The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-14
FLORIDA.

The Savannah Brewing Company is to
establish a branch at Palatka
c. II. Schafer has the contract to furnish
the affairs in the Catholic church at Gaines
vile for 81 600
The school board has decided to erect an
addition TO the jacksonville grammar
school (oolored).
L. G. Pound has disposed of his orange
| crop st fair price on the trees at his grove
ON Santa Fe Lake. He has about 1000
boxes.
The tiremen's state tournament that was
to have taken place on the 30sh and 3lst of
last month, at Key West, aud which was
postponed, will come off Dec 4 and s.
On Dec. Z, the tenth anniversary of the
Green Cove Spring, the editor proposes to
issue AN eight page paper, aud to priut 800
copies OF the same for free distribution.
A shooting scrspe occurred at Micauopy
Saturday between Tom and jim Martin
and Wesley Davis, which resulted in the
killing of Davis and mortal wounding of
Jim Martin.
j. W. Howell has formed a partnership
with B. II. Powell OF Maxwell, aud they
will go into the turpentine and log business
this winter. Their field of operations will
be tract of fine timber land of 1000 acres
area lying in Clay county, about twelve
miles southeast OF Maxwell.
Two handsome, solid. heavy brass easels
have Just been received by the Shine Guards
Of Orlando, to be used for the life-size por-
traits of Capt I. j. Shine and Gen. Harvey.
The company has Just elected Il. Ii. Kuhl
captain. They are also making prepara-
tons for their annual ball, which will occur
about Dec 49,
Judge j. L. Bryan he's returned to
Orlando from his trip to Chattanooga,
Tenn. He will probably start set of alb
stract books in that city. IL is not the in
tention OF the judge to go there to live, but
70 place some one in charge of the Office
Mr. Bryan, while on his trip, stopped at
Cedartown, Ga. and opened an abstract Of
fee.
Two gentlemen, leaning up against tele-
graph pole at Palatka, Tuesday, had their
attention drawn to the large number of
tacSs driven In its surface. One bet S. that
there were LOCO tacks in the post, and the
other, doubling the assertion, took him up
teck-puller was procured, when / ,232
tacks OF all sizes were pulled out. The post
was virtually covered with tacks, driven
there through advertising circulars.
For several nights the inhabitants of
West End, a suburb of Palatka, have been
bothered by the whooping of an OWL who
lodges In large tree near toe river. Mon
day night the owl set up a howl near the
colored Methodist church, and it came near
breaking up the meeting Superstitious
people living near there dropped on their
knees and begged for forgiveness. Tuesday
morning fire broke out in town, and the
scary folks now claim that the owl came to
warn the people Of danger.
jackson vile Metropolis. 1t is getting
back a considerable distance when citizens
are called upon to-say 70 pay black city
taxes" due since 1876. This was one of the
years in which Peter Jones, preseat chief
Of the fire department, was mayor. and
Roy p. Moody tax collector. The only re-
course now left the taxpayer is TO produce
his receipt or satisfy the collector thnt he
has paid the taxes. He has no exemption
by statute of Limitation. This bar only
holds good in personal debts, not in tax
payments. The question naturally arises,
why have these unpaid or so indi-
Gated on the tax books - been al
lowed TO run ten and fifteen
years without an effort TO collect them until
to-day9 Does it not look like very loose
legislation9 The tar committee of the
council and city tax-collector are engaged
now in the praiseworthy effort to strengthen
out the tangled tax books of past years,
and whenever they find 10 credit opposite
to a taxpayers name, of any previous year.
they serve notice on him, and if he has a
receipt that settles it, and the fault then
lies in the officer making the collection for
the year named. If be has not paid the
tax his property is still liable for it under
the law