The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-09

was bandueted last night at the Ocala
house. Forty covers were laid
The postoffice lot at st. Augustine is 70
he made public park and Cathedral street
I is 20 be extended 10 Cordova street.
/ Capt. W. T. Collier Of Fort Myers sold
| his Marco property to Capt. Cuthbert for
/ 5000. 1t is considered cheap at that
price.
&c. Wimberly, for the past four years
deputy circuit clerk, announces himself as
a candidate for tax collector Of Alachua
county.
The Travellers Insurance Company of
/ Hartford placed $4,000 in accident IN
surance on the excursionists who left Or
/ lando Friday.
The cavalry company, composed Of En-
glish colonists, presented an imposing ap-
pearance at the North Gainesville celebra-
/ ton on the Fourth.
| Y. G. Lee and L. c. Bell have formed
cOpartnership in the publication Of the
| Charlotte Harbor, South Florida, Home.
They propose to enlarge and improve that
| paper.
The United States dredge and snagboat,
| Suwannee, has taken out over 1000 trees
and snags from the upper Caloosahatchee.
They are now jettying and deepening the
channel near Beautiful Island.
A young man from Apopka got his foot
badly mashed at st. Petersburg Friday,
while the cars were shifting around, aud
another young man was unfortunate
enough to get his collar bone broken.
The following changes have been made in
Florida postmdsters: A. /. 5. Atkins, ap-
pointed at Massacre, Sumter county, vice
Z. Williams, resigned, and P. NJ ClosSh at
Montverde, Lake county, vice j. II. Meyers,
resigned
The last number OF the LdkeUietU of
Micanopy announces the retirement OF w.
W. Brice, to be succeeded by +. +. Stein
meyer, who has purchased the office The
name will be changed to that Of the Mean
opy Courier
A canal is being cut from Lake Hart to
Elocknahoochee, a tributary to the upper
st. Johns, which is the last necessary link
TO permit small vessels to pass from the At
lantic to the Gulf via the Caloosahatchee
and Fort Myers.
Jim Brown, colored, who was with Sam
Jenkins when the latter shot Policeman
Cone, and retreated with Jenkins until he
got on his horse and rode away, was cap
tured at st. Augustine Friday, and is now
in the Ocala Jail
J. F. Lenaghan and Miss Dora Butt were
married at Orlando Friday. The bride is
daughter of DR.. J. N. Butt and sister of
Judge G. g.. Butt, and has lived in Orlando
many years. The groom until recently was
in the wholesale grocery business In Or
lando, when he removed to Sanford.
James Banks, Jr., colored drayman of
Pensacola, stopped runaway horse Friday
at the risk of his life, and thus saved a boy
who was in the wagon behind the frightened
steed. The deed was such an unselfsh dis
play of cool bravery that the bystanders
Immediately made up small purse and
presented it to him.
While seated on we'll curb back of
Rutishauser's house at the beach near Fer
nandina Friday, eating a watermelon, w.
T. Scott and l.. Beugnet, together with
several Of their children, had their equa-
nimity ruffled by whistling bullet passing
between them and lodging in one OF the
corner posts Of the curb.
Madison Recorder: Last Sunday night
the horse Of Z |. Alexander was taken
from the lot and ridden several miles in the
country by an unknown person. 1t was
found Monday morning by some one near
| the cascade, who had taken it up in the
road as an estray. Other horses in town
have lately been taken, ridden to the coun-
try and turned loose.
Lightning struck a small house in the
suburbs Of Monticello day or two ago,
tearing away the door and stunning the
inmates considerably. One of the women,
Nancy Ham, was severely burned about the
neck and arms. At the convict camp on
the Scuffle plantation number Of the con-
victs were leaning against a wire fence
when the lightning struck the fence, killing
one of them instantly, and stunning several
others very severely.
Madison Recorder: Hon. Theo Randell
has proven himself to be an expert marks
man with a Winchester rife, and now has
the hides Of two bears as trophies Of re-
cent bear hunt. He came up with an old
mother bear and two cubs in his field a few
days ego, and as she ran off he gave her a
wound from which she died. The cubs took
| to trees, and 1t was an easy matter t. lay
them low with one shot at each. He re-
ports that they are more numerous than
usual around Sam Pala lake.
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