The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-26

fallen, while the gas was turned on full. Dr.
Lynch was summoned at once, but found life
extinct when he arrived
Green Bryan, colored, was arrested by
Officer Upton at jacksonville Saturday night
on a charge OF carrying concealed weapons.
As the officer was carrying his prisoner to the
city Jail he was followed by Charles walker,
also colOred. who threatened to take the man
away from the oficer. After following for a
block or two, Walker went back to mouse
and secured cane and again started after
OhiCer Upton. who soon ran across Otncer
Alexander and told him to arrest walker
Both men were then taken to the city jail and
locked up. The cane carried by walker,
when examined at police headquarters, emit
ted a strong odor OF whisky and proved to be
of bamboo, with a cork in the top. The stop
per was taken out and the cane found filled
with whisky.
Fernandina Mirror: On Thursday night sew
eral men under the influence Of whisky mace
the town quite lively in an unusual way by as
saulting a negro. unhinging and removing
gates from the fronts Of different residences,
defying and threatening the police force etc.
Meeting up with the Scayenger wagon at
about 10 o'clock. they proceeded 10 frighten
the driver and mules by firing pistol balls
into the wagon wheels and scayenger tubs
finally causing the mules to run away. While
playing with Minus McCleary's drays, a pa
trolman ordered them TO desist when
they made IL so livelIfOr him that he sought
the assistance OF the chief and another pa
trolman, when two of the gang were arrested
and locked up. Yesterday morning they
we're brought before Judge Baker, who i'm
posed fine Of $50 upon each OF them.
Charley Mitchell is a rich man. He has
taken care of the money he has made and put
it out where it has multiplied. Then, too,
Pony Moore his father-in-law. has money and
has helped him along. Mitchell owns 60 per
cent of q JOB and book printing house in Lon
don that brings him in several thousands OF
dollars yearly, and he has a music hall in
London which sometimes pays and sometimes
doesn't, but it is good for So 900 or $4,000
MI .FaT, hi
pany have been giving this season has netted
him from 81 00J to + 800 a week. Should he
lose this fight with Corbett he would probably
retire from the prize ring and the stage for
the reason that he could not make it pay as
he has been doing However, he is fond of
the excitement OF the public career he leads
and may cling to 1t. But, win or loose, he has
that solid income OF 6l0lOJ a year which
Will salYe many abrasions and be a consola-
tion when he is no longer able to give and
take hard punches. The English boxer re-
CARDS himself as almost as much an American
as he is an EngliShman. His wife IS an Ameri-
can woman, whom he married in Buffalo, and
one of his children was born in that city.
Since he has been grown he has spent half his
time over here, and he finds that life runs
more agreeably for him here than at home
Although the middle classes Of England ad-
mtre him immeasurably, the sporting lords
ana blaoklegs have no use for him nor he for
them. He is so perfectly Independent of no.
BILE patronage that he has been curt and often
rude to the young earl and marquis who
sought TO patronize him. On one occasion
nobleman opened 100 bottles of champage for
Mitchell and the crowd that followed him,
Mitchell followed the order by one for 200 bot
ties at his ownNeXpense.
Tampa Times; In the days Of the bucca-
neers, when Don Juau de Felipe was king of
these southern seas he made rich haul, and
being close pressed one night ran his boat
into the sheltered mouth of the Callosa-
watchie river. A few miles from its mouth
he found a small island covered with bay and
pabfluua n m Tho that
secreted his treasure on this island and sail
ing away was killed in his next piratical ex-
petition. Since then the island has been
known as Money island. The fortune hunters
who have been busy for months hunting the
treasure buried in the garrison have just re-
turned from Money island They char
tered the schooner Laura, Of Apalachi-
cola, and after taking on a months
supplies, sailed away from Tampa Dec l
They were T. b. Smith, Il. w. Hin, of Tampa
Arthur kretzi OF ST Louis Guy Hendry, OF
Dade City; William Trims. of Reedville Ga ;
S. D. Crews, A. b. Rawls and George CASTILLO
as sailors. Several days cruising brought
them to the mouth of the Calloosawat5hie
south OF Cedar Keys, and without much diff
iculty they found Money island. The party
then scattered in every direction to see il any
one could locate the buried treasure. A shout
from one man brought all the others running
to him. He pointed to weatherworn board
nailed to big bay tree, on which with dim
Guilty they read the words, Doodle Gone.
1889" AT the root of the tree was a
big hole which some former treasure
hunters had made. After consultation the
party agreed that the sign gave no assurance
that the treasure was missing so they decided
to dig and see. They divided into two parties
and dug by night and day, but when they had
made a hole big enough for a small house tC
sit In they lost confidence in their own sagac
ity and concluded the Doodle was gone. They
reluctantly turned their faces southwark and
arrived here Thursday sadder, poorer and
wiser men. Every one of them denies now thai
they found Money Island or went to look fol
buried treasures. They say they had fine
cruise and plenty OF sport hunting and fishing
They killed squirrels and birds by the hun
dreC, had an abundance OF fish but the deer
like the buried treasure, we're out OF sight.