The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05


caught in the future and duty assessed
or the stuff seized.
The owners Of orange groves, who have
J money to spend upon them. are sparing
| nothing at present In the care of their
| trees. In the southern part of Alachua
county Many hundred dollars will be spent
upon orange trees this winter.
Mrs e. Doe, who had been i'll for few
days died suddenly Saturday at Ft.
Meade Of heart disease Mrs Doe was
loved ana respected by all who knew her.
/ She leaves a son and daughter. She was
! inferred in the city cemetery.
W. J. Dixon, a respected citizen Of Mayo
died on Tuesday at the home of +. E.
! webb, near Mayo. Mr.. Dixon was in the
! 10th year Of his ase. He was laid to rest
/ in Midway cemetery with Masonic honors
! by Mayo lodge, OF which he was a mem
Der
During the past month the police force
of Tampa did sufficient business 10 collect
more than cash enough TO pay off the en-
! tire department for the MONTH aud, be-
sides this, more than that amount was
worked out on the rock road Not a sin
! gle saloon was raided.
The following ticket has been dominated
for town officers at Eau Galle for the en-
! suing year For Mayor, Albert Bennett,
! aldermen, George f. Paddison, William
| Treutler and w. ]. Nesbitt; assessor and
| treasurer, s. X. Watts; marshal and COL
! lector, Aaron Bennett. clerk Ernest Tay
! Tor. The election takes place the second
| Monday in March.
William Williams of Key West has
bought the Delgado de Parein, the flagship
! of the Spanish fleet which defended Man
| zanillo from American sea attack on the
| 18th of July last. In the engagement she,
| with five guuboats was sunk. She was
! raised recently and placed on the marine
| railway at Manzanilfo, to be repaired.
Nine holes were in her hun
There will be no primary in Alachua
county in March. Yesterday was the last
| day upon which the money for defraying
| the expense of conducting a primary could
be put up, and as only five candidates for
| county commissioners and one candidate
| for senatorial honofs-W. Caf-put up any
thing at all. there was not enough money
raised, and the primary was declared off.
chicken hawk, flying over the prem
ises of Rev. e. Trice, two and one-half
miles south of Tallahassee dropped a half
grown rooster in the yard. 1t was pierced
| through the head by the claws of the hawk
and apparently more dead than alive when
picked up but was ,nursed back to life,
got entirely we'll, and is now the pet of the
yard Whose barnyard was robbed by the
hawk no one has been able to learn.
Fort Myers Press: Politics are begin
ming to occupy the minds of the politl-
| clans The Hon. Peter o. Knight is widely
talked of as successor to Senator Pasco,
and from present indications Polk. De
Soto, Manatee, and other counties think
him the coming senator. He has lately
reached the shrine in Masonry by both
| roads-whatever Knight undertakes he
does it,
1t Is not often that a bird will attack
a man, but William Lainhart. who lives
near the rubber tree, at Palm Beach.
had an experience of the kind few days
ago. He went out on the beach near his
place, and as he came down on the shore
saw large bird there within a few feet
of him. He stood looking at it when the
bird suddenly flew at his face and seized
his nose in its beak and began TO claw his
face. He got hold of the bird wings and
made 1t captive, but not until it had lac
| Grated his face badly. He now has the
bird penned up at his house. 1t had been
wounded in the back, and that was prob
ably the reason for its vicious attack on
him. 1t is webfooted bird, and is very
| large, but the species is not known.
special to the Morning News from Tai
| lahasse, says: The palatial home of Mr..
George Lewis, president of the First Ma
| tional Bank, was thrown open on Thurs
| day evening for the annual "oId folks
dance" The elegantly furnished parlors
were deliberately decorated with beautiful
flowers, the guests were attred after the
/ styles of former years, the music was ex-
| cellent and the occasion one of rare en-
! Joyment for the large number present
| The entertainment was intended as a
! birthday party for Mr.. William G. Doug
| lass of st. Louis. a brother of Mrs. Lewis.
| and a winter guest at her home The re-
| freshments were served in the olden style.
old cut glass, china and ancient silverware
| being brought into service. The Oldest
| person present was in his eighty-sixth
| year, and he went through the Virginia
| reel with the agility of a 16-year-old.-
| The railroad commission is wrestling with
| the complicated problem of making pas
! seuger rates, 20 be put in operation on the
| Florida railroads.
Many thousand acres of land near Fort
Ogden are tied up from settlement pending
needed legislation. The legislature grant
| pany every alternate section Of land from
| Barlow to Punta Gorda if the company
| should complete the road by the Fourth
| of July, 1886. 1t did this, and the board
| of internal improvement gave the deeds to
| the railroad company. Col. S. T. Waites
who was employed by the state to prose-
| cute certain claims against the United
| States. was offered by the state land I'm
| payment of his services. Col. Waites had
| an agent select the land who chose some
| that had been decided by the state to the
| railroad company. Many citizens bought
| these lands, some from the railroad COM
pany and some from Col. Waites. These
| purchasers have been forced to pay both
| claimants. In consequence no one now
will buy land from either Col Waites or
| the railroad company. This state of af-
| fairs not only retards the settlement Of
the land, but is unjust to those who have
| bought The decd that Col. Wates holds
is the older, but by an act of the legisla-
ture the railroad company holds the older
| claim.