The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-23

closed for four or FIVE weeks. A crew or
about thirty men viii be kept busy grid
| ling trees for the coming winters busi-
I ness. large amount Of cypress timber
viii b. RATED at the mouth Of the Ocla-
[ waha next fan and winter than has ever
been RATED In previous years.
Or. Mellette has seventy pound
pumpkin on exhibition at the White Front
grocery, says the Volusia County Record
! Of DeLand. The doctor is an advocate
OF the intensive system or farming, and
no gardner can make more from a space
OF ground than he. He has a larger
pumpkin than the above yet growing in
the field. To is now as large as a wash
tub how large 10 expects TO grow no one
| can tell.
The Citrus county Chronicle Of Inver-
ness says that william Dumpier. one Of
the best and most prosperous farmers Of
that SETON, brought the Chronicle "A sam
pie stock OF longstaple cotton Saturday
which was only about eighteen inches long
and that contained twenty-four squares.
| The main stock Of cotton from which this
stock OF limb was taken from contains
over 800 squares. Mr.. Dampier has num-
Der OF acres 81 cotton that IS very fine and
promises a large yield
The Fort Myers Press says that the
orange raisers and business men Of Lee
county should get together and consider
the question of making a proposition TO
the Florida Midland Railway, to induce
II. III possible. to extend the road on down
through Lee county. II IS a line that
Would give many advantages. With this
road teNtended through the county, Il
would give more miles of road for tax
alton, 80 would touch more important
points Ia this county, and. with the near
ness OF the Plant system, with good water
facilities TO reach II, It would give COM
petition IN freight rates.
At the primary election on Saturday
the following were declared the nominees
Of the regular democratic party of sum
ter county. For representative David H.
Baker, for clerk, David G. Hull; for col
leet0r of revenue, i. L. Rutland; for as
SCISSOR of taxes, W. c. G. Klgore: for
county Judge Absolom G. Clark: for
county school superintendent. John A.
Jones for sheriff, j. II. Lone; for county
surveyor. w. ii. CrenshaW. Walter Gra-
ham of the Times was elected executive
committeeman from that district. All Of
the old officers were renominated, except
for sheriff and county school superintend-
ent. Sumter is q populist stronghold, and
some Of the nominees stand a close chance
of being defeated, unless fidelity to party
principles shall be strongly displayed.
Several Of Key Vests largest manu-
facturers, have. been in Cuba endeavor-
ing 10 get out shipments of tobacco
leaf. George w. Nichols, Walter s. Light
bourn, Frank Fleitas, and others are
among the number. The uneasiness about
running short in leaf has not as vet sub
sided, and quite n number are exercised
over the outlook for SECURING Cuban leaf.
Some of the factories at Key West have
bad TO put on large additional forces in
the last fortnight in order TO I'LL standing
orders for weekly delivery under contracts
recently' closed with some Of the largest
dealers I'm Ameica. ID. l.. Trujillo a. Sons
have Just added 100 workmen to their
force, and others have taken on smaller
Numbers. The stock on hand in Key West
fills three immense warehouses, but the
consumption of material by the factories
is very great.
No new case of smallpox has been re-
ported at Pensacola for a week. Only two
cases are now under treatment, and they
are reported to be progressing favorably
The physicians report that the people are
willingly submitting to vaccination. Sew.
eral thousand have been Vacclnated, and
the work is being pushed rapidly. Sherin
Smith has received letter from Gen
Lang, Gov Mitchelfs private secretary
informing him that the state board en-
tirely approves the action of Superintend'
emit Trammell of the state insane asylum
in refusing TO receive two lunaticS whom
the sheriff has had in his custody FOL
several weeks, on account OF the presence
of the smallpox at Pensacola. Gen. Lans
| says that If one case of the disease shoult
occur at the asylum, the attendants woulC
| probably fee and leave more than 800 III
natics without attention,
Tallahassee, Correspondent Morning
News: The old city hotel property ha.
been bought by DR.. H. e. Palmer AM
| Charles Munroe. The former Will butl'
/ himself a home there this fall, and tn
/ latter sometime later. Hon. James b
| Whitfield has purchased a lot just east o
| the capital, where, as rumor says, he Wi
/ soon have a new residence In course o
| construction. Col. G. n. Saussy delivers
| ba
| His subject was "Reminiscences of tn
/ late war" his faVorite topic, and held tn
/ large audience for an hour and half
| The Glad Tidings, q regular house boat
! is cruising along the gulf coast, with tw
men and ona woman on board. They claiT
to be Second Adventists, and preach to tn
i people wherever they stop. Rev, Nj
/ johnson, the preacher, IS from Pensacola
/ They do not pass around the hat. but &C
| cept donations of food, etc. They were a
| ST. Marks a few days since, making thel
| way down the coast.
Key West special to Jacksonville Cit
zen: Things are red-hot at Key West
! Health Officer Porter has issued a procla
| nation prohibiting the ingress of an
| person not recently vaceinated or the Ge
| parture of any person not having bee
successfully vaccinated, and detained fiji
teen days at detention camp except i'm
muues or those given special permits. Hi
order guarantees the city against III
I
| however small, is permitted TO take pas
| sengers without permit. After the procla
nation was issued the city commissioner
met and passed resolutions declaring tina
only eight cases of smallpox were in eS
istenoe, and that these are well guarde
and confined in three houses; that tn
state board of health, by its officer, Dl
Porter, did abandon said cases in a COW
| ardly manner, without sufficient notie
to the city authorities having dismisse
all guards and nurses, thereby leaving tn
city unprotected. They assure the worl
! that there is no danger Of an epidemic
and denounce the proclamation as Vsa
| premely ridiculous, unwarranted, arb
trary, unjust and uncalled for" The
wired their resolutions TO the governo
and TO Surgeon General Wyman, request
ing the national government TO tax
| charge of the quarantine. The city healt
| board is in. entire control, and the safe
| guards and regulations are generally sat
| isfactory. There is much complaint a
DR. Porter's sweeping proclamation
while there are approvals. The situatio
is grave, not because an epidemic Is fear
ed. but from the effect on business OF S
rigid quarantine.
POLITICS IN THE STATE.