The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-22
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA
Large shipments of lettuce are being
made from the truck farms near Leesburg,
and good prices are being received.
Strawberries are going forward from
Lakeland in large quantities. The daily
shipments amount to about 1900 to 1000
! quarts.
The Dunnellon Phosphate Company has
chartered the following vessels to take
cargoes of rock phosphate from Fernan-
dina: Bark Lima, 1900 tons; steamship,
Hexan 2,400 tons and steamship Lalehame,
200 tons. There are also due and TO be
| loaded with the same material the steam
ship Ingram, 1000. tons; steamship Low
lands, 1900 tons, and another steamship,
name unknown, 1900 tons.
Benjamin Hampton, young white man
! who arrived at Tampa several days ago
| from Avon Park, shot Texas Stuart, a
| notorious negress, at her home, in FIT.
Brooks Friday night He was in the
| house with the woman, and they engage
| ed in an alteration, when Hampton drew
his revolver and shot her through the
middle of her right hand. He was ar
| rested.
The Thompson Lake, two miles north
of Grand Ridge, performed it's periodic
| freak of emptying itself through it's sub
| terranean passage one day last week. AS
soon as 1t was known that the water was
running out the whole country was on
the lookout and ready to capture the fish
that were to be left on dry land. Wagon
loads were carried away. This lake en-
braces several acres, and has a mean
depth of about twenty feet. It has no
settled time for running out, but has per-
formed this strange feat several times in
the memory of the old settlers. Its last
emptying was a year ago, when 1t re-
manned dry for several weeks, hence the
presence of such quantities of fish and of
such large sizes is a mystery.
Tuesday last in Washington the follow
ing details of a Florida couples divorce
were brought out in a suit: Benjamin F.
Clayton, a clerk in the war department,
has been sued for separate maintenance
by his wife, Anna R. Clayton. Mrs. Clay
ton says that they were married in Sep
TENDER, 1866. and that Mr.. Clayton desert
ed her last September. She says that
some time ago she learned that her hus-
band had secretly and CONTINUOUSLY"
made application for a divorce from her
in the state of Florida, representing that
he was a resident of that state. She says
that he has a salary of 500 month from
the war department, and that he draws a
pension of $45 a month from the govern
ment He also owns real estate in Flori-
da. The Claytons recently appeared in
court in another case, when Mr.. Clayton
brought suit against his daughter and
wife TO get control of an interest in a
house and lot in Washington. 1t appear
ed that the daughter, who some time ago
had a government position, bought a
house and bargained to pay for IL by in
stallments. Some time later she lost her
position and was obliged to suspend pay
ments. Her mother then paid in about
$500 for her, and then the father took up
the payments, with the understanding, he
says, that ne should have an interest in the
property equal to the amount that he paid
in. He paid about $500 and sent the re-
ceipts to another daughter who lives in
the West for safe keeping. When he tried
10 get possession of his interest in the
property he says that he could not do So
and when he asked his daughter in the
West for the receipts he says that she
refused to return them. Therefore Mr.
Clayton concluded that his wife and chill
dren had formed a conspiracy in the mat
ter, and he went to court about it. This
case has not been settled yet.
Through the efforts of the DeLand
Board of Trade. the cassava starch fac
tory was located at Stetson, two miles
west of DeLand, on the DeLand branch
of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
Railway. The promoters of this factory
imported two car loads of seeds from
Nassau in order to insure large acreage.
The Board of Trade paid the transporta-
ton on these canes, and is distributing
them free to those who will plant and
cultivate the cassava and agree to deliver
the roots to the factory this fall. There
will be not less than 500 acres planted and
there would be much more were it posi-
BILE to obtain the seed The factory peo-
pie agree TO purchase all the roots offer
ed, even IL 5000 acres are planted. They
claim that the demand is unlimited. They
agree to pay Sc per ton for the roots at
the factory. This season they are MAX
ing arrangements to utilize only about
5000 or 5000 tons of roots, as IL is likely
the crop of this section will not exceed
that this year. The plant for working
up this quantity of the raw material will
cost in the neighborhood of s25 900, but
abundant capital, says it win increase the
capacity of the plant from time to time
as the production of cassava justlfies t.
The growers figure that they will be able
TO grow not less than eight tons 10 the
acre and those who will give the crop
extra attention In the matter of fcrtilizing
and cultivation expect 60 do very much