The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-01

some one, but had been recovered by Judge
King the day before they were killed
A report from School Census Enumera-
tor Livingston Of Fernandina shows that
247 white and 547 colored pupils between
the ages OF and q are in the school dls-
trict Old Town has about seVenty-nNe,
making $50 children Of school age IN Fer
nandina.
Frank Pelote, young farmer of Belle
view, was in Ocala Wednesday paying his
taxes. and said he had one of the curiosi-
ties of the age in the shape Of a calf with
a double jaw and a chin Ike mans COW
cred with a beard. The freak is month
old, sleek and fat, and growing hnely.
The Green Cove Springs says that the
grape crop of Clay county in 1894 netted
more than s., 800 The crop of last year was
no doubt in excess of this, but the Stats
tics are not at hand at this writing. Grape
growing can be made one OF the leading IN
dustries Of this county with only small
effort
The st. Petersburg Times states that Mr..
Neeland of Tampa has ten acres in celery
that he has sold for $1,000 per acre; 5000
for ten-acre crop is pretty good returns,
and gives evidence of the fact that the veg
etable business of Florida is assuming i'm
mense proportions. The Gainesville
truckers are also making fortunes out Of
lettuce culture.
The case of Buck & Son VS.. the Florida
Central and Peninsular railroad was plac-
ed on trial in the United States court at
Jacksonville Wednesday, The case is
suit for damages in the sum of $4,000 for
an alleged breach of contract by the rail-
road company by ONercharging on the
agreed schedule of freight rates, and by
preventing plaintiffs from cutting timber
on certain lands
A new move was made in the circuit
court at Jacksonville Wednesday that will
In
of streets in that city. 1t was the Issuing
of temporary injunctions on all of the city
officials to prevent the paying of any
moneys for street paving until the unpaid
judgments against the city in favor of
Bisbee & Foster shall he PAID IN run; Inese
injunctions were signed by Judge Call.
Charles Spanish. a negro convict, charg-
ed with numbering his guard in convict
camp in Columbia county, has been. ar
rested in Camden county, Georgia, where
he has been living for four years under
the name of Larkin Davis. He was taken
to Lake City Wednesday by Sheriff Cone
Of Columbia on a requisition from the gov
ernor. Spanish says that he is innocent
of murder, but he admits that he is an
eX-convict.
A few days ago Walter Bass, Sr., started
to dig a well at his place, known as Ea-
gle Bend. near Kelly's, says the Kissimmee
Valley, and after digging about two feet
unearthed the skeleton of human being.
ton and Mr.. Bass thinks. judging from
their size, they must have been the bones
Of either hoy about 10, or woman.
There were no evidences OF a CONN or
gravestones.
The Kissimmee Valley cites as a sample
of the success that the Florida Celery
Company is making in growing celery near
Kissimmee, the fact NJ. KatZ has sent II.
3. Plant, president OF the Plant system, a
box of celery. The celery is as fine as can
h1 an, America
company Is making shipments every few
days, and the returns are extremely graft
flying to the growers and clearly demon
strates that an acre of celery IS worth
upward of about $1,000 when grown in
Osceola county.
The Arcadian of Arcadia reports that the
cattle troubles on the west side of Peace
river will soon be at an end, If all parties
live up to the agreement made in Arcadia
this week T. S. Knight NJ. F. Mizell, f.
NJ. Platt, Dick Murphy, and other cattle
men from the west side are to gather all
burned" cattle on their range and pen
! 10 be inspected by FIVE disinterested stock
men. and be returned 10 their rlghttul
owners. Also that no more cattle from
the east range be put across Peace river
Sherman Turner has been placed in the
county Jail at Tampa on the charge Of
perjury. Turner was a witness before the
coroners jury at the inquest over the
body of Hazel James He was INTRODUCED
by Mr. Blaine's attorneys and was called
to testify in behalf of Blaine. His testi-
mOny, however, is interpreted as being
decidedly against the side for which he
testified. The belief is not general that
he voluntarily perjured himself. Sheriff
Spencer says that he Will investigate the
case. Turner testified that he was near
the house of Hazel James at the time of
the shooting and saw Blaine standing at
the gate about the time the shot was hred,
and that Ii would have been impossible
for him to fire it. Wednesday he was
shown to have been in an entirely differ
ent locality.