Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-08
Florida Affairs.

The Live Oak Bulletin reports that Dir. W.
W. Hankins. while repairing an old revolver
] on last Tuesday, was wounded in the hand by
the accidental discharge Of the same.
Hon. D. W. Hollamon, of Gadsden county.
died on the 1st inst
WOrkmen are busily engaged in framing the
/ drawbridge of the Fernandina and Jacksonville
Railroad at Clark's mill.
The Jacksonville Union states that an effort
was made on Saturday to have W. B. Hughes,
| charged with assault with intent to murder,
released on babeas corpus. Judge Baker, after
/ argument. refused TO grant writ or reduce
the bond. Later Hughes procured bail and
was released
There are now eighteen prisoners in the Du-
val county jail.
On Saturday colored man by the name of
Richard Benjamin, while hewing on the engine
| frame Of the steamer Islander at Jacksonville,
had tine misfortune to split the first toe of his
left foot in two, the axe passing through both
| flesh and bone. He was taken to DR. Mitchen's
Office where the wound was carefully dr., ssed
| by the doctor.
! The Florida UHi.1 says that the tracklayers
/ on the WaycroSs Road have -croSsed Little
| Trout creek and are now within one nile of
/ Dead Mans swamp" about fourteen miles
| from Jacksonville AS soon as all OF the iron
1 is down woTkmen will at once begin the work
/ OF erecting telegraph poles slorg the line OF
/ the road. MIR Haines, the superintendent OF
construction. tells that paper that one and
one-eishth miles OF track was laid Saturday.
| This includes handling the ties, laying, bolting
| and spiking the rails, and bringing them up to
grade.
/ The Quincy Herald reports that last Satur.
day a coIored woman who lived a few miles
/ in the country accidentally caught fro and
was so severely burned that she died the next
| day. That paper learns that her own careless
ness was the cause of her death.
Mr. J. ". Pillow, successor to Bowen Bros,
of Jacksonville, has already made four ship
ments Of Strawberries to New York, and will
continue to make two shipments per week
during the remainder OF the season. Mr.. Pill
low received dispatch from his agent in New
York. stating that the second consignment he'd
been received there in good order, and sold
readily at from So 81 to So per quart.
I Quincy Star: ga rednisition being granted
by the Governor of FioTida for William Lewis
| who killed Frank Crawford, the Marshal OF
| Beauregard, mississippi, about eighteen
| Nicholson, who. accompanied by HT. John
| Wyatt. arrested Lewis at the Glen julia
depot"
The Tallahassee Economist states that this
! farmers are complaining Of scarcity OF
I hands Severed of them are considerably be
| hind n planting, becau e Of not being able tc
obtain field Iaborers. This is easily explained
! Scarcely train for the past month has left
for the east without having on board from five
to fifty coloFed men, who were going to the
southern or eastern portion Of the state tx
work on new railroads. now in course OF con
structlon, where they Ret one dollar a day."
Live Oak Bulletin: Special trains on the
J., p. and NJ Railroad are becoming quite
common OF late One Tallahassee bound or
Sunday consisted Of an engine tender and s
passenger coach, carrying as passengers 9
/ blind d gger and fee pup, and as freight 6
keg Of spoiled and swelling fish,
Jacksonville Union: Most of the gambler:
who have infested this city during the winter
| have either taken their departure or secreteC
ihemselTes. THURSDAY might the Keno den al
the corner OF Forsyth and Hogan streets was
again opened, ard from all appearances did q
good business. The proprietors of one Of tbs
other dens informed the reporter that they had
contemplated opening but had been threa tened
with arrest il they did 50.
The Pensacola Advance states that tbc
threatening weather OF Saturday night termi
mated Sunday morning Ia squall Of Some
severity. Between three and four o'c'ock il
the morning the wind reached height anC
force sufficient to blow the Danish ship Percy
I
ing into shore. collided with the lighter Of
| Captain Axelson, IN which collision the lattel
w;Ss badly damaged. The Percy grounded
alongside the wharf, but sustained little or nc
injury. The English barkentine Henrietta Up
hum through contact with the English bark
| Mary Graham, lost her f0remast and maintop
mast. The Upham was loaded and ready tC
sail for MontevideO. 1t is thought her cargo
viii have to be discharged. The Mary Graham
| seems TO have suffered but little in the COLI
sion. The English bark Virginia also parted
before grounding. These are about the only
| disasters We have to record. Some little brt ak
| age may be noticeable in one or two of the
/ WEarFes, bu' the damage is OF such e nature
as 20 REQUIRE no particular mention This
| sqHall was apparently unlocked for, though
the wind during its prevalence blew strong
enough 70 fright IN more than shipmasters
/ Tallahassee Economist. ''If nothing hap
mems to prevent. there will be large crop Of
| green peas this season. We have seen some
very foe patches in the city, and were inform
ed that one party has forty dollars worth Of
the seed planted. He has plenty of the plants
in bloom now, and says he would have had
peas Ia market In January If there had not
been such a severe freeze last December"
Hamilton County Journal: "a cOlored mar
living in the First district heard some one steal
ing his potatoes and fired his gun in that direc
tiOn. A few days after Henry Mcneil, another
| negro OF nOteriety, sent for Dr. Rowland and
complained of Of being little sick d dhe S doctor S
what his trouble was. He replied he didn't
know what allied him. He died soon after,
and on being prepared for burial, he was found
to have received thirteen buekshot in bis
breast"
Tallahassee Economist: Late last Saturday
afternoon, Mr. Getzen, member Of the Assem-.
bly, from Columois county, stepped on a piece
OF orange peel in front of d. b. Meginniss' shoe
store, causing him to lose his balance and fall,
his left leg doubling under him He was al
once picked up and taken into hr. Diemond's 6
store until vehicle could be obtained to con
| " m q, house N
store he stated that the lower portion Of that
leg was artificial, and he feared in falling thai
il had twisted and broken the thigh bono. The
messenger soon returned with hack. and he
was taken to Mrs. Joseph Wilson's, where be
was stopping, q physician being in attendance,
who, upon arriving at the house, examined the
| leg and discovered that it was not as bad as
was at first thought. There was severe CON
fusion OF The thigh, the hip being badly sprsin.
ed hut not broken. The probabilities are that
he viii be confined 70 PED Tor some time
though not so long as would have been the
case had the limb been broken"
The Live Oak bulletin relates the following
unfortunate Occurrences; On saturday night
last Mr. John D. Wood, who has Tor severa
years bsen in the habit OF walking In his
| Steep happened to very SAD accident, and
the only surprise is that it did not prove fatal
1t seems that, after going to PED sna asleep @ as
his room, over Geo. l.. De<ter store, TOT
some purpose. He mistOOk the window roF the
door, and, getting out on the piaz5a, zen 20 tne M
1
| breaking his left collar-bone, rio, and other
wise hruising himself up quite severely abool
the face and head. The fall was so great, ano
his injuries so severe, that be lay for seVera
| hours on the ground, unconscious OF where ne
| was, or what was the matter. When he came
to his right mind. he was lying down across
the street from where he fell, suffering intense
| pain. AS soon as he got to room and bed
| DIR, Flake was sent for, who gave Mr. WOOD
the full benefit of his medical skill, and, viii
| due care from now on, he win be able to go Il
his duties in some two or three weeks"
The Pensacola Adrdnce states that "a some
what interesting ease ia now pending before
the English Vice Consul, 0. @. Howe, in Tela
tion to the alleged mRtiny OF sailors on board
the British ship SilestTia. which vessel arrived
| In port last Saturday. Ths case in hand is thai
! OF the Captain charged with the killing OF oHt
| OF the seanaer, and though the aid OF the Uni
, ted States Marshal has been invoked, the tria
NAV In all propriety be called an Engnsn pro
ceedinz, or rather proceeding under Eneilsl
law For the thorough exanlnatont wnicn
, seems to be the disposition OF Her Majesty
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