The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-10

Alachua circuit court convened at Gaines
[ vile yesterday.
The new rice mill at Melrose is a success
| More work IS received than can be attended
/ to.
! The new Symrna council will be petit
toned TO provide ladders aud buckets for
TIRE brigade.
The Egmont hotel at Fernandina is be-
ing put in thorough repair, preparatory TO
! opening for the winter.
The government authorities are after ex-
! Conductor Rufin for aSsGulting a cOlOre1
mail agent at Pensacola.
Mr.. Driver. who was elected marshal of
| Waldo at the late election, has resigned.
H. II. Tillis has been appointed in his stead.
a banquet was given in the opera house
! IN YboF City Monday night IN celebration
| Of the termination OF the Key West strike.
One John Day was found Monday in Pa
latka abusing his wife, and was arrested and
ordered to pay a line OF S53 30 OF 60 into
the chain-gang.
s. D. Moor will soon start the publica-
ton Of a morning newspaper at st. Angus
| tine. The name of the new paper will be
the Morning Democrat
The jacksonville Athletic Association re-
elected all its former officers for the ensuing
| year Tuesday night. The association has
! now changed its name to the Olympic
! Club.
I Passenger trains will commence running
into Melrose on the new road this week.
The brick and some of the lumber are on
the ground with which TO build the passen-
| ger and freight depots Of the road.
During the month of December, 1889,
| there were shipped by express from Peusa-
| cola POI ,9Sl pounds of fresh fish. The ship
| ments during the corresponding period in
| 1888 were 175,3O0 pounds. By freight the
shipments always exceed those by express.
Lizzie Mosely, an old colored woman,
attempted to crawl under freight train No.
-, on the Florida Central and Peninsular. at
Live Oak last Saturday, while the train
was in motion. She was knocked down and
instantly killed. The body was horribly
mangled.
Gainesville Advocate: Riding along the
country highways one often sees many very
comical signs placed in conspicuous places,
forbiddlng trespassing. The following is a
sample: Amy person ketched on these
grounds, or cows, or wimmin will be liable
two fine itself in a skrape."
While fishing for whiting in the mouth of
Bells river near Fernandina, O. b. Murray
hooked what he at first supposed to be a
shark, but what he soon discovered was O
| large bass. After considerable maneuve--
| ing, he succeeded in landing the fish, which
tipped the beam at twenty-eight pounds.
AT Palatka, Tuesday, Officer J. B. Rich
| ardson arrested William Foster (coored)
| for breaking into the ice box and refriger-
ator of CHARLES Cummings, aud taking
| therefrom $40 worth Of meats. Officer Rich
| ardson was told the circumstances, and, as
suspicion pointed to Foster, he was arrested
| and lodged in Jail. Foster is an old offender.
Fernandina Mirror: The present "craze"
| Is not the first heard Of phcsphaIes in this
state. In 1888 a company was organized at
| Magnesia Springs, near Hawthorn. and if
we mistake not our townsman, 4. w. Sim
mons, was connected with it. The analysis
made OF the phosphate handled by the COM
| pany, according TO Prof. Cation, was 10 to
% per cent. Of phosphoric acid, equivalent
to ~ and 5l19 per cent of bone.
A car load of machinery for R. Mugges
| electric light plant was received at Tampa
| Monday night. Ano & other things
| noticed were two 50-horse power boilers, a
| l00-horse power engine, large pump, and
a lot of fittings. The dynamo and the
balance of the machinery will arrive in the
next few days. MIR. Mugge has telegraphed
| for the electrician who is to set up the
plant, and he will arrive here next week
The plant will probably be in operation
within six weeks.
The new society which was organized at
st. Augustine some time ago, met in its
| rooms III the postoffice building Monday
night and selected for itself name. DR..
A. Anderson, who has read up thoroughly
| on Spanish history, thought that the name
| Of the city of Salamanca would be just the
thing. In the fifteenth century, when st.
| Augustine was in its infancy, Salamanca
was a large educational center in Spain.
| Salamanca and other names were discussed,
but the name of the old Spanish city was
finally unanimously adopted.
The Peruvian Phosphate Company brought
up its first lighter-load of phosphate to
Tampa Monday-eight tons. The lighter
was tied ND to the companys wharf,
but sprung leak and sunk Mon
day night. The dredge worked splen-
didly, taking up the eight tons of
| phosphate i'll less than an hour. Some
slight alterations will have to be made in
the drying machinery before the stuff now
on hand can be prepared for shipment
which, however, it is thought can be COM
pleted this week, and then operations will
begin in earnest.
Saturday night, at Fernandina, Policeman
Taylor noticed IA man going about the
streets with his hip pocket showing that it
concealed something very much resembling
a pistol, aud after observing moro closely,
he saw that the man was carrying con-
cealed arms, and arrested him. He not
being able to satisfy the officers that he
was, as claimed, a United States deputy
marshal, was consigned to Jail, and ap-
| pedTSO D6lOE6 JuuS0 Ddk6F morn
ing, to whom he made it clear that he was
on official business, and he was thereupon
released Allen, the otter marshal under
arrest for shooting Green, still remains in
Jail, awaiting the result of his victims in
juries.
+ Saturday evening there appeared at the
Office of Judge Schuyler at Fernanoina an
; understood, dirty, barefooted white boy of
IA years, who, with the utmost cGolness an /
audacity asked for a place to stay that
, night. He said he was from Rome, Ga.
, that he had been firing on a switch engine
! on the East Tennessee, Virginia. and
Georgia; that in a scrimmage with another
"fellern older than he was, who was irving
to beat him, he had cut him three times
and then had run away to avoid arrest
and being sent to the "stone pilen He
! said his name was William Harold
his parents being dead, he came to
Florida in search of his uncle, James Har-
rold, who lived in this state. Being asked
how he got here, he says he Travelled on the
cars; paid $50 to get so far; 25 cents to get
to Feraandina from Callahan. On being
, threatened with arrest he dared ANYBODY to
, arrest him. he would 'fxn anybody who
tried it. He saw the Mirror reporter
, taking notes, and, surmising that such was
the fact, said: care you writing that
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