The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-05

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FLORIDA
Eight steamers now visit Apalachicola
| regularly.
J. C. McKibbon, who was recently APP
{ pointed postmaster at Fairbanks, took
| charge Of the office Saturday.
1t Is rumored that one Of Gainesville's
/ most enterprising young business men IN
| tends going into business in Savannah
About eighty negroes left Gainesville
| Monday 10 work on new railroad being
built In the northern part OF the state.
The gardeners Of the Ponce de Leon hotel
| at St. Augustine have bleached thousands
| Of pampas grass tops They are white
! plumes and purple and make pretty vase
| decorations.
Deinis Eagan writes TO a friend that he
has not withdrawn from the fight for the
office of collector of internal revenue of
Florida but IS still a candidate, and will
remain SO until the appointment Is made.
He also denies that he has been appointed
deputy collector Of customs at Key West,
in which city he now is.
Palatka Herald: The Savannah News,
Ocala Banner and Tallahassee Fioridtdn
have been coming to this office for the last
IWbub9 -Ote years. anu VIII Jus S&CepilOD
of the latter, no change has been made in
the management of these old time friends,
though they have greatly changed in APP
pearance for the better. We welcome them
each time with that heartiness due an old
and good friend
The youngsters of Gainesville having
read of the Johnstown affair, are going to
try the experiment on a small scale at that
place by damming up Sweetwater branch,
provided the authorities don't interfere,
which they will most assuredly do. The
Advocate advises the parents of these young
men TO see that they are stopped in such
work before they have further trouble with
them.
One night last week, as A. and A. H.
Hoppe were going home, after having
closed up the postotfice at Apalachicola for
the night, brick was thrown by some one
from the vicinity of the Catholic church,
and A. II. Hoppe was struck with it on the
back Of the neck Mr.. Hoppe thinks the
brick came from the hands of some boy
whom he had to silence in the postoffice for
making a considerable racket during the
distribution of the mail
Apalachicola Times: On Monday. Aug
&C. man and woman got on the steamer
lotus at or near Chattahoochee, registered
as Mr.. and Mrs. Henry F. Fowler. They
bOOh bcbN Htt9ou26y NGAb -lOOkilR
people about 40 years of age, and in Apa-
lachicola stopped at the boarding house of
James Lewis. Mrs. Lewis says they re-
paired Immediately to their room and re-
manned there until the next morning, when
they got on board the Lotus for the up trip.
taking deck passage When the steamer
was in Piney Reach the woman walked out
on the fan tail' of the steamer and jumped
overheard. The man, it Is alleged, walked
n-l a,,I
that woman had jumped overheard and
you had better pick her up" Capt. Rand
lette stopped the steamer at once, and by
the time a dingey could he lowered she was
a quarter of a mile astern. held up by her
clothing. She was picked uD as soon as
possible, and when Intercepted as to why
she had jumped overheard replied that
trouble had caused it. When picked up
from the water she exclaimed, "On, my
poor childrenm Previously she had denied
having any children.
Principal Assistant Engineer Sackett of
the United States army is busily engaged in
carving out Of slab OF wood, as near as
possible, model or plan of the northwest
entrance to the Key West harbor. He
takes the dimensions, OF course greatly re-
duced, from the United States engineers
chart to compile which they took over 25.-
| 600 soundings. Thirty feet is the greatest
depth represented in the model, and as the
water shadows the wood is left in
| little terraces and here and there where
rocks show their wave beaten heads at
| low water, pieces ofwood are tackled on the
/ slab to represent them. After Mr. Sackett
has carved as true copy Of the bottom, or
| what is known as a matrix, as is possible
out Of wood, tine next thing TO be done is to
| cover the whole outline with a uniform
| thickness Of wax, in which he will form
| the smaller and more intricate details
| When the model is finished TO Mr.. Sackett's
satisfaction he will pour plaster of paris
| over it and let it remain until 1t hardens; this
! forms what is called the negative. aud
! from this any number of plaster of paris
Peoples can be taken. TIE entrance to the
| harbor of Key West is INSTRUCTED by bar
| similar to the st. Augustine harbor bar, the
only difference being that the Key West
| bar is composed nearly all of rock instead
of sand, and SO if once cleared out would be
permanent. There is about II feet of water
at low tide and IA feet when the tide is
high. The expenditure for the sounding
cost over $1,000
The first serious accident which ever &C.
CURED on the tram road used by the West
Bros. for carrying logs to their mill at
West Farm, Madison county, occurred last
Saturday. BY this accident three little
negro girls We're horribly crippled, and the
engine and cars were damaged to a consid.
cradle extent The train, which consisted
of an engine and six or seven cars, was going
from the mill after logs. the engine pushing
instead of pulling the cars, and going at o
fair rate of speed. Three negro girls, OF
from 8 to IA years Of age, were
seated upon one of the cars with
their feet dangling over its
end and between 1t and another car. Their
father st2od near by and was watching
them. AS the cars rounded curve a cali
or COW was run over by the car in front
This left the track ana was follow by the
OF ers, the bumpers IF two or three being
broken. When the father saw the cars
leaving the track he told the girls to draw
their feet up, and at the same moment
caught the youngest one in his arms
to get ger out of danger. The other.
made an effort to do as directed
but before they could do so sue
cessfully the cars came together with :
crash, catching n leg of each and grinding
the bones to powder, and the flesh into ielly
The little one whom the father caught
escapedTvith slight mash upon the heel Of
one. foot. Drs, Parramore, Sessions anc
Boatright were summoned as speedily n,
possible They found it necessary Il
amputate the leg of one of the unfortunate,
above the knee as there was no hope for thu
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