The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-18
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FLORIDA


The jail at Pensacola is being supplied
with new steel cells.
The News says there is a hope of having
greater Pensacola at no distant date.
Wild turkeys weighing seventeen pounds
are killed in the. woods about San Mateo.
A. j. Murat, for twenty-five years dep
uty collector at Apalachicola. has been re-
moved, though republican.
Paul Palmer, a negro, was killed by ].
w. Snyder in front of the Mohawk block,
at Jacksonville, Thursday. They quarreled
over pay for drayage alleged to be due
Faimer. Snyder claims that it was an
accident.
According to the Breeze, the father of
a sick son had to pay some steep bills last
week in Lake City for his son. as follows:
Room and board and washing for five DAYS.
$3.50; nursing. 81; undertaken for emblam-
ing the body OF the dead son, $50; coffin,
$50, and box. $40.
w. f. Hobson left Lawtey Wednesday
for England, having lately received notice
of the death of his father, Butler Hairby
Ho0son of Reevesby Hail, Lincolnshire
VINO was the owner of a comfortable prop
erty, said TO be worth $4,000; and this
property was bequeathed to the son.
At Eustis, Thursday, the regular annual
caucus to nominate town officers for 1898
resulted as follows: p. A. Ross, mayor;
Louis c. Nogt clerk; E. L. Ferran, treas
urer; George w. Clinch, collector; John
w llhans, assessor; c. 7. Lopez, marshal;
aldermen, C. H. Edwards, A. II. Hill, c.
L. Smith and E. G. Rehrer.
John Sparks of st. Leo was told that he
could have a bicycle complete for $50.
Whereupon he gave the order as follows:
please ship me one bicycle complete as
per you favor of LIST inst Send bell lamp.
trousers clip and belt and rack Enclosed
hnd 500 TO pay for the same The firm
replied: Sir AS you forgot to tell us
what kind of a suit of clothes you wanted
to go with your order, we await further in
structions before shipping the wheel
The auditors of the Louisville and Nash
Vile railroad has finished an examination
of the accounts of the late w. D. Chip;ey.
which they found correct. and Thursday
the announcement was made that Judge
r. b. Bombay had been appointed to sue
coed him as general land commissioner.
Judge Bombay was not an applicant for
the position, but has always been the as
sistant land commissioner and the an
pointment is regarded as an excellent one.
The pineapple growers around Orlando
base just received a large lot Of the Stew
ems rosin barrels to be used in their piner-
les in case the temperature reaches the
danger point. The burners are paper pals
minus the balls or handles, slightly larger
at the top than at the bottom for conve-
nience in packing, and of size to hold
six or seven pounds or rosin. These are
filled and distributed through the pineries,
and when a cold wave comes the rosin is
set on fire.
Allison & Taylor have purchased large
body of land near Kissimmee for a sheep
ranch. The work of fencing and erecting
buildings has been going on for some time
The firm has received their first consign-
ment of $50 sheep for stocking the ranch.
The sheep industry has been tried there
for number of years, and proved Won
derful success, so much so that some of
the old stock raisers are selling off their
cattle and increasing their flocks of sheep
L. p Hugby & Son have gone into the in
dustry, and have now Paradise Island and
Summerlin Island, in Lake Tohopokalga,
stocked with sheen