The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-14

The ladies Of the Episcopal church at
Apalachcola are talking Of having big
fair at the close of Lent.
Capt. Cook is having two two-story cot
tages erected in the rear of his old home on
the beach at Apalaclicola.
Mayor Lee intends entering Leesburg rs
a competitor for the Borden prize of 81 900,
which is to be given to the cleanest town in
the state.
Mrs Donohoe of Apalachicola cut an
eye-tooth the other day. She is in her Gath
year. and is as hale and hearty as young
woman of 20.
The steamer Smith did not put In an
appearance at Apalachicola last Monday.
1t is said that she got SO far behind she
could not make the trip.
Some Of the public schools of Volusia
county will close at the end of the present
month. The school at Orange City will
keep open until May or June.
A little colored boy about years old, son
of Robert and Sophia Harris Of Orlando,
while playing near Clouds creek, fell into it
and was drowned. His boly was found
shortly afterward.
O. L. Keene was offered $4,000 for his
lot and house opposite the public
building lot at Jacksonville, but declined
to sell. He thinks if he. decides to dispose
of them in the near future he can do so at
much more satisfactory figures.
Tuesday Isabella johnson (colored), bound
from Palatka to Huntington, tried to jump
from the train while in motion at Como.
She fell and was struck by a train wheel,
receiving some injuries. She was attended
by DR.. Ames, who was on the train. The
woman may recover.
Gov Fleming left Tallahassee Tuesday
on TIE the west bound train for DeFuniak
Springs to attend the meeting of teachers
fr.Or oall ri Of INT ut hn fat
Normal school. Maj. A. j. Russell, state
superintendent of schools, is also at De-
Funiak Springs. Th ~ return to-day.
A Lake county teachers institute will be
held at Mount Dora beginning Thursday,
March 81, and continuing three days. The
Mount Dora Chautauqua will be in session
at that time, and teachers will have an OPP
portunity of hearing many OF the bet lee
lures. The citizens of MountDora promise
hoard at 81 day.
1t is reported the present )uncil will con-
denim and offer for sale the new cemetery
at Apalachicola recently purchased from
j. c. BraytOn. located at what is known as
the Cool spring 1t has been contended all
along that the location was not suitable
first. because there was too much water on
the land; secondly, because the distance
from the city is too great.
Smith a. Butts of Hawthorne will soon
Hawthorne. They intend to can fruit and
vegetables, and with other lines of manu-
features added to it they expect to operate
their factory ten months in the year. This
institution will give employment TO 300
operatives, and will be an important factor
in the upbuilding of that section.
At DeFuniak Springs, Tuesday, the insti-
tute elected f. Pasco presid mt, H. w. Don
nelly secretary, II. N. Felzel w. F.
Yocum, B. c. Gorham vice presidents, Mrs.
Mathis of Tampa, treasurer. Addresses by
Prof. Chatter on of Lake City, Mrs. Cole
man Bishop of Chicago, and at night by
Gov. Fleming, were delivered. A grand re-
ception and illumination followed. Great
enthusiasm prevails.
Orange City Times: B. A. Strange, who
has opened a handsome store over at
Smyrna, passed through town this week
from Georgia. Mr.. Strange has been post
master at Eilaville, Ga, continuously under
six administrations, including Gen. Harri-
sons He will resign this position in the
spring, as the headquarters of the Savannah
and Western, of which he is treasurer, has
been removed to Savannah.
The A. and w. railway took from the
depot at Orange City, 81 SOB boxes of Or
anges the past season. About this many
more, including those from the Starke and
Taylor groves, were shipped from that
section going either from the junction or
Starkes. Probably the whole crop in that
section netted upon an average 81 per box.
Shipping oranges from that section for this
season is about over. The orange growers
are busy fertllzing and cultivating.
Madison Recorder: He ives of middle
age or beyond, of good appearance, gentle
demeanor, hailed from Chicago, and quietly
let it be known to few that he had "bar'ls
upon top of bar'ls," of dust and was look
ing for place to open bank. He stopped
at our chief hostelry and so ingratiated
himself in the affections of those he met
during his short stay as to get into the
pockets of some of the boys for small loans.
One bright morning he turned up missing,
leaving board bill and the ct ceteras unpaid.
The question now is, where is our Chic ago
bankerl Ask Of the crossties on the Florida
Railway and Navigation railroad. Thev
were also impressed by his whole 'soled"
appearance.
1t was learned that man named Follower
inc Guiseppi had been seen going down
Main street with the murdered man about
1880 o'clock. They came from Andrews
bar room and at the corner of Main and
Baylen street they had a fight in which the
murdered man was knocked down by
GIUSEPPE. AT this point all trace of the
man was lost until his body was found Sun
day morning. Poloverino Guiseppi was
arrested by the police for an assault, and is
now held in the county Jail upon suspicion
of being the murderer, awaiting the action
of the coroner's jury It is SAID that the
murdered man was an Austrian sailor, who
had been ashore for some time. The man
Poloyeriuo Guiseppi now held for Investiga-
ton, is an Italian, and said to be a sailor
runner.
On Monday, March 4 Messrs. Edgar s.
Lake and Paul Long of La Ike Helen, took
the train for Spruce creek, their inten ton
being to penetrate to the heart of the almost
impossible swamps over halfway in search
of deer, turkey, aud other wild denizens OF
that region. Arriving at their destination,
and selecting a camping ground, they
plunged into the swamp, wading through
water thigh deep, pushing their way over
logs, through bushes into the wilderness,
where, perhaps, since the days of the early
Indians, the foot of man had never trod.
No living thing was to be seen except moe
caSlns and other poisonous reptiles, which
lay cooled on nearly every log. Eagles
would start in alright from their nests at
their unwelcome presence, and ever and
anon, the hoarse below of alligators, which
resounded on every side, warned them that
at any moment they might have to depend
on the accuracy Of their aim to protect
themselves from those dread monsters Of
the morass. A noble buck and many birds
were shot.
At Pensacola at an carly hour Sunday
morning, a fisherman, vending his way
home from the bay, discovered the