The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-27

| paid The directors are John b. Ststson,
John B. Cough, Isaac A. Stewart, Arthur
G. Hamlin. and ]. F. Forbes.
The Clyde Steamship Company will build
a wharf on Lake JeSsup, costing $1,000 or
IS, 600 and will complete and operate the
line Of railroads from O7iedo via Lake
Charm to Lake Jessup. but will make it a
standard gauge road, to be operated in CON
nection With the road now In process Of
construction from Orlando TO OViedo.
The amount Of taxes TO be collected in
Putnam county for the year Of 1889 il
<3l, OH s., amount Of state S23, O34 70;
aggregate value of real estate S3.0l9, 655
aggregate value Of telegraph, cables, rail
road and rolling stock $612. 232 80; aggre-
gate value Of personal property S45S, 9l5,
making grand total of $4,000, S05 90.
At Mayport, the cratic ocean tides per-
sist in forcing their way around the shore
end of the south jetty instead of flowing
peacefully up the river channel between the
two jetties, as the pro iectors and government
engineers intended. 1t is hoped that May
port may not eventually be "wiped out" of
existence, though this gloomy fate has been
predicted by some of the residents and
visitors.
As the fast mail train rolled into the Jack
| sonville, Tampa and Key West depot at
Jacksonville Sunday Sheriff Shelley put his
hand into the collar of Moore Braxton
| kCbiOFeub, WHO is WAnJeu III DafOuW LOT the
| killing Of a Cuban, which dark deed oc-
CURED several weeks ago. For the arrest
of the murderer the governor offered re-
ward of $50.
When o. 5. Cakes, the new postmaster of
| Fernandina. receives his commission and
| takes charge, he says he will remove the
Office to more commodious quarters on Cen
| ter street and fit it up in first-class STYLE
| He promises an accommodating and efficient
| he ~.
office have given satisfaction TO the people,
and will go out with the best wishes of all.
Gadsden county superior court adjourned
| for the term Saturday. The grand jury re-
| turned a true bill for murder against
| Charles |. du Pont for the killing of Dr. T.
| l.. Wragg. The indictment was suisse
| quently quashed, on the ground of irregu-
larities in the drawing of the jury, and the
case goes over to the spring term of 1890
with the defendant under bond of $4,000.
Mr. Swami of the Fernaudina Improve
| ment Company reports that an unusual
number of applications for timber lands.
| principally from the northwest, are reach
| ing him. He has also demand for 3 900 to
25.OOO blocks of land from turpentine men
who have chiefly heretofore operated IN
| Georgia. He hopes to locate several of
| these latter on the line of the railroad at
| points tributary to Fernandina.
The steamer City of Jacksonville, of the
st. Johns river service, got into a dense fog
while on her way down the river the other
| night A travelling tourist anxious to 90
ahead, went up to Capt. Shaw, who was at
| the wheel, and asked why they had stopped
TOO much fog; can't see the river" replied
the precautions captain. But" said the
| tourist, you can see the stars overhead "
~ es, " said the captain, but until the
boilers burst, we are not going that way"
The passenger went to bed.
Parties walking along River street in the
| neighborhood of the hammock. at Pa
latka, Sunday, saw running down the street
| a strange object, which was none other than
| a cat with its head securely fastened into
the open end of a 10cent salmon can. On
the cat went in its mad fury, tail up, back
up, can up, and it took fifteen minutes for
a man to pull the cats head out of it's closely
confined position. The animal went in
there to lick what little salmon was left in
the can. When the cat saw daylight again
1t ran around in a ring for five minutes and
then was lost to sight over a neighboring
| fence.
The new factory building of the LOOMS
Manufacturing Company at Fernandina is
| approaching completion. This is one of the
| most important enterprises now in opera
ton there, working the native palmetto up
| into all sorts of useful articles, utilizing
| both root and branch. The company manu-
| features plastering fiber that finds ready
sale in New York and other markets They
will also manufacture, by a peculiar pro-
| cess, brushes for several purposes, door
mats, etc, out of the roots. This enterprise
| started on a small scale and has within a
| few years doomed up into extensive proper
| lions.
Palatka Herald: The other. day work
men, who are grading the Georgia Southern
| and Florida railroad, now building to Pa
| latka from Macon, unearthed a human
| skull, which has set the heads of the labor
ers on the road to thinking, and has
awakened their superstitiOus sensibilities to
| degree that alarms their uneducated
minds. During rain, while at work turn
ing up the ground, one of the men came
| Upon a human skull in the Wa-hoo ham,
mock. 1t was perfect in every respect, and
evidently the skull of a 3-year-old child,
well developed, and had full set of teeth
in a splendidly preserved condition. 1t is
supposed to be part of the remains of
| Spaniard of the old time.
Following is the story of the crime that
| led to the big trial now in progress at
BrooksviIle, and known as the F'Hernando
| Horror" Up to Saturday the jury was not
| yet completed, although efforts to secure it
| had been in progress since Tuesday. In the
early $685. one Samuel Mays migrated to
| this county from Georgia, bringing with
him quantity of whisky he moved into
the vicinity of McGulre's homestead: Mays
purchased corn from McGuire, and Mcclure
| purchased whisky from Mays:
these purchases were all made on
credit. When the parties came to set
Element Mcclure refused to give Mays
credit for the whisky, and sued Mays for the
balance of accounts as rendered by himself
Mays having no license to sell whisky, could
| not offer the account as a counter claim,
fearing both the state and the United States
revenue officers. That suit naturally caused
a feud between Mays and Mcclure. Subse-
quently Mcclure and his friends, to make
rum for their own use, purchased small
still and located it over branch in the
hammock near McGure's home In the fall
of 1884 the following parties assisted
Mcclure in manipulating the worm: j.
Shaw Thompson, John l. Sharp, Oscar
Higgins, William Bledsoe and John Holly
field. Hollyfeld was friend of Samuel
Mays, McGuire's enemy. Hollyfield heard
the others talk about the feud, and when
he learned the facts he said that if
Mcclure had treated his friend Mays so
stability, Mays ought to be appraised of Nc
Cures Illicit still. 1t is claimed that the
present four Tor some Of them communi-
Gated this expression Of Hollyfleld's to Nc
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