Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15
STATE NEWS.

to grow English wa,nuts'
A wholesale grocery house has been
established in Tallahassee,
Six new school houses are lfing built
by the school board of Leon Punty
Leon county had hves weddings
in one day last week, and tw3the next
day 81
The West Florida Seminary opened
It's forty third session With 1913 stu
dents,
The Florida Naval Miltianie soon to
be equipped with navy cuttert and gun
| boats. 81
An improved hack line has been put
on between Punta Gord4 and Fort
Myers
Fort Myers will ship twenty thous-
land boxes Of oranges 70 schneider
bros. of!Phi ladelphia,
L Apopka is growing velvet beans for
the honey. Bee keeperssay that It is
equal to the best clover hofey
The Mobile steamer, Alpha is tied
up at Appalachicola waiting for.frost
to come and squelch yellow Jack
One thousand head of beef steers
|were sold recently by Mr.. Irwin Iocklar
of Lee county to two Cuban dealers
j, w. Girvin, the Jacksonville man,
convicted Of gambling, has paid the
one Thousand dollar fine and is now
working out his time in the chain
gang. with very little, II any prospects
OF getting pardon,
Capt. James Mckay, Of Tampa, is in
His glory again, Having chartered the
steamer Soledad, he has launched into
the Cuban cattle trade in deiId earnest,
and will land $500 head Of Florida beef
cattle in Cuba during the, neext dozen
weeks ,
Tallahasse edn.--"The Young
knight" is the name of new monthly
publication entered at the Tallahassee
postoflice this week, 1t is the otiicial
organ of the Young Knights of Amer
ca, an organization of Southern young
men which is spreading over the teri
tory intended with the vigilance and
PERSISTENCE of II prairie fire
Miss Georgia Cook, of Louisville, Ky,
accidentally shot herself last Sunday at
Gainesville, where she is now visiting
She picked up revolver, took out the
cartridges, and began swapping the pls-
tol, remarking as she turned it towards
herself, that was the way she would
kill herself some day As she said this
She pulled the trigger and the pistol
fired, the ball entering her left side
under the arm pit, and passing into the
cavity of the left lung She says that
she thought she had taken all the car
tridges out Of the pistol
A thief was discovered about Sun
day morning Ginning out of the pantry
window at the boarding house of the
Misses Argyle, and some Of the young
men boarding there discharged their
pistols at him as he ran away, Early
this morning George Cummings, not
ed negro gambler in the turpentine
camps, was found within two blocks
of where the shooting occurred at
o'clock, shot in the side once and twice
in the back. lie gave the name Of
negro, whom he said shot him, but the
general impression is that he il the
pantry thief --Tallahasse Flori-
dian
Appalachicola Times The schooner
Mary Mac was wrecked in the bay near
Vest Pass during the recent heavy
sduall Of last week, during which time
she has drifted in shallow water
and pounded oot her bottom The
crew escaped without injury, Mr.
Sheiiield's boat ctme near being
wrecked at the. same time. -. The
steamer Flint, While above Chattahoo-
chee on her down trip last week, struck
a rock at Kings Rock and sank in
few moments in four feet OF water
BY prompt work on the part Of the
| crew the steamer wgs soon raised, ana