The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-07
THE PILL THAT WILL.

The Belleview News Letter published at
Orlando, is the latest addition to the For
ida press. 1t is edited by c. E. Abshier.
A large rattlesnake with twelve rattles
and button was killed between Judge
Finnelrs law office and the court house at
Bronson Tuesday.
Louis Mark, a negro. was sentenced to
the Florida penitenuary for eight years
for stealing a bicycle at Jacksonville. 1t
was his second offense.
Three prominent farmers of Morriston
quarreled on Saturday and then fought.
using their knives. Sam Curry was stab
bed in the back and lacerated in one arm.
Dick Priest was crippled in the hand. EN-
cry Priest was unhurt
Hawthorne boasts the smallest miss in
the state. She is three months old and
weighs three and half pounds. She is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Morrison and only weighed one pound
fourteen ounces at birth.
Robert Newberry and Tucker Swain,
charged with robbing Warshauer & Co.'S
messenger. had a preliminary trial at
Tampa Monday, and were bound over 10
the November term of the criminal court
in the sum of $1,000 each.
Charles Jackson, negro, was convicted
at the fall term of the circuit court at
Sumterville Tuesday of an assault with
intent to rape a white woman and was
given the full extent of the law-twenty
years at hard labor in the state prison.
There are now many fine orange groves
in that vicinity, and all the settlers will
be out of debt when the seasons crop of
oranges is sold. Crops on only two groves
have been sod. Oranges are held at 50
per crate on the trees, and grape fruit at
S. per crate on the trees.
Tampa Times: A month ago good beef
steers were selling for $40, but Saturday
Messrs. e. o. Morgan and E. L. Lesley
refused $3.50 apiece for 1900 head. This
advance in price was caused by the prob
ability of the early resumption or the cat
tie trade between Florida and Cuba.
The first carload of oranges for the sea-
son left Tampa Sunday night over the
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad.
1t was destined for Chicago and the car
bore immense banners setting forth the
important fact. The oranges We're fine
ones, and came from the famous Mana
tee country.
Orlando Reporter H. S. Chubb of Win
ter Park is going into camphor raising,
and will soon have 1900 trees set out. He
viii probably add to that number and
see what can be done in that industry
Mr. Chubb is the first man to begin the
culture of camphor on anything like an
extensive scale.
Prosperity is playing havoc with satan
a Ocala. The Morning News says: "Our
merchants all had a pleased look when
in attendance at church Sunday, the out
come of a good Saturdays business. Pros
perity eases the mind and places the bust
ness man in a better condition to receive
the word of God"
The Lake City Water and Light Com
pany was sold yesterday, by order of
court, to satisfy judgments against the
concern to the amount of $780, Messrs. ].
w. Perry, J. O. Evans and Samuel Tolen,
three of Lake City's business men bought
it. These gentlemen will begin imme-
diately to improve the entire work by
putting in new machinery.
Mrs. Whitfield, wife of State Treas
urer J. b. Whitfield, died Tuesday night,
after a short illness. Deceased was the
daughter of ex-Mayor John w. Nash. was
married about year ago. and her death
has cast a gloom over the entire city.
Mrs. Whitfield was reared in Tallahassee.
where she was universally loved and es-
teemed as a lady of rare worth and at
tainments, and the peculiar circumstances
connected with her early demise render
ner taking away peculiarly sad
ARRANGEMENTS are nearly completed for
a government experimental station at
Miami. Prof. J. n. Weber of the agri-
cultural department is there, and the
lands selected for the purpose by Frederick
v. Morse are satisfactory As soon as
the details of the business are settled a
laboratory will be built and lands cleared
and made ready for the setting out of a
large number of tropical plants and fruit
trees. This station viii be a purely tropi-
cal station and the government represen-
tative will experiment with those plants
and fruits that are supposed to grow best
in tropical countries