The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-06
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FLORIDA
The cypress mill at Apalachicola will
soon start up.
The chess club recently organized in Pa
latka has from fifteen to twenty members,
and is receiving new ones at nearly every
meeting.
CT. Avery, candidate for postmaster Of
Palatka. is in st. Augustine soliciting sub
scriptions TO defend Benjamin, VINO killed
Douglass. The sum to be raised Is 81 900,
and so far 5000 has been subscribed.
Oakland, on Nov. Is, will be three years
old, and her enterprising citizens have
arranged for a big time on that occasion.
Besides the usual athletic sports, there will
be an exhibition OF Burdens irrigating
pump and fibre machinery. There will
also be cowboy drive for prize.
The Palatka Times Publishing Company
is composed of the following old employees
of the late Palatka NelOs Publishing Com
pany: E. C. Post, late business manager;
j. H Gravener foreman of the news de-
partment: II. A b. Mckenzie in the news
department, and Jesse f. Burtz, foreman
of the job department
Palatka Netos: Four years hence will find
all that land lying along that portion of
the Ocklawaha river from Lake Griffin to
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plantations far surprising those Of st.
! Cloud, on the Kissimmee. By this time
| you will also see a railroad from Palatka
tapping this fertile region.
At Jacksonville Monday, neatly attired
| young woman appeared in the municipal
court to explain why her young husband
was arrested Sunday. She said that he
whipped and abused her while intoxicated,
and 1T was the third time within a month,
| and fhnwy hn1 In arYsfnH fxuO
months. Strange as it may seem, toe wife,
though abused in this way, pleaded for her
| erring husbands release, as she said it would
be too awful" for him to have to work on
the streets with ball and chain attached
to his ankle. Judge Mclean suspended
sentence and gave the couple some whole
some advice, and they departed for their
home in East Jacksonville.
T. c. Lanier r. J. NJ. Padgett, T. S.
johnson, Dudley w. Adams, Benjamin F.
Adams, c. T. Smith, q. ID. Clifford, II. A.
Wyse, A L. Brown, q. T. Alsobrook, j. r.
Cunningham, Carl G. Crippen, H. w.
Bishop, G. Chetwynd Stapleton, c. S.
| Noble.- R.sA.-RosJ and o. Z. Rocks Of Lake
county, Florida, have organized corpora
ton blythe name of the Ocklawaha Canal
and Drainage Company. The company
propensity construct navigable canal or
canals, commencing near the mouth of the
Silver Springs Run, connecting Lakes
Griffin, Eustis, Harris and Panasofkee, thus
| connecting the Ocklawaha through this
chain Of lakes with the gulf.
Tampa journal: The people of Mobile
are feeling very good over their promised
connection with Tampa by the Plant steam
ship service which goes into effect on
| Dec l. almost as highly elated, it is said,
as the people of Tampa; and we'll may they
be, for present indications are that an i'm
mense business will be carried on between
the two points, The Juniata, which will
be the pioneer ship in the service, has been
thoroughly overhauled and elegantly fitted
up. Port Tampa will be made a great
coaling station; the Juniata will bring out
heavy cargoes of Alabama coal for the
Plant Line and other steamships plying on
| the Gulf coast.
Monday two negroes had fight at the
disreputable saloon in Fort Brooke, Tampa,
| and one cut the other severely. The town
marshal, William Green, arrested the man
who did the cutting, but about twenty-five
| negroes attempted to take the prisoner away
from the marshal. Green called on two
| white men who were present to help him,
but the negroes outnumbered them so greatly
that they were powerless and he ran
| off toward town to get assistance.
| While Green was gone big
negro, the brother of the man who had
been wounded secured large scantling
| and struck one or the white men (Nohle)
several times with it, severely wounding
him. Noble retreated, warning his assail-
ant that he would kill him if he struck him
again. The negro threw the scantling at
him. and Noble drew his revolver and shot
him, the ball entering and passing through
| the left forearm, through the same arm
again higher up, and lodging in the shout
der. Two Of the negroes were finally ar
rested and locked up, and the one who did
the cutting was put In the county Jail. 1t
is thought5hat the negro who was cut will
| die. -
| The steamer Jose NJ. Goenaga cleared
from Jacksonville for South America July
| s, 1889. This was the old st. Joints river
steamer Rosa. Capt Carpenter was in
command, with Capt. H. G. Blanchard as
purser, but the latter gentleman was to
take charge of the vessel on arrival at its
| destination. The next heard of the boat
was series of misfortunes-a mutiny, de-
tention in a West India port, and so on.
Capt. Blanchard is now in Detroit,
Mich. He writes as follows: II
| was fifty-siS days making the
trip from Jacksonville to Cartagena with
| the boat, The night of my arrival at Car
tagena l had paralytic fit, and when /
came out of the fit | was paralyzed from
the waist down, in which condition am at
the present time. but in fair way of recov-
cry. remained on the boat five days, and
in the meantime got the fever The Amer
| lean consul put me on board steamship
bound for New York, and on my arrival at
New York my company sent me home, and
here | am confined to my bed"