The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22

/ appointment of j. Emmett Wolff. state SEN
/ ator from Escambia, to the position of dis
\ trict attorney of the United States court.
/ Ormond Gazette: Throughout the terri
/ tory between the line Of the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West and the Atlantic the
orange crop is certainly not over one-half
/ what a full crop would be, but the fruit Is
/ as fine as ever.
/ At meeting of the board of directors Of
the South Flo ida Fair Association held at
I Orlando Saturday afternoon O check was
ordered sent to the state controller at Talla-
hessee o pay the cost Of obtaining charter
for the association.
! G. B. Seals, a poor unfortunate being ad-
dicted TO drink, was jailed at Orlando
day or two ago for stealing from the no-
stract office several stylographic pens and
drawing instruments. Seals belongs TO one
| OF the most prominent families OF Alabama
One OF the apricot mango trees planted
at MAnatee by s. W. Litchfeld in 1888 had
on a heavy load of fruit last year-nost OF
! the crop was sold to Reasoner Bros for seed
and brought 500. This kind Of mango
has low, spreading top, and never stUalns
the height Of other varieties.
Peter Burkhardt, the l5-year-old son OF
! John Burkhardt of Tallahassee, had the
misfortune to shoot himself accidentally
through the right foot on Tuesday evening
last while handling revolver, making a
painful though not necessarily dangerous
| wound. It was only about year ago tnaI
Peter met with a similar accident by shoot-
ing himself through the hand.
Lewis Parker is having an irrigating
plant put in at his place on Joshua creek,
near Arcadia One hundred gallons OF
water per minute can be put on the grove;
4, 200 feet of pipe are laid through the grove
with stand pipes 100 feet apart. The water
Is pumped from Joshua creek, forced
through the pipes and distributed through
lawn sprinklers The steam pressure is
forty pounds TO the square inch.
The bids for government work opened by
the United States engineer at st. Augustine
Saturday resulted In the contracts all being
awarded to Jacksonville men. They were
as follows; Dredging Tampa bay, j. A.
| Bryan, $4,000; Jetty work at Key West,
| Capt. r. @. Ross, sos, 900; dredging Volusia
bar Capt. Joseph Marzyck, $4,000. Other
bids were made by contractors in Birming-
ham, Philadelphia, Pensacola and Mobile.
Aspirants without number are on the
move getting up petitions for the appoint
ment Of postmaster at Arcadia. The Office
pays about 81, 200 year. Several ladies are
| in the field. Two or three merchants who
| would like to have the Office in their places
Of business are doing all they can to get the
position. W. E. Daniel has a petition in
circulation and so has c. Y. Crawford.
A9Oh4o HCObAC al Q olshAAk bhC PCHASApho W
keep from offending any of the asptrants.
On Wednesday morning last about IL
o'clock a colored boy named Griffin,
living on the plantation Of Capt. T. W.
Getzen about two miles from Fort White,
was sent from the cotton field to the house
where be lived for some purpose He failed
to return and an investigation resulted in
finding his corpse In the house. 1t is sup
posed that when he arrived he found two
negroes ransacking the premises and was
killed by them. The boy was shot with a
3S-cGliber pistol, the ball entering his back,
passing through his body and penetrating
the wall. Ths murderers were still at large
at last accounts.
Gov. Fleming made the following appoint
ments last week: j. B. Rainey of Green
Cove Spring to be superintendent of public
instruction for Clay county, vice E. A.
Rankin, resigned; J. Edward Allen of Or
laudo 30 be prosecuting attorney for the
criminal cour5 of record for Orange county,
vice J. Hugh Murphy, deceased DR..
Chandler H. Smith, Rufus D. McNair and
{. II. Dickinson to be members of the
county board of health for Madison county;
George W. Dempsey of Ellaville to be
county commissioner for Suwannee county,
vice W. s. Hodge, resigned; William A.
Adams of Tampa to be notary public for
the state at large; Louis Z. Lovejoy OF
Melrose, Mass, to be commissioner Of deeds
for Florida in Massachusetts; Andrew G..
Lamberg Of Grove City, to be notary public
tor the state.
Last Wednesday A. J. Sauls, who lives
In De Soto county, was In Arcadia attend
ing court and the older children were all
absent, leaving Mrs. Sauls and four OF the
younger children at home. When Mrs.
Sauls was attending to her domestic duties,
three OF the children, DINA, Dozier and
Grover, aged respectively about s. 6 and
years, were playing in the packing house.
One Of the older boys had during the day
shot chickens and left the gun in an out
building. The children in their sport got the
gun, the mother heard shot, ran to
| the children to learn what the trouble was
| aud found the youngest, little Grover, shot
| through the heart. He was still gaspinR
and she grabbed him up and ran to a neigh
boris near by, but of course the child was
| dead before she reached there. The only
explanation the children can give is that
they were playtng-Dozier was not angry
| they we're just playing" The blow comes
| with peculiar force to the parents, as only a
few months ago their first born, 8. A. Sauls,
was murdered at Zolfo, shot down in cold
| blood, without moments warning or the
chance OF even an attempt TO defend him
| self.
Fernandina Ne,Cs: Capt. -, of this
city, is fond of practical jokes, besides hav-
| ing an old score TO pay to some of the boys,
who several months ago got away
| with him 80 badly that he has
| been quietly waiting for an op-
portunity to even up with them, The op.
portunity occurred Thursday. when the
captain came across a large fat black
Thomas cat, which was either killed by &C.
cident or design, we did not learn which.
| However he conceived the idea of having
| the cat barbeoued and inviting these practi-
cal jokers to dine with him. We will not
call names, but merely state that ]. F., s.
c., and F. M. accepted the invitation The
feast was heartily enjoyed, and
the supposed coon, which was basted
with mustard and highly sea-
soned, was very favorably commented upon
by the epicures. Even Fanny, the cook,
| who believed it TO be racooon, felt very
grateful to the boys for the few fragments
left, saying, "Now Use gwine to warm de
balance of dis coon over aud have him for
my breakfast" The captain says if the
boys want another fat 'possum to let him
know, and he will prepare another barbe-
cue, and that he takes pleasure In remem-
| bering his friends.