The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-19
FLORIDA.

business very good.
New and heavier rails are being laid on
the Gainesville and Gulf railroad.
Mrs. T. DENLY of Gainesville has sweet
singing hooking bird that is nine years
old
The returns from the pear shipments
from starke this season have been very
satisfactory.
There is movement on foot among the
good people of Tampa to establish free
kindergarten.
A foundation of crushed brick for
street paving with phosphate screenings
is being used in Tampa
Several Tampaites making a trip through
Colorado write that the weather IS so cold
that thick clothing is required.
At starke Aug. a committee viii ex-
anime applicants for free scholarships in
the military institute at Barlow.
The young people of Gainesville are or
ganizing tennis club. The court will be
located in front of the East Florida Semi
nary.
The smallpox scare at Fort Meade is
about over Mrs. Lele, the Cuban lady
who has been down with the disease. is
recovering.
f. J. Caldwell, first sergeant Of the Hal
flax Rifles. is still laid up on account of
the wound made by running nail in his
foot four weeks ago.
Merchants of Tampa have suffered
good deal from the forged check racket at
different times c. M. Flanagan was ar
rested Wednesday as a check forger.
The foundations for the new Methodist
and Baptist churches at Alachua, Alachua
county, are about complete. and the car
penter work will begin in a few days.
Elders Samuel Isom and L. w. Robins
Of the Latter Day Saints denomination
have been in Gainesville three weeks max
ing a house to house canvass and holding
public meetings
S. S. Leonard, a contractor of Jackson
vile, has been awarded the contract to
erect in st. Augustine for John Moore,
bishop Of the Catholic see of St. Angus
tine, a business block to cost $4,000.
Economy has struck Marion county. and
the county commissioners have reduced
the clerks salary from $40 to S25 per month
and will pay the supervisor Of registra-
ton for what he does and not a monthly
salary.
The supreme court has affirmed the de-
clsion of the lower court in the case of
j. Frank Maloy of Polk county, who was
recently convicted Of altering marks and
brands of cattle and sentenced to five
years imprisonment.
Mrs. Como Massey of Ocala has return
ed home from New York, where she went
for surgical operation, having over an
inch of her backbone removed, which was
broken over a year ago and from which
she was an intense sufferer
The collision OF the two locomotives of
the Florida Central and Peninsular and
the Gainesville and Gulf railroads at
Gainesville last week has been referred to
arbitration. the sofiicials of the roads fail
ing to agree on terms OF settlement
The name OF the station on the yellow
River railroad, Elberta, has been changed
to Svea, and Maurice Killberg has been
made postmaster Kinberg and ten other
members OF the Swedish colony brought
out by Hon. w. ID. Chipley last fall, have
purchased land around the station, and
are expecting large accessiOns from Swe-
Nathan Forakers young white man
living near Baldwin. was robbed of s.. 5SS
Friday by some person or persons I'M
known to him. though he has reason TO
suspect negro man whom he had en-
ployed on his place, as the thief. For
akers has been skeptcal OF the banks and
business ventures, and rather than deposit
his hard earnings In other peoples pos
session he had hidden II away In an iron
box buried under his house.
Jasper News: Forty years ago. right
here In Florida. there was not mile OF
railroad, except the one from Tallahassee
to st. Marks, and the engines used on that
were yellow mules. The freight on n bale
OF cotton from here 70 Jacksonville was
ST. Jacksonville itself only had 500 inhab-
itants. There was not a daily paper In the
state. and plenty OF trails In the state
could be Travelled for a hundred miles and
not a trace Of a human being be seen.
The cusscd railroads are responsible FOR
the changed condition OF things. No won
der the people cuss 'om.
jacksonville Metropolis: Among the
Seminole Indians OF Florida there is no
| lynchlng. when any OF those ofrenses are
committed which usually lead to lynchinF,
! these Indians seize the offenders and turn
them over 10 the ailigators. few days
ago the tribe caught missing couple and
! tied them TO stakes near the waters edge,
about hfty feet apart. Then they tied a
dog between them TO attract attention.
| For the entire day they Were left there
| in the hot sun. ana then az sunset the
alliEators crawled ont and first devoured
/ the bowling dog ana then the man and
woman.
A replevln suit brought by c. A. Page
against Samuel speuler for the recovery
/ Of a horse, was tried before Justice wn-
1 lard al Jacksonville Saturday. but as some
| witnesses were absent the case war car.
red over until next Wednesday morning
\ for final adjustment n seems that Page
and Spencer traded horses ana that q
/ day or two after the horse Page received
died. Sc now claims that Spencor knew
| the horse was not sound when the trade
was made and DO seeks TO recover his
own animal by process Of law. The trade