The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-31

tunate possossor of /. 200 acres of land or
! Lake Washington, Brevard county, where
! he proposes tn establish winter resort, il
/ the near future.
Rev A. B. Curry, of Gainesville. started
for Savannah Tuesday, on an invitation t.
| preach in the Independent Presbyterian
! church OF that city. This church has been
| in correspondence with him in relation 10
securing him as its pastor.
! While celebrating DeLand's victory,
! Thursday night Herbert H. Gibbs, prom
inent attorney of DeLand, was seriously
wounded in the abdomen by the bursting OF
a nut used between the anvils. The surgeon
says it IS not necessarily fatal.
An alarm Of fire was sounded last Satur-
day night just at dark, caused by the fall
ing and overturning of a lamp at Lybass 6,
Prices new store, at Barlow About twenty
| dollars worth of goods were burned and
damaged before the flames were extin-
guished
At DeFuniak a company interested in
lumber has put up 81 900 forfeit as an OPP
ton on body of timber land A thousand
dollar option forfeit on a 81 ~ an acre land
will cover considerable territory. The mill
will be located within three or four miles
of DeFuniak.
AT Tampa Monday night Thomas Nc
Combs, mulatto shoemaker, was run over
and instantly killed by the south-bound pas
senger train at the trestle opposite the Ybor
City Ice Works. Several persons who saw
him say he was very much under the infu-
ence of liquor.
T. H. Greatorex, of st. Augustine, has
closed the shooting season with a score of
o?6 birds, against his best record of COZ
birds in the season of 1886. He says this
year has been the best for quail since 1879,
although snipe have been ''off " and wood
cock none to speak Of
The steamer Stella, of Pensacola, which
has been undergoing extensive repairs at
New Orleans, is now at Southwest Pass
awaiting a favorable opportunity to pro-
coed to sea en- route home She will tow
the American schooner Emma F. Hart
from the Pass to Pensacola.
Charles A. Davis, Of Lake county. is max
ing large vegetable shipments to the North
ern markets. He is now shipping cabbageS,
and expects a fiuo crop of Irish potat oes. He
will take M his permanent residence on his
homestead situated on the east side of Lake
Saunders and expects to soon erect COM
Portable cottage.
The election in Jefferson county, Wednes-
day, to determine whether nominations for
county and legislative officers in the future
shall be made by delegates to a convention
N,
passed off quietly, and the primary mode
was adopted by an overwhelming majority
of the votes polled.
1t is altogether probable that the new
management of the Florida Midland have
acquired what was known as the Alabama.
Florida and Atlantic road. In connection
with the rumOr Of such absorption con-
tractors along the line have received checks
for ties furnished and other labor, plainly
showing that there is something in the
wind
At Pensacola Wednesday, three sailors
belonging on board the British Steamship
Marchioness, attempted to go to their vessel
IN small skiff. They were all drunk The
beat capsized and one Of its occupants was
drowned. The bay was dragged all the
evening, but the body was not recovered
The unfortunate mans name could not be
ascertained.
John II. Corner, living on the Ockawa-
ha river, shot an alligator last Saturday
over eight feet long. Opening it, out of GU
rloslty, he was su prised TO find snugly en-
sconced therein, a water snake about foot
long and eleven young snakes. The rertiles
had evidently teen in their novel home
some time, as the liver of the gator was six
inches out of its normal position, and was
ftattened out i'll places by the continued
pressure of the snakes
Sanford Journal: A large number of our
citizens were last night treated to a view of
the live manatee, or sea COW, caught few
days ago at the mouth of tho st. Lucie
river by Can't. j. W. Zallers. of the schooner
Nanatee. The Captain caught at tn time
two of the animals, male and a female,
and promises to bring the male to Sanford
in a short while on exhibition. The one he
was taking to the Sub Tropical measured
about feet in length, 215 across the back,
and weighed about 900 pounds.
The Monticello Gun Club Gun is now the
permanent property of that clu It wa.
presented one year ago by Mrs. John Hoev.
of New York, to the club. and very gener-
ously offered for competition between the
Jacksonville and Monticello Gdl Clubs
when wou three times in succession hy
either club, t. b come the final y oparty OF
the successful club Ii a challenge was not
sent to the club holding it within one year
victory was to count for the winners al
the last contest Monticello beat jackson
vile twice. and tine latter failed to chal
lenge the third time.
A white man by the name of Harrell,
now lying in the county jail at Mariana,
charged with diSposing of mortgaged prop
erty attempted suicide Sunday by poisoning
with nicotine DR.. Barrier attended him
Monday morning and found him in a par
ulyN4u COHIlllOn. ne was SDecChleSS and
insensible, and his heart, though regular,
was not strong enough to throw the bloc
to the extremities. An investigation showed
that he had bitten off and swallowed sew
eral large pieces of homemade tobacco
which produced the poison Wednesday he
was better, but was still unable to speak
When Judge S. c. Sadler came from din
ner to his place of business at Gainesville
Wednesday, he was accompanied by a
BEAUTIFUL, young and unsophisticated
pointer puppy, of which he was quite
proud; in fact he spent the greater part OF
the afternoon in explaining and pointing
out to an admiring crowd the good points of
the young pointer The "purp" frisked
about the store until towards evening, when
it extended its mesnderings to the track OF
the Savannah Florida and Western rail
way. The evening train from Savannah
also began TO meander along tho track at
the same time. A collision occurred the
train rushed madly on, and all that was left
of the promising young pointer was a grease
spot on a cruel, iron rail.
The vote in the election for county seat in
Volusia Thursday was as follows. DeIand
3S7 for DeLand; Beresford, 96 for DeLand
Enterprise, 10 for Enterprise; Orange CITY.
% for Deland, 81 for Lake Helen. 50 for
Orange City; Spring Garden, 81 for Lake
Helen, 16 for DeLaud; Seville, "a for En-
terprise, 80 for DeIand; Ormond, "a for
DeLand for Lake Helen; Daytona, 10
for Enterprise, 81 for Delapd Port Orange.