The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The dog law is being enforced at Or
lando.
The Tampa Greeks are sending money
to Greece 70 help in the war.
The Wewahitchka News says the mail
comes to that town four days out of ten
All the business of the term of the Grim
inal court this week at Orlando was dis
posed of in one day.
There is large amount Of vegetables
moving from Lotus, BrantIey and other
points on Merritts Island.
Capt. Milton, the great caulifower
grower of the Manatee section, says he
has the best crop that he has ever made.
The Pensacola Star favors abolishing
the office OF commissioner of agriculture
and the creation of the Office of state aud
itor.
The snug sum Of $4,000 was offered for
a piece of Pineapple river orange grove
property, in De Soto county, lately, but
was refused,
Blight has attacked the pear trees about
Pensacola. The leaves are being devoured
by small insects, which can only be seen
through a magnifying glass.
The cinnamon tree has recently been in
troduced into the Biscayne Bay region of
Florida, and is now being cultivated ex-
tensively on the Perrine grant.
Judge John w. Malone of the second
judicial circuit, has been ordered to pre-
side at the circuit court in Pensacola
first notwithstanding April II, owing
to Judge +. c, Maxwell being disqualified
to try some cases,
Mayor Parramore of Orlando refused to
convene the town council Wednesday to
consider the matter of repeating the or
dinance prohibiting screens at bar room
doors, as the legality Of the ordinance is
to be decided by the supreme court.
The Pensacola Boat Club is about to APP
ply for articles of Incorporation. 1t has
abandoned its old quarters in Bayou Tex,
and secured a site on Bayou Chic, upon
which a boat house and handsome club
house win be erected. A regatta will be
held in June.
]. c. Deveboise of Orlando. out of fifty
five fine hogs. which he has raised on
his place, but ten of them are now alive
forty-nve of them having died of cholera
within the past five weeks. High feeding
with hotel swill is believed to be the
cause of the disease.
A petition asking that Harry Single
TONS sentence be committed to a life
sentence is being circulated at Tampa.
There is some talk about a counter peti-
ton being gotten up by the friends of Jack
Mccormick, whom Singleton murdered
asking that the sentence be allowed to
stand just as ii is.
Thursday while Mrs. Al Hagan, moth
err of Sheriff Hagan of Palatka, was go
ing TO Palatka on a Georgia Southern and
Florida train. she was sitting with her
right arm out of the window, and while
travelling at a high rate of speed mail
crane and her arm came in contact, and
the arm was broken in two places.
The swindler passing under the name Of
Acosta. at Tampa last summer. who
cheated State Senator Palmer Of Tampa
and the Pasco Bank out OF large sum
and then fed 10 Mexico, where he was
arrested for swindling there, will not be
brought back TO Tampa by the agent sent
for him, as he has escaped from prison.
The court OF inquiry, ordered by the
Secretary Of the Navy, to Investigate
charges against Commander ID. W. Mui.
Ian, commandant Of the Pensacola navy
yafds upon winch ne was recently Eug-
pended, met at the navy yard Thursday.
The testimony Of large number Of civil
ians win be taken, and the court will
probably be in session several days.
Pensacola correspondence Jacksonville
Citizen: Nearly all Of the coal ana mig
iron from the Alabama mines and furn-
aces that IS going abroad is being shipped
through here, as well as a large part ~
the cotton of Alabama aud the tobacco
OF Kentucky The fact that Il was found
cheapest 10 ship pig iron 10 Japan through
here has naturally attracted the attention
OF iron men everywhere, and railroad men
are beginning to see that the Louisville
and Nashville railroad acted wisely when