Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-28

primary department, $40. The school will
commence Oct. and continue six
months.
young lad named Frank Lambert
committed suicide by hanging at the Mus
cogee Lumber Company's yards at Pen
sacola Wednesday. The lad was found
hanging to beam by a small cord about
II m, and had evidently been dead about
an hour. The boy was quiet young fell
low, about IA years old. His father worked
In the mill, and no possible cause has
been found for his taking his own life eX-
cept insanity.
Sorrento has recently been scene OF
romantic marriage. The bride did not
elope out of a side window at midnight,
as did the fair Pauline at Orlando re-
Gently, but the affair was unknown, even
the brothers OF the bride were lett in the
dark. The happy groom has gone to
fernando county to prepare pioneer
nome for his chosen one, who remains at
home until he sends for her. Surely the
attraction was strong.
Joe Haddock, the eighteen-year-old son
| of Capt. Zach Haddock, while engaged in
cutting grass at Honeymoon nursery, near
jacksonville, Wednesday, was stung on
the right arm, near the elbow, by either a
| spider or serpent. Joe Immediately be-
came quite sick and was sent home, where
| he soon went into commissions, and it was
thought for q time he would die in spite
of the efforts made by parents, relatives
and neighbors to relieve him. His arm
swelled to twice its natural size in an hour
| after receiving the sting. He is better
| now, and it is hoped will soon be all right
| again.
At Pensacola Tuesday afternoon ire
man on the Louisville and Nashville rail-
| road while near the roundhouse threw a
| brickbat at dog, striking it on the head,
| which stunned it, and in stag
gering condition it got into the round
house among the employees. The cry OF
mad dog was soon raised and a general
| skedaddling was the result, but goodly
| number of the employees, headed by the
| gallant Samuel Whitfield, colored, who
| had taken refuge on top of the cab OF an
| engine, armed with pinch bars, monkey
wrenches and other like handy tools, at
tackled the poor brute, which was neither
able to run or fight.
DR.. Telfair, of Jacksonville, who comes
| from one OF the most aristocratic and old.
Fest families in North Carolina, showed a
reporter Wednesday a veritable relic. Ii
was receipt given his grandfather, Ed.
mund McNair, by one Archibald Curry,
| and reads this way: "Richmond, Va,
| Sept. 20, 1890. Received from Edmund
|
currency for an encyclopedia as payment
in full. [Signed ARCHIBALD CURRY"
DR.. Telfair says there is really very little
difference between the encyclopedia OF
that time and those of the present day.
The receipt is very yell preserved, and
was accidentally found laid away in this
volume not very long ago.
The Vegetable Growers Convention,
which convened at Ocala Tuesday, was
largely attended and much interest was
manifested. There were representatives
from Orange, Hillsbor0ugh, Alachua,
Sumter and other counties present. A
county organization was effected, and a
general convention for the State was
called to meet in Ocala on the third Mon
day in September. Some railroad officials
were present, who stated that the roads
would concede any demands made by
growers. The vegetable shippers are
highly elated oyer the outcome of the
meeting, and say much good will result
from it, and they expect a large attend
ance at the meeting in September.