Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-04

FLORIDA.
Fort Dade's nigh school building Is to he
erected Immediately.
\ hotel has been opened at Magnolia
spring, near Hawthorn.
Circuit Court at TItusville lasted lust six
days, ending Saturday, March p.
The steamer Indian River grounded in the
indian river narrows last Friday.
The Sanchez lot on the Shell road at st
Augustine has been sold for $4,000.
Eighteen thousand homes teads have been
entered in Florida during the past year.
CargOes Of vegetables are beginning to
come In large numbers from the KEYS to Kew
Jacksonville has subscribed up to date
S544 so for the Confederate Home project at
Richmond.
/. L. Hinely, Of Mosely Hall. while hunting
IN the SAN Pedro, near Madison, last week.
killed six deer in two shots.
The question of expanding the cornorate
limits OF Madison so as to take in the depot
property Is again being agitated.
4 steamer has been purchased to run on
Lochloosa lake, near Hawthorn. in connection
win the railroad, to carry vegetables. etc.
The shark caught by ThOs. A. Edison the
electrician, at st. Augustine recently. has
been mounted and placed on exhibition.
Mrs. Wilson, of Mariana, has a LeConte
pear cutting, planted this year, that is in full
bloom, although barely six inches in height
see against Bush and wife. tried for the MUIR
der OF William hughes, body servant of
Prince and Princess Murat the Jury hung
The evidence was entirely circumstantial
A hotel company has been organized at
Monticello and over $4,000 subscribed The
company viii be Incorporated The capital
stock VIII not be less than S20OOO Work will
be commenced at once. The hotel viii
have - rooms.
The NEWS correspondent at Lake Cifv fur-
nISnes the following : the v,aT t5..I-
nominated April ]: w. T. Bacon. for NTavor:
II. K. Stov, ;. B. Cathy, J. W. Hensley,
Howell Hunter for Aldermen; w NJ. Ives
for Clerk; L. Harrison, for Collector: A.
Ross, for Assessor; Alb Berthea, for Marshal
The Key West Democrat. in its last issue.
says: ION Wednesday evening the custom
house inspectors succeeded in capturing about
~ gallons OF dguddiente, being smuggled
ashore in boats near the barracks beach
Carriages were waiting, but the officers ar
rived just IN time to thwart their little game -
The Mariana Times says: ''The serenity
of our usually quiet little city Was disturbed
Monday by the news that a party bv the
name Of j. W. MattOX, claiming to hail from
Texas, who had been clerkng for J. p. Coker
had absconded with $50 or $175 in money and
horse belonging to \. A. Calhoun. About
10 O'Clock news was received that he had
passed StapletOn's, eleven or twelve miles
north of Greenwood. on the Gordon road
Messrs. Calhoun and COker swore out n war
rant and sent Deputy sheriff AIozlev and .
B. More after him. The thief was Young
man ABOUT 70 or p years OF age, feet 81 inches
in height. dark hair and heavy moustache."
The Monticello correspondent OF the Jack
sonvllle Times Union furnishes the following
additional information on a subject which has
already been briefly mentioned in the NEWS:
Tony Plner, respectable and well do coll
Ored man. was waylaid and shot on Saturday
night last near his house on the Col, DilwOrth
place in this county. Piner had been to Mon
ucello and was returning on horseback. The
assassin concealed himself behind large cher
ry tree, waited till his victim was within q feu
feet of him and fred the charge of
large buckshot passing entirely through
Piner,s heart. His horse sprang on
and dropped the dead mans body near
his own door. Sunday morning
sheriff Simkins arrested Watson Baker,
colored, on suspicion. He at first denied all
knowledge of the crime, but before reaching
the Jail confessed that he was the guilty
party. and detailed all the circumstances Of
the killing. Baker Is in jail. There was no
whisky-there was a woman in the case"