The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-19

amount Of lots were sold ct prices ranging
from 800 upward. Some twelve or fifteen
residences viii be built there during the
present summer and early fall.
Fort Myers Press: Capt. F. A. Hendry
and Capt j. F. Menge will go shortly to
the east side of Lake Okeechobee and survey
for a canal through TO the east coast. There
is no doubt about the feasibility Of this
route as regards directness and cheapness;
and besides, the way is already opened from
the west side of Lake Okeechobee TO Punta
Rassa, on the Gulf of Mexico.
Fernandina Mirror: II. P. Braziel
brought into our Office this week genuine
flying fish, caught by him in Sterrett's
creek, near Seymour's Point. This was
unlike any flying fish of which we have
read, in that it had two perfectly formed
bird-like wings in addition to fins, also four
legs resembling those of large spider.
The wings were beautifully tinted like the
| prisms of rainbow, and when drawn out
| of the water with an ordinary hook and
line, the bird fish few to hight of some
six or eight feet. 1t was certainly a curl
/ osity.
S. NJ. Smith leaves Orlando this week for
| Central New York, where he will Join his
wife, and together they will proceed to
Kinsley, Kan, for the summer. Among
other things which Mr.. Smith will take
his son, Frank NJ. Smith, the Pullman car
conductor who was killed in the railroad
accident at Blackshear Ca, something over
year ago. Mr.. Smith says that the dog
must go along, if it costs S. mile. 1t is
likely. however, that the conductors won't
charge much for the dog when they learn
who his master was.
The city council of Tallahassee, at called
meeting last Wednesday night, granted a
| charter to r L. Bennett and associates,
who have formed company known as the
Tallahassee Street Railway Company,
whose intention it is to put in line of street
railway running from the depot to Longs
grove, and through such other portions of
the city as they may see fit. Work, accord.
ing to the charter, must begin on this line
before tne expiration of six months from
date Of charter, but Mr.. Bennett says that
work will probably commence at the same
time they begin work on the Tallahassee
water works, which will commence
Aug. l.
Mr.. Brigham, the dyer of Orlando, has
beautiful and intelligent little dog to
whom he is very much attached. He also
has hen. Not long ago that hen Matched
some chickens. By some incOmprehensible
mental process that little dog imagined that
| she was the mother of the chickens, and she
could not have been more affectiona te to a
litter of her own puppies than she was
toward the little chicks. She cuddes and
fondles them every day, and attempts to
defend them against all intruders. When
taken away from the brood she whines con-
| stantly, and when released at once goes
| back to them. The hen is completely non
| plussed, and Mr.. Brigham is almost as badly
puzzled. The little dog and the chicks are
the only ones who seem to understand the
| situation.
Leesburg Commercial: Tuesday of last
| week, at noon, Smith E. Denny, of the firm
of Bevill & Denny, on receiving his mail
| from the Leesburg postofice found, among
others, a letter from I. f. Campbell,
written fran Okahumpka, dated the day
before. Mr.. Campbell had written to
notify Mr.. Denny that he intended TO COM
NIT suicide that Monday night, and send
ing to Mr.. Denny full directions as to what
should be done with his body and his prop
erty. ALI the directions bore the marks of
calm and cool elaboration which
would be characteristic of the most
ordinary business transaction, instead
of matter involving the life of human
being. Mr.. Denny, taking Capt j. G.
| Terry. started Immediately for Okahumpka,
and arriving at the residence of Mr.. Camp
bell at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, found
that he had fully carried out his intentions.
| He was found lying dressed for burial,
according to his directions in his letter to
Mr.. Denny, and lying on the bed on a
blanket i'll which he was to be rolled ''like
a soldier" as he said in his letter. r. A.
Green, the coroner. was at once notified,
| and viewed the body. Taking possession OF
a bottle containing little strychnine, and
seeing the cause of death was so manifest
and unmistakable, he decided that formal
| inquest was unnecessary, and gave the
| needed permit for burial. Mr.. Campbell
was buried Tuesday night on his place al
the spot selected by himself. Ill health was
the cause of the suicide.
| Senator Rogers in the Live Oak Banner
| of Liberty: The bill to permanently estab-
fish the state prison was one which we have
| long since desired to see become law. We
now have the pleasure of knowing that the
same has become law, having passed the
Senate on May %, and passed the House or
| the evening of May 81, the last day of tn,
| session, and has since been approved by the
governor. The act provides that the board
of commissioners of state institutions shall
build and Prominently locate a state peni
Tertiary by Jan. l, A. D., 1891. and that Z
| farm shall be opened aud operated by tht
inmates in connection with the prison; tina
able-bodied convicts may be- farmed ou
in squads OF any number; that theil
| rations shall be the same in quantity as ar,
| now allowed to the soldiers of the United
States army; their clothing shall be amply
sufficient, and that the keeper of the prison
or the contractors shall take care to ad
minister only human treatment in thei
discipline and control; cruel or inhumar
treatment is strictly prohibited. Whit,
and colored prisoners are to be kept il
separate cells The prisoners are not to be
worked exceeding ten hours day at any
| time. Each prisoner is to have allowance
| for time on good behavior, and when one
has served out sentence they are to have
| good suit of clothes and not less than S.
or not moro than $40 in cash to bear their
expenses to their homes, or until they can
obtain employment. The bill contains
forty-eight sections, and provisions toe
| numerous to mention.