The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-10

have it, his gun was at home He had moth
ing but tin can with HIM, so he threw that
at it and the panther skipped.
1t is now believed that the sight freeze
of last week did very slight, if any, damage
| TO the BeConte pear trees around Month
cello, and the prospect is favorable for an
enormous yield of fruit in season.
George Haines, chief mate of the Ameri-
can bark Virginia, now languishes in the
county Jail at Pensacola, charged by John
! Elstrom, q sailor, with having made an ag-
| gravated assault upon him at sea.
| w. A Roebuck, of Winter Park, pur-
chased horse in Orlando the other day,
and on his way home the horse fell through
the bridge at Wilcox. breaking one leg,
rendering it necessary to have it killed.
! The Pensacola division of the Brother.
hood of Locomotive Engineers, which has
membership of but eighteen, has for
warded 500 to their striking brethren on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail
road.
There has already been shipped from
Mandarin this season between $500 and
5000 quarts of strawberries, and the ship
ments will now increase for several weeks,
until thousands OF quarts will be shipped
daily. %
Some days since a strike occurred among
the employees of the brownsville, Tallahas-
see and Gulf railroad The company re-
fused to accede to the demands of the
strikers, but everything is moving along
smoothly.
The Adjutant General of the State has
approved an application for the organiza-
ton OF a military company in Barlow.
Thirteen names are already enrolled, and
so soon as thirty-two names are obtained
an organization will be effected.
A sheet of paper was recently exhibited
by one of Palatka's city fathers. which rep
resented $50, 900 worth of property in Pa
latka, not on the county tax books. A gem
tleman present remarked that that was in
reality about one-tenth of what the amount
should be.
A rumor was afoat at Palatka Wednes-
day that the Larkin lot would soon be made
ready for the foundation of large brick
hotel, to be put up this summer. Another
rumor had it that the Larkin lot was to
have erected on it large and handsome
offices for the Georgia Southern and Florida
railroad.
At Gotha, in Orange county, the growing
OF Florida tobacco is creating quite an en-
thusiastic interest. Every landholder,n
says a correspondent of the Orlando Re
porter, lis interested in this project, and
steps have been taken for its extensive pro-
pagation in this vicinity. The German
Ackerbauverien agricultural association
of Gotha has taken hold of the subject in
earnest, and proposes to push it for what it
is WORTH
At Jasper, Sheriff Tavell, Wednesday
night, having reason to believe that gamb-
ling was going on in a room adjoining a
liquor saloon, entered the room and found
seven or eight men seated around table on
which was a pile Of money and pack of
cards. Sheriff Tavell arrested the men,
seized the pack of cards, and Thursday
morning tore them up in public. The
sheriff, however, took the men before the
county judge, who discharged them.
A colored man by the name of Menefee
was shot and killed by another named Isaac
Smith at Tavares Tuesday night. Smith
had been threatening and looking for Meme
fee for several days, and on the arrival of
the train on the Tampa and Orlando rail
road at Tavares, on which Menefee was a
brakeman, he left the train to go to his
boarding house for his clothes, aud on his
way there saw Smith With his gun drawn,
and he fired first, giving Smith mortal
wound, from which he died in a few
minutes. An inquest was held, and the
jury exonerated Menefee, as he fired in
self-defense.
Jordan Fulford an old citizen of Month
cello, died at his residence on last Monday
evening". He lived in his house alone with
his little daughter and on last Friday he
was uloOoNeIou WIN naOcneJi chOpplnB on
his arm, which he had cut severely, and
If DR.. Theodore Turnbull had not reached
HIM promptly he would have bled to death,
as he was greatly exhausted by the loss of
blood. On being questioned as to what he
meant by his rash act, his reply was that
his head troubled him and lie sought relief
by drawing a little blood. He was laboring
under mania q potu, and this was really
the cause of his death, he having for months
and perhaps years, been heavy drinker Of
intoxicants.