Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-24

One day last week while Daniel Fuller
was engaged In re-shingling the house &C.
cupled by Mr.. Updike, at st. Augustine,
ne lost his footing and fell from the roof
to the ground. In his fall he made
complete somersault and landed on his
feet. still holding in his hand a saw, which
became turned in the fall and one hand
struck upon the ragged teeth cutting his
numb. Notwithstanding that he was
considerably Jared ne picked himself up
and again went to work on the roof,
The management OF the Florida Rail-
way and Navigation Company has made
arrangements with the government signal
service for daily publication of the
weather representations along the line
of its railway system. The reports from
ashington will be received every morn
ing, and in order to inform the people
along the line of the road of the probable
state OF the weather, large signals will be
carried on the baggage cars attached To
the passengerEtrains, and displayed Mt all
the stations.
The family OF Scoog, the bookkeeper OF
a sewing machine office at Jacksonville,
are in great need of financial aid. Moth
ing has ever been heard from the fugi-
tive. ScOog and his wife are Swedes,
and the mysterious disappearance has
caused many to suspect that something
more than the shortage of $50 or $40 in his
accounts caused it. Mrs. Scoog imagines
many evil misfortunes to have befallen
| her husband, and broods over them so
continuously that she has almost become
dispOssessed of her reason.
A MIR. Holbrook. who was a passenger
on the up-train on the South Florida
| railroad Tuesday afternoon, met with
very painful accidentnear LongwoOd. He
was standing on the car platform when
the train gave sudden lurch, and to
save himself from falling he threw his
| right hand back for support. His third
| finger passed between the door and the
| frame, and a train officer who had at THAT
moment passed through the door, pushed
II to, cutting Mr.. Holbrooks finger of
| nearly to the foot OF the nail. DR.. j. n.
Bishop, who was fortunately on board,
attended to the wound Immediately, and
Mr.. Holorook proceeded on his way to
Jacksonville.
Monday morning the clerks in Steele &
Bassinger's store at Sanford made dis
covery that at some time lately they had
| narrowly ESCAPED being burned out. On
the bottom shelf, near the floor, they had
stored several gross packages of ''safety
| matches" Rats had gnawed a hole
| through the wall Immediately behind
these packages, and began work on the
! packages. In so doing some of the matches
mad become ignited and communicated
/ Inc name 10 Others. Inc name burned
the heavy wrapping paper of the ends OF
the packages, and in some cases destroy
ed the ends of the match boxes and
| scorched the shelving. Fortunately, how
ever, the fire smothered on account of
what seems to be little short of provi-
Dental interference.
The members of the Baptist church at
Sanford, though few in number and not
| financially strong, seem to be prospecting.
Early in the summer they received two
handsome pulpit chairs as a present from
large furniture dealer at Jacksonville;
about the same time they received a
pulpit flower stand and communion table
from Mrs. Walter Gwynn, and shortly after
a very beautiful silver communion
| service was presented by Mrs. M. j.
Buck. A Sunday school lib airy O.
60 volumes was received from the
Baptist Publication Society from Phila-
delphia, and a library case from MIR. j.
Fink. And last week a check for 800 TO
help buy new organ was received from
the Washington avenue Baptist Sunday
school, New York city. Though Orga-
nized but little more than year and
half, they have acquired by their own
| efforts and the generosity of friends
! property that Is worth more than $4,000,
and they hope the day is not far distant
when they will be able to build a spire
| and paint the church.