The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-19
FLORIDA.

The firm Of F. T. Scruggs & Co. of Orlan-
ohas been dissolved. Mr.. Scruggs has now
become sole proprietor.
Captain Charles A. Spencer has been ap-
pointed United States inspector of boilers
for the Jacksonville district
A well-known cattle man OF Orange coun-
ty, Uncle Jim Yates, is nearly eighty years
of age and goes after his cattle on horse
back over the range the same as a young
man, camping in the woods or open prairie
wherever night oVertakes him.
Capt r. A Ivey's new steamer, the c.
d. Owens, is now complete and underwent
inspection at Brandford Monday. 1t will
leave at once for Cedar Key, at which port
she will be registered, and will enter into
service on the Suwanee river, where she
is much needed in the naval stores trade.
The dead body of a man, supposed to be
a sailor from the British steamship Tap
sico, now at Pensacola was found on the
beach in the eastern part of the city Mon
day morning; There was a wound in the
back OF the head, supposed to have been
received as he jumped from the steamship
TO raft lying alongside. Death was evil
IDENTIFY caused by drowning.
John Chriswell. who was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life from Escambia county
for numbering his father, was accidentally
killed at Bailey's convict camp at Bron-
son last Friday. Chriswell was in phos-
phate pit at work and the mine caved in,
burying him alive. His back and neck were
broken, He was youth of about II, and
was heard to remark the day previous
that The wished he were dead and in hell"
He was buried at the convict camp.
Colley, the man who was shot Sunday by
Carney, was carried to Starke Monday.
He Is shot through the upper portion of
the lung. He is dong very well. Melvin is
ehot through the spine. The ball entered
near the vertebrae on one side. 1t was TAX
en- out by DR.. Stewart just above the hip
on the other side. His lower limbs are
paralyzed. He is in a critical condition.
Carney is under arrest at Lake Butler,
where he went Immediately after the
shooting. He is shot through the arm and
through the lower jaw, the ball lodging in
the back of the neck.
Lieutenant of Police Minor was arrested
at Jacksonville Monday morning by Dep
uty Sherin Vinzant on a warrant sworn out
by negro woman named Mary Bonnell,
charging him with assault and battery. He
was taken before Justice Smith and waived
examination He was released on his own
reoognizance until the next term of the
criminal court. The Bonnell woman claims
that Lieut. Minor struck her in the face
with buggy whip, but there were nc
marks on her face, and she has no witness
ses to prove her statement. lieut.. Minor
says that there is no truth in her charge.
A party of four gentlemen of Jupiter
Messrs. D. McClain, H. Young, Fred My.
Ter, and Ivey Kendrick, rowed up to the
beach at the inlet for the purpose of en-
1oying swim in the surf at an early hour
Sunday morning Downing bathing cos
tunes, they launched themselves into The
blue waters of the old Atlantic, and befor,
many minutes had passed a number Of
large sharks came boldly in among Tho
bathers, who made a hasty escape from
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from eight TO ten feet in length. and bu
for the speedy retreat of the bathers somi
of them would probably have made fin,
Sunday mornings breakfast for the hun
CRY sharks.
The sloop waterwitch, Capt w. NJ
Greenleaf, after a three-weeks' cruise re
turned TO Jupiter on the 18th laden witt
turtles of almost every description Thei
catch consisted of twenty of the hawkbil
variety, fifty loggerheads averaging iron
30 tos300 pounds, and three green turtles
the smallest of them weighing about fift,
pounds, while the largest will weigh full,
300 pounds. This one will be kept alive a
Jupiter until Mr.. Greenleaf can find a pur
chaser for him. Mr.. Greenleaf states tina
this turtle at Key West would bring .
cents per pound, gross. The sIoop was an
chored alongside the dock when the vsori
of butchering the entire lot of turtles be
gan. Several bushels of eggs Were remove,
from these turtles. The meat was QUAR-
tered up and a considerable quantity sol
to the citizens who congregated in grea
numbers about the dock. The remafnde
of the meat was put in pickle, which Nj
Greenleaf, says, will sell readily at abou
bill turtle, which Is taken off in scales fror
the back. sells from IS to $40 per pound
About thirty-six pounds Of this shell wa
procured from these twenty turtles MI
Greenleaf states that their trip would hav
been much shorter and more successful
had they not encountered rough weathe
during the entire time they were outside
Ihese turtles were caught between Jupite
Inlet and Scabbard Light a distance q
about l20 miles. The first turtle caugh
was Just off Jupiter Inlet.