The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-20

others are expected in a few days. which
VIII keep the work going for some time
50 Ear the weather has not deferred the
work
Jacksonville News; Maj S. S Harvey
formerly of Pensacola, and late paymaster
in the United States army, is engaged in
business in Havana, and has numerous
money-making schemes for investors He
will probably find his new undertakings
more successful than he did his third
party movements in Florida.
At Dade City heavy rains, with western
winds fell Thursday night, insurng the
potato crop and early beans. Berries too
Will be more free in bloom, while cas-
sava will come up all the better for such
moist condition of soil. Collards and cab
bage seem to be fast recovering from the
effects of the cold wave of three weeks
ago
letter was received In Gainesville Fri
day by Senator McCreary from Senator
Mallory, stating that the latter's health
was slowly improving. and that he would
likely be in his seat at Washington some
time in April. Senator Mallory is now in
New Orleans and states that he has been
having a serious time but feels that he is
now on the road to recovery. His host
of admirers in Florida and elsewhere will
be glad to learn this.
The annual meeting of the Florida State
Board of Health, which was postponed
from the regular date Feb. 49, will be
held to-day in Jacksonville and more
than usual interest is felt in the forth
coming annual report of the Florida
Health Officer. DR.. Porter's report will
cover the late yellow fever period and is
likely to touch upon the relations between
the State Board and the United States
Marine Hospital Service of which Dr.
Wyman is the official head.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee will meet at the Rathbun Hotel in
Jacksonville at II o'clock March %. The
time and place for holding the State Con-
vention will be selected and other mat
ters will be attended to. The campaign
for Governor and State House officers has
developed no specially interesting feature,
and the various candidates are making
quiet canvass of the state. The guberna-
toria can1idates-five in all-are in favor
of the Chicago platform and Bryan, and
there are no local issues for discussion.
1t is tame political campaign.
The continued smallpox at the county
Jail in Jacksonville has set the sheriff and
his deputies TO guessing about providing
accommodations for their guests. Since
the three cases of smallpox were discov-
cred at the Jail, it has not been considered
safe to hold either Criminal or Circuit
Court for criminal cases, and the county
jail now shelters ninety-five prisoners,
and three have been sent to the Sand
Hills Hospital. OF the total prisoners
twelve are alleged murderers, three of
whom have been sentenced TO be hanged,
and about per cent. of the remainder are
held for assault with attempt to kill or
other equally heinous crimes. 1t is also
stated that SO per cent. of them are ne
grOes. If the smallpox shall continue ana
the prisoners shall accumulate as rap
idly during the next month as they have
in the past month, an annex will have to
be built, or the cellar of the County Court
House will have to be used a jail.
Several thousand acres in South Florida
will be devoted this year to the raising of
espinosa, otherwise and Familiarity known
there as the Florida coffee weed. 1t gets
its name from its seeds, growing in pods,
and somewhat resembling the coffee bean.
To what use it is put the Florida growers
profess not to know. 1t Is sufficient for
them that it has market. Like the
sunflower seed, so largely raised in West
ern Iowa, it is probably used as an adul-
terant. The plant is a native of Mexico,
and its seeds have been imported into
the United States in large quantities for
a number of years. large firms in the
West and North buying heavily. So large
was the demand that attempts were made
to grow the plant in the United States.
Experiments with it in Arkansas and Tex
as failed, but satisfactory results were
obtained in Florida last year, and rapid
growth of the industry there is predicted.
The cold wave did no damage, except
in the northern portion of the state, where
truck is raised. The cold extended only
short distance south of Jacksonville.
Practically no damage was done to orange
trees or crops in the great fruit growing
section of the state.