The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-02

| at James with shotgun, slightly wound
! ing him. James then made for Hicks, as
saulting him with a knife and inficting
| several CHASTITY wounds.
Ocala Banner: Postmaster Wilson of
| Welshton informs US that John A Upton,
former station agent and real estate shark
| OF that place, and afterward agent at Port
| Tampa, whittier he went after fleeing many
| an unsuspecting investor at Welshton, was
| caught up there by the Iowa authorities,
where be was needed to give a reckoning
for the cracking OF a safe at LaMars and
! disappearing with 5000 Of its contents,
and had his trial He confessed all, and re-
and got three years in the Iowa peniten-
| tiary.
When the bands reported for work at the
Kennedy Lumber Companys mill, at Apa-
lachicola, last Monday morning, they found
notices stuck up in the mill that they should
60 to work at o'clock a. m. and stop at 6
o'clock Q. M, and stop thirty minutes at
noon, which would be II q hours per day.
The men would not go to work. but went
seeking work elsewhere The mill has not
run this week, and the men say they will
not work by those rules. 1t may be some
time before it starts up again. The stop
ping of this mill has thrown good many
out of employment.
Eatonville Speaker: Mr.. Smith while
fishing in Lake Catherine lately caught
strange looking fish about 2 feet long, body
like an eel but thicker and larger, no scales,
head short and hattened. But the great
difference between it and other fish was in
its having two anterior limbs, each about ~
inches in length which are used in swim
ming, and it can use them in travelling on
the ground, for 1t can move pretty well
out Of its own element. 1t is not true
fish, but reptile, aud is described in
natural history as a siren. They can live a
long time out OF water. They are rarely
seen. This is the second one caught by Mr..
Smith within a month.
How chap was scooped at Key West is
thus told by the Equator: "A young gen
tleman Of this city, who always pompously
spoke Of his landed possessions on the main
as being first-class in every particular, high,
dry and fertile, recently sent his agent to
inquire about the amount of his taxes and
received the following reply: 4 have
called upon the tax collector. but your
name was not found upon the books. AS
there must certainly have been some mis-
take, the assessor was next sought out WHO
informed me that upon careful investiga-
ton he found the land in question SO bad
and useless that he concluded not to place
any assessment on the same whatever"
Richard Crosby, young colored man,
was arrested and brought before Judge
Buckner, at ST. Augustine, Tuesday, on a
charge of horse stealing. He easily proved
his innocence, however, and was discharged.
The facts of the case were that Crosby dis
covered on the marsh west of the San Sc
bastiAu, horse feeding with a bride over
his head. Knowing that he must have got
ten away from some one, Crosby took the
horse home, and, coming into town, inquired
at several places il any had lost a morse.
The horse in question belonged to Jacob
Lee, at Baskerville, and had been stolen by
some one, who rode him to town and aban-
doned him. Crosby found him and did as
any one might do under the circumstances.
Punta Gorda Beacon: There has been a
good deal OF talk about the town incorpora-
ton being illegal, and that measures should
be put before the legislature to legalize it.
Ia the first place we do think the corpora
ton legal, and that the law has been strictly
followed IN every move and act, but for
fear of a technicality it is best to have the
act legalized, and woe be to the representa-
tive from this county if he opposes it, for
Punta GOrda is gate that must be pro-
tected by town government from infectious
diseases. 1t Is subject to lawheSs element
that cannot be controlled in any other way
So many towns have been legalized in the
same manner this season that we cannot ex-
pect opposition to any bill so introduced
About seventy five logmen met in the
court house at Apalachicola Wednesday
night Tor the purpose OF adopting rules to
regulate the surveying Of timber and estab-
fishing prices. The following rules were
adopted: Sec. l. Timber to be scaled by
DoyleS rule. Sec 2. Neither millmen nor
logmen are to refuse any commissioned in
spector; no inspectors of this port are to be
allowed to survey timber above St. Marks
river. Sec 3. Cypress timber not
to be sold for less than So so per
thousand. Sec. 4. Pine timber not to the
valued at less than S. per 900 Sec. s. No
member of this society shall be allowed to
cut, deaden or get out cypress timber until
Sec. 6. We, the Logmen's Protective Aid
Society, do agree and bind ourselves to the
convention and its proceedings, and all
other transactions that may come up in the
future, and will influence all logmen to do
to same.