Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-30


/ knew him.
! The Charlotte Harbor and Cuff City
/ Railroad Company has been organized
with capital stock OF S150.000, with S20,-
! 600 to be paid in, and the balance held as
reserve fund. This road is to run from
! Charlotte Harbor to Grove City on Kettle
| Harbor. The $780, 900 will equip and build
the entire road.
! Latimer e. Vaughan, editor of the Or
/ lando Sentinel, purchased two lots in that
/ city last Saturday, one on Pine street
/ east Of Main, upon which an Office for the
/ Sentinel will be erected, and the other at
! the corner of Jackson street and Pal
mettO avenue for a residence, which will
! be erected at once.
One of the barns on Messrs, Shrader
/ Bros Waverly stock farm in Leon
! county was destroyed by fire Wednesday
! night. A cOIored boy accidentally dropped
! a lantern that set fire to the hay and i'm
mediately enyeloped the barn in flames.
! Only about $50 worth OF hay was de-
/ stroyed. The barn containing the largest
I amount OF forage was saved.
The thirtieth anniversary OF the Santa
| Fe River Baptist Association convened
| in the Baptist churcn at Hawthorn
/ Wednesday, nearly every church being
| represented by full delegation. The
( opening sermon was preached by Rev. Il.
/ K. Mosely, Of Waldo. Large accessons
we're reported, and five new churches
were received. The OLD officers were re-
/ elected.
! A company has been formed at MI
/ ford, Conn, with a capital of $4,000,
which will erect buildings, put i'll ma
! chnery and be ready to ship canned
| oysters North by Jan /. They VIII settle
! near the Indian river inlet. They propose
! to employ men who have been en- aged in
| catching oysters on the Indian river. A
| steamer Is being fitted out to be used in
| the business.
| While the family OF John 6. Collins, of
! Tallahassee, were at church Sunday
/ night, their residence was entered by a
! sneak thief and many articles of cloth
| ing taken away. Mr.. Arch Crichlow lost
several full suits, and about all the un-
| derwear that be possessed, except what
| he had on. The thief appeared to be
! partial to mems clothing, as two re-
/ vOlvers and many articles OF value lay
around handy and none but clothing was
/ taken off.
A gallant young merchant of Tallahas-
see called on his best girl few evenings
since. Finding the gate nailed up hard
/ and fast, he leaped over the pickets and
| landed kerchug into a newly laid pave.
meut Of fresh cement. He finally sora ed
of the cement sufficiently TO present him
self to the Young lady, but when he bid
! her goodnight and started for home he
! found the old man of the house quietly
awaiting with big stick to catch the
| young reprobate who had dared to tear up
| his new pavement.
| At Tallahassee, about two weeks ago,
! Mr.. Moor, physician surgeon, was called
! to perform surgical operation on Polly
! Smith, a colored woman wears Ofage and
! the mother of y grown up children. The
/ patient had suffered for some time with a
] tImOr in right hraaat Tho diaaa 40
had become deep-rooted in the breast, and
| In order to remove 1t the doctor was forced
| to cut out the entire breast down to the
| cavity. The operation, though delicate
one. was 80 skillfully performed that the
! patient, then weak and emaoiated,
! returned In II DAYS almost we'll.
In the Sixteenth election district of
Jefferson county the wife of Charlie
Brown (cOlOred), living on Hardy G.
! CrOom's plantation, was found dead in
her bed on the morning of Oct. "a, and
her husband had disappeared. The woman
! had been 6rutally murdered during the
preceding night, the perpetrator having
| placed a loaded pistol to her head, ex-
! ploded the same, and scattered her brains
over the bed, possibly while his victim
| was sound asleep. An inquest was held
! AID the circumstantial evidence indicates
! that Charlie Brown, the husband, was The
| tieudish murderer.
| The cigar manufacturing business in
| Florida is on a great boom. On Tuesday
! seven new factories were bonded for Key
| West alone. none of which were to ope-
| rate less than 80 men. and from that num-
/ Der up in the hundreds. New factories,
! both large and small, are daily springing
! up in all portions of the State, but Kew
| West and Tampa are, OF course, far in
the lead. The revenue receipts for the
/ month of September were greatly in
excess of the receipts for any one month
since the establishment OF the office, and
! the receipts for October will be greatly in
excess of those for September.
The American brig Herman, from PEN
sacoia, was picked up Oct. Is, on the Gulf
by a spanish steamer, aud towed INTO
Havana. She was waterlogged and aban-
doned. Capt. Hanson, of the steamer
Lizzie Henderson, on his last trip from
| the Bahamas, and while on the Florida
coast, a few miles north OF Sombrero light,
met a vessel on her beam ends, with two
holes cut in her side. The lizzie was
! hauled up, and steamed around the yes
sci, but Capt. Hanson was unable 10 dis
cover either her name or rig. the vessel
was, to the Captains judgment.aOOut 100
feet over all. Both these wrecks were
doubtless caught in the recent hurricane
which swept over the Gulf.
William c. Brown, living six or eight
miles down the river from Fort Myers
was found dead in his bed at 8 o'clock
Tuesday morning. A cOOred man, VINO
was living with him, heard the report OF q
gun at about O'Clock, struck u match
and went into Browns room, saw the
blood on the pillow and gun lying be-
tween his legs Peter Outen, a colored
man, ran over Immediately to Mr.. ivy
ford's, who, returning, found Mr.. Brown
in the position described above. The
Coroner's jury, after a full and eXhaus-
tive examination OF all facts obiRInable,
brought in verdict OF the suicide. Mr.
Brown was born in Georgia, we are i'm
formed, and was generally well thought
Of 1t is supposed that failing heath
brought on the deed. He was cousin of
Mrs. Jane Hendry, Of Fort Myers, who
! took charge OF the remains and saw him
decently buried. He was supposed 10 be
I about 81 years OF age.