The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03

forty Mormon elders in Orange county.
who are making Orlando their headquar-
tiers. They Wal soon leave for Northern
points, and are expected to pay Alachua
county visit. The people Of this county
should be prepared TO give them the re-
ception they merit. The people Of Flor
Ida have but little for these men to do.
Leesburg Commercial: Alley Hays passed
through Lcesburg Wednesday. on his re-
turn to his home in Fitzgerald. Ga. His
irlal for killing man in Sumter county.
TINS state, twenty years ago, has been
put off, and being out on &c. 600 bond he has
gone home.
The Florida Press Association concluded
1t business programme at Thursday MORN
Iug's session at St. Petersburg. except the
appointment OF committees and the report
OF the committee on resolutions In the
afternoon they enjoyed social couriesies.
rendered by the citizens of St. Petersburg
such as excursions, drives among the or
ange groves and picnics, concluded with
big oyster roast.
Key West correspondence Times-Union
and Citizen: Sponses have taken a steady
advance since last week and are now sell
ing higher than for several years, because
OF their scarcity. The key sponge has ad-
vanced from S125 to 81; the bay sponge.
caught IN deep wafer, from 81 to 81 a
bunch. About 300 punches Of sponge from
the Cuban coast were brought here last
week and sold for good prices
Ocala Star: Hon. w *. Zewadski and
Hon. NJ. l.. Payne leave Tonight for Tai
lahassee 10 be in readiness for the OPEN
ing of the legislature Tuesday, April A.
MIR. Zewadski is not az all uneasy over
his prospects for the speakership. Many
OF his friends feel confident that he will
be honorcd. Both of these gentlemen viii
be heard from during the session and
Marion county may justly feel proud OF
her representatives.
On Thursday James A. Reilly Of Miami,
brother OF Mayor j. B. Reilly of that
city. was drowned from off the naphtha
.auch Capt. Jas. p" while fishing near
the end of the ship channel. Tie fell from
the stern OF the launch in rough sea.
and not being able to swim, wenl down
for the last time before the launch could
be turned about and reach him. He was
only q years Of age. The body was car
ried TO his home in New Haven, Conn, for
iuterment
special to the Morning News from
Tallahassee says: DR.. William Forsythe
Bynum of Live Oak, over thirty times
cijef clerk of the House, and a candidate
for reelection, IS at The capitalize
grand lodge of Florida Odd Fellows will
meet al Tallahassee in March 1900 The
son Of Mr.. Jules Solomon in sliding down
from a high chair at the breakfast table,
received a very painful wound i'm the
throat from a fork which projected from
the table. DR.. Greyun dressed his wound
and he is resting quietly.
Recently an obsolete forged railroad
ticket of 1896 issue was presented by an
unsuspecting tourist at the Union depot
for passage from Jacksonville to New
York It had been skillfully manipulate
ed by a ticket broker, and the dates on
the face and back raised and otherwiss
altered. A close examination immediate
ly detected the fraud and the ticket was
forthwith cance.ed. In self-pr0tection the
railroads centering in Jacksonville have
been forced to issue special instructions
10 their agents which make ii Impossible
for a ticket to be used if it be in the
hands of other than the original pur-
chaser.
c. e. Tafts of Orange county was tried
at Orlando for cutting and carrying away
cypress timber from the lands of the ED
pinger & Russell Company and Jacob
Nordlinger of the value of $1,000 judge
Baker and w. i. Palmer or Orlando were
attorneys for the owners of the property.
and Judge Carter for the defense. MIR.
Daney was used as an expert witness.
and he testified that according TO the
present standard lumber measure he
found 1926 trees had been cut. ana esti-
mated they aggregated s $50, 1872 cubic feet
OF timber A verdict of guilty was rem
dered, ana Tafts was sentenced to ten
years in state prison. The defendant is
a prominent mill man of Orange county.
Jacksonville Metropolis: please wire
who win be elected United States sena-
tor" was the contents of disDatch re-
eeived by the Metropolis yesterday from
baltimore. Not being possessed of pro-
phetic vision We could not complv Wish
we could say who would be elected. and
that 1t would be on the first day of the
Dallotfng. Others, perhaps. more blessed
with the faculty of seeing into the futura
than the editor of the Metrobolis have
foretoid the result, and we quote them
Tor the benefit of the inquirer Joe Had
dock says Jim TaliaferrO viii be elected
Jim Alexander says WIKI Call should he.
but Ziba King may be; Peter Knight saws
>. Pasco will get the place; j. T.. Hart.
ridge thinks s. NJ. Sparkman may he
CHOSEN; Gen. Bailey thinks it win no
90 Nduey. Other prophets pre-
dlct mat Gov. w. d. BIoxham T. "a
Harris, J. N. c. stockton. "Boh', DayI.,
and judge Mabry will get che coveted
plum This is the extent of our knoWl-
edge as TO who will be and who want
TO be elected, and If it win aid our friend
az distance who wants the Information
III advance, he is welcome to ii.
SOUTH CAROLINA.