The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-05


did IN resigninE, owing 70 the communication
/ Of Aus ms death sentence. The members
I were wild ID the news spread rapidly
over tie city. 1t was all a joke, however,
7 played by one VINO enjoys a little fun occa-
sionally.
/ George Eugene Bryson, the newly ap-
| pointed consular agent Of the United States
! at Puerto Lim0n. Costa Rica, Central
! America, WAS formerly resident Of Jack
| sOnville corrected with the De3ary and
| Baya steamer lines, and afterwari an active
| member Of the state press for some years,
editing at different periods the Orlando
! Daily NeuS, ApOpka Citizen and Daily
| NeiUs Budget, Key West Equator, Key Of
the GWif Daily EueHiHg Gail, aud Sunday
-MOrniag Cigar.
! Capt. Dixon Read has been informed by
| an old saa captain, who saw the description
| of his marine monster in the NeICS Of Pen
| sacola, that his fiud was q sun fish. Accord
| ing To the American CyclOpedIan this crea-
] ture is found in summer in Massachusetts
| and New York bays. Il grows 4 or feet
/ in length and OF feet in depth, with a
| weight If several hundreds pounds. The
| liver Is very fat, and is used for lubricating
! purposes on board ships, and for spFains and
1 bruises among fishermen.
| W. r. Matthews Of Chetwynd has come
! into a snug little fortune. For sixteen
/ years, since the time of the first settle
nent Of his father, David Matthews.
| he has labored faithfully TO help
/ build up 1.-THE old homestead" and now,
! having attained his majority, his father has
rewarded his faithfulness by presenting him
| with full bearing ten-acre orange grove
| on PlcclOla Island, and on some Of the best
| land IN the state, besides presenting him
with other valuable property.
A number of improvements have been
made on the line Of the Florida Southern
road At McMeekin the grade has been cut
| down and a side track is being put in; the
| trestles at Okahumpka and Center Hill,
| south of Leesburg, have been filed in, max
ing a solid roadbed, and all other trestles
| between Leesburg ana Brooksville have
| been made entirely new and of the standard
| gauge. Next month the saw-grass fill,
| south of Leesburg one and one-half miles
viii be filled in, also the one at Webster.
As an indication Of the sound financial
! condition OF Nassau county it may be men
| toned that her bonds are now held at a
| premium Of ID per cent, eleven having re-
| Gently been purchased at that price by
| Treasurer Stark for the county OF the
| original issue of $4,000 only forty three
| bonds remain outstanding, the balance
| having been gradually bought up by the
| commissioners, some of them at a discount
and others at premium. BY the system
| pursued these bonds have cost the county
ouly about per cent.
Superintendent of Public Instruction J.
| L. Beeks has received notification of the
| appointment of the new board of public
! instruction for Orange county, and has in
| hand the commissions of the newly APP
| pointed members The now board will
consist of three instead of five members, as
formerly. Maj p. A Foster of Orlando
and Col. s,George f. Foote of Zellwood,
members Of the old board, are retained
Seagrave Adams of Sanford is the new
| member appointed to serve, Col. L. G.
Morgan of Apopka and G. H. Tuxbury of
Mckinnon, of the old board, retiring.
Last Sunday two negroes, who are SUP.
posed to be tramps, broke open the house of
Mr. Hurst, south of Perry, and took there
| from shot gun, pocket-book some to-
| bacco, several shirts and other things, and
Jim TOwles says they got two or three
| $1,000 land warrants. Monday the negroes
we're seen in Lee Hampton's field steal
! ing corn, and then they disappeared until
Tuesday afternoon when Mr.. Towles, Mr..
| Deal, Mr.. Livingston and Brad Hampton
went 10 searching for them. About dark
| Mr.. IowleS arrested one of them and he
was Immediately jailed. The other is still
at large.
j. w. Bissontza Of Leesburg intends
going into the orange business on a new
plan. The coming fall, provided he can
| manu- al leCeaSdI y dITduS6neuJS, ne Will
snip and take passage with three or four
cars of fruit at time to some city north :
remain there twenty -four hours to sell the
fruit, or part of it, and then move on to
some other market II, after giving buy
erS time to come to him, he fails to sell. he
viii rent storage room and peddle the frlit
by the crate. He has made satisfactory
arrangements with a number of lines of
road and expects to leave with his first lot
of fruit about Oct l.
About o'clock last Friday night, 9-year-
old Herman Munson, who lived with his
parents at 81 State street, in Kew West
while playing on a pile of bricks on Fur
man street, near Joralemon, fell from the
pile just as car COG of the Furman street
line was passing, and was run over The
wheels passed over the little fellows right
foot and left thigh. He was picked up by
bystanders and removed to st. PETERS
hospital in an ambulance by Surgeon
Briggs. At the hospital he regalned con
seriousness, and told his father that it was
his own fault, and no one else was to blame.
He died at about II o'clock.
The Tampa Water Works Company own
the Maghee springs. The underground run
of the spring is through Judge Cline's land
| whose boundary is only q short distance
Judge Cline has sunk a well some IL or Is
feet square, and tapped the vein This the
water works company object to- as they
propose using the water to supply the city.
and have taken OUT an injunction restrain
ing Mr. Cline from doing anything that
win pollute or lessen the flow of water.
The water company claim that the object
of Mr. Cline is to force tine company to buy
him out at an extortionate figure
Capt J. f. Horr, the recently appointed
collector of customs of Key West, arrived
q day or two ago and was soon surrounded
, by host of otfice-seekers who were awfulv
glad to see him looking so well, and con
graduated him on his success. There are
thirty-tve appointments at his disposal
The scramble has already commenced Pc.
htions are going around seeking signatures
and excitement runs nigh among the bosses
as to who he win appoint, as he comes here
ultrammeled by pledges TO any one He
procured MS bonds in his native state, Ohio
and takes charge on Aug. |. Some of the
present incumbentS have already rendered
their resignatlons--aud everything isSready
to be turned overwhelming Steve Lester.
+ who says he is going to stick to Uncle Sam
as long as he can. Capt Horn says that
primarily all changes will be made with a
{ view to the efficiency Of the service. aud he
5 will be in no great hurry to make changes
proposing to take ample time to secure the
best men for the positions.
SOUTH CAROLINA
b Work has been begun on the new court