The Polk County News from Bartow, Florida • 3

A large nuuuVrof tropical plants nnd the engine, gins and mill ei'e from Mr. I W. J. Kppcn-oii. and will commence at Capt.

If. Wright, teller and vice-president of the Merchants' National Hank, returned Tuesday from his visit to his old home in Tennessee Candler, the thriving little vilHge among the prettiest lakes in the state now leasts of having the finest alliance hall in the state. There is nothing small was a n. ember of'Coiupnuy Dth Georgia regiment, Pirns' btigade of McCla y's division, Ixugstreet's corps saw him when lie fell, saw him when he was buried, aud can identify the fqot to day as readily as though that dreadful scene of carnage occurred but yesterday. Any relative of M.

or "William (J. Allen" who are satisfied of the former ownership and desire the memento can have it by addressing the Leader, and any further information cau be obtained by addressing T. R. Bailey, Kissinuuee, Fla. -trriiiliii trratd'iiii, G.

Johnson has returned from Lake FLORIDA STATE NEWS. CULLED ROM OUK LXCHANGES IN CONDENSED roRM. I run of I.lttiA nr Ni littrri-Rt, 'nt nipper. tii S)n, in HiitArAnt rrtt of ntitniv Aim. Now is a good rVp.fn tunity for some of cur moneyed men l.uil.l residences.

There in not a decent vacant house in town and l.y fall it will lie an impossihi-lity to rent a house for love or money. We deeply 'regr-t to record the sad and unexpected death or Mrs. Mattie B. Janus, wife of J. Will tho indefatigable superintendent of tho South Florida Phosphate company, at Crab Orchard, on July ill.

W. II. Luoders, the- secretary of the Homeland Mining and Lund himself of Cincinnati, reached on Tuesday evening and is now the guest of Ool.LnUue at his home in the East Knd and at Camp Wayside. IMr. Luoders is delighted at the prom.s made hy his company and surprise 1 and delighted to find the climate here bo delightful and salubrious.

Ilia atinvrr uniformly in: "I like the weather here fully as well an at Cincinnai i The effect yf a Aouther sua is visible on him already, however. Mr. Lueders will uvvuit the arrival of W. II. Hustiee, the president of the company, as well art Home others of the stockholders and the company will hold a stockholder'! meeting, organize under Florida laws.

Mr. Justice and Mr. Lue ders and prohahly LaKuo th-' ujake tho rounds of tbe operating Peace or piver wt.i!."s "i-iul place themselves in a im position to thoroughly comprehend the ri hi' vegetable The Palmetto i-t-ople mtt at the houe of Mrs. lKmrtner, hose husband tiled from yellow fever three years ago. They tore the roof from her house, replaced it newly, blocked up the houje and put in a new stove pipe that the Pal- mettoites have warm hearts.

IaiK City T't I'Umt. Cotton Picking is going on pivtty generally throughout the county now, and the weather so far has I een very gooJ. The first new cotton of the season was brought in last Saturday by Josh Atkinson and was Uuight by Capt. J. Bay a.

The Plant learns that the cotton rut has made its appearance in a ihuuIkt of fields tnith in our county and several others. The Lake City Central Hotel entertained during the midsummer month of July 400 guests. We doubt very much if some of the more pretentious hotels can make as good a showing for that month. The fodder srving is ab.mt over, and as far as we can learn annlxtund int supply has leen put up by the farmers of this county. We would still urge them, however, not to neglect the hay crojt it is a profitable one.

The saw mill trade mentioned in la-t week's as on the tapis, was con summatod Saturday, the Watertown mills of Mr. Thomas Dm ling are leing transferred to Harold Weston of Walt ham, Mass. The value of the property is alout $10,000, but the figure paid was something less than this. The transfer included saw mills, mules, carts, land, planing mills, lease on 4,000 acres of timler, ten miles of timlier, etc. It is undertu'nod that the purchaser has ample capital anu Ml improve this plant, put a new locomotive on the null's raliroad, ami it is supitoscti 'e holds tho key-to the seventy-five miles of nnbroken timlier running northeast from the Wat ertown mills, which would make thirf one of the largest enterprises in the country.

JiraJford County T(h urath. Tho Marion Phosphate Company will give $7" a head, per year, for the state convicts. Senator Bailey gets them for 15, Sheriff O'Neil, of Nassau county, has withdrawn the reward ofiVrcd by himself of $2(Mt for the capture of Murray. Ifhoisnot ruptured soon it is feared that the rewards will all bo withdrawn. Dr.

Scott has raised as lino corn this year as anybody. A single ear weight '1 lls. There were 27 rows of kernels on the cob. The seed was purchased in Philadelphia ami the corn was made in ninety days from planting. It will produce at the rate of forty bushels to tho acre.

The grape crop proves to bo much larger than was predicted, e-tpoeially is it so with the eeuppernongs. Mr. Harvey Jarrett has a very large crop this fall, and he will probably make about foo gallons of grape wine. WiM Hoiiil D. II Hart, tho genial proprietor of the Wild Wood hotel, says travel is let-ter now than it has been for some time.

He had to turn otT three persons on night last week, on account of not hav ing room. T. C. Carter's infant son, Mack, got hold of a iKittle of medicine last Friday that the doctor had fixed up for Mrs. Carter and drank a largo portion of the contents, which came very nar proving fatal for the child.

Mrs. Carter happened to tliscover hat the child had, done in time to call in Drs. Armstrong and Stevens, and by careful attention on the part of the doctors the child was soon all riht. The Alliance gave a big dinner at. Oxford last Saturday, which was largely attended.

Speech making was one of the leading features. IMiicCity ImluKtrUiliot. The old adage, Death Is no respecter of persons, was verified by the decease of one of our most worthy citizens, Mr. Hngh Barclay, on last Saturday night about 10 o'clock. The citizens of Dade City were tdartled by the announcement of the sudden deat of the above named person.

It wasahhock indeed, all the more so because we had just passed a day of festivities and social enjoyment in which he was one of the most jovial persons on the ground. BrriH.toii morrnt. Our streets were crowded with people Saturday and our merchants enjoyed an excellent trade. The Bowlder Phosphate company that bought Sheritf Bigham's property, has gone to work in earnert. building sheds and houses for tho hands.

The company will go to mining in earnest, and a road will be built to their mines. At rhe last meeting of our county commissioners it was decided that the public i oadd bo work od by taxation. It was also resolved that the present road contractors carry out the provisions of their contract to the letter before warrants should le issued for work done, Miss Dorcas writes: "I have a roos-icr, an old and faithful servant, which I am under tho necessity of killing. Plejse tell me how to do this in the most humane manner." Stab him in the back of the head with a maul and paw off bis juglar vein with a cold- chisel. Mr.

Joseph Boothby lias purcliased taking awHy our the car loads. shrubs will also he put out, and given all the care and attention that they will require to lecome a success. believe that with plenty of fertilizer, water and a protection from frost, anything can successfully raised here. E.t.'t Cinixt Gazette. T.

L. My ers, Supt. of the Southern Express, arrived last night to establish bis headquarters here, so that he may enjoy our seaside weather without neglecting business. He brings his family, secretary, typewriter, and is established at Hotel Coquina. Instead of widening the bridge five new turn outs are to le built.

This will make driving over it more convenient and comfortable, serve the requirements of the present and enable the bridge company to accumulate a fund for rebuilding it, When this is done a steel draw will probably replace the present one. IUi nitiuhi AtU's. W. A. Jones' report, published in this issue, fchows that the Brooksville State Hank is a nourishing institution Our bank is not yet a year old, but it will compare favorably with luauy older banks.

The Confederate reunion nt Dade City on Saturday last was a complete success, the barbecue diuner excellent and he sports all that could be asked by the most exaetiug. When the people of l'ii sco undertake anything they go their whole length aud a few lap over. In the afternoon a st-ong camp of Hub eil Conleuei ato Veterans was organized and Captain J. H.Johnson elected commander. This is the eighth camp organized in the State.

Last Monday morning Jin alarm of fire startled the Hay Port colony. The Mrs. (1 undersoil cottage was on fire. Mrs. Whisenant promptly organized the ladies into a bncket brigade and that fire was summarily put out with very little damage.

I. etui) uro Com mere tal. The excursion last Saturday was well patronized, and the streets of Leesburg were crowded for a time, and the stores also. At the last meeting of the Rifles a committee was appointed to arrange for a dramatic entertainment for the benefit of that organization. The books have been ordered and the committee are now at work, and our people may expect something rich In the theatrical line in the near future.

T. J. Lovelace and family will leave next week for California, where they will in future reside. Mr. Lovelace has been a citizen of Leesburg during the past eight years, and we regret that he has determined to remove from among us.

His host of friends wish for him every happiness in his new home. Mr. and Mrs. E. II.

Mote entertained the bachelors Momjay night at th elegant residence on Main street. Delightful refreshments were served and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Mr, aud Mrs. Mote know how to entertain and an evening spent under their hospitable roof is always pleasant The shade trees along Main etreet have been trimmed. The work was done last week and this paper offers to Marshal Harper the thanks of all tall men for having it accomplished.

Florida Conference Colleere will open September 17. The attendance this year will be large. At a meeting of the Leesburg Building and Loan Association Tuesday night, W. M. Trunuel borrowed $1,000 and A.

L. Miller Mr. Miller will erect a residence on the west half of his lot on Main street. Dr. T.

W. Moore, the author of a standard work on orange culture, has disposed of his fine orange grove property at Fruit Grove, on the St Johns river, to Mr. Robinson, of Sanford, formerly owner of the Bank of Seville, This property has been known as one of the finest groves in Florida, and we trust the genial Doctor has made a handsome sum by this turn. Standard, The Commercial enjoyed a visit last Saturday from D. Greenleaf, of Jacksonville, one of the largest jewellers and most prominent business men in the StafV Mr.

Greenleaf visited Leesburg for the purpose of addressing tbt orange growers upon the work of the Florida Fruit Exchange and to solicit their aid and sympathy iu increasing that organizations facilities. He is an executive officer of the Exchange and owns a large and nourishing orange grove The truth of the oft-repeated saying, "Death loves a shining mark," finds no more melancholy illustration than in the demise of Prof. E. G. Chandler.

The sad event ocenrred on the 7th of the current month, at Lemont, aud the news was received here yesterday by Rev. Thomas Griffith, from a sister of the deceased. While the death of Prof. Chandler was not unexpected, it has fallen like a pall of sorrow upon this community, in which he was well-known and loved. The deceased left us last spring, aud was accompanied far as New York by Rev Thomas Griffith.

All felt at that time that the malady had made such inroads upon his system that it would be is last journey, save one. And now, after life's fitfnl fever, his spirit has llown to brighter realms. once the erection of a cotton tinning establishment, to be in readiuess to handle the coining season's cotton crop. This will give employment to quite a numlier of bands, and the growers in the county will not again lie comjiellod to ship their cotton in the seed. We find the following notice in the Atlanta Journal of A ngust 4: "Miss Maggie Cummins, aged years, died this morning at No.

14 Ooojier trcct after a brief illness. The vountr ladv was a resident of Gulf Hammock, and was f-jnding the summer here with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Roihnson, wife of the night clerk at the 3 rant house.

She had intended returning to her Florida home next jnth. Her sad and untimely end has ca-st a gloom over the circle of friends that she had formed during her brief visit among us which has Uh'ii cut short by the fell destroyer. The funeral will take place from the almve numlier on Wtslnesday at 11 o'clock. Key M'txt iV r. Our Manager, James T.

Bail, returned from Havana, Cuba, ier s. s. Mascot! on Wednesday evening last. During his slay in Havana which was his first visit to the "ever faithful Isle" he placed himself under the care of an eminent English oculist from whose treatmen he has derived considerable lienelit, although the paralysis in his left eye will take some time to heal. He rcortshav-ngan enjoy able time, and promises to give our readers a graphic description of his travels.

Chief Inspector Ledwith of (. S. Custom Ser ice, made an imortant seizure on Saturday last by examining the person and eir.icts of Mr. Mat cum Mesa.who had lieen on a visit to Havana, Tho seizure consisted of a package of lottery tickets valued at over $700 U. S.

currency hich must have ma le quite a bulky package as they retail in the city of Havana at a very low figure in Spanish paper; we also understand that there some jewelry included in the seizure tNh "Uncle Sam" would I happy to return to its on pfryifitf the duties thereon, but the lottery tickets lieing an illegal importation will in due course of time le destroyed, as to whether they draw prizes in tho Havana Ixittery or not. Kiximmc I.cnibr Hilly Tommy Doctor, Billy Bowlegs and Jack Searber, Indians from the Miami section, are in town. Jack dresses about the fame us his white cousins and has mastered the English language so that bespeaks it very well. BefoM returning to their Miami home, they proioso digging out three canoes down at Fort Garduer.which will probably take them a couple of months. Frankliu iV Son are to have a corrugated Iron warehouse built at the rear of their store ftH-t.

Part of the lumber is already on the ground. The Tropical Hotel has been sold to d. F. Goode, of Lowell, who will take personal charge of the same about the middle of October. Mr.

Goode lias an excellent reputation as a hotel manager in the iopular summer resorts of the Eastern States, and theie is no doubt that under his supervision tho Tropical will soou be raised to a leadiug position among the first class hostelries of the South. On account of its beautiful location, many attractions, freedom from annoying insects, extreme health fulness, Kissimmee can easily be made he leading resort in Florida for visitors ami tourists, and the prime essential in this desideratum is a thoroughly first-class hotel. With this ec it red, it will be plain sailing to place Kissimmee where she belongs in the lead of Florida's pleasant resorts. As intimated alove, Mr. Goode is favorably known as a thoroughly successful hotel man, and with the assistance of hi aupable wife and three accomplished daughters the popularity ami snecess of the tropical is assured.

The citizens will be found ready to encourage the new management by every means iu their power ami to welcome Mr. Gotwle and family with a cordiality that will be felt as well as seen aud heard. Marshal T. It. Bailey has left lu our office relic of the civil war, in the shape of a soldier's portfolio, so constructed that it will fold up in a very small space ami when In use can be straightened out.

so as to form a firm lap loard, so to speak, on which to lay the paper when writing. When folded the writing material is enclosed in a tin cylinder, which protects it from the weather. The owner of this portfolio was a member of Sedgwick's corps, and was killed in the battle of Salem Church, three miles from Fredericks burg, Va, on May 3, His name, company ami regiment are unknown, except that on the outside of the case M. F. 7." been cut with a knife, while on the inside of the rublier cloth enclosing the tin cylinder, in three different places, is written, ''William C.

Allen, Co. 12th Maine Reg iment." The thing itself is of no practical value, but who knows that this memento of a falleu soldier might not be accounted as worth thousands upon thousands tosouiedoting mother, some fond sister or a cherished sweetheart of the soldier who to day fillsan unknown grave. Ami yet. that grave is not entirely unknown, for the soldier was buried where he fell. Mr.

Bailey, who aliout Candler and her enterprising citi zens. The hall is 21x12, and finished up in the latest style. Mr. W. F.

Jones, one of Ocala's old landmarks, died at his residence in this city Last Friday afternoon. Mr. Jones was, perhaps, one of the oldest citizens in Ocala, having lived here upwards of thirty odd years. He was a good, quiet and peaceable citizen, resisted and esteemed by all ho knew him. He leaves a wife and four children, twe sons and two daughters, to whom we extend our deep sympathy in this the saddest hour of our lives.

Something now In grapes were shown us at Mr. Ely Gri tils' Kingley, where most all good things nourish. It is a native Texas graj. Tho bunches wo were nhown were fully eight inches long and just thick with grapes: so close were they on tho stem that they were pressed out of shape. The fruit is of a deeper color and larger size than the Delaware, which is rightly considered the gem of all grapes.

It has a delta rate tlavorllke no other grape, ewoet and yet a little tart; a splendid table gravai and a good variety for wine. It would sell well in the market but would not stand a very ion journey. It grown finely in this state. Will Jones, the negro who kilted Lewis Nixon, at Gilford, had an examination beforo Judgo Malphrus last Saturday' morning. The evi denco was alout as follows: Jones and Nixon got into a nisputo over a a game of cards.

Nixon drew his pistol on Jones, but it did not shoot. lie then tried to get a gun, but was prevented from doing so by Mr. Cone. In about an hour the two again met, and Jones walked away from Nixon; Nixon folio wed and again threw his pistol in Jones' face. Finally, throwing down his pistol he dared Jones to fight fair.

Jones walkod away while Nixon kept on using ahusivo language. Jones then turned and fired. Nixon did not fall when shot hut lived alout half an hour beforo ho died, never utter lng a word. Judgo Malphrus decided that it was a case of justifiable homicide and turned tho prisoner loose. The last seen ot him ho was making tracks for Lake Butler, at the rate of a mile a minute, tho happiest darkey in Bradford county.

At a meeting of tho board of directors of the 8. L. A. 8. railroad held Friday afternoon, it was decided to run tho road into town south of town and curve near Mr.

Krvin Jones' place and come up Thompson street, to connect with tho F. C. P. at their depot. It is said that this route is the cheaper as it will pass through wild land almost all the way.

The surveyors are at work now and will continue until the work Is done. Work on grading will begin as soon as the right of way is obtained. The work will com-menco at tho Sampson end and pro gress toward town. Ties are being cut and will soon be hauled to the road. The prospects are letter every day for this road, and those who are hanging back on account of be ing afraid it will fall through had better come up now and take stock while it Is at par.

Manatee County Aitwrate. A stranger expresses himself very much gratified that he hears no profanity among the young men of Manatee. Some young men. brought twenty alli gator hides down the river this morning and sold them to Murphy, Jackson The largest one measured altout 74 feet. Major Adams sent a pair of his fine chickens to Texas this week.

Manage river is rapidly developing and will soon be able to supply the country with ev erything good. A wiM cat was seen away out on the peoples' wharf in this town, fully a quarter of a mile from shore, where it had gone to pick up cat fish and other refuse left by fishermen. We sympathise with Mr. D. Stand- ley who suffered loss by lire last Sunday, but congratulate him on saving his house.

It was a very a close call, however, as a hole was burned through the roof lnfore the flames could lie con quered. Mim. Standley's wardrobe suffered considerably, some of her best dresses having been destroyed. Our farmers are busy preparing to loom their vegetable industry this sea son: a large area of hammock land hav ing been cleared, both for vegetables and for orange groves. Many are now budding the lemon on tho orange, notably, Mr, Hendrix, who realized from $5 to $0 and $7 per lox for his lemons last season, and ho is rapidly increasing his groves.

We understand that the Peoples wharf at the foot of main street is the prospective site of tho new railrod depot. Won't there be a 'merry go round' when the long trains come and go, bringing tourists by the hundreds, and I Mary, Orange county, Monday. While B. Wot til has the champion orange tree in Arcadia. Be paid das.

Mi Bride $2 for it and has it in front of his houee. The county commissioners evidently have a good opinion of the value of Ar-cadia real estate, judging from tho way they raised the assessment. The Arcadian haa been awarded the county publishing for another year. The Arcai'ian is the ollicial iaier of DcSoto county and of the town of Arcadia. Col.

F. (X M. Boggoss will rosurcct the defunct Times and ill commence the publication of a new simper of republican shade. The colonel says there is money in it and he is going ttt get it, A young white man employed as eoofc on the Peace River Phosphate Company's ilrtvlgos, laid down on the rails of the Peace River railroad night liefore and came very near waking in the great hereafter. Tho phosphate train knocked him olf the track, mashing his hamls ami inflicting serious wounds almiit the head, lie will live to profit by his ex-erienco.

51. Pfthfitmra itiil. With three lmats running between Petersburg and the two Tampan, the raveling public ought to he able to get somewhere at a low cost. Hotel Detroit is doing a good business right along, nearly half a thousand arrivals during the month of July, proving that the puUichko its attractions. Tho long looked for water pi toi oF 4 1 ico factory has arrived, and the work ot ditching for it is under way.

We ill soon have cold weather to order in our midst, Bradford's novelty works are having all they can do, and have got orders wayahead. Mr. Bradford has got the liest lot of machinery that has ever lieen brought to the East roast, and cm do many kinds of woik that ha never lceii done here liefore, and we want to see bint no badly driven that he will 1 forced to double his capacity within one year. The work on the whaif exlensiun is progressing ell. They have got MM) of tho 1,000 feet of piling driven, and it is the lest work of the kind that we know of.

The oi part of the wharf is made of four pile lieuts, and the portion now under construction i of six pile bents, anl the whole wharf from the paulion to the pierhead vt ill lxt sway brace 1 with heavy braces. Tho piling of tho extension is driven from 20 to 21 feet inlo hard lottom. King's new mill is a much lietlcr one than tho one which it replaces, and will cut altout 10,000 feet per day. His dry kiln is an improvement on the old, and his sawdust carrier takes all the saw dust and planer shavings to tho furnace, nnd nothing goes into the creek. King now converts all his slabs into laths, and after the laths are in bun he runs them through lietwccn two saws four feet apart which makes them ahpohitely of uniform length.

Xcw Smyrna Itm Mrs. A. E. Mason is expected buck from New York Slate, where nho has leen living about two years. Ijisi Tuesday, Charles Rush met with a peculiar and rather painful accident, lie walked under a tree near the store, to one of the limbs of which a hornet' nest was attached.

His horse following him, reached up and bit oir a jtortion of the nest, and being stung, threw it from him. It struck Mr. Rush in the face, and the hornets stung him badly about tho eyes. A company of persons from Orlando come over by train yesterday hilled f.ir Ormond-on-tho Halifax. That resort is fiaid to lie welt filled with visitors.

A party of surveyors are running a line along tho pino ridge on which Glonc.w is situated. They are in the interest of the East C-oast Transportation Company who have lieen promised the means by Boston capitalists to build the line provided they run make a projicr showing of business. The line is expected to run from Titusville to Daytona and iK-rhajis to St. Augustine, It will follow the ridge through Gleneoo. It is unlawful at any time to hunt or kill deer with fire, lamp or any artificial light.

A Jnll I.niigti. He: You are N. Maria, She: What do you mean. He: Nice girl. She: Oh! Ehk h.

Ho snt on a lmai Ht the tmselutH toiiue. And liroileil lu the luirnlnit suit: Ho knew every player's Christian iininc, A if nnv cine scored a run. He iluni't-il, and ycllel, xn.l kccw rrd In tlie titee, And kIiouU cl. Mini toHM-il liJfSiitt, Fur lie. Hi OU have IMtenseJ, it It Ixise- llitll i rtuik nnd tlu k1 Junt iikotlmL.

phosphate situation. The real es tato agency of Jno, W. Cox consummated last week another ''handsome sale. The- snug littlesum was only $10,000 paid for 410 acres of land nine mdei east of tho city. The land is said to immensely rich in phosphate.

Tho fortunate purchasers ere Messrs. Hastings, Keat ley and Cates, lsrge capitalists of Boston, who will immediately erect a large plant and begin manufacturing it at an early date. Dick Pclham, one of the inmates who was confined in the county jail for wholesale cow stealing and who escaped in June, was recaptured last Friday, twelve miles Ih'Iow Fort Meade, by Sheriff Ballard and C. Canter. Petham's father tried to woik the bull dozing game on the officers with a big rusty Winchester ride, but within the twinkling of an eye the sheri had he old man gazing down the glit tering barrels of.

a double-barrel shot gun, who then and there declared all negotiations oil and submitted to his son's departure for tho jn.il. Fort Mu i'rew. Tho city election passed off quietly, and the offices are filled with good men, who will see that the town of Fort Myers is run just as it should le during their term of ollice. A tarpon weighing 205 pounds will be one" of Florida's attractions at the World's fair in Chicago. It is seven feet one and one-half inches in length, and was caught in the Caloosahatcheo at Fort Myers.

We are informed that the Seminole Canning Company will start up in a few days, or fust as soon as they can get a plentiful supply of rie guavas. Mrs. lr. J. E.

Brecht, ho is a relative of the Harrison family, has just received from Philadelphia some pieces of furniture over a hundred years old, that were tlie property of the first President Harrison during his life time. They are relica greatly to le prized. Yesterday morning some one gave Mr. John Dave Pool two dollars to ride his bucking mustang, tho one that Nun rod spoke of last weok, and shoot a pistol oil hi back without being thrown. Well, Dave did it, and had bis fine paid Iry the admirers of his horsemanship.

There are only 111 voters it seems in Fort Myers at present, and 80 only registered. Wenotiee the vote at the city elections up the State, where they have already occurred this year, are lighter than usual so many go North during the cummer to find a cooler place; but miss it, of course, for Florida has an incomparable summer climate an all attest who remain. Tarpon Syuinu Truth. The groves on Tarpon Avenue, east of the railway, have been ploughed and fertliizer this week. It is said that the ice factory is now making an excellent quality of ice, and is improving every day.

There was a banana eating contest at Cooper fioyett's cool drink stand last night. Willie (Jooper and James Thomas were the contestants, and they each ate sixty bananas which were ripe and mellow. The next day Coojmt said he could eat as many more. Mr. L.

D. Vinson went up the river Tuesday, and shot a balddieaded eagle that measured five feet and one inch from tip to tip of the wingj. The shot only broke one wing ard fractured a leg so that the bird was brought 1 ome alive. Mr. Vinson had it on exhibition in the rear of the store day following day, and it certainly lookeiferocious as it sat there in a 1mx, The editor of The Truth is going into the fruit growing business on the "intensive" system.

He will set out on his lot all the popular variet ies of tropical and semi-tropical fruits, and will give them all the fertilizer they can consume..