The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-29
TALLAHASSEE eLEAN1NGs.
The New Railroad Will Be Opened OF
New Years. Day.


Tallahassee, Fla, Dec. 2S.-Train No. 4,
on the Florida Central and Peninsular,
due here at 12:45 o'clock Wednesday
morning, ran into an open switch at the
Tallahassee ice house and derailed two
cars loaded with coal. There was quite
an embankment at that point. The engine
left the track and went down the bank
Engineer George B. Currie Jumped as the
engine went down and was badly bruised
The passengers had lively shake up,
but no one was injured. The damage was
very slight.
Gilmore and Davis are building, at the
Florida Central and Peninsularidepot, a
ticket office, baggage room and platform,
4SX16 feet, all under one roof, for use by
the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia
Florida Central and Peninsula railroads
Miss Mary Page Randolph will give a
japanese tea Friday evening.
DIR. l.. ID. Booker, surgeon of the state
asylum at Chattahoochee, is on visit to
friends here
MIR. John w. Henderson, law student
in the University of Virginia, is home for
the holidays
MIR. Robert Hernandez, of Fernandina,
and Mr.. Richard Hopkins, of Jacksonville,
are spending the week with Tallahassee
friends.
Bishop Weed is expected here ON Sat
urday, and will conduct the services at
st. Johns Episcopal church on Sunday
and New Years day. During his stay in
Tallahassee he will be the guest of ex-
Gov William ID. Bloxham.
Senator A. M. Williamson and wife, of
Inverness, who spent Christmas with
Tallahassee friends, departed for home
to-day.
A. B. Blackburn and Miss Fannie Byrd
were married tonight, at the residence of
L. B. Byrd, by Rev. w. Nj. Poage, of the
Methodist Episcopal church South.
Cyrus Reed, colored man, was shot at
Chaires, twelve miles east of Tallahassee,
on Christmas day, by white man, name
unknown. DR.. Green attended Reed and
found his wound to be of very serious
character. He was shot in the left side
with 3S pistol ball, and the doctor cut it
out on the right side.
The Georgia and Florida Investment
Company owners and operators of the Car
rabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia railroad
has awarded VIC. Anderson of Brunswick
contract to complete a milling plant.
dry kiln, planning mill and various dwell
ing houses, within sixty days, at the Ock-
lockonee bridge, on the Carrabe ITALIA
hassee and Georgia railroad The mill
will have capacity of so, 900 feet of lum-
Der per day, and the kiln of 10000 feet.
The machine was purchased of the Geor-
gld IRON WofkS al augusta ana the STAN
dard Company of Louisville.
Rooms have been secured at the Leon
for Hon Wayne MacVeagh and party.
The first engine passed over the entire
line of the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and
Georgia railroad to-day from Tallahassee
to Carrabelle. The equipment for the
new road is due here tonight, and the
line will be formally opened on New
Years day.
Since the opening of the South Bound,
and the new schedule of the Florida Cen
trial and Peninsular system, which took
effect last Sunday night, the MORNING
NEWS has been received here at $3.50 D.
m, on the day of publication. The pat
rons of the News here are greatly de-
lighted with this new arrangement.
The machinery for the new ice factory
is coming in every day aud work on the
artesian well will begin at once.