The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-24
GEORGIA AND o
" o FLORIDA.

SnerlH hancock OF Columbia county has
captured Lila Badger. who shot and kill
ed man at Totem. in that county. and
for the time being made good her escape
She is now safely lodged behind the bars
and Will have a hearing before Judge
White at the next term of Circuit Court
Shipments of lettuce from Leesburg for
the week ending Jan 10 amounted to $50
baskets. But for the rainy weather in
the early part of the week the shipments
would have been considerably more Near
ly all went by express to Eastern markets
Inc growers receive fair prices-a little
over 81 net per basket for field lettuce and
81 TO 50 per basket for framed lettuce.
Key West Herald: A man in soldiers
uniform, claiming to be Jacob Cash of
New York, arrived in the city yesterday en-
route TO Havana. He says that he in
tends making a tour Of the world in the
interests of Democracy and will persuade
Gen. Lee and Admiral Dewey to be the
next Democratic candidates. He is a
young man, wears a soldiers uniform and
appears to be way off in his upper story"
Kissimmee Valley Gazette: DR.. Char
lie Wade of Crescent City. who was here
about three weeks ago, practicing as a
nVe
persons the day he left The performance
itself was painless. but day or two after
ward the mouths of all the victims showed
symptoms of poisoning, which rotted the
gums and loosened the teeth of the suf-
ferers, who are still feeling the effects
of the doctors skill.
Louis Hicks, the colored forger. who
was arrested at Tampa Thursday. was
bound over to the Criminal Court Friday.
1t is clearly evident that Louis did not
write the check himself, and he told AS
slstant Chief of Police Jones that a GER
tain man gave him the check, but the
man cannot be found In the place of a
revenue documentary stamp an ordinary
2-cent postage stamp was used by the
person who forged the check
Gen. J f. swindley, a retired English
officer, lives about two miles west of Or
lando, his bachelor home being on the
margin of a pretty lake, which bears his
name. He has recently added to his or
ange grove $50 grapefruit trees. covering
about five acres, and in this has laid the
foundation for competence in his ma
turer years. e. ]. Reel has also recently
planted out fine lot of grapefruit trees
Hereafter this fruit will be cultivated
much more extensively than in the past.
While the Tampa city election is nearly
five weeks off the political pot is boiling
with as much interest as if it were nor
five days off, and yet there is much TO be
done before a ticket is named for mil
nlcipal honors. -Four counciImen hold
over, and five are to be elected. The
live retiring councilmen are generally re-
garded as candidates for reelection and
several others are suggested in the local
papers. Viewing the situation as it stands
at present, the indications are that the
city campaign promises to be unusuallv
interesting, if not exciting.
Nearly ten years since the county seat
of Dade county, with all its books. rec
ords and everything that goes TO make IN
a county seat, was transferred from Mi
ami to Juno and Miami was left desolate
ana sad. For nearly ten years the Deo-
pie from this end of the county have been
Obliged to take frequent and long JOURNEYS
to transact necessary business at the
county seat. Now that Miami has built
herself up, and is one of the most prornis
ing and enterprising towns in Southern
floflda she will make a strenuous effort
to have the court house returned to her
In few weeks il is said that a county
seat election VIII be held, and that again
Miami viii be honored as being the county
seat OF Dade county, one of the most .nros
porous counties in the stale