The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-22

preparing 70 turn on a LlTrOM ne AlINN-
up the pole and threw u over the morse
and pillow, intending 10 throw II clear o.
both. II fell upon the pillow. badly fright
ening the horse: The animal mace leap
10 run. and as he did the piece OF timber
struck Barron in the abdomen cutting
very nearly through to his bowels.
J. B. Wallace, OF Jacksonville. who was
arrested on Monday on a charge OF talse
imprisonment. by conhning Mrs. Elizabeth
j.. Cdrman in q room at his house at the
corner OF Monroe and Clay streets, was
given a preliminary hearing before Jus
tice Willard at 1U.0 Tuesday morning,
Benjamin Upton testified that he mad
discovered the children passing food uD
10 Mrs Carman by string, and that up
on Investigation he found Mrs. Carman
locked IN a room n the third story or at
tic. He then proceeded 10 free the old lady
from her Imprisonment. After the evi-
dence was IN Tuesday, Justice WluaId
took ,the case under Amusement until 20
o'clock to-day, when he will render his
decision
Citizen: The subject of a race track IN
Jacksonville has been revived again by
the return to the city of ]. +. Stephens,
who has given the scheme the best Of his
time and efforts for nearly a year past.
Mr.. Stephens arrived in the city on the
steamship irOquOis from New York Tues
day morning, where he had been for sew
eral weeks comforting with well-known
horsemen and others who are interested
in horse racing. Mr.. Stephens returns
very much encouraged, and he stated to
a Citizen representative yesterday after
NUN mat AAlElt WAS ITO AUASEI any uOubL
about the building Of the track, and that
II all went well, the first Of next year will
see strings of horses from the stables of
the leading horsemen Of the country quar-
tered here. and some excellent racing as
well.
Sunday evening, about o'clock, as
the steamer Athens was on her return
from a pleasure excursion TO Lake Okla
chobee, when two and half miles from
Fort Myers, Miss Mary Frierson fell over
board and was drowned. Her father, Tay-
Tor trierson, was running to catchs her in
playful mood, and Mary ran outside the
narrow guards, jumped over chair in
the path, and landed in the river. Her
father followed so close that it seend to
river together. The father could swim
but little, and Capt ]. +. Menge nearly
lost his life in saving him, being complete
" exhausted. Mr.. Frierson was taken
aboard unconscious. Mary was drown
ed In sight of her mother and other rel
atlVes- The river was dragged soon af
ter and her body was recovered about
o'clock the same night. Miss Mary was
a great favOrite, bright. and of a happy
disposition. and her untimely death has
caused gloom over the entire communi-
~. Her age was 16
Tropical Sun: Dade county, which at
one time was synonym for water, mo-
rass and sawgrass, will, in the course of
the next ten years, be known as the gar
den spot Of Florida. Where are now
swamps will be vegetable farms, the pines
VIII disappear to make room for the or
ange, and all waste places will be re-
claimed. Thousands of acres of muck
lands exist that can be easily drained,
making the very finest truck lands in the
state. Besides the lowland, hundreds of
acres of high hammock soil lie ready for
cultivation as soon as cleared. In addi-
ton are large tracts Of pine lands of eX-
cellent quality, destined at an early day
20 be covered with orange, lemon and lime
groves. II there Is any part of Florida
suitable for citrus culture far enough
south TO be free from the danger of kill
ing frosts, that land is to be found in
Dade county. Lying on the eastern side
or the peninsula, close to the influence OF
the Gulf stream, and as far south as can
be reached in this state, Dade county oc-
cupies an enviable position. With a deep
water port in this section, II becomes the
natural highway between the United
States and Cuba, Bahama and South
America.
Tampa Tribune: 1t was a strange sight
that yesterday met the eye of the curious
in the undertaking establishment of NJ
Lovengreen-only a dead Chinaman but
a man so perfectly preserved and lying
so deep in the inscrutable majesty of death
that even the most Indifferent of obser-
vers forgot to criticize. Bean Kee was
only laundryman-the sort of man who
demands your hieroglyphic check before
ne VIII give up your shirt A man with
q long pigtail and dropping eyes who slung
starch IN Tampa, on Franklin street. near
Polk. In life he may have been ridicu-
lous, in death he was impressive and in
structive, and when Mr.. Lovengreen-the
man who had embalmed the body of the
dead laundryman-remo the face cloth
from what might have been the craven
semblance of an ancient Egyptian no.
body felt like smiling. The cue of the
dead man was still eoiled about his head;
his hands were still clasped lightly upon
his breast, and In an adjoining room
were the two Cinnamon who are to ac-
company the remains of their dead COM
patriot to San Francisco. Anybody who
imagines that dead Cinnamon are paupers
Will find himself way off when he comes
to look into the thing The body of Bear
Kee VIII leave here to-day accompanied
by the two Cinnamon, and will eventually
rest In the sacred soil of the Celestial
500. m