The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

ana III IL InouBnI the pIhlt viii De ready TO
light the town by electricity within the
Ie1s forty or fifty days. The differeat
churches in the city, both white and col
o7ed, are making efforts to replace their
kerosene lights with those Of the company.
The Austrian man-of-war saba, from
New Orleans for Havana, came to off PEN
sacola bar Monday morning for an hour,
aud then steamed away for her destination
The saba is a school ship. There are
twenty-three cadets on board, who, after
four years study at the naval academy at
home, are taking the practical Lessons Of
their course. She has officers, 800 men
and IA guns, two of the latter being oper-
ated by engines.
a few DAYS ago J. J. McMulIen Of Clear
| Water HarbOr suffered the serious loss Of
having his houses burned. He had vacated
the place, and left in charge renter, Mr.
| Hubbau, whose son was doing the cooking
The boy filled the stove with wood, and
went visiting and while gone the roof
| caught fire. The father, working near by
with another party, saw the fire in its early
progress, but for the lack Of a sufficiencY Of
water convenient, couldn't save the build
ings-the dwelling, kitchen and smoke
house. They saved two or three barrels Of
| syrup and sugar, and lost about the same
| The furniture had been removed.
The British steamship Ingram, which
clea ed from Pensacola few days ago for
| BuenoS AyTes, carried one of the handsom-
est cargoes that ever left that port. The
! British steamship Hallamshire, now loading
| IN that harbor, also for Buenos Ayres, is
taking similar stuff The cargoes are made
up Of 35foot average sawn timber. The
| leng hs vary from 90 to ~ feet The re-
| marka lie dart of the matter is that every
stick of both cargoes is of a 12-Inch dame
ter both ways The timber is other
| wise very pretty, being nearly solid
heart. Trese are two of the cargoes to be-
used in dock construction at Buenos Ayres
Gen. o. o. Howard, while in st. Angus
tins last week, made close observation of
| all the government property in that vi
| clnity, and will make some recomrnenda-
tons which will probably result in making
| st. Augustine one of the most important
military posts in the south. He condemns
the present barracks and declares that the
| quarters for the men are insufficient AMI
the parade ground entirely inadequate for
| the purposes Intended. Gen. Howard is
also in favor of means being taken to eff
fectually preserve the old fort aud to inclose
the reservation around it and improve it,
or In other words, turn it into a national
park.
A colored woman named Hurds COM
| United suicide Sunday last by drowning her
self In the st. Johns, near Aston. Sac had
run away from home and had reached
Cummings station, where she was over
taken by her husband, who brought her
back to Astor, and started across tne river
with her in q row boat She had a baby in
her arms. and just before starting across
the river she remarked that she had rather
commit suicide than go back home Ac-
cordlngly, when the boat was we'll out in
the stream, she sprang overheard, carrying
the baby with her. Diligelt efforts were
made by her husband to rescue the woman
and child, but he succeed led only in saving
the latter.
A man going by the name P. H. Horton,
alias Hicks was arrested at Tittusville
Monday by Deputy Henry Titus, for
forging orders on several merchants, sign
ing to these orders the name of Mr.. Brown,
who has charge of the Jail house =. H.
Ray, q. B. Rumph and Z. S. Hamilton,
were the parties he gave the orders on, and
each one Of them ackno wledged the order,
thinking it came from MIR. Brown The
amount involved only amounts to Sc in
the aggregate. and he could easily have
escaped had he net got drunk and crawled
under the Presbyterian church to t out of
the way. He was arraigned before Justice
Atkinson Tuesday, who bound him over to
appear at the next term Of court.
An effort was made on Tuesday night
last to assassinate or lynch J. d. Cox, who
is conf ed in the county Jail at Perry,
| fired at him through the window grating,
| one or more Of which took effect, aud
| he was seriously wounded. Cox killed
| young Henderson several months since
| The evidence before the committing mag
1strate was such as TO make the case a bail
able one, but he was for some time con.
fined in the jail at Madison until the amount
of the requIr I'd bond was made up, when he
was liberated. Last week the grand Jury
OF Taylor county returned a true bill
charging him with murder in the first de-
gree and he was placed in jail at Perry
His attorneys moved for change of venue
which the court granted and he was to be
tried at Madison during the next session of
circuit court which convenes tomorrow.
Tuesday morning a burly negro villain
attempted an outrage on a widow lady
living just out of Leesburg, northwest,
beyond the Florida Southern water tank.
his intended victim was all alone in the
house, with no neighbor living within
calling distance, and she was busy bending
over table cutting out some sewing. The
first lntimation she had Of the scoundre Is
presence was from his Selling her shoulder
from behind with one hand, while
with the other he presented re.
volver, and made his atrocious de-
maud. The lady endeavored to plead
with him. telling him to take everything in
the house. but TO spare her. E1treaty,
however, availing nothing, she made a
desperate effort and managed 10 free her.
self from the brute and fed through the
house and out upon the railroad. Fortu-
nately. in passing through the house, with
rare presence of mind she closed and
thumb-bolted a door behind her; otherwise
she might not have escaped She continued
her flight towards town until she reached
j. B. Raineys residence, where she
sought refuge, completely overcome
from terror and exhaustion. Word
was ut once sent TO town and large
party Of citizens forthwith started
in persuit of the negro. He was trac ked
eastward to the shores of Lake Griffin and
from there to the Florida Railway and
Navigation railway east of town, where
the trail became confused The search
continued until the next day (WeIne ,day),
when it was abandoned as useless. In the
meantime, however, four negroes had been
arrested on suspicion in Tavares and several
IN other localities, but on Investigation, no
one OF them proved to be the right man.
There was great excitement over the out
rage; and had the villain been caught there
is no doubt that he would have baan