The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-22
FLORIDA.
A band is 10 be organized at Pensac

| FLORIDA.
A band is to be organized at Pensacola.
A II. Tullis and S. F. Gardiner, both o.
Starke, have bought tract of 1000 acres
of land at Thurston.
| At Kissimmee land buyers are still look
ing around. Mr.. Cannon sold 1900 acre
Of land last Friday and 700 more Saturday
L. p. Hughey, Of Kissmmee, started il
this spring with one swarm of bees which
he carried through the winter. He has hac
some eighteen or twenty pounds Of honey
and now has five swarms Of bees, the old
swarm producing three and the first swarm
producing one.
Hon. A. J. Russell will deliver the memo
rial address before the Ladies' Association
and the citizens of Monticello April rs dur
ing the forenoon, and returning TO ITALIA
hassee will deliver the anniversary address
for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
in the evening.
At Palatka Thursday a gentleman OF
color attempted to enter house on First
street, south of Lemon against the will of
the mistress of the house, and the lady,
| having will of her own and a domestic
| utensil handy. was remarkably successful
in driving him off.
The spring term of Leon county Circuit
Court begins at Tallahassee tomorrow
There are fourteen civil and twenty crimi-
nal cases on the docket. OF the former ten
are continued from the fall term and all of
the latter. There are six cases for the con-
sideration Of the grand jury.
J. V. Spears, of Kissimmee, has in his pos
session an old document which may be
highly priced by the rightful owner. 1t is
the discharge from the United States army
of John G. Tyner, a private in Capt. James
Dills company Of the First Florida Regl-
ment, who served from October 90, 1886, to
February 23, 1887.
At Key West Friday the Democratic
County Convention nominated delegates to
the State and District Conve tions as fol-
lows: Knight, Williams, Montsalvatge,
Brown, Pendleton, Maloney, Plummer and
Gardner. The delegates were uninstructed,
but will probably give Maloney a compl-
mentary vote for Congress.
The Belair, or Sanford, grove is now
being irrigated. A. w. Lawson has just
put in 1000 feet of main, and attached
smaller pipes, and has eleven cocks run
ming. He also has put up steam pump
There is a few thousand feet more of pipe
to be put in yet, and then the grove will be
supplied with water in all parts.
The first Democratic conven ion ever
held in Osceola county convened at the city
hall at Kissimmee Tuesday afternoon. The
county convention to elect delegates to the
t.
on May %, and it was recommended that
the primaries DO held on May 10. Osceola's
delegation will very probably favor Judge
j. G.. Speer, of Orange, for Governor.
Lawrence jackson met with singular
accident at Gainesville Wednesday night
Leading his horse to the stable, he had taken
off the saddle, when the horse rearing
struck him with his fore feet and attempted
to bite him, and only for the fact that a
colored boy was near who secured tho horse
Mr.. jackson would probably have been
fatally injured. The left side of his fore
head and face show marks of the attack
After the horse had been put i'll tine stable
he acted as though he was still frantic with
rage.
Palatka Ne,OS:: Rumors are flying around
thick and fast as to work being already I'M
der way on the Macon road at this end of
the line. 1t is hardly probable that any
thing definite is being done, rs investigation
fails to locate tue work. 1t is more than
probable, however, that some connection
will be made between the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West railway and the
Florida Southern railway, and that hosting
machinery will soon be put In to enable
those two roads TO transship freight without
breaking bulk.
Last week Charlotte Davis, young ne
gress living several miles south of Madison,
had misunderstanding with Joe Thomas
Aiming herself with shotgun she went on
tho war path in search of him She met
Thomas and her brother Dozier Davis and
laid her case before them and asked for
PREPARATION. This Thomas was not disposed
to give, whereupon the gun was leveled ard
the trigger pulled, but instead of perfora-
ting the hide of her truant lover the charge
took effect IN the back of her brothers
head as he stepped between them to inter
cede for peace. The wound is but slight
and the wounded doing well at last ac-
counts
The Southern Immigration Association,
which convenes at Hot Springs, n. c., on
next Wednesday promises 10 be well at
tended. Florida will have her proportion
of delegates at the convention, and strong
effort will be made to secure for Florida as
much advertising as possible. Among those
who will attend from this state are: J. Il.
Leslie, of Tampa +. A Hendry. of Fort
Myers Sherman Conant, of p latka; II. w.
Long, of st. Augustine; w. d. Chipley, OF
Pensacola; Walter G. Coleman G.. I. A. of
the F. r. & n Co.; ID. II. Elliott, Of the
South Florida railway; Col. }. +. Hart and
of Trade, and Col. j. j. Daniel, Of the
Florida immigration Association.
A curious coincidence was that which oc.
Cured at Palatka Thursday, when j. II.
Saloessky fshed up an old she'll from the
bottom Of the river. The coincidence con
sists in the fact that Mr.. SaloeSskv was one
of those at whom the shell was fired. He
was, during the war, member of Com
pany b, Second Florida Regiment, Capt.
Vincent Stevens. The company had am
pushed the Guuboat Isaac Smith, at Horse
Landing, and she had retreated
back down the river and an
chored a little way below Palatka,
while Company b encamped on the shores
OF the cove. The gunbost fired at them,
aud Mr.. Saloessky feels sure that this must
be one Of her shells, because, as he says, she
was the only gnnboat which threw shells.
He was quite surprised Thursday, while
standing on Mag. IcaSdale's wharf, lookng
down into the water TO see a suspicious
looking object, and on fishing it out 10 lind
it to be a shell. 1t is greatly cocrodod, but
by its present weight it was probably fired
from a 2i-pound rhed cannon.
MEDICAL.