The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-10
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making him the owner of the land.
FLORIDA.
For $50 boxes of oranges L. f. Tilden
of Oakland received $3.50 per box.
W. l.. Tedder will soon have a soda
water factory in operation at Like Oak.
Thursday McLendon & Spier's saw mill
at Plant City was started for the first
time.
Prof. Weber, who has been employed by
the government to investigate the water
hyacinth nuisance, has arrived at Palatka.
At the city primary at Tallahassee Mon
day night r. A. Shine was nominated for
mayor over J. T. Bernard, present incum-
bent, by Is pajority.
The steamer Pioneer left Palatka Mon
day afternoon for Jacksonville with
barge in tow containing 6S7 barrels Of naval
stores for Savannah parties, from points
on the Ocklawaha river
Marriage licenses have been issued in
Gadsden county as follows: For the year
1896 III; in 1893, 149; in 1894, 1876, and in
1896, 1877. For the four years an average
Of 80 marriages a year are shown.
John and Dan Edwards and Pleas.
Green killed six deer while hunting last
week. two of them being large bucks
with FIVE prongs. Five of the deer were
brought to the Quincy market Saturday.
The deer were killed In the lower part of
Gadsden county.
The Sanford Chronicle says that a
Brooklyn firm has bought 5000 acres Of
land near Quincy, in Gadsden county, to
be planted in tobacco, in addition to 100
acres that il now has In tobacco. If this
shall prove true the plantation will be the
largest in the state.
I,f,,.o1o 4N;o,.oe eaov,a l,o,.o i,oo..
ing their trade very successfully in Jack
sonvi;le during the past few days. No
less than four bicycles have been stolen
from buildings near the corner of For
syth and Main streets, and none of the cul-
prits have been caught or the bicycles
found.
The schooner BERTHE Lee has arrived at
Key West from Chuckaluskie, and reports
that the schooner Leo picked up three men
off Cape Roman about a week ago. The
party was from Tampa, and had char
tered sloop to cruise the florida keys
but the boat was sWamped during a storm
The Leo took the men to Chuckaluskie.
The state Baptist convention of Florida
will meet at the Trinity Baptist church at
Jack sonville tomorrow morning. 1t will
be attended by the leading colored Bap-
list preachers in the state. The conven-
ton was to have met at Tallahassee, but
on account of the iynching of a negro in
was changed to Jacksonville by the exec
utive committee.
Eustis Lake Region: The owner OF an
orange grove in Nolusia county sprayed
his trees during the freeze of last week
to give them a coating of ice with which
TO protect them from the cold, This is
heroic treatment OF the broadest type,
but. strange TO say, the trees liked it-at
least the cold weather did them no harm
neither did the freezing spray. Could
method ha
applied 10 crop of vegetables?
Quincy Herald: Chattahoochee will soon
be connected by telephone with River
Junction and the state asylum, which will
be a great convenience to the community
and especially to the officials of the asy-
lum, who receive and send so many tele>
grams and have TO pay extra for delivery.
When completed, every ward of the asy-
lum Will be connected with headquarters
and furnished with fire alarms. In ad-
diton to this improvement, the large steel
water tower Is nearly completed, which
VIII furnish an abundant supply OF water
to every part of the institution.
Tampa Metropolis: Dr. Rhodes numbers
among his patients in the veterinary hos.
pital fine pointer, belonging to c. r.
Gunby that has crooked leg done IN
in plaster of paris, and another beautiful
hunter who has actually run off the bali
Of his fore feet. A large mule OF l. s.
Giddius' contracted pneumonia during the
recent cold snap, and. is being dosed and
blistered and blanketed. A very pecu-
liar case is a horse with tetanus' affect-
ing the muscles of his eyes, ears and tail
Instead OF his jaws. This horse is being
kept In a dark, quiet room, away from All
noise and disturbance.
The Palatka Advertiser believes that
the appropriation carried by Congressman
Cooper's bill for the removal of water hya-
cinths from the st. Johns river and its
tributaries Will be inadequate. IL says:
The effort OF Congressman Cooper to get
the government 20 clear the st. Johns riv-
er OF the hyacinth nuisance vs. fully appre-
ciated by the people along the river. but
that he was mismformed with regard 10
the magnitude OF the undertaking Is evil
dent from the small amount of the pro
posed appropriation Ten thousand dol
lars will hardly equip the necessary out
TT with which 10 do the work
The English steamer Milwaukee, from
Shields, England, bound for New Orleans.
broke down a few days ago off American
Shoal, near Key West. The tugs Childs
and Clyde and the wrecl1ing fleet went
out. The Childs brought the CAPTAIN 10
Key West the next morning to make ar
engagements for repairs to machinery hut
the work cannot be done there and the
vessel Is waiting 10 be towed to New on
leans. large English steamer, going
down the Guf, hove to late in the after.