The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-23
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COOtOndale wants Jeacner 10 Jake charge
of her school Oct. !.
Monticello precinct will increase its vote
nearly 100 in the next election.
Hoyt's opera house, just completed, at
Silver Spring Park, cost $1,000
The Turner Bros. have leased the Hotel
Monticello to A. r. Hale of New London,
Conn
Work was commenced Thursday on the
Plant Investment Company's bricz block,
at Sanford.
The old dwelling at Casa Blanca has
been secured as a quarantine camp for any
refugees who might slip into Monticello.
The SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS now
reaches Tallahassee on the same day that it
is published, and is quite welcome visitor
Quarantine regulations are greatly Inter
fering with the speech making mapped out
by the state democratic executive COM
mittee
| Mariana is about sixty-five miles west of
Tallahassee-four hours run by rail, and yet
mail is ffty-two hours en- route from Talla-
hassee to Mariana.
John NJ. Henry has found his furniture
factory at Monticello a good paving enter
prise. He is constantly receiving orders
from a distance, and has shipped several
carloads OF furniture.
The republicans of Leon county tried very
/
nomination on their ticket for county judge.
Several committees from their ranks waited
on him, but he positively declined.
| The probability is that Lake county will
| soon quarantine against Orange. If such
action is taken, then the Orlando board of
health will doubtless raise the quarantine
restrictions recently established by them.
A colored man who has an idea that his
party will carry Leon county at the fall
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be in the Tallahassee stores, offices, ETC., and
the white folks will be out in the fields
making crops for us"
The citizens of Monticello raised about
800 for the Jacksonville yellow fever suf-
ferers. Mayor Denham wrote to Judge
Jones about the amount collected, and at
the same time sent 125 chickens. Judge
Jones wrote that they preferred chickens
and eggs to money, and requested him to
send all he could.
DR.. D. L. Renault Of Palatka received
letter from Waldo from his wife, Wednes-
day, stating that Mr.. Sandwich had died
in that place of yellow fever on Sept. 16,
and was buried Immediately. The deceased
was an engineer on the Florida Railway
and Navigation road when the fever broke
out in Jacksonville.
The trustees of the Sanford graded school,
at meeting Thursday, decided to request
the county superintendent of public instruc-
| ton to postpone the opening of the Sanford
school until Nov l. This action was taken
on account of the absence from the city of
a large number Of the pupils of the school,
and the presence of yellow fever in Jack
sonville and other places.
The democratic nominees in jackson
| county are as follows Senator, r. B. Staple
ton; assemblymen, w. H. Milton, Jr., Ga
briel Smith; county judge, H. G. Neal; clerk
circuit court, Frank Philips; sheriff An
drew Scott: tax collector, John B. Ander.
son; tax assessor, George f. Denham:
treasurer, John Milton; superintendent of
schools, w. NJ Tanner; county surveyor,
w. J. McKeown.
st. Augustine seems to have been some
what unlucky about disinfectants. Mr..
| Mcclure, when he was in New York, or
dered disinfectants sent to St. Augustine
Instead of going to st. Augustine, it went
| TO Jacksonville, where it will probably re-
main until cold weather. Then there are
fifty barrels of copperas between Savannah
and Palatka, and twelve barrels between
Palatka and Atlanta, with no prospect of
getting them soon.
The Alapaha has gotten away out of its
banks, and in some places near Jasper is
over a mile wide. j. II. Lee was at the
iron bridge Tuesday afternoon and evening,
doing all he could to save tina embankment
on the west side, but nothing could with
stand the rush of the waters The small
bridge on the embankment foated out of
position. and about eighteen feet of the en-
bankment had washed away up to Wednes-
day morning. The water is within three
feet of the floor Of the iron bridge, and is
cutting the embankment little at the west
end of the bridge.
b. f. Mccall attempted to go to Jasper
on Tuesday night but finding the small
bridge floating and the embanknent giving
way, he went back to his place. loaded his
fishing bateau on the wagon, came back to
the river and, with the assistance Of Hayden
Putnal, launched his craft. he landed over
a mile from the road, on the other side, in
Arthur Birds cotton field, which, with
many others OF cotton, corn, cane, etc, is
submerged by the freshet. Ben says when
his wife wrote him TO meet her at Jasper
he knew no such word MS fail. Upon reach
ing land Messrs. Mccall and Putnal walked
to town, about four and half miles.
The following democratic county nomi-
nations have been made during the past
week: Hamilton county-Senator, j. d.
Tuten; representatives, f. NJ. Smith and
J. F. Stapler; sheriff N. o. Waldron; tax
collector, J. H. Lee tax assessor, J. NJ.
Roebuck; county judge, J. r. Watson;
superintendent of public instruction, g. J.
Graham; treasurer, w. Robarts; surveyor,
l. c. Carter. Suwannee county-Senator.
Robert f. Rogers; representatives, S. Nj.
Martin and NJ NJ. Knight; county Judge,
W. p. Moseley; circuit clerk, J. II. r. BY
mum; sheriff, w. Ii. Mobley; tax assessor,
George Wolfe; tax collector, j. j. Rob
inson; treasurer, w. IL. Sessions. SUI
perintendent of public instruction,
]. o. c. Jones; surveyor, n. Y.
Bryan. Sumter county-Representa
Thomas NJ. Atkins; county Judge. j. II.
Steele; circuit clerk, d. c. HULL tax col
lector A. y. Harvey; tax assessor, j. A.
!. Tillman; treasurer, J. A. Roberts, superin-
tendent of public instruction, c. Whitfield;
, surveyor, w. H. Crenshaw. Brevard
J county-Representa w. $. Norwood;
! county judge, NJ, S. Jones, circuit clerk, A,
} A. Stewart; sheriff, James f. Bowman ;
tax assessor, w. X. Sander; tax collector,
: Il. w. Hall; treasurer, S. H. Ray; superin-
3 tendent of public instruction, John II
Sans surveyor K. b. Burchtied Brevard
; and Dade counties-Senater, Lyman Barnes.
, Wakulla county--Repre,ent T. j..
} Raker; county Judge, w. a. Giles; sheriff,
c. s. Alligood superintendent Of public
instruction, K. Is. Forbes; tax assessor, J. j.
, Harrell, tax collector, 5. NJ. Revell; treas
: urer, 7. II. Moore; surveyor, G.. w. Tuly.
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