The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12


FLORIDA.
Ocala has eight-one telephones in OPP
Grafton.
W. H. Mann Of Nassau county has
grown this season turnips weighing TWEEN
" pounds.
A Gainesville hunting party went into
Lafayette county a few days ago ana
killed eleven deer
The parishioners of st. Louis Catholic
church at Tampa have just completed
stone wall around their cemetery on
Harrison street at cost of 500.
Railroad men say that the travel from
the west is heavier than Il ever has been
at this season of the year. while thar
from the east is as yet comparatively
light.
A strike seems to always be in order
with the Tampa cigarmakers. One hun
dred of them in Ellinged & Co.'S factory
quit work Tuesday because four men were
discharged.
Walter W. Hunt, formerly travelling
passenger agent Of the Orange Belt rail-
road, with headquarters at Oakland. has
been appointed travelling passenger agent
of the Plant system, with headquarters in
Tampa.
The pineapple crop of the Indian river
country is estimated by freight solicitors
to be 10000 crates. The marketing of the
crop will begin about June !. The crop
OF 1894 was 1900 crates. The depreciation
is incident to the freeze of 1894
The truck farmers in Alachua county
have decided that the recent cold wave
damaged their lettuce about Is per cent
The cabbage was not materially injured
although ii was set back in growth about
two weeks. Green peas were damaged con-
siderably.
Farmers in all parts of Alachua county
are preparing their lands for the coming
cotton crop. A demand has arisen for
seed from the sea islands on the coast OF
South Carolina. The indications are that
the acreage will be nearly one-third larger
in the entire country.
st. Augustine's new street-sweeping ma
chine has arrived, and is held at the rail-
way depot in default of the freight
charges. amounting to $57, which the city
tenders in scrip, but the hard-hearted
railway official demands cash, and the
committee are hustling for it.
News has been received at ST. Augustine
that Leslie, the notorious diamond ana
hotel thief, who was convicted of larceny
in the criminal court of st. Johns county
about year ago, committed suicide at
Capt Whilden's phosphate camp, near
Wade, in Alachua county, few days ago.
The State Baptist convention met in
the First Baptist church at Pensacola
Thursday, with President Chaudoin in the
chair The delegation in attendance is
not full but a good working number is
present large number of prominent
Baptists from other states is participant
ing.
Letters patent and articles of incorpor-
alton of the Jacksonville Telephone Com
pany were filed in the county clerks Of
| fee at Jacksonville Friday. The capital
I e .f.r.,f fs,, las M.
divided into 1,000 shares. The highest
amount of Indebtedness allowed viii be
$50, 600 The incorporators are w. N. Shine,
| A. IL. King and c. b. Collins.
Mariana Journal: R. L. Byrd, who re-
sided in this county some six or seven
years ago and against whom an indict-
/ ment was found charging him with shoot
| ing into a steamboat, returned this week
| and surrendered himself to the proper
officers of the county and gave bond for
/ his appearance at the next term of the
| circuit court of jackson county for trial,
The repair shops of the High Springs d.
vision of the Plant system have at last
been located in High Springs. and MANY
new houses are being erected to accom-
| modate employees. The railroad company
| is erecting large building, which will
| be comfortably furnished and used for
/ the employees. A great demand for resi-
| dences appears there, and building boom
/ has begun iii earnest.
The largest cypress raft ever put to-
gether on the Ocklawaha river was lowed
| from Welaka Thursday by the steamer
/ Mermaid for the Wilson Cypress Com
/ pany of Palatka. 1t measured $780, 900 feet
and was over half a mile in length, be-
| ing the largest ever floated on the St
/ Johns river Contractor T. n. Smith has
| several log-pulling machines on the Ock-
| lawaha, and gives employment to two
| hundred men, getting out 10 100000 feet a
month. As his headquarters are at We
! laka, it proves a big thing for Welaka.
/ at the present yield, to clean the river
of its timber.
Real estate, $lS55,625; personal prop
erty, $195,525'' a total valuation of 81
55f. $50, an increase of $24, 4O3 over last wear
| is the showing made by the completion
! of the city assessment books of St An
! gustine by Capt. E. Masters. To people
who are not familiar with the modes of
! assessing property in Florida the valu-
4 alton viii seem strange, in view of the
vast sums expended during the last eight
years. To the tax payers who know that
/ there is a law requiring property to be
/ that the law is ignored. The city's rev
enue this year, on real and personal prop
/ orty, VIII be S23,26l25, if all is paid in
| Deputy Collector H. B. King of the
SUPPORT of delivery of ocala has made
/ his annual report. This report of the
/ first years business is very gratifying
of the port there. The total amount of
| duty collected by the government in 1895
was S8i,059 and the total expenses in
| Guiding salaries, office rent, etc. did not
exceed az519, thus giving a clear profit
70 the United States of over $4,000. The