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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JULY 49, 1885.

and pulled the unfortunate man from his
terrible position. Mcdaniel was taken 10
Jacksonville Friday night badly used up,
but he will recover. DR.. r. b. Burroughs,
who is attending him, says 1t was
miraculous escape, for had the conductor
been a moment later the brakeman would
have been crushed as nat as pancake.
Senator Spoener, in the Senate Friday
morning, reported favorably the bill Tor
the relief of Bangs, Brownell Il co. Inc
report states that the claimants were en-
gagged during 1865 in the manufacture OF
tar on the coast of Florida. On April Is
the schooner Martha NJ, under charter
to them and laden with tar and wood,
was seized by the Federal authorities.
The boat was returned on july
Is, in the same year. The claim
is for $5,410. Itemized it reads as
follows: 246 barrels of tar, at $40,
81 460; 10 cords of wood, at $40, $loO; for
loss of tools and materials, 1000 and use
of vessel from April IS to June 10, 1860,
'$1,S00. The claim has been repeatedly
prosecuted before the department, and in
every case while the justice OF the claim
was admitted it was disallowed on one
pretext or another.
Tavares Herald: We received call
Friday from w. G. Wright, of Mt. Dora,
who had just returned from the Halifax
beach, near Ormond, where, in company
with John Anderson, K. Smith and n. W..
Pitts, the preliminary steps had been
taken for the organization OF the HALIFAX
Beach company, with a capital stock OF
$4,000. The company own one half mile
of beach, which at this point is about one
half mile in width. The site is being sur
veyed and plated and the work OF cutting
out the streets has commenced. 1t is the
intention Of the founders to make it a
summer resort, and arrangements will be
made at an early date for the erection OF
a hotel. Mr.. Wright will be no drone in
the company, and Ia already arranging
for an excursion from this point to the
beach, a round-trip fare for which has
been secured at the low rate OF 50.
Fernaudina Mirror: The bark Nicola,
Capt. Brown commanding, which loaded
at Kings Ferry with yellow pine lumber
flor the West Indies, went to sea on Satur-
day afternoon last under rather peculiar
circumstances. The vessel having sig
nailed for a pilot, Capt. Jas. Bell, of the
pilot boat Cowan, boarded the vessel, lying
at anchor in the lower bay. But upon
flearning that the vessel drew 1414 feet of
water he refused TO take her out on that
tide, it being then already half ebb.
While on board the vessel he was
appealed to by the Captains wife
for protection, she having been most
brutality beaten by her husband, Capt.
Brown, and begging to be taken ashore,
as she was afraid of her life if taken to
sea. The Captain disclaimed his wife's
story, but his looks belied his words.
Blood covered his hands and arms up to
his elbow, which evidently did not come
from wounds of his own. Capt. Bell,
while deeply sympathizing with the wo-
man, felt that he had no authority to
bring her ashore, so he came up town in
search of Sheriff Ellerman. AS soon as
the pilot had left the vessel, the
Captain, fearing arrest, raised his amen
ors and dritted his vessel to sea, although
it was half ebb and she drew Az feet.
Capt. Stephen Chadwick, who saw her
going to sea, observed that she did not
follow strictly the channel, and that she
struck slightly once or twice; but she got
over the bar all right, when sail was
crowded on and she proceeded on her vOy-
age. Capt. Bell has informed the owners
of the vessel of the facts in the case, as be
fears that serious harm may befall the
wife.