The morning news., 1897-04-03
FLORIDA.

LOHlDAs
The shipments of phosphate from Punta
Gorda in March footed up 7,7a tons.
The annual meeting of the Florida State
Pilots Association was held at Jackson
vile yesterday.
Frank B. Bruce, dealer in sporting goods
at Sanford, has made an assignment to
Edward b. Durlin.
The Florida State Dental Association
will convene in annual session at Ocala
on May 4, and will continue in session
three days.
Emanuel Andreu, native of st. Angus
tine, died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Antonio Capo, in North City, in the
| 18th year of his age.
Gainesville has large secret organiza-
tion composed of young ladies and known
as the Bachelor Maids Club. 1t was out
on parade Thursday, twenty strong.
The tax assessment for Hnlsborough
| county is s9i,696.31 for the county, and $780,
$3.50 for the state, total Of $125, ,322. 81.
| This includes the sub-school districts at
| Tarpon Springs and elsewhere.
The farmers of Alachua county have
raised a fund with which to defray the
expense Of presenting their case to the in
| terstate commerce commission, which will
| meet in Jacksonville on April g.
AT largely attended mass meeting of
the democrats of Lee county, held at the
| court house in Fort Myers Thursday, res
olutions were adopted with only one or
| two dissenting voices in opposition to the
election of Wilkinson CAN as United States
senator.
Prof. P. H. Rolls of the experimental
station in Lake City is at Palmetto exam
lining the diseases of the tomatoes and Gel
| cry. He says that these crops will be
short. Some of the truck gardens are
| looking well, bat the cabbage, beet and
eauliflower crops have not paid expenses.
Beans are doing well in the market
The cabbage market is up to 80, but the
stock of cabbage in Alachua county is
small; most of it has been shipped or has
| rotted in the fields. The same may be
said of strawberries. The price has gone
up to 25 cents per quart, but little or no
| fruit is on the vine. The blossoms have
been destroyed by some kind of an insect
Mr.. Stephens, the husband of one of the
women who was drowned off Pensacola
bar on Monday, arrived at Pensacola from
his home at st. Andrews Bay Wednesday
night. In company with his brother-in-
law, Mr.. Moater, the only survivor of the
wreck, he is engaged in making a search
for the bodies of his wife and the others
who were drowned with her.
f. w. Pope of Jacksonville and member
of the legislature, is drawing up a road
law, TO be introduced in the next legisla-
ture One of the most important features
of the bid is said to be the election of
three commissioners In each county, the
counties to be divided into three districts.
This will relieve the county commission
ers of all road and bridge work, and the
taxes paid for that purpose are to be ex-
pended by the commissioners.
A political conference has been called
to meet at Gainesville for the purpose of
considering the political situation of the
negro and for taking any action that may
be deemed necessary. The movement is
led by j. T. Walls, ex-member of congress
from that district, and S. B. Willis, a
Gainesville politician. Nobody seems to
understand exactly the purport OF the
movement, but it is evidently in connec-
ton with the claims of some of the race
fol. recognition from President Mckinley.
Jesse Baker, Mac Wilkinson, and Fletch-
er Pace who were arrested at Umatilla
and taken to Sanford fast week on a
charge Of having sent obscene matter
through the mail, We're acquitted. Oscar
Barber, the principal witness for the
prosecution, now says that Mr. Wood
ward, to whose daughter the letter was ad-
dressed, gave him the letter, and requir-
ed him TO go to Altoona to mail it. The
object was to get the boys out of the way.
as they were witnesses In case to be
tried In the criminal court, and Wood
ward was afraid of their testimony.
Robert Bryant, parlor car conductor
on the Florida East Coast railway, was
dangerously injured Wednesday a short
distance from Oak Hill. AS the train ap-
| preached Oak Hin he noticed that one
Of the parlor coaches was not running
smoothly, and, going on the platform, he
! walked down to the last step and leaned
over to inspect the brake SHOE which had
worked loose. As he leaned forward the
| train passed a Wood-rack, and one of the
supports struck him on the head tearing
the scalp from the skull and probably
injuring the bone Bryant was knocked
back on the steps, where he was found
| a moment later by the brakeman. He is
now in the hospital at ST. Augustine.
Col Tinin OF Courtney, reports his os-
triches In fine condition. He is thoroughly
convinced now that the conditions in
| Florida are favorable for successful breed
ing and raising of the birds. He has al
ready sold many feathers and plumes.
bringing handsome returns. He expects
| by next season TO have his modern hotel
| at Courtney ready for occupancy The
grounds will be handsomely embellshed
| during the summer, and he expects TO util-
ize the water from a flowing artesian well
to give him motive power to run an cleo
| trio light plant, to illumi-
| nate the buildings and grounds.
| While at Titusville Thursday
he negotiated with one of the many sue
| cessful vegetable growers for the delivery
of a cargo OF cabbages at Courtney for os-
| trich food.