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


The eagles and wildcats are destroying
a great many lambs and some grown
sheep around Osteen.
E. S. Douglass. a prominent citizen OF
Tampa, has just undergone an operation
at New Orleans for an abscess of the liver.
The grape-growers of Moultrie report
that the vineyards are in excellent con-
dition, and that the crop next June will
be very large.
James Pent, one of the Oldest pilots of
Key West, died last week. He was form
erly one of the prominent wreckers of the
Florida reefs.
Miss Rivero, daughter of Ramon Rivero.
editor of Cuba, died at her home in Ybor
City Wednesday night of malarial fever,
aged % years.
Scurrilous handbills, rejecting on GER
tain county officials, have been scattered
over ST. Augustine. One of them charges
that the prisoners in the county jail are
not properly cared for. The sheriff de-
clares the charge false.
David Walton, the richest colored man
in Key West, died last Wednesday. He
was an eccentric but keen old ante-bullum
negro, and had at one time very large
tenement property, worth probably $4,000,
which he had accumulated by trade.
w. H Waugh, while at st. Augustine
recently, procured, it is charged. frau
dulently a railway scalped ticket from
Broker w. w. McOmber. He is held by
the authorities at Tampa until Sheriff Joe
Perry gets there to take him back to
st. Augustine.
The farmers and other citizens of Ma
rion county will assemble in the court
house in Ocala tomorrow to consider the
advisability of increasing the cotton area
of the county, to provide the necessary
seed and advise with the county commits
sioners and the Ocala Board of Trade
with relation thereto.
The report is current in shipping cir
cIes that line of vessels will soon be-
gin operations between Jacksonville and
New York. The vessels, it is reported,
will carry phosphate exclusively. The in
tention of the incorporators is to make
Jacksonville the shipping point for phos-
phate to be sent to New York.
In 1894. 2,445 barrels of fish were shipped
from Fort Pierce, and in 1895 4,301 barrels.
The catch in 1895 was divided as follows:
Mullet, 100000 pounds; trout, 1000 pounds;
pompano, H,eOO pounds; sheepshead, 20 10
pounds; channel bass, IS, 900 pounds; whit
ing, 5000 pounds; blue fish, 1900 pounds;
mango snapper, 1000 pounds; founders,
5000 pounds; total, $751; ITO pounds.
Col H. ]. Tifin. of Courtenay, has just
purchased car of 1S ostriches from Mrs
C. S. Dooley, of Los Angeles, Cal, which
arrived IN AZOCOd the ITSI part OF THIS
week With the two that he purchased
few weeks ago this gives him Is of these
large birds upon his farm. He is expert
menting to see If raising ostrich plumes
cannot be made another new industry in
Florida. He will also follow up the hatch
ing of ostriches if they can be proftably
maintained here.
Two hundred and twenty-five Cuban ref
ugees registered with the quarantine Of
ficers on the Havana steamer that ar
rived at Tampa Friday night OF this
number about one-half disembarked at
Key West, but as their places were i'm
mediately taken by others at that place,
it was a party of very near the original
number that landed at the South Florida
depot, where they were noisily greeted
by a very large and excited crowd of
compatriots from Ybor City.
A new case was begun in the United
States court at Jacksonville Friday
against the Jacksonville Street Railway
COMPANY in which the damages were
laid at $1,000 The plaintiffs in the case
are Louis SWeetwine and his wife, Ella
Sweetwine, who declare they are subjects
of the German empire. The injuries on
which the action for damages are based
were received by Mrs. SweetWine while
she was trying to board a car at the
corner of Bay and Laura streets on Nov
Z, 1895.
Tallahassee Correspondence Morning
News: A party of hone-seekers from the
northwest are due to arrive here to-mor-
row under the auspices of the Clark syn
dictate immigration agency of Chicago.-It
is thought that, on account of the war in
Cuba, Florida tobacco growers would do
well to devote some attention to harvest
ing seed this year, as well as the weed
Owing to failura to secure seed in Cuba,
there will be many disappointed farmers
in Florida this year, and IL Floridians