow-catcher and front
of the engine covered with blood, flesh
and human brains. As soon as the dis
| covery was made known special was sent
out over the road to investigate the acct
dent. A short distance from Tocoi juno
| ton, station about five miles distant
from St. Augustine, two legs of a colored
| man were found near the track. Scat
tered about were fragments of a human
body. The name of the unfortunate ne
gro was discovered to be Davis Geary of
jacksonville. An Elgin gold watch, S216
in cash, and several letters addressed to
Davis Geary, 100 North street, Jackson
vile, Fla, were found in the mans peck
cts Coroner Forward held an inquest
over the remains this afternoon, result
ing in verdict of accidental death.