The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-21

screen to afford ventilation. Sunday a
chicken hawk espied the aviary of little
songsters, and thinking he would have a
feast, dashed against the screen. The blow
stunned his hawksnip, and before he could
recover from the effects of it, DR.. Fraser
dispatched him with stick.
At Cocoa last Saturday, the youngest son
of Mr.. Travis, little fellow Of two years,
fell off his fathers wharf into the water,
which was aoout four feet deep, and came
very near death from drowning. Commo-
dore Hughes arrived in his little naphtha
launch opportunely upon the scene a few
minutes after the little fellow fell into the
water, aud he promptly jumped overheard
and secured the baby boy, who by that
time was floating unconscious in the
| water.
The Export Coal Company of Mobile has
sold to the Export Coal Company Of Pensa-
cola for 81, 100 the schooner barge Maud
McLain, recently rebuilt at Alexandria, Va.
The Maud McLain is said TO have been a
| blockade runner during t1e war and to have
been captured by the federal government
and converted into the United States
| steamer Frolic. She is of foreign build and
registers 544 80 tons net. She will be put
into the coal trade between Pensacola and
Cuban ports.
w. K. Steckert, who arrived in Gaines
vile with his family q few days ago, is
there in the interest OF j. GUNNER 81 Sons
of Cadallac, Mich, who have lately bought
10000 acres Of pine timber west of the city,
on the line of the Gainesville, Tallahassee
| and Western railroad. 1t is Mr.. Steckert's
intention to commence arrangements look
ing to the establishment Of mills for the
manufacture of lumber ON their newly
acquired lands just as soon as he can get his
| family settled.
! Key West Equator: The special telegram
In yesterdays paper, announcing the fact
that negotiations were being made to en-
| ploy aud ship 900 Chinese clgarmakers to
| this city from San Francisco, Cal, has
created considerable excitement among ali
classes OF citizens. Some think it will be
the salvation OF the island, and others ap-
pear to believe that it would be- the deatn-
Knell of the place. One thing is sure, and
that is that if the strike is not soon ended
| the question will be tested.
j. P. McAlpin, travelling agent of the
states prison, arrived at Orlando Saturday
from Live Oak, and returned Sunday,
having in custody Bill james, the neg
who was sentenced for life as accessory in
the Taylor murder. Mr.. McAlpin stated
that the report that was recently published
that the ne Lro, Jim Austin, who was con-
victed OF the murder Of Deputy Sheriff
Loring of Palatka, had been shot by one of
the guards at The convict camp was mis-
| take. as Austin is still there aud alive.
Tallahassee TdlldhaSSedn: Prof. E. Du-
bois, proprietor of the San Luis and Anda-
lusia vineyards, is every day demonstraU-
i0g the superiority of Leon county for
grape growing and wine making. He has
not only shipped cuttings all over this coun-
try, but last week sent from his vineyard
20, 900 cuttings of the Cynthiana variety.
II is wines are far superior to any domestic
tNe
TO say ne ID making success Of the in
dustry would but admit a foregone con-
clusion.
The South Florida Cattle Company was
formally organized at Arcadia Monday.
and the following officers elected: Presi-
dent, u. King; vice president, K. Z. Wild
den; secretary treasurer and general man.
ager, Samuel Sunmerlin of Fort Myers:
Assistant Manager, Irwin Locklair, with
headquarters at Key West. The capital
stock amounts to S50,0O0. The principal
cattle owners of De Soto county are in this
company, and the object is to control the
sale OF beef cattle and do away with the
brokers
Kissmmee lost two lawsuits Wednesday.
When Mashal Bass was elected the salary
was $50 per month. After he was sworn
in the council cut the salary down. The
marshal sued for the salary offered at the
time Of his election, and on Wednesday
obtained Judgment against the town. Judge
Mershou, at the beginning of the term was
elected city attorney. For some cause or
other the council was not satisfied with its
work and elected E. ID. Beggs Judge
Mershon entered suit for his quarters
salary and on Wednesday obtained judg-
ment for it.
A. F. Vogelbach, William ]. Vinegar, Fl.
q. Payne, t. A. Darby and Robert w.
Davis, incorporators and directors, give
notice In a Tallahassee paper that they have
associated themselves together as a company
and corporation to be known as the mid
land Transit Railway Company" for the
purpose Of constructing, maintaining and
operating a railway from Rochelle, in
Alachua county, through or near the town
of Melrose, to point of junction with the
Georgia Southern and Florida railroad, in
the county of Clay or Bradford, q total
length of about seventeen miles, and pass
ing through the counties of Alachua and
Clay or Bradford. The capital stock is
| fixed at 100000, divided into shares Of
SlO0 each, to be paid in as required by the
| bylaws.
| A new iron duck boat, to be used in the
| creeks and bays of Florida by Pierre Loril-
lard during the coming winter, was launched
on Thursday in the East river from the
johnson foundry, at the foot of East One
Hundred and Eighteenth street, New York.
| The new boat is sixty feet long, ten feet
beam, and draws three feet of water She
is fitted with triple compound engines of an
| improved pattern, and will use oil instead
of coal for fuel. Forward of the main
saloon is q commodious cockpit, covered by
& canvas turtle-back awning. from under
| which the sportsmen will fire away at the
| canvasbacks. The new boat was christen ed
Lillian. His steam yacht Reva. with Mr..
Lorillard and party on board, left New York
on Friday for the shooting grounds in
| Florida.
| NJ. B. Bartholomew, J. T. T.. Bowden,
| Zeph Harrison. and others advertise in the
Tallahassee Foridian that they have
formed company under the name of the
"Fernandina, jacksonville and ST. Angus
tine Ship Canal and Transportation Com
pany )" for the purpose of constructing and
| operating a ship canal in this state for pub
lie use, and for the use of all vessels from
the city Of Fernandina, in Nassau county,
to Jacksonville, in Duval county, aud to
construct, maintain and operate a railroad
| for public use in the conveyance Of persons
and property, and for the purpose Of main
tanning and operating any railroad already
constructed for public use from Jackson
vile, Duval county, to st. Augustine, St
Johns county, state of Florida, the length
of railroad being about forty miles and the
length of the ship canal about forty miles,
| Sa~iouo oItttiup affrau ooO,,r A.