The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-22


ors OF the route between Tallahasses and
Carrabelle, died suddenly at his home in
Wakulla county last week
The DeIsand Record says that the stencil
arising from the earcasses Of dead alligasors
on Hontoon's island Is said 10 be dreadful.
The gators were killed by persons for their
teeth and skins.
A terrible wind and rain storm passed
over Floral City. Monday. Several houses
were demolished, among them the two
st tory building. occupied above by the Flo
raj City Times, aud below by DIR. r. A.
Warrock's drug store. Fortunately no
lives were lost The press was not mate
rally injured. and will be repaired at once.
The Times will appear again in three
weeks As Floral City is on a bill, some
sixty feet high, the wind having a fair
sweep from the southwest, 1t was almost
irrepressible. Mr.. Guage, the foreman,
with several boys, barely escaDed a horri-
Bile death. The loss is from 81 500 to s., 900.
Mai. Alex St. Clair-Abrams announces
through a two column letter in the Sanford
Journal that he intends to agitate for re-
form of the me.hods of the Orange county
criminal court. In this connection, motto
ing the statement of Deputy Sheriff Pocket
that he had put Mai Abrams to the test
and had found him "a base coward" the
latters SAYS: 81 am past the age when a
physical encounter with a ruffian would
COMFORT with tie position occupy in this
community, or bedeemed necessary by any
respectable person in Orange county, to
demonstrate my physical courage. So this
man might as well understand, and SO
might ali others who are disposed TO sustain
him, that, EXCEPT in defense of personal
assault upon me, do not propose to be led
into any encounter of the kind
Jasper Times Two weeks ago old
"Uncle" Caleb Parker and his wife started
from their humble home, about two miles
from town. They were seated quietly in a
buggy driving what had been known as a
gentle horse, when from some unknown
and unseen cause the animal took fright,
ran furiously through the woods, demol-
ished the vehicle and threw the OLD people
out with such force as to break the old
mans thigh, tear one foot badly and other
wise injure MIN. The poor old woman was
thrown with such violence against sharp
limb, or snag, that a hole as large as an or
binary fist was punched through her side,
three ribs broken and other hurts sustained.
These good old people, over 10 years of age,
fingered in pain for a week, and then
succumced to the inevitable Dr. d. NJ
Smith did all he could for them, but there
was little ground to hope for their recoy-
cry, owing to their advanced age. Six
days after the accident a stalwart young
colored man mounted the horse and started
for town over the same road. When Just
at the point where the animal had run
away with the old people. it became so
frightened that no force could make it go
forward. Then the rider dismounted and
tried to lead it, as he saw nothing to
brighten it, but it was useless-the
frightened brute would not go forward;
then an attempt was made to lead it out of
the road and around tor a short distance,
but that also failed; hence it was ridden
back and left. Some investigation should
be had, as other horses may do injury at
the same spot.
Pensacola NelUs: A good story is told on
a couple of young gentlemen of the Jewish
faith, who live not thousand miles from
the county court house. 1t seems that both
the young gentlemen were won't to boast of
their bravery and brave deeds while in
company with two of their young lady &C
qualntances, and the young ladies in ques-
ton were almost led to believe that they
were pair of the most valiant youths that
ever accompanied them to church. But
they made up their minds to see what kind
of metal the aforesaid young men were
made of. And they went about it in a
scientific manner, too. Procuring an old
suit of clothes, they stuffed it with towels,
etc., to the fullness of a genuine human
being, and managed to place the straw man
in standing position on the bed
where the young men oft came
to rest their weary bones A gleam-
ing dagger IN the shape of a case
knife was then placed in the appraised hand
of the straw man, and the young ladies re-
tired to an adjoining room to await results.
They didn't have to wait great while. In
less than ten minutes the two brave young
men came whistling up stairs, the bravest
one in the lead, with his companion some
distance in the rear. The brave young man
opened the door and the first thing that met
his eyes was the appraised dagger in the
hand of supposed murderer. He threw
up both hands, uttered a blood-curdling
shrek. and fell to the floor in dead faint.
The young man who SO nobly brought up
the rear cleared the stairs from top to bot
tom at one leap and ran wildly down the
street yelling 'murderl" at the top of his
voice.
Leesburg Leesburger: Several months
ago the LeeSburger began a discussion fav-
oring division of the state, and since then
nearly every paper in the state has had
something to say on the subject. Most of
them favor a division; a few moved ap-
parently by local interest alone, opposed it.
In West Florida, the result of the discussion
has been to arouse a public sentiment in
favor of annexing that territory to Ala
Darla III Cne annexation Sch6me is success
fully carried out, it cannot fail to
benfit South Florida, but it Will not
do West Florida much good. The
best policy for the Pensacola leaders
to pursue is to advocate making two states
of Florida, calling the upper one Florida
and the lower one South Florida. We are
in favor of anything fair to get rid of
Pensacola and Jacksonville; and if we can
not get rid of both at once, we will favor
the annexation scheme, as being the cheap
est and quickest way for disposing of Pensa-
cola. With the territory west of the Chat
tahoochee coded to Alabama, it would be a
comparatively easy thing to place the capital
of Florida where it ought to be, to esit
down on jacksonville in political matters
and to secure such legislation as the inter-
ests of the peninsula demand. 1t matters
little whether we accomplish these things
by dumping Pensacola into Alabama or
by creating a new state; either method would
suit US, but the latter would be best for both
Pensacola and Jacksonville, to say nothing
of Tallahassee. And Jacksonville has sense
enough to see it and is opposing annexatiC n
with all her might If new state ere
created with Jacksonville in one and Pensa-
cola in the other, each could be "big Ike
in its own territory. Tallahassee could
hold the balance of power and the capital,
and everything would be as lovely as an
orange grove in bloom on a sunshIny day
And South Florida would be happy with
her capitol at Ocala or Leesburg.
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