Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-31

~ Ad1 iOE county, iaSJ week. uutluS
thunderstorm, the lightning struck one
wheel of A. S. Birds cart, smashing it
and killing two geese under the cart. The
mule attached TO the cart was uninjured.
A tree few feet from the mules head
was also struck.
Lloyds correspond, ,e Monticello Con-
Stitati0R: We have been informed that
the two amateur hunters who left here
several weeks ago for the coast had the
good luck, as they thought, to kill fine
old buck. On their return the Judge was
profuse in his praise of the delicious veni-
son steak he had enjoyed. But some of
the boys were credulons and demanded
that he produce the hide. This was done,
and realize, if you can, the Judges as
constituent when he was told that he had
been tessting on q wildcat.
The Pilot Commissioners of Pensacola
held meeting Wednesday to consider the
charge preferred against pilot Charles
Perry by pilot W. OldmiXon. which was to
the effect that Perry had violated the laws
| as liked by the commissioners IN board
ing the schooner Jennie Lockwood, from
"A Mobile pilot boat, which, of course, was
not registered and connected with the
! Pensacola bar. Oldmixon further claimed
| that both the inward and outward pilot
age should be paid to him, inasmueh as
| he was the first of the Pensacola fleet to
| speak the vessel. His claims were al
! lowed.
There are now 40prisoners in the Duval
| county iail-6 white men, so cOlored men,
ana 4 cOlOred females. From 80 to 40 Is
about the general average of the inmates
OF the county Jail, most Of whom are sent
| there tor minor Ohenses, and are CON-
! PEELED, in default OF the payment of fines
! imposed, to pay by imprisonment at the
rate of soc. per day. They have, until
within few months, bad to remain in
| Jail to eat and sleep out their terms of
! imprisonment, and now, for the second
| time IN several years, an order has been
issued by the County Commissioners for
| them to be put to work on the county roads.
| In the neighborhood of Pennington,
! about twenty miles from Ocala, lives q
! family of negroes that collectively present
a strange and tickle freak Of nature. The
/ parents are coal black and have two chill
dren of the same hue. The remaining
! three children are as fair and white as
! the most thoroughbred Caucasian, even
! fairer by far than the white inhabitants
of a tropical country ordinarily are. They
are perfect specimens of Albnos and
| have very fine aud very delicate COM
! pleXiOns, with pink eyes and hair as fair
| in its natural state as rose. Their eyes
are easily panied by the glare of the sun,
and their effort to shade them keeps the
| skin infantile in its delicacy and white
ness.
| A forestry congress will be held at De
! Funiak springs Dec. IS and IL of this
| year. During this session the Chautau-
! qua circles of Florida and adjoining
! States will inaugurate the arbOr day
movement in the South. Each circle will
be provided with an arbOr upon which
! they will plant such vines as they may
select, aud each circle will plant
and dedicate such trees as they
may provide to such citizens Of
| their county, State or the nation as
1 they may choose. Around the arbOr VIII
| be set apart space,t to remain the special
! charge OF the circle TO which it may be
! assigned, and to be the headquarters of
such circles during all visits to the Flori-
| da Cbautauqua grounds. In addition to
| the work done by the circles, appropriate
addresses win be made, and trees will
/ be planted aud dedicated TO prominent
citizens Of our country.
! DIR. W. B. Forman, physician of the in
sane asylum at CnattahoOchee, writes to
/ the NEWS as follows: My attention has
4 Just been called to an item in "FlOrida
news" in your last weeks issue stating
that Ellis, the guard who recently acted
| so badly while having in charge two ne
! gro lunatics, had committed similar
Otfense about four months ago by getting
! drunk and allowing the patient, woman,
TO escape from the cars, while running at
the rate OF twenty-five miles an hour, by
| jumping from the car window, without
sustaining any injury, etc. The reported
''similar offeBse" is a mistake and
an unjust reflection on the man
agement of this institution. Ellis
had only been employed to watch
the yard six weeks previous to his dis
charge, after acting so shamefully on his
return from Gainesville with patients
short time ago. The officers of this insti-
tuition are conscientious in the discharge
of their duties, and have the entire conf.
dence of the first men of the State. A
deputy sheriff from Tampa, Capt. Finn
by name, did allow a woman to give him
the dodge at Madison last summer when
the train had stopped at night, and out of
this circumstance, doubtless, grew the
report above referred to.