The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-03

as is annually the case, for trains being
late. The fact is the Florida trains would
all be on time We're IL not for their North
ern connections, which are always late
this season of the year.
The war department has set aside an
ample appropriation 10 be used in build
ing a 1O0-foot steel wharf at Fort Bar
Tancas Pensacola, and TO supply launch
for the use of the post. Bids will soon
he called for for building the wharf Such
a wharf has long been needed.
A twelve-foot shark was captured Fri
day from the pier at Palm Beach by
Messrs Powers and Kenney who are
stopping al the Adams cottage. Taxider-
mist Helm is making walking stick of
the fish's backbone as a souvenir for the
gentlemen who hooked it.
On Saturday special train of thirteen
stock cars loaded with 4S7 head of beef
cattle left Kissimmee az noon for Port
Tampa 70 be shipped on board a steamer
for Cuba. They were sold by the W. B.
Makinson Company to Havana firm of
cattle dealers, who are buying heavily at
various points in Florida
AT W. IN. Camps mines, five miles from
Dunnellon, young Mr. Camp was struck
by cable on Thursday and knocked into
a pit sixty feet deep. breaking his leg
below the knee. dislocating his wrist and
badly decorating his hand. Drs Ruskin
and Davis, who were called, report that
he is resting comfortably.
Mr.. W. Daethe of Geisensuine, Germany.
is travelling in Florida in the interest of
the German government. He Is a finished
botanist and horticulturist For the last
two years he has been travelling in Eng
land and France. He has visited all the
noted gardens of those countries, as well
as the great truck farms that abound
there. He went TO Miami especially to
visit the truck fields of that section that
have become SO famous within the last
two years.
Jacksonville Sunday CALI No exchange
that comes to this office is more highly
valued than the Savannah Morning News
Clean, eenserva tive and devoid of chea p
sensationalism, 1.-THE old reliable" still
holds its place in the estimation of the
public as the best all-round family news
paper in the section of the South it so
completely covers. AS a natural conse-
quence, the News has to-day a larger
Florida circulation than many papers
published within the borders of the state.
Plant City Courier: Rev. E. ]. Gates,
who has been assigned to Plant City for
the incoming conference year, is the son
of Rev. r.. f. Gates of Manatee. a vener-
able Methodist minister, well known and
greatly esteemed throughout South Flor
ida and is also a brother-n-law of Prof.
b c.. Graham of Tampa. Rev Gates has
been in the ministry for five or six years
the last three in the state of Texas. His
assignment to this place meets with very
decided favor, not only from the people Of
his own denomination, but with all classes,
as he has many friends and acquaintance
here.
Tampa Correspondence Times Union and
Citizen; It. really begins 10 look as If
Hiilsboro county was going to take the
initial step in deepening the water in the
channel up to this city. The grand Jury
which has been in session for more than
two weeks, recommended in their present.
rents that an election be called for che
purpose of determining if the people of the
county want TO issue bonds to the amount
of $500 900 for the purpose of deepening
this channel. The members of the grand
jury represent every section of the coun-
ty. There is every probability that the
recommendation will soon be acted upon
The majority of the people will vote favor
ably on the matter. The city will pay its
snare of the cost and the burden will
be so distributed that few will fell it.