The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-01

der the name Of the First Presbyterian
! Church of Jacksonville.
Volusia County Record: A few years
I hence the cassava industry about De
Land will be immense and every farmer
win be growing it, both as stock food
and for sale TO the Seminole Manufactur-
ing Company, to be converted into starch.
The company is investing 100000 in the
business, and will have the most COM
plete starch factory here in the country.
The csssava will be a cash crop, and the
farmers can dispose Of all they can grow.
1t is a mighty poor acre Of land that Will
not produce five tons of eassava roots and
the company pays Sc per ton.
DeLand Record Albert Cothran, alias
Nelson, who was convicted of bigamy in
the Criminal Court of this county several
years ago, and sentenced to five years
term in the state penitentiary was par
doned by the pardoning board last fan
As soon as he was released he went to
his wife No 3, who moved TO Tampa
from this place about a year ago, but wife
No 3, who worked 50 hard for his re-
lease, and ministered TO his wants while
he fingered in the Volusia county jail,
refused to live with him again. Word
reaches DeLand that Cothran is again a
married man. living with wife No. 4, with
whom he united the first of the year. He
now has four living wives.
Tampa Herald A petition is being cir
culated and numerously signed to-day
asking that the state be redistricted, so
far as the federal districts are concerned
making Tampa the headquarters of the
Southern district This will be a great
convenience to Tampa, the most import
ant city in the state. so far as transact
ing federal business goes. 1t is here that
50 per cent. of the internal revenue bust
ness is done, and this should also be
looked after and changed along with the
other. All of the court business original
ing here is greatly Inconvenience by the
fact that it is not the headquarters of the
district, and it is likely that the neces-
sity for the change will be apparent and
that success will crown the effort
Conservative estimates place the orange
crop in the Kissimmee valley this year at
at least three-fourths the size of the ban
ner crop before the freeze of 1885 Tax
Assessor Hughey, who is practical or
ange grower, has just completed his
rounds throughout the various precincts
of the county, and states that the num-
Der of bearing trees is greater than IT
was before the big freeze, and that the
most of them are heavily fruited. The
magnificent grove belonging to Messrs. j.
NJ e. D. c. Lee will produce this season
$500 boxes-sixfold of last years crop
and other groves throughout the county
that have received anything like proper
management will bear in proportion. The
Osceola crop is particularly valuable for
the reason that a large percentage of 1t
is grape fruit and tangerines. The number
of groves abandoned in the county since
the freeze can be counted on one nm
gers. Nearly all the original groves have
been carefully cultivated and nursed into
bearing, and in many instances the acre
age increased One district of that coun-
tv bears the distinction of being the only
orange growing section of the state that
has never been seriously affected by
freezes-the Bassinger section. and as an
evidence of this it is being rapidly set
tied up by a thrifty, energetic people, ana
will soon be one of the most populous
districts of the county. Several growers
in the vicinity of Kissimmee have been
experimenting with the trifoliata stock
with satisfactory results.