The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-21

j. Zwicker, of Orange City, who has been
on his bel now nearly a year, is in fair
way to permanent recovery.
William J. hunroe. OF Sumter. planted
five acres i'll cabbage last season, from the
proceeds of which he added $3.50 to his bank
account.
The vegetable shipments from Oxford
last week we're larger than at any time this
season. Nearly 300 crates per day were sent
to cooler cline.
b. B. Strait, late telegraph operator at
Blanton, on the line Of the Orange Belt rail-
way, has been appointed freight and ex-
! press agent at Oakland
County Treasurer J. B. Finlay, Of Vo-
lusia county, who has been suffering with
| hls eyes for some months, has gone to New
! YORK to have them treated
Crops all over Bradford county are now
/ looking nicely The recent rains have put
new life into them, aud the prospects are
that full crop will be made.
| The top of the Laws saw mill building at
| Orange City was discovered on fire Tuesday
| afternoon last just in time to save the prop
erty from complete destruction.
VIM. z. Lancaster of Orange City, is
| buying nursery stock and budding them to
take to California. He expects TO take
another carload out there in the fall
| DR.. Tate Powell of Starke, has on exhibit
| ton an onion that weighs one pound is Il
! inches i circumference AID } inches in
diameter, grown from seed planted in No
! YemDer last.
Lightning shattered several telegraph
poles between New Smyrna and Orange
City last week, and for a few minute, tAe
electricity made things hum around the
| Orange City Office.
Alr. Taliaferro, CT jacksonville, arrived at
sunny side, Bradford county, last week
with Twelve mule teams He proposes 20
20 into the logging business there, and will
build a spur track to the railroad at Thurs
ton.
Thomas Lawbough and family, of Chu-
luota. met with double bereavement last
week in the death of two children. One Of
them was buried at O'Clock last Tuesday.
and the other died at IL o'clock the same
night.
very hopeful indication for the agri-
cultural interests of Leon county this wear
is the fact that those merchants who ordered
the usual supply of farming implements
this spring, sod out early in the season, and
had to order a second time.
On Monday last l, 800 crates of vegetables
were shipped over the Orange Belt railway
On Tuesday the number reached 2,6lO
crates, the greatest number shipped any one
day On Wednesday about $500, and on
Thursday 1000 crates were shipped
At Palatka, last Sunday night, May 10
the barn belonging TO the estate of Walter
n. Hart was burned, and a valuable horse
belonging to Rev. John S. Beekman was SO
badly burned that he will probably die
Charles A. Flower has been arrested on the
charge of being the incendiary.
Prof w. S. Fitch, the President of the
Orange City College, left Friday for st. Au-
Ina hpor oil
the pulpit of Grace Methodist EPISCOPAL
church at that place until he is prov ded
with permanent appointment. He resigned
his position as President of the college TO
return to the regular PASTORAL work.
AT New Smyrna, few nights ago. the
little steamer belonging to Ballou Brothers
a. Co. was blown from her mooring aud
washed up on sand bank, and when the
tide went down she turned over, and all bar
life preservers and other movable property
were washed away She was righted nm
and baled out Friday, and Saturday morn
ing her owners returned to Daytona in her
The members of the Palatka Fire Depart-
ment, making common cause with the mem
bers of Putnam Alert Hose Company who
feel aggrieved at what has been said by n
contributor to the Palatka NeiCs, last night
united IN hanging Town Tattler," as the
writer signed himself, in effigy in front of
and will will burn the efiizy on the Larkin
House lot next Monday night.
Cedar Key Vie,0: There is a man in
Cedar Key who is of family of twelve
all of whom lived till tho Youngest was
over 30, and whose average aga at the
present time, not counting the ages of those
who have died, is ~ years. The average
age OF the four parents and grandparents,
at the time of their death was 81. Seven
Of ba
reached an average of ~ years, and all
have fair prospect Of enjoying life for
many years to come.
Last Tuesday evening about dusk a
prisoner in the county Jail at Mariana.
called TO the jailor, aud asked him to bring
them some water AS the tailor opened
the door to hand it to them, he saw to his
horror that they had filed the inside door
off of its hinges; and before he had time to
raise an alarm, or close the door, two
negroes grabbed him and forced him in
side, while they stepped outside and bolted
the door. They then walked off, leaving the
Jallor prisoner Only three negroes es-
capped as the rest of the prisoners were in
another cell. The jailor had to call to his
wife to come up and let him out.
AT Welshton, Thursday morning, while
the south-bound freight was backing I'D at
the depot, little Hattie Wilson, a daughter
VI iA~Lt , w AlooHi pooC4utabeI, attempted TO
cross the track, and while between the rails
was knocked down and was supposed, for a
moment, to have been crushed to frag
inents. Mr.. Runnels, manager of the brick
yard close by, took in the situation and
called TO the child. Lay still" which she
did. Five cars had already passed over the
child, and the spectators stood with stiled
hearts. AT that juncture some one was
seen jumping from the train; he reached
between the trucks of the rapidly rolling
cars, grasped the child and, at the imni-
nent peril of his own life, saved her life.
The man was Conductor Wyman. of the
Florida Southern railroad.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Spartanburg favors d. X. Duncan for
Congress.