The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-25

L nc ldnu is nuInnOcK ana was LettllIoh
with two tons to the five acres-the cost be
ing about $25 per ton. A corn crop has
now taken the place of the tomato crop.
Ever since the Ponce de Leon Hotel has
been opened, people who visited st. Angus
tine would invariably ask, "Will it payf
Up to date 12.206 people have registered
! there and for fifteen weeks there has been
an average of 800 guests at the hotel, who
probably spent in the neighborhood OF $40
! per day for board, etc. 1t is said that
$4,000 is n liberal estimate for running
the hotel fifteen weeks, and $500, 600 is a
| close estimate as N what was taken IN;
clear profit $780, 00-say 100000. Then
D per cent. on 81 900 900 WAS the profit.
The destruction of the forests around
Altoona is getting 10 DO serious. and many
fences have been burned in different sec
tons. On Sunday last could be seon in the
| direction of Pittman a dense volume OF
smoke caused, it is said, from the burning
of several bay heads in tbot portion Of the
| county. This is utter ruin TO the lands OF
the burnt districts, and the limo will come
when the persons doing this mischief will
suffer the penalty OF tho law. FIRE is set to
the woods in order to produce a green
| growth for stock owned by parties that are
not able to feed them.
The st. Augustine correspondent of the
jacksonville Times Union figures on the
number of visitors to st. Augustine this
! season as follows: Twelve thousand ut the
Ponce de Leon, counted 5000 at the San
Marco; 1900 at the Casa Monica, about
! 1000 at the Florida House, counted 1000
at the Magnolia, counted; 900 at the st.
| George, about; 1000 at the Ocean View,
about l 800 at the Carleton, about; 900 at
the Cleveland, about; 800 at the Plaza Ho-
! tel, about; 5000 scattered around at private
| boarding houses throughout the city. 1t is
| reasonable to say that at least 80, 600 people
visited st. Augustine during the season.
Six hundred men belonging to the vessels
OF the North Atlantic squadron were given
their liberty at Pensacola Saturday night,
and did the town in style Except in cases
where they became violent they were not
molested. From this point some day this
week the fleet will go to Mobile bay for a
few days, and then to the passes of the
| Mississippi, probably to New Orleans. 1t
is said that the army and navy will CO.
| operate in experimental manGuvers at
some point on the Atlantic coast during the
summer, and from New Or cans the squad
ron will proceed through the Florida strait
to No thern ports, preparatory to this in
auguration of the programme.
At large meeting of leading representa-
! tive American citizens and business men of
Key West, for the purpose Of taking into
! consideration the present and future
! business prosperity of the island and
the better protection of its
principal industry, resolutions were
adopted warning refugees from justice in
| Cuba who have no visible means of support
by honest industry and are demanding of
| cigar manufacturers and operatives fire.
| quent loans or donations of money, accom-
| panying such demands with menaces and
threats against life and property, that they
are known and will be punished to the full
extent of the law if they do not desist.
William Morris (colored has been work
ing on the Tarpon section of the Orange
Belt railroad and has been in the habit Of
| going to the poStottice after mail for the
foreman and gang, and one day last week,
on one of these errands, he received an en-
| velope containing thirteen bank checks adj
dressed to the foreman to be used for pay
| ing off the men. He opened the package
and taking his own check Endorsed it, and
succeeded in getting 1t cashed. Seeing how
we'll that racket worked he concluded he
would indorse some of the others, and did
so. He got in all $lT2 IS. He is now in
| Jail, and the remaining checks and money
are in the hands of the authorities at
Tampa.
At Fernaadina, in the Circuit Court of
Nassau county, which adjourned Saturday
evening, Judge Baker sentenced George
Prichett Tor Peacher, colored), for the muir
| der of Fuchee, to be hanged Henry Clark
men, for robbing from the person of one
| Peter Pease and attempt to kill, were each
| sentenced to life term in the State prison.
James Dunn, young white man, was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for one year, on
| confession of having broken into a dwell
ing. In the case of Finklestein, Goldman
and Baker found guilty of gambling, SEN
| tence was suspended on payment of costs,
etc. Michael O'Brien, the assaulting police
man, viii be obliged to remain in Jail sew
eral months unless a heavy fine is paid
| Charlotte Harbor Beacon. Mr. Davidson
is beginning to think that we have pretty
reliable postal service, from the promptneSs
with which he receives letters, daily. from
this office, concerning Postmaster" The
various representations made to him are
| simply ridiculous. One day he receives a
petition signed by half the town, recon-
mending one applicant as a good, sober
| Democrat; the next day he gets letter
| from prominent citizens" assuring him
that said applicant is a drunken r publican {;
| one day he gets a petition with nearly 200
signatures attached; the next day he gets an
authentic statement that there are only
thirty-two Democrats in Punta Gorda. Evil
IDENTITY some tall lying is being done Mr.
| Davidson and the department justly ignore
the whole business. 1t is disgusting.
For some time it has been known that
considerable smuggling of liquors, cigars
etc, wa going on at Tampa, but the custom
house officials have been unable TO catch
on" However, Inspector D. S. Mckay got
on n fresh trail Friday night, and Saturday
morning he captured 270 gallons of "angui-
diente," consisting of twenty-four 10-gallon
kegs and SIX 5-gallon demijohns The
schooner Shavers, containing the rum, was
tied up at the old wharf of Miller g. Hen
derson at II o'clock Friday night, but the
owner became suspicious and sailed out
without unloading. The offic ais are on the
trail of more. The goods bear the marks
| of having been buried. Evidently parties
in Tampa were to receive these goods, and
if the matter is properly worked up the
somebody may get into serious trouble.
The ST. Augustine NeUS of Saturday con
| tanned the following: Just as we are going
To press it was learned that a woman at
tempted to commit suicide at IL NJ to-day
| from the bridge over the Sebastian river
A reporter for the NeiCs went post-haSte for
the scene. 1t was learned from Capt Whit
ney, at the bridge, that since Thursday
lady of splendid appearance and pleasant
address has been meeting man at or near
the bridge and seemed TO be very affection
ate. To-day the lady came and jumped
into the river on the west side. A gentle
man went to her rescue. just then the
! gentleman she had been meeting there ap-
psarel on the scene She looked up and
! said 10 him. as he stood on the