The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-10

Joe Lopez, the new appointed postmaster
OF st. Augustine. assume the RESPONSE
bilities of that Office yesterday.
A round trip race between Tampa and
Punta Gorda is being arranged between the
Mischief and the Cora Lee. The distance is
220 miles
The wonderful success Of grape culture in
and around Orlando adds another 10 her
already long list of resources upon which TO
base future prosperity.
large banner is being made by a num-
Der OF Orlando ladies to be used by the Or
| landO democratic club at the ratification
meeting next Tuesday.
The Orlando and Winter Park railroad is
now pushing ahead with track laying, and
in two weeks more the city hopes to he con-
| nected with Winter Park by iron bands.
j. l.. Tcchner. manager Of the Windsor
hotel at Oakland. mysterlously and sud
denly disappeared on Wednesday last. II
was first supposed that he had committed
suicide in Lake Apopla but subsequent in
vestigation showed that be had gone Co New
York Tor somewhere else TO visit his friends,
and be i'll time to sail to EurOpe TO attend
the great Paris exposition of 1889.
The EScambia county convention, to be
held July II, at McDavid, will nominate
candidates as follows: Sheriff. treasurer,
clerk, collector Of revenue, assessor, county
! Judge, clerk OF criminal court, supern-
tendent OF education, justices of the peace,
| state senator, two members Of the lower
house of the state legislature, and con-
stables dd infhttum. The convention will
aho elect a delegation of nineteen to the
district convention TO be held at Barlow,
Polk county, Aug. l6.
! Thursday, July 5, pursuant TO call for the
same, pTecinc. delegates met ia convention
at Iavares to organize, and to promulgate
platform for the fourth campaign in tire
| county seat contest in Lake county. As
| Tavares has never been otherwise than
candidate for county seat honors, her for
mer nomination was unanimously endorsed
! and the work of the convention was directed
| to the completion of an organization,
with an executive campaign committee
| composed Of members from different pre-
! cincts
At Fernandina, Saturday, the Clyde
steamer Delaware, Capt Chichester, from
| New York, coming into her dock ran into
| the Sc4oo or Helen Montague, Capt. Carson,
| from Boston. The latters stern was cut in
two feet, and her boats and davits we're
mashed The Delaware also ran into the
| schooner John r. Halliday, Capt Moore,
| from New York. Her main boom was
! broken in two The cause of the accident
| is supposed TO have been the swift
| eddy in the tide which carried the steamer
| against the vessels.
| Last Thursday, as William Ransom. a
well known Tampa bay fisherman, was stroll
| ing the beach between Gadsden point and
| Broughton creek searching for beans. he
| suddenly ran across a mans skeleton Only
| one foot Is incaSed. The other shoe Is
nowhere to be seen, aud not a vestige of
clothing did he observe while examining the
surroundings of the skeleton, which at
| present Is lying only a few feet from the
waters edge. No flesh remains on any of
| the bones. On a close examination, the
fisherman noticed that the right Jaw bone
seemed to have had severe blow, as it pre-
scented a different appearance than did the
left one.
A light house is badly needed at st. An
drews bay. Between Pensacola and Cane
st. Bias there is not harbor into which a
YES 'el in distress may put after dark by
reason of the absence of guiding facilities
and the experience of the Agnes demon
strates the necessity existing for lights at
various points along the gulf shore TO the
eastward. Capt. Phillips, of the revenue
steamer Walter Forward. recognizing the
| drawback the absence Of lights is proving to
successful navigation of tAe guf by Goa t.
ers, long ago called attention to the fact
but the general government has not as vet
seen fit to act upon the suggestions that
have at different times been made in this
| connection.
The o. and w p r. r. survey passes
through, near the margin Of Lake Highland,
the land of the Orlando water company.
The water company demanded $500 for the
right Of way, which amount the railroad
company refused 70 pay, and applied for o
jury of condemnation. The iurv went unou
and viewed the premises and rendered a
verdict OF SIS 90 damages Iul, .Inding onr
railroad company asked the circuit court to
confirm, which was done, and a"
appeal was taken by the ~. To-
| tor company and uperSedeas asked
from the circuit court to prevent the eat,r-
ing of the land by the railroad company
which was refused. Toe railroad compa ~
went upon the land Saturday and laid tnaly
iron, and, just as they had passed through.
MesSrs. Mizzell and Abbott, the pres,d,ut
and engineer, were arrested on warrants
| issued by Justice Shine, for trespasS Thel.
! trial has been set for next Mondav, but in
| the meantime the work on the road goes on
Nearly ederybody but the owners of the
vessel have given up the schooner J. w.
| Wherein If Pensacola as lost she has
been out now thirteen days, and that she
! encountered the gale in which the snlacl,
Sarah l., Hardin aud the steamer II w.
Crawford were wrecked no one doubts. She
was scantily Furnished with provisions
and, since the storm, has had ample time
| to catch load of fish and return, the winds
having been favorable. Every harbor On
tho coast between Pensacola and Can, S..
Bias was entered during the gale bv one or
| more OF the smacks that were at sea in the
| blow, and in not one wa
the Wherein seen or heard Of Her crew
was composed Of six men-Chris Johansen.
captain, Martin O'Connor, Michael Reed
Philip Lewis, a young fellow named Brad
shaw, belonging to tho state of Maine, and
| young Norwegian sailor name unknown
| OConnor, Reed and Lewis were Pensacola
boys. The captain resided in Mobile, where
he has now living wife and four or five
! children. The W uerren is owned bv the
| Pensacola ice company. She was worth
! $1,000 and not insured.
w. G. Jones OF Jacksonville was drowned
! while bathing in the surf at AnaStasia
Island. Il seems that parry OF five Young
me1t went 10 Crazy Bank. opposite Anns7
tasla Island, in fat5oat to uathe in the
! breakers. They completed their bath. and
two Of the party went 70 bail out the boat.
which had become fun Of water. These
! two di1tted away and the other three were
| left on the island. w. c. Jones, one Of the
! three, proposed 20 swim across to tho main.
land, quarter Of mile. The tide running
IN ana the water being rough, tho others
dissented, but Mr.. Jones insisted They
finally gave in 10 him and
struck out, and had gone some dis
lance when he remarked: 81 can't
make II, boys They said 10 him. Go
back 10 the bank aud he did SO. Tn,
! Others went on, greatly exhausted and