The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-12

The fifth annual commencement Of the
/ Jasper Normal Institute. at Jasper, viii
occur June 20 and p
| The Williams campmeeting will begin
/ at Williams camp ground, thirty miles
! north of Pensacola. on July :, and VIII
| continue several days. Several promi-
I nent ministers Of the Methodist church
\ viii be in attendance.
/ The tomato crop in the section around
/ Boardman is very short. Large shipments
\ are now being made. Few truckers,
! though, Will pay expenses. Orange Lake
/ shipped seven car loads Of watermeions
/ last week. This crop is also very short
The Monroe county commissioners, at
| their meeting on Thursday night, an
nounced an election for the purpose Of vot-
/ ing for or against bonding the county TO
/ construct road from Key West to Key
| Largo. The election will be held on the
! 1rst Tuesday in August.
1t was ordered by the school board at
| its meeting at Green Cove Springs last
/ week that all schools to which teachers
! have been assigned shall begin on the irst
| Monday in July, except the Green Cove
| Springs aud the Middleburg schools, they
/ TO open on the first Monday In September.
At West Palm Beach pineapple ship
ments are going out at rapid rate now.
/ Few, If any, returns have come in yet,
/ SO il cannot be stated what pines are
| bringing, but it is believed that the prices
| are good. Tomato shipments have not
/ yet quit coming in, and all the fruits are
1 in fine condition.
The postoffice employees have carefully
checked over the May mail and find that
| the Jacksonville office handled 1896 3S9
/ pieces this year, against 1864 last. The
| Increase was so great that a recheCk was
asked for. The recheck was made and
| no error found. The increase is much
! over 100 per cent.
DIR. Charles NJ. Merrill of Green Cove
| Springs has gone north, having been ap-
| pointed physician of the Hotel Childwood,
| Adirondacks, managed by Mr.. W. T. In
Colds Of the Magnolia hotel. DR.. Merrill
| VIII return to Green Cove Springs at the
| close of the Adirondacks season, about
! the first of November.
Two Miles west of Middleburg Monday
morning, Ruth Broskie was busy milking
the cows and had left the baby and two
or three young children in charge of a boy
| about years old. One of the younger
boys took a match and deliberately APP
| piled it to his little brothers clothes,
| burning the child from the knees upward
! ia fearful manner. There is 10 chance
for the child's life.
The largest piece Of moulding ever at
| tempted and successfully accomplished in
| Florida was the casting of a hammer for
| the Plant Investment Company's pile
| driver which is at the port The work
| was successfully completed Monday by
krause 4 Wagner's machine shops, at
Tampa. The weight Of the hammer is g. 400
pounds. and the metal was two days in
cooling.
DeLand Record: Messrs. Al Bennett and
| win Woodward left in their teams last
week, with their destination not known.
They had four mules and two wagons left
on their hands after the freezes, and they
are going to keep on going until they are
sold or employment found for them They
crossed the St. Johns at Crows Bluff will
! touch at Ocala, Tallahassee, thence en-
route for Louisiana.
Two of the sailors of the schooner S. b.
| Hubbard, now at Fernandina, have I'M
| tremendously decamped, and with them
| has gone the greater part of the fore
| castle-that Is, of those things that are not
usually nailed down in this part of a ship.
! The two men who disappeared are named
! Tom Luke and Joe Mccoy. and with them
went several suits of clothing. some
! razors, and number of other articles of
more or less value.
Palatka Advertiser: Capt. r. j. Adams
/ showed us this morning a curious and in
| teresting relic of our late war, it being a
! schedule OF maximum prices for impress
ment of army supplies fixed by the COM
| mission of Florida, dated Jan. ], 1865. Out
of a long list of articles and prices enum-
/ Grated we select a few to show the rates
| allowed at that time by the confederate
| government: Bacon, SIPS per pound /;
! flour, $50 per barrel; lard. s. per pound /;
| molasses, Sc per gallon; sugar, $2S6 per
! pound; horses, 81, 200 each; whisky, $3.50 per
/ gallon; brandy, $40 per gallon.
Frank Godfrey of Jacksonville, who
went to Nashville, Tenn. last week where
he was married to Miss Reese, also of
! that city, had a very disagreeable expert
/ ence while in Cincinnati on his wedding
! trip, according to the Cincinnati Post.
| Billy Traylor, the well known conf
dence man who was arrested at Jackson
! vile last winter, and afterward given
of town, did the job for Mr. Godfrey.
| Iraylor was arrested in Cincinnati for
lettering on the streets. and shortly after
! his arrest Mr.. Godfrey called a. the DO
| lice station and identified Traylor as one
| of the men who had fieeced him out of
| $50 in money and a gold watch He is
| quoted as saying that he met some men
at the Stag and had gone with them
to saloon near the corner of Seventh
| and Vine streets. He was drinking and
| readily went into dice game. and In less
than an hour he was beaten out of his
money and watch.
Several days ago County Judge NJ. ].
solomon, f. a. Hentz clerk of the cir
cult court, and other prominent men at
Bristol preferred charges to the COVER
nor against Jasper Kyle, sheriff of Liber-
ty county, for malfeasance in office on
Saturday morning Judge Solomon received
a letter from Gov. Mitchell saying that
the sheriff had been cited to answer the
charges by June q, or he would be sus-
pended from office on that date About
month ago a man claiming the name
Of j. w. Jones arrived at Bristol, pre-
tending to represent two patent rights
one to cultivator and the other to a
machine to shorten the spindles of We.
hieies' and offering TO sell rights in the
state. He succeeded in selling the right
to the spindle-cutting machine to two
men at Bristol for the same county, and
ned one night after supper The business
men promptly 9 subscribed a re-
ward of $50 for the APP.
prehension of Jones A warrant for his
arrest was sworn out of the county Judges
office, placed in the hands of the Sheriff
who started on the track only a few
hours behind Jones. The sheriff after
travelling a few miles returned home
without his man, saying that he had lost
track, and after being prevailed upon by
the county judge and others the sheriff
made two other starts after Jones each
time returning with some excuse for not
pursuing his man further Finally the
a a dan.
uty, and they went to Quincy where they
found Jones. The sheriff returned home
In coming back the deputy allowed tbe
prisoner to travel a roundabout route
ana during the night, while stopping al
me mouse of some women, the prisoner
shpped from the guard and made his es.
cape. ~