The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-02

/ c'dlrnS that the stock belonged TO Simon q
Co of Mobile, firm that failed year and
a hsh ago. II. j. Simon has procured a
bondsman and the attachment has been
| released. He says the stock Is not Simon
| d Co.'s, that there is no probability of at
tachment papers coming from either Mo-
! bile or New Orleans and that he is per-
fectly solvent and ready to meet all de-
mands that may be made upon him.
| Last Tuesday morning, about O'Clock,
| the alarm of fire was sounded by the watch
| man at the saw mill of George f. Drew &
rough and planed lumber, the workshops,
several outhOuses, two or three carloads of
| nay, two cars loaded with lumber, and the
| planning machine and fixtures were all de-
stroyed by the flames before they could be
extinguished. Only by heroic efforts were
the large saw mill and the town saved from
burning. George Z. Porter, who owned
and run the planning machine, sustained the
greatest loss by fire. Tho damages are
estimated at from $l2, 900 to $4,000, with
insurance.
u. NJ. Tower, dealer in stationery, cigars
| ETC., under Genovar's opera house, at st.
Augustine, has fled an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors to Justice G. N.
Crocker. The total liabilities are 81, 300
The assets are g. 125 76. Personal prop
erty exempt 81 600, therefore making the
creditors are First National Bank of st.
Augustine 5000; J. F. Davidson $50, Dor
ro"ed; j. f. Davidson, service as clerk
$40; b. Genevar, 500 for rent. Secondly
preferred claims amount to $4,000. Mr.,
Tower has been disabled for some time with
rheumatism, AID is now confined to the
house with the terrible disease.
Silver Springs Park was legally incor-
porated as a town, on Saturday March 30
of YNla bau mir
aud needles for the past month, as to who
should hold the offices. Many were sug
gested as mayor, but the nomination was
given S. E. Rowe, who was elected by 20
votes, the other nominee receiving | only.
The town limits east and west, are Oak and
henwood streets. North and south, Devon
shire ard Sycamore avenues. This makes
it one mile broad and little over / u miles
long. The officers elected are S. E. Rowe,
mayor; A. Calder town clerk; R. c. Bogie,
MARSHAL. Aldermen: b. F. Hopper. d.
OttensOser, NJ. Bogie, J. E. Barrett, r. e.
Loveridge, Mr. Rowe and j. H. Burchell.
Starke TelegrGph: A man who lives near
Starke had chicseas stolen from him until
at last only an old rooster was left. Hay
ing chance to buy a bald eagle that had
been wounded in the wing, he substituted
the bird for the rooster in the fowl house
and watched for results One night o g Of
his sable neigh5ors entered the hennery,
grabbed the eagle and left. 1t was not long
before prolonged "Oh, Lawd p was heard
i'll the direction of the tdief's path and tle
following morning an "ole VrgiunY gem
man" was sitting on the porch of his cabin
with one eve nearly out, under lip lit,
swallOwfork in both ears, arm in sling and
with general appearance of a section of a
slaughter house floor, while his wife was
beating the corpse Of the eagle with bat
ting suck to get it tender before "bili'n."
Orlando Record: The community at
large and many friends of L. p Wescott
will be & ad to learn that the case pending
against him in the criminal courts has been
finally disposed of, and the defendant dis
charged. The cbarge against him was only
technical violat Oh Of law, if violation
at all, aud was not SuStalne by the court
The case was disposed of yesterday after
noon, after the very elaborate arguments
OF counsel on both sides, on the question of
the materiality of the affidavit log the
making of which he was charged with
having committed perjury)to the issue in
the case pending in the circuit court. This
case grew out of a suic wine Elm the Tavares
Orlando and Apopka railroad were com
plainantS against the Apopka Canal and
Drainage Company, eDjoining the
canal company from interfering with or
moles- ing the bridge constructed by the
railroad company over the Apopka canal.
The bill of the railroad company was an
swered by the canal and drainage company,
aud a motion made by the defendants to
dissolve the injunction. Mr.. Wescott, at
that time, was the president of the Tava-
res, Orlando and Apopka Railroad Com
pany, and the affidavit made by him at that
time was attacked, and an indictment found
charging him with perjury. Subsequent
TO the finding of the indictment, the crimi-
nal court of record of Orange county was
established, and the case sent down from
the circuit court. After the argument of
the materiality of the pending issue, the
court decided that it was not material,
whereupon the solicitor asked that noUe
be entered and the defendant discharged,
which was so ordered.