The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23

ana gave them the money. The men
then left the store and commenced
\ to shake the dust Of Daren from
| their feet; meanwhile Mr.. Howard waited for
! them TO return and make good their accounts
| but he waited in vain IL then occurred to
| him that he had made a mistake, and he at
| once Instituted a search for them. lnvesti-
| CATION proved that they were not tnbermen
| but we're dead beats, "snarpers.' slick
/ ducks. or anyt thing you We mind to call them.
| Mr.. Howard falling TO find them in Darien
| went to harrington, where he had the good
| fortune to capture his prize. The men were
1 brought back TO Darien and lodged in jail.
| They gave their names as W. h. McCullun
and W. l. Cfomley, of Montgomery county.
FLORIDA
The Owl Cigar Company OF Quincy have
| given out an order for 5000 600 brick 10 be
1 used on their new purchase at Little River.
The negro preacher of Quincy, who was
| sent to jail TO serve a sixty day sentence for
| taking tady from 4. b. Smith, has escaped
| presumably to the sweet lands Of LIBERTY
| he was working on the streets and escaped
from the guard
| At Orlando s. T. Evans H H Dickson and
| A. w. AGREE have formed a copartnership IN
| der the title OF ). 7. Evans & Co, for the
| purpose of carrying on the business of buy
! ing packing and shipping fruit. The parties
are we'll known here. Mr. Dickson is a
| dealer in feed and fertilizers
| The Merrill Stevens Engineering Company S
little steamer went up the river yesterday
| from Jacksonville with the Florida Dredging
| Companys dredge No, 2 pile-driver and a
| housed oat, which 1t will tow to the Volusia
| bar. be dredge and the pile-driver will be
used in making improvements TO Volusia bar
and the hands will use the househoat TO live
! in.
At Crows Bluff, on Sept. u, Walter Nc.
Larty, boy ~ years old, encountered an i'm
mense rattlesnake while picking palmetto
| berries. Alter quite an encounter. he sue
| ceeded In killing his snakeshp," which
! measured Elk feet and nine INCHES ana had
| twelve rattles and button. Not many boys
of Walters size would attack such snake
| with pole.
| guinea hen on telegraph pole at the cor
ner OF Ocean and Forsyth spreets at Jack
| sonville, caused a crowd to gather in a few
| minutes Friday. Several began throwing
| sticks. pieces OF brick and anything that came
TO hand, but the fowl sat unconccrned until a
| small boy hit it square on the head when it
| fell to the ground stone dead. The guinea
| escaped from a coop in front of poultry deal
| er's store in Palace IoT.
Tampa was visited Friday by the most ter.
rife rain storm that has been witnessed in
| many years. The wind blew a great gale and
| many fears were entertained as TO the safety
| OF tenement houses about town, and many
| roofs were damaged and foods of water
| poured into the buildings. According to the
government register, the dOwnpOur amounted
| to 462 inches in ten hours which is the heav.
| lest ever recorded at that place.
Stop thief stop" is becoming quite com.
| mon cry in Quincy. last sunday a cigar
maker left early in the morning for Faeevlle
WIN a NlCW " u0ltduQlLB Love ~ t1thflu OF q
| pill purchased the day previous, M. A Love,
| hearing OF this, hired fast horse and availing
| himself OF the ervices of a sleuth- hound de-
teetive, was promptly on the trail. They ran
| their game TO earth at Faceville and as Mac
TUCK the man, Meade "Nipped" him.
Gadsden Democrat: Stearns bueking
| broncho slapped negro in the face with his
rear foot at Quincy, much to the enjoyment OIL
a crowd Of onlookers, last Wednesday morn
ing. While the negro has not suffered any
serious dishgurmeut OF visage, the horse car
not be said to be as well or as 1t has lost the
use OF the leg and is under treatment of Mul
ligan celebrated liniment. a supply of which
Mr.. Stearns procured from Gray's Come
dams.
The competition among the five local pa
pers of OCala o publishing liquor license pc
ttions has become so fierce that the price ha.
got down to $40 while one party, in sheer des
peration, offered to take the bunch for A
apiece This is in striking contrast to the
price paid for the same service In 1881 whel
there we're only two saloons in that place
The legal rate then charged, when each sa
loon planked down FOR that service was Sl7
for the publication for each permit.
Capt, John Farrell returned TO Jacksonville
| Wednesday night with Marzyck S pile drive
Hustler. which he has had command Of NJ
the Altamaha river. where Mr. Marzyck ha
finished building 900 feet of trestle-work ant
wharf 100 feet long for the lorida Contra
and Peninsular railroad. The trestle leave
the main line just a little one side of tn
trestle over the river, and runs down to AM
| alongside of the river. The trestle and whar
have been built for the porpose of unloadn
naval stores from the river steamers.
| Sheriff Chester was called posthaste u
River Junction last Tuesday on a Telegram
from Deputy sheriff Carol at that point l
seems that negro man had emptieda charg
of small shot from double barreled gun int
the head of another negro. The man ha
been arrested, arraigned before Justice Rich
ard and bound over, but In some way hal
outwitted the deputy and made his escape
The sheriff carried down his dogs to run tn
criminal down, but the man could not b
located. The escaped prisoner had on hand
| cuffs. but when last seen he had succeeded i
breaking the chain that held them together
| had procured his gun and was making for tn
swamps. AS the victim OF the little TRACED
was shot in the head, of course he is not il
! jured beyond slightly perforated scalp.
The influx of tramps and poverty-striclte
| workmen from the north has begun an
strange races are being seen In the Jackson
| vile police court Yesterday there wer
| four white men in court charged with beinl
I suspicious characters, having been wander
ing about the streets with no visible mean
, OF support They we're John BaXton, Waite
! ! Burk Joseph Lawrence and John Leckey
, They all said they had come from the north /
search OF work. The Judge said he had ma
considerable trouble with men OF their kin
| last winter, and had dealt with them lenientlt
, as II was hard TO distinguish between tn
I honest workmen and the genius tramp. IA
I | gave these men the bench. OF tn
doubt. however, and discharged them win
the proyisO that they leave the city within
: | twenty-four hours.
, A look over the plantations Of castor bea
! plants put out by r. ID. Kirkpatrick of Oi
, | lando, last spring, shows that the plants ar
! Il, making strong and vigorous growth. A
! / ready some OF them are beginning TO forr
! | heads. ana the prospect OF a large yield H. G,
ceedingly promising. Mr. Kirkpatrick bror 81
here and used IN planting the bean which ia
! been IN cultivation In the west for man
| years, and which is used In the manufactur
. | OF oil in that section. The plants. howe vel
| seem IN every way as strong and thrifty a
Z those Of the Palma Christi, which IS so con
7 mon Ia the yards throughout Florida IN thi
experiment OF Mr. Kirkpatricks proves su,
: eessful. IL Will open up a new industry 70 IN
, farmers OF Florida In the west the plant
cultivated In extensive fields like corn Bu
the early frosts are always menace, and n,
| quently are source Of loss. as the plant 4
Z sensitive 70 cold, and when frosts come, 81
, fruit not fully matured is a total loss. Fr,
a quontly only small per cent OF the heads ar
. sunciently ripe 10 be OF any value whe
the frost cuts down The plant Here IN
season IL three or four months longer and
| frequently happens that an entire winter
: passed with no frost severe enough 10 cut th
2 plants.