The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-11


days. on Monday morning. Dec. 81. cab
page seed which left Philadelphia per
telegraphic order Of Mr.. Lyle were Mon
day, Jan. z, growing in his garden.
An order adjudging Jane W. Lyman in
sane has been made by Judge Call of the
circuit court at Jacksonville The order
was made upon the petition Of Frank Ly-
man, nus band Of the unfortunate woman,
and upon the report of Or J. d. Fernan-
dc2, the attending physician. The case
or Mrs. Lyman is "a very sad one. Mrs.
J.. man was IN during the recent cold wea-
Their, and three times the house In which
she and her husband resided caught fire,
&Hd MIR. Lyman. who was the only person
IN ttc house besides his wife, had to fight
lire ana take care of his wife. II is eX-
pected that one Of the attendants from
the state asylum for the insane will arrive
az Jacksonville in day or two to take
Mrs Lyman 70 Chattahoochee.
W. III. Morton. alias Bill Traitor. alias
flemlng, VINO seems 10 be quite well
known to many people in Florida, is now.
accompanied boy has partner in Orlando.
lie was before the municipal court
Wednesday morning on "a charge Of fight
ing, and was fined SO and costs. Traitor
and his partner were at Orlando on bail
TO appear in the criminal court next Mon
cay morning TO answer 10 the charge or
sWndius man al Sanford by means OF
loaded dice. Their Sanford bondsmcn sur
rendered them Wednesday, ana after the
case in the city court was disposed Of,
both We're taken in by Sheriff Ander-
son, but at once gave "a new bond They
are of genuemanly appearance Trailor is
q man OF exceptionally line physique, q
feet and an inch or two high, and with
princely air.
Jacksonville Metropolis The big stack
OF the new electric power house was COM
pletCd W eduesday. The stack is the high
est IN the city. 1t is built of pressed brick
ana is 100 feet high. During the afternoon
Capt. VI hite, the contractor, extended
Invitations 60 his friends to go up TO the
top Of the stack and take a look over
the city lt Is needless TO say that the
invitation was declined by nine out of ten,
bul Few NentureSOme spirits took mp the
offer and went to the top. II will be a
great surprise to many to know hat "a
great brick structure ike this, built solid
and firmly cemented, will sway very per-
cepthly, so much SO that pail Of water
carried TO the top and filled to two inches
of the rim will slosh out by the sway.
Capt. White says that this is caused by
the grayitation Of the earth. and that
could il be possible to erect a chimney
az that hight that would be rigid and firm
that 1t would be apt to fall down. but that
when 1t vibrates it shows it is perfectly
plumb
Circuit court met at Tampa Wednes-
day i'm adjourned session to try the case
against Sela +. Harrison charged with
the murder of w. NJ. Hendey at St Pc
tersburg last August Two days have
been consumed already, and the testimony
Is not half in. Wednesday was the most eN-
citing and extraordinary Of any ia the
history of the court for years. Ncdnes-
day afternoon Jennie Harrison, wife Of
NlAt 'tNAf ilAltAltt " as lAtfNl Oll lllt oldllts
IT was the intimacy existing between this
woman and Hendley that caused Harrison
TO kill him, and the correspondence be
tween them during this intimacy was the
bone Of contention which caused bad
blood between two attorneys and the
withdrawal OF one from the case. As the
successor of Thomas Palmer as states
attorney II. c. Macfarlane had come into
possession of this correspondence. and
to obtain this as evidence for the defense
the counsel for the defense made a bitter
lEDt. finallN succeeding. In the
of the struggle NJ. b. MaCfarlane. coun-
sci for the defense, withdrew from the
case and started to leave the room. Judge
Phillips interposed for the time being
The line of the defense Will be a plea.
of insanity and cause for committing the
decd.
In Lee county it is not possible to de-
teImine the extent Of the damage done
by the freeze with reference TO the more
tropical fruits, hut it is certain that the
oranges are not frozen. The trees are
not hurt and show no signs of the cold
even lemon trees are green and thrifty.
The oranges We're not frozen in 1856 nor
are they now although the mercury went
down to p degrees and ice remained un.
melted for ten hours 1t is a fact how
ever, that the guava trees are killed
many, but not all the mangOes and most
of the pineapples. All the tomatoes. beans
cucumbers, and everything on that line
are killed. Cabbage, turnips. lettuce
beets celery. radiShes and Strawberries
are unhurt. Small grape fruit and orange
trees. only three or four years old fully
exposed, show no signs whatever of the
freeze. II is said that the entire tomato
crop all the way from Fort Myers to Marco
is a total loss. Avocado pears, tamarind
sapodillo, seagrape rubber trees, sugar APP
Pile bamboo, etc, all seem to be killed ex-
cept the sapodillo, and as they We're not
killed in 1886, they may survive now
1t is believed that only the limbs of many
Of the mango trees are killed. and that
they Will come out within year or two
! The loss. however, in Lee county is pretty
heavy.