Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-04

car, and opening it leaped out. the train
going at that time at the rate Of 30 miles
an hour. The bell rope was Immediately
pulled and a party started IN pursuit.
After chase OF about mile Montgomery
was captured. He was discovered 10 be
totally uninjured from his fall from the
train.
Col. Kreamer, of the Okeechobee Drain
age Company, accompanied by Messrs.
Peck, of Chicago, and Capt. Vail, OF st.
Augustine, arrived at Punta Rassa, Tues
day, from Kissimmee City on the oOmpa-
ny's steamer Rosalie, via the canals OF
the Drainage Company aud Lake Okee-
chobee. They report the country in good
condition, and tropical fruit trees unin-
Jured and already in blossom. Many set
tiers are seeking land in the drainage
district and the Charlotte harbor and
Caloosahatchie country.
The Lake Worth pineapples are said to
be growing nicely, and those on the ISL
ands around Key West will yield heavy
crop this spring. These islands nave also
immense cocoanut groves ON them. 1t is
thought these keys will soon be devoted
entirely to the growth of the cocoanut.
Messrs. Field j. Osborne already have
ABOUT $4,000 growing on Key Blscayne.
An advantage which Florida possesses
over the West India Islands and other
tropical regions where the cOcoanut is
grown is nearness to the United States
market.
Mr.. TAFT, founder of the Sara Sofa Scotch
colony, is in Jacksonville. His wife and
family OF i've children arrived from Scot
land Tuesday. They will leave for the
colony, where Mr.. TAFT has established
his home. On being interrOgated he said
mat there was no truth IN the report That
large number of the o0l0nists were go
ing to, or had abandoned Sara Sofa. A
lew had decided to locate in middle Flor
lda, and that is all there was about it.
Mr.. TAFT further indignantly denied the
reports against himself sent broadcast
over the country by interested parties.
DE has collected them all and has replied
to them sertatlm in all the Scotch news
papers. Three hundred copies of that re-
ply would reach him soon from the old
country, and any newspaper editor who
Is enough interested to republish the
same can get copy by addressing him
at the colony.
The Captain and Pilots Association of
jacksonville have been quietly at work
raising fund for the families OF the late
Capt. Thomas Payne and Mate Pagan,
officers of the Inflated steamer City Of
Nassau. who persisted at sea during the
month of December. The association has
N~CNf boo bnuy W AhClONbC AJs
and have hit upon the excellent plan of
lnauguratlng an excursion trip or two at
an early date upon the st. Johns river.
Capt. Post has consented to run the
steamer Eliza HancOx free of charge on
one trip for the purpose, and it is believed
that no other steamer on that day will
make an excursion trip and thereby
throw their mite towards this noble effort
in behalf of the wives and children of the
z a rlnts - aaf tr,se
believed that the DeBary-Baya line and
the Peoples line will also set apart a trip
for the same purpose.
The annual conference of the A. III. e.
Church, of East Florida, Bishop A. W.
Wayman, presiding, owing to the illness
OF Bishop ID. A. Payne, convened at Mount
Zion A. M. u. Church, at Jacksonville,
Tuesday. This conference was to have
been held at Madison, but owing to the
receipt by Bishop Payne, who was in
Jacksonville at the time, of letter indi-
eating that band of white men had been
organized with view of mobbing the
conference when it met at Madison, and
not knowing but that this information
was true, and desiring to avoid any
trouble, by the advice of the presiding
elders, he ordered the place changed to
Jacksonville. The letter was not signed
by anyone, and il has since been asceT-
tanned that it had b5en written by some
evil-dispOsed person at Palatka, sealed
up in an envelope, and tnen enclosed in
another, envelope, and addressed to
W. S. Jordan, railroad agent at Madison,
with q request that he mail IL from that
place to the bisBOp, so that IL could bear
the NJ ADDISON p0stTn ark. Rev. ID. w. Gil
lislee, the pastor OF the A. Al. Il. church
at Madison, says that the statements CON-
tanned in the letter were entirely false,
that he was making all preparations for
the conference there, and did not know of
the change until he saw the announce
ment in the papers.