The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-25


Clercy Cokely. the colored girl who was
accidentally shot by Charles Gary at Ocala
/ about two weeks ago in the knee, died
Monday evening
Tampa does not propose TO be caught
mapping, but will take steps to put the city
III tirst-rate sanitary condition before warm
weather comes on.
d. G. w. Smith has sold his place at Rock
| ledge, which Inc bought from Maj Magruder
last winter for $4,000, to a recent visitor TO
Florida for $I2, 900
The Post Onice Department has declared
all bids for the carrying Of the mail from
| Apalachicola to Chattahoochee off, and new
bids are now in order.
On Sunday morning last Drs. Lawrence
and Gamble, of Orlando, removed a malig-
nant tunor from the face of DR. Gillian, Of
DeLand, which had been troubling him for
! sometime
The old building occupied by the Tampa
! Tribune, which has stood the storms Of
| thlrty-six years, and is the next oldest
house in Tampa, has been almost rebuilt in
the past two weeks.
As soon as the brick layers finish the Ghira
and Leonardo blocks, at Tampa, they viii
commence work on brick building for A.
Ross, which will cover the balance of the
| square. This building will be two stories
high.
At Tampa j. p and o. j. Andrea have
leased strip Of land 85xlO5 feet fronting
! on Lafayette street, near Franklin, from d.
| Ghira for twenty years, and will soon com
mence the erection thereon of building
2SxS0 feet
The Seminole Hotel, at Winter Park, sent
off twenty-seven kilograms Wednesday in
answer to parties applying for board, de
Cliuing TO promise to accommodate them.
/ ba faA bttr
bred persons -a
Mr. Myers, of the FL Modelo Cigar
Factory, of Jacksonville. presented the
President with cabinet of the finest cigars
ever made in Florida. There were 900 of
them, valued at $500. A single cigar of
this kind sells for 75c.
A meeting of the Silver Springs, Orlando
and Gulf railroad is to be held in this city
March s, the Homosassa Land Company
March 81, the Heather Island Orange Grove
Company March 10, and the Withlaco-ch
and Wekiwa Land Company March q.
The attorneys for Gibson the Tampa muir
derer, moved for Il new trial for their client
last week. on the grounds of defect in the
bill of indictment not alleging malice. The
matter was argued last Friday and the new
trial granted. The prisoner has been sent
to the Polk county jail.
improvements in the hummock Just north
of Titusville are going rapidly on Mr..
Brown, of the Indian River Canning Com
pany has purchased sixty acres of hummock
within a quarter of a mile of town, and laid
the same off into five-acre lots with an av-
enue intersecting the land running from the
railroad to Indian river.
At Tampa last Thursday j. M. Cathcart,
a GUARD, shot Enoch Doyle, a negro prison
er who had just escaped from Jail, on his
failure to halt when ordered to do so. At
the time it was thought that he was NOR
tally wounded, but he was still alive at last
accounts, This is the sixth time he has been
shot while trying to escape from Jail
A radish, mammoth in proportions and
handsome in appearance, weighing 61%
pounds and measuring 2 feet in length,
raised in the garden of James NJ Lewis, OF
Barlow, was sent by that gentleman by ex-
press Monday evening to Jacksonville to be
presented to the President and Mrs Cleve-
land for their dinner on Tuesday, Feb. D.
DIR. G. H. Symmes, of Peru, has two of
the teeth of a mastadon, which were found
by boatman during the recent freshet on
the Alfalfa river. One of them weighs seven
pounds and measures eight inches in length
and fourteen and one-half In circumference,
and the other is slightly larger and heavier.
The Doctor will place them on exhibition at
the Sub Tropical. A search will be made
for the skeleton of the animal.
Miss Abbie Baker, principal of the Tampa
Graded School, determined to decide the
question as to whether Washington'S Birth
day should be made a holiday and devoted
entirely to exercises commemorative of the
event by having the scholars vote on it, and
they unanimously decided that it should
not, some of them stating in explanation of
their action that as so much time had been
lost during the epidemic and reorganization
of the school, they thought the day could
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regular routine of study, suggesting, how
ever, that several appropriate and patriotic
historical selections be read.
j. Burchfield is erecting a causeway at
Starkes ferry over the Ocklawaha river,
and among his wOrkmen was a negro The
other day the negro was made to leave the
premises, and as he did so was fired upon by
unknown parties. Suspicion, however.
rested on several white citizens in the neigh
borhOod, and warrants were issued for their
arrest. They were taken before Justice
Perrin at Stanton, and the case was after
wards transferred before Justice CorderO
After the examining of several witnesses
the case was dropped, as the evidence in the
matter was not sufficient to convict the ac-
cused. Mr.. Burchfield says that the white
settlers of Starko's ferry, since the murder
of Mr.. Starke by a negro some time ago.
have organized and will not let negro
work in the neighborhood
The sloop Teresa left Papy's Bayou on
Sunday night about s O'clock with 1900
fish for John Savarese. On board were
John S. Haven, Daniel Lewis, William
Fitzpatrick and George Stevens, colored.
About 10 o'clock that night she sprung
leak, and about 1880 o'clock went down
four miles off shore and turned on her
beam ends. The four unfortunate fisher
men had to cling to anything they could
get hold of to keep afloat, for the sea was
running so high that it was almost impossi-
BILE to stay by the boat after she went down.
but by cool and deliberate action Mr.. Ha
vens kept his crew together until relief
came. w. II. c. Caruthers and his wife.
of Gadsden point, observing the unfortuo
nate men, went out in a little sharpie and
rescued them. They had. been in the ice
cold water fifteen hours without water or
food and were almost helpless when rescued.
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