The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-04

| One of the camp negroes visited a neigh
boring hen-roost the night before and re-
turned with two chickens and some oranges.
! The crime was traced 10 the proper place,
/ and the culprit acknowledged the theft.
Before being arTaigned in the dusky tri-
bunal the prisoner leaped into a bayhead
/ tmcket, but not too soon TO escape a heavy
charge of turkey shot from n gun in the
hands of the camp Sheriff. Several shots
were fired by the Sheriff and posse also
wounding one of their number in the face.
No arrests have been made by the county
authorities.
AT Starke Sunday night, about o'clock,
George c. Miller was passing Mrs. Emma
Richards COW shed when he was fired upon
by parties concealed therein Two shots
were fired with a shotgun the loads both
| taking effect one in the left side Just below
the heart and the other near the knee
Miller lived two and half hours and made
affidavit as to who he thought did the
deed. He said that Louis and Dolph Richard
were the parties vino shot him, and
that Harvey Richard was with them. No
one else saw the parties. Miller. it will he
| remembered, shot Capt. Richard few
| months ago Considerable excitement was
caused by Miller's assassination. The Coro-
ners jury rendered a verdict Of death by a
gun-shot wound at the hands of an I'M
known party. The jury did not consider
Miller's testimony at all. No warrants have
been issued and no arrests made.
Saturday morning while Mr.. Wallace
StOvall, of the Lake Weir Independent at
Lake Weir, Florida, was standing near his
| office conversing with friend, two young
men came up and speaking to the other gen
tleman, refused to notice Mr. Stoval. Sup
posing from their actions that their in
tentions were hostile, and each of them be
ing larger and more powerful than himself,
Mr.. Stovall stepped into his Office and hav-
! ing no other weapon, took his razor from
the desk and went to work. When the gen
tleman who had been with Mr.. Stovall left,
| the two Young men entered the Office
and cursed Mr.. Stovall TO the full
extent of their profane vocabulary.
Then one of them made a personal
attack, and Selling Mr. Stovall by the
| throat attempted to choke him. At this
point Mr.. Stovall whipped out his razor,
and his assailant retreated. The attack was
most cowardly and unprovoked, and its
| pretext the following paragraph, which APP
peared in last weeks Independent at is
with shame and Indignation that we chroni-
Gle the fact that intemperance is making in
| roads into our community. When in
| dividuals become not only intoxicated, but
dead dru k, it is time for their friends to
look into the matter. Ocklawaha seems to
be the point from which intemperance
| radiates.n
About 100 yards of asphalt have been laid
| upon the driveway west of the Ponce de
Leon Hotel at St Augustine All mechan-
| lcal work on the Ponce de Leon will, at the
end of this week, be practically finished.
w. NJ. lngraham, for a long time past, has
| been busy with a force of about fifty paint
ers working night and day without inter
mission or rest, except n few minutes for
meals until now he has corp ct d
everything except the lower corridors. The
60
| except that of few rooms on the lower
floor. The furniture Is all beautifully
polished mahogany and hard woods,
and in itself cost fortune. The horticul-
| tural decorations have all been finished. All
| that remains to lie done is the completion of
a few details and the clearing away of the
debris surrounding the hotel and the laying
of sidewalks and asphalt pavements in the
streets surrounding the building which is,
at the rate they are showing things through,
a matter of four or five days at the utmost.
The great Ponce de Leon will be
ready for the reception of the railroad
men on Jan. 10, and on that day will
be virtually opened to the public. Mean
while work progresses on the beautiful
Alcazar, which very appropriately fits the
meaning of its name Ia noble CASTLE. Not
much attention has been paid to this great
and beautiful building on account of the
supersedure of attention directed towards
the more beautiful and greater Ponce de
Leon. The cluster of buildings embracing
the Ponce de Leon, the Casa Monica. Al
cazar and the lovely little Villa Zorayda
presents picture tvpica, of the Moorish
architecture of the South of Spain and al
most transports one to that old and roman
| tic land famous in history and fiction.
r, b. Canova, prominent citizen of
Green Cove Springs and County Treasurer
of Clay county, was passenger from Live
Oak 10 Jacksonville Oh the Florida Railway
and Navigation train Monday night Mr.
| Canova related how he had been abused by
! an officer of the law, who was fellow pas
senger. Mr. Canova said that in the car
! where he was there were Il number of pas
| Sengers AmO this number was a woman
| coming to Jacksonville from some point in
the State. just after the train left Baldwin
this woman called upon Mr. Canova to pro
tect her, saying that man, also pasSen-
ger, had insulted her. MIR. CauoVa
sat down by her as she requested
and soon after the person she had referred
to came back. He seized hold of Mr.
| Canova and accused him of stealing scarf
pin from him He also accused the woman
and another passenger, A. CASTOR, prom
nent contractor of Macclenny, of the theft
| They ali denied the charge, but instead of
pacifying him it seemed to incense him
more. He pulled large revolver from his
pocket, and, thrustng it in Mr.. Canovas
face threatened to shoot him if he did not
keep quiet. Mr.. Canova states that the
man VINO had assaulted them in such an I'M
called-for manner then abused them in a
most shameful manner. He called them
thieves robbers, and applied other harsh
| epithets Mr.. CASTOR, who is a much
younger man than Mr. Canova, attempted
to resent these abusive remarks and was
severely pounded. The man beat him in
the face with the butt of a revolver,
inhicting some painful wounds. Mr.
Canova saws that, with the assistance of
other passengers and of the conductor.
the man was taken away The conductor.
was called on by Mr. Canova to give the
name of the passenger. After some hesita-
ton he said that 1t was Daniel b. Byrd
Sheriff of jefferson county. Byrd. after
the melee. caught bold of the bell cord To
stop the train, but was prevented and was
brought to jacksonville After arriving
here tire passengers decided to have the
matter carried before an officer Mr. Gas
ton was beaten so severely tnat he was COM
PEELED to go to a hotel and to bed Mr.
Canova went to Justice Magills residence.
and Col Magill was aroused from his SUM
beers, but Mr. Cauova was prevailed upon
by friend of Sheriff Byrd to let the matter
drop. The other aggrieved party, Mr..
Castor, it is understood, will make an atfi-
davit against Byrd.
Probated His Own Will.