The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-22
THE MORNING SUNDAY DECEMBER 18ssTwELvE PAGES

Advocate has heard, the comments were
much of the same tenor as the Starks dis
patches; not 50 savage. perhaps Never
theless there is a widespread feeling tn it
Thrasher was not justified in killing Wit
kovski, and a desire was freely ex-
pressed that he who takes the
law in his own hands to violate
it. should suffer the consequences OF
his own acts. Though the heavens fall" All
day yesterday little knots OF men could be
seen on the streets in earnest conversation,
aud the subj ct Of conversation was in
variably the unfortunate and much 70 be
deplored shooting, and the events sub
seQueutly connected Herewith, and, as far
as we have heard the sentiments expressed
universally condemnatory. There is no
question but that the people Of this city are
deeply stirred up over this deplcrable en-
counter, and it would take but little to set
the hot-heads to doing something better
left undone.
At Palatka, Wednesday night, Mrs. NJ I.
Coke went TO her bedroom with the inten-
ton of retiring. While standing near
hoisted window, some one from the outside
seized her by the arm and attempted TO
drag her from the room. With a super
human effort Mrs. Coke freed herself from
the yillainous grasp, and, with a piercing
scream. fell to the floor in an insensible
condition. The noise attracted the attention
of A. B. DeMontmollin, who was in an al
joining room. Mr.. DeMontmollin, who has
been sick for several weeks, hurried to the
scene as fast as his condition would per nit,
but the heet-footed highwayman had made
his escape.
The two little daughters Of Mrs. Daniel
Lloyd of Braidentown. Maria and Isabel,
aged respe lively 10 months and years,
died during the night Of Dec. g. almost
without any warning whatever to their
parents. One of the little ones had been
having light malsrial fevers for few days
previous, and died with commissions, sup
posed to have been occasioned thereby;
while the other was not considered unwell
by its parents, or sufficiently so to need
attention, except, perhaps, a heart trouble
which has existed all through its life, and
which, no doubt, was the immediate cause
OF its death, which occurred in about three
hours after the taxing off of its little sister.
Gainesville Advocate: The Wakulla
Times in a recent issue states that %, 900. OO0
acres Of the 80, 900 acres of government
land donated by congress to the state of
Florida has been located as swamp and
overlooked. Thus it will be seen. thai one
third only OF the 0,000, 600 acres Of this
state is considered ft for human habitatlon
This every one, that knows anything about
the matter, knows is untrue. Why the
government has allowed such an outrage to
be perpetrated upon the people of
Florida, and the good name of our
state to be sullied by such base
and false statements. is beyond the ken of
those not interested in swindling the gov
eminent and robbing the poor settlers of
their legal right to enter upon the public
domain. On reading the foregoing state
ments we called at the United States land
Office, and eirned from the register and
receiver that all lands selected by the state
under the swamp land grant were, and are
now, subject to homes cad entry, provided
it can be shown by affidavit of the person
who desires to make the entry that
the land is not swamp or overhowed.
Such a statement can easily be
established by those living in the vicinity
of the land-in fact such applications are
constantly made at the land office, and are
allowed. When the entry has been al
lowed, the governor Of the state is notified
by the register Of the allowance, and he is
given sixty days In which to protest from
the action of the land office, and in ninety
nine cases out of 100 the entries are con-
firmed, the governor permitting the cases to
go by default.