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


Jacksonville Metropolis: Following m
the suggestion of sugar refneries and the
encouragement of the sugar cane business.
Jacksonville has already secured the es-
taolishment of one in che city.
Jasper correspondence of the Morning
News: Two railroad negroes, who decided
that they would regulate the market of
Mr.. 6. j. Register, went into his stall and
raised row. One of them got his skull
broken with the butt of a buggy Whip
Drs. Hanna and Alfred dressed the wound
and the darkey is now in the lookup.
st. Augustine Herald A fruit dealer and
a doctor had brush on Cathedral Mace
this morning, the doctor asked the fruit
dealer if he sold oranges at Is cents each.
and being answered in the affirmative. the
doctor said You lie, = whereupon the fruit
dealer struck him, an arrest followed but
the case was dismissed by the doctor pay
ing the cost
4 letter, received by Land Commissioner
Ingraham of The East Coast Land Com
pany, from E, R. Bradley of Flammingo
on Cape Sable, contains the gratifying as
surance that the frost did little damage
IN that vicinity. Sugar cane is unframed
vegetables far advanced, were damaged
slightly, but the principal crops of both
fruit and vegetables are practically unin-
jured.
The United States civil service com
mission announces that on April s. be-
ginning at o'clock in the morning. ex-
animation will be held for the position of
deputy collector and inspector at the
Jacksonville custom house. This exam
ination is open to all citizens of the United
States who comply with the requirements
William L. Douglas, the world famous
shoe manufacturer of Brocton, Mass. is
at the ST. James, in Jacksonville. Mr..
Douglas has made a big fortune, and he
attributes his success alone to judicious
advertising in newspapers.
Jacksonville Metropolis: B. S. Partridge.
the veteran Well borer of this city, has
just completed an artesian well for the
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
Company at the junction of the Belt road
and the Jacksonville and Fernaudina
road, in the northeastern suburb of this
city The well is Ill feet deep, four-inch
casing, and the flow about $50 gallons per
minute, with a strong pressure. A tank
for supplying tenders is being erected at
the we'll. The railroad company is well
pleased with the well and the fine quality
of water. Though a month ago the Coun-
ty Commissioners ordered the artesian
well at the county Jail to be examined
to see why its flow had decreased, nothing
10 it has yet been done.
A former resident of Orlando, residing
now at Hartford, Conn, has about reach
ed the conclusion that he was a fool
for leaving Florida. In comparison of the
possibilities of the two states he writes
the OTlonda Sentinel as follows: There
are people living here that you could not
shoot into Florida with a twenty-inch gun,
and when you tell them what the soil of
Florida will produce with one-half the
energy expended on ten acres that they
expend on 1c0 acres here, they will stand
and look at you with mouth and eyes
wide open, If they do not call you a falsi-
fer, and go on drudgng six months in
the year to get enough to live on and keep
warm through the other six. AS for me,
l am heartily tired of it, and as soon as
I can make che turn 1 am going back,
for I had rather live on hog and hominy
in Florida than on sirloin roasts and por-
terhouse steaks in this country"