The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-27


Sewer work will soon begin at Tampa.
Contracts amounting to $4,000 will soon
be awarded.
Two hundred acres of Irish potatoes will
be planted in the vicinity of Plant City
next month.
Last year GOO people were employed at
Tampa in cigar factories and 81 100000
were paid to them.
The Sub-Peninsular is the name Of
new weekly paper just started at ST. Pet
ersburg by r. ]. Morgan
The annual meeting of the Putnam
County Tobacco Growers Association will
be held Feb. 1 at Palatka
The Bell River Packing Company in
Nassau county is putting up from 1900 to
5000 cans of oysters per day.
E. A. Wilson, at his place. two miles
southeast of Orlando, has the present sea-
son, nineteen acres of velvet BEANS
w. c. Crum is in communication with
parties north DESTROYS of planting a col
ony at Idlewild Park, not only for farm
ing and fruit-growing, but for manufac-
| turing purposes as we'll
Bicycle riders of Ndicanopy and Gaines
vile are agitating the building of BIZ
cycle path from Gainesville TO Micanopy.
The people of Micanopy are willing to con-
tribute half the expense. 1t is quite likely
that the path will be built
The following were elected at San An
tonic Monday: Mayor, P. j. Lyons; coun-
cilmen, William Schirmer and G. S. Bow
en-; collector, j. H. Bishoff; treasurer, J.
F.. Frese; marshal, H. Weymann; clerk
and tax assessor, T. ]. Christ.
| Since the commencement of the "sea.
son. and up to Monday last Of last week.
George E. Macy of Orlando, with his vel
vet bean hullers, has hulled and ground
nearly 500 bushels of them, and vast guam
titles are there still awaiting the process.
The winter home of Thomas Irwin, on
King street. New Augustine, known as
the Orange Grove Villa, has Just been
| sold to a French nobleman Baron Edgar
| de Bara who will make extensive i'm
| provements. This estate, the most at
uactive in the town, cost about $4,000.
The executive committee of the Tampa
! Wheeling Club has accepted the PROPOSE
| ton of the Belleair Wheelman for the
| construction of path connecting the two
points. The Belleair people are to survey
lay out and grub the road and the Tampa
people will scrape and bridge it.
Gainesville Sun: The Amber Company
are doing a big business in the storm
swept section in the vicinity of Grover,
near the Suwannee river. Thousands of
stock logs are being loaded on cars by
machinery and many hands are being en-
ployed. There is still talk of building
a spur from the main line of the Amber
road to. High Springs.
About fifty tobacco growers from Ken
lucky will plant tobacco in Pasco coun-
| ty this year There are thirty planters
at Dade City now, and about twenty or
| twenty-five on the road who are bringing
their teams through. These men are all
experienced tobacco raisers. One of the
| county's growers has refused $25 per pound
for part of his crop. This was wrap
| pers.
A conference of Sunday school work.
ers of Sumter county has been called to
meet a Bushnell on Jan. 81 The object
of the meeting will be TO elect county Of
! 1icers for the ensuing year and an execu-
| tive committee; also to discuss the gen.
eral Sunday school work and devise
! plans to stimulate and resurrect dead su-
perintendents, dead teachers, dead schools
and careless parents and don t-care chill
| dren.
A tragedy occurred a day or two ago
on board the tug Childs of Key West in
which two young seaman lost their lives
by suffocaton. The tug had been to Tor
tugas to give assistance to the wreck, and
was coming up near Sand Key, when the
steam pipes leading to the steam donkey
| forward burst, filling the forecastle fuH of
steam, which caused the young men TO
suffocate to death. Their names were ia
cob Russell and Edward ORoque, II and
IS years old respectively.
Prof j. w. Wideman, principal of the
Gainesville High School, is making an eff
fort to have the schools in Alachua Coun-
ty regulated in such manner as each and
every grade may be abe to have nine
months term. To do this he Will circu-
late a petition asking the patrons to con-
tribute $50 per month for the extra term
This appears to be meeting with general
satisfaction. and it is quite probable the
school will be extended to a full term in
all the various departments.
The latest plan of the government to
rid the st. Johns river of the water hyl-
cinths is to tow them down the river un.
til salt water is reached, and then to
turn them loose to their fate, as salt is
certain death TO the plant. With this
idea in view, the government, through
Capt. ]. w. Saekett of st. Augustine, has
chartered the tug Biscayne. This yes
sci left Jacksonville Monday night for
Palatka. On boardt were 200 yards Of
nets, to be used i'm hedging in the water
| hyacinths, and towing them to their Mem
esis.
At the last meeting of the City Council
of Ocala the finance committee reported
on the exact condition Of ex-City Tax Col
lector j. H. Livingston's unsettled account
with the city for the 1895 taxes. The re-
port as submitted by the committee,
shows that he is still indebted to the city
to the amount of $3,Ssi52 His credits for
uncollected personal taxes for 1895, scrip
and cash, are S701.13, leaving a balance due
the city of 50, $3.50. The committee rec
ommend that the city attorney enter
suit at once against ]. II. Livingston and
his IonndSp1eu