The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-11
FLORIDA.


Waldo is to have combined gin and
broom factory.
A party OF Cubans have been to San
Mateo examining the lands with a view Of
buying for tobacco culture.
Tampa has two curioslties in the shape
of two hound puppies that are minus of
any fore legs, on shoulders.
Some orange growers of orange county
say within year they will have better
orange groves than they had before the
freeze.
Manatee wharf has shipped $500 pounds
Of tobacco during the last month. A fine
trade in dressed beef goes out from Man
aztec, also many shipments of guavas.
Palatka Advertiser; Capt. Fisher and
George Wertz went fishing for prawn Fri
day night. were gone about two hours
and caught a bushel and a half Of the larg-
est crustaceans Of the kind ever captured
in the St. Johns river.
The cattIemen Of Polk and other south
ern counties have issued a call for meet
ing to be held on Saturday to devise ways
and means for protecting themselves
against cattle thieves, from whose depre-
dations they have been great sufferers.
The steamer Crescent, taken out of the
water in Jacksonville a few days ago for
an overhauling, was found to have her
bottom covered with hyacinths, that had
attached themselves thereto. The steam
er's speed had been reduced more than
ons-half
The business men of Mariana are try
ing to make other arrangements to ship
out the present COTTON crop, as they claim
the rate via the Pensacola and Atlantic
railroad too high. AZ a recent mass meet
ing committee was appointed to secure
stock for new steamboat company.
The board of county commissioners Of
Bradford have compromised with the
bondsmen of ex-Tax Collector M. NJ Hale
of that county 1t was claimed that when
Hale went out of Office in January, 1895,
he owed the county about $500. but the
board accepted the offer of $3.50 by his
bondsmen as "a com promise
Palatka Advertiser The republicans
claim that the taste of protection given
10 Florida in the Dmgley billain placing
oranges on the tariff list will put the state
in the republican column in the next ma
tional campaign. If the state were in the
political market it IS not likely it could
be bought for so small figure
Sheriff T. X. Spe ncer was passing a
pawn shop a few days ago when he hap
pened to notice an old confederate cavalry
saber in the window. He inquired and
found il had been pat up for dollar by
a veteran who had become so poor that he
had to part with it for that pitiful sum-
The sheriff promptly redeemed 1t and left
FOR . h. II
get ii without charge.
Jacksonville y7imes-Union and Citizen:
A petition for a reduction in the fines of
Girvin, Condor, Toll and others convict
ed at the present term of the criminal
court of keeping gambling houses is be-
ing circulated in a dozen duplicates, and
is receiving many signatures. The author
tiles are assured that the fines will be
paid if reduced. One of these petitions
was connected with a pledge, signed by
one of the convicted men, that he would
abandon the gambling business and would
go into legitimate employment If the pun
dshment directed against him should be
lightened.
Tampa Tribune; Although there has re-
Gently been some talk of revival of the
Old cattle trade between this country and
Cuba, whiSh once cut SO great figure in
the resources of South Florida, few people
realize how solid basis exists for the
hope, or to what an extent the Spanish
forces now operating on the island are de-
pendent upon the United States in general
and Florida in particular for their support
The demand for fresh meats and supplies
in general from this source is practically
unlimited. and one firm in this city has al
ready gone extensively in the business of
shipping poultry to Havana. Some idea of
the extent of this novel business may be
gathered from the fact that as many as
5000 chickens have been sent over to Ha-
Vana by this firm in a few days time
They are always shipped to Tampa by ex-
press in large coops, experience having
shown that freight shipments are invaria-
bly, more expensive in the end: and by far
the greater portion of the supply is derived
from Georgia.