The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-05
FLORIDA

FLORIDA.
The total phosphate shipments from
Port Tampa during November aggregate
over $4,000 tons.
The total phosphate shipped from Punta
Gorda in 1897 was 50, 147 tons to domestic
ports and 51,l40 tons to foreign ports.
]. b. Palmer. secretary of the Cassa-
daga Association, is making preparations
for the usual annual meeting at Lake
Helen, near DeI.and
Last year in Orange county fifty white
and thirty-five colored couples were Ii
censed to marry in Orange county. In
1896 113 were licensed.
4. T. Bielby shipped seventy-one boxes
of tangerine oranges from his place north
of DeLand last week They Melted him
over 81 per box, or over $500 for the seven
ty-one boxes
Capt. C. E. Garner of Jacksonville has
purchased the steamer Welaka, one of the
best known vessels on the st. Johns river,
and which has been run for a good many
years. The owner was Mir. Hodges of
Satsuma. She is 10 be overhauled and
then taken around to Tampa, and be run
IN the Manatee river business.
A bill has been filed in the clerks office
OF the circuit court at Jacksonville by Liz
zie Enrich, praying for legal separation
from Louis j. Erhlich. The latter now re-
sides in Atlanta, and the wife alleges that
she was married to the defendant Jan. II.
1888 in jacksonville, and on July 49, 1893
ne deserted her while residing in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, and has never returned to
her
The new steamship Miami for the Flor
ida and Bahama steamship line. to be
operated by the Florida East Coast Steam
ship Company will leave Philadelphia on
Wednesday, Jan. ), and is due at Jack
sonville on Saturday Jan. g. After
short stay, the steamship will depart for
Miami, to be in readiness for the service
between Miami and Nassau to begin on
Jan. II.
The damage suit in the sum of $4,000,
brought by p. j. Clancy against the Flor
ida East Coast railway for injuries sus-
tained by him on June s, 1885, at Miami by
a collision between two East Coast trains
on one of which he was a passenger, and
which was on trial last week in the United
states court at Jacksonville is now no
nearer settlement than it was several
months ago, owing to the jury failing to
agree on a verdict.
R. Smith and w. Land while visiting Mr.
Hollingers family at Bryants, new years
day, had an unloaded pistol, which they
kept swapping at the girls of the family
to frighten them. The young men walked
off a pace from the girls when Smith
slipped cartridge into his pistol and
put 1t in his pocket On returning Land
took the pistol out of Smiths pocket and
pointed IL at Miss Kate Brown, pulled the
trigger. and shot the young lady in the
shoulder, the ball penetrating and lodging
behind the shoulder blade. Miss Brown is
paralyzed in her body and lower limbs.
Her recovery is doubtful. Land threaten
ed to shoot himself, but was prevented.
The news from the Jacksonville Times
Union and Citizen correspondents. cover
ing every section of Florida, is to the er-
! feet that the cold weather did consider
able temporary damage to vegetables. but
none of a permanent character. Orange
trees will in some instances lose their
foliage and where situated in exposed
places in the northern border of the or
ange belt, will lose a part of their tender
growth. Owing to the fact, however that
the sap was down, the trees themselves
were able to resist unscathed even a lower
temperature. Reports from the pineapple
belt of the East Coast indicate that the
damage to pineapples was trihing The
fall crop of tobacco in all parts OF the
state was injured badly Blooms on
l. strawberries were killed. Early straw
berries in the northern section were frozen
on the vines and the plants themselves set
back fully six weeks. The tenderest gar
den crops in all sections as far south as
Tampa, while lacking protection by for
est, stream or lake, were badly injured;
but exposed gardens do not represent more
than half the area in truck. growers hav-
ing learned by experience the wisdom of
selecting well protected spots.