The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-07

chine, the weight of which will be about
5000 pounds. The machine is the invent
of A. 7. Sheets of Longwood, aud is to be
built for himself and two partners, Messrs.
Bell and Barnhart
At Kissimmee, the Sugar Belt road is
pushing things ahead at a lively rate. The
sinking of piles across the lake is nearly
completed, dirt is beng thrown along the
grade 10 correspond, and the ring Of rail
road iron being unloaded from the cars fills
the air with gratifying, if harsh, music.
The g. A. r. post Of Pensacola has received
the following Instructions from head
quarters: "No officer or comrade of the
G. A. K. shall, in any manner, use this
organization for partisan purposes, and no
discussion of partisan questions shall be
permitted at any Of its meetings, nor shall
any nomination for political Office be
made"
A private letter from Dill II. James, for
merly of Kissimmee, but now of Lynch
burg, Va, tells of the death of his wife on
July 6, of dropsy She had been safely de-
livered of daughter, but water flowed to
tho heart and lurgs, smothering her to
death in about thirty minutes. Mr.. James
was absent at the time and did not reach
home until about four hours after his wife's
death.
An unknown negro went into the Chinese
laundry at Gainesville Saturday night after
his shirt. He was not satisfied with what
was given him, but grabbed a bundle and
was making off with it, when the China
man tried 10 stop him. After a struggle he
dropped the bundle and got club and tried
to knock John on the head, but the Celestial
succeeded in knocking him pretty badly.
The police are on the chaps trail.
st. Augustine Press: Friday afternoon a
f.I1 1oSt1 IL, - -
the Hon. Stephen Carreras. The assault
was made by prominent county official
who struck Mr.. Carreras terrific blow on
the side of the head, demolishing 81 Derby
hat. The gentleman who struck the cow
ardly blow has always heretofore been a
clio g friend of Mr.. Carreras, and the object
of the attack was undoubtedly caused by
jealousy and to prevent Mr.. Carreras from
going to the Orlando convention, to which
hi, name has been prominently mentioned
as delegate
Pensacola Commercial: The creosoted
piling under the railroad warehouses, and
some of those under the wharves are being
coated with three or four inches of cement
Creosoted piling have not proven brilliant
success. 1t may be that the right kind of wood
was not use ], or that it was not thoroughly
impregnated, or the solution may have been
dissolved by the action of the water. Even
IN Inc DraCKlSu water at ESCaulDla bridge
it has not proven a success, for there, too,
it has been found necessary to prevent the
worms from destroying the wood by CO.
menting the piing.
Capt Weeks who is now in command of
the smack Mantle, of Pensacola, was, until
quite recently, in charge of dredge on the
Panama canal 1t is a singular fact that
there is scarcely rock to be found Nearly
all the stone used in the construction Of the
canal is the manufactured article He says
tDat out of the sixteen dredges employed
twelve are used in the protecting work and
four for the permanent dredging The pro-
lection work is about finished and then all
of the dredges will be used in the permanent
work Capt. Weeks says the canal will I'M
doubtedly DO completed within two years.
During storm few nights ago two of
the barns on the Santa Clara plantation
were struck by lightning, but no serious
damage was done other than knocking off
few shingles on one corner of the barns
| Watchmen were in the buildings at the
time, otherwise fire might have been the
result of this freak of nature. The cutting
and housing of the tobacco still continues
| and by the end of this week it is estimated
that over one-half of tho crop will be under
cover. That which was first cut is curing
very nicely, and the company already ave
some twenty-five barns and sheds filled
with as nice lot of tobacco as one would
| wish to see.