The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-08


The democrats of De Soto county are
almost unanimously in favor of a primary
election to select nominees for the county
officers this fall.
j. M. Willis of st. Augustine has resigned
his position as a county commissioner, and
viii leave the county to practice law at
Green Cove Springs.
A petition is being signed at Arcadia, and
will be sent 10 the state executive commit
tee, asking that the congressional conven-
ton be held at Barlow.
At Daytona Wednesday night the dry
goods store Of Mayor Courtland Buchanan
was burglarized. Gents furnishing goods
to the amount of 1925 were taken.
A gymnasium and library building is TO
be erected on the corner Of Center and
Fourth streetsat Fernandina. The building,
| OF brick will be seventy-five feet front and
seventy-five feet Deep
The Starke Institute sold at forced sale
| last Monday for S2,250. It was purchased
by number Of citizens, who will form a
stock company, and repair the house and
lease 1t for school purposes.
A white man arrived at Mariana two
weeks ago with negro woman he claimed
as his wife. Reports say that he was
| treated 10 sound drubbing with barrel
slaves and switches over log.
w. K. Cessna, state treasurer of the
| farmers alliance, met the Hampton alliance
yesterday TO reorganize the Starke and
Hampton alliance into ons alliance and hold
| their meetings there on the halfway
| ground.
At Starke day or two ago DR.. Tate
Powell cut a knife blade from Nelson Nc
Gee, a colored man of Highland, that had
been imbedded in his body for five years.
| The negro had not been able to work for
1 m huf Ta0 ha faalo 10 n
| The entire cost Of the new Jail at st. Au-
gustiue, with the lot, will be $2O,412 Is. OF
| this amount Mr.. Flagler will pay s., 900 for
the present Jail lot and $4,000 additional
toward the construction of the new jAl, so
| that the actual cost of the new structure to
the county will be but s5,412 Is.
Leesburg LeeSburger: The town assess
ment rolls for 1890 show total valuation OF
real and personal property amounting to
$22O.OOO, being an increase Of $1S,0 200 over
last year. As this assessment dates from
Jan. /, about $4,000 worth of property
created since is not included in it.
A large black bear was seen near the resi-
dence of John White at Harris road, Sun
day morning. Mr.. White notified Messrs.
Wilson and Russell and the trio started in
pursuit Of bruin, and would doubtless have
| overtaken him had they not run onto two
deer, and thissaved the bears life.
George E. Macy, a wagon manufacturer
OF Orlando. has received an order from
| Garrett Bros, also of Orlando, to make
| fifteen large log carts Garrett Bros. have
about 10000 acres of land around Lake
Winder, near the st. Johns river, and are
engaging in the lumber business very ex-
| tensively.
Orlando Record: A good joke is told on
certain party who recently left Orlando
for the north, although il was doubtless
| anything but funny to him. Purchasing
tickets for himself and wife, he handed
them to the baggagemaster to have his
trunks checked, and in his hurry boarded
the train without the tickets The train
had not proceeded far, however, before he
heard the conductor shout, "Ticketsr and
| then it was he missed them. Getting off at
Winter Park, he came back to Orlando,
and started north once again on the next
train, this time with the tickets sure
enough
The following men, prominent in state
politics, were at Ocala Friday: Charlie
Dougherty aud William jackson of Volusia
county, r. Fenwick Taylor Of Gainesville,
D. G. Amber Of Jacksonville, G. A. Finley
Of Lake City, Maj. w. P. Cooper of
Palatka. s. l. Wales of Washington. d. c.,
w. Q. Zimmerman Of Citrus county, George
W. Wilson, secretary of the executive COM
mittee of the Second congressional district,
and ID. III. Irvine of Oaklawn and many
| others of local renown. An impression pre-
walls that state and congressional ticket
has been named, aud that Dougherty and
Taylor's names will adorn them at some
point.
Towards Independent line of steamers
has been organized in New Orleans, backed
by wholesale merchants and capitalists.
and will put on line of steamers to ply be-
tween New Orleans and South Florida.
touching at Pensacola, Apalachicola, st.
Marks, Cedar Key, Tampa and Manatee.
For this month steamers will sail from New
Orleans on the It'll, 18th, Goth and 18th. II
the trade will warrant it, the company will
then increase to three steamers per week.
This line will restore st. Marks only twenty
miles sonth of Tallahassee, to its former i'm
portance as a commercial port Consider
able cotton will be shipped by that route
when the season opens.
B. f. Jarboe, the ticket broker arrested at
Jacksonville Friday by Deputy Sheriff w.
D. Vinzant on an affidavit sworn to by
Chief OF Police Phillips, charged with
having purchased railroad tickets, knowing
them to have been stolen from Harry Nav
nard. was tried in the afternoon before
County Judge w. B. Owen. Jarboe pleaded
his own case, May being represented bv
D. u. Fletcher. After hearing the evidence.
Judge Owen decided that there was nothing
TO show that Jarhoe knew the tickets were
stolen, and that he mad bought them in the
ordinary line of business He therefore dis
missed the charge. Mr.. Jarboe claims that
he is the victim of malicious prosecution.
and promises to make it warm for his
enemies.
Jasper Netos. The Weekly Advertiser.
with Mcmillan as editor, was the first paper
published in Lake City, or Alligator. as il
was then called, and that was more than
twenty years prior to 1875 In 1S59-'6O two
papers were published in Lake City-the
Independent Press, by James N. Bowen.
and the Eastern Herald, by H. G. Town
| send. The latter paper suspended in 1859
and its publisher went off in the war.
Bowen, of the Press, in 1861 blew his brains
out with four barrelsd derringer, and the
paper passed into the hands of w. II.
Christy, who now lives in Jacksonville.
Christy, about 1862, sold out to w. W.
Moore, who changed the name of the paper
to the Lake City Press. 10 this office, in
1868, the editor Of this paper threw down
his stick and rule to join the army of Lee.
| Starke Telegraph. The stockholders of
the Florida Muck Land Company held their
| first annual meeting in their office Ia Starke
| onMonday, June 2, and Incorporated them
selves into corporate body with capital
of $500, 900, of which Sl50,000 is paid up.
The followin were selected as officers for
the ensuing year: President, J. L. Gaskins;
vice president, J. s. Bailey; secretary, c.
| L. Peek treasurer, Mortimer c. Lewis The