The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07
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urge force Of men are now a work clear
lug away the ground and preparing TO
erect The plant. A large stump-pulling
machine for this company arrived In the
city this morning from the North. and
VIII be taken up this afternoon by the
steamer May Garner, it being delivered
at her dock at once. il was also stated
that ground covering 100 or more acres
and specially adapted 10 the culture Of
sugar cane is being cleared near the above
mentioned place, and that il will be plant
cd IN cane al once. Machinery for the
refinery has been ordered, and will arrive
IN a few days. when the work of erection
viii commence and IL is expected to have
the works. which viii be a vast benefit
to that place this city and the state at
large, at work by early fall.
Francis J. Pons was acquitted by jury
in the Stale Circuit Court at jacksonville
Friday of the charge of having shot and
killed the husband of Mrs. Annie L. Orig
gers at Macclenny in April, 1895 and for
which damages in the sum of $4,000 were
asked. The jury was only out a short
While when verdict in favor of the de-
PENDANT was returned
A portion of the monument to be erected
to the memory of Col. w. ID. Chipley has
arrived at Pensacola, and is a beauty. 1t
Is of fine granite. By special enactment
OF the City Council a plot OF ground has
been given to the public square, centrally
located. and the magnificent memorial will
be placed there The work of erection
Will begin when the rest arrives Col
Chipiey was native of Georgia and viii
be inferred at his Old home in Columbus.
For the first time in a long term of
years there is no money in the Bradford
county treasury 20 pay off the warrants
issued by the Board of County Commits
sioners. With the exception of the bond
fund, all the funds against which the
commissioners draw are out of money and
those who hold warrants must keep them
until the tax money begins 10 come in,
unless they wish to use them a the
stores, where they will be received at face
value for merchandise
Two huge dredges and ten big scows
are being built at Jacksonville for Hughes
Bros. e. Bangs of New York, for use in
their million dollars United States contract
for New York harbor work Friday fifty
expert carpenters and shipwrights arrived
from Buffalo, n. y, 20 work on them. The
scows will each be 300 feet long, 10 feet
deep and IS feet wide. 1t will take ten
months to complete the job Jacksonville
was selected as the most suitable spot on
account of the fine facilities for securing
the best lumber while the weather would
permit uninterrupted Work. 1t is one OF
the largest contracts let there for years.
Tallahasseean: 1t must be pretty hard to
run country weekly paper in connection
with preaching the gospel. Brother Caid-
well of the Florida Index. printed at Lake
City, is credited with getting off the fol-
lowing story, and If the authorship is cor
rectly given we shah expect to hear next
that he is being disciplined" by the good
old church brat g Down hero al tba
experiment station they began feeding
cassava 20 COW that wasn't giving any
milk a all, and next morning the enclos-
ure, where the cow had been confined
was nothing but a pond of milk with a
lump of butter as big as a sugar kettle
floating around in the middle of it,
Titusville. Florida Star: This section
was visited by a cod wave. which was
wholly unforwarned, Monday night, the
temperature falling to Is degrees early
Tuesday morning. thin ice forming in
some exposed places Owing 10 the con-
tinued cold weather, from a few days prior
to Christmas up to this week, the orange
and other varities of citrus fruits were in
a dormant condition and sustained no per-
ceptible damage, although such a short
period of cold would hardly have damaged
them even in a growing condition. Sew
eral of the groves about this place, pro
vided with tents, were protected. With
the Thermometer outside at % the tenn
pera ture inside the tents on Mr.. Scrm-
occurs grove was maintained at so de-
grees. which shows the thorough practical
bllity and utility of the Mcfarland inven-
lion. The cold wave continued its severity
until Wednesday, the temperature being
about one degree lower Wednesday morn
ing than 1t was Tuesday morning.