Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-04

at large since. Sheriff c. p. Farnell, Of
Colum bia county, has been bunting them
for the past two years. Having traced
them to Volusia county, and finally To-
Gated them in remote portion OF orange
county, Sheriff Farnell notified Sheriff
Anderson, of Orange county. and he cap
tured James Lamb and his son Charles,
hut Isaiah escaped and is now at large.
Sheriff Farnell passed through BALDWIN
Wednesday with the father and son
chained together on his way TO Lake City,
where they Will be tried at the next term
of the court, which conYenes in NoVem-
Der. In appearance, the father and son
are very much like two brothers, with
their long hair and bushy beard, low
stature, and bad countenauces. When
found on Reedy creek. they were engaged
i'll farming and had nice orange grove
Much credit is due Sheriff Farnell for his
persistent effort in hunting these crimi-
nails. He has lent every energy since he
came into office to break up the lawless-
ness which has so long menaced the eX-
cellent people of Columbia county.
Minneola correspondence Jacksonville
Times Union: Everything is quiet in
Minneola, with the exception ofsome me-
groes shooting on the Tavares, Apopka
and Gulf railroad, which is being built to
this place, and will soon be completed to
our mountain town. 1t seems that the
railroad company has about 800 negroes
employed in the construction of their
road, and they pay Off every two weeks,
aud as regular as pay day rolls around,
Just 50 regular do the oolored gamblers
and co1ored girls of bad repute come
along, probably all anxious TO see how
the railroad Is progressing, hut more
probably to see how much money they
can pick up among the colored la
borers, and, of course, the colored
man will not do any work on
payday, or the day after, nor until he is
"dead broke'' and compelled to work.
When they get their pay the gamblers get
among them, and OF course each gambler
brings with him jug OF poor whisky.
They all. or nearly all, sit down IN the
woods under the shade of trees and COM
mence to play cards for money, generally
for small amounts at the start, the betting
gradually growing stronger, until many
OF them get "broke," and finally they dis
cover that they have been beaten by gam
blers, and some one opens IRE and shoots
some one else, he ls not particular who.
His workmate is just as likely to stop the
bullet as is bis opponent This, OF course,
breaks up the game. The gamblers grab
up all the money that is in sight. If
these bullets so fired take effect the
man who fired 1t gets away II he can,
probably catching one or two bullets IN
his fight. If he is caught he apologies
and promises to work hard and pay over
all he can make to the person so shot, and
this sometimes settles the matter, and as
the railroad hands are not all "broke"
yet they commence gambling among
themselves. The gamblers then form a
| clique and get the girls to playing cards
with the hands and when the most money
is in sight the gamblers open fire, the
girls grab the money and all hands eight
out' and are not seen again until next
pay day. This being the last act
it is not apt to occur until the prOfes'
SIGNALS and the girls have secured
about all the money they can by all
other means Of robbery. The colored peO'
pie do not disturb the whites as yet, but
they are now coming into more thickIy
settled part, and it Is feared there may be
some trouble. AS the people of this sec
ton are nearly all Northern people, they
can see the darby as they never before
have seen him. As yet there have only
been two deaths that we know of caused
by this shooting. or course, we do moi
know how many have crawled off into the
branch and died, but two were killed On
the spot. and last pay day we heard of sis
that got wounded.