The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-22

rendered him unconscious ever since, and
they may yet prove fatal.
Charles T. Sawyer Of Orlando has just
made sale of 40 acres of land belonging TO
| Mr.. Barton, living near Conway, to New
| York gentleman, who intends having 1T
cleared and grove set out, and a soon as
! he can get house built upon the place,
will move there with his family
The valuation of real estate in st. Johns
county is 81, 400, S27. railroad and telegraph
S36l ,397, personal property $3.50, $50; total
$2,0S3.079 Taxes are asses ied as follows:
State tax mills, school tax | mill, county
tax mills. county school 40 mills, county
bridge and building % mills, sanitary
mills, total 1914 mills
There is to be seen at the residence Of DR..
Rush, near Oakland, night-blooming cere-
us, which is about years old, and is fully
| feet in hight. Within the past year it has
! had four separate bio ms, with III bios
SONS. The number out, at any one time,
varied from six t. thirty, and the flowers,
which were unusually large, measured in
! many instances more than inches across,
| and, as Is customary, were of a pure white.
At Fernandina, Saturday, dispute arose
between two negroes employed on the
gravel train, when negro by the name of
Charles Savage took the part of one of the
| disputants. Hot language was INDUCED in
between Savage and Crawford August,
| which soon lei to blows, and the latter
struck Savage on the head with shovel,
fracturing the skull and cutting a deep
cash about an inch long Just above the
forehead The wounded man now lies in a
critica! condition. Crawford was arrested
and placed in jail.
w. &. Sherman returned to Orlando last
week from Boston and other eastern cities,
having left here about Sept. 10. Mr.. Sher-
man, in his entire trip, made it a point to
call upon the newspapers, and givs them a
true statement in regard to yellow fever in
South Florida, and particularly to correct
some of the reports set afloat as to the fever
being in Orange county. Mr.. Sherman
gave cOmpa lsons between Orlando and
towns of the same siz9 in New England as
to their healthfulness, etc He has, no
d)ubt, done tnis section much good.
SANFORD Journal: Messrs Pace, Richards
and x lane, in ope hing box of goods from
New York, this morning, found at the bot
tom yankee snake, which measured 5 feet
3 inches His snakeship seemed to realize
that he was in a strange country. and made
no effort to strike" any one. j. w. We'll
lingtOn mesmerized HIM and in few me
ments hal the visitor by the back of tie
neck, with his mouth priced open, to show
that he was perfectly harmless. just what
species of the snaSe family this new cOmsr
was no one seemed TO know. The f5ll)W
who packed the goods must certainly la q
had EN-; the result, we suppose, of the &c
ton.
DR.. Pope of Fernandina has invented
mail bag and l. CO which promise to prove
a success. The bag is made of plated steel
wire and so const ucted that when empty it
can be folded up so as not to occupJ more
than one-thlrd the space of the ordinary
mail bag; but the principal part of the doc
tors invention is the lock, which is simple
and easily a. d quickly manipulated, ard
possesses the additional advantage of hold
ing the bag squarelv open without the aid
of the nails or pegs that are necessary for
this purpose with old-fashionei bags. The
doctor claims that his invention can be
manufactured at cost of about one-fifth
that OF the leather bag, and that it win
stand m IRE wear. He has applied for a
patent.
The general SUPERINTENDENT of the fam aus
Belair grove of Gen. Sanford, on the South
Florida railway, T. F. Higgins, says that
1000 or 10000 boxes of oranges will b.
secured from the grove the present season.
The artesian well, an attempt to sink which
was maze year or more ago, proved a
failure. but steam forcing pump has been
placed at the side of one of the two lakes on
the place, and water will be injected into a
huge tank, and thence distributed to all
parts of the grove, into which the railroad
company has lately run side track, for
convenience in loading oranges. The COM
pany has also erected a very neat little
depot of fanciful design, on the ground
formerly occupied by the unprotected pla t.
form that had previously served for Belair
station.
B. F. Oliveros Of st. Augustine will leave
in few days for New York to arrange for
the settlement of the estate of Eugene Nc
CURE, a Catholic priest, brother to the
famous old Sergt. Mcclure of Fort Marion
fame Eugene Mcclure, a priest, had &C
cumulated an estate worth in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. He became an invalid,
went TO France for his health, and there died.
| A will was left in which he bequeathed
| his entire estate, library, etc, to various
| Catholic institutions. According to the
| laws of New York state, will ignoring the
| existence of heirs, when heirs are living, is
null and void The will was some time ago
| tested in New York, found to be invalid,
| and the estate was transferred to trustees,
of which Mr.. Oliveros is one. As the heirs
| are quite numerous, a partition was neces-
sary and with intricaces of law quite diff
cult. Mr.. Oliveros will go into the courts
and sue for partition in behalf of j. Nc
| Guire of st. Augustine, whom he repre-
sents.
Jacksonville Times Union: The latest
issue of the Medical Record contains the
following: THE fever at Jacksonville dies
hard. On Nov. -, despite frost, there
were reported thirty new cases The total
number of cases now is 4,511, with 1856
deaths" The Record is a leading authority
in medical matters in this country, and en-
| joys wide circulation among the profes-
sion, its statements bein /, always regarded
as authentic and unprecedented 1t has,
however, made a serious blunder here-one
which is likely to convey the impression
that our fever here is of a type
that frost will not kill, and which
will, therefore, be prevalent throughout
the winter. We beg to inform the Record
that light frost is universally conceded to
have no perceptible effect upon the disease.
The ADVENT of a killing frost, however,
seals its doom. There has been no frost in
jacksonville so far this season the mercury
has once or twice fallen below the frost
point" but the frost itself did not put in an
| appearance.
Convicted Out of His Own Mouth.
From the Macon (0d.) Telegraph.
Chandler Jones, a negro is in Jail for a
burglary on Mr.. Millions store at Halle
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