The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-13

Maj, HOLSTER has informed a citizen of
New Smyrna that in all probability the
AT ante and Western railway would be eX-
tended to the beach in a short time, a. the
route has been laid out and staked.
1t is said that the Townsville Tallahas-
see and Gulf Railway Company has pur-
chased a large and handsome tug now at
Pensacola, and that Capt Charlie Marks
will take her TO Apalacbicoa within few
days
Aaron Higginbottom, a one-armed Con
federate soldier, had the misfortune 70 fail
from the depot platform of the FLORIDA
Railway and Navigation road at Cedar
! Key last Friday night, fracturing his thigh
bone.
| Ensign f. A. Anderson, of the United
| States Navy. is on a visit 70 his brother, Dr.
! William Anderson, of Ocala Ensign Ander-
son is direct from the Congo, and served on
the United States naval steamer Qulnne-
baug He is on sick leave having taken a
severe attack of the Congo fever.
Lee county has decided that Fort Myers
shall be her county seat The vote was
! hgdt, so many men beng absent in the
woods cattle hunting and others down the
| coast Kissimmec is the county seat OF
| Osceola county, not of Lee, us erroneouly
printed in the News day or two ago
A colored woman gave birth to three
! living children in Marion county on Feb. .
The master of the Norwegian bark Njord
now at Pensacola, Capt. Lonseth, has be
come insane Captain Thorsen, now chief
mate of the bark Hebe, which vessel belongs
| TO the same owners, has been put in charge
of the ship.
1t is said that at marriage in Calhoun
the happy groom, unaccustomed to the new
sphere of life, deserted the party, and when
I.,4, ,ferl,0 he
upon the rafters of an adjoining house.
! The groom's excuse was that he was so &c
customed TO sleeping upon the rafters that
it was n hard matter TO accustom himself
TO any other place.
The orange and lemon groves of Col.
Samuel L. Eagleton, deceased, on the Islands
of the same name, in lovely Lake Weir,
were sold at Ocala last week at auction.
The orange grove of seven acres brought
$1,000, and the lemon grove Of five acres
was sold for s., 600 Banker John f. Dunn,
Of Ocala, was the purchaser of both val
liable pieces Of property,
There was meeting at the colored Odd
Fellows Hall at Apalachicola on last
Thursday night, composed of colored
people, to select a Republican executive
committee for Franklin county. Messrs.
j. n. Coombs. C. II. Smith, Geo. w. Smith,
II. F. Pope, Henry Price, Andrew Patti
son and 4. IL. Iarlln ana JOhn quarter
man, the latter two being from Carrabelle,
were selected.
A second bridge and railroad company
has been organized at Halifax under the
title of the Halifax River Bridge and
Street Railway Company The bridge is
to be built to the Silver Beach avenue from
Hollywood avenue, or thereabOuts. The
incorporators are II. p. Hand, d. o. Bal
COM Laurence Thompson, T. l.. Rodgers,
f. c. Grace, NJ. Huston. John Ball The
company is to commence operations as sooh
as the necessary papers are obtained. The
capital stock is 1000.
At festival given at Suead's Station, on
the Pensacola and Atlantic road, few
nights SINCE the wife of policeman Wilson,
OF Apalachicola, was seriously, and perhaps,
fatally stabbed by man whose name is not
given. This festival was given by colored
people, and it seems that a white man, who
was present, got lnsulted by the owner of
the place, whereupon the white man pulled
out his pistol and shot the colored man dead.
How policeman Wilson'S wife became mixed
up in the affair is not known.