The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-20

10 call attention to the alarming increase Of
crime in that county. aud also recon- ueudel
that certain needed work be done u ION the
4 jsi. and court house
/ b. Geaovar has solved a portion OF the
4 race problem which has been giving him
considerable ANNOYANCE in the PAST. He is
| tie owner and manager of the opera house
! In st. Augustine, which bears his name
! Mr. GenOvar recognizes that the colored
/ p pl.Gtion contains al grades Of society, as
! i IS called. In the past col9red people have
al, been assigned 10 a special side OF the
| gallery Naturally the better and more re-
| spectacle families Of coiOred folks have alb
| aimed from attending entertainments, or
! have objected to this assignment in the
| midst Of demoniacal noises such as Indian
war-whoODs, cat-calls, tom-tOms, ct ceteTg.
| Now a special portion Of the parQuette
under the gallery has been set apart aud
reserved for the colored people, who will
not in future 81 fer the annoyance Of a seat
/ Ia the gallery with the iil-behaTed Of their
own and the white race.
Attorney Burford Of Ocala had hard
! time ge't1E 20 Tallahassee last week, and
! hen only to meet with disappointment In
! the first place. he mis- ed last Saturday
nights midnight train by speaking too long
| in the Hodge case; took Sunday mornings
| train to fad, y hen he got to Baldwin, that
| the evening train to Tallahassee had been
! taken off: had to lay over till Monday
morning, when that train encountered
wreck, which increased the lay-OVer seven
| hours, and arrived at tue state capital t.
! find that his good dem ocratic friends, Cleve-
| land and Tnurmln, for whom he had
| worked so hard and spoken 50 elCqueutly
! and c1nvincingly, had been counted il o.
| flJr.das rOusing democratic vote, but thai
| the pleasure and satisfaction Of conveying
/ r. .. "a 1T hnnnr had
been promised him had, by chance Of lot,
| been given to another fellow.
! Gainesville Advocate: A gentleman who
| came IN on the Florida Railway and NaYi-
| CATION railroad says, while the train was
stopping at Starke, a party came aboard
! distributing papers. Our informant took
! ~ one and about the first thing he noticed
was the announcement, yellow fever in
| Gainesville; her mayor and thirteen citizens
quarantined at WOrthingtol SpriDg; 159
| guards being placed along the AlachGa
! county borders For a moment our
| informant who was a stranger, was thun-
| darstruck, he had been hearing hints that
| there was yellow fever in Gainesville, now
| here was a confirmation Of the worst He
| casually glanced al the date of tins paper
| when 10 and behold it was dated Sept. Il,
which explained the mystery. Now il may
| be that no harm was intended by the dis
! tribution of that paper, but we must con-
fess it looks to us as though there was.
Sanford Mascotte. Sanford's city treas
| urer came into our sanctum Friday morn
! ing aud struck Dolph Edwards, one Of the
| editors Of this paper, full blow il the face,
! knocking him raeung against mis- desk. The
pretext for his assault WAS an editorial pub
lsacd in yesterdays paper, which Ee again
publish, To show nov Sigh a cause dill
| move him to the enforcement of his co .
| ceived satisfaction. The marshal came
with him to prevent a disturbance and did
his duty in the premises. The mayors
| court tomorrow will give particulars.
| "Hhe people, taxpayers and citizens
| Of Sanford are asking US daily for report
Of the past years dOingS If our mayor and
common council. The council arc willing
| and the treasurer says the clerk is the one
| to make it. Tee clerks position is a sala-
| riei one, hence he may cOnstrGe the law to
| require him to only make reports at stated
| periods to the council. Now that he is ask
ing our sutfrages for "A second term, it would
seem to us TO be good campaign matter to
! give detailed statement of the receipts
aud expenditures during his term. If it
| Is not made before the election, we shall
ask the council for permission to copy
the records and give it 10 the public.
The Orlando Daily Record during
1885 published the clerks statement which
| gave the people an ms ght into matters
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papers, and now that officer has absc lnded
and left the city to mourn for the darkness
Of his proceedings. All the light possible
should be thrown into the corners and the
full glare on the work # every public Off
Ger, so that the people may see AID know
! how their servants have accounted for the
trust reposed in them. We do not even
mistrust any irrelugarity on the part of our
officers, but we do want to know
whore the money has gone to.
This is the second time within the
past year that our city officers have taken
the law into their own hand, the mayor
waking a man up to assault him with a
co y hide. II such language as the above
will incite public officers to assault an editor
who is only seeking the best interests Of
taxpayers, we can be found at our Office
fourteen hours each day, and on the prem
Uses every hour of the day and night, meal
time excepted.