The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-17

cHtS51 from ms IaC1ef, Capt. r. a neu0A -
the latter's fine residences at Fort Myers.
/ The purchase price was $4,000. The cap
/ tain will build a residence on one of MS lots
a little farther east.
Charles Conway brought into Green Cove
/ Spring last week two Japan persimmons of
the Among variety, one of which weighed
1874 ounces aud the other Il2I ounces. This
fruit was borne by a bud, which was budded
on Wild stock year ago last March.
Capt. Dixon Reed and Capt. W. l.
Rodgers, the former Of the yacht Wallace,
the latter Of the steamer 4. Z. Simpson,
| sighted whale of the graInpus variety IN
Santa Rosa sound Saturday. They think
the fish would measure 80 feet in length.
While riding along the beach at Four
Mile bayou, near DissJon City, last Thurs
day, Milton Tilny discovered a skull almost
buried in the sand, and on fur her inVesti-
cation found a complete skeleton. He
| thinks 1t was washed ashore by the last
| heavy blow; that it was a white man about
j years OF age, and that hs had been dead
. ten or twelve years.
lobe Williams, a colored hand on the
grade force of the Western railway, got
| into an alteration with another colOred
man near Green Cove Spring, on Thursday,
when Williams was shot in the back by his
| antagonist. The wounded man was brought
INTO town the same day, when DR.. William
son extracted the ball, which had lodged
| between the ribs The wound is not likely
to prove fatal.
A trestle on the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West railway just south of Clinch's
| station, was undermined by the heavy rains
| OF Friday evening last, and the early fast
passenger train over this road had a narrow
escape from being wrecked. When the
engine ran upon the trestle in question,
portion of it sank down about a foot, but
the heavy rails, which had a coed resting
place on terra flrma, enabled the train to
pass safely over.
At Middleburg last Tuesday John McRay,
colored man hired by Mr.. Bryan, was
diving the latters large gray horse with a
loaded dray, when the animal became
frightened and unmanageable. He ran
away ana threw Mckay out. His head
struck on a stump, and be received some
very serious injuries. His jawbone was
broken, shoulder dislocated and his ankle
sprained. 1t is feared that he has also suf-
fered internal injuries.
Near Millview, a day or two ago, Harry
Smith (colored) poured load of buckshot
from shotgun into aud killed very fine
mule belonging 70 Anderson Spane5, also
colored. He was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Ben Brown and lodged in the county
Jail. Smith, who is by calling a whtewas
artist, it is also said allows the use of him.
self to the sheriff for the purpose of train
ing the latter's bloodhounds, running away
and hiding, to be sought out by the dogs.
AT Green Cove Spring Henay Luelers is
having q comodious cottage erected on his
home lot on the hill. A number of home
steaders are receiving their patents from
Uncle Sam. 7. j. Canova has purchased
the lot formerly owned by Howard Taylor,
on Palmetto avenue, and has already had
the dlapidated old building torn down.
Otto Gudenrath is making attractive the
valuable property which he recently purch-
ased on Magnolia avenue, and which he now
occupies with his family.
The cork oak is subject of general dis
cussion in the Florida Agriculturist re-
Gently. One writer in speaking of it says:
Tine tree is a native of South Europe and
North Africa. The bark. of course, fur
nishes the article of commerce, and forms
the trunk and branches when the tree is
about five years old. Before the cork is of
any great value the tres must attain con-
siderable age. The first then gathered is
considered of little value. In fact the tree
does not become valuable until it is about
% years old-a long time to wait for the
fruit of our labor. The demand for cork
is apparently unlimited, and if the tree will
grow in Florida, in the course of time q
grove of cork trees would be valuable, as
they require no more attention than the
common oak. "
William DeleSpine was found guilty of
manslaughter in the third degree at st.
Augustine Saturday. Tue case involved
the charge of murder in the first degree and
excited widespread interest Delespine Is
very prominent colored man, and had
been at one time man of comparative
wealth. The scene of the alleged murder
was on the quarantine line near ST. Au-
gustine, during the epidemic at Jacks on
vile last September. The state claimed
and sought to prove BIZ half dozen wit
nessas that Delespiae commenced quarrel
with Charles Collins about lantern, and
after quhrreling for ten CT fifteen minutes
shot him with double barreled gun. The
defense claimed that Delespine was at the
time laboring under temporary insanity,
produced by past excessive use of alcoholic
stlmulants, extending over a long period of
time. This they established by many wit
nesses, and obtained very strong testimony
from three prominent physicians of ST.
Augustine on the question of Delespine's
mind.
On Sunday morning last, while T. j,
Lawton was walking from Oviedo to Lake
| Charm about one mile) he discove red a
| man lying by the roadside in an insensiole
| condition, muttering and groaning in low
| tones. On examination he discovered that
| he had no fever, showed no marks of disease
| other than lntoxication, but, knowing that
the intense heat-of the sun would kill even
a we'll man, he procured help and removed
him to an adjacent shade. Upon asking
his name and where he was from, he replied
that he was from Boston, Mass and asked
Am l very sick, doctors" These were the
! only audible words which he spoke
| On going back to him at IL o'clock a. m. /,
his condition appea ed to be the same Col.
| O. Ii. Brewster came up in his buggy while
| Mr.. Lawton was examining him the last
time, and said that he would send physi-
clan from Oviedo at once to attend to him.
| At 2 o'clock in the afternoon Mr. IIawton
returned to where he had left the sick man
and found Col. Brewster there, who greeted
him with the startling information that the
man was dead. A coroner's jury was i'm
| paneled, and the veraict was that the
deceased came to his death from unknown
causes" He proved to be Walter Williams
of Tuscawilla, Fla, formerly of Boston,
| Mass
| The board of city commissioners of Key
| West considered important matters at their
meeting last week. The opinion of the city
attorney with regard to the commissioners
ceding jurisdiction over Monument park to
the United States government was to the
effect that they had no right to do so. The
communication was ordered fled,
and the titles TO the prop
erty ordered to be Investigated.
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