The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-10
Was also well covered

their cage and in the house and the cage
was also wen covered
r. W. Easley has sold his entire inter-
est in the Palmetto Beach railway to ". II
keudrick on the condition that he at
once builds a road from some place in the
First ward Of Tampa TO Palmetto Beach.
This branch has been projected by them
some time ard Will make an air line 10
Palmetto Beach. which is only one and
quarter miles from the courthouse. The
route Of this line is being surveyed and
VIII be put through by Mr.. Kendrick.
The business at the custom house at
Tampa during the past year makes a good
showing. The exports, which have been
confined to phosphate, are set forth in the
monthly reports as follows: January,
s. 40 tons. February, 1888 tons; March.
1850 tons; april 141F tons; May, 1887
tons June, 1929 tons; July, - 26O tons;
August 26,0l7 TONS September, 23,327
tons; October, 17,l42 tons. November / ,666
tons; December, n,sl7 tons. The total
cash receipts for the year was $685.
on Jan. ] liquors and tobacco were stored
in the warehouse that were valued at
SlQ2 3D6 So the duty on which is fixed at
S9l.12O0l. This amount added TO the total
as shown i'm the schedule makes yearly
total Of S632 .0s989 The cause Of the va
Ration of imports during the different
months Is attributed TO the condition Of
the Cuban tobacco crop, the amount Of
orders on hand, and the amount of ware
house Withdrawals. The general trend
has been gradual increase of the receipts
during the year.
Friday was day to be remembered in
BraidentoWn There was a tournament
riding for crowns, and a free-to-all street
exhibition of Roman races and horseback
teats given by Prof. T. +. RedmOre of
Minnesota, who Is now spending the win
ter in BTaidentown. Prof. Redmore's rid
ing can be classed as perfect and far be-
youd anything Of the kind ever before
seen on the streets Of a South Florida
town The victorious knights in the tour
nament race We're: First, Charlie Duck
email, the Red Knight of Old Sparta;
second, Prof T. +. Redmore, the Green
Knight OF Athens" third. Frank Johnson,
costume not represented; fourth, ]. z.
Weeden, the BLACK Knight of Northum-
bria.' fifth, Jim Wilson, the RED KNIGHT
crowned Miss May CLANCY of DemOpOlis
Ala, queen. Miss Mamie Richards of
Braidentown was crowned first maid Of
honor, Miss Natalie Whitfield of Mem
phis. Tenn, second maid and Miss Hattie
Macon OF Palmetto third maid Of honor.
| The entertainment exceeded expectations.
Tampa Times: James Lancaster and
Annie Primer, accused by J. w Loftley
/ and WIFE OF living in adultery were given
a preliminary hearing by Judge Harrison
this morning The judge found no evil
dence whatever against them and dismiss
ed the case Frank Young, a witness in
the case, was then arrested for threat
ening to prosecute James Lancaster if he
did not give up bill of sale he held to
halt interest in boat which is the
| cause of all the having" Young was
! placed under a $500 bond for appearance at
! criminal court. Some time ago Frank
Young and Sam LinWill began building a
! LnWHl ran away with YounE's wife but
/ first sold his half interest in the boat 10
James Lancaster. but Young refused TO
| recognize Il on the ground that Linwill
! had taken Houng's wife for his half inter-
I est ana he also charged Lancaster with
/ having furthered their elopement. So
! Young proposed not to prosecute Lancas-
| ter for this If Lancaster would give M
! the, bin Of sale. For this he was arrested
/ today.
! The sojourners at the Tampa Bay Hotel
! are enabled every evening to bear testi-
| mony TO the record of the days shooting
/ me game record is accurately kept and
/ from its pages the sportsman can learn
! the result of tnnumerable hunts for the
I past i've years. Some of them would cause
/ even experts to wonder at the heavy
/ bag Of day. Each evening the game
! killed during the day is displayed on large
/ SdlNerS near the office counter As many
/ as three and ofttimes more such platters
are filled. The record has been shattered
/ by q. W. Bergner of Philadelphia who is
spending his honeymoon at this resort
] Almost every day for week past he and
! his wife, accompanied by the hotel guide
have been ateld, and his record for eight
DAYS up to Friday, is 1872 birds Saturday
/ Mr.. Borgner killed III snipe two wiIlet
and one duck, TO his own gun" in the
phraseology of the guide This is the
heaviest bag procured by any guest in
single days shooting during the pasf
nVe years. The variety of birds killed
were doves, plover, quail, bittern yellow
( legs, Wlllet, duck, English and Jack snipe
also rabbits Mrs. Bergner is fond of The
sport and quite an adept in the use of a
gun. She accompanies her husband on
] all his deDredatOrV excursions