The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-14

/ Boys In St Augustine are engaged in
picking palmetto berries, which are
shipped 10 Jacksonville for medical use.
DR.. sollace MItchelTs new brick resi-
dence on Forsyth street at Jacksonville
is nearly completed, and will be ready TO
occupy in two weeks.
At Tavares oranges, lemons and lines
have suffered considerably from the re-
cent hard winds. and the loss from drop
| page ana thorns will be great
L. Hendricks has resigned the position
| of superintendent of the Paiatka Water
Works Company, and c. J. Bolinger has
| been appointed TO the vacancy.
Rev. Argue Macdonald the pastor-elect
/ OF the Union Congregational church at
| Jacksonville, will be ordained and in
/ stalled some time during the early part
! Of November.
/ Plans have just been completed for the
! erection Of two-story brick building at
! the corner Of Forsyth and Fifth streets
/ IN LaNilla, by Phillip II. johnson. The
/ building win be used for business pur-
/ poses.
At Kings Ferry early Thursday morn
! ing, Nicholas King, a young and highly
/ respected white man, committed suicide
| by taxing strychnine. He came home at
! clock Wednesday night, but went out
The Indian River fibre factory at III
| tusFllle shipped a carload Of palmetto
/ hnre to Philadelphia on Wednesday. This
| makes The second carload the above com
| peny has shipped north over the Jack
! sohFllle' Tampa and Key West railway.
The criminal court of record was in
session at DeLand during the past week
Inc only cases of any importance on
trial have been the New Smyrna riot
cases. In these cases the Bryans were ac-
quilted Thursday afternoon.
Owl City. one mile east OF Wilborn
| Where blind tiger" was being rum was
visited Thursday night and nearly demol-
Ished. what was left was consumed by
nre Friday night. The people of that com
vail p
f. c. Cooper Of Tampa he's secured the
contract to build the Japanese boat house
In the Tampa Bay hotel grounds. 1t win
cost about $4,000, and work on it will begin
as soon as the material can be secured
II VIII De an attractive feature of the
river front.
Postmaster Kennedy of ST. PETERSBURG
has recently shipped about I, 900 pounds of
saw Palmetto berries to manufacturing
druggists in northern cities These ber-
rles possess valuable medicinal proper
ties and bring remunerative prices. The
crop IS very large in this section.
At a meeting of the hoard of city COM
missioners at Pensacola ThurssaV night
tax ordinance was introduced to levy
tax of % mills on real and personal
property for the year 1894 for nnunicipaI
purposes. The ordinance was read FOR
the hrst time, and laid over under the
rules.
Sickness and death in the family re-
Gently caused d. B. Thrasher of lack
sonville to try to kill himself bv taking
~ grains of crude opium dissolved in
whisky When the condition of Mr.
Thrasher was found. DR. Matthews was
called in and by hard work the mans
life was saved
During the yellow fever epidemic in
800 andrew Wittendorf left his wife at
81. Augustine and went off in search Of
work. Mrs. Wittendorf heard notbinor ~
her husband until few days ago. when
she received a letter from him from
Dade county, asking her to come to him
Wltteluoft stated in his letter that he
owned an orange grove and was DOING
Wen MRS. Wittendorf left a few days ago
to join her husband
There is said to be a great rnanv so,,ir-
refs IN the hammocks around SunterviIla
OIu man harter, who is accused with
ms WIRE, of causing the death of Mrs
otdrke at OcklaWaha station last week
made desperate attempt to commit sui,
eide by taking a large dose of morphine
Ut. Marean was called at once and after
WORKING on the old man managed to p1lrnn
him out. Since the preliminary trial M
ana MRS. Harter have been living in the
northern part OF Ocala, having never re-
turned to Ocklawaha for fear of further
trouble. 49, '''SA
The state Firemen's Association will
| hold a convention and tournament 1T
| Ocala Nov. Is, IA and Is. The prizes sp-
sregate 500 in gold, as follows, state
championship race, first prize. Gun ana
SzOV IN gold second prize, cup and SIS in
solo, nook ana ladder contest first prize,
$loo IN gold second prize, $50 in gold: nov
city grab race, first prize, $3.50 in gold
second prize, $50 in gold; coupling contest
! gold medal, by Mr.. Phil c. CLARK snacioi
nose agent OF the Gutta Percha and Rub
pSI NahuIacturlng Company, New York.
| Kid hose race, prize $25 in gold.
~ . H. Thomas has bought of Mrs. C
| W. Chapln the quarter-acre lot north Of
| the De Soto hotel at Tampa Az soo,, ~, %
! ne can get the material he win huiId ~,
! II SoXlO0 feet two-story store huiIdino.
! lor rent. At the same time he will begi1
the erection of the two cottages in The
| rear of the hotel, which are aIrao5,y
| rented to Mr.. Considine and Mr. Wei
bridge The deed for the corner Iot bos
been sent on for Mrs. Chapin's sigma
| ture S'si@-
Titusville Advocate: Senator NJ
| quay and son, Richard of Beaver Do
! VINO nave been spending several DAYS ut
tle senator residence at st. Lucie. passed
! through IltusVille Wednesday on tbeir
! way home to Beaver. Pa In conversstio,,
| WIN an Advocate reporter Senator QUAY
SAID the mosquitoes were so bad diIrIng
the past few days that he could not stand
theif petslstency in presenting their bills
so intended returning home for a month
! or So when he would again be at his resi-
! dence at St. Iucie ''' 0'i-
The little daughter of jeff Peacock who
! HYes on Rocky creek near Mariana. was
bltten by rattlesnake one day last N,eoI,
S ont was walking through the potato
| patch, where the vines were very tbiciT
when the snake struck her. She ran TO
/ the house and her mother quickly han
! daged the leg above the bite and hurried
/ II IN the earth. The fanGs penetrated 10
| considerable depth, and must have
| struck an artery, as the blood came from
| lhe wound In spurts. Her father was some
distance from the house. but came home
! as quickly as possible and gave her about
| pint OF whisky to drink The heroic
! treatment overpowered the poisonous
virus and she is getting We'll
! Mrs. Carew Of Tampa has been
| IN Gainesville the past few DAYS