The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-07

FLOhlDAs
Fire Sunday burned the stores of f. NJ.
Penny and Goodson & Son at River juno
tion.
company will close all its Anthony options
this month.
The ladies OF Gainesville have gone to
work to place the cemetery Of that place in
| good condition.
St Francis barracks, St. Augustine. are
being enlarged 70 accommodate another fed
eTal infantry company.
Harry Morton, a young drummer for a
paper house, is in jail at Pensacola, char ged
with embezzling $1,000. He lives In No
bile.
Mrs. r. s, Sheldon, OF New Smyrna, has
a Marschal Mel rose bush that has a spread
OF twenty three feet and a hight Of nine
feet
Bedker &c Bliven have rented the Herd
man hotel at Daytona and changed the name
to the DaytonA house. They propose to
open 1t for business Nov. 10.
r Andersen Of Dsytona has an orange
bud that was Frozen down la 1899 that has
made wonderful growth and now bears
fifteen oranges in its second year.
At Berssford, Saturday night, Dave viii.
ians and Anderson Mack, both colored, had
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latter's throat almost from ear to ear. Dave
is in jail pending Macks life in the bal
ance.
The October tides washed away as much
as thirty three fest Of beach in some places
between Fort, Clinch and Old Town, Fer
nepQina. IL is said the tides were the high.
ESD they have bean in thirtsen years. The
water oven splashed over the sea wall at the
fort, The rapid erosion is attributed to the
action OF the jetties upon the currents.
d. U. Marstellar, an old-time oitizsn of
Bronson, was found deadin his bed Wednes-
day morning. His wife had got up first.
and at the time she arose Mr. Marstellar
seemed all right, but when Mrs. Marsteliar
vent back 70 tell him TO get up she found
bin dead. No cause for his sudden demise
IL knswn; but it is supposed to have re-
suited from an affection OF the heart.
At Milton Sunday afternoon while some
boys we're playing, Gus. son Of J. A. Harri-
sou. got into az alteration with Stanley,
son OF A. R. Seebrook, publisher of the
Clarion. Gu, cut Stanley three times in
the back and side. Dr. W. A. Mills was
Fcalled in and he pronounced two OF the
wounds to be very dangerous, but under
has careful treatment, Stanley is getting
! along very well, and hopes for his recovery
are entertained.
| In 1877 H. B. McCallum and w. W.
Douglass were publishing in Jacksonville
the Jacksonville Press, and Dr. W. H. Bah
cock was one Of the editors That year the
doctor deposited 10 the corner stone Of the
Mechanics Steam Fire Engine Company
building a copy of that paper when the
stone was laid. Thursday the vault in the
stone Was opened and the old paper found
but badly changed hY the heat Of the fire
| which burned the Building. Other deposits
were also found in damaged condition.
| AT Jacksonville. Thursday, while Mr..
Hammatt, manager Of the city gas works
with three colored men, were at work in
front Of Clark & LOTUS store on Bay
street, digging down to reach the gas main,
suddenly and without warning two of the
colored men Tell PROSTATE into the excava-
ton as If they had been shot. They were
dragged out and carried to the dock ia the
rear of the McQuaid building, rolled,
pounded and arms worked until conscious
ness was restored. The other one did not
lose consciousness. They were then sent
home. Two of them were apparently much
affected and it will be day or two before
they fully recover. The gas fumes were
very strong and could be smelled fifty feet
from the place of digging. Mr.. Hammatt
was somewhat affected, but not enough to
| stop work