The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-07

! Ton county, LOT Jue year enuInS req. u 1870
Nearly all the transfers were made in De-
Funiak property.
Proposals will be recei we'd at Washington
d. c., up 60 Feb IA for the removal Of the
dead in the military cemetery at Fort
| Myers and their reinterment in the national
cemetery at Barrancas.
There are now 2l5 men on tho tobacco
| planting company's pay roll in Ciadsden
county. Twenty-Five German families will
arrive this week who will start at once in
/ the employ Of the company.
The South Florida Foundry at Orlando
! is now turning out nearly every variety of
castings and is full of orders from nearly
every part Of the State. A large order has
! just been received for street lamp posts.
During the past ten days $50, 900 worth of
! government land has been sold at the
! United States Land Office in Gainesville, a
total of over 81, 600 acres. At this rate
there will soon be no public land in the
State.
J. L. Cutler, of Fort Myers, has some
skins Of his tanning which he will send to
the Sub Tropical, consisting of two moe
casins, gopher snake, two kinds of king
snakes, diamond RATHER, a water turkey
and tawn skin.
Jim Connors, the lightweight pugilist
who is matched to fight Tommie Barnes 10
a finish, without gloves. in the vicinity of
Jacksonville, left New York on the Clyde
steamer last Friday for Jacksonville. The
fight will be for $500 a side.
AT Live Gal; the house burner is still run
ming around loose. AT first it was claimed
that negro man known as "CraZy JIM
was doing the mischief, but he has been sent
to the asylum, and two attempts at house
burning have since been made
There is nothing exhibited that attracts
af Al bn t,igt nd
gun found near Leesburg and seen in the
Lake county department of the Sub
Tropical Exposition. They are relics of
by-gone age and are real curiosities.
The dredge company is busily engaged
cutting a canal from Lake Okeechobee
commencing and running due south, letting
out water into the everglades. This will be
apt to stop, to great extent, the surplus
water that comes booming down the Calico
sahatchee during the rainy season.
S. w. Sparkman, of Oxford, has returned
home from Alachua county, where he went
to superntend the shipping of his orange
crop. From ninety-nine trees he shipped
800 boxes, obtaining $fSS gross, about $3.50
per acre. 1t cost him less than 800 to pack,
ship, etc. He made nearly 500 clear.
Marion Johnson, a farmer of Suwannee
county, who lives on section TO- township 4,
range 10, holds a deed from the State duly
signed by Gov. E. A. Perry ct al. for eighty
acres of A No. | pine land in section TO-
bought by him under the act allowing actual
settlers eighty acres of land at 25c. per acre.
A colored man came near being killed by
Joe Lee at Fernandma early last Sunday
morning. Lee is Chinaman who keeps a
grocery store. Hearing a noise as of some
one trying TO break in, Joe fired. The bul ct
entered the thigh of a negro, inhictng a
slight flesh wound. No arrests were made
James Mott, of Orlando, received Satur-
day a box containing at least two bushels of
tube rose blooms. They came from the
place of A. NJ. Foster, at Tangerine and
are to be prepared, so as to keep, and be
sent to England. If this venture is a success
it will be the forerunner of another industry.
Mrs George II. Count, of Enterprise,
placed a cage containing canary bird ON
the front porch of her residence Monday
and when she went out to feed it a few
hours afterward discovered it lying in the
bottom of the cage with its head torn off.
1t is supposed to have been killed by
butcher bird. O. H. VoSs lost canary in
the same manner last week.
AT Enterprise it is rumored and generally
believed, that party of Eastern capitalists
have purchased the entire Clark estate, of
which the Brock House is a part, and is
going to utilize the mineral springs, erect a
very extensive sanitarium, and one of the
finest hotels in America. This trade has
long been talked of, and those best posted
say it has now been consummated.
A short time before DIR. G. H. Gardner
left Mass lchusetts for Tavares, where he
now is, he stepped on a nail, which pene-
trated the instep of his foot to quite a
length. He has been obliged, while at
Tavares, to go about on crutcheS OF late
the wound assumed a serious turn, and. to
avoid possible blood poisoning, he decided
to have the foot amputated at the ankle
joint, which was done. The patient is doing
we'll
Tallahassee TdHdhaSsenn: The idea of
three learned and diguified Supreme Court
Judges drawing straws to determine which
shall exercise the functions of Chief Justice
Is so ridiculous, mdlgntied and absolutely
foreign to every principle of intelligent and
civilized gov rnment that we can hardly
realize that the constitution of the fairest
State i'll the Union contains clause max
ing such spectacle necessary. The mem
Der who introduced this clause into our
constitutional convention, ought to go off
and bump his head against post for "a solid
hour every morning during the remainder
of his natural life.
Last Sunday night Col G. A. Hanson,
with his wife and daughter were in Bar
tow to attend the services at the court
house, and the Colonel hitched his horse
uiluer Jne large OAK Tree III the rear OF the
court house building When they started
to go home, and after driving short dis
tance, one of the wheels of the buggy fell
off and the three occupants were thrown to
the ground Upon an examination it was
found that the harness was cut in several
places Fortunately Col Hansons horse
was tame and didn't take fright, else there
is no telling what might have happened.
The harness of several other persons was
badly cut The scoundrel who perpetrated
the outrages is not known
Three Italians, acc mpaned by two bears.
passed through Jasper day or two ago.
After the largest bear had waltzed, turned
somerSaultS and the usual collection had
been taken up one of the wanderers said:
Now shentelmens to bestis ting you ever
see to rasSel wild to bear l makee eaf YOU
Shoust make up Won dolla' Sometime de
bear vim beS two out tree den sometime win
canno' tell how. You make up Won dolla We
see. After little the requisite sum was
made up and the tussle commenced Things
were getting on very well, the score being
about equal, when "A dog appeared on the
scene. This was more than bruin could
stand, so he gave his antagonist a rake aside
of his face, bringing the blood freely; then
felt for the top of his Uranium and nearly
scslped him, while it took the combined
efforts of the three men to hold the now
irate and determined bear from having a
dog chase.
On the Jacksonville and st. Augustine
fIts., .Iv-., i. 81