The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-29

last SurlrL lerm OF FDik court Tor the muir
der of Doa =. Hall. has been granted a new
/ trial by the supreme court
This year Fl,ri Ia viii have the peculiar
! exr erience Of holding a state convention for
the purp Sc Of nnmiuatl Z one state officer
ass 3ciate justice Of the supreme court
bench.
Fred. s. Goodrich is financially and po'it-
ically embarrassed. Since losing all his
money in abusing Florida in the late cam
/ palgn. he has now almost given up hope Of
1 ever being seated il the present congress.
/ The depth Of the deposit of lime rock one
mile west of tue savannah, Florida and
/ Western railway in Gainesville, has besa
/ a,cartainei to b. eighcy-fOGr feet, and st
/ this dsDth a splendid vein OF water wa
/ reached.
Mai L. c. Weeks expects n take charge
| as p05tma ter Of Tallahassee about ADrii I,
as he has orwacdei his DO ii. oath. etc, =
/ the department MsssrS Alex McDOugall,
/ John NcOougall, and Mai Leroy ID. Ball
are his boldsnsn.
Near Tallahassee. Dew Adams. a grand
/ son Of the secretary OF state. John L Craw-
ford, few days ago, while ont gun1ing,
/ was elm ling over fence and pulling his
gun after him, whsn the hammer struck
the fence and the gun went OF, shooting OF
part Of his f1reinger.
The line between Columbia and Suwan-
nee equities has been changed a I'd straight
ened, giving SIwaanee 12,2G7 acres form
ally belonging to Columbia. AID giviag
Columbia Z, 060 acres off OF old Suwannee.
Suwannee makes net gain Of about fifty
five voters by the change.
The reappointment Of Col B. r. Swoops
as superintendent OF the South Florida rail
road. which run, from Sanford to Tampa,
is the subject of complimentary notices al
over Florida and Georgia. Col. Swoope Is
one OF the most efficient and popular rail
| road supsrintellents il the south.
Rivers Love, the notorious escaped o.
vict, the man VIII was tried and condemned
to hang for the murder of Thomas Bras
well, was captured ~ the citizens Of Green
| vile Thursday, bu5 before Surreldering
| he was shot three times. None OF the
wounds are supposed to be neces sarily fatal
On March p the jail and council chamber
at Lakeland we're destroyed by fire. TIE
| tax b oks and many of tne town records,
| together with a new set If furniture which
| had just baen presented 30 the council, was
consumed. The fire was started by q negro,
| who had been confined il one of the cells
awaiting the sheriff Of Hillsboro county
T. DENLY, who owns a homestead near
Trenton, Alach IA county, and who has
| been prospecting for phosphate, reports that
he bored half a dOZel holes over a spare of
| three acres, and f0uad q deposit fifteen feet
u.
also has homestead in tbs same vicinity.
has also discovered on his land every indi-
cation OF biz bed Of phosphate.
The democ ats placed q full ticket in the
field for municipal officers at the convention
held at Kissimmea last Friday night, con-
sis.lng Of j. ". Watson for mayor: George
c. Bass, marshal; W. $. Harwell. clerk:
DR.. w. j. Selrs, cole tor: e. NJ Earnest.
treasurer; 5. Miller and j. r. Graves, alder
"a IN mil hor
also for portion. if not all, the offices, and
there will bs some Independent candidates
who did not-go before the convention.
Gainesville SAN: The sale of seed in
Gainesville was first commenced in 1856
by DR.. Mcmillan, with a $25 stock of seed
about two-thirds of which was sold. Now
the sale of seed by the Gainesville dealers
will aggregate. about 5000 per annum,
and the trade is annually increasing John
H. M0ngert, a Lutheran preacher from
Baltimore, planted the first beans and other
truck shipped from Gainesville, but DR.. w.
d. Babcock, resident of Gainesville at
that time, who died of yellow fever in jack
sonville last summer, planted tho first cab
bage, one-fourth of an acre, for northern
markets, as far back as 1863, and shipped
the same north on the deck Of a sailing
vessel laden with lumber He realized
fabul GUS prices.
| Glen Ethel accidentally killed himself fe "
days ago. It seems that Calvin and his
brother-twO ye rs younger than Calvin,
| and who had just returned from Ohio, where
he has been for some time past-were in the
room preparing to go to an entertainment
later Ia the evening. While enjoying each
others society and talking over days gone
| by, Calvin saw revolver in the bureau
| drawer, and. taking it in his hand, snapped
| 1t several times, once or twice pointing
| 1t at MS brother who begged hun to put il
! down. Calvin remarked that there was
| not the least danger il the weapon, and to
| prove 1T put the nuZzle to his forehead and
| pulled the trigger. He knew no more, as
| he fell to the floor dead, a bullet from the
weapon having passed through his brain.
| DR.. Pope of Longwood was at once sent
| for, but his services were not needed. The
deceased was son of George L. Michael.
The DeI4and Nelcs gives the following
particulars OF the drowning of Mr.. Charles
| Seymour, the fading of whose body wa:
noted in the Times Union telegraphic col
unans Wednesday: "A small sail boat was
| caOsized in tile st. Johns river, off Pontoor
island, Saturday evening, aud Charles Say
mour, a New York detective, was drowned
The boat contained two men-Eeymour ane
Bruswitz from Jacksonville, who owned
and navigated the boat. The boat was up
set by sQuall. Bruswitz swan ashore. hu
Seymour, weighted down by his clothing
sank in spite Of his desr crate struggles anC
Bruswitz's attoEgts to help him. Bruswit.
remained on the island all night, and wa.
taken OFF Sunday moriling by the steamer
Everglade. The sail boat was raised auc
righted, but the body of the drowned mar
could not be recovered. He was friend q
Ed Vandergriff and wife of Winnemissetr.
The Barlow In Informant gives the follow
ing account Of tAe stabbing ARRAY be5wes d
bows at that place, which has been alluded
to in the MORNING NEWS heretof re: "As
Charlie Hahn and Perry Brown were stand
lag on the sidewalk in front of the Institute
a jocular remark of Browns aroused Hahn
anger and a fight ensued. Dan Brown
Perry's larger brother, who was only a 81 n
| distance away, ran up to take his place, bu
Haha seemed to be too much for hin, and
after several blows had passed Brown drew
| his knife, q murderous looking
weapon with four-inch curved
blade, and dealt Hahn a saw
age thrust, the knife entering at the lower
margin of the right shoulder blade, auC
about an inch to the right, infiicting al
ugly wound two inches long and betwees
three and four inches in deDlh eating tht
lung Hahn started TO walk uptown with
the aid of some other boys, bn5 when he got
to the livery stable he tainted and fell. II,
is in a very critical condition, but it is hopet
that medical aid patient nursing, and a