The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-08
FLORIDA,

The Masons of Daytona will erect a
temple of their own.
Thomas NJ Scott has been appointed Post
master at Scotland, Gadsden county.
The State Supreme Court will convene at
Tallahassee to hear arguments next Tues
day.
A Tallahassee contractor is waiting for
the lumber to build warehouse for
the Standard Oil Company at Tallahassee.
At Tampa the County Commissioners
have ordered the levy of special tax to
build Jail to cost $50, 900 and bridge over
the Hiisborough river to cost $4,000.
Messrs. Gilmore & Davis have been
awarded contract to build for the Florida
Tobacco Producing and Trading Company,
at Quincy and in Gadsden county, 100 tene-
ment houses and six medium-priced dwell
ings.
In Pasco county an old gentleman 103
years old has just pTe-empted eighty acres
of land and proposes to break it in and farm
it himself The old fellow is well preserved
ard in full possession of all his faculties. He
is native of Florida.
The firm heretofore doing business ut
Tampa under the name and style of Clarke,
Knight & Co, composed of H. L. Knight
and Perry G. Wall, Jr., has been changed
to Knight & Wall H. l.. Knight and
Perry &. Wall, Jr., compose the firm.
The sailor Patrick Carroll, who was sent
from Pensacola to New Orleans several DAYS
ago on u charge of assault and battery with
intent to kill, was delivered aboard the
steam hip Nucatan Thursday Carroll will
be taken to Liverpool to answer the charge
made against him.
Judge D. O. Dawllns the Grand Secre-
tary Of the State Lodge of Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, has issued a cir
cular respecting the meeting of the Grand
Lodge of the State, which meets at Jack
sonville on Jan. IL. 1t is expected that
there will be about 800 delegates present.
At Palatka Pat Patterson, a fireman on
the Florida Southern railroad, fell from his
engine Friday in the round house. crushing
his skull and breaking several ribs Ii is
thought the fall has affected his spine At
last accounts be was still alive, but not ex-
pected to live much longer. The colorel
child which was run over by an engine on
the same road Thursday died Friday morn
ing.
Caesar Horn, Lew Newton and John Mar
TIN, all colored, were arrested near Martin,
brought TO Ocala, and had a hearing
Wednesday before Judge Cordero, for shoot
ing into passenger train bound south on
the evening of Dec. 10. The shooting took
place about mile south of Martin station.
John Martin was discharged without trial
Newton cleared, and Horn bound over in
a bond of 5000.
Tallahassee Tdti0hasSedn. The suicide
last week of Mr.. Irwin Anderson. steady
old farmer of this county, was peculiarly
sad. He was a quiet, peaceabe citizen
about 80 years of age, and up to a very re-
| cent date was regarded as perfectly sane
! 1t is said that he always had dislike to
serving on the jury or to have any thing to
do with court or legal affairs. A few weeks
| ago he was summoned AS a petit Juror, and
| from that time began to show Slight evi-
| dences of insanity. lie labored under + e
| hallucination that a conspiracy had
| been formed in Tallahassee to capture HIM
when he came to court and do him bodily
! injury. 1t required persuasion on the part
of some OF his friends TO get him to Talla-
hasse, but he finally came mp and served ON
! the jury until Thursday before Christmas
| Friday he started from Lis lone TO come to
! court, but hid himself in the woods and did
/ not put in an appearance. Saturday his
/ wife seeing hat the poor fellows mind was
| unbalanced, kept him at home, but She
! could not relieve his mind OF the idea that
! he was being hunted down by the lawyers
! Several of his friends went over and tried
| TO convince him that no one was seeking to
| ln1ure nm, but all IN vain. On Thursday
morning of last week he got mp early and
went out with a gun, saying that he was
going 10 suoOu an OWL Dut came ack with
out shooting, and his wife thought be had
| put up his gun After building tire and
standing around for awhile, he went to his
wlfes bed, remarked on the cold weather
and tucked the covering around her as if
] to make her comfortable, and returned to
the fire. 4 few minutes later his wife was
startled by the report of gun, and, spring
ing out Of bed found him lying by the lire
with bullet hole in his BRAN. No one saw
hlt tla go
! 9he body indicated that he put the muzzle
to his forehead and touched the trigger with
the ramrod