The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-06

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she does make her appearance. or
| course other nurses. washerWomen, ser
Want girls and others vii soon follow the
| Huguenln flights nurse.
/ Herschel Mcdonald. the young man
/ who killed Greek named Mike Fontano
( az Atlanta last year, Is locked up at police
[ headquarters at Atlanta charged with
/ assault with intent 70 murder. McDonaid,
/ Clint Suttles and Charley Presnell We're
| standing near No. engine house on Pet
] ers street Thursday night. when william
/ Craigher. a locomotive engineer on the
/ East Tennessee road, passed by Melon
J aid hailed the engineer and then hurled
Z a rock against his head. which felled him.
/ Officers Doyle and Wiley found the engl-
/ neer bleeding profuseiy and after having
I his wounds dressed, heard his story and
! started out FOR the trio Mcdonald and
! his two associates were arrested and
| locked up. Earlier in the night Mcdonald
used his knife on a United States sol
| der on Thompson street.
/ The correspondent Of the Morning
/ News al Curdele. under date of Oct. Z,
writes as follows; Last spring When
Ine soda water season opened Or. j. b.
Ryals save ticket representing one vote
with each glass of soda, and one with
each cigar bought The lady and gen
tieman polling the most votes during the
season was promised each a round trip
ticket 10 the Atlanta fair three days
expenses paid and an admission ticker
20 the tair grounds The next to the
last count showed an aggregate vote Of
1850 with Mss Jessie -Lt0ejohn. Miss
Lena Caldwell and Miss Irene Davis in
the lead, as named. Last night the final
count was made. the aggregate vote
being 2i0SS Miss Irene Davis had TO-
%; Miss Lena Caldwell. S52l; Miss Jesse
Littleiohn. 5s4, many others dividing the
honors for the balance The three ladies'
named are universally admired, and il
was a loss up all through the season as
10 who would win. Mr.. j. @. Adams won
IN the election for gentlemen, polling
3.33I. The aggregate cigar vote was 5.6sl
Business continues good. There is a
large demand for lumber, and the mills
cannot supply II. The long dry spell has
made il difiichlt to get sufficient water to
operate many mills on tull time.-The
season has been so favorable for open
ing cotton that one more light picking
viii find most of the crops m this Sec
ton harvested.-O. r. Ringland has an
unusually good crop of cotton for light
fertilizng, which speaks well for the
farming lands in this section. Mr. Ring
land says IL will be a year Of plenty with
him.--Many buildings are in course of
construction, and the demand is far from
being supplied.-J. $. Pate has recently
moved into his new brick store and
opened a line Of dry goods, etc.
FLORIDA
w. T. Tatum and Miss Leola Lassiter
were united in marriage by Rev. c. H.
Nash of the Baptist church at Barlow on
Tuesday.
Mrs. John W stinson of Seneca was
thrown from her carriage Friday. She
suffered a broken arm and internal in
juries.
The wet or dry election in Lee coun-
by about forty majority. Fort Myers cast
Ill votes. OF these seventy-five We're wet
and thirty-six dry.
The public school at DeLand is flour
ishing. The attendance on the opening
day was 10, and this number will be
largely increased during the next two or
three weeks -.-.-.
The waters Of Lake Worth are higher
now than they have been for long time
The water Is within a few inches of the
top Of the docks. The freight dock on the
opposite side has been submerged for sew
eral days.
The report that was circulated at Jack
sonvtlle on Thursday night to the effect
that the south jetty at the St Johns river
bar had been undermined by the waves
during the recent storm, was proven to
be without foundation.
At the meeting Of the board of county
commissioners at Tavares on Tuesday
last petition signed by the requisite
number of voters was presented asking
for a wet and dry election. and the cleo.
Nov. %.
The ordinances to fund the outstanding
indebtedness Of the city OF Gainesville
presented by Alderman Broome to the
council recently, has been the subject Of
considerable talk during the past few
large number.
Mariana Journal: The first bale of long
cotton ever marketed in Mariana was sold
last Saturday 1t was grown by j. W.
Il-
ed by i. T. Morgan, bought by w J.
Daniel for IA cents. Weight $40; shipped 10
Hunter, Pearce Battey, Savannah, the
same day.
J. 3. Davis, proprietor of the bottlino
works at Gainesville, has made a valua-
bic invention for filling siphons II Is
an attachment that works admirably upon
corSing machine. This little attachment
VIII save an expense in the purchase cr
for a small sum.
The residence Of S. H. WienRies near
the old fair grounds northeast Of Gaines
vile, was destroyed by fire at about
O'Clock Friday morning The building was
the property of Col. John j. Barr Of Nil
canopy. and was worth about $1,000 Mr.
Mlengies lost piano and portion of
MS household goods. He estimates his loss
at about $3.50, with no insurance
The trial of M. NJ. Driggers. charged
with the killing of Tax Collector Bowling
OF Bradford county, month or two ago
IS set Tor a hearing at Starke next Mon
day. IT is not known whether a motion for
change M venue in his case will be made
or not. Driggers has been confined in the
county jail at Jacksonville since the shoot
ing occurred. Driggers does not seem 10
fear the result of his trial.
Mr.. and Mrs. ). =. Stetson of Philadel-
phla are at DeLand, and will spend a few
weeks. They came to be present at the
opening of the university that bears their
name, and of which they are the most
liberal patrons Mr.. Stetson is the mill
II
and enjoys the distinction of being the
largest orange grower of Florida Be
Tore the freeze his acreage in orange trees
was over $780,
A Lake county man named Heath. on his
way 10 Daytona with a team of horses and
a COW, lost his entire outfit in the Sit
gohns river recently, at Dade's Ferry
While placing the animals on the lighter
the chain holding the same broke ana
shpped, and they We're all preeipitated
into the river. The horses were attached
TO the wagon, and had no chance to save
themselves. Mr.. Heath was also dragged
into the river, but was rescued with con-
siderable difficulty by Mr.. Dade
The ginning establishment of H. F. Dut-
ton 4 Co. of Gainesville is now being run
in full force. Thirty-eight hands are en-
ployed daily and twelve gins are con-
stantly operated. Fifty bales of sea is
land cotton were shipped by the firm to
points in Connecticut Friday and the pre-
vious day fifty-three bales OF cotton ana
car load Of seed We're shipped to Iiver-
pool Large quantities of cotton are ar
irving daily, and the indications are that
the force VIII have to be increased, as the
gins viii have to be operated at night.
The West Palm Beach TropieaI SIM