Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-17
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JULY II. 1886.

The board of trustees fog the West
Florida Seminary met at Tallahassee
Friday and reelected Prof. Branch, Prof,
Felkel and Miss Blythe wood to the same
positions held by them last year.
The Southern Express Company has es-
tablished an Office at Chattahoochee.
This VIII be great convenience to the
people of that section, as they have hereto
tore had to get their express at Quincy,
about 20 miles distant.
At Jacksonville the firm OF Jones &
Bowen, wholesale SroceTs, is dissolved
and Robert II. Jones, the active partner,
| assumes entire charge and direction OF
the business, which has been built up by
his energy and Judgment.
The financial condition OF jefferson
county is excellent. The county fund
proper now in the hands OF the Treasurer
over and above all warrants drawn against
it to date reaches the amount OF fully
So, 600. Of course scrip is at par.
Tallahassee Tallahassean: A. r. Roby
sent us this week sample of bis cucum-
| Der crop. One cucumber measures q
inches in circumference and weighs
pounds, and his crop viii average from
Is to 20iuches each and from3 to pounds.
The work OF arranging for the factory Of
the Ocala Fertilizer Works has been be-
are on the ground, and everything is now
moving along nicely. In about another
month this enterprise will be in full
operation.
In Leon county Emil Dubois and his
partner in the wine growing business
nave bought the Darling place adjoining
their Lake HaA vineyard, snd will set the
whole OF it, seventv-six acres, TO grape
vines. Their faith in the success OF wine
making in tbis country is strengthen
by four years OF experience.
Robert Williams, the colored boy who
recently received a bullet in the brain
from an old pistol in the hands of another
little negro, ia getting along swimmingly.
The loss of his left eve seems TO be the
only inconvenience he experienced from
this heavy addition to the weight of his
brains.
Several weeks ago Frank Bell, festive
young buck at River Junction, fired his
pistol in the direction his sister (wbO had
left the house few minutes before was
going "just to scare her little" The
bali struck her in the centre of the upper
portion of the head. nassed th, ough the
outer table OF the skull, aud imhedded
itself in the inner table OF the same. There
being no physician in Cbaltah 0Ochee, Dr..
Foreman, surgeon at the asylum, was
called in. He cut down to the ball, which
was tlattened out of All shane, aud removed
il. The patient, though n little foolish
has recovered. The extreme thicRness OF
the skull the doctor says, is all that
saved her life. No arrest has been made.
Tallahassee Taliahasseean: Nomina-
tious for Congress are now IN order, aud
the Tallahaseeean puts forward the name
of its champion bear hunter, snake hero
and rail splitter, Old Girls GRAY. He is
ninety-nine, one hundred ard nine, or
something and nine, we have Forgotten
exactly what, but it d0een't make n par
tcle O difference: he was "Old Cris Gray"
as far back in the misty past "a the oldest
citizen can remember, and isn't bit tCo
young for Congress, lie stands "a straight
"a a shingle, six feet five in his stockings.
car cut run. throw down, or whip any
man of his are In the thirteen States. He
has X led more deer. slaughtered more
bear. ht headed more rattlesnakes, caught
mnre 'cOOns, 'pOssums and pole cats, and
out more bee trees than ever did Davy
Crockett, and he went to CONGRESS-.