Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-07

Morris Brannen, the colored fireman in
Jured at the late fire at Jacksonville, is
so far recovered as to leave the county
hospital.
The fishermen about Green Cove Spring
are catching from rs 10 100 red bass
nightly, which average between and 20
pounds each.
DR.. r. Badger now owns the brick block
known as the AlsobrOok block, at Eustis,
and hereafter it will be known as the
Badger block.
Thomas l.. Bailey has been appointed
marshal of Kissimmee to I'LL the unex-
pred term made vacant by the murder of
H. A. Gibson.
| The Bethel Baptist Church, colored, at
| Jacksonville, raised on Sunday last $3.50.
ms Is for the completion of the new par
sonage commenced several weeks ago.
James Green, OF Lake City, has pur-
| chased the large steam engine OF G. NJ.
| Cllne's, and Will at once put il up and
commence the saving of lumber for the
| puOllc.
N. c. Bryan has finished putting in an
acre aud half OF beans at his home place
at hissmmee. which means about $500
/ net cash to him next spring, besides what
his family uses.
| A big effort is being made to get the
| court house moved from Sanderson to Nc
! Clenny. c. B. McClenny offers SIS OCO to-
wards the expense of perfectinR the re-
moval An election will be held on Feb.
26.
| Several prominent citizens OF Jackson
vile have suggested the advisablity of
the proper authorities keeping a record of
an births occurring in the city during
1856. 1t Is done in nearly all cities in this
country.
The Leesburg jail was burned one night
last week. There was but one prisoner
confined therein, and he made a narrow
escape from cremation. The Jail caught
| tire from candle the negro prisoner lett
| burning while he slept.
| viii Adams, OF Columbia county. was
| seriously cut in two places on Dec. %,
| by young man named Taylor, of
Hamilton county. DR.. Thompson attended
the wounded man. VINO is doing well.
! Taylor was not arrested
the little steamer The Twin, Capt.
1 Dukes. of New York, arrived at Fernan-
dina Friday after a long passage, having
! left New York Oct. "a. Twice her shaft
vas rroken and twice repaired, once at
| Wilmington, n. c., and once at Savan-
nah, Ga.
Gen. K. Z. Spinner, ex-Treasurer of the
! United States, is spending the winter in a
tent at Pablo beach, and is enjoying it
D
/ tendent or the Jacksonville and Atlanta
ra lroad. keeps the General supplied with
Wild turkey.
j. Fl. Raglan. the telephone manager
who left Orlando, taking with him funds
which belonged to the company, has teen
apDrehended and returned to Orlando by
the officers OF the law. He is now await
ing his trial. and will probably have TO
! pay the penalty of his crime.
A week ago the C ty Council of Palatka
passed an ordinance granting certain
! privileges to company of gentlemen who
| propose to establish a system OF water
works for the city, and Tuesday the Mayor
signed the ordinance. Work viii soon be
begun on the water works.
An agreement has been signed bv GER
tain citizens OF Volusia county providing
for the construction of canal on the line
between the Blake and DunlawtOn prop
critics. 1t will be II feet wide on the bot
tom at the river, and feet wide at the
west end, near 5000 feet from the Halifax
river.
The Tourists and Shippers line has
Withdrawn the steamer Belle of the Coast
from the line between Jacksonville and
Sanford, and VIII in future hold her as a
reserve boat. The morning boats of this
line have also been Withdrawn, and in fu.
ture they will leave here in the afternoon.
the steamers Chesapeake and Queen Of
me st. Johns supplying the regular ser
vice.
man by the name of A. W. Pipkin,
| described as tramp, is serving out a 10
days sentence in jail at Paatka on a
charge Of trespassing, sent up from the
Police Court. He has a fresh gun-sbot
wound IN the br asst, which he claims he
got near Blackshear. Ga, by some one
firing into a camp where be was. If he is
wanted anywhere the authorities will
take pleasure ia handing him over.
David Scott went from his home in
Suwannee county to Live Oak, sold his
cotton, and said he was Obliged to 90
home. This was on Monday morning of
Christmas week. AS he did not reach
home the country became alarmed, and
sixty to hundred men were hunting him
over the woods about Little river and
Wilson for several days. The alarm was
suddenly brought to a close by his son re-
ceiving letter from him at Waldo.
The steamer Fred DeBary did not make
her usual morning trip up the river Mon
dav, on account of an accident TO her
machinery. just after she had left her
dock at the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West Railway, at Palatka. and was
steaming off for the bend around Harris
point, one OF the steam lifts broke in two,
disabling the engine and setting the boat
adri(t. She WAS lowed back TO the dock
by the steamer Magnolia, and the broken
piece OF machinery was Immediately taken
out and sent to the shops for repairs.