The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-01

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waiting for the day A number Of Hud-
son river fishermen have come to florida
10 fish this season and they expect big
catches.
Fire broke ont Friday I'm the occupied
rooms above Max Goldstein's clothing
store az Feruaudina- The nre department
without much difficulty subdued the
flames. but the clothing stock was much
damaged By water. The loss is covered
by insurance
An interesting church conference was
held a the Methodist church at Tallahas-
see Thursday night Among other items
OF interest was the passing of a unanimous
vote of Invitation TO the annual confer
ence soon 10 meet in Orlando, TO hold its
session of 1886 in Tallahassee. IL has been
ten years since the conference was held In
Tallahassee.
Noah Altman. who drives a team for T.
=. Taylor. merchant and miller, was bad
ly injured at Taylor recently. While driv-
ing his team up TO a log he got jammed
up and had TO cut his way out tie neg
lected To notice where he was cutting and
struck his leg with the AK, INJECTING
wound about an inch deep and three inches
Ions, lic is mending slowly
Joshua White, a section hand on the
Pensacola, Alabama and Tennessee rail-
road. was accidentally killed near Eleven
mile creek, i'm Escambia county, while at
tempting TO board moving train His
hands slipped from the car and he fell
under the wheels and was Instantly kill
"a. He was p years of age and unnar-
ried.
F.. l. Gordon, who has been busy for
several months taking the official cen
sus of Duval county and the city OF
Jacksonville, viii leave for Tallahassee
Monday to make his official report TO the
state authorities. The census, which was
recently completed by him. gives the city
a population Of 25l30, and the county out
side of the city a population of 9,628, maxi
ing total Of 3i.75S for the county Of Du-
val.
An old white man. partially paralyzed
who said that his name was Robinson
and that he resided in Florida, was
brought to Pensacola Friday from BO-
hemia, six miles east Of the city. lie was
badly wounded with a pistol bail in his
right shoulder. He claims to have been
shot by an unknown man while lying by
a fire near the railroad track Thursday
night Ed Williams, a negro, has been
arrested and Jailed on suspicion of having
committed the deed.
Tow Williams. who shot Mamie Thomas
last Monday night, was given hearing
before Judge Hall at Fernandina Friday
charged with attempted murder. The
woman had sufficiently recovered to at
tend the trial According 10 her story
Williams shot her with the intention OF
killing her because of the knowledge she
possessed of a murder committed by him
in South Carolina. This information VIII
liams committed to her some time ago
and he has since shown that he feared
she would diVulge his secret. After hear
ing the evidence Judge Hall sent him TO
jail in default of bond for $1,000 to await
the action of the circuit court.
With the assistance of Prof. Pasco, edi-
tor of the conference minutes, Rev j. Il.
Ley pastor of the Trinity Methodist
church, South, at Tallahassee is prepar-
ing to issue a Jubilee and Souvenir Di-
reetory' OF the church. The book win
comprise about $50 pages, and is to en-
brace not only the minutes of the session
of 1886 90. but compendium of useful
information The annual conference TO
be reported therein will begin its sessions
at Orlando Dec. IS. The directory will be
profusely Illustrated with full-page half
tone engrayings of the leading church
buildings, college buildings, the presiding
bishop conference officers and the presl-
dents of boards. and is 10 be bound in
handsomely embossed covers printed in
raised letters. Mr. Ley purposes to print
1900 copies of this useful book and to dis
tribute il gratis in order that every church
official from Chattahoochee to Key West
may receive a copy
Jacksonville Times Union: Howard Mon
roe. a well-known colored man of this city
has just returned from Central America, /
where he went as one Of the gang of ne
groes from this city to work for the Guate-
mala Northern railroad, now in process
of construction He says that he has come
back 10 warn his race against going there
and tells narrowing tale of the hard
ships which he-says the men have to I'M
dorgo. He says that the men have to work
from in the morning until Z at night for
which they receive S3.2j a day in Guate-
mala money, worth about one-half of ours
and that out of this stipend IS cents "A day
is charged for rations, consisting of ba-
Only 30 minutes are allowed for dinner.
Many of his comrades from this city said
he, would return as soon rs possible They
gave to him about S. 900 to bring home. At
Puerto Barros he endeaVOred to trade the
money for American money but was una
BILE to do so except at 20 cents on the dol
lar. This he declined to do. At New Or
leans he was unable TO trade the paper
bills for anything. and that he took 30
cents on the dollar for silver. Monroe
claims that the workmen are treated more
cruelty than in slavery times. If the men
do not work the foremen beat them with
ak handles. The foremen are all armed
and thus prevent resistance. In one or
two instances he declared that sick men
were made to work and that they crawled
off and disappeared only to be found by
the buzzards lowering near. The Times
Union man asked him If any of the men
who left this city suffered that fate but
he could not recall an instance. Monroe
says that he is going on the platform to
lecture His Guatemala experience will be
the subject of an agitation to secure tho
passage of laws by the next legislature
for the protection of the Afro-American
citizens. 1t is a little difficult, however, to
see what good such law would do, mas
much as any man has the right to go or
stay as he pleases.