The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-16

erty OF the county, 10 ne USED py Une Dolru
of health for the ensuing year.
The board of county commissioners of
| Wakulla county last week declined to pay a
bill presented to them for stationery used
by a democratic mass meeting.
The amount of taxable property in Or
lando for 1888, as assessed by R. I. Way,
CITY tax asses sor, is 81, 100, us, being an in
crease of 500, 900 over last year.
Ocala's volunteer guard was removed last
| Saturday. The season is SO far advanced it
is now beloved that all danger of a visit
from yellow jack this year has passed.
Robert Fraley, a republican negro, stole
democratic badge OFF OF Jes'ee Dennis,
democratic negro, at Tallahassee few days
ago, and is now repsnting it at his leisure.
Some fend has stolen all the bunting used
| in decorating the opera house by the Cieve-
| land and Fe ming club. The materi al stolen
cost about s3], and belonged to tie South
| Florida Railroad Co npauy.
| Rev PHI. de Carriere, S. j., from New
! Orleans, stopped over IN Tallahassee last
week on his vsav to Tampa to take charge
of the parish in that city left vacant by
by the death Of Rev Father OBrien-
Steve Partin of Kissimmee has produced
twenty-five barrels of syrup from one acre
of pine land Twenty-Five barrels would
be 900 gallons, and 80 cents per gallon, the
ceeds of an acre.
John f. Dunn Of Ocala, nominee for the
senate of the Twenty second district, who
returned home last Sunday, having been
detained by sickness at Atlanta, will make
thorough canvass of the district between
this and election day.
The postoffice at Arredondo was broken
in and robbed Thursday night. The
thieves were enriched only n few cents in
coppers. They started TO carry away the
stamps, but for some unaccountable reason
left them at the door.
Judge Cowdery of Lakeland has covered
in one of the orange trees in front of his
store with an ornamented wire netting. and
placed inside two quail and Florida oriole.
He is now trying to get hold of a white rat
to keep them company.
Mack Bowen, Dave Allige, Henry Brady,
and another negro called Shortel, were he'd
to answer, after preliminary examination
before Justice Howell, on the charge of the
murder of Horace Stalvey, the colo cd
policeman who was recently killed at ks
simmee.
The citizens of Punta Gorda have been
highly amused at battle between the dep
uty collector and a justice of the peace over
a jug OF "anguadientie.n Each had the
other arrested. The revenue collector kept
Selling the rum, and at last got peaceable
possession of it.
One of She first acts of the grand jury of
Madison county after organization Monday
afternoon was TO recommend that the new
jail be received by the county commits
sioners and within an hour Capt. Parramore
had transferred nine Jail birds from the old
eyesore to more elegant yet safer quarters
c.. K. Bloomer of DeI.aud has a copy of
the Boston Gazette dated Monday, March
IL, ITO, just after the Boston massacre, Of
which it contains an account. 1t is a
3-column folio, the columns being 16 ems
(27B inches) wide and IA inches long. 1t was
made up without any style or column rules,
but was evidently neatly printed
George Dice of Madison reports the find
ing recently, of herd of wild cattle in the
wilds Of San Pedro bay. He succeeded in
killing one recently while hunting deer.
They are the offspring of cattle which
strayed in there in times past and have gone
wild. OF the herd he saw all were tailless,
that appendage having been torn off by
the wolves, presumably.
Tho Governors Guards of Tallahassee
have reorganized with a membership of
fifty men. The following are the newly
elected officers Captain, Fl. r. Shine, First
Lieutenant +. A. Houston, Second Lieut.
euant, A. Mcmahon; First Sergeant, e. b.
Clark; Second Sergeant, j. T. Clancy; First
Corporal, Henry Berureuter; Second Corpo.
raj, A. Mclachlan; Ensign, Thomas Costa;
Enrolling Officer, w. II. Shine; Secretary.
E. Bryan.
Capt. Charley Beggs' residence on the old
PLANS place, near Madison, narrowly es-
capped being reduced to ashes few nights
since. A spark from torch fell among a
lot Of clothing, which ignited and set fire to
the building. The heat melted the putty in
a sash and the glass fell to the floor, which
ANSkened the captain and caused the
alarm. He had but day or two previously
removed seven bales of cotton from the
room in which the fire originated.
Capt. c. Howard, who has planned and
built several steamers at Palatka, has just
completed a steam lighter. 1t was built at
Norwalk, and is now receiving the neces-
sary machinery. The boat is IS feet long,
with IS feet beam, depth of hull Az feet.
The plan of the boat was conceived and
built with special reference to the Ock-
lawaha river trade. 1t will be supplied
with a thirty-horss power engine with
screw propeller, and has a carrying capacity
of $1,000 feet of lumber or l 200 boxes of
oranges.