The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-27

Kenneth Bruce son of Hon. Wallace
Bruce. president of Florida Chautauqua,
has been elected class roet fer Yale Cos-
lege for 1900.
Two carloads of ostriches at Jacksonville
have arrived from California. Each car
contained fifty. The ostrich farm mana
gers have made a great success of the
industry IN Florida. They have $4,000 in
vested and it is the second largest ostrich
farm in the United States.
Mr. Henry f. Bennett, one of the we'll
known young instructors of the state, has
been favorably mentioned as a candidate
for president of the State Teachers AS
ISOLATION, to succeed President ]. C. Comp
ton, whose term of office expires at the
annual meeting which viii be held in Tai
lahassee the last week in this year.
Orlando Star: Freeze after freeze may
have retarded, but has by no means killed
the orange industry i'm this section.
Growers are working all kinds of schemes
TO save their trees in case of another
freeze. Orange culture was a valuable
industry here, and when the old settlers
think Of what it once was, they hate, and
we might say will never give it up.
Hon Frank Clark of jacksonville, Of an
ti-cigarette bin fame, is out with an an
nouncement of his candidacy for Congress
from the Second Florida district, against
Congressman Robert w. Davis. He sub
scribes 20 the Chicago platform, opposes
trusts and imperialism, wants a duty on
Egyptian cotton, and believes FIorlda's
rivers and harbors should be most liberal
ly dealt with.
City Alderman ]. s. Leonard, of Pensa-
cola, died at a hospital in Philadelphia
where he had gone for treatment of a can
Ger in his throat, Tuesday. His remains,
accompanied by his wife and brother, ar
rived in Pensacola Friday morning, and
were inferred IN st. MichaeTs Cemetery in
the afternoon of the same day He was
cashier of the First National Bank Of
Pensacola at the time of his death. He
leaves wife, one daughter and Two sons
Leesburg Commercial; The velvet bean
crop is large this year, it will be larger
next year; the number of hogs now fat
tening for pork, to be made into good ba-
con- shoulders and hams, is larger this
year than II was last, and win be still
greater twelve months hence. The acre
age in cassava is larger and it viii grow
each year N volume of this valuable pro-
duct, and there win be more fat cattle
and more fine mix cows and less cotton
seed meal and com and bran bought, and
the county VIII D. more prOS-
porous and VIII continue to pres
per- The future fer the far
mers In this Qake) county and in other
South ForiCa counties is not gloomy by
any manner % means. but there is i'm
provement all along the Zine because of
the new and practical efforts being made
by the farmers.
Tampa Tribune: Now. the people Of
Nanatee are beginning to reap the real
results of their prosperity. Their vese.a-
bic and fruit crops have brought prompt
returns. Their oranges have been sold on
the trees, at prices that, hitherto. they
scarcely dared to dream Of Large invest
ments are Being made Banks are 10 add
their strength and facilities to the bust
ness OF the county. Railroads are looking
mat way. and surveyors are already run
ming their promised lines. Shipping con-
Neniences have been increased. and Will b.
increased in future. The people OF Mama
tee county richly deserve this prosperftv
Ihey have toiled through sunshine and
through storm. They have brought forth.
IA ample measure, the product Of allied