The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-24
FLORIDA.

Barlow has opened a public library.
Wednesday A. H. Haden, a Tampa mer-
chant, assigned.
About 1000 crates of tomatoes are daily
shipped from Winter Haven.
A chapter of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy is being formed in Tampa.
There is movement on foot to start a
cooperative cigar factory IN Tampa.
1t is reported that a startling breach of
promise suit is on the tapis at Tampa.
Dr. e. F. Bruce of Bagdad. Escambia
county, has removed to Corsicana, Tex.
Rt. Rev. John Moore has been bishop
of the see of St Augustine for twenty
years.
There were fourteen children baptized
at the Methodist church in Orlando last
Sunday.
s. & f. Fleitas, cigar manufacturers in
West Tampa, will close their factory in
two or three weeks and remove to Key
West.
The Tampa liquor dealers are kicking
about drug stores selling whisky and al
cohol, and grocers brandy cherries with
out paying a license to do so.
At last Wewehitchka, in Calhoun coun-
ty. is to have an overland mail route. Dur
ing the recent river floods it was impossi-
bic to transport mails by boats with any
regularity.
The output of cigars Is holding up re-
markably well for this season of the year
and the manufacturers say that they do
not anticipate a great falling off for some
time to come.
Judge Thomas f. King has been made
city attorney for Gainesville at a salary
of $500 per year. The Judge is to prepare
a set of ordinances for the city and do
general practice in the court
Fire broke out in the upper story of a
frame dwelling on Water street at st.
Augustine Saturday but was extnguished
after doing about $500 worth of damage.
The property is owned by the First Ma
tlonal Bank of Jacksonville.
r. f. Rigdon. the strawberry man Of
| Putnam county. has received returns in
| fun for this seasons shipping to date,
and the gross total amounts TO Si2S3. 81,
| leaving q net profit OF $500 Off a five-acre
/ patch. The best single shipment was on
/ March Is, when g. quarts sold for S60.4s.
st. Augustine Herald; A bill has been
introduced in the House providing Cor the
annexation TO Volusia county Of a strip
OF land a mile IN width from the southern
| end OF 81. Johns county. Accompanying
| this bill Is a petition signed by twenty-one
/ names. The annexation proposed is,as sta
| ted, one mile In width and nearly twenty
| I'VE miles In length. quite a considerable
bit OF territory 10 relinquish at the re-
/ quest OF twenty-one persons. some OF
! whom are residents of the county praying
70 be enlarged.
Gainesville Sun; A. w Lewis OF Yular,
who was In the city Friday. says that
there Is great distress In the storm swept
section and that many have not got even
| dry corn bread TO eat Some OF them have
proportional their supply OF corn meal to
| last only a few DAYS longer. The grist
J mills have been dividing the tolls with
| these poor unfortunate. In addition to
| this condition, and 10 add TO their dis
trcss. the crops have been ruined by the
| catcrpflars ana crickets which have COM
pletely destroyed whole fields OF corn Mr..
Lewis says this Is not a local condition.
but exists IN every part Of the storm dis
trict. Mr.. Lewis as preparing 10 leave and
others viii follow his example. lie says
that many will stnrve 60 death unless re-
lief Is offered them.
| Jacksonville Metropolis: Thomas A.
Britt. who came TO this city in 1873. has
been sent TO the penitentiary for year
from Chicago for being connected with
rObbng letter boxes ia that city. lie
claimed to have owned the Florida Union
ia this city in 1876. which was not 40.
| What connection he had here with news
papers consisted OF odd jobs az reporting
ana as special correspondent for special
occasions. Through the exortions Of the
late Or. w ~. Babcock and another citi-
zen Of Jacksonville. be- was appointed spe.
cial correspondent of a Savannah paper,
which be held Tor a few months. nc