The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-10
FLORIDA.

Chipley wants big hotel.
The election of city officers will soon be
in order at Chipley.
John McCaskill of Caryville was fatally
injured while coupling cars few days ago.
Out of sixty-five shots R. B. Carpenter of
Tallahassee, last Thursday, bagged fifty
one doves and two larks.
At Tallahassee the old Jail building and
fence is being removed to give place for
John c. Heinrs floral gardens.
Roberts & Son of Tallahassee will begin
the erection of their new stables Just as
soon as they can get the material
The Duke of Switzerland and his party
arrived at Tallahassee, Thursday, and have
taken rooms at the Leon for the winter.
The cigar factory at Madison will be in
operation in the course of a few days. AL
ready several orders have been received.
The firm of Mcmahon & Bryant of Talla-
hassee has been dissolved, and the business
will be continued by Mr. Mcmahon alone.
1t is said that the government architect
will be there soon to select the site for Tai
iahassee's public building and arrange the
preliminaries for beginning work.
A colored tenant named Jasper Allen in
Leon county, on Miles Johnson's place,
made this year with one mule fourteen bales
of cotton, 250 bushels Of corn and 600
pounds of fodder.
Joe Trice, son Of Rev. E. Trice of
Wakulla, while playing with 3S-caliber
revolver, Wednesday, accidentally shot
himself through the leg just below the
knee, intiicting painful but not fatal
wound.
w. B. Thomas of Madison received tel
gram Thursday stating that his daughter
Lizzie was dying from a wound in the head
and requested his immediate presence The
telegram did not state the cause of the
wound.
The Harrison place. tract of land co.,
tanning $3.50 acres, lying four or five miles
from Madison, was sold at special masters
sale last Monday at 81 so per acre, which,
considering the size of the tract and tire
value of other lands, is considered a fair
price for it.
Jupiter Newburn, a colored farmer of
Leon county, IS years of age, with one OK
and no help, has raised this year and gath
cred three heavy bales of cotton, 100 bush
els of corn, eighty bushels of potatoes, 800
pounds OF fodder, 900 pounds Of pork, and
100 bushels of peanuts.
At Madison,a years. old child of Dennis
Davis (colored) received severe wound on
the forehead by being kicked by mule last
Monday morning. Dennis and his wife
were coming to town in a wagon, having
LuS Cnllu DetOTe JueEl on small Cnalr, ana
the mule kicked it over the dash board
Thomas A. Reese, an old citizen of Leon
county. died suddenly on Saturday, Nov.
"a, at his residence near Chaires station.
He was apparently well, and had walked
out in his yard 10 cut wood when be fell
dead. 1t is supposed that he had heart dis
ease. He was a native Of South Carolina
and leaves no relatives here except two
daughters.
Alfred Gibbs (colored) brought the hide
Of a mammoth rattlesnake to Madison last
Saturday which he had killed the Sunday
before. The snake was found by one OF
Alfred's dogs while hunting Saturday
night, and before Alfred knew the charac, er
Of the game it had freed the dog was bitten
and died almost instantly. The snake meas
ured feet inches in length and IL inches
in circumference.