The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-05

! ard Jury VIII decide how much BeerIner
/ & Silvernaa were damaged by not being
furnished with tie tickets.
FLORIDA
The circuit court convenes at Braiden-
/ town Molday.
The pension Of Samuel Craft, of Flbriia,
has been increased by the pension office.
The Holland place, Greenwood" con-
sistiuE OF 10 acres, north Of Tallahassee,
has been sold 20 W. c. Douglass Of Scot
land.
T. S. Coart is trying TO get special rates
for the Shine Guards from Orlando to At
lsnta during the Piedmont exposition at
thar place.
Apopka railroad arrived at A nopka Wedues-
day, aid viii take the place of engine No. l,
now in the repair shop.
1t is expected that railroad communica-
ton will be established between Green Cove
| Spring and Melross b. Christmas. Grading
is now proceeding rapidly.
| Seven brick masons arrived at Orlando
from Boston Tuesday and have gone 20
Leesburg TO work on brick buildings under
construction at that place.
II. K Lyman & Son are erecting a cot
tage for 5. n. Andrews on his splendid
| property 'front.' G the sea beach, near the
foot Of the lake at Hypol1xo.
The removal of the railroad track from
the Upper Shell road at ST. Augustine is
under discussion. A good drive could be
made II the removal was made.
The Pierce & TORY Investment Com
| pany has finished the new court house at
Tavares, and will turn it over to the Lake
county commissioners at their next meet
ing.
Work on the ietty which is to be thrown
| out from the South Beach at st. Augustine
| to prevent the land from being washed
away by the current will be commenced
shortly.
Sanford Journal: We are informed that
A. R. K. Stafford, ex-governor Of Arizona,
but now a prominent citizen of Florida,
will soon assume the presidency OF the
Orange Belt railway.
Mayor German of,Tallahassee has ordered
a strict observance of the Sunday law.
Any barroOm found doing a side or back
door business on the Sabbath will be- prose-
cuted to the utmost limits of the law.
The election in Orange county on the
local option question takes place two weeks
hence, but as yet little interest in the
matter seems to have been taken, aud from
present indications light vote will be cast
The Indian River Steamboat Company,
| through Manager Watson, has given $50
toward opening the bar at Jupiter inlet A
| new wharf is to be constructed by the above
company at Courtney and at Malabar. The
steamer Georgiana has been kept on the
| lower route the past summer at an actual
loss Of over $500 to the company.
The following changes have been made
in Florida postmasters: Arthur w. Dick
son, appointed at Avon Park, DeSoto
| county, vice William King. resigned: n.
B. ODonough, at Cerro Gordo, Holmes
county, vice A. ]. Matthews, resigned ;
John r. LETTERS, Livingston, Orange county,
vice George W. Paige, resigned; Thomas J.
Yearly, at Otter Creek, Levy county, vice
l.. A. Mason, resigned; Joshua B. Las
finger, at Owens, DeSoto county, vice j.
w. Hull, resigned.
The news is received by letter to gem
tleman of Jacksonville Of the death of John
Grant, formerly of Jacksonville, at Jupi-
ter, on Sept %. 1t is supposed that Grant
must have gotten up in his sleep, and,
while walking on the hurricane deck of the
steamer Chattahoochee, slipped and fallen
to the main deck, as there he was found in
the morning mortally injured, aud from his
wounds he died soon after being taken up
The deceased was the brother of Donald
Grant, who was killed on the Florida Ceu-
trial and Peninsular road road in jackson
vile almost two years ago.
Lake Worth correspondence Titusville
Star; Sunday, Sept. o. the whole COM
munity was shocked to see the family Of
one of our oldest and most strictly religious
east siders engaged in their ordinary sec
ular avocations-even their hired hands
being at work. Upon being demonstrated
with by neighbOr, the head OF the family
innocently remarked that he saw no harm
working on Saturday. On getting up in
the morning he had looked in the year
Defore-last's almanac instead of this years,
probably, hence his mistake and a Joke on
the whole family, domestics included.
Gov. Fleming has appointed theafollow-
ing board of medical examiners: Fifti
judicial circuit: Drs. Thomas 2. Gary
Ocala; J. +. McKinstry, Gainesville; Phillip
. | II. Strauss, Palatka. Fourth judicial cir
cult: Drs. J. ID. Fernandez, Jacksonville
! j. l.. Horsey, Fernandina; Frank f. Smith
st. Augustine. Sixth judicial circuit: Drs
: John T. Wall, Tampa; Charles b. Sweet
| ing, Key West; W. Kennedy. Barlow.
Seventh judicial circuit Drs. Russell Ii
Dean, Leesburg; Frank II. Caldwell, San.
ford; Henry K. Dubois, Port Orange. And
! also the state board of homeopathic medical
examiners: Drs. II. r. Stout, jacksonville;
G. w. johnson, jacksonville; T. j. Win
hanson, Eustis.
J Gov. Fleming has appointed the following
delegates to the southern industrial display
, to begin at Raleigh, N. c., Oct IA: James
! Layne, Manatee; N. R. Walker, Wakulla
|
: Walton; w. A. Cook, Volusia; J. ]
+ Gornto, Taylor: G. B. Pendleton, Monroe
, B. Genovar, St Johns; r. F. Rogers
= Suwannee; l. E. Barwick, Sumter; j. B
Walton, Hillsborough; Fred L. Robinson
, fernando; j. NJ. Ancrum, Hamilton; J. r.
! Herrin. Holmes; W. w. Keep, Gadsden; Ru
/ fus A. Russell, Duval; h. w. johnson, Frank
i lin; J. G. Peterson, Escambia; H. D. Ed
wards, Citrus, L. w. ZIm, Clay; J. F. Baya
a Columbia; C. B. Magruder, Brevard; ]. 81
q Mcclellan, Calhoun; w. A Drake, Baker
a w. II. Robertson, Alachua; C. e
: McDougall, Santa Rosa; j ohm Milton, Jack
, son; L. c. Washburn, Lee; T. P. Chaires
5 Lafayette; Ira B. Carter, Levy; w. B
Shepard, Liberty; j. E. Pounds, Madison
F. E. Harris, Marion; w. T. Laine, Lake
h F. r. Fildes, jefferson: George K Fair
s banks, Nassau; d. H. Elliott, Orange; E. r
q Bassett, Osceola; J. B. Johnston, Pasco: w
/ II. Cook, Putnam; Epps Tucker, Polk; W
). w. Moore, Bradford; E. B. Carlton
q De Soto.
,, Titusville Star: Sheriff Bowman arrived
|. here on the 22d ult. from the st. Lucie witt
a | two prisOneYS whom he arrasrad for go,