The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-04
FLORIDA

L. A. SillitO is the new mayor Of Wild
wood. L. L. Bell. city marshal, and r.
d. Luter. r. y. Curington and r. w. Gil
liam, aldermen.
s. r. Kirkwood of Orlando has sold two
lots on the southern shore OF Lake Luz
cerne for 81, 900, 20 James b. Clark of New
York, who intends to build a residence.
The fishing record was broken at Palm
Beach Saturday by T. NJ. Mckee Of Pitts
burg, who captured 10 bluefsh, the largest
number ever taken by one man in one
day on the lake
Between 1.l0O and 200 packages of let
tuce went forward by express from
Gainesville Saturday for Mondays mar
ket in New York and Philadelphia. The
prices are holding up well
The corpse of an unknown man was
found drifting down the river at Apa-
lachicola Sunday morning. Some parties
took the corpse ashore, near the Kimball
mill, where an inquest was held.
The sea island cotton crop OF Colum,
bia county for the past season will reach
5000 bales, worth at an average of $50
TO N5 per bale, 100000, which amount has
passed into the hands Of the farmers.
While dressing Sunday morning to at
tend the $50 o'clock mass at the cathedral
at st. Augustine, George Zehnbar. claim
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was stricken with paralysis through the
entire left side of his body.
About 800 acres of melons will be planted
near Wildwood, and equally as many will
be planted at Oxford, four miles north;
also a large acreage at Coleman, Sumter
Xilie, and Bushnell, TO the south, on the
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad.
The stock company organized at Gaines
vile last summer to establish a tannery
Il
ings, tanks watts, etc. The contract for a
large building has been awarded to j r.
lsddins, who will commence work in a few
days.
Letters patent and the articles Of CO.
partnership Of the Wood & Wilson Dry
Goods Company were filed in the county
clerks Office at jacksonville Saturdav
5. Wood and A. Allen. The capital stock
is $4,000.
The Cuban Tobacco Growers Company
has started the manufacture of cigars at
Fort Meade. Ten men are engaged in
making the cigars, the tobacco being inn
ported from cuba. The company has a
/ SEED pea sufhcient to plant 800 acres-15O
OF which the company will plant, and the
remainder of the plants will be given to
whoever Will plant them.
The shipments of phosphate from Port
Tampa in January included 1888 tons of
pebble and 470l of rock, or 1854 tons in
all, of which 7,495 tons went abroad and
5.O99 to domestic ports. The consignors
were the Florida Phosphate Company.
the Anglo-Continental Guano Works, the
Palmetto Phosphate Company. the Bone
Hlll Consolidated Phosphate Company.
Arrangements are nearly completed for
opening another bank in Orlando. Since
the First National Bank went into the
hands Of receiver there has been but
one bank and the situa-
ton was such as to invite a second The
new institution will be under the imme-
date charge of Carl Warfield. who has
been connected with the Orlando banks
IN the capacity of bookkeeper and conf
Dental clerk for several years with j. IL.
Guernsey as the financial backbone.
Tallahassee Correspondence Morning
News: Mr.. S. Cotner a retired merchant
died on Saturday, after a lingering i'll
ness, aged 81 years. He was a native of
Germany and had resided here about
twenty-five yeaFs.-Mr. John G. Chaires
VINO lives few miles east of Tallahassee
claims that he was the most successful
cotton grower in Leon county last year
having realized 1898 for a 2S-acre crop OF
the short Staple.-Mr. S. Halstead and
FAMILY OF Chicago are here to settle on the
Clark sysdicate lands, along the line nf
the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia
railroad. They came all the Wav in a
Wagon.-The municipal election will take
place on the 18th, and five candidates are
named for the four councilmen to he
CHOSEN. They are +. p Damon, T. G.
Rawls,. II. Ball, W. NJ. Mcintosh. Jr,. and
l.. A. PERKINS, the two last named heinp
members OF the present council