Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-15
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Palatka is full of tourists.

Ialdthd Is lull ol tourists.
The city of Tallahassee is out of debt and
has s. 800 in the treasury.
Itis reported that the. Tallahassee ice fac
tory viii be ready for work in three weeks.
roller skating rink Is IN course Of cree
tion at PalatlIa, and the fun on wheels viii
soon commence.
Maj. Z. Il. Rivers, President of the Literary
/ Department of Florida Universary. has been
commissioned as Colonel.
The shipyard at Tavares presents lively
appearance. There are three steamboats, and
pile driver being built there.
Burglaries are becoming so frequent in St.
Augustine that the citizens contemplate put
I ting on night force of police.
George II. Norris, Of Spring Garden, picked
100 boxes OF Mandarin oranges from trees
/ budded one year ago last June.
The Monday morning issues of the Palatka
Journal are among the most credltable iOur-
nalistic enterprises in the South.
petition is now i'm circulation throughout
Key West asking Congress for an appropria-
tion to dredge the CalOosahatchIe.
Felix Livingston, the oldest son Of b. F.
| Livingston, of Fernandina, accidentally shot
himself IN the neck last SATURDAY.. The
wound. though very painful, Is not necessarily
/ dangerous.
The keels OF three boats nave recently been
laid by Key West carpenterS. 1t is Under
stood that when completed they VIII be en-
ployed between that port and Largo as pro-
duce carriers.
Benjamin stephens, Sr., of Wakulla county.
went out hunting one day last week. Not re
/ turning home in the evening search was in
stituted and he was found dead in the woods.
IL is supposed he died of heart disease.
Commissioner Evans, while going up the
river TO Palatka on saturday, found boat in
"a cove near " afner's Grove. 1t contained
the body Of a man. lady decompOsed, and a
shotgun, The mystery remains to be solved.
The Mutual Gas Light Company, of Palatka,
has opened its books for subscriptions. Macy
\ Co. the cOmpany's contractors. have agreed
10 erect gas works complete, laying three
miles OF main and service pipe for $4,000, the
gas works 10 have a daily capacity equal 10
10000 cubic feet of standard gas.
The following officers were elected by the
/ Florida Fruit Growers Association in session
at Jacksonyllle Wednesday. President, ID.
Redmond Vice President, W. II, SebFing: Sec
/ retary. ID. II. Elliott; Assistant Secretary, W
/ II. Ashmead; Corresponding secretary. L. A.
/ Choate; Treasurer d. Greenleaf; Executive
1ommItIee, Drs. {. j. kenwOrthy, J. J.
| J. Beach.
-, The Marianna lFla.) correspondent of the
/ MORNING NEwS sends the following: sOn
I sunday last u. W. Ban, q white man who has
( for several months been living here. beinr
I full Of whisky, became very violent and from
Dlesome: larry IN tne morning his little son
/ became involved in difficulty with another
/ boy. The elder Ban gave his son pistol and
| told him to shoot his opponent on sirht Tho
/ younger Ball became SO troublesome with his
/ pistol that the Marshal was compelled to lock
/ HIM up. This proceeding seemed to anger
Bail. and. being charged with whisky to The
I brm, he took his little pistol and began to
! terrOrize the town. The Marshal, with a
posse. went To arrest him, but did not succeed
4 in doing SO until late IN the afternoon. Ball
/ showed fight, swOre he would not be arrested,
and ordered the Marshal to stand back or he
would shoot The Marshal failed TO take
( Balls advice, and Ball fired at him,
I striking the ground very near the Marshal,
I but without harming him. The Marshal re
1 turned his fire, and Ball dropped TO the
/ severely Is shot M
I abdomen and legs with duck shot. Ball will
| no doubt recover, though doubts were enter
| talned at first. The town government has
| been very loose, heretofore, and the impress
| sion prevailed among the rOWdies that they
1 would not be arrested if resistance was made.
| This Will prove a salutary precedent for such
| conduct IN the future, and no doubt they will
| submit quietly hereafter.