The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-23
FLORIDA.
Peter o. Knight will be Tampa's next
iayor, says the Tribune.

Peter o. Knight will be Tampa's next
mayor. says the Tribune.
The Masons of Mayo. Lafayette county.
are preparing to have grand time on
81. Johns day, Dec. 2.
W. B. Edwards rice crop at Red Level
was a total failure, which was entirely
due to the seed he planted.
Gainesville sun: II the streets of heaven
are paved with gold, why don't people
struggle to get there as they do to the
Klondike?
Mrs Sue E. Gillespie of Sumterville, and
Mr. John w Waldworth Of Warnel were
married ct the residence of the brides ia
Their. A Z. Williams, Thursday evening,
Judge a. c. Clark officiating.
D. Batchlor and Miss Louise Meriweath-
er were united in marriage Wednesday at
Winter Park The Rev. Mr.. Andrews OF
Orlando officiated. After the ceremony
Mr.. and Mrs. Bachelor took the train for
Jacksonville.
The season for shooting deer is now open
at Titusvile. The professional hunters
report them plentiful, but such little de-
mand for venison that it is Improbable
to kill them for market. This viii make
it all the better for the sportsmen hunter.
A quiet wedding took place Thursday
evening at the residence Of the brides par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Garland, at
Fernandina The connecting parties were
Fov Boyt and Miss Harriet Garland. Rev.
T. G. Lang officated. None but the i'm
mediate members of the families were
present.
Dan Hull, colored, who has been in Jail
at Ocala for some time on a charge Of
killing Sam Crowther some weeks ago,
was given a hearing before Justice 7. d.
Crawford Thursday. The hearing lasted
about two hours, and the evidence being
insufficient to hold him, the prisoner was
discharged.
Efforts are being made to secure an APP
preparation of $1,000 from the county to
be expended on paving the county road
from Little river one mile north Of Lemon
City, to Miami. This amount, in connec-
ton with the private subscriptions prom
ised, would enable the completion of this
work to be made at an early date.
A marriage license was issued Thursday
by the county Judge at Sumterville, au-
thorizing the marriage Of Dan Wilson.
prominent young man of Center Hill, and
ter-writing case in the United States court
at Jacksonville, and Miss Maggie Smith,
a sister of exTax Collector Smith
Plans are under way at CarrabeIe for
the construction of new freight and pas
senger steamer W. /. Peel of that city
will be the principal owner. The boat will
be of about the dimensions of the r. l..
Hill except for a little deeper draught.
She will probably take up the trade for
points between Carrabelle and Tampa.
Capt. J. W. sackett of the United States
| corps of engineers, in charge of the hya-
| cinth investigation, arrived at St Francis
| Thursday on the steamer Terrapin, Capt.
| Hutchinson. Capt. Sackett is pursuing the
right course. and will go up the st. Johns
| river as far as the hyacinth is to be found
| He is collecting all data and results OF
| experiments and observations made by
| residents along the river. Capt John E,
| Harris will carry out some of Capt Sack
! etts plans for experiments at ST. Francis,
as there is fine growth of plants there to
| work with.
| HAS the buried treasure of Capt. Kidd
at last come to light?" is now being asked
by Jupiter people Alexander Carlisle the
little son of H. A Carlisle, and Charles
! Armour. son of Capt. J. A. Armour, keep
er of the Jupiter light, picked up, while
walking on the beach, handful of an,
| Gent silver coins. These coins are worr
| and much disfgured; so much so that y
| is difficult to arrive at any conclusion as
| to the time when they were used, though
they are evidently several hundred years
| old. The coat-of-arms of Spain seems t.
| be borne by one of the coins Since the
| first find other coins have been picked uT
near the same place by one of the boys.
Orlando Dispatch: e. w. Shannebergel
of Pinecastle has been experimenting witt
tobacco on reclaimed muck land The OBJ
| lection to the experiment before it was
tried was that the great fertility of the
! muck land would produce a large anC
| coarse leaf To obviate this Mr.. Shame
| berger set his plants close together so a:
| to crowd them as they grew, and then fer
| tilted to stimulate rapid growth. The re
| suit is a revelation to tobacco growers.
| small, silky leaf, with fine veins and brigh
color, while the yield. per acre is highly
| satisfactory. Mr.. Shanneberger is an in
| telligent and careful experimental, and has
| been the most successful tobacco grower
| In this section. A stock company TO fur
nish the necessary capital, with Mr.
| Shanneberger as manager, should b,
formed at once.
Jacksonville Metropolis: Deputy Sheriff
J. A. Vinzant. Thursday, arrested S. c
Johns, white man, at his home, eigh
miles northwest of the city on warrant
sworn out in Judge Bakers court by
Frank 5ones, colored, charging that John!
offered him (Jones) Tuesday last tel
acres of land if he Dones) would burr
the barn Of George Allison, near by him
in Nassau county, and at the same TIM
kill Allison. Jones said that he refused t,
take the bride and came to town TO ex
pose it. Johns was arrested and brough
to town and placed in Jail. He told tn,
officer that Jones, knowing that he (Johns
and neighbor named Price were not OF
good terms, offered to burn Prices hous
and Kill him for ten acres of land bu
this was refused, and Jones then mad
the same proposition to Allison The sup
position is that the whole matter is con
cocted to scare Johns away from tn
neighborhood The case win be hear,
Saturday. In speaking of the case
Deputy Sheriff Vinzant said that Jone
proposed 10 prove that what he has sail
Is true by witnesses, who we're caves
dropping at the time and heard the con
versation and proposition as well a
| Johns Two daughters who ware r,raeo,,