The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-23

FLORIDA.
Wolworth & Leinhart viii plant seven
acres of Orange county land this year in
Irish potatoes.
The Dunnellon Phosphate Company is
to erect a new plant. The labor alone
on the building will cost nearly $1,000.
]. L. Strickland has retired from the
firm of Strickland & Barton of Waldo, and
the business will now be conducted by
W. H. Barton.
The first solid car of cobbage from Cole
man was shipped Thursday night by n. j.
Wicker. The crop in that vicinity is now
estimated at 5000 crates.
The Brooksvine News-Register states
that a Pasco county farmer sold his crop
of Sumatra wrapper for $3.50 and Havana
filler for SIPS per pound.
The famous navigator whaleback, cigar
shaped steamship City of Everett is now
at Charleston en- route to Port Tampa for
cargo Of phosphate, which she Will take
to New York. The Everett is 365 feet long.
John A Pike, who lives seven miles
below Sumterville, on the Outlet had
the misfortune TO have his house and
week The fire originated from the kitch-
en- flue. Most of the furniture was saved.
The saw mill of L. d. odom at Bitch
ton is in ashes. The fire was caused by
sparks from the engine. The mill caught
on fire once or twice during the day, but
the men succeeded in extinguishing the
blaze. The loss is a severe one to Mr..
Odom and to the community.
Rev. George x. Heydrick, who became
violently insane during service in the
church at Francis, the latter part of last
| year. and who had to be taken to the in
| sane asylum at Chattahoochee, has so far
| recovered to allow him to return home
Wednesday. He took part In the prayer
meeting held that evening.
The firm OF Rawls, Bitch & Co. of Phoe-
nix, one Of the oldest and largest con-
| Germs of that section, by mutual consent,
! has been dissolved c. c. Rawls and I.
| N. Limbaugh buying out j. S. Bitch. The
name of the new firm Will be e. G. Rawls
| & Co. They have two large storehouses,
and will make one dry goods house and
the other the grocery house.
The Mariana Journal of Tuesday says
meeting of citizens was held In that
town Tuesday to consider the charges
| against J. L. Bynum, principal of the
| High School, for seduction. Letters in evil
| denee were read, after which commit
| Tee Of twelve men were appointed TO wait
| upon Bynum and notify him of his dis
| missal from the school, and order him
TO leave the county, and to be published
as a fraud and imposter.
Fort Myers Press: Mr.. Andrew Barnes
| was IN several days this week from his
place on Palm river some miles below
Marco Island. He says the cold was quite
| severe for that locality, and cut down
| the banana plantations and the wild man.
groves. Mr.. Barnes says he sold 1900
| stalks of cane at Key West this season
| for 8 cents each, the cane coming off an
acre and half of land, thus yielding a
revenue of $3.50, or at the rate of $500 per
acre.
Kissimmee Gazette: Last Saturday ar
ternoon a grass fire broke out on the lake
shore of the l.. Il. Barbeau property on
the island and destroyed the saw mill,
stable, a quantity of lumber, banana
patch, and the large sailboat which used
to belong to BRANDON. Mr.. Hirtzell, who
has the place in charge, was absent at
the time. The Barnes Bros, who We're
Fishing on the tTestle at the time, worked
heroically and stopped the further spread
of the flames.
The jury of inquest rendered a verdict
Monday in the death of Herbert Seeley
and Miss Alice Caro-, found dead in the
woods, near Millview Escambia county,
that Seeley criminally assaulted his
sweetheart, and then killed her and him
self. When found. the body of Miss Caro-
was lying on her back in pool of blood,
a bullet hole visible just over her left ear.
The body of Mr.. Seeley was lying with
his head across her body above the knees.
He had a bullet hoe in his right temple.
The lady's clothing was saturated with
blood from the wound in Seeley's head.
Deputy United States Marshal j. L.
Behymer returned to Mariana Thursday
from a trip TO Liberty county, where he,
together with Sheriff owens and posse
went to arrest a desperate character
named Langston When the posse APP
preached the house a man named Hol-
land, standing on the front porch ordered
the posse out Of the yard He jumped
10 the door and returned to the porch
with double-barreled shotgun presented,
ready to fire. Deputy Marshal Behymer
was too quick for him, and fired load
of buckshot, ranging from waist up kill
ing him almost instantly. The shooting
allowed Langston, who had taken to the
swamp, to escape.
Henry NJ Flagler has purchased the
: Royal Victoria Hotel property at Nassau.
! Bahama Islands, and j. A. Mcdonald, his
builder, was left at Nassau to take meas
urements and draft plans for a new hotel
TO be built on the site of the Royal
Victoria, to be known as the Colonial. The
work OF tearing down the present hotel,
which is nearly forty years Old will be-
gin as soon as the present season closes,
not later than May !. Mr.. Mcdonald
will work a large force of men through
out the spring, summer and fall and the
new hotel will be ready for business be-
fore the opening Of the next tourist sea,
son. The grounds now occupied by the
| ROYAL Victoria are located in the hear,
OF the City of Nassau, on an eminence
commanding an excellent view of the city,
The harbor, and the sea. While the site Is
spacious, embracing nearly an entire
block additional ground has been pur-
chased, so that there will be an abund-
ance of room. Since the construction or
the Royal Victoria, early in the eos, no
effort has been spared in decorating tht
grounds, and in consequence to-day they
are among the NEST beautiful In the city.