The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-20


county seat on the strength Ofprosnecdve
railroad facilities Tne place was tle old
| county seat, and has a very substantial
court house now occupied by the county.
Nocatee is making strong preparations 10
defeat Arcadia.
On Tuesday night the marriage OF Rev.
: Theodore d. Bratton of South Carolina
and Miss Lucy b. Randolph of Tallahassee
was sOlemnlZ9d in vt. Johns Episcopal
church. II was witnessed by a large Assem-
bage Of friends and acquaintance vi the
! bride and groom.
The Record SAYS that four gentlemen
! cane TO Gainesville not long since to Kill
alligators at the sink. In twenty days they
killed 600, an average Of thirty per day At
this rate the gator will soon be extinct.
/ The hides are stuffed and s)ld, and the
teeth make jewelry
Wednesday morning, about 2 o'clock in
! LincOnville, a suburb of st. Augustine,
| colOred man, named Griffin, became in
! volved in a dispute with a colored woman,
| procured an ak aud struck her a terrible
! blow on the head. from the effects of which
she will likely die. Gritiin made himself
scarce, and has So far eluded the authorities.
The state executive committee met at
Tallahassee Wednesday There were pres
ent Messrs Chipley, Houstoun, Mabry,
! Tray, Anderson, Willard and Taylor. All
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lessly, mapping out the territory TO be COW
cred by the two sets of speakers, one begin
! ming west and working east and another
| beginning at ROckledge and working west
| On Nov. the campaign is to close with
! grand rally at jacksonville.
That part of the Alachua county exhibit
at the sub-tropical exposition which was
! LOANED for exhibition ii Cincinnati, is now
there in the Florida department The
woods have been redres 5ed, nicely vanished
and retiCketed with Alachuas name. When
the photographs of the city, now being
made by order of the board Of trade, shall
be added to theexhibit, Alachul county will
! have something of which she will be proud
and to which will lie added, in their season,
the best possible samples of her products.
The East Coast canal company engineers,
| 5, Won Gemmingen and j. l.. COiee, with
! their corps Of assistants and DR.. John West
colt, returned to st, Augustine from Lake
| Worth Wednesday, DIR. Westcott, who is
| president of tho company, stated that the
connecting survey between Lake Worth
and Jupiter inlet had been completed; that
| the dredger was busy at work on the river
and was fast approaching the inlet. He
! said also that the work was all under con
tract, and that tire waters Of Lake Worth
and Jupiter inlet would be connected by the
last of the coming November.
The Marion county convention to elect
delegates to the Orlando congressional con
vention and for the Twentieth senatorial
convention, met at the opera house at Oca!a
Wednesday. Henry w. Long was elected
! temporary and permanent chairman. There
were ninety-twO delegates present, with only
| Llnadale precinct unrepresented. Col. John
| NJ. Martin had his name withdrawn, and
Gen. Bullock got solid delegation. Johu
| F. Dunn was nominated as Marion's choice
for tot
other candidates were George W. Wilson of
Orange Lake, Capt Stroud of Anthony,
and &. NJ. Brown Of Ocala.
The house of C. C. Singleton of Campbell,
near Klssimmee, was struck by lightuing
| Wednesday afternoon, almost knocking out
one end of the house and passing through
it in several ways Mr.. Singleton was
struck on the hand the fluid passing thence
up the arm and down the body and leg to
| the end of his toes, burning and tearing
| his clothing, and completely tearing up one
of his shoes. A child years old had his
dress torn off, and was burned from head to
! foot, raising some large blisters on his body
and a little girl was severely wounded by a
| large splinter being driven through her
| leg. All in the house were severely shocked
! Mrs Singleton has been very i'll for some
time, and the shock to her was very severe.
At Fernandina the grocery store located
nv Mr. NaddouGb bao I'D for an" n,o of its
clerks n vonner MN named Rainov He
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quiet and select in his habits. He was in
the store all day Saturday attending to his
duties. He boarded and roomed With his
employer, Mr.. Meddough. but he did not oc-
cupy his room Sunday night. neither did he
show up" for breakfast Monday morning
nor has he been seen since. Some of Mr.
Meddoughs clerks, on opening the store
Monday morning. and examining the cash
drawer, discovered all the cash missing
about $40. Upon further Investigation il
was discovered that several bills had been
collected but no cash turned in. Mr. Med
dough is out about 500 The culprit came
from Georgia.
The democra+ic dolaro+os ,s voI,,cio
county IN the cnnoresSionoi coruo,,+ioy, 90
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