The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-20

Of the Florida Town improvement Com
pany upon Amelia island
The "vets" are circulating a petition for
TIE holding Of another election In Columbia
( county under the local option law, ana
it Is being very numerously signed
W. NJ Guardian OF Mont cello has a
hundred hands engaged in gathering water
melon sect II viii take him fully TWO
months, with a hundred hands at work, 20
finish gathering.
The planters of tobacco in Madison
CO Inty are beginning 10 cut their crop.
/ TIE seasons have bean, in the main, pro-
pitious for its growth, and the hopes for a
good crop will be realize1.
Fire at Pensacola Friday destroyed the
barn and contents Of W. S. Keyser, corner
Of LaRua and Spring streets. The loss IS
about $500, and is covered by insurance.
The blaze was of incendiary origin.
Gentlemen of Mobile now in Pensacola
say tina, any one of three horses now in
Pc 1sacola, can beat anything in the shape
| Of horse now at Mobile for 81 OO and up
ward. Mobile is invited 70 crack her
! whip.
| The Fernandina Mirror Office is now
printing deed for the transfer Of property
amountng to S1,0000J0. The deed will
cover eight or ten pages Of legal cap, the
descriptions Of the lots being set in long
| primer type.
| At Fernandina preparations are being
made for large increase Of business from
| the line of the Georgia Southern and
| Florida railway, now almost completed to
its junction with the f. c.. and z. railroad
at Lake City.
Work on the car dock at Pensacola is
going actively forward. There are fully
| fifty men now employed in that connection,
and Muscogee wharf is fairly alive with
| them. The work is promised consummation
at very early date.
A gale struck part Of Madison county
last Friday. At the country home of W.
J. Witherspoon all his large shade trees
were blown over, one Of which fell upon
his residence, wreckiug part Of it and en-
failing considerable damage.
A pumpkin as large as barrel and weigh
ing seventy-fve pounds was to be seen at
the drug store of b. f. Moseley at Madi-
son. few days since. 1t was grown by
Vans Randell, and was the product of Mad
iscn county soil-no fertilizers.
Frank Ross has been elected TO command
the Chipley Light Infantry of Pensacola,
vice Capt w. f. Scales resigned. Capt.
Ross is an experienced officer, and was
very recently a lieutenant in the far
famed Lomax Rifles of Mobile.
At Ferdandna 81 900 was offered and re-
100 feet square. The same offer was refused
for two lots (l00'feeD on Fifth street. Two
| years since the first named lot was pur-
chase for $3.50, and about three years since
one of the 50-foot lots was sold for 1878.
| Saturday night Ingram Fletcher, who
lives on Rock Lake, about Is miles east Of
Orlando, had his chicken rcost robbed of
fifty fowls. most Of them being of the pure
| Plymouth Rock breed, and were highly
| @iraH fc hall ed bat -.
gained band of chicken thieves in the
locality.
Two cOlored sharpers, who were in San
ford day or or two ago, passed off on one
of the little 'Pronger boys, at their fruit
stand, a s. confederate bill, receiving in
change "a so in good money. The fraud
was not discovered unit Saturday, and the
negroes are doubtless operating their scheme
in other fields by this time.
McCaskill g. Monroe, of Argyle, are
building saw mill at Shipyard point,
near Freeport, on ChOctawhatchie bay. 1t
| Will he on the site occupied formerly by
the mill of John d. Grey 1t is reported
that Mr.. w. l.. Witch will begin the
construction of Il mill at Millview in Octo-
ber 1t will cut %, 600 feet per day.
John Hagen (colored) killed two monster
rattlesnakes near Madison last week, with
ten and eleven rattles, respectively. One of
| them was a mother RATHER and harbOred
| torty-one little ones from - TO Is inches in
length. All of them took refuge in the
! hollow OF her jaw and each of them made
determined resistance when drawn from
their place of refuge.
At Pensacola Friday Ola Petersen, a
lad about Is years of age, was sent up to do
some work on the mainyard of the Norwe-
gian bark Sylvia. He had been aloft but a
few seconds, and had gone out few feet on
the foot ropes, when he missed his footing
and fell TO the deskload below. He sus-
tanned e fracture of the thigh, fracture of
each arm above the wrist, a slight scalp
wound and bruises about the body. Death
resulted IN a short time.
At Fort White j. j. Bunchs son Ham,
about 10 years old, met with what came
near being a fatal accident on Wednesday
evening last. He went in the lot to catch q
horse for his father, and there being a mare
with young colt in the lot, as Ham went
to pass behind her she kicked him He was
struck Just under the right eye, making a
deep and ugly cash about two inches in
length, and the heel Of the horses foot max.
ing large confusion above the eye
Collector of Customs Moreno of Pensacola
recently received a letter from the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury asking if there were
there facilities to permit of the docking of
the revenue cutter Mclean. The collector
referred the letter TO the marine rail way
people. who replied that it would be fully a
month yet before they would be ready for
business. The letter has now gone tc
Messrs. Ollinger q Bruce at Bagdad, who
can doubtless take the vessel out. They
once docked the cutter Crawford, which /
larger than the Mclean.
a party of government surveyors. Lieut.
Bacon in command, has completed a survey
of lower Sarasota bay, and they are now al
work in the upper bay With lower Sara
sofa bay dredged and a canal less than ;
mile in length cut through the "Haulover.
the west coast of Florida will be in posses
sion of an inside waterway for vessels OF
moderate draught, extending from Tampa
bay 10 Sinabel lighthouse, and will have
water transportation right at the door of one
OF the most picturesquely beautiful anc
naturally fertile sections of Florida.
On the morning of Aug. II John R.
Kirkland, postmaster at Saussy, and sew
eral of the boys of the town were taking q
bath in Box creek, near town They saw a
snake swimming across the lake, which they
took to be water moccasn, which is very
common and harmless in these parts. Kirk
land caught the snake by the tail, and.
swinging it around, knocked its brains out
against a railroad cross-tie Great was his
surprise TO find that he had killed rattle.
snake about three feet long, with three
rattles and button on his tail.
Sumterville Times This paper will take
especlal delight in publishing all marriages