The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-09

OF -four miles of keuka.
-Four carloads of orange trees for Sacra-
mento, Cal, passed through Gainesville Fri
day.
The shipping business Of the :. & G, Ice
and Fish Company has been removed from
Cedar Key 10 Tampa, and will be under the
management Of Capt. Victor B. McIlvaine.
AT Cedar Key the enlargement of f. A.
Wolfe & Go. 5 cedar mill is among the i'm
prOvements Of the near future. The ice fac
tory will be ready TO put in fires iii about
week
At the Methodist church at Jasper last
Sunday, when doors were open and there
was no fire, the stove pipe, as if protesting
against staving where it was useless, fell TO
he floor with a crash
The sloop Pilots Bride picked up last
Monday, off Snake Key, the body of
young white man found floating in the
water. Parties at Cedar Key, who profess
to recognize the features, say it is Tom
Coryell, of Bay Port, who was one Of the
two men known to have been on the cap
sized boat recently picked up by Capt. l..
l.. Hodges. The body had been in the
water over ten days, but was not much dis
figured. The weather has been so cod that
decomposition had made but little change
in the features.
An enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of
Barlow was held Friday, looking to the or
ganzatlOn of a national bank. William b.
Hayes, a wealthy New Yorker, takes So,
900 stock. and committee, consisting of
MeSsrs. hughes Smell, Whtledge and Reed,
of Barlow; Aleyne, Whitehead and Carter,
of Fort Meade; l.. BristOw and NJ. p. Rig
gins, of Lakeland, and II. King of Fort Og
den, were appointed to raise like amount.
IL is expected the amount will be taken be
fore the next meeting, which will be held
Thursday, Jan. 20.
At st. Augustine, King street presented
lively scene Friday night. A gang of men
were engaged in laying II temporary track
from the Ponce de Leon railroad on CordOva
street to the wharf, foot of King street, for
the transportation of a locomotive and car
of the St Augustine and South Beach
railroad, on AnaStasia Island. The track
was laid in sections of about ten rods.
After the train passed over it, the track was
taken uD again and reaid in front of the
locomotive. One mile and a half of the
road on Anastasia beach is already com
pleted, and the work is still going forward.
The preliminary examination of Bill
Hicks, principal, and Bob Broxton, Bob
Mclaughlin, William Grice and Jessie
Floyd, all Colored, for the killing of Joe
Mcmillan at Molino on Christmas morning,
was concluded at Pensacola Thursday. The
defense introduced testimony to the effect
that Mcmillan had fired the first shot.
Grice and BrOXtOn are said to have use1
knife and club to intimdate the bystanders
and prevent an interference between the
combatants Hicks was held without bail
and Mclaughlin was discharged In the
cases of the other accessories Judge Hall
mark admitted them to bail in the sum of
$3.50 each
At Key West Wednesday, acting under
peremotory instructions received from
Washington, Lighthouse Inspector Block
| linger transferred his books and office fur
niture to the lighthouse steamer Laurel and
proceeded to Pensacola, which will hereafter
be the supply station of that district. AL
though the transfer has been advocated for
sometime, considerable comment is INDUCED
in at Key West at the apparent haste of the
| Lighthouse Board i'll taking action during
the holiday ad journment of Congress. which
is believed to be to forestaI the action of
the Florida delegation to whom petitions
were sent by the Board of Trade protesting
| against the removal of the Office a hundred
| miles from the centre of the district.
At st. Andrews Bay the canal scheme
| has taken new life, and it now looks as
though it will know realization. A com
mittee of citizens, with an engineer, will
| complete n survey of the proposed route
this week, and report upon the feasibility
| and probable cost of the undertaking. The
canal will connect East Bay with the Apa-
| lachicola river. A proposition is made by a
| n ortheru company to construct the canal,
with depth Of - feet of water in it, for
the sum of IS 000-that being at the rate of
81 900 per mile This canal, if completed,
| will not alone benefit st. Andrews and the
surrounding country, but the whole of the
| western gulf coast, as its operati will. in
the cases of east-bound vessels, preclude the
necessity of doubling the horn of San
| Bias.
An untenanted two-s DRY frame house,
| located at the east end of East Romano
street. Pensacola, owned by c. Corner, was
set on fire Friday night by some party or
parties unknown. A corner of the building
was slightly scorched before the flames We're
extnguished. Under the house a cigar box
| full of waste that had been saturated with
| kerosene oil was found, and, at a short dis
tapce thereform bottle with about half
| pint of oil in it. Mr.. Corner is building u
slaughter house in his field without the city
limits. When its construction was com
menced, Mr.. Corner was approached by
| some colored people, who objected to the
erection of tho building at that point The
objection was paid no attention to and the
| work went on. Saturday morning the work
| men on repairing to the spot found the bu Id
| ing on fire in three places Fortunately the
material was green, and the fire which had
gained but little Roadway, was eXtngulshed.
The first of the five big barbecues incl
| dent to the county seat campaign in Lake
| county was held at Mascotte on Tuesday.
for which 800 pounds of meats, besides
| bread, pies and cake, etc, were provided
| The next barbecue was held at Naaha yes
terday, and the others will be at Seneca on
the 10th. at Altoona on the 18th, and the
c.oSing one at Tavares on the lGth-the dav
before the election. At all of the barbecues
the precinct clubs contiguous to the place OF
meeting attend with their banners, etc. At
the Iavares barbecue every club in the
county will attend, and after speaking dur
ing tine day, the campaign Will Close at
night with Il torchlight procession aud FIRE
works Special railroad trains will be run
in connection with the barbecueS. Nearly
eighty persons went to Bloomfield Thurs
day, from Tavares and the precinct, to the
north, east and south of there for the pur-
pose of being registered That, of itself, is
good addition TO the vote of Tavares
The following civil appointments have
been made during the week NJ "A.
Dzialynski, to be Auctioneer in and for the
county Of Duval; 2. .. Robbins, to be Con-
stable in and for the county OF Duval;
Thomas j. Peterson, to be Justice of the
Peace i'll and for the county Of Nassau;
John II. ca. ter, l.. w. Guernsey, Joan Ii.
/ Reilly. J. NJ. Williamson, p. b. Bedford.
! William 7. TompkinS, William
II. Knowles, Alfred b. Small, II
X. Olliphant, j. NJ. Hayden, William
l.. Lukers and l.. A. Gingross, to he No
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