The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-27

Sherlu OF SuWanee county.
There is a demand for telegraph station
at the depot at Huntington.
jeff Lowe, the condemned murderer, is
taking things easy in Jail at Pensacola.
1t is expected that the Casino, at Hunting
ton, VIII be moved and used as school
house.
Dan Watson, a fisherman, took an over
dose Of morphine and died at Cedar Keys
day or two ago.
The new management Of the Windsor
Hotel, at Oakland, is having laundry
building erected.
Eighteen crates of strawberries 2ss
quarts have been shipped from Altoona in
the past SIX days.
The orange groves around Seville were
never in a more thrifty and ilOurishing con
dltion than at present
Engineers have been exploring the vari-
Gus lakes with a view Of obtaininga better
water supply for Huntington.
The hotel at Huntington has proved to
be too small and will be enlarged the com
ing season to double its present capacity.
Clarence w. Jack has perfected his bond
as Postmaster of Fernandna, and expects
to assume the duties of his Office March l.
j. w. Hensley has about completed his
handsome residence, on the lot adjoining
the Methodist Episcopal church, at Lake
City.
The South Florida Chautauqua which
closed Thursday at Mount Dora was a grand
success, both in regard to lectures and in at
tendance
Capt. Graves offers tract Of land in
Orange City upon which to put the county
buildings III the event that that place is
selected for the county site.
Andrew Harper, of Seville, shipped sew
eral varieties Of vegetables TO the Sub
Tropical last week, among which was one
cabbage weighing IA pounds and ounces.
DR.. j. II. Talbird, of Osteen, was at Gen
eva Sunday. The doctor few months ago
fell from the upper veranda of a two story
building, receiving serious injuries from
which he has not yet fully recovered.
P NJ. Webster of Deer Island, near Oak
land, has just made the first shipment of
| tomatoes for the season, and j. b. Speer the
first of beans-each about seven crates.
The shipment of cabbage has become gen
eral.
AT Oviedo A. J. McCullev has purchased
an acre lot from +. Anderson and has the
lumber on the ground for the erection of a
residence. Gus Hedstrong mas also pur-
chased n lot next to this which no intends to
improve
The entire fund required for grading and
tieng the Orlando and Lake Jesup railroad
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secured, and there only remains the ques-
ton of n choice of two routes on IA portion
of the line to be settled.
At Fernandna well-known citizen had
another arrested and brought before Mayor
Barr for using profane language on the
streets few days ago, but being unable to
substantiate the charge the complainant
was required to pay the costs Of the suit.
Two copies of the Cleveland issue of the
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and presented to President and Mrs Cleve-
land as a souvenir of their visit to the Gate
City of South Florida. They will be pre-
scented by Mayor Lilenthal. The material
was prepared by Mrs. A. A. Wheeler
John V. Brown, a prosperous planter of
Suwannee shoals, shipped from Lake City
on Monday last 104 bales sea island cotton,
and had shipped forty-seven previously
Mr. Brown had 900 bushels Of corn from
the crop of 1886 when that of 1887 was har-
vested. This yielded 1927 bushels, of
which he has since sold 1000.
T. j. Lawton, of Oviedo, reports some
good returns for orange shipments lately
He sent two lots of large russets to Birm-
ingham, five boxes of which sold for 50 80
per box and seven boxes for S. IS per box
He has bought a carload of large fruit from
DIR. Foster, and will go personally with the
car to birmingham, Ala, next week, where
he expects to sell the go boxes at good
profit.
The starch plant and grist mill belonging
to G. X. Dutton, and located at Seymour,
one of the convict camps, about ten or
twelve miles south of Live Oak was de
stroyed by fire on Saturday night last. The
water works We're destroyed, and the en-
; CINE, boiler and jig saw considerably dam
aged The loss is about $1,000. The fire
, was caused by a spark falling from the
, smoke stack on the root.
Napoleon Cason, cClored, was severely shot
on Saturday night lass by another negro,
Frank McRae, at the house of Gabe Lang,
also colored, about two miles west of Lake
| City. 1t is said that Cason was in a row
, with the party there and fired into It with
, a pistol, afterward retreating and receiv-
5 ing from the rear a load of duckshot.
Cason is now recovering, and McRae has
l not been found. Sam McRae, his brother,
has been arrested as accessory to the shoot
/ ing but is now out on bail
3 George breaches, the alleged murderer of
5 Henry Hushee, the colored man found dead
near Fort Clinch on Sunday of last week, was
arrested at Callagan Wednesday and taken
to Fernandina. Thursday he had prelm-
mary trial before Judge II. S. Baker, be-
- fore whom he made the statement in
r which he said that James Horatio killed
( Fushee while the trio were walking along
, in single file. Judge Baker committed
| breaches to Jail to await his trial at the
next term of Nassau Circuit Court 1t is
} generally believed that the murder of the
3 poor old man was deliberately planned and
executed by Horatio and breaches.
Mack Henry, one-armed coored man,
who has just served a sentence of one year
! IN the State penitentiary from Columbia
county for stealing the hogs of Willie
Sparkman, of Suwanee county, returned
, home enraged with his accuSers, who were
? both white and colored, and threatened to
> take their lives. On Friday, February II, las
Henry returned home from a ride in the
neighborhood, no gave his horse to a boy to
unsaddle and feed, and attempting to walk
in his door was shot down by unknown
parties. His wife, who was sitting in the
door, received part of the load intended for
her husband and was killed instantly.
Henry was seriously wounded. three buck
shot taking effect in his body, but was not
killed.
Mr.. Wallace Armstrong, of ST. Andrews,
while at work in his garden, a short while
) since, unearthed rare curio in the shape
of an image. It is not a relic of the early
Spaniard, but genuine specimen of abo-
riginal sculpture. The image which is
, only bust, is OF the material that was
, used by the mound builders in the manu-
facture of pottery. Tho head is perfectly
shaped, the symmetry of its contour being
remarkably true to Indian chronological
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