The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-08
FLORIDA.

A post of the G. A. K. is to be organized
at Tampa
The Methodists of Green Cove are raising
funds with which to build new church.
A painter named Walker had an arm
broken as the result Of the fall Of q scaffold
az Tampa Saturday
Over 1S, COO acres of homesteads were en-
tered at the United States land offlce at
Gainesville last month.
State Senator johnson of Lafayette
county is seriously i'll at Gainesville, he
having by mistake drank potash water.
The Grand View hotel at Seville is offered
for sale together with four acres of land
and orange trees. The terms are 81. 400,
half cash
Skeletons can be seen in the old Spanish
graveyard at st. Augustine, where time has
washed away the coverings to the bones
buried toere.
Last year McNeill & Allen sold an orange
grove at Beresford to j. Z. Blake of CHI
| cago for IS, 500. This year Mr.. Blake has
refused $4,000 for the orange crop of the
| grove.
Burglars blew open the outside doors Of
one of the county safes at Ttusville with
| powder Tuesday night. They were fright
ened away before opening the inner doors
The safe is ruined.
The Norwegian bark Hecla, from Valen-
cia, has been sent to the Pensacola quaran-
tine station to discharge ballast and be
fumlgated. This action, taken after quar-
antine had been generally raised, is due to
the prevalence of cholera at the ships port
of departure
The number of students enrolled at the
East Florida Seminary at Gainesville Is 1877,
which is a large increase over the previous
year, and the largest number the seminary
has ever reached. The students represent
/ twaltV mi nd o5r
this number fifty have been scholarship stu
dents, aud eighty-seven pay students.
Albertus Vogt of Dunnellon had a gun
stolen from him by two negroes, Thursday,
, he hadi in his employ. After they bad get
] some distance from the house they at
tempted to manipulate the lock, but not
, understanding its mysteries it went off and
shot one of the men in the ankle, filling it
full of buck shot. The report of the gun
started Mr.. Vogts pack of hounds who
surrounded the wounded man and ran his
a companion up tree, and they were cap
: tured.
An attempt was made TO murder a Young
I man on Saturday night last. while he was
, on his way from Live Oak to his home in
. Suwanee county. His name is 7. J. Leverett,
and he is In the employ Of G. K Dutton. in
, the turpentine business. There were two of
the would-be murderers, and while one
a caught the rein Of his horses bride TIE
= other struck him on the back of the head
. with piece of fence rail- Mr. Leyerett
: was left in his buggy for dead and the
Il horse turned loose with him. The horse
: did not go far before Mr.. Leverett was
thrown out on the ground, where he re-
malne1 IN an unconscious condition until
4 he was found Sunday morning. There is
. no clew to the perpetrators OF the deed.
: Palatka Times: 1t is related of one OF
a the engineers of the Georgia Southern that
- he ran his train into PalatLya oua pir,h+ -
n Gently on schedule time. under al verse cir
q cumstauces. Just after leaving Valdosta
h the lamp exploded in the headlight and
occasioned considerable elarm for a short
time, and what might have been seriou:
/, affair was only averted by the GOODNESS and
8 presence of mind of the engineer Motto
y ing that all was not right ahead, ne sprane
o from his seat and ran along the moving
|, iron morse to the front, when uDon opening
n the headlight he was confronted by a blaZ.
a that proved threatening in aspect. Moth.
d ing daunted he hurled the burning mis-
1t slle into ditch, and ran bis train to thi!
IS city, $50 miles, by the light of the moon.
Thursday morning, between 1890 and ]
O'Clock, George G. Rixford, four miles NORTH
of Live Oak, discovered some one in hi,
3 store He went over to the store, accom-
e panied by negro servant, and, after
IS watching the party in the store for few
u minutes, fired on him. The robber Their
a dropped the lamp aad weuC TO an open win.
n dow. where he had left Winchester rife
IS Picking it up he fired four shots at the
n parties out, but failed to hit any one The
J. safe was ruined by the burglar, outside OF
A which nothing was bothered Sheriff Pots
Il damer and deputy 1edder arrived on tn,
= scene early Ia the morning and tracked ths
burglar into Hamilton county by the BLOOD
4 which he left in his tracks. A new walls,
), and his coat was brought Ia, but no clev
i has been obtained as % who he was
4 Gainesville sun: Ga Wednesday morn
a ing Dr. Cromwell, Bob Stewart, M Dos