The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-06
YEAR and has gotten 5000 worth of ''cuss-

year and has gotten 5000 worth Of 'cuss-
ing"
Mr.. Gretchen was found dead near his
home nea- Lakeland SATURDAY., Win snot-
gun by bis side. II is believed Ins' Ine
deceased shot himself by ccident
The railroads have consented TO convey
the delegates aud visitors to the south
Florida association, 10 convene IN tampa
on Oct s for one and one-quarter fare.
Leopold Valladares. cigar manufacturer
OF Punta Gorda, will take his men and
tables to Arcadia this week, ana VIII COM
mence manufacturing Havana cigars about
Nov. l.
j. L. Borras, vice consul Of Spain at Pen
sacola. has started a subscription list for
the benefit of the sufferers by the recent
I terrible foundations in the province OF
| Toledo, Almeria and Valencia.
The guests at the White Sulphur Springs
hotel were agreeably surprised while at
dinner to see Gen. Robert Bullock preeent
/ himself at the door and walk in as steadily
as though he Has not sick at all. The gen
| eral is much improved, though not very
strong. He was able to spend much of his
time Saturday afternoon on the piazza
chatting with the guests. He took his &C.
! customed seat at the supper table and the
| indications are that he will speedily recover.
| Ovisdo Chronicle: The Chronicle takes
the credit for being the first newspaper in
| the state to warn the growers that an at
! tempt was being made to force down the
prices of oranges. Now that the growers in
many sections have sold their fruit at ridic-
| ulous low prices, the newspapers ere taking
up the cry, and these growers begin to see
| that they have been buncoed out of their
| fruit. The scarecrow OF big fruit CT ops in
the north is being thoroughly ventilated,
and it is also coming out now that the
crop IN the state will not be so large as at
first reported.
A cutting scrape occurred at Highland
Saturday in which John Bennett seriously
wounded John Griffith. cutting him five
times, one cut in the right lung and the
most serious one in the stomach. just at the
lower rib and going int the hollow. Grif-
fifth was conveyed to his homo about two
miles west Of town and DR.. Powell was
summoned from Starke who did all in his
power to relieve the sufferings of the untort-
innate man. Griffith is unmarried. He was
taken completely by surprise and was cut
II before be was aware of 1t. 1t Is doubtful
whether Griffith will recover or not.
Pensacola News: Henry G. Kink, the
pedestrian, who began his professional ca =
reer In Pensacola, is in New Orleans, where.
last night, he explained 10 the spectators at
Tommy Warren'5 benefit the secret of the
speed which he developed in his rather re-
markable gait. The New Orleans papers
claim that Klink is New Orleans boy.
That is mistake. Klink was born in Co.
| lumbus, Ca, and is a son OF noted sport
ing man Of his own name and of that city
He is certainly the fastest short distance
walker the VIZ rld has ever produced, his
mile having been made in considerably I'M
der Perkins (of England time of 6:25.
Kissimmee Leader: Last Monday, Sept
2S, the people over in the eastern part OF
the county held school celebration at what
is known as the Savage school house, at
which Hiram Platt Of Crab Grass Creek
acted as marshal OF the procession. After
Mr.. Platt had performed his duties and had
mounted his horse to go home, Henry Saw
age called him to one side and said that he
(Platt) had made assertions about him (Sav-
age), which he did not propose to stand
and demanded a retraction. This Mr.. Platt
refused to do, and the two got into a fight.
Platt seeing that Savage had his knife in
his hand but not OPEN aud also that Saw
ages friends were gathering around, got out
his own knife, but it was knocked out of his
hand. He then ran, with the crowd after
him. to his saddle bags for his pistol. As he
drew his pistol, X. G. Savage grasped hold
of it. and in the squabble it was discharged.
inflictipg a slight wound in one Of Mr.. Ss "
ages fingers.
Fernandina Mirror: William Braddock,
WuOS0 IlVe u6dT evergreen, III tDlS
county, was accidentally drowned in Cy-
press pond last Thursday evening. This pond
is usually dry except in rainy weather, but
contained considerable water during the
last four or five days. 1t seems that Mr..
Braddock, early IN the afternoon, had
mounted his horse and gone on visit to
Mrs. N. S. Higginbotham, living about a
mile and half distant At O'Clock in the
afternoon he started home. Nothing was
thought OF his absence until the morse re-
turned without rider, when Bamp Stew
art, accompanied by two negroes, started
! out on search for him. At o'clock they
came upon his lfeleSs body lying face down
ward in the water, which covered about
half Of his person. 1t is supposed that in
passing through the pond be was attacked
by fit. fell from the animal and was
drowned. He had been subject to periodical
attacks of this character for the last nine
teen years. Mr.. Braddock was one of our
worthy young men, and has large numt er
of relatives scattered throughout the entire
county. He was about "a years Of age
Besides young wife, he leaves two chill
dren.