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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
Jims oi i&e lio Stales Told in Para
graphs.
A Cfcild Has a Narrow Escape From Be
in g Burned to Death A Nejrro Well
Digger Burled Alive While at Work in
the Suburbs of Atlanta Chartres or
Shocking Cruelty Atrainst the Super
intendent of the Bibb County Cham
rang Officers Elected by a Mill Com
p&ny of Florida.
GEORGIA.
Mrs. Joseph Comer of Athens died Mon
day.
Thorn?*" Guernsey, of Macon, died Mon
day night, aft'-r an illness of sixteen
months with consumption.
An old colored couple, the groom *2 and
th* bride 7 W > n <>f age. w.t- r* ently
united in marriage by A. Youngblood,
Esq., in Washington county.
J F. Little, a painter, was arrested at
Gainesville T-i* day morning for pacing
counterfeit money at the store of G. I*.
Estes. He a
by Deputy Ben Landers soon alter his ar
rest.
The handsome duelling and all th* fur
niture of W F. IPv\ ( r of ISowm.i: ia
the upper portion of Libert county, ie
totally destroyed by fire Sunday n hr.
Bower: is a j*r>mm* :it l>uMn*vs man
of Bowman. Hi: loss is h* ;vy.
The stock of goods of Julius S' hen# r
of Cartersville. who fail* and •**■-vfr.il weeks
ago. is to be sold as a whole to the high
est bidder to-day. by consent an i agree
ment of all his c reditors. The sto- k in
voices up between and F.'lO*. His
liabilities probably arc several thousand
higher.
T. A. Cantrell, on Ninth avenue and
Tenth street, at Columbus, was totally
destroyed by fire Sunday, together with
his entire stock of merchandise. The build
ing was owned bv H. 11. Daniel and was
valued at about $./*>. Mr. Cantrell’s stock
was worth between s2.om and $2,50), which
was uninsured.
Hiram Williams, who Is serving on the
present grand Jury at Ameri' us. walked
in Monday morning from his home in the
country, a distance of ten or twelve miles
and arriving long bef >r** 0 o'clock, the
hour of meeting. Mr. Williams Is between
7d and 90 years of age, but thinks nothing
of a little walk like this.
Monday afternoon about 3 o'clock, the
little 3-year-old son of J T Land, of Co
lumbus, narrowly escaped being badly
burned. The mother had left the little
one for a few minutes to step into an ad
Joining room when her attention was at
tracted by his sc reams. She- imm* diato
ly hastened to him and v is startled to
discover the little fellow’s dress In flames.
Bhe heroically tore his clothes away, and
saved him from any injury, but her hands
were badly burned in the effort.
Jaok Walden, a prominent .voting farmer
of Newton county, w.-ts frozen to death
Saturday night, while- returning home
from Covington. Walden had been to
Covington on business and started home
late In the afternoon in a buggy. Next
morning his body whs found frozen stiff
near Broom’s bridge over the Yelo river.
It is supposed that he was overcome from
the colei and fell from the buggy and was
unable to rise again. Walden was a pros
perous young farmer and leaves a wife
and children.
The new academy recently built by the
colored people of W oodstoe k was de
stroyed by fire. Sunday night, about 11
o’clock. There had been a wrangle be
tween the colored democ rats and colored
populists as to w ho should he' employe I to
teach the school this year. After numer
ous meetings and arguments Allen Dial
democrat, was employed It Is rumored
that some of the defeated faction mad -
threats that thev would burn the- build
ing and even kill Dial before- h should
teach. There Is no doubt the burning
was the work of fire bugs. There is
some clue.
Henry White, a negro well digger, was
buried alive In a wa ll at Ke\noldstow n.
a suburb of Atlanta, bv th* caving in of
quicksand at 1 o’* look Tue-alay afternoon.
Whitt* and his partner were digging a well
at the residence of J. T W-dlham. corner
Lee and Wylie streets, Rpynoldstown.
White had eaten his dinner and d*-<•* tided
Into the well, which had reached the
depth of forty-one feet. Harrison heard
White shout: “Something’s failin' hero!’*
Harrison looked down in the well ami
there was nothing to be seen but a mass
of clay and sand which h&d completely
buried White. He must have died quick
ly. No one would go in the well, and it
was an hour before efforts were made to
dig him out.
Alec Goodrich, a builder of Augusta. Is
quite anxious for Judge Eve. who, as com*
missioner of roads and revenues, has to
supply the scaffold for the execution, to
allow him to have the new style patented
automatic gallows which has been adopted
for use In the west, tested with Wiggins.
By the new process of hanging, if it is
adopted. Jabez will stand on the ground
and will bo jerked up instead of falling
from an elevation clown through trap
ddors. The automatic gallows is worked
with a tank of water. In the tank is a
floating trigger and when the tank is
filled the trigger puts in motions a .”.<lO or
pound iron ball, which rolls down an
incline. Attached to the hall is the rope,
the other end being fastened around the
murderer’s neck. When the ball rolls .ff
It will null Jabez up and the several f--et
of slack rope which is allowed will c rack
bis neck as he is pulled up the full length
and is about to descend.
ThA grand Jury of Bibb county met
Monday. t'ol. William If. Ross is foreman
Th? most important business transacted
V as the appointment of a committee con
sisting of A. ]■’. I’arrott, chairman; W II
Whitehead and W H. McGee to investi
gate certain alleged cruelties and abuses
that are practiced at the Bibb countv
chaingang. The charges of bad treatment
of prisoners and slock are made against
Superintendent W. It. Paschal bv J. n
Mill, who was one of the guards' at the
county chaingang during the year ism.
Hill says that Paschal has made prisoners
go into mud and water up to their knees
when the ground was frozen, and lift the
cars out that wore mired up to the axle
and these cars weigh from 2.Bu<i to 31*)0
Vounds, besides the load that was in them
nil further alleges that he has seen Pas
chal blindfold a mule with corn sacks
and then heat him unmercifully with a
stick. Hill says: "'I also witnessed W u
Paschal take a negro girl in her teens,
down flat on the ground, and strip her to
the waist, then put a negro man on her
feet and another on her head, while he
whipped her with a heavv leather strap
and she begging him to take her off to one
side where she would not be exposed to
all the gang. I counted seventy-five licks
he hit her. and that was not all. She was
well blistered." Hill further says that a
prisoner has been made to go on the road
and work, when the ground was frozen
hard, with no shoes on his feet, and "1
have seen Paschal,” says Hill, "run a
prisoner from the tire, who was hare
footed and almost naked, and the ground
frozen hard. I have seen fifty to sixty
prisoners with not more than thirtv or
forty blankets. 1 have seen from forty
to fifty prisoners in a room eighteen hv
twenty, and the room would he so crowd
ed that some would have to stand and do
the best they could, as they could not lie
down I reported to him. \V. It. Paschal,
and his reply was that they wore no more
than horses.” Hill says he has seen
xvhlte men chained with negro men and
white women chained with negro women,
and thus sleep at night. The prisoners
were not allowed to w ish but once a week
and the whites and blacks wash in the
same water tn a large tub! Hill says i-e
saw hut one preacher go to the camp and
talk to the prisoners during last year.
Hill also says; “I have seen twenty-four
men in one ear. eight by eighteen, and
:■ n under the same ear. and those under
the car would call to me and others to
take them out from there on account of
water being all under them, and tlmy cer
tainly were wet. We would have to put
them in the car with the twenty-four
prisoners, and I have heard them ask to
he let out to the fire when It was very
cold and would say they were about to
freeze, as they had but one blanket apiece;
tut they were not let out to the fire."
Superintendent Paschal dpnies the
charges made by Hill and says Hill is
simply angry because he has keen dis
charged as a guard. Hill claims that ha
was femox-ed because he attempied to pro
tect the prisoners and the property of the
county, and bet-ause he has complained
of Paschal's management of the chna
, gang. Thu commltf** from th#' grand Jury
■ will make a Thorough inxest.gat.on of the
| entire matter.
FLORIDA.
Jo*ph JrfPerzon. the well-known play
wright and at'tor. i? at 8: Augustine. ID
will a* company Mr. Flagler and party to
Palm Beach.
At Went I‘aim Bearh, Tuesday. Robert
Moore, while playing with an alligator
about *lx feet Jong, was seriously bitten
on the foot. Th* gator • aught the entire
foot in his mouth, tvhich had to be pried
open.
At a congregational meeting of the
Presbyterian church at Gainesville Sun
day, Rev. L. W. Way of Waithourville.
Ga., and a member of the Suwannee
Presbytery, was called to the pastorate
of the church.
all the phosphate men throughout
Alachua county who employ free* labor
met recently and agreed io cut the
2 per cent. Now they are experiencing
grat difficulty in supplying th*- demand
f.r lat >or, many of the men ha\ ing left
them.
J. T Jones, a farmer, living about four 1 ’
miles south of Glen St. Mary, was severe
ly Injured, last Friday, by a vicious bog
that he was about to shoot. The h*g was
t*M quick for Mr. Jones and knocked him
down, tearing his legs am! face. Help
was near and the hog was promptly dis
patched.
There arrived at Key West during the
month of December 311 aliens, I**!* males
and 12.’ females. Two were professionals,
*4 skilled laborers. X* miscellaneous; no
occupations. tW males and 123 females.
Most of the entire number stopped tn
Ko> West to locate; th- balance were
for other points in Florida.
The business part <>f <Vnt**r llill was-
Rutted by fire. B. I; Hobson, genera?
nien-handis •, stock of SI,OOO, Insurance
total los-*; Smith Bros., general mer
chandise. stock, 94,<*m. They carried in
surance of $2,000, and saved about {.*) of
Block. The fire caught in Hobson's store.
It is supposed to have been set afire by
some miscreant.
<>n Monday. Jan. 7. at Greenwood the
Jackson t’ounty Mill < Company Incorpo
rated elected their officers for the en
suing year as follows: Robert K. Pen
der, president; Millard F. Boone, secre
tary anl treasurer; Lawrence S. Pen
der. William T. Pender, and Miss Mary
Scott, directors. This corporation has
the distinction of having the only lady
director in the state.
Monday night, at Port Tampa Pity, the
colored laborers attacked the Italians
with clubs and sticks, breaking up their
camp. numlM ring about twenty-five men,
ami dispersing them. They gave them un
til dark this evening in which to leave.
The colored laborers have been receiving
sl.jh a day. The Italians have come in to
work for II a day. This was the direct
cause of the trouble. Th** negroes, num
bering about thirty were led by a small
party of whit*- laborers. On*' of the Ital
ians was quite badly hurt. One of the ne
gro leaders w ts arrested, but succeeded
In escaping w ith handcuffs on. Four more
of th* leaders were brought in and lodged
in Jail. Th* dock hands arc In no way
connected with the affair.
At the request, of the Sela P. Harrison
Jury at Tampa, the charges were reread
to them Tuesday morning. At 2 o'clock
they brought in their verdict, as follows:
We, th*- Jury, find th*- defendant, Sela
P. Harrison, guilty of manslaughter, as
charged in the Indictment, so say we all."
The prisoner sat apparently unmoved. A
slight frown passed over his face, and for
a short time hm breathed heavily. His
wife, who was out of the room, came in
weeping bitterly. The defendant’s counsel
stated that they would make an appeal.
The Judge then passed such a sentence
upon the prisoner that the attorneys are
satisfied. Harrison is sentenced to six
months in the county Jail. The sentence
is well received by the community.
<\ C. Warren and J E. Hathcox of
Gainesville hnd two fights Tuesday. The
tlrst one occurred in the sheriff’s office
of the court house when Hathcox. who
bad been arrested by Deputy Sheriff \\ nr
ren, appeared and asked for something
which belonged to him. and which was
In the custody of the sheriff. The arti
cles In question were in the safe wh* re
Mr Warren could not get at them. He
told llathcox the circumstances, but the
latter was not satisfied, and began to
abuse Mr. Warren, who struck him.
Friends Interfered and put an end to
the trouble. Later it was renewed on the
square and fought to a finish. Hathcox
was terribly beaten In the head and
face, while Warren sustained no injuries.
Fort Clinch, situated on the north end
of Amelia island, guarding the entrance
to Cumberland sound, and in charge
of Sorgt. Gotlect Bigalskv. C. S A . was
broken Into some time during the latter
part of last week, evidently by some
malicious parties. In one of the under
ground rooms was stored the original
model of the drawbridge to the south
entrance of the fort. This was demol
ished among- other damage. Fort Clinch
is an imposing niece of masonry, and is
well protected by six 10-lneh Dahlgren
guns. It was built in 184*1 at an expense
of $500,000, but at present it is uno<-< upied
by troops. Several times before this fort
has been broken into and robbed.
Cupt. O. M. Carter was in
Fornandlna on Sunday, an.l steps will
probably be taken to apprehend the mis
creant.
S. J. Carlton of Arcadia has Just re
turned from the Fort Myers section,
where ho bought It,ooo boxes of oranges
at J 1.25 a box on the trees, to be moved
in February and March. He save the
oranges there were not Injured by the re
cent cold, and that leaves on the trees
are as green as before the freeze. The
groves of that section lay south of the
Caloosahatchee river, and are surrounded
by dense hammocks that protected them
from the blizzard. That is the only sec
tion in the state where oranges were not
badly frozen. Mr. Carlton is one of the
largest shippers in that section, and if
transportation people do not advance the
rate he will ship ten ears weekly tor the
next two months, but should they with
draw their present rates, which is half
rales payable In advance, he will be com
pelled to cease shipping. He paid to the
railroads last week for advance freights
over SSOO. Eight weeks more at the pres
ent rates he will have paid them 31,500 for
freights since the blizzard.
At Pensacola, the assignee's sale of the
property of the Export Goal Company was
concluded Tuesday. Several gentlemen
from New York and other points and
President Milton H. Smith of the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad and the Gulf
Transit Company were present. The of
fice building, fufmlture. fixtures, tele
graph lilts and quarantine budding, and a
buggy and horse were bought hv I’resi
dent Smith for $550. The steel screw
steamer Scythian. 880 tons net register
was bought by President Smith for $15,-
ftftft. The schooner barge Henry L. Gregg,
subject to mortgage of Sl,Tuft and interest,
and the schooner barge Rebecca
dard. subject to mortgage of Sl.ftOft and
interest, were knocked down to President
Smith for the sum of $1 each. The iron
screw tug Carbonero. 181 tons, subject to
a mortgage of $45,0110 and Interest, was sold
to W. D. Munson of Now York for st, and
the four-masted iron schooner barge Ala
bama. subject to a mortgage of $.10,500 and
interest, was also sold to him lor sl.
The schooner barge. Regulator, subject to
a mortgage of SIO,OOO and interest, was put
up, hiit no bid was made, and the sale
was closed.
The Y'onng Men’s Business League of
Orlando is composed of more than sixty
members from among the young business
men of the community, with a few older
ones. A large meeting was held at the
league's rooms Monday night, tn which
the questions of road Improvement, lower
freight rates on farm products, new busi
ness and manufacturing enterprises, etc.,
were discussed. A committee was selected
and authorized to interview managers of
transportation lines and try to secure re
duced rates to Orlando on certain classes
of merchandise, and from this section to
the northern markets on vegetables and
farm produets for the present season, it
is believed that if a 50 per rent, reduction
can be secured, farmers will be encour
| aged to plant larger acres tit spring veg
etables, and thus increase the bulk of
freights, and ai the same time bring
money into Florida io compensate in a
measure for the loss of the orange crop.
Two or three manufacturing enterprises
are under consideration by the league,
and while it is found far more difficult to
secure subscription to capital stock than it
would have been but for the late re
verses, yet there is good prospect of se
curing at least two very desirahle in
dustries within the next few weeks.
Joseph Robinson, alias Kimes, white,
was arrested at Jacksonville Tuesday by
Policeman Patton, charged with being
drunk and disorderly and a suspicious
character The policeman was told by-
Mr Walker, proprietor of the Continen
tal restaurant, that Robinson had been in
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JANUARY 17,1895.
his pla"* and tried to sell some diamonds
and other jewelry to him at prices that
were suspicious. Flobir.son was formtrly
employ* *i as a. porter at th# Glenada h^-
* el. and while he was there *om# Jew
elry belonging to on*- of th# ladies, a *uet
of he boi,* was stolen. No one sua
pe* t* i Robinson, however, until Tues
day. u Vdry was found on him.
Th*- lady from whom th# Jewelry was
stolen went to police headquarters and
identified the jewelry as belonging to her.
When sear* hed at police headquarters,
only two pins and a. chain were found on
h.m. Igiter. when .Policeman Patton re
turned to his beat, he met a negro boy.
who ban*led him a gold watch chain, and
tol 1 him th*- prisoner had thrown it
away when he was being taken to the
station. It is very evident that he also
threw away more of the Jewelry, as Mr.
I Walker Mat'-s that he offered quite a
; number of pieces to him for sale. The
• j*o!i*-. think that he h&a a confederate
who assisted him in these robberies.
Robinson is described as a tall man, fair
complexion, about Jo years of age.
Mrs Ella If* nry, daughter of John L.
Thomas, a prosperous farmer of Wakulla
• o inly, died at her father’s home Sun
day. She was a beautiful and accom
plished young lady, scarcely 22 years old
at the time of her death, but her life
from early girlhood was a particularly
- 1 on*, and its close brings to mind
a notable tragedy, the details of which
have never* found their way into print.
Reared in luxury and possessing th* at
tractions of her sex in loveliness and
attainments which < am# to her through
indulgent an*! well-to-do parents, she was
surrounded by any number of suitors,
and at a very early age married the man
whose name she bore at the time of her
cb-ath. Then commenced her troubles.
For every indulgence her parents had j
b -stowed upon her. it seems that she |
rereived the curses of a brute husband. 1
bne nieht when he returned horn*- at a
lat* hour and forced his maltreatment
to th limit of human duration she ran
away from him, hatless and shoeless
arid clad only in her night garments, to
sek th*- protection of her father's home
three miles distant on a desolate road,
without a settlement intervening. The
husband went next day and took her
ba k, and a few days later he was found ;
murdered In thf woods where he had j
he* n at work. The young wife’s brother j
was arrested for the crime, but never i
convicted. The great weight of Miss
Thomas’ troubles followed her to the
grave. Though hack among the sur
roundings of her happy childhood, she
v.as never the bright glri of former years,
and It is thought by many that her grief
hastened the end.
K. E. Belllsarlo, collector for the Glyde
line, had E. N. Delong arrested at Jack
sonville Tuesday afternoon on a charge
of having robbed him. Bellisario at first
claim**! to have been robbed of a check
drawn by Porcher L’Engle on the Na
tional Bank of Jacksonville in favor of
Mrs. Bellisario, for $280.95 and $183.32 in
rash, but when his collection wallet was
examined the c heck In favor of his wife
anl checks from different firms in the
city and $39.88 In cash were found. From
what can be learn***! of the robbery. Bel
lisario went Into “The Annex,’’ where he
took several drinks, and shortly after two
>trang*TH came in and joined Mr. Belltsa
rio, with some women, in the back room.
< *ne of the men left in a few minutes and
the other remained there* for nearly an
hour, with Belllsarlo, drinking. This was
about 2:30, and they remained there for
nearly an hour, when Bellisario, who was
in an intoxicated condition, and the
stranger left the saloon, and, getting in
a hack, drove off. They landed up !n a
house on Hawk street, near Ashley, kept
by a mullato woman. They had been
there only about ten minutes, when the
stranger left, saying he was going to
look for his friend. lie never came back.
Mr. Belllsarlo handed his wallet to the
woman and asked her how much money
there was in It. She counted it and told
him that there was $29.86. it was then that
h* mad.- the announcement that h** had
been robbed. He got in the hack, which
had taken him out to the house, and
started out to hunt the stranger, who had
robbed him. The negro driver said that
he knew who it was and about 8 o’clock
pointed out Mr. Delong as the man,
and called on officer Fritz to arrest him.
Th*- officer did so and took Mr. Delong to
police headquarters, where a charge of
su picioua character was entered against
biin. The woman, who keens the house
where Belllsarlo stopped, ana another wo
rn:.: . were brought to the station. They
positively stated that Mr. Delong was not
tin- man who had come to the house with
Bellisario, while the negro driver said
that he would not be certain. Mr.Belll
sario was positive in bis statement that
Mr. Delong was the right man and he
was held.
DISSATISFIED SCANDINAVIANS.
Why Some of Them Refused to Settle in
Manatee County.
Braidentown, Fla., Jan. 16.—The truck
growers are having tine weather for set
ting out plants—those who w'ere fortu
nate enough to protect their seed beds
from the recent freeze. The cabbage and
other hard plants will be ready for ship
ment in a few days.
Building is steadily going on. There is
not an Idle carpenter on the river, and all
arc receiving good wages. Manatee coun
ty is certainly the laboring man’s para
dise, as it costs him scarcely anything to
live and his wages are equal to thoso of
any western mining country, and his so
cial standing is rated by the amount, not
the quality, of bis work.
The great dissatisfaction that has caused
a good many of the. Scandinavian colonists
who came to the southern part of this
countv to settle and who recently return
ed without becoming citizens, was brought
about by none of the natural disadvan
-1 tages of the country, but by the terms
upon which they were to receive their
1 lands. It seemed that before they came
! here they were led to believe that they
would be’situated near together and on
the coast. But upon their arrival, in order
to secure their lands, they were compelled
i to draw for their lets—which were situa
; ted some distance from the coast, in the
woods, scattered all over the company’s
j land. And no two adjoining lots were to
be placed in the drawing. The price to be
! paid by the colonists for the land was $1.23
i per aero aml no titles were to be given
until the purchasers had resided upon
the land for two consecutive years.
A SUIT AGAINST FLAGLER.
The Title to Hundreds of Acres of Land
Involved.
Jacksonville. Fla., Jan. 18.—In the suit of
H. P. Northrop and others of New Y'ork
city, against Henry M. Flagler of St.
Augustine, which came up tn the United
States court hero this morning, Is involved
the title to many hundred acres of land ly
ing west of the Hotel Ponce de Leon In St.
Augustine, a part of the grounds of that
hotel and the present site of the union
station in that city, which Is “made”
land, having formerly been marsh land
and flats adjoining the San Sebastian
river and the Marla Sanchez creek.
The testimony in the case to-day was
in regard to the ownership, boundaries
and the former and present values of the
lands around the union depot site. The
plaintiffs claim jns.iurt damages, and the
case is exciting a great deal of public
interest, owing to the almost public uses
to which the land has recently been tie
voted iTnd the prominence and the wealth
of the defendant and the vast amount of
money expended by him in reclaiming
the lands and improving them. The ease
is likely to occupy a week or ten days,
and compel the attendance of nearly a
hundred witnesses.
Florida's Masonic Grand Lodge.
Jacksonville, Fla.. Jan. 16.—At to-day's
session of the Florida Grand Lodge of
Masons James W. Boyd of Bartow was
elected Grand Master and Dr. Henry Rob
inson of this city was. for the nineteenth
time, chosen grand secretary. This an
nual session of the grand lodge, the flfty
slxth. will probably close to-night.
Word comes from all quarters that the
neatest and most satisfactory dye for col
oring the beard a brow n or black Is Buck
ingham's Dye for the Whiskers.—ad.
FLORIDA’S FRUIT TREES.
Jbc Freeze Was 5o( a Blessing in Dis
guise.
Lemons, Grape Fruit and Youcsr Orange
Trees Filled— Oranco Grcves Being
Plowed and Fertilised Several New
Enterprises Checked—The Situation
Viewed by the People cf the State.
Orlando, Fla., Jan. 15.—*Jn his last pub
lished letter, “Bill Arp” r*Yers to his visit
to Sanford and to some of the comments
he heard about' the recent freeze. One
man said ft was it good thing, so far as
it killed out new graves, as there were
too many coming into bearing for profit
able orange culture.
Now, this is rather a way to
curtail over-production in any kind of pro
ducts of the soil or the manufactory.
hail it through a general calamity. It is
true that many young orange groves were
coming into bearing this year that are now
U
should be very sorry to m> r any man re
fer to the fact as a blessing to the owners
of older bearing groves.
Again, there never were as ."uany grape
fruit and lemon trees about to come into
bearing, and they have all been t'eetroyed.
Thousands of choice budded lern’xn trees
design***! for the best marketable fruit,
and stedles.l pomelo (or grape fruit> nur
series have been cut down by the fre* ze,
not to speak of the thousands of choice
budded orange trees destroyed. Th**t *
never was a time when out* fruit grower*
were more active in the matter of a variety
of the choicest kinds of orange, lemon,
grape fruit, persimmon, guava and other
trees. In my own case, on a small area,
I have lost fifty valuable varieties of these
different fruits, nearly all to come into
hearing this year or next. The question
of over-production does not enter into a
loss of this kind—one that strikes an al
most deadly blow’ at Florida’s progress in
improving the quality of her already
famous fruit products. It will take many
years to repair the great lo?s in this one
direction.
Another individual told “Bill Arp” the
freeze was a blessing in disguise in that
it would rid the people of dengue fever,
which has resulted from an unusually
wet summer and fall, and also 'dear the
scale from the fruit trees. Well, the
dengue fever may go away before the
breath of the ice king, but if it does
other and more deadly diseases arc sure
to follow this unpreparod-for severe
weather. I have not heard of a single
death from dengue fever alone, and only
two deaths where there was a complica
tion of other diseases. Ar.d, as for the
s- ale, it could not have a better time to
take possession of our trees than when
they are in a feeble condition and slowly
recovering from a destructive freeze.
Healthy, growing trees, well cared tor
and properly fertilized, are seldom mu* h
injured by the scale, which finds its chief
delight in neglected and half-starved
groves.
I have yet to meet the man who can
see any “blessing in disguise” in the re
cent freeze. No section of the state es
caped its destructive ravages, all reports
to the contrary notwithstanding. So
that it has not determined the much-dis
puted “frost line." In some parts of the
stato, a** might have been expected in the
extreme southern regions, the damage
was not as great as in this vicinity or
Middle and Western Florida. Still, all
marketable products were more or less
Injured over the whole state, and while
some people suffered more than others in
individual losses, the entire population
will feel the financial pressure growing
out of the calamity. As yet I have met
only one man who “cussed” at the loss
of his share, and he was pretty hard hit
for a poor man. The mass of the orange
growers have resolved to “pick the
fruit” again and bravely face the out
come of the freeze, whatever it may
prove to be in the end.
It is too soon yet, so far as the trees are
concerned, to tell what the final outcome
will be. Some groves seem to have es
caped permanent injury, while others have
suffered severely. The loss in young
budded trees, especially grape fruit and
lemons, Is vastly larger than from all
previous freezes combined, as both these
fruits were being extensively propagated
for a constantly expanding market. Al
ready old orange groves are being plowed
and fertilized in the hope to stimulate
them into bearing a good crop next sea
son, when prices are expected to range
higher. This is based upon the damage
done to the new groves that were just
coming Into bearing and the fact that
many persons will be too poor to properly
fertilize their surviving bearing trees up
to it fruitful point. But there is danger
that a future freeze this winter or In the
early spring may nip the forced growth
of the present stimulating process. We
are still having cold snaps here.
One cheering sign has shown up since
the freeze, and that Is the faith of new
comers In the future of orange culture, as
manifested in their purchase of groves
over which the "frost king” has blown
his icy breath. Several such transac
tions have been reported, while "aban
doned" groves arc not being mentioned.
It Is true thjit a serious set-back has been
given to several new enterprises. The old
cassava boom was again being revived,
while the castor bean Industry was just
establishing itself near this city in an ex
perimental farm. Of course the trees are
killed, as are many fiber plants that were
being experimented on in various parts of
the state. The palmetto and Spanish
bayonet are about the only ones to escape,
and the more tender of the latter have
been frosted. As one swallow does not
make a spring, so an occasional freeze
may not wholly paralyze these newly es
tablished and once hopeful industries.
Fortunately for the pickers, hands, and
packers, men greatly needing daily em
ployment, there has been a steady de
mand for oranges since the freeze, and
while a great army of these workers has
been thrown out of what seemed a sure
•winter's Job, many hundreds have found
profitable empolvment up to the present
time, and this unexpected work has kept
them from serious trouble financially. It
has also helped the shippers and mer
chants as the money came from the north
and west to pay all the bills, including
freight. One singular feature of this busi
ness is the fact that only a few groves
ara Included in the shipments. Some of
our largest and best groves have not ship
ped a single box since the freeze. This
does not, however, apply to grape fruit,
w hich was not so badly Injured, being less
ripe, and which is still being shipped to the
northern markets in response to tele
graphic orders.
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le* yum, Basiiii mum
rpHE magnificent steamships of these •,
are appointed tc sail as follows
tonewyork.
CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Daze...
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, at 11:30 a. m. *
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt c
SATURDAY, Jan. 19, at 12:30 p m **
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, MOND.Iv;
Jan. 21, at 3:00 p. m.
CHATTAHOOCHEE. Capt. s ava „
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 23. at 4:30 p t 1
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, FRIDtr
Jan. 25, at 3:00 a. m. UAI i
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins, SATPoi
DAY, Jan. 20, at 6:00 p. m.
TO PHILADELPHIA.
(For freight onltr-l
DESSOUG. Capt . Doughty, WEDVESU
DAY, Jan. 23, at 4:00 p. m.
ELIHU THOMSON. Capt. Hansen. YVft!
NBSDAY. Jan. 23, at 4:00 p. m. *
TO HOSTON.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Lewis, THURA
DAY, Jan. 17. at 10 a. m. F> *
GATE CITY. Capt. Googins, THUlia.
DAY', Jan. 24. at 5 p. m. 113
Through bills of lading given to F.asterr •„
Northwestern points and to ports of the Until
Kingdom and the Continent. *
For freight or passage apply to
„ C. G. ANDERSON. Agent
t\ aldhurg Building, west of City Erchrnn
Monts’ cna irmsuonoiioo cl
For Baltimore.
(DOTH MERIDIAN TIME.)
Cabin 915 011
Cabin (Round Trip) " 2,1 tut
Intermediate ” Jo j!
Cabin to Washington ‘ 15 ~
Cabin to Philadelphia " Ksn
Intermediate to Philadelphia .iz
Tickets sold to all points on the Bait.tmti
MOkbllllM,
rrtHE steamships of this company are a>
A pointed to sail from Savannah for Ushi,
more as follows—standard time:
BERKSHIRE. Capt. Klrwan, THUR3,
DAY, Jan. 17, at 10:30 p. in.
WM. CRANE, Capt. Bond, SATURDAY!
Jan. 19, at 12 midnight.
D. H. MILLER. Cap*. Billups, TUESDAYS
Jan. 22. at 4:00 p. m.
ALLEGHANY, Capt. Nickerson, THURSi
DAY', Jan. 24, at 5:00 p. m.
And from Baltimore every TUESDAY.
THURSDAY and SATURDAY.
Through bills of lading given to alt
Joints West, all the manufacturing to win
n New England, and to ports of u
Uußed Kingdom and the Continent
J. J. CAROLAN. Agent.
_ _ Savannah. Gs
W. P. TURNKR. G.P.A. A. D. Stsbbiss, A.T M
J. C. WHITNEY. Traffic Manager
General Offices Baltimore, Md.
PLANT - STEAMSHIP - LLYIi
TRI-WEEKLY SERVICE.
PORI W KEI WEST AND 111
SOUTH-BOUND.
Lv Port Tampa Mon., Thurs. and Sat., SJS
p. ni.
Ar Key West Tues., Fri. and Sun., 3 p. m.
Ar Havana Wed., Sat. and Mon., 6 a. a.
NORTH-BOUND.
Lv Havana Mon., Wed. and Sat., 12:30
p. m.
Ar Key West Mon., Wed. and Sat., 74
p. m.
Ar Port Tampa Tues., Thur. and Sun., I
p. m.
Connections at Port Tampa with Welt
India fast mail trains to and from northers
and eastern citieß. For state-room w
comodatlons apply to C. PENNY,
Ticket Agent. Port Tampa
M. F. PLANT, Assistant Manager.
W. M. DAVIDSON. General Pass. Agent
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SUdUR3AN RV LAAYS. _
CITY ID SUBURBAN IMM
\\ inter Schedule on and after
Nov. 15, 1894'.
Isle of Hope-Week I>*y Schodnle.
Leave City From j isie I Into
*6 oi> a m Bolton hi. *6 0Q u m'Boltons;
*7 00 a in Bolton at. *7 10 a m Bolton st.
9 00 am Second av. 8 10 a in Second at
10 37 a in' Bolton st. 0 45 a in Bolton st.
1 45 pm Second av. 12 20 p m Secoudaf
*2 30 p m Holton st *2 30 p m Holton st.
*4 30 p m Holton st. *4 30 p m Holloa st.
*6 0o p m Bolton st. *6 00 p m Bolton st.
*7 80 p lit Bolton st. *7 :.o p m Holton st
9 arid H:OQ p. in, Saturday nights only Iroa
Bolton street
♦Change at Thunderbolt.
For Montgomery, u and 10:37 a. m., 2:30 anl
600 p. m., and change at Sandfly. Lear*
Montgomery, 7:30 a. m., 1:45 and b:&5 p. m.
For Thunderbolt, cars leave Bolton streeS
depot on every hour and halt hour.
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PIEDMONT AIR LINE.
Tiis Vestibule Route
The Greatest Southern System.
IMPROVED schedule*. The “New York
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Thiough firs to lass coaches between Charles
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Columbia.
Wuick time and improved service to Wash
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iily Line in the South operating solid vesti*
baled limited trains with Pullman dining car*
Double daily fast trains between NewNerK
Philadelphia. Baltimore, Washington.
lotto. Columbia. Savannah and Jacksonville
and Tampa, Fla., carrying dining cars
tween Charlotte and St. Augustine, servinf 1 •
meals after leaving New York. Pullman draw
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on .all through trains.
W. A. TURK. G. P. A., Washington. D. C.
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STcAHBOAT L NES.
The Steamer 7ilpha #
E. F. DANIELS, Master,
On and after SEPT. *3 will change ho*
Schedule as follows:
Leave Savannah. Tuesday - 9 *
Leave Beaufort, Wednesday BaHi
Leave Savannah, Thursday 11 * a
Leave Beaufort, Friday
The steamer will stop at Blufitoa on tot*
trips each way
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