Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-11-26

will likely be removed from this coun-
Nv ON the LIST OF next January and free
labor will be substituted. The present
lease will expire on that date. There
are usually from 100 to 200 convicts at
their camps
The trial at Orlando of James Rob.
arson who is charged with the burning
of DR.. Kedney's residence, ended in q
failure of the jury to agree. They
were ont for two or three hours, and
stood three for conviction and three
for acquittal. 1t has not been decided
when the case will be retired.
II is now planned to make Jackson.
ville's Gala Week Of annual occur
renee, and to this end a permanent
organization has been effected and
officers elected. The success Of the
Gala Week just passed has demon
strated to the people Of Jacksonville
Just what can be done in the way of
entertainment, and the people are as
one in saying that it should be per-
petuated and made an annual thing,
not only for the benefit of the city,
but Of the state as well.
The following special from New York
will be OF interest to Florida tobacco
growers: Omitted States Appraiser
Wakeman today completed the exam.
nation of an invoice of Havana to-
bacco which was offered ut this port
few days ago, amounting to AT bales.
He raised the duty from 80 cents to
$3.50 per pound, making an increase
Of $4,000. Besides this increase, he
returned sixty-eight bales of wrap
per tobacco, which had been fraudent-
ly entered, to the collector for for
feiture."
The log cabin, which was displayed
by the Georgia Southern and Florida
railway during gala week at Jackson.
vile, has been shipped to Macon, Ga,
where II will be remodeled and changed
somewhat. II will then be taken
through the west, for the purpose of
advertising Florida. The band of dar-
key singers will, of course, go along
with it. They will be attired in hand
some suits advertising the railroad.
The exhibit was one of the best things
in Jacksonville, and will undoubtedly
make hit in the west.
The Office of the Polk County Fair AS
ISOLATION has been established in Lake
land and preliminary work is very rap
idly assuming shape for a great sue
cess. The secretary is compiling q
premium list and official programme
which will be book of fifty
pages, with q circulation of about To-
600. The association will have, in
connection with the fair, one OF the
finest bicycle tracks in the state. 1t
is designed to be permanent track,
more for use at al times than during
the fair season. 1t will be an enter
prise separate from the fair proper, but
n great addition to it.
News has just been received Of
very sad accident which happened at
cotton ginning establishment of Il. J.
Summerall, who lives near Fallin
Creek. While all the wOrkmen were
busy packing cotton in the press Mr..
Summerall's little five-year-old boy,
Tommie, managed in some way to get
in the press unnoticed by anyone, and
the little fellow was not missed until
the cotton bale had been sewed up and
thrown out on the ways ready for
shipment. Search was made for the
missing boy, and as he could not be
seen, the men cut the bale of cotton
open and found him, crushed beyond
recognition.
A Washington special says: The fol-
lowing Florida postmasters were APP
pointed Saturday: John Hutchinson,
at Grandy; John S. Delaney, at NAL
lory; James W. Cason, at Parish; Jo-
seph II. Skipper, at Lakeland. So fur
as the presidential appointments are
concerned, the statement may be made
on authority that no more will be made
in Florida before congress convenes.
Judge Long had q conference with he
president at which he was informed
that this decision had been reached, as
the president desires to obviate the
necessity of the appointees having to
execute two bonds. This decision APP
plies not only to postmasters, but to
all federal Offices. Under the law
bond is required for arecess appointee
before he can qualify, and another, or
new bond, when he is confirmed by the
senate.
The eighteenth quarterly report Of
j. II. Durkee as receiver of the Jack
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