The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-03
GAINESVILLE CLEAN. NGS.
Opening of the Fall Term of the East
Florida Seminary

GAINESVILLE, FLA, Oct. 2.-The East
Florida Seminary opened Monday with
nearly 100 students, an earnest of a full
school for the ensuing year. All the Off
GERS save the commandant, Col. E. P. Car
ter, are new men in Gainesville. The at
tendance at the public school has run UP to
150, and the colored school opened with
$50. Three private schools have also
a fair quota each, and it is safe to say that
there are now at school il this city, ell
told. $50 pupils
Some bo, named Noble, living four
miles east of the city, brought In yes~
terday two very large rattlesnakes. One
weighs eight pounds has ten rattleS and is
about six feet long. The other is just
little smaller. Both are alive but seem very
moody over their confinement. When you
approach the box in which they are kept
their eyes shine like Goals of fire, and in
stantlY their tails begin to make that
peculiar trill which, at all times, makes the
heart Of the woodsman quake.
For the last two months the farmers in
this locality have been making hay, and
after filling their own barns they are now
supplying the liyerymen, draymen and
others. But little hay or grain will be
brought here from the west this year unless
1T be sold for a much less figure than it Yves
last season.
There is not comfortable dwelling house
for rent in the town, and how we are to
shelter our winter visitors is a question.
During our boom men built houses and paid
high prices for lots. lumber and labor, which
after year or two ceased to give q profitar
bic return upon the expenditure. and are
now 10th to repeat the experiment. But if
the birds come we must in some way
procure the cages.
At dawn every Sunday morning a
bell is rung at one of our negro
churches, and q little thereafter the
early riser may see emerging from this
cabin and that an old dscrepit white
haired darby with bis aged wife; or an old
woman, whose Jonah or Cesar or tompey
has crossed the river many, many years
age, leaving only memory OF the merry
corn.husKing dances when they were happy
strong and young, limplng her almost sight
less way along. grooming as she limps sor-
rowfu little song; then the little hump
backed, bow-legged, grizzly badger-like
pars0n i'll his rusty long-tailed coat and
baRgy trousers all winding with solemn
step and slow, the way to the uupretending
church near the gas works. Another bell
and burst of sunlight and, bark you
boar such Gloria in Excelsis az can only
issue from the Threats Of aged Africans at a
sunrise prayer meeting. 1t ID worth trot
around the globe to see and hear and at
tend and once attended the weird. grueSome
hour and the magnetic zest
with which the worshipers praise the ever
living God, the glorious new sunlight gild-
lug the dew>laden tree tops, the youth as
yet Of the holy Sabbath morn, the early
fragrance Of the flowers. all will create a
desire to attend again. have known the
southern negro fifty years. but there is
some queer things to be learned about him
every day.
The alternative writ directed few days
ago to the county commissioners in the case
Of Driver & Bigham. liquor dealers at
Archer, was answered by the commission
ers by granting the permit to sell. Yester-
day. however, Judge Findy granted bill
enjolniug the collector Of revenue from
issuing the license, and the case came up
before his honor in chambers at Ocale.
The Shakers are hard to down. Prof. j.
E. Dodd of Golden DAWN fame moves to
ST. Petersburg this week
Mrs. Kennerly and her little son, Willie,
were thrown from buggy at or near Haw-
thorne Tuesday Willie died of his injuries
soon after. Mrs. Kennerly was seriously
hurt.