The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-08

plantation ne7r Monticello was burn
tuesday. The cause OF the fire is suppJsed
to have been a match in the cotton while
ginning. The 10 s will be in the nsi2hDor-
mood OF 81 600 Ten bales Of coston were also
burned. five Of which belonged to Perkins
& Turnbul and the others to farmers in
that section.
J. Fl. Harris Of Rhodes Store, Jefferson
county, by scientific farming, made the
Present. year off of twenty acres OF land,
with one mule seventeen bales OF cotton
that weighed on an average 496 pounds.
In addition 70 the cotton ne realized 400
bushels Of corn, an abundance OF potatoes,
ETC., TO do him. The fertilizer be used was
200 pounds commercial and fifteen bushels
cotton seed
q. K. Mitchell, prominent citizen Of st.
Augustine. left few days ago 70 visit rel
atives in New Jersey. At Weldon, n. C.,
he left the car in order to take a meal, and
in attempting to get on be fell. This was
unknown to the Conductor, aud the body Of
Mr.. Mitchell was discovered by a passing
train. He was still unconscious, and short
time after being taken up life was extinct.
He has lived in st. Johns county for the
pest twenty-five years.
The case Of the Georgia Southern 5Hd
Florida railway VS.. John Brown, 70 deter
mine the value Of certain lands seized for
railroad purposes, was again submitted to
jury at Palatka on Friday, the previous
verdict having been set aside at the instance
OF the defendant, because not In proper
form. The jury awarded Brown SG40-$10
and the value OF a dwelling house less than
i'll the previous verdict. Mai Fowler rep
resented Mr.. Brown and Irving ellis the
railroad.
There is book Ia Journal in the office of
probate Judge Gardner Of Gainesville,
Placsd there by the administrators of
the Lyman estate, which was first owned
and kept by a Spaniard who was doing
business in Cuba, in the year 1884, and
which afterward came into the possession
OF z. A. Lyman, who died in Gainesville
some time ago. II contains fine specimens
Of the art of bookkeeping and penmanship,
and, as a souvenir of the business methods
Of the year 1884, would be highly priced by
any bookkeeper.
Pensacola News: It is estimated that
the amount of money left here by the dis
bursements of the ships which load timber
and lumber at this point exceeds So 80 per
ton. On these figures, with, say 700 vessels
in the timber and lumber trade alone to
hear from, a fairly conservative approx
nation, the sum left the city by the ship
ping during the current business year will
be S1,715,0 600 The timber shipped will
probably reach 350,000,000 feet. for which
will be paid mean $40 per thousand. That
will leave IS, SOC, 900 more-a total IS, 2l5,-
600 from the timber and lumber business.
Pensacola NelOs: A woman appealed to
the board of county commissioners Tues
day for help to keep alive family consist
ing of an invalid husband, herself and six
children, the eldest of the latter being a
boy about IL years of age. They live about
four miles from the city, across Bayou
Texar, and the woman, with the help of the
boy. is barely eking out a miserable exist
ence for the family by selling little wood
and running some tar, which is also sold in
the city. She did not want TO leave her
home and go to the poor house. The board
decided that as she would not 60 to the
poor house they could do nothing for her
officially, but each of the three members
present put his hand IN his pocket a d
tished forth dollar, which was given tie
woman. Others present initiated the ex-
ample set and the supplicant for aid walked
out with SIS so in her hand.
The case against j. n. Benjamin.
charged with the murder of j.
w. Douglass, at New Smyrna, June 5, 1889,
was taken up at Orlando wednesday, and
the court proceeded to the selection of a
competent jury, the state being represented
by States Attorney j. d. Beggs,
and the accused by Messrs. Foster q
jurors and a special venire of 100 nam s
we're rapidly examined, and within about
three hours the jury, composed of the fol-
lowing gentlemen, were impaneled: d. w.
Holden, b. o. Settler, j. H. Cane, Wade
Scraggs, w. Dewey, d. W. Spencer, A
J. Simmons, J. M. Mcconnell, F. A. Davis,
A. F. Hills, o. Pherson, B. Dough-
erty. The opinion is generally expressed
that the jury is an exceptionally Intelligent
one, and that they may be relied upon to
render verdict that will be just, both to
the state and Mr.. Benjamin. Benjamin is
a native Georgian, was born at Augusta In
the year 1865, and is. consequently, less
than "a years of age; has dark
hair and eyes, and somewhat delicate.
At the afternoon session the attorneys for
the prosecution and the defense retired to
one side and held an extended whispered
conversation, after which States Attorney
Beggs stated to the court that after the adj
journment for dinner a serious matter
affecting the trial had come to light, and
asked suspension Of the proceedings until
yesterday, which was granted. 1t is under
stood that the trouble is certain charges as
to remarks made by one of the jurors before
canning to Orlando.