The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-27
TIORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The trees on the Osceola county poor
farm viii yield 200 boxes of oranges this
season.
l. L. Whiddon of Hagerman has been
appointed by GOV. Bloxham to be inspect
or Of tislber and lumber for Washington
county.
H. Gunth, esfter travelling all over the
world In scar ah of a home located last
week in Key West Five weeks before he
was at Jerusalem in the Holy Land.
Tampa has 100000 of bonds on her
hands which she would like to sell. The
Herald sees no likelihood of dlsposing Of
them soon and wants to pull them off the
market.
Prof. Henry Curtis, the well-known i'm
migration agent Of the Florida Central
and Peninsular railroad, estimates that
100000 pounds of tobacco will be made
in Florida this year.
The Orlando Reporter was shown a
freight bin day or two ago for 565 pounds
of goods, on which the freight from New
York to Sanford was $3.50 and the freight
from Sanford to Orlando was $l.S7.
Crawfordvine Breeze: The fishing sea-
son is to Wakulla county what the cot
ton shipping season is to Georgia. The
aggregated Smount of money that it
brings into the county is simply immense.
Volusia County Record: 1t is a sad
commentary on the vaunted capabilities
Of the negro race that so many are i'm
the penitentiaries Of the south; in slavery
there were no criminals under the super
vision of the state
George Eugene Bryson, the well-known
Cuban correspondent of the New York
Journal, and Miss Willie Marion Ken
drick of Jacksonville We're married in
Washington city ON the 22d inst. Mr. Bry-
son has been recently expelled from Cuba
by order of Gen. Weyler.
The barber shop property in the Semi
mole Club building of jacksonville was re-
Gently attached for $50l rent. The barber
claimed the property under his homestead
exemption right. Each head of Il family
is allowed $1,000 worth of property and.
consequently, gets his property back, and
the Seminole Club an empty store room
and costs of the suit,
A justice of the peace, writing to the
Times-Union and Citizen, has discovered
that the legislature has made an uncon-
stitutional clause in the new election law
relating to the election of justices of the
peace The new law provides that JUS
tice of the peace shall be elected every two
years, while the constitution of 1885 says
that justices of the peace shall hold office
for four years.
Lake Citys business men are enthusi-
astic over the Tobacco carnival proposed
to be held in that city Oct. q and Is. At
a recent meeting nearly every subscription
was doubled and enthusiasm was so great
that one man offered to double any
amount that any one man would give.
rather than see the association at all
cramped in finances. Money has been
raised in any quantity, anu as far as the
ways and means are concerned, the fair
is now a success
Tampa Tribune: The special meeting
called by the Hillsborough County Tobac-
co Growers Association yesterday after
noon for the purpose of bringing together,
not only the business men and the vari-
GUS official bodies of the city and county.
but those in any way interested in the
culture of tobacco, proved a failure so
far as attendance was concerned. and
after a brief and uneventful session, re-
suited in the abandonment of the Tobacco
exposition, which it was proposed TO hold
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