The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-07

A new station has been established on
the Barlow branch Of the South Florida
! railroad. between the Junction and VIM
ter Haven.
A day or two ago three cars were de-
rallied on the S nth Florida Railroad near
Davenport, loaded with oranges and to-
bsccO. The cars were total ! IS.
The case Of the state against H. J. Min
mich for Killing s. Is. Knight went TO the
jury at Tampa Saturday morning at 2
O'Clock. At 10 o'clock q verdict Of not
gnil5y was rstu nsd.
Roy, the 2-year-old child Of r. E. Blair,
q jeweler OF Fernandina, fell from the
second story window OF his fathers resi-
de.ce, a distanos of twenty-four feet,
Saturday. DR.. Horssy was called, but
found no bones broken and no indications
Of internal in Iuries.
The tobacco factory at DsFuniak 10 rushed
at present to I'LL orders. Tney have sold
about $4,000 worth Of goods in the last six
weeks, ant are behind with their orders
about $4,000 cigars. The factory was never
In more fourisling condition than it is at
tho present time.
The Mearn's shingle mill, near Daven-
port, has changed hands A company has
been organized that will put in another
mill to cut cypress lumber, pine and shin
giles. Mr.. Bowen has put IN a water mill
just northeast OF Haines City, and is max
ing lumber and crates.
Chief Justice Logan f. Bleokley and As
ISOLATE Justices t. j. Simmons aud Samuel
Lumpkin of the supreme court Of Georgia.
were to leave Atlanta yesterday to spend q
week down about Tampa, hauling in Uarpon
aud other fish for which thAt section is
famous. The eminent jurists are all expert
fishermen and campers-out in the woods.
A white man named W. Moore was killed
at Mescotte last Gnuraday night by
train on the Oraage Belt railroad. Moore,
it is rep rted, was on drunken spree, and
as the train pulled IL at Masooste, he stepped
upon The track directly in front of the en-
CINE, which mangled his body considerably.
be was picked up an placed upon the
train to be carried to the hospital at Oak
land, but he died ON the effects of his in
juries before reaching there
Fernandina Nelgs: The yacht Angler ar
rived here Thursday bringing Engineers
Bro WI and Van Norman 10 examine into
the obst ruction on the bar. They made the
examination Friday, and say there is no
buoy at the bottom but that there is a
natural shoal abous 300 feet long. Capt.
Carter Joined them at noon Friday and the
Angler sailed for Savannah. The matter
will be reported to the de. artfnert with the
recommendation that early action be taken
to dredge out the channel at this port.
Speaking OF tho schoolship Saratoga, now
at that port, the Pensacola NelUs says: THE
Saratoga is relic of tho old American
navy. and the ship is well known to many
Of Pensaoola's oder residents, she having
bee in this harbor many times in her
best days. Shs was here just after the
Mexican war, and she had a crew OF the
toughest Jack Tars ever given liberty in
any port. They were frequently in coils
ion with the citizens. when not fighting
among themselves. and it is related that on
one occasion, when they had become unduly
de nonsIrative, the towuspsople had to
assemble in mass to resist them. This &C.
Cured on the spot where Dunn's hotel now
stands, upon which in those days lived
Manuel, the father of the Hsrnand cz
boys, JACK, Taylor and Storritt. The
sailors wanted to avenge some fancied slight
put upon them by Mr.. Hernandez and an
other citizen, and only desisted when met by
a large crowd Of the towns-people armed
with blackjack cluts. The siip as she
lays at anc or just without the shipping or
Palatox wharf, is a picture. She may be-
easily recognized as vessel of the navy
from the perfect bracing of her yards and
her numerous sideports, but she is as unlike
| a modern waCship, or even the many mar.
chant ships that lie near her, and which at
ford a comparison, as anything might vel
be. She is to The sailing ship of to-day, il
appearance, what the Pinta must have
been to vessels Of her description.