The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-07
FLORIDA.

A tree in Lakeland bears beth sweet and
SOUR oranges.
sunday the Thermometer at Gainesville
went down to "a degrees above zero.
Large quantities of Cuban tobacco is
now arriving in Key West and Tampa.
Last week $3,O2726 worth of sponges
We're brought into Key West and sod.
The colored Grand Lodge. F. and A. NJ,
@. florida. viii convene in Gainesville on
Jam Il.
The Key West Advertiser says on
Christmas day people there were wearing
summer clothing.
Strawberries are sold at Palm Beach
for p cents a quart homegrown and of
the finest and ripest.
The City of Key West makes her three
trips per week between Miami and Key
West on schedule time.
Mrs. Wickwire an aged woman, fell at
Daytona Friday and injured her side bad
ly breaking some of her ribs.
Pensacola is to have a hanging at an
carly date. The victim is Lewis Smith for
killing Andy Campbell-both negroes.
The Fish Hawk the United States Fish
Commission steamer, is en- route to Tampa
and will remain there during the Fisher
les Congress.
Hook and Ladder Company No. /, organ
lied in Pensacola in August 1868, was dis
banded last week. the fire department now
being paid instead of volunteers.
The steamer Mascotte has been thor
oughly overhauled and renovated and is
now ready to resume her regular run he
ween Port Tampa, Key West and Ha-
vana-
Among the improvements Clearwater
will make early in the new year will be the
lighting Of the town by electricity and the
Introduction of water works, both to be
supplied from the plant at Beileair.
While carelessly handling gun Monday
evening. a little son of L. Benson. who
lives two miles south of Malabar, shot his
sister, Lizzie, Is years of age. The flesh
from the left cheek was shot off, leaving
the bones. bare. 1t Is a frightful wound,
bus not thought to be dangerous. though
il will greatly dishgure the young lady.
The thirty days allowed ex-County
Treasurer Oliveros of st. Johns county to
settle his indebtedness of something over
NC00 to the county, expired Tuesday. Mr.
Oliveros, with several of his bondsmen
appeared before the Board of County Com
missioners at their meeting Tuesday an6
asked that the board tS,cept his notes, tC
mature monthly during the next twelve
months, for the balance due of about 81 100
Mr.. Oliveros further proposed TO give tho
board a second mortgage on his property
on Spanish street. The board took the
proposition under advisement.
Lumber shipments from Fernandina fol
the year 1897 amounted to as follows
Lumber shipped coastwise AZ. 33S. 797 feet
foreign, II, 600 feet making q total o.
5},794,797 feet; also 662, $50 railroad tie.
which is equal to Is, $4,000 feet boar,
measure. This Is quite an increase ovel
the shipments of 1896, which were as fol
lows Coastwise, 80 9,000 feet; foreign
1871, 600 feet making a total of AZ $50 OO'
feet The shipments of ties show a still
greater increase over 1886, which were a!
follows 1860 ties, which is equal t
8.442. $50 feet of lumber This shows an in
crease of shipments during 1897 of owe
100000 feet against 1896.
The schooner Mallory sailed from Tampa
Wednesday bound for Honduras with {
party who go in seach of gold, which i,
reported to abound in that land and is t,
be had only for the working. The part!
is composed of +. NJ Greeson, A. l.
Shaw, DIR. d. e. Saxon, D. d. Sherman, c
e. Webb, II. w. Beach and Carpenter
Post The party recently purchased thu
Mallory and it is loaded with a supply o
provisions to last six months, besides con
tanning lumber for the purpose of build
ing a raft or house boat after they arriv,
on the Honduras coast. There is also thu
engine and boiler, which will be used fol
propelling the raft or barge, and will ais,
be used for dredging for gold along tn,
rivers and banks. All the latest improv
ed machinery has been secured for the pur
pose of working for gold While the party
| are engaged in seeking gold they will hav,
the schooner, which they own, placed IL
the fruit trade between Honduras anc
| Tampa.