The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30

tt is estimated that there are several
thousand moCcasin snakes in and around
Alachua lake, and yet no person has been
bitten.
A little son of L. 7. Canova, of Palatka,
while fishing at Anastasia Island, near St.
Augustine Tuesday, got a tishook fas-
tened into his left foot that had to be cut
out by physician.
T. w. Tarver, who was implicated in
the killing of John Adams at Greenwood
last May, and imprisoned in the county
Jail at Mariana, and admitted to bail in
the sum of $4,000, has given bond and
was released last Monday.
Key West Equator Democrat: The
Spanish consul, Senior Soils, says that
his government is willing TO send a trans
port here for the unemployed and dis
tressed Cubans; but a great difficulty
presents itself in the quarantine regula-
tions in force at this port. That the YES
sci will be subject to fifteen days quaran-
tine, and even if the authorities allow her
to come into port without holding COM
transportation of the people from the
shore to the ship would probably cost
more than it would by paying the indi-
vidual fares by either of the steamship
lines now running to Havana.
Sumterville Times: The Warnell Lum-
Der and Veneer Company and other citi-
zens of this county, are to meet at War
nell tomorrow, Saturday, when they pro-
pose to organize a company for the pur-
pose of sending an agent to British Hon
duras, to buy lands and set out extensive
banana farms. w L. Ainslie, one Of the
principals and father of the enter
prise, informed the Times that it was the
intention of those mainly interested to
issue 100 shares at S25 per share. No one
would DE allowed to own over ten shares.
1t is said that British Honduras, as a ba-
mana producing country, cannot be eX
celled. Should this prove true, and the
claim that the ships touching that land
all offer and pay so cents per head, or
stalk, for the luscius fruit, it is quick
way of making a handsome fortune, for
the lands can be bought on easy terms and
low prices while the cultivation is claimed
to be of no great cost.
Orlando Reporter: Officer John w.
Mcdonald, who is in the city to-day from
ZellwOOd gives the following version of
the circums tances connected with the ar
rest of the mulattO NennOr Adams: Mr..
T j. Robertson of ZellwoOd, and myself
arrested Vennor Adams and Miss Bertha
Sellmer near Victoria station on the
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad
Sunday morning on warrant sworn out
by Vennor Adams wife; / placed VennOr
in the hands of Mr.. Robertson to be taken
to the Tavares jail, while l took Miss
Sellmer to Zellwood. In answer to my
questions while on the way to Zellwood
she stated that NennOr had first out
ragged her; that Vennor was working on
her fathers grove at the time and she
was just II years old then and is
% now; she was alone at home and
that Vennor came into her room
and with force accomplished his purpose.
He advised her never to say anything
about it and that he would always be a
good friend to her. Soon after this her
mother advised her to keep the secret to
herself Bertha said she thought the
matter over and decided to keep quiet.
She said that Vennor had been keeping
I'D this same intimacy ever since. She
often tried to discard the negro, but he
always followed her up, and at last she
felt that Vennor had such controlling
power over her that she came to the con-
clusion that she belonged to him. Officer
Mcdonald states that the negro made
boasts while on his way here from Tav-
aresl OF what he could do with white
women. He remarked that he had been
good to the white people of Zellwood, but
now. when he got out, he would be -
if he did not show them what he could
do.
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