The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-13

Merchants National Bank building of
Ocala will be sold this week to new
banking firm. Receiver G.. c. Stapylton
has received three bids on the building,
and he has given out notice that the high
est one will be accepted within the next
few days.
A shipwrecked party of five people are
located at the Elliot Hotel at Jacksonville.
They are Capt. E. Foster, Engineer II. N.
Carew, Chief Mate Hail. Steward Knight
and one sailor, all of the schooner Harol-
dine, bound from New York to Key West
with a cargo of rock, which was wrecked
off Cape Florida Jan. 2 and was total
loss.
DeFuniak Springs Herald, JAM s: There
have been eight or ten cases of smallpox
in the neighborhood of Point Washington.
Alfred Holley died on Jan p William
Hardin, six miles from the point, died
some four weeks since. Mr.. Holley help
ed to bury him. There is no other case
now in that section. One other is said to
have died, but we have not learned the
name The health authorities have taken
action, and there is no danger.
The schooner Frederick Rawsen of the
Benner line, sailing between Tampa and
New York, arrived in the bay Monday sf-
days Nearly every particle of the YES
sells sails had been carried away show
ing that the passage was an unusually
rough one. The ship was injured in no
other way. The Rawson will discharge
its cargo of general merchandise and pro-
vide itself with new sails and return to
New York as quick as possible.
The exhibition of tobacco in connection
with the annual meeting at Green Cove
Springs, will be the largest exhibition of
Florida tobacco ever made. All the rail-
WAYS of the state will have a special eX-
hibit of tobacco grown along their routes
The Owl Cigar Company, Quincy; Cohen az
Co. Quincy; Cuban Tobacco Growers
Company Fort Meade; Geer & Hart, Lake
City, will have exhibits covering each ten
square feet In addition to these each
member has been asked to bring along ten
pounds of the choicest of last years crop.
Lake City Plant: Supervisor of the
Lake City Public schools, DR.. j. Frank
Appel did good piece of work Tuesday,
and a grateful people will accord to him
full need of praise for duty well per-
formed He forced the American Book
Company to guarantee, through their
agent here, G. w Price, that school books
should be sold at list price, and not at
from 80 to 40 per cent above that, as has
been the case heretofore. He also made
them agree that an the event any of the
text books were changed, that they would
take back the old books in exchange for
new ones.
Titusville Advocate: The canal between
Jupiter and Lake Worth was inspected by
Senator E. N. Dimick and George Lin
hart of Palm Beach, on Dec. "A, who GER
tilted that the canal company had fully
complied with the state specifications.
This action was taken because the Board
of Trustees of the Internal Improvement
Fund did not consider it advisable to APP
point an engineer to report to them on
the work, and the canal company thought
it prudent to have the testimony of two
prominent citizens of Dade county TO the
fact that the state requirements were fully
complied with. 1t would be as well for
yachtsmen and others to note that the
canal is not yet open to the public. as it
has not been accepted by the state. Steam
ers over sixty feet in length are positively
not permitted to pass through the canal
without special permit from the canal
company.