The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-16

. looking well IN sections Of Putnam county.
The shipping season for LeConte pears,
( peaches and grapes is almost over at De-
/ Funlak Springs.
fire department of its own, with hose, wag-
| Ons, horses. etc.
The election at Palmetto for OF against
] bonds 10 build a school house resulted unani-
/ mously in favor Of bonds
The Plant and Flagler combine IS talking
/ about eEeCting the largest hotel in the world
at Lemon Point, on the gulf coast.
/ Messrs ,ach & Miller OF the well known
/ Beach Mailer line, Will soon put on a new
! steamer between Palatka and Drayton Island.
/ Brown & Fraser of Tampa are trying + Tor
! Ida clay for brick. On saturday they fired
/ kiln OF 10000 at their yards, three miles west
/ OF the city.
/ Alligator shooting at the foot OF Main
1 street Jacksonville, attracted a large crowd
/ and caused considerable excitement Tor sew
/ eral minutes recently.
The Law and Orie~ League Of Pensacola
| is making a hard tight to stop the saloons
\ from selling liquors on Sunday. Mayor An
! derson is working with them.
/ The colored Me hoCists of Pensacola and
! vicinity are preparing for a camp meeting on
/ an extensive scale. to be held at Live oak
/ park near here beginning Aug. %
| Mr. J. w. Roberts, one Of Tampa's enter
/ prislng plumbers, has secured contracts for
/ eighty-four buildings in Ybor city, among
/ them being the large Seidenberg and 1ruJillo
/ ia tories.
The population of Jacksonville is % 800, or
| over 600 more than was given by the Porter
! census for 1890. n W. Clark, postmaster,
made the census last month, having the car.
| riers do the work
Tropical News Fort Myers: The cattle
men who return d from their chase after
/ stolen cattle Friday, succeeding in securing
only about forty or fifty head Of cattle OF the
| hundreds driven OF.
The Southern Phosphate Works of Orlando
| IS making an excellent reputation for its
/ goods, and 10 more conveniently handle its
/ increasing trade. has been compelled to erect
an addition to its works which is 4OX5O feet.
Work on the interior OF the Jacksonville
! government building was commenced Thurs
/ day by Snyder " Co. Of Atlanta, Ga. who
| were awarded the contract for the furnishing
! Of the interior. The first work to be done IS
the plumbing
| NJ. J.. Wineman & Co Of Palatka contrib
! uted quite a sum to the United states treas
| ury Monday. Z he firm received seven bales
| OF stemmed and seven bales Of unstemmed
| tobacco from Havana via Tampa. The duty
amounted to 873d.G5.
News was received in Jacksonville Tuesday
OF a wreck on the Florida Central and PENN
sular railway, early yesterday morning, about
i've miles south OF Starke, in which thirteen
box cars we're smashed into klndling wood
but no one was Injured.
A novel overland trip is contemplated by
| three of Orlandos wellknown young men
! They purpose making tour from Florida to
san Francisco on BICYCLES taking in the east
| first by making flying trip to Boston, from
whence they win continue their wheeling
tour to the city of the Golden Gate
An accidental shooting occurred at Chase
Vile Tuesday. A colored man, whose name
! could not be learned. was out hunting Mon
] day afternoon, and while rammlng home
! char-e OF bird shot the gun went of aud the
| shot entered his face The use of the right
| eye was lost and possibly that of the left.
Col II. s. Haines, vice president OF the
! Plant System and ia ksOnyille Terminal
/ Company said to the Jacksonville Metropolis
men tuesday that within the next few months
/ the Terminal Company and the Plant system
! would eXpend in the neigh! OrhOod of a mill
| lon dollars in the new union station, the cleo
| trio street cars etc
In West Hansontown Monday night Jose
! phine Sancbes was seriously wounded by
| pistol ball striking her on the chin ana cut
ting close 10 the lugular vein as it cut through
/ the left side OF her neck. The pistol was fired
| by Charlie Jones, a tau, slender, black negro.
| blind IN one eye, who was arrested yesterday
| morning by Ohicer Tyler, and is now in the
| city Jail.
A few days ago Miss Mary Peert of Ella
| Vile beautiful girl Is years old, was as
| saulted by an unknown negro Since then the
| whole neigh Orhood has been hunting him,
| but met with no success, until to-day about
! II o clock. he was caught and identified by
/ the girl. He acknowledged it and told OF an
| other who was with him. They were lynched.
| The girl will live
The boats. extra rigging, cables, etc, saved
! from the wreck OF the Norwegian ship Cath
rlne, have ueen taken to Pensacola and will
! be sold at auction Thursday by the under
/ writer's agent. The hull of the ship, as she
lies, win also be sold. The vessel was form
| erly the Charlottesville of Liverpool. She
| was built about twenty years ago, but had
recently been overhaaled, the copper bottom
having been put on new year ago.
The residents of Archer and vicinity were
| highly entertained aud instructed a few even.
ings since by a lecture delivered by I. Gilbert
Pearson OF Guiltord College, N. c., on his favor,
tie topic in ornithology embracing Birds OF
| North America, but more especially of the
south, and Florida in particular Florida is
the great sanita"ium to which almost every
I species OF migratory bird comes TO escape the
rigOrs Of a northern winter and TO seek food
which abounds in endless variety and
/ quantity in marsh lake and uplands
suited to the .epieurean taste of each indi-
vidual bird. His plea for the preservation of
plume birds from wauton destruction was re-
/ CeiVed with loud approval His word picture
OF the destruction OF herons in the breeding
season and the consequent starvation OF the
young by thousands was very touching. The
speaker expressed himself as in favor OF the
enactment OF proper laws for the preserya
ton OF all birds and made the fact apparent
that as the birds were driven out insects. Diet,
rimental to the maturing OF crops became
more abundant 1he lecture was illustrated
by about fifty mounted specimens
Times Union: Col c. p. Cooper father Of
Cons ressmau G. NJ Cooper, was the recipient
OF many congratulations Monday upon reach
ing his 9th birthday. Col. Cooper is not on Nv
one OF the oldest residents of Jacksonville
and a distinguished me .nber OF the bar in
Florida, but he also hears the proud title of
Icing the nestor Of the Jacksonville bar II
was in 1915 when Col Cooper first came To
Jacksonville, and in 1917 he was admitted 10
the Lar 1t took special act OF the leglsla.
ture TO do this, as he was then only 10 years
OF age. Col Cooper also has he distinction
/ OF icing the only person still living who
first organized the democratic party In
Florida. This was also in 1915 and
/ although but a mere STRIPPING OF a lad al
that time his talents were TAR above the or.
binary and he served his party Faithfully and
emciently. This was the year that Florida
was admitted TO the union. he was the only
delegate from Duval county to the democratic
convention held al Monticello that nominated
William bailey for governor of the state and
| eN-Gov. William z, Duyal for congress- Mr.
Cooper stumped the stare during that cam
paign for the democratic nominees and al
though they were OF course defeated the re
pubhcans then having control of the state
yet Col Cooper now refers to that time when
as boy orator he stumped the state with
a feeling OF pride.
POLITICS IN THREE STATES.