The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-20

and furnish much sport for the denizens in
catching fish.
Five Gales Of cotton foated ashore at
Palm Beach, Dade county, few days ago
and were hauled out and found In good con-
dition.
From Sunday morning, Jan. 8, TO We'd
nesday afternoon, Jan. II, no mail boat
arrived at Jupiter from Indian river, yet
the contractors call ours daily mail
At Melbourne Tuesday morning the mer-
curry was down to 2S' On the mainland and
to "a on the peninsula. The large pine
apple fields east Of Melbourne are unln-
iured.
The change from white to colored walters
has been made at the Tampa Bay hotci.
Billy Fitzgerald and bis corps Of wbi 9
walters being succeeded by W Percival and
well trained corps Of color, walters.
Mrs. Richmond Talbot of New York has
taken the Carr cottage IN st. Augustine,
/ which was occupied for two years by Mr..
and Mrs. George Winthrop Fo'sOm' Of
/ Lenox. The Folsoms have decided TO spend
the winter IN Washington.
! The residence Of L. VI. Spratt, hich was
turned in East Jacksonv lie Monday after
noon, was valued at 81, SO, and was insured
/ IN the Western insurance Company for SO, :
/ O00. The furniture was Insured in the
| Springfield company for $500.
The returns from the special eli 0 ion held
IN Leon 90 n v Tuesday Tor repIe sentative
| to the legislature Indicate the election OF
James Holland by majority OF from IS to
25 votes. There were four candidates in
| the field. MIR. Holland is q Baptist minister
and resides at Ocklocknee.
| What is known as the Hart place at Lake
| Worth, recently owned by Col H. L. Hart
Of Palatka, was sold during the present
week to George X. Davis OF Chicago direo-
I g. f..N (NAN. -
| 1t Is said handsome winter home will /
erected on the site, which is very beauti-
| full one.
Capt. j. w. Fitzgerald, superin, endent of
| the Plant steamship line, says the dredge
| Pico, which will be used TO cut the immense
ship canal at Port Tampa. was launched at
Mobile on Jan. 10. The machinery Will be
put on board as rapidly as possible, as the
dredge is needed badly at the Port TO carry
out the immense improvements that Mr.
Plaut has decided upon.
Mrs. Franklin w. Smith of Boston who
| usually spends several weeks of the early
| winter in New York, and her daughter,
Miss Nina LAIR Smith, have reached St.
| Augustine and are installed in their Moorish
house, Villa ZorRyda. which is one of the
finest cottages In the south and the only one
OF the description in the country. They
always entertain extensively during the
| season.
f. l.. McGinnis. the Florida solicitor and
buyer Of oranges for Olivet Bros. OF New
York, was In Jacksonville Tuesday night,
having come In from the Indian river Sec
ton. He Is fearful Of a general injury to
the oranges all over the state. Over half OF
the crop bad already left the state, and Of
the l. 900 600 or 500, 900 boxes that remain
be feels sure that large portion must be
| frozen or frosted.
Ocala Capitol: The CdpitOL had the
pleasure of meeting J. G. Holly Of Orange
Lake Tuesday, and one of ths largest fruit
and vegetable growers in the state Mr.
Holly has thirty-three acres planted in
cabbage aud says the late cold has done no
| injury to the crops of Orange Lake In
one or two exposed places the tender plants
we're nipped, but not seriously hurt Mr.
Holly mas large acreage in tomatoes, and
came to town TO purchase cloth covering
| for them.
A staff Of servants passed through Jack
| sonville last week en- route to Indian river,
where they will put in order the Caymap,
| the famous "houseboat" of Pierre Lorillarda
the New ork yachtsman and tobacco king
Mr.. Lorillard is expected south in few
| days. Early in March MIR. Lorillard's son .
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. William
| Kent of Tuxedo Park, and Mrs. Kent,s
sister, Miss Maud Lorillard, will join Mr.
Lorlllard on the Cayman. T. Suffern Taller
1
| return to New York by April for the mar
rage Of Miss Lorilard and Mr.. Taller.
At Titusville Tuesday morning the col
ored porter OF the Pullman car Clovis of
the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key Wesr
line. went into the white department of a
prominent saloon and asked to be served.
| he was told to go into the colored depart
ment. but refused Some words passed be-
| tween them and the negro left. Later the
train backed down to the wharf to get the
| passengers OF the steamer st. Augustine
| bound for Jacksonville. The porter had
taken out his stool and placed it at the car
| for the accommodation of those entering,
when the saloonkeeper came upon the scene
and accused the porter of having insulted
him in the morning. A dispute arose and
the porter was knocked down. Conductor
Hurley, seeing this and not knowing the
| cause, started into the car after his pistol
The saloon man called on him to halt, and
on his not obeying fired at him, the ball
gathering the glass in the front door. The
r was full of prominent people, both men
aAd women, but fortunately no one was in
jured.
The correspondent OF the MORNING NEWS
at Madison writes as follows: "Old Aunt
Mollie Walker, the veteran servant and
NANNY" OF the large Livingston fam lily
Of this place, died here this afternoon at 3
O'Clock. she was very old no one knows
grown woman slave away back In the '4Os
The late Col. Daniel j. Livingston boug hit
her out of a factory in South Carolina and
brought her with him when he migrated to
this state. Most people think that Aunt
Mollie's parents were original Africans.
She was an excellent servant and is known
n as NANNY" by grandmothers aud great
4 grandchildren. For the last twenty years
she has been cooking in the family of Judge
e. j. Vann. Her many "childreu," as she
called all the Livingston DESCENDANTS, now
spread over several states, will be panied to
hear OF the passing of the good old soul.
Among them are Archie Livingston,
Mrs. S. 8. Smith, Mrs. Judge E. J. Vann
and Mrs w. l.. Parramore of this place
Col. Knox Livingston Of Bennettsville, S.
c.. aud Mrs. DR.. J. s. n. Snow of QUIT
man, Ga. Many of them, some of then,
grown up and some babes have preceded
her TO the other world"
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