The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-07

Henry Fouts was at New Smyrna on
( Wednesday and organized branch of the
! Florida Farmers Alliance with the follow
| ing officers: X. $. Sheldon, president; W.
\ S. Hart, secretary and treasurer; George
/ Z. Mendell, doorkeei er; j. ID. Hawks,
I lecturer.
! At Apalachicola last Friday night Jack
/ Reynolds. a colOred barber, while returning
/ to the shop from the ack yard, fell to the
1 ground and died in fifteen minutes after
I being taken into the shop. lie was not
! conscious at the time Of his death. JACK
/ was subject to apoplexy.
Orange City Times: The SAVANNAH
| News is to issue ar immense trade edition
/ Sept. /. 1t will show Savannah as she IS;
/ her wonderful growth and prosperity, and
| the business done by the heavy merchants
Of the place. The Typographical appear
| ance Of the edition will be just the thing
| that that Office can turn out
| The guava canning and orange wine fac
| tory at the head OF Orange avenue, o.
! landO, was burned Monday afternoon. TIE
/ building was struck by lightning, and ~
few minutes was almost entirely consumed.
| The building is said t. have contained
1900 gallons Of orange wine. Both the
building AID the contents are said 10 have
been fully covered by insurance
Maj. K. Walpole, executor of the Sumter
vile Times, and an official in tae revenue
department at Key West has been notified
that lis services will not be required in that
office. No charges were preferred against
him, but he was removed simply because
| he was a democrat He received his APP
pointment under President Cleyeland's ad-
miniStratlon and has held il less than a
| year.
Ed Wambley, one of the employees of
Bingley's circus, and one Of the supposed
murderers of Marshal Overstreet, in Live
Oak. some time ago, was captured day or
two since in Richmond, Va, and taken to
| Madison and iEcarcarated. 1t seems that
Wambey had confessed the crime to
| Mrs. Cole Of Richmond. and some one else,
/ both of whom have made atfidavitS to his
confession to them. Wambley's accomplice,
Stevens, is being shadowed, aud will prob
ably soon be captured.
Lieut. Kelly OF the United States navy
was in New Smyrna last week and spent
four days III survey of the inlet He
found on the bur proper from Is to 16 feet
at mean tide. but in one bend in the chan
mel, inside the bar, Tor a short distance,
| there was less tlan that, but he says that it
| Is capable of Improvement with very little
expense, Ii also SAID that an outlay of
| $4,000 would make it the best harbor
south of Port Royal. He found deep water
| all tao way from the inlet to the railroad
wharf He has had large experience with
! jettles. having been in charge Of the i'm
| provemonts at the mouth of the Mississippi
/ river for several years.
| Two Of the unusually quiet and law-abid-
| ing citizens of Geneva created quite a
| breeze "a few days ago by trying to do the
| Sullivan-Kllrain act. The parties are near
| nelghbors, living on adjoining lands. A
! feeling not very neighborly had existed be-
| tween the two for some time, and Saturday
! evening they CHANGED to meet in the public
| road, when one accosted the other with a
view to settlement of their differences.
| Both parties being on horseback they
| ahghted, and deliberately secured their
! horses to the fence. A war of words failed
| to adjust matters, but led to blows, and a
| regular old-faSniCned fist aud rough and
! tumble fight followed. The contest was
| quite lively for several minutes, when
mutual friends lnterfered, and separated
| tine balligereuts. There was none but ma
| lures weapons brought to bear, but the
| wine flowed pretty freely, and bloody
| faces and black eve were the result. Evil
| IDENTIFY tho state of feeling between the
| parties has not been improved by the meet
lug, and it may be that the end Is not yet.
c. L. Porter of South Lake Weir has for
| some time been laboring with certain parties
! in Michigan to locate on his land, half way
between Lake Weir and Summerheli
| station, crate factory run on new and i'm
| proved ideas The arrangements have been
made, and 7. z. PomerOy OF Three Oaks,
Mich, in company with three other gentle
men, are now on the spot placing in
| position several carloads Of machinery,
which in a short time will be turning out
| all kinds Of fruit crates and boxes from a
new patent Invented by Mr.. Pomeroy, which
is to take the raw pine and put it through
steamng process, turn the cooked
| lumber into sdings Of the required length
and width, from which a perfectly round
| crate or box can be constructed, and of any
| sl25 from that of an orange to a straw berry
! box. 1t is further said that this peculiar
| shaped box or crate has great advantages in
| shipping over the square crate in the way of
! admitting Ventilation, which IN car packed
with round crates, permits tie air to circu-
late into every nook and corner Of the car.
! The project is looked upon as an important
| one by the fruit interests of Florida, and
! desirable results are anticipated by shippers
using these new crates.
Apalachicola Times: ga few days ago"
| says Tom ID. johnson, II was wading
through a swamp up near the Horseshoe :
in water Us high up as my waist. spiad an
! alligator some distance from me. Having al
ready passed several did not pay any at
| tenuon to this fellow, but presently he
Owed and came up within few feet OF m,
| comlhg al me with open mouth | raised
my gun to my shoulder and fired The
shot did not take any effect nor did it stop
him. then raised nay gun aud using it as
a club, struck at him but missed
him, and came near losing my balance.
| Not having time to shoot again, [
jumped he hind tree, and Just as | got be-
hind the tree, the gator struck at me, and
hit the tree SO hard that he was turned COM
pletely over, and the waves from his fail
came near upsetting me- As soon as he
righted he came at me again | again
eluded him by jumping behind the tree.
We INDUCED in this practice for some little
time, when finally caught hold of ar over
hanging limb and drew myself up into the
tree just in time to miss the gators jaws.
When | got up the tree loaded my riff e
and shot the gator. He was one of the
largest gators ever saw in this section
He was all of u feet i'll length. | never
before thought an alligator would attack
man.