The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-01

convince you otherwise.
out Of the hands Of the receiver and is
now running its own affairs.
During March sixteen steamships en-
tered Jacksonville and fifteen departed;
thirteen schoOners and one bark entered
and seven schoOners cleared.
The prisoners in the Alachua county Jail
try every new prisoner incarcerated, and
If found guilty he must pay 25 cents or
receive twelve lashes on his bare back.
Theodore Collatt of Savannah has pur-
chased the stock of clothing and furnish
ing goods of Julius COllat on Lafayette
street at Tampa and takes charge al once.
New vegetables are plentiful at Lemon
City, Dade county. The farmers of that
section are gathering and shipping many
varieties; others are still growing toward
maturity.
Thursday the firemen saved 100000
a fire e. Baird & co. lost s.. 800. and j. X.
Broome $500 in houses. No Insurance on
Baird q co. property.
The long pending case before the supreme
court of citizens, cOntesting the right of
Tayares, to be maze the county seat OF
Lake county, begun seven years ago. has
just been decided in favor Of Tavares.
Last Tuesday a Melbourne a nine-pound
crevalli, one Of the prettiest and best fish
OF the Indian river waters, was caught
with hook and line from one of the win
dows of the Melbourne house by Miss
Carrie Gard.
AJuAAlS the HlbilAn VI 4dlGAt JdtkHDu-
| ville's fire department responded to twelve
| fires inside the fire limits five false
alarms and two alarms outside FIRE limits.
The total damage by fires inside limits
to $l5
DR.. H. 7. Lylses has been
sued in the United States court
900 for breach OF contract. The suit is on
account Of trade In Chattanooga prop
erty which the doctor claims was not as
desirable as was represented.
c. ]. Hector of Melbourne who has had
a large fbrous tumor growing in his neck
during the past twenty years. concluded
he would have 1t removed by Dr. Worley
with great success a week or so ago. 1t is
said to have been rather a difficult opera
tion, the tumor extending from the neck
to an angle of the lower jaw, and con-
nected with the muscles and vessels of
the throat.
There have been reported to the board
| of health office at Jacksonville during
| March thirty-eight births, nine white and
| twenty-nine colored; twenty males and
| eighteen females, and four colored ille-
| gitimates. During February there were
| ffty-seven births reported-eighteen white.
Sixty-four deaths have also been report
ed, thirty-three white and thirty-one col
ored; fourteen non-residents; one died
from accident and twelve of the total
number were children. The Oldest person
was 81 years.
st. Augustine News: When the fire was
at its worst in the f. A. de Medicis house
| the word went around that Mr.. Stout,
] who was at the point of death, was in the
| burning building. A soldier, whose name
/ could not be learned heard it and taking
! off his coat and placing IT around his head
! sprang into the house for the purpose Of
| rescuing the sick man. He searched ev-
! cry room, the building meanwhile be-
! coming enveloped in flames, but failed to
| find Mr. Stout, so finally abandoned his
! search and got safely out of the house.
! This deed of heroism was witnessed by
/ oraxr md uynr de of n 8
/ areheard on every side; II was found
/ later that Sergt. Brown had removed Mr..
/ Stout to a place of safety before the
| house caught on fire.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A village Improvement society was or
| ganized in Aiken last week.
Fertilizer receipts at Barnwell to date
are ten carloads, against forty last year.
William c. S. Ellerbe of Hagood died
suddenly Thursday night of heart failure.
Rev. T. o. Keister has resigned the pas
torship of Grace Lutheran church at
| NewbeTTy to accept call 10 q church at
| Greencastle, Pa.
Friday the firm of A. S. & w. A. Brown
| of Sumter. made an assignment to M. r.
! Wilson Friday morning. The amount of
assets and liabilities have not been an
| nounced.
The old Atlantic phosphate works of
| Charleston, which were recently bought
| by the Chcora Fertilizer Company anil
! thoroughly put in order, started up again
| last week.
The reorganized Palmetto Rifles of
Aiken held a meeting last week and
| elected officers. A. w. Oakley was re-
elected captain. The company has thirty
| five members
! The Lloyds insurance license which
| has been up for some time has been
| settled by Controller General Norton is
/ suing a license TO the South and North
| American Lloyds.
| A pardon was issued Saturday to Wyley
| Fountain, who was convicted of forgery
| in Aiken county. He was under sentence
of twelve months in the county Jail, and
| his term had ebout expired.
Henry Nipper, the white man who killed
| a negro on Gervais street at Columbia,
| while in an intoxicated condition last fall
was acquitted in the court of general Sc
sions at Columbia Thursday.
The fiscal year in the postoffice depart
| ment ends to-dad, and on the receipts at
the Spartanburg postoffice during the year
| ending that date will depend whether that
| city shall have free delivery.
There are three cases of homicide to be
| tried at the approaching term of the court
| of general sessions for York county. The
! defendants are James Green, Major Han
| ma and George Partlow, all colored.
The directors of the Cheraw Knitting
Mills have placed the order for machin-
1 cry. and 1t is expected to be in position
4 about May l. w. II. Willard. Jr., Of
Durham, NC, has been elected superin-
/ ant