The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-26

Macclenny Sentinel: 1t is rather depress-
| ing to see such general falling Of leaves at
this time Of year from our fruit trees, espe-
cially thu peach trees. It indicates that
many Of them will not bear next year, II
they ever bear again, and that many or
chards will have to be replanted. And then
more draining and subdraining should sup
piement the replanting. This seasons ex-
perience has taught lesson that should not
be forgotten by any of our fruit men.
One day last week four young ladies stop
ping at Colin Park went up one of the
creeks after clans. They were rather late
and the tide was rising rapidly when they
reached the clam banks Not to be out
done, they hunted the desired mussels by
feeling for them with their feet, until TIE
tide rose 50 high that they we're in water up
TO their necks. When a clam was sounded
dive followed and the mussel was landed
IN the boat. SiKty-two clans were the re-
suit, and the chowder pot was large and
well filled
Pensacola Neics: Capt Frank Phillips, of
this city and Of the board Of agriculture,
has piece of timber which is a curiosity in
the fact that it is a species of wood that
grows nowhere on the western continent
except on the Apalachicola river, and there
only on a strip OF land near ChattahoQchee
Junction some fifteen or eighteen miles long
and seven or eight miles in width. This
wood is known in the section whore ir grows
As Shrinking cedar, but il was ella ,sified by
Prof. Torrey and named "Torreya toxi-
canna." IL IS a resinOus wood and in
foliage, manner of growth and general ap-
pearance very much resembles spruce pine.
Inc wood in texture and color resembles
Wedgewood, but has a strong, musk like odor,
which 1t retains as long as there is splinter
left-somethlng like the sandal wood. 1t is
also said to resist all action of air or
water, and no one has ever seen any evil
dence of its decay by rotting though there
are large logs Of it lying in the river bot
tom aud along creeks where they have
apparently been for ages and ages, and are
yet as sound as when they fell In addition
TO this, the wood is also insect proof, and
neither worm or bug shows any INCLINATION
TO attack it. Since the settlement of the
country where it grows, the timber has been
used Tor fence posts, for whic Its indestruct-
IDLE nature makes it peculiarly adaptable,
and 1t Is said thai boats made OF the timber
are free from the ravageS of the teredo.
The piece of timber in question is about 5
feet IN length and inches square, and was
given to Capt. Phillips by the late Capt
Alex Mosely, superintendent of the sta q
insane asylum. 1t is the intention of Capt
Phillips to have it made up into walking
canes as souvenirs. This singular wood is
known to bat few, but it is likely that it
viii be fully discussed, especially as it is
claimed by some to be the shittlm wood of
which the ark was constructed.
Leesburg Commercial: On Sunday night
a brutal vagrant negro named Henry
Fisher, between % and % years of age,
went to the home of Engineer F. Nipley, of
the st. Johns and Lake Eustis railway, at
Lane Park, during Mr.. Nipley's absence,
and said he wished to see him. Mrs Niplev,
who was alone in the house, told the negro,
through the locked door that her husband
was away. The negro then asked that the
door be opened, as he wished to write Mr..
Nlpley note, and Mrs. Nipley, thinking
toat she recognized the voice of negro
who had worked on the place, opened the
door and told the scoundrel TO write on a
table standing on the porch, she
at the same time standing at a safe
distance from him. The negro sat down
and wrote. When he had finished he got
up and handed the note to Mrs. Nipey, but
when she reached to get it the negro dropped
the note and grabbed her. Mrs. Nipley Is
about 90 years of age, but of good courage,
and the negro had not calculated on this
While waiting to receive the note she had
her band on a club which stood behind the
door, and when be grabbed her she brought
it down on his head with telling force, and
at the same time pushed him, and he fell
out the door. Striking him again, she
hastily entered the house and secured
gun. The negro, seeing this,
made off in the darkness.
The sheriff at once made search aud, on
Monday morning, caught the scoundrel at
Tavares on the train just before it started
for Leesburg. While taking the negro to
Jail, he asked, "What is this for?n The sher-
if told him what it was for. The negro
then grabbed for the sheriff's pistol and,
on failing to get it. made a dash for liberty.
The sheriff told him to haiti The negro
kept running, and the sheriff fired three
shots at him from 38-caIiber revolver
the first shot missed. the second grazed the
shoulder, and, on finding that the negro
kept running with fair chance of getting
away, Sheriff Galloway stopped short,
took deliberate aim, and fired the third
shot, which struck the negro in the right
hip, grazing on bone and went up under
the ribs The negro fell. was placed in
jail and a doctor was called in to see after
his wounds. Though badly hurt, the burly
black brute is not wounded unto death.