The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-20

ley at Hague Saturday night and robbed
il of $50 In cash.
The Florida Central and Peninsular
railroad has reduced the freight rates from
all points on the Gainesville and Gulf rail-
road, and from Gainesville proper, about
20 per cent.
The thirteenth annual meeting of the
General Congregational Association of
Florida opened at Winter Park Tuesday
and Will continue through Thursday. FIFTY
ministers, representing seventy churches,
are present.
Mr. Pelote, a well known dairyman of
Barlow, boasts of having a calf with six
feet. Three of the animals legs are of the
ordinary kind while a fourth hind one
has two extra editions grated thereon,
each graft having a hoot
A secret marriage has come to light at
Paradise, near Gainesville Prof. H. G..
Fletcher and Miss Nellie Bingham were
married Dec. z by Rev. T. e. Webster.
Nothing was known Of the wedding until
last Saturday, when the couple made II
known.
The following fourth-class postmasters
were appointed for Florida Tuesday: l..
w. Halle, Kanapaha, Alachua county,
vice A. r. Gilmore, resigned; M. j. Pratt,
Lane Park. Lake county, vice II. NJ.
I Firth, resigned; G.. W. Lehman, Port Or
D
resigned
At the city election at Tallahassee Tues
day the following democratic ticket was
elected: j. T. Bernard, mayor; L. ]. Van
/ Burnet, clerk and treasurer: W. ID. VIII
son, collector: William II. Chancey, as
/ SCISSOR; William NJ, Mcintosh, Jr., T. G..
I Rawls, l.. a. Perkins and r. p. Damon.
! Judge Bernard has the distinction of hav-
/ ing been three terms elected mayor by the
people within the past twelve months the
council during the same period having
1 elected two mayors.
! At Evinston, the Thermometer went
| down to 80 degrees Tuesday morning, and
! all the cucumbers and beans. except where
/ protected on the northwest by timber,
/ were killed. Bearing peas were damaged,
/ but nothing else was hurt. NO damage
I was done at st. Augustine, though ice
| formed. The mercury there and at Law
tey fell to q degrees. At the latter place
/ the ground was frozen slightly, and straw
/ berry bloom that was exposed is partially
1 killed. However, not many of the green
berries are frozen. Vegetables were moi
/ frozen. The temperature fell to 30 degrees
at Orlando, but crops We're not hurt.
The recent rains have swollen all Of the
streams around Pensacola to such an ex-
tent that milling operations have beer
| greatly interferred with, many of the mills
| being compelled to close down because il
/ is impossible to control the logs at the
| receiving boomS with such high stage
| tied up along the streams to await the
| falling of the waters. Shippers are no.
Inconvenience by this, as good stocl
] of timber is on hand, and the work Of
! loading the large fleet of vessels in port is
being pushed as rapidly as the weather
will permit. The indications now are fol
good spring and summer business.
A good illustration of mans ingratitud,
was furnished in Gainesville Tuesday
Several months since a man named
atalar ut L u,
Z Central and Peninsular depot, had hi
foot cut nearly off by a locomotive. H
was boarding at the Rochmont hotel, an,
as he had no money, he was PRACTICAL,
an object of charity. He was kindly care'
for for several months by Mrs Goode
proprietor of the hotel, who not only CAV
him food and waited upon him, but evel
| purchased clothing for him. A few week
since he secured a position with the F'lorid
Central and Peninsular, and although n
was paid off by the company, he did no
settle with Mrs. GOode, and that lady in
stituted garnbshment proceedings. Mr.
Goode conducted the case, and after 1
had been won by him he was waylaid b,
Klein and beaten severely on the head AM
face. Klein was arrested.
At Palatka the cold wave did consider
able damage to early vegetables and straw
berries, which were in full bloom 1t /
feared that the bloom is killed TIL
thermometer registered q degrees, and ic
formed one-quarter of an inch thick. A
Melbourne the thermometer marked 50 I
81, according to elevation; ice formed II
some places. No damage is reported t
vegetation, the wind having prevented tn
formation of frost. At Sumterville tn
mercury dropped to 80 degrees. AS We
growers cannot tell what amount of dam
age has been done to young vegetables
At Kanapaha the mercury registered 3
degrees. No serious damage was don
to vegetables. Heavy shipments of let
tuce are going forward At Gainesville
the thermometer went down to 2S degrees
and some damage has been done to tn
strawberry crop. To vegetables the dam