The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-30

| DOLSi az OSaAh W ~ % SAhI Il AOA SSo,OOOs
n W. Harrison, the secretary Of the
Ooala foundry, has fallen heir TO fortune
In New York.
John R. Crow Of Crows Bluff has just
sold his entire orange crop. some Q ,00C
boxes at good price on the trees.
Two newspapers will probably be started
in YbOr City within the next two weeks
one a weekly and the other a tri-weekly.
Both will be printed IN Spanish.
The Jacksonville Marble Company has
about completed the work on the Cuban
martyrs monument, to be unveiled in Key
West Oct. 10. The monument cost over
| 81 800.
Many Of the tomato truckers around CIer
mont are putting in Their fall crops, and as
the weather is very favorable the prospects
are fattering for good business during the
coming winter.
Silas D. Townsend was tried before a
| jury at Tampa Saturday on the charge OF
! firing pistol on the public highway within
a certain distance Of a residence, and though
the defendant admitted the charge the jury
acquitted him.
Orange groves around Clermont are look
! ing well, and the crops will DO about tue
| same as last year. Growers are not anxious
to sell their fruit unless they can get good
prices, and from present indications prices
will be away up" before the season is
over.
| A train of seventy cars drawn by one
| engine, passed west over the Florida Cen
tral and PeniDsular Tuesday morning. Ups
ward of twenty trains per day arrive and
depart via the three roads from Lake City,
or an average OF one for each OF the twenty
| four hours.
Late Saturday night the boatswain of the
British steamer Ethel Ada, while attempt
ing 70 board his vessel at Pensacola, fell
from the ladder striking the wharf and re-
| bounding to the ships stde from where he
fell, stunned, into the water. The body
was recovered an hour later by Engineer
| Chrisman.
James VenabIe, white man who pro-
fesssd to be able to cure disease by laying
on hands, was some time since arrested at
FernahdIna on a charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses and was sent to jail in
default of $500 bond. He was reported to
have been sick for some time and died in his
cell Saturday night.
A young French sailor, ouly IS years of
age, had a terrible fall on the bark Albert
and Jeanne at Pensacola Saturday. While
aloft the unfortunate young man fell dis
lance of sixty feet, rscei wing severe injuries
TO his spine. His lower limbs are COM
pletely paralyzed, and his case is regarded
as very serious by the attending physicians
The case Of the state VS.. Doc Mathis, in
dicted for the murder of one John Mobiles
about year ago, was taken up in the cir
cult court at Jasper Saturday. This Is re-
gar1ed as the most important case on the
docket, and Its Importance seems 20 grow
out OF the fact that Mathis was a man of
high standing in his community, coupled
with the further fact that he 10 one of the
pillars of the Baptist church at his home.
Orlando Record: Henry Ware, the cham
pion cat catcher, caught huge catamount
measuring from tip of nose to tip of tail
feet. and feet high, and Weighing about
80 pounds, Saturday morning just west of
town. This makes about twenty-five he has
caught in a year aud half. The cat
whipped out Ave dogs, and Henry had to
shoot the 'varmint" in order to get him. 1t
had killed thirty hens belonging to Mr..
Motley.
Charles A, Bailey, prominent citizen Of
Lewtey. went home from his work in the
field Saturday. complaining Of a feeling of
fatigue and lay down to rest. His wife
soon noticed his unusual appearance and
sent word TO the nearest neighbor, also to
the physician. but before the latter arrived
he was dead. He was subject to heart
trouble and this was undoubtedly the cause
of his death. The body was forwarded to
Utica, N. Y, for intermens
The resignation of Capt. Robert Knick-
meyer as captain OF the franklin Guards
having been accepted, an election was held
70 ill the vacancy. First Lieut.. Hickey
was the unanimous choice. Second Lieut..
A. s. Mohr was then unanimously ad-
vanced to first lieutenant. j. 2. Lovett, T.
J. Moore and John Schoelles we're placed
in nomination for second lieutenant. Low
EFT received IS votes, Moore Is and School
les 6, Lovet being declared elected.
The result OF the second primary in the
Ocela precinct for sheriff is as follows:
Hodge received pit, Williams 1879. For
Justice of the peace, Clary received 2S6,
Cordsro 46.sMcIntosh precinct gave Hodge,
for sheriff, SO; Williams, g. Stanton pre-
oinct gave HODGE and William 10 Shady
Grove gave Hodge and Williams 3. Sum
merfield precinct gave Hodge % and Will
Jams 4. Anthony precinct gave Hodge %
| and Williams %. Martin precinct gave
Hodge and Williams TO-
Manatee Advocate: There was a lively
time at N. L. Courters house asst Friday
| evening. Elder johnson was ,lding one
| OF his series OF meetings in the school house
near by, when some one discovered Mr..
| Courter's house to be on fire, and all went
| TO the fire. The fire was in the palmetto
attachment, and with the ready and willing
| hands OF some twenty-five or thirty persons
the thAtch was torn OF and the well emptied
| of water, but the house was saved, when oil
returned TO the meeting house and Listened
/ W au eAcelleuV seFLhoh D1 Eluer Johnson
About O'Clock Sunday morning fire was
discovered by Officer Brown in the 2-story
frame building on South Pelafox street,
| Pensacola, occupied by George Wilson as q
variety theater and dance hall An alarm
was Immediately turned in, and though the
response Of the fire department was prompt,
the flames soon made an end of what has
long been regarded as a questionable resort
| The inmates who had retired, all escaped.
| The building, which was owned by Wilson,
was totally destroyed, together with the
| two small frame structures on either side OF
it. One of these was also the property of
Wilson, who declared that the fire must
have been Of incendiary origin. He esti-
mates his loss at $4,000. with an insurance
| of $1,000.