The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-06

johnson.
4 tract o. land, leo acres. including
high fails, between Macon and GrifHn.
I has been bought hy Hon. seaborn Grant
land ana Joseph ~. Boyd of the Mer-
I chants and Planters Bank 81 Griffin The
I price paid FOR the property o. said % be
/ a. sum u money calC Glated 20 make your
/ mouth water Col Grantland. speaking Of
I tnt purchase. said n have bought this
I property from the fact that 81 has mag
1 nifeent ran 81 40 feet, and IS Ia every way
I desirable for an electrical or manutactur-
i ing plant. Everything that Is needed Is
/ right on the SPOT OF can soon be- placed
/ tnere. It's horse power would light all the
I towns for a hundred miles around. and IL
/ mas been proven that electric service is
I better when the dynamo is al a distance
and. TOO. O. f. on the way TO Indian
/ Springs. aud splendid connection could
De maee by electricity"
FLORIDA.
So far no paper In Florida has hoisted
the name o. Watson for Vice President
The Ocala Daily News has changed
hands again. EDITOR Emmons' journals
tic career in Ocala was Of short dura-
| ton.
Paiatka Advertiser: Capt. Powers has
returned from the northern extremity OF
the okeefenokee swamp. where he has
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structiOn Of "a railroad.
Herman Glogowsky is rebuilding on the
ruins OF the nine cottages burned for
him in West Tampa last spring They
VIII soon be ready for occupancy.
The cypress mill at Apalachlcola will
shut down tonight for an indefinite pc
riod. The yards Of the company are filled
chuck-a- block with lumber and the mill
afm aN bot
is found for this lumber.
During the electrical storm Saturday
afternoon lightning struck the flag stan
on the Reid street wing OF the Putnam
house at Palatka. A large splinter was
hurled across the street into the bank
building.
II is now understood that Tampa Is to
see the real fight between the liquor deal
ers and the city government, and it is all
on account of the Sunday closing move
ment inaugurated and carried out so sue
cessfully by Mayor Gillett since he went
into office.
A meeting was held at Tarpon Springs
Thursday afternoon for the purpose OF or
ganizing a stock company to build, main
tain and operate "a telephone line between
the west coast and Tampa The subscrip-
tons to the stock had been readily made
the previous week
Maj. Francis A. Wolff Of Polk county
win be the oldest representative in the
Florida legislature He was an old man
during the war and served under Jeffer-
son Davis In Mississippi. He is an in
telleetual old patriot. however, and will
make his county an able representative.
In. accordance with bill passed by
the last congress- Carrabelle, among other
Florida ports, has been made a support
Of entry. Thus the little progressive city
on the Gulf has added to her a new adj
vantage and an element of progress. It
Is also likely that a United States signal
service station will be established there
Jacksonville Citizen: A rumor was cur
rent on the streets yesterday that George
v Burbridge, who failed to secure the
nomination for sheriff in the convention
last week. would run on an Independent
ticket. Mr. Burbridge was seen last night
by Citizen reporter, but he refused
either TO deny or to affirm the truth Of the
rumor.
Madison Recorder; viii Minis, a white
man in Suwannee county. brutally beat
his wife because she would not sign a land
deed and 30 with him TO Utah A lot of
Mormon preacers are In Suwannee county
teaching their Internal doctrines, and are
succeeding in making u few converts
among the most ignorant and degraded
classes, Minis being one of the number,
Moses Tate, one OF the negroes who
robbed the postoffice at Cocoanut Grove,
and who was tried and committed Sat
urday by United States Commissioner
EVAN, was found drowned at the mouth
OF the Miami river early Monday morn
ing. Tate and Burk, his accomplice, were
under guard at Cocoanut Grove, and while
the guard, Howard Holmes, went to
sleep Tate escaped. He was tracked to
BrickeHs Point, where he was last seen
alive at Z o'clock on Sunday,
The city council of Jacksonville gave
to d. G. Amber and Arthur G. Meigs a
franchise allowing them the pse of the
streets for laying conduits for carrying
refrigerator power. This power will be
offered for sale to all and any household
er can have little coil of pipe installed
In his refrigerator pay so much for 1t
month and do away with ice entirely.
The coil will cool his water and keep
his meats and 1t is said will keep them
better and colder than big chunk of ice.
Jacksonville Citizen; Rev, w. s. S. At
more, pastor of the Church OF the Good
Shepherd, in Riverside, has been honored
with the offer of a position as assistant
professor in the theological department of
a northwestern university, and also the
offer of the degree of ID. d. The offer
was largely made, il is understood, upon
| the high reputation that Mr. Atmore has
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| theological work. Church and Bible
| Truths" Mr.. Atmore has, for various
| reasons, declined the proffered honor, and
| he will continue in charge of the Church
| of the Good Shepherd.
Capt. w. A. Shaw, of the steamer Ever
glade, says that unless something is done
TO clear the st. Johns river of the water
| hyacinths, which now float around the
| river in beds covering acres in size, that
| II will only be very few years before nav
| igation is badly deferred on the up river
| and inland streams. Navigation has al
ready been affected by the quantity of hy-
| acinths, especially at and near Palatka
| where they are in such quantities that
| the river has been narrowed to less than
/ half its natural width At the dock ait
| Palatka last week the hyacinths were so
| thick and heavy that the Everglade could
not land, but had to discharge her freight
| at another place.
The dredge Gidney, belonging to New
| York harbor, which has been at work
on Pensacola bar since last fall, dredging
| a new and straight channel, will leave
| for New York on Thursday The boat
has done splendid work that will neces-
sarily aid Pensacola commerce. The new
| channel will not be finished until the
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