Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-30

To the defendant, and was discharged.
The Postmaster at Green Cove Spring
succeeded Saturday in having the safe
opened, and found everything untouched,
the burglars having failed TO get into it.
j. NJ. Arrow, Mayor of st. Mary's, Ca,
who has been visiting his son, MIR. r. l..
Arrow at Fernandina, has been danger
ousy i'll with typhoid fever, but is now
much improved.
During the first month since the new
Hotel Indian River, at Rockledge, has
been open over 1900 guests have stopped
there, and the outlook is good for an in
| crease during the next 80 days.
The AndaIusia freight packet Ella D.,
which left Pensacola Wednesday laden
with 50 tons of merchandise. was snagged
between Ferry Pass and Whites river
yesterday, necessitating delay of days
at that point.
| Capt. William A. Andrews, who cross
ed the Atlantic in 1878 in his boat, the
Nautilus, is in Gainesville. This boat was
10 feet long, 6 feet inches wide, , feet
F1nches deep, and the Captain was 40 days
making the voyage.
For the first time In SO years, says the
| IdttGbGSSeGn, the grand jury last week
made a thorough inquiry into the affairs
| and dOings of the county and failed so find
sufficient grounds for bili of indictment.
A defect in a bill found by a preceding
grand jury was rectified. bythls, but not a
/ single true bill was-sent into the court.
A demented man named Guild wan
| dered into the Kitchen of Mr.. LeAfOine, at
| Tallahassee, last Thursday night. Mr..
| LeMoine, surprising him TO be a burglar,
| opened fire on MIN, shooting him In four
places. DR.. Moore and Judge Walker
! pronounced him non cun9pOS DtentiS, and
! ordered him to be sent to the State lunatic
| asylum as soon as his wounds viii justify
! his removal.
Cedar Key Journal: We were shown
a few daysago by Mr. F..E. Hale, of this
place. a box containing 10 or 12.oraDge
sprouts 8 or 10 months OAd from the seed,
OF which number no less than were
bearing flOwer-buds nearly ready to open.
These young trees were exposed during
Eall the cold weather of January without
protection. Phat they should bloom so
/ very previously is very remarkable.
| They are only about 6inehes high.
At Jacksonville Sunday, a fine horse
belonging to NJ. b. Bowling met his
deaCh by running into barbed-wire fence
around a place owned by Mr.. j. l.. Burch,
! in LaVilla. The animal had gotten loose
| and man went after himfor the purpose
I of taking him back to his pasture The
horse became frightened as the man ap-
preached and ran off, and 1t was while
thus running that he got into the fence,
sthe wire cutting dis head almost OF at
fthe shoulder.
| A shooting affray occurred at Milton
! Wednesday, at FleIRing's saloon, near
I the depot, in which Allen, MeC0rVey,
/ eolOred man, was shot in Che arm by
Peter Clegborn. son O~ II. S. Clegbcn,
former maFshat. NIeCorvey was playing
psOl with another negro aud refused to
pay for the game, ClegbOrn, who was
bar tender, insisted on his doing so and
( got into a dispute with the wOundedman,
and during the quarrel dreW his pistol
/ and fired at him, and MeCOrvey threw Rp
his arm and caught the ball, which would
/ otherwise have entered his head.
Cedar Key Journal: BIZ. Ben. Coach
man showed us hast week very remark
able specimen of hard limestone rock
Clipped from the parent mass on the
| WfthlacoOchee river. The popularity
! consists in the-fsct that in the line of
kcieavage lies a fossil fadiate or star fish
about two inches in diameter that had
evidently rotated itself after becoming
| innbedded in the soft matrix SOFAS to make
a chamber for itself in which it lay ex-
| actIy as pul1y Hesbe5ween thetwo sides
of its block. The manner in which the
/ cavity was formed is evident from the
fact that it was just large enough to adj
NIT of the rotation Of the arms on its cen
| tire as pulley Is rotated in block or
} sheaVe.
| Thomas W. Tyler, the detective who
arrested James Davis and took him from
/ Jacksonville, Fla, to Nashville, Tenn,
I thinking ne had in custody Charles Glenn
mons, the murderer of John Price, found,
after the prisoner was examined and re-
| leased, that the tables were completely
| turned. Tyler was anxious to part COM
pany with Davis, but this Davis would
not agree to. They went to Gilchrist's
/ hotel to get dinner. Tyler paid for the
! dinner, and requested his former prisoner
| to go in the dining room, saying he would
! follow in a few minutes. Davis went in,
| and the detective attempted to get away,
! but was 0verhauied by his late prisoner,
/ who demanded that his fare should be
| paid back to Jacksonville, inasmuch as
| he had been taken 70 Nashville under pro-
| test and at the expense of the detective.
| The latter eventually gave Davis $40, ALI
the money he had. Davis returned him 81
and left him to tramp to his home In the
country, while he rode back to Jackson
| vile
A few DAYS ago Mrs. K. H. Miller, OF
! Philadelphia, whose mind was somewhat
unbalanced. disappeared from st. Angus
| time quite Unexpectedly. After a pro-
( lOnged search she was finally found by
| Capt. Bower, of the WaycrOss police
I IOftes ldSl IANd9s III Tue WOOoos DctfNtcn
! Orlando and Kissimmee. When found
she was sitting beside a pine stump with
! her face blackened, apparently to dis
] guise herself. she said that she had
! slept in the woods for several nights. She
| seemed to possess all Of her mental facui-
| ties except she feared that II caught she
would be taken back to the insane asylum
! at Philadelphia, where she did not want
! to 20, and to avoid this she had taken to
| the woods Capt. BOwyer carried her to
| Orlando, and locked her up in room, but
| she succeeded in escaping by jumping out
I of the window. She then ran to a lake
! near by, il is supposed for the purpose of
| drowning herself, but was Overtaken be-
/ fore she mad gotten out any distance into
the water.
Barlow Informant: Geo. S. Durrance,
Up, acting as Coroner, went down TO
Homeland Tuesday evening TO investigate
a suspicious case, which rumOr had given
out i'm relation to tine death and burial Of
an infant. The facts as developed show
that a fully matured and rather large fe-
male infant was found, which had been
securely buried in a small box. An eX-
animation proved that II had been born
alive, and from the testimony taken be-
fore the Jury Of inquest, its maternity
was established, and with "A merely par-s
tial investigation, the jury rendered YER
diet that would puzzle the sages OF any
age, since that of Solomon, and left the
Coronpr noyaripsg In the premisea and