The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-09

| the lOcaidr dock.
T. V. Porter purchased eighty acres Of
land iu.Alachua county Monday, which ne
will donate to the first railroad entering
Gainesville or TO parties who are willing 70
inves. in hrst-class hotel.
The barn Of j. P. Swailes. two miles north
of Fort White, with ali Of lis contents, was
burned last Friday night. IL is supposed to
have been robbed and then fired. he loss
is heavy, and sympathizlng friends Will aid
its owner.
A Norwegian, known only by the name
Of Julius. who lived with Pat Collins, across
| the bay, lett Pensacola Saturday night in
a small boat for his home. His boat, cap
sized, was found Monday drifting about the
harbor. but no trace OF its late occupant
could be discovered. 1t is supposed that he
was drowned.
The frost Sunday morning killed all the
young vegetation around NeWnansvllle.
The crop Cd Dr. J. H. Williams fine squash
farm, as well as that on Williams brothers
melon farm, was entirely destroyed. Other
! truck far ners suffer, but not so badly, not
having planted on a very extensive scale.
1t is feared that the oranges aud peaches
are damaged also.
Palatka's election, Tuesday, resulted as
follows: Dir. E. s. Grill, dem, mayor;
aldermen, r. J. Rifles, dem. NJ. Griffin, Jr.,
dem. A. Usina. dem. g. w. Bassett, dem.
James Laroche, rep. L. L. Puncill rep. A
tie resulted in Ward between A. +. Capen,
dem., and A. Mack, rep. Republicans were
very confident up to the close OF the polls,
and are much disappointed.
Lewis Brown, a negro switch hand in the
employ of the jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West, was run over by the yard engine at
Palstka Tuesday. 1t appears that he was
trying to board the yard engine and his foot
slipping from the step caused him TO fall
partially under the tender trucks. crushing
his right leg entirely off below the knee. IL
will be necessary to amputate above the
knee. Brown was a resident Of Gainesville.
where he has q wife and two children.
Pensacola NetCS. At Mobile, Sunday,
Henry g. Klink of this city. champion
sh TT distance walker of the world, low cred
the record for a half mile. doing the dis
lance In two minutes and fifty-two seconds.
The best previous record was 2:55, made by
Klink the Sunday before. From Mobile
the pedestrian will go shortly to Columbus,
Ca, where he will give exhibitions and
thence, through Georgia, work his way
east, where he will astonish the natives.
There Is no questioning the claim that
Klink is the greatest short distance walker
the world has ever produced.
Sunday morning, at II o'clock, fire broke
out in the extensive saw and planning mills
located on the Savannah, Florida aud
Western railway, four miles west of New
Evansville, and by night the mad fame had
made a clean sweep of everything. II is
supposed to have caught from the slab saw
dust pit. The lumber stacked up in the
yard was valued at $4,000 and the ma
chinery at $4,000. From what informa-
ton can be gathered, it is supposed that
there was no insurance. It is rumored that
l.. G. Graoy, the proprietor, viii begin re-
placing machinery at once, and that the
mil lilo will ~
A sad accident occurred near the depot at
Mascotte about 5 o'clock last Thursday
afternoon. When the mail train came in
from the east on the o. B. railway, two
young mon came up TO the railway track.
One. whose name was Westley Moore, from
Center Hill, crossed the track and attempted
70 90 up steep bank into Laws grocery,
but he slipped aid fell back under the
wheels Of the engine, and his body was badly
crushed. Dr. Harris from Oakland was on
the train aud took immediate charge of the
injured man and returned to Oakland with
him, but Moore was dead before the train
reached there. He has a mother living near
Center Hill, and was between 25 and 30
years OF age. Intoxicating drink was the
real cause of the sad event.
Palatka Times: A meteor, ignis fdtatus.
jack o. lantern, will o. the wisp, or what
ever you may please to call it. was seen by
Boyd's last Sunday night. 1t was a round,
dark object, about as large as peck meas
ure, seemingly full of augur holes, from
which streams of blazing fire spit and
sparkled, OF a white or electric appearances.
1t seemed to float in the air, sometimes near
the earth, and then as high as the tree tops.
Some parties tried to get to it, ana it would
first advance to meet them, then take a
sudden turn and leave them. A second one
was seen lying upon the ground when No l
passed over it few feet, both converging
into one, then passed off over the waters Of
Dark lake, and were lost to view in the
hazy atmosphere.
E. G. Harrell, writing from Havana to
the Raleigh IN. CO. Chronicle, says: "In
1855 Miss Emma Richards, an actress, came
to Havana to take a position in one of the
theaters: She soon had the yellow fever
and died here. While was visiting few
days ago, a Cuban lady in this adjoining
house, seeing that was an American, sent
for me to call upon her for a few moments
She told me through an interpreter that she
was with Emma Richards when she died
and just before she died she put this paper
in my hand, and told me to send it to
months old. He is with his grand
mother somewhere in Florida | can't
speak English and don't know what the
paper is and have not seen au American
since the actress died. l examined the
paper and found it to be cashiers GER
tlficate of deposit of $3.50, 900 in the Fourth
National Bank Of New York. The check is
| dated June 5, 1888, aud is payable with in
| terest to the order of Emma Richards. The
name and residence of the grandmother in
Florida, the name of the baby boy. and the
whereabouts OF any member of the family
| of Emma Richards are entirely unknown.
The check and some other valuables are at
Havana, sacredly preserved by the Cuban
woman awaiting a legal claimant She
wanted me to publish this statement, hop
| ing this to find the child to claim his for
| tune"