The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-16

&c was Tddled with bullets. Gibson was "a
large, brutal looking negro and his clothes
were torn and soiled. Thursday morning
/ the coroner was notified and he had the
I body cut down and began the holding OF
moned. The verdict of the coroners jury
was that Gibson came to his death from
/ the hands Of parties unknown.
FLORIDA.
The state Medical Association will con-
/ vene next month.
/ There are now three distinct movements
/ on foot to secure a ferry Tor South Jack
sonville.
/ The store Of +. ". Roberts Of Key West
/ was entered late Saturday night and
/ robbed Of about $50 worth Of goods
! The suwanee Presbytery has been pc
titioned TO send "A commission to establish
I a Presbyterian church at High Springs.
/ An Ocala landlord who has thirty
| pieces Of property to rent, has every one
I of them occupied, for the first time In
twelve years.
Hundreds Of crates Of tomatoes were
sold at auction at Key West Wednesday
morning for good prices. One barrel Of
egg plants was sold for 50. .
Court at Orlando took a recess Wednes-
day tin Saturday to give RusselIs attor-
neys time TO prepare a motion for a new
trial. He Will probably be sentenced then.
He claims to be a Mason Of high degree.
A deed was recorded in the clerks Of
fee at Gainesville, Wednesday transfer
ring a piece of land consisting Of forty
acres in the Tacoma neighborhood from
A. II. Emerson to Henry +. GoodcnOugh,
Of Boston. consideration $780, There was
no orange grove on the property.
Tallahassee Floridian: a little girl Of
Tallahassee answers to the euphonfous
name Of Maryamanda Cathamacanda
James Alexander Mark McJudas FlOroetta
Bird Scurry Her parents being poor. but
DESTROYS Of doing a good part by her,"
gave to her all the name they could think
Tho effort ~ oerfafy, r,rose.roeei,,o oft,
zens to induce cotton good manufactur-
ers to locate one or more factories at
Jacksonville has taken definite form. and
representatives are 20 be sent north TO
make certain propositions to owners
who are looking for location in the
south.
The Citrus county Chronicle of Inver-
ness reports that the Cove Bend Land
Company have had their large lemon
grove all cut down even with the ground,
and as soon as they get buds they in
viii protect the buds hereafter, should
another cold spell occur.
Rev Sturgis of fernando county has
established a palmetto brush manufacture
ing industry on the river about half way
between Homosassa and Ozello. He has
formed a partnership with the owners
of the shingle mill at that place. and has
the machinery and every particle of tim
Der necessary for the manufacture of the
brush ait hand.
H. Campbell and Catherine Campbell
have made an assignment of the judg-
ment secured by them against the city
Of Jacksonville for 81 900 damages, to the
State Bank of Florida for $3.50. The
judgment was secured at the last term
of the court in a suit of Mr.. Campbell
and wife against the city for injuries re-
ceived by Mrs Campbell by tripping up on
a defective sidewalk.
Tuesday, while Charles Pfeiffer was re-
turning to Pensacola from Millview, his
horse ran away, throwing him out of the
buggy. Mr.. Pfeffer, in falling, stll held
TO the lines. and drawn a POngidaf-g-
BILE distance before he relnquished his
| hold. Upon examination, II was found
that Mr.. Pfeiffer's injuries consisted of a
broken collar bone and a displacement
of the shoulder joint.
j. w. Redding OF Lecanto while at Her
nandO last Saturday was examining a re-
volver when II accidentally discharged and
tho ball, a number 30, entered the calf of
the leg, going down and lodging back
OF or near the ankle. DR.. Warnock was
summoned and dressed the wound, but
thought it best to not cut the ball out on
account of it having lodged behind or be-
tween the ankle bones.
on Monday last the Hotel Cordova at
St. Augustine, and the Hotel Royal Poin-
ciana at Palm Beach closed their old reg
listers and opened new ones. The old reg
listers consist of 200 pages, twenty-five
lines to each page, which in number
of arrivals will hold at least thirty. Two
hundred pages, therefore, represent at
| eellent business thus far this season.
A little before u o'clock, Wednesday. a
woman in a bawdy house kept by Mamie
Low near Polk street. at Tampa, took
morphine with suicidal intents Her
name is Maude Mclean, and she went
to Tampa from Gainesville six weeks
ago. DIR. ]. Jackson was summoned. and
| did everything to resuscitate her, but she
died before o'clock. She had been
drinking for three days. and appeared
respondent.
a. W. Taylor, the surveyor who was
employed by the city council to draw
plans and specifications for draining the
cypress pond and marsh in Brushs addi-
ton to Gainesville. has completed his
work and prepared his report to the
board. Two routes were suggested one
to run northward and connect with a
small branch in North Gainesville, and
the second to run the drain in south
erly direction to Rattlesnake branch Mr.
Taylor is in favor of adopting the latter.
course.
The Florida Mortgage and Investment
Company of Manatee have sold $50 acres
Of their valuable saw grass lands 10 a
Swedish colony, who for some months
have been prospecting in Manatee county.
The remainder of the colonists have an
option on the whole of the saw grass and
other lands adjoining till the end of the
1 present year: Work VIII commence at
once in ditching, plowins, etc. There are
many families expected, and they will
form a town OF their own on the edge of
the saw grass lands.
Mariana Journal: Last Thursday night
Miss Ellie Shoemaker threw a large light
wood knot on the fire, and prepared to
enjoy the heat thereof; but just as the
Chunk began to burn, a snake about
eighteen inches long crawled out of the
large end. 1t is unnecessary to add that
the young lady screamed, ana just as Mr.
Shoemaker came to her assistance a ser
pent a few inches shorter came from the
same opening in the knot. The two had
probably wintered in the knot, and thought
that spring had suddenly burst upon
them.
Mrs. Hinson, an old lady of Fort Pierce
and mother Of w. B. Cross, was burned
TO death Monday night. IL seems she
had retired and was in bed reading with
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