The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17

time. The cotton blazed up, but the timely
arrival and active work of the "bucke1
brigade soon extinguished the flames. The
cotton belonged to II. NJ. Fearnside, ST.
and was uninsured. The damage was very
slight.
A burglar entered Max Myerson's store o.
the corner Of Park avenue and First street a.
Sanford Thursday night, by cutting pane
Of the side door, which opens out on the
vacant lot west Of the store. On inveStlga
ton the value of goods stolen is found &c
be about $780, This is the third or fourth
time Mr.. Myerson's store has been broker
into during the past twelve months, ard he
is anxious to know where the police KEEP
themselves.
ASH. T. Westbrook of Eustis was on his
way to the pubic meeting last Monday
night he was followed by some strange ami
NAL. 1t was dark and he could not deter
mine what 1t was. At first he thought il
was specimen Of the felis mephiHs anc
didn't care to attack it. AS it persisted IN
following him, and with evident hostile in
tentions, at last he turned on it with a clut
and soon knocked the stutfiug out of it. Ii
proved to be fine fat 'possum.
Last week Charles Rush brought to New
Smyrna the skin and bones of a huge
panther that he had shot near his home at
rurnbull swamp. 1t was monster, meas
uring from tip to tip over feet and stand
ing 8 feet high. Its head measured inches
between the base of the ears. 1t was one
of the largest ever seen in those parts, and
would have been an ugly customer to meet
in the woods alone at night. Mr.. Rush
hopes to get a shot at its mate, which Is
even larger.
As some of the congregation were re-
turning home from Bethel church, near the
Iron bridge, in Leon county, last Sunday
week, they came upon white man in the
road beating his wife with buggy whip III
a most brutal manner. AS they approached
the brute ceased his chastisement, and the
two got back into their buggy and drove
on. The man. who is well-to-do merchant
in Gadsden county, had been to Tallahassee
the day before, got drunk as usual. and was
on his way home when he decided to beat
his wife, as is said to be a very common
thing with him.
p. A Diegan; the Standard Oil man, who
is the only drummer that has made his reg
ular trips during the epidemic, visited New
SMYRNA again last week. His list of health
certificates has been augmented by the ad-
dltion of several new certificates. 1t now
numbers 20 different certificates and
measures ten feet in length, he having
pasted them together. He has embellisheG
It with pictures of himself, before going
into quarantine and after ten days resi-
dence at one of the stations, and also a
picture of a microbe, taken from life. He
intends to keep it as a souvenir of a sum-
mer's sojourn among the quarantine guards.
The year 1889 will commence life with a
total eclipse of the sun. Berlin H. Wright,
the eminent astronomer, gives the following
figures on the eclipse of Jan l. The follow
ing is the time Of beginning in mean or
clock time local sun time): Jacksonville,
4 hours, 10 minutes, 81 seconds. DeLeon
DeLand, hours, IS minutes, 90
seconds. Lake Helen and New Smyrna,
hours, 81 minutes, seconds.
Orange City, hours, IS minutes. The
sun will be totally obscured for the space
of two minutes at Point Arena, California
Yuba City, Fremont's Peak, Virginia City,
and various points in California, Nevada
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Dakota,
and important discoveries are expected
owing to the clearness of the atmosphere
and the excellent instruments that will be
used.
Capt Allison, county superintendent of
Gladsen, has forwarded his annual report
to the state superintendent, which include,
the following statistics of public schools fol
the scholastic wear, 1875: Whole number
of schools, 65; white 81, colored "a; tota
enrolment, 1906; daily average attendance
1888; whites enrolled, 1,0l2; colored, 1858
assessed value of property, personal anc
real, S1,016, $40, mills levied; amount Of
school tax raised, So, 093 40; amount receives
from common school fund, 81 ,565 66; amount
received from the STATE one mill tax
$363S 20; value of school buildings and
grounds, $3.50; value of furniture, 500
number of white males, 525, white females
4S7; amount paid to schools, 1881 50
amount paid board of public instruction
1928 60; incidental expenses, $50 80, whict
includes treasurer's foes, fees of tax assessor
for taking census, teaching Liberty county
children, etc number of colored males, 94S
colored females, zoos; number of white
teachers 50, colored "a.