The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-09

FLORIDA
Work on the fair grounds at Ovisdo is
being pushed rapidly, ana the scheme prom
ises to be successful in all particulars
Leesburg Conn ercidl The colorsd
people, some of them, amused themselves
Christmas week quarreling. One negro
shot a rife ball after another negro. The
ball missed but went through window and
through a shirt that q washer woman was
| ironing.
J. Il. King, of Oviedo, has disposed Of
all the fruit on his seven acre grove at Gee
Hummock. BE sold the crop TO. b., amount
ing 10 1851 boxes, for which he received
e., 673 go, or an average net (. o. b. of 81 20
per box. As the expense in putting up the
fruit was less than 30 cents per box IL will
be seen that the crop Melted Mr.. King about
81 40 per box on the trees.
Friday an Orlando man met an acquaint-
0nce, who desired him 10 come In and be
introduced TO his wife and daughter. After
several vain at empts to evade the introduce
ton he confessed that he had made a
New Years resolve never to enter a barber
shop again; he had let his wife cut his hair. 1t
hadn't been done in a style to make it desir-
able for the victim to go where it vas nee
essary to take of his hat and he was ex-
cused.
The steamship City Of st. Augustine,
! from New York. while sndeavorinR to en-
ter the St. Johns river Friday night by
moonlight, ran aground on the north
breaker and stuck there all night. The
/ Kate Spencer seeing the steamer in her per-
| ilous position went out 60 her rescue, and
after several hours work succeeded in pull
! ing her off Saturday morning. The City
OF St. Augustine is not damaged.
Barlow NelCS: Por several months il has
| hapn uanaFallU EDAmn that s.nuufarfait
money was being manufactured close TO
| Barlow and some OF the merchants have
been victims Of the swtndlers. Last Tues
day Tom Taylor was arrested by q warrant
from Citrus county, where he is now in Jail
| for passing the spurious stuff at Inverness.
Saturday morning warrant was sworn
| out for Charley Cochran by two negro mer-
chants of this place who had been duped by
him to the tune OF $40 apiece. Cochran was
arrested by Sheriff Ballard and Policeman
Shanahan at bis residence about eight miles
from town and incarcereted in Jail Mon
day Cochran waived preliminary trial and
Judge Durrancs fixed his bond at $7O0.
Taylor's bond in Citrus is 81, 0O0. Neither
has as yet been able to make one sufficient
to be released on. The counterfeit money
is principally in S. and $40 gold pieces and
| is the best imitation that has ever been oir-
culated in this part of the country. Sheriff
Ballard found the place where the stuff has
been moulded aud captured their entire
apparatus.
Orlando Reporter: At an early hour
Wednesday night while the streets were
full OF pedestrians, two white men were
seen by one of the guards at the jail 81
scale the fence of the jail yard. The guard
at once started for the two men and they
! climbed back over the fence, making their
way through the alley back Of Bowen'G
grocery store and across Pine street and on
through the alley at the side of Charles
Rocks bakery, and thence through the
several alleys toward the railroad, where
their pursuer lost sight OF them Sheriff
Anderson Aeeing a light in Montana ra's
cell, and observing hiGl reading there,
to the train robbers cell and gently tapped
on the outside wall of the jail TO see what
would be the outcome. The light in Nc
Namara's cell was extinRuished as soon al
the tapping began, and McNamsra imme-
diatelY appeared at the cell door. he
threw down a string, 20 one end OF which
was attached a piece of tin can hammered
together so as TO form a weight. The tiu
lodged on the window sill Sheriff Ander-
son thrust his hand through the grating OF
the window and, grabbing the string
broke it but secured the portion TO whiot
the tin weight was attached. McNamara
Of course, offers no explanation of tbs
affair. The superstition is that some party
or parties have been arranging with Nc
| Namara to furnish him, by means of thii
string elevator, with some instrument OIL
method by which to effect his escape.