The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-30
FLORIDA.

Circuit court convened at Crawfordville
Monday.
The volunteer firemen of the state took
Tampa by storm Monday. Their parade
was very fine.
The Brothers Advancing Circle is the
latest order among the oolored men ia
Fernandina. The object is mainly to assist
each other in buying groceries at wholesale.
The Portland Company of Albion has
mined, ready for shipment, about 700 tons
Of phosphate, and both mining and shipping
will be prosecuted with vigor from this
time forward.
The steamship Yemassee arrived at Jack
sonville Tuesday from New York, and from
Charleston dock to Jacksonville dock made
the run In l613 hours This is said to be
the fastest time ever made by water from
city to city.
At Arredondo last night Isaac Hall shot
and killed Ed Warren. Both are colored
Hall was arrested at Gainesville Monday.
The shooting resulted from game of cards
IN an outbuilding near Arredondo. Hall,
it appears, lost all his money, when he went
outside the building, and, shooting through
the house with his Winchester rifle, killed
Ed Warren.
y. Q. Drake, proprietor of the DdiIy
Tribune Office, Jacksonville, who has Just
ACSONt1 cu AEOtn sptll VI I6YbT, SdYB III Is
his first sickness to amount TO anything,
and he is in his 9th year; and it is his first
case OF fever, though resident of Florida
twenty years. He was never attended by
physician before this spell, except in cases
OF accident.
A party Of people from Gainesville, who
attended the camp meeting at Turnea
City. missed connection with the returning
train, thus necessitating a tramp in order
to reach home. They gracefully accepted
the situation and undertook the unpleasant
task of counting ties for distance of six
teen miles. They arrived in the city about
daylight the next morning.
The taxable property of Lafayette coun-
ty for 1890 is as follows: Total number of
acres assessed, 6l9,350; total number of
acres improved, IL ,537; total value of real
estate, sos, $40; total value of personal
property, $40, 100; total taxes for state
purposes, IS, 222 05; total taxes for county
purposes, sl0,17 IS. Making total tax
for the taxpayers to ante up of SIS, 567 43.
George Stewart (colored), who was re-
leased from Jail at Gainesville few DAYS
ago, was arrested Monday by Deputy
Sheriff W. A Tucker for providing the
prisoners in jail with tools to work their
way out. The implements. which are now
in possession Of Mr.. Tucker consist of three
case knives and file The knives, which
were converted into saws, are of the best
steel, and supposed TO have been stolen
from Frank Stewart, the keeper Of res
taurant.
John McKendry and Peter Snowden were
arrested last week in Fernandina for steal
ing an OK from Ben Parker aud selling it
for $l3. McKendry turned states evidence
and Snowden went to the state prison for
one year. Estelle Lakewood got six months
In the same prison for enbicing away a
female for immoral purposes Edward
Wood and Emma Brown six months for
lewd aud lascivio behavior. John d.
Lowe for obstructing an officer in the legal
performance of his duty, was fined 81 900
and COSTS
The case of the state against J. D. Teeter,
charged with arson, in burning his store
house, from which other buildings caught
and were destroyed, in Keuka, Fla, on the
morning Of Oct. %, came up for trial before
Justice Taylor at Palatka Tuesday. The
evidence adduced was entirely circumstau-
tial, and in many instances conflicting, and
when the witnesses bad all been heard and
the speech of the opposing counsel had been
made, the judge discharged the prisoner
When the result was known much enthusi-
asm was evinced by the audience, and each
We'd In the endeavor to first grasp the hand
and extend congratulations to the gentle
man.