The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

own membership fee. In the smaller com
manderies, where expenses are light, these
fees are sometimes as low as $25. or even
go The proposed increase Will go into
effect the latter part of the present year,
or with the beginning of next year.
At Osteen Saturday one of Benjamin
cow. He was riding 1t at the time. The
horse was hooked just back of the saddle
and did not live an hour.
Jupiter inlet is gradually closing up.
out with perfect ease, a fiat bottom boat
can hardly go now. 1t is thought that
this inlet has seen its best days.
The farmers of the western portion of
ter condition now than they were a few
weeks since, but the yield of corn and
cotton will not be as large as was at
first anticipated.
store of Weeks Bros at Leesburg,
through the transom over the back door,
and relieved the firm of goods amount
ing to between $500 and $500 in value.
There Is no clue to the perpetrators of
the theft.
James Harmon, a negro brakeman on a
work, train. on the Plant system was
struck on the head and knocked of the
train by the slab run of Drew's mill at
Columbia city Tuesday. He was on top
of the train to apply brakes, when 1t ian
under the slab run. His skull is fractured
and he Is not expected to live.
j. H. Mills had narrow escape from
death at Fernandina, Tuesday With
other workmen he was engaged in tear
ing away q portion of the Lehman build
ing, when loosened scantling fell and
struck him on the head. DIR. Was was
summoned, and when he arrived at the
scene he had not only to restore Mills
to- consciousness, but another man who
had tainted while trying to render Mills
assistance. Mills was taken to his home
and is said TO be doing well.
The colored citizens of Gainesville,
headed by Joseph Ingram, are making ar
engagements for a celebration in that city
on Aug. i to 6, inclusive. Cheap rates
mediate points to Gainesville, and also
from Fernandina. The hook and ladder
and ID Gainesville will compete for prizes prizes,
and there will be prize offered for the
base ball team winning the greatest num-
Der of games during the SIX days.
o. S. Goss Of Palmer, Alachua county,
has doubtless the oldest horse in the state,
and he may be the Oldest in the United
States. 1t is a Kickapoo Indian pony, and
was purchased in Chicago in 1853, when
a colt. The animal was shipped TO Chi
cago for Thaddeus Lincoln, son of ex-
President Lincoln, and after the death of
brought the animal to Florida several
years ago The horse Is sound, with the
exception of being blind in one eye.
Tuesday evening about dark whirl-
sponge vessels, called the Euphemie, and
blew her over so that she soon filled with
water and sank. She was about fifteen
miles off shore from Tarpon Springs and
in thirty-six feet of water. There We're
two more vessels belonging to Mr.. Lowe
that were anchored very near the one
that was sunk, to which the men swan,
and with the assistance of the other men
| they saved nearly one-half of their
sponge. The next morning they dived
and tied ropes to her on each side and
raised her.
Frank NJ. Bell and Mr.. Richards were
participants in a street duel at Arcadia
Tuesday, using shotguns and rifles; at a
distance of fifty or sixty feet apart, Meth
er of the above parties was hit but w.
E. Wilder, who was standing near, was
shot through the right arm by rifle bali
full, but not serious. Both parties were
arrested. Bell bought out Sharp's saloon,
some time ago, and afterwards they had q
| dispute and Sharp opened up a saloon on
the same license, and both are running
| fun blast. Richards is clerking for Sharp
! and it seems he took up his employers
/ quarrel.
At Archer, Tuesday, while Mrs. ]. S.
Mcdonnell, the wife OF the postmaster was
Standing on the front piazza of her resi-
that threw her down and tore her clothes
considerably, The dog was fought off by
kicks until she regained her feet, and as-
Fortunately, though considerably bruised
ne blood was drawn BY the bites She re-
fed those who hunted up and pursued the
dog that he was afflicted with rabies, and
he was killed an hour or two later by
/ George McDonell, her hrother-in-law. bur
not until after he had Bitten several dogs.
A special from Eustis to the Jacksonville
Citizen says: There is a large field Of
melons owned by II. z. Pendry, from
which almost all worth gathering have
been taken, and Harry Pendry, in the lib
crafty of his heart and genuine unsel6sh
ness, for which he is so distinguished, gave
10 white and colored applicants alike
freely Of the remaining melons. few
days ago he found two colored men ouiet
~ eating some of his melons and claimed
70 be a constable "a fact that appears TO
Ds sehefaily forgotten here, he proceeded,
without a warrant, to arrest the depreda
tors, and IN some way became involved
with the wife Of one Of them, apd she,