The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-23

FLORIDA.
Senator John B. Gordon delivered his lee
ture on The Last Days of the Confederacy
at Jacksonville Saturday.
Hon P. p. Bishop is now associate editor Of
the Ocala Free Press He is one of the most
forcible writers in the state.
Pensacolans must relish gophers, as an
other thousand we're carried there from ST
Andrews bay Wednesday and sold.
Nine carloads of cabbages passed through
Gainesville Wednesday, over the Florida
Central and Peninsular, from Arredondo and
DaYville.
The Madison Recorder is "a years old. It
has among its readers several gentlemen
whose names have been on its books ever
since its first issue.
G. r. Farhnan OF New York has leased
Hotel Chautauqua, at DeFuniak Springs he
is proprietor Of the American Hotel at sara
toga Springs, N Y.
The committee of the Pensacola Single
Tax Club who recently invited Henry George.
the noted single tax lecturer, to deliver an adj
dress in Pensacola have received letter
from him accepting the invitation and fixing
Monday. April 30, as the date for the lecture
Charles Peyser, of Ocala is preparing
| large box TO be hlled with Palmetto brand
cigar clippings which he will send TO the
! New York World bread fund for the starving
poor Of that city Mr.. Peyser claims that
poor people like to smoke as well as eat. He
has secured free transportation for the boxes
by express.
Two engines went together on the Silver
Springs. Ocala and Gulf Friday at Gulf juno
ton below Dunnellon. The collision was he
tween freight engine and a switch engine,
both claiming the rightOf-way. They were
considerably damaged. Fifteen cars loaded
with phosphate were ditched and some OF
them were badly damaged.
Jasper News: A sleek, well-fed negro, call
ing himself Rev. w. Gordon, appeared in this
vicinity. about -four weeks ago, and began TO
preach in the various cOlOred churches In
glowing terms he talked Of Liberia and pic
q in hot f,.,.. "A
Many OF our colored people intrusted their
earnings to his care, which were to be used in
purchasing tickets for their transportation
there. Scouting several hundred dollars he
left TO attend as he said, convention in At
lanta, and he has not been seen nor heard
from since.
st. Augustine News While several boat
men were sailing along North river last
night, just at dark they noticed flock OF
buzzards on the west shore. Upon investi.
eating they found the birds were feasting
upon the nody OF man From papers found
in The pockets 1t was found that the dead
man was Owen McGrath, a man who has
lived here some time. He was about 50 wears
old and is believed to have relatives of some
means IN the north. letter was found in
1 his pocket, dated April 10, 1894. so he had not
been in the water long, although one would
| think so, for the flesh had all rotted from
the ace, his lower jaw was missing and
altogether the body was in a very bad condi
| tion.
Jacksonville Metropolis: H H. Buchanan
| Esq, has just returned from Ccala. where he
| went Monday on legal business in the case Of
! the libelled steamer Active This boat was
| libelled and sold by order OF the admiralty
| court OF the United States on April ., and
purchased by A. d. Stevens. of this city
! After the sale one Joseph j. Gibbons filed a
| bill In equity in the circuit court in Levy
county, and obtained an injunction against
| Stevens, restraining him from either remov-
| ing the boat from Cedar Key or selling it,
| Gibbons alleging that he had claim and a
lien against the boat for services as master,
but this was knocked sky high by Mr.. Buck
/ man, who succeeded in having the injunction
/ dissolved. The grounds for dissolution we're
! that the United States court only had
| jurisdiction over the cases of libel, and the
sale by order Of that court had given the
| purchaser clean title In this Judge Hooker
| agreed with Mr.. Buchanan h. L. Anderson
was attorney for Gibbons and Mr.. Buckman
| Tor stevens.
st. Augustine News: The shoes containing
| the saws, mentioned IN our issue of yester-
| day, were received by the prisoner, Leslie
! IN answer to letter sent to Mrs. Carrie
! Hoyt, NO. 8 Allston street Boston, Mass a
/ copy OF which is in the possession of Sheriff
! Perry. The letter is too long to quote fully
but few extracts from it will give an idea
OF the ingenuity Of this accomplished thief
/ II starts with loving messages to his dar-
/ ling Carrie, and'then tells a bogus story aDoI I
| having too much wine and quarreling with a
man. In The excitement, he said. l grabbed
my pistol ana nred, but in the excite
ment killed another man. He said that his
! bail is S2O,OOU and that he cannot possibly
raise 1t and relies entirely upon her TO help
| him escape. Buy pair of hack saws, writes
/ he, TO cut iron with, take them to a shoe.
maker and get him to put them in the soles
/ OF pair OF No shoes, and send them TO me
! To cover any suspicion send also some cheap
/ underwear: fix the whole in q package and
send II by express to Charles Pierce care OF
! Sheriff Perry, St, Augustine Fla. II this
/ projected scheme fails, he further
| writes, l shall soon be where
| your darling sisters are. and YOU
! dearest, and your darlings can have what
! money l have got Write at once and d IN lose
a moment, darling. With many Ass. your
| ever loving friend, Charles. MRS Hoyt car
! red out Charles instruction to the letter but
Leslie. or rather Clarence van Dutton did
not see it until Sheriff Perry opened il In
court yesterday when the shoes were ripped
open and the saws disclosed. Great credit is
due to the authorities for making such q
clever and important catch.
SOUTH CAROLINA
The Camperdown cotton mill will shut
down in about three weeks Two hundred
operatives will be thrown out OF emplovment
1t is not known how long the mill will remain
closed.
The Rev. r.. w. Seymour. a prominent
Baptist minister, died suddenly at Walhalla
Friday OF heart failure His father was a
lawyer OF Charleston, where he was torn and
reared For several wears he rran ehpd IL,