Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-19
FLORIDA.

tentlons are to drive down his stakes in old
Lee and live with his mother.
FLORIDA.
Monticello viii ratify the Democratic ma
tiOnal ticket July a.
The Continental Hotel Of Pensacola is to
have q $4,000 addition.
The steamship Cochran will make semi
monthly trips between Key West and Cedar
hey.
At last accounts efforts were making to Sc
cure jury in the Willingham murder trial at
Barlow.
VIM. T. Hunter. OF Columbia county, has
raised $1,000 worth Of colts from one pony
mare in seven years.
4 Pensacola egg measures 81 inches in
diameter one way and ~ inches the other
and weighs 81 ounces.
A negro at Madison last week killed moe
casin snake, and cutting it open found 90
young snakes IN its stomach.
Some Of the figs so abundant in Tallahassee
are being shipped 10 jacksonville, where they
bring from 81 - to 81 per bushel.
The bears are making fearful havoc with
corn ON several plantations near Monticello.
Hunters viii soon follow their tracks.
Mr.. Prank Myers has a lime tree seven
years old growing in his yard nesr TarpOn
springs, which yields about 10000 lines per
year.
There has been $40 subscribed by the peo-
pie Of Brevard county towards furthering the
work Of the New Orleans Exposition in that
county.
The deaf colored man, Dock Barnes. who
was ran over at Tallahassee by the west
bound train Friday morning, is in fair way
to recover.
The watermelon growers in Jackson county
are not too well pleased with the results OF
their shipments North. Freights, they say,
eat up most OF the profits.
There are three little German boys. the eId-
est Of whom Is only II years old. living near
Tampa that have picked and sold during the
present season $50 worth Of huckleberries.
The new frame schoOlhOuse. near the place
OF JAS. +. English, in Columbia county, was
burned by an incendiary on last Friday night.
Books, paper, states and everything belonging
10 the scholars were destroyed.
There have been sixteen trials for murder
ln Polk county. In every one Of which the de-
fendant was acquitted, Notwithstanding the
fact that in most OF the cases the evidence, it
s alleged, was sufficient to convict.
Farmers IN jefferson county are complain
ing OF their cotton crops dying. The leaves
turn yellow and fan from the stalk, leaving
nothing but the bolls thereon. The cause is
attributed to the recent heavy rains, followed
by hot weather.
Dick Nellyclife. a colOred lad, of Tallahas-
see. took his gun and went ont one night last
week to shoot the man who was stealing
Judge Gwynn's watermelons. He got to nod
ding, fen of the fence, discharged his gun and
shot OF one Of his own hands.
At Pensacola. Saturday, VIM. Pitapaw. one
OF the crew Of the American schooner Blanch
Allen, was drowned in the bay at the end OF
the railroad wharf. PltapaW attempted TO
walk ashore across a narrow plank that
reached from the vessel to the wharf, and,
missing his footing, fell into the water and
IL seems that Sir Cecil f. Byrne, who was
put in jail at Palatka, recently. to await the
next term Of the Circuit Court on a charge OF
obtaining money under false pretense, Is
utterly unknown at the bank in London
where he claims to have had deposit for
years. and there Is little reason now to look
for his uncle, Sir Thomas Brassey, Of the
When Col y. J. Lane. of Macon, reached
AstOr on his way up from Florida last week.
his hand satchel, containing some raZOrs and
other toilet articles. was stolen, Capt. W. j.
Jarvis, OF the ST. Johns Railroad, succeeded
by telegTaphing in having the thief captured
and lodged IN jail at Ocala. He proved TO be
a negro who had come up on one of the boats,
Tie sold the razors and hid the satchel under
some brush. ItnOw turns out that the thief
wrote note TO his wife while in iaIl. bidding
her an ailectiOnate farewell, and with his
handkerchief hung himself to the door OF the
At a meeting Of the Board Of Pilot Commits
siOners OF Jacksonville, an affidavit was read
from the Captain OF the schooner Charles II.
WOiston. which was grounded on the beach
on May 81, charging Capt. X. ID. Gordon, the
pilot in charge, with negligence OF duty, and
with deserting the vessel after she had
grounded. Alter considering all the facts
before them the board has decided to suspend
Capt. Gordon for thirty days for negligence
in attempting to bring the vessel in over the
bar after the tide had turned and was run
ming out, and further suspend him for sixty
days for leaving the vessel after she had
grounded, and not going back to assist in
saving her. Tie action of the board was
unanimous.
Crescent City. Florida, correspondence
MORNING NEWS. July II: For the sake of suf-
fering humanity in and around Crescent City,
Will you please "cry aloud and spare not"
and tell TO the NJ. DIS. (medical dOctOrs-nOt
mule drivers that Crescent City and vicinity
in need of a resident physician2 There is
not one within five miles of the place: some
will tell YOU there is not one nearer than
would take mp his abode here winter and sum-
mer. If worthy OF the title of doctor, could do
a good business. Last winter DR.. 5. l.. B.
BRYAN came here in November and left in
Nav, and l am told by reliable party
that he coined $500 during that
time--Y esterday 1 heard a man Of means
begging a doctor who has retired from the
practice Of medicine to go and see his sick
wife, but that man had to go back home with
a miserable, disappointed heart and depend
ladies of the neighbOrhOOd for medical advice
and counsel To-day a young lady Is taken
suddenly III. doctor sent for, but SAYS he 'has
Quit praCticing medicine and does not go.
We want a good, experienced doctor, one
that understands his profession not too eX-
trayagant or proud; one who can live
on a moderate income for a few years.
And there is no reason why doctor may not
build up an orange grove along with his prac-
tee. We dc not want n fOp or a quack, but
our hands and hearts are open to good. COM
nonsense doctor who will settle among us
and efGW here SuniTner and winter. We have
many visitors here in the winter, a large pro-
portion of them iuvalids, but we have more
sickness among those res ident here during
summer and fall.