The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-28

Tampa lost her wedding ring while on a
trip in the Manatee country. A few
days ago the ring was found on the
ground where it had fallen. The ring
was discovered by Mrs. Robinson, VINO
returned it TO Mrs. Booker.
The steamship Mascotte brought to Key
West from Havana on her last trip 957
bales Of tobacco, the first that has been
| received since the Weyler decree forbid
! ding the expectation Of tobacco from the
| island of Cuba. How Weyler came to let
the tobacco out is not generally under
stood
Around Charlotte Harbor vegetables are
suffering somewhat from excessive rains
but prospects are good for an abundant
/ yield The fish and oyster business has
| assumed enormous proportions. The
! crews of a single firm are said TO catch
often as many as 10000 fish in one day.
| oysters are very abundant and OF supe-
rior quality.
S. A. Adams, manager Of the Bettelini
! Cycle Agency at Jacksonville, announces
that suit will soon be brought against the
American Protective Wheelmen's Associa-
ton Of Chicago. to compel that company
to replace wheels that have recently been
stolen in jacksonville, and that were in
sured in the company through the local
agents, the Bettelini Cycle Agency.
The firm Of B. Alfonso & Co. has taken
the large cigar factory at Key West own
ed by the Marrera estate, and has had 1t
renovated and repaired Operations We're
begun Monday morning with large force
of cigarmakers. There are about nifty cot
tages belonging to this estate, and these
for he NuOr non
This factory has been closed for two
years.
Mention was made in the press about
week ago that notaries could hold office
only four years without being recommis-
stoned. 1t seems to have created a stir
among the notaries in all sections Of the
state, and every mail brings requests for
re-appointment. In the stir-up one man
has been found who has held his commits
sion twenty-eight years, he having been
appointed by Ex-Gov. Harrison Reed.
The tobacco industry at Dade City is
thriving. II. w. Coleman sold part of his
crop from one acre the one other day for
$500 in cash. He has the bulk still on
hand. He says that he has already net
ted 500 on the whole crop by this SALE
The tobacco sold was the FLORIDA va
riety He still has on hand his finest Gu
ban variety. 1TepdTdllulS are bClhs NAeAuS
to plant both tobacco and cotton on
large scale next year, and from results
of the experiments this year the prosperi-
ty of the county is assured.
An application was made this week at
Tampa before Judge Barron Phillips to
have a receiver appointed for the Key
West Building and Loan Association.
Hyam Seymour was the plaintiff. George
L. Bartlum was to be the receiver When
it was learned at Key West what was to
be attempted, members of the Building
and Loan Association sent Attorney c. Il.
Patterson to represent the association and
have John Lowe, Jr, appointed. When 1t
was learned by the lawyers for the plain
tiff that Attorney Patterson would fight
the appointment of Mr. Bartlum in favor
Of Mr.. Lowe, the application was with
drawn
Charles Lord and ]. T. Beeks of Orlando
have recently come into possession Of
something that is regarded by them as
bonanza. Mr.. Lord is an Englishman by
birth He claims that in his family for
four or five hundred years has been kept
and used with marked success a remedy
for external cancers. The secret has been
kept closely guarded and handed down
from one generation to another, only one
person in the family receiving 1t from his
predecessor, that individual guarding it
during his life and then passing it on to
the next in line. 1t has recently fallen to
Mr. Lord, who has taken Mr.. Beeks into
his confidence and they propose to make
the most of the specific in America. One
of the largest medical institutes in the
United States has already offered $4,000
for the formula, provided the claims that
are made for the remedy can be sub
Stimulated.
Another new chapter has begun in the
already famous Reservation land cases at
Tampa. The government land on the
Garrison has been settled by a large num-
Der Of squatters, all of whom have been
trying to obtain patents on the land they
claim, but at the same time Mrs. Carew,
through her attorneys, has secured pat
ents on forty acres of this land which
of course knocks out the squatters. Mrs.
Carew, on receiving her patents, imme-
| diately sold her newly acquired property
| to her two brothers, who live in Macon,
| Ga, and now through their attorneys,
| Gunby & Gibbons, the two brothers have
| given notice to all parties to move from
| their land, giving them twenty days In
| which to get Off The Florida Central and
| Peninsular railroad is one Of those AFFECT
| ed by this order, because the terminal
| station, yards, and wharves, and In fact
| all of the extensive interests or the road,
| are located on this land.