The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-22
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Many new buildings are going up at
Ybor City.
The western counties viii probably have
an agricultural fair at Pensacola Aug. /.
The City of Vernon is the name of new
steamboat built a Vernon, to ply between
that place and Pensacola.
There are signs of prosperity in the air,
and orange groves and tobacco crops are
blooming all over South Florida.
John Edwards. a negro. was murdered
last Tuesday night at Owensboro, Pasco
county, by party of unknown assassins.
The suspension of work on the electrical
car line in Pensacola still continues, and
there is probability OF forfeiture of fran
chise.
The Barlow Courier-Informant says
from the way the orange trees are bloom
ing, It makes one feel as If the old order
of things had been restored.
The Punta Gorda Herald gives the mer-
chants of that place a hint to initiate the
latest Paris fad of placing pretty young
ladies in their show windows in order to
draw trade.
The corpse of the. unknown man found
recently in the woods near Chipley are
believed 10 be those of a patent medicine
vendor named John Clayton, and that he
was murdered and robbed by negroes
working in the turpentine farm
H. F. button g. Co. of Gainesville are
shipping all the cotton they have on hand
to HolyOke, Mass, Moosup, Conn, and
II. u Chi a,t ON
braces $4,000 worth of cotton They are
importing a lot of improved seed direct
from the sea islands.
Mr.. Blair, a young man at Bloomfield,
Lee county has a family Bible that was
issued in 1868 and has been in the family
handed down from father to son, since
1854. The original owner of the book was
Na Mr.. Thomas. II is yellow with age,
but wonderfully well preserved.
NJ. F.. b. Munshaw, late of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, who is now interested in the
development of the Apopka sawgrass re-
gion, has invented q cutter cultivator to
pillow and cultivate muck and sod lands.
1t is an unique affair, and when tested
recently is said to have performed the
work well
Saturday morning a lady guest at the
Everett hotel, at Jacksonville, reported
to the police that her purse, containing
large amount of money, had been sto-
len Detective Featherstone was at once
sent to investigate, and the purse was
found under the edge of the bed, where
it had been carelessly dropped by the
owner.
Saturday morning Judge James w.
Locke, in the United States court at Jack
sonville, granted a new trial to Hillary
Smith, Dune. Smith, Dan Wilson and Oh
lie Sweat, four young men convicted in
January last of sending obscene letters
through the postofIlce at Center Hill,
Sumter county, on Feb. s. 1885, and other
dates in that year to Miss Grace Darrell,
also of that place, but now a resident of
Jacksonville.
StarIe Advocate: A large Mexican buzz
Yard was caught down the coast last Tues
day with a silver collar and little bell
on its neck. On the collar were the words,
Juan Garcia 1856" and on the bell, go
spread the gospel" The buZzard was thin
and worn and evidently very old. and
where the collar had encircled its neck
the flesh was calloused and scared and
the collar was worn thin by constant
friction. The poor fowl had evidently be-
come exhausted from old age, and thus
fell into the hands, of it's eaptors, who
exhibit their curiosity with much pride.