Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-05


Mariana elected municipal officers on
Dec. l.
A commercial school is to be opened
shortly at Callahan.
Bradford county's present orange crop
Is put down at 100000.
M. G. Levy has assumed control of the
BrdGJord County Times, published at Lake
Butler.
Tallahassee will vote next Tuesday for
or against bonding the city for $25, 900 for
water works.
The capacity of the Gainesville ice
factory is to be increased from seven to
fifteen tons per day.
The ladies of the Pensacola Catholic
Church realized nearly $500 as the net
proceeds of their fair, which closed Satur-
day night.
u. w. Saxon IL Co., of Tallahassee, Will
open branch store in the new and grow
ing little town of Fort Meade, in Polk
county.
John l.. Moody, who lives on some Of as
poor pine lands as Leon county contains,
gathered this week 800 bushels of fine
sweet potatoes from one acre of it.
The University library at Tallahassee
mas been repaired since the fire. The
DOCKS, ETC., have been put back in their
places, and everything is cosy and invit-
ing again.
W. D. HART has bought an interest in
| the furniture establishment Of Il. G. Gill
more, at Tallahassee, and the business
! VIII henceforth be conducted under the
firm name of Gilmore & HART.
Mr.. Morgan had 176 cords of wood and
10 tons OF caal stored in the cellar and
| woodhouse of the Morgan house, at Tai
lahassee, which was burned early this
week. Some of it is burning furiously
yet.
The fourth quarterly conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, PEN
sacola charge, convened in Pensacola
Friday, Rev. j. S. Frazer presiding. The
officers of the church in Pensacola were
elected for the ensuing year and other
| routine business transacted.
Jesse Middleton, who killed Henry An
| ders0n near the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West railway bridge, at the mouth
of the lake, short time since, was last
week tried and convicted in the VOlusia
! county court, at Enterprise, of murder IN
the second degree, and sentenced to the
| penitentiary for life.
Circuit Court for the First Judicial Cir
| cult eOnvenes in Pensacola Monday,
Judge j. f. Mcclellan presiding. This
Will be Judge McClellan's first term in
| Pensacola. The docket is heavy and sew
eral cases Of interest, including a re-trial
of George Andrews, will be disposed of.
The grand and petit jurors have been
drawn.
The Italian, Maroni, who was so Sc
verely cut by Joseph Rosa, at Pensacola,
has completely recovered The man
passed successfully through all the stages
Of disease consequent on the cutting of
the intestines, including peritonitis and
| blood poisoning, but recovered, owing to
the care with which the physician at
tended to the wound.
P. A. Demons & Co., the mill men of
| Longwood, have purchased the Orange
Belt railroad. They have Engineer Hunt
\ at work now on an extension of the line,
and will eventually build it to the st.
Johns river. They will use it for their
own business principally, but will no
doubt ultimately make it one of South
Florida's railroad lines of Importance.
1t is said that the Morgan house, re-
Gently burned at Tallahassee, will not be
rebuilt. Several citizens have expressed
their willingness that the $1,000 raised as
| bonus to secure the establishment of a
| tally-ho line between Tallahassee and
Thomasville, Ca, be donated toward Sc
curing the rebuilding OF the hotel if such
a course will attain the result aimed at.
The iron safe belonging to the office of
the Morgan house, recently burned at
| Tallahassee, was opened Wednesday.
The contents were scorched somewhat,
but not beyond usefulness. Several
thousand dollars in bonds which passed
through the fiery ordeal were all right,
but a leather portemonnaie in which
they were stored was burned to ashes,
while paper wrapped around the out
side Of the leather was not even scorched.
A. strange colored man, called Frank,
was shot and killed by colored woman
from Jacksonville, under the high-fOwn
| title of frankie Polite, at the residence Of
| George w ashington, in Mellonville, near
! Sanford, a day or two ago. Frank had
| been living with the Polite woman in
Jacksonville, and they arrived at Sanford
Monday for purposes unknown. While
at WashingtOn's they had falling out,
and in the war of words that followed,
the woman drew a 42-calibre revolver and
shot Frank in the stomach, killing him.
She was subsequently arrested, but sue
ceeded in escaping while being taken to
the Sanford lookup.