The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-16

trade rooms, and the officers report the
organization growing rapidly and crafty
ing results are being obtained.
There viii probably be seven or eight
hundred boxes of oranges shipped from
Lisbon, Lake county. next season. coming
mostly from the groves of Z. T. Also
brook and DR.. Davies.
The large saw mills at Millvlew. Escam-
bia county, so seriously damaged by the
storm of July Z, are being repaired and
one VIII begin operation Sept /. These
mills cut each 100000 feet of lumber per
day.
Maj. Briggs Of Winter Haven is having
an extra hundred acres of land cleared
for the cultivation Of early vegeta bles.
This besDeaks great faith in our Florida
sand hills.
The governor has appointed DR.. II. L.
Simpson of Pensacola to be member of
the board of medical examiners for the
First judicial circuit, vice DR.. c. r. Ogles-
by, resigned
Orlando Reporter, Aug. IA: H. B. Plant
has purchased the Tropical hotel at Kis-
simmee and will take possession to-mor-
row at noon. The price paid is about
$1,000. He will greatly enlarge the build
ing. beautify the grounds and fix up the
streets adjacent to the hotel.
Jacksonville, to take place under the
auspices OF the Riverside Yacht Club
will take place Monday, Aug. %. over the
Riverside course. The races are to be
the best three out of five over a. ten-mile
course for a silk pennant valued at $25
donated by J. B. Morello.
Jacksonville Citizen: Eight candidates
for the Senate and forty-one candidates
for the House of Representatives have
been nominated to date. leaving eight
senators and twenty-seven representa-
tives yet to be chosen. Including the six
teen hold-over senators, the members of
the next legislature so far nominated and
elected are as follows: For Call for Unit
ed States senator 10; against Call, 81;
doubtful, 9.
Jacksonville Citizen: One of the curl
oslties Of the state census of 1895, some
tables of which appeared in the Citizen of
Aug. 10. is the fact that the northernmost
range of counties, including Duval, con-
tain nearly 50 per cent. of the total negro
population. Another is that about SO per
cent. of the negroes in the state inhabit
the counties lying north of the northern
boundaries of Citrus, Sumter, Lake and
Volusia counties
A large catamount entered barnyard
belonging to D. j. Parish, one mile north
of Baldwin, about o'clock in the morn
ing, Aug. Il, and in attempting to catch
a pig was killed outright by the mother
hog. The hired man on the place heard
the noise and FASTENED to the spot, to find
the monster cat in the last agonies of
death. with the maddened sow standing
over him all bristled up, apparently I'M
hurt and ready for another contest
DeLand Record: The children Of Dan
Blackwelder, in the Spring Garden sec
ton, last week, killed two monster dia-
mond back rattlers They were about the
q no in lie try IN he
fight to capture them one of them sprung
at one of the boys, jumping ten feet. The
young man tumbled a doubled sOmmer-
Sault, the rattler'S fangs missing him not
more than three inches, and were buried
deep in an old stump, from which he could
not extricate before his was killed.
DeLand Record: Florida has grown one
of the best crops in all her history. All
over the state the people are feeling jubi-
liant over the good crops made, plenty OF
corn, peas, syrup, potatoes, fodder hay,
etc. The fruit crop has been enormous,
and vegetables will be plentiful the year
round In the cotton and tobacco sec
tions of the state the prospects are very
promising, and all our people are at home
and happy. The talk few years back
that only oranges could be grown in Flor
ida was all bosh. Look what she has
done last and this year. There is plenty
in the land, and of all states in onr glori-
Gus union give US Florida, with all her
good health the world can't beat her.
Tallahassee correspondence Morning
News: Late Thursday evening the coro-
ner's jury, in the Hayes investigation,
rendered a verdict that Mary Hayes came
to her death from wounds inflicted by an
unknown weapon in the hands of L. Hayes,
and he was recommitted and his wife re-
leased, while some were of the opinion
that she should have been held. The
commitment trial of Hayes will be held
on the 1Sth.-Prof. H. w. Demilly has
written a new arithmetic and submitted
the work to the American Book Company.
Those portions tested in the summer nor
NAL school were higly commended, and the
arrangement and method said to be in
harmony with the natural order of devel-
opment, which would save the student one
year in arithmetic study