The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-31


some just now at Oakland Orange county.
Deer are reported Unusually numerous
by the COW butchers this year in Lee
county.
Fort Myers elects city officers Aug. G.
Homemade corn is selling In Leesburg
at % cents per bushel
Gardner Martin, charged with shoot
ing into train a Micanopy several years
ago, Is now in Jail in Gainesville.
The Press says oranges at Fort Myers
are now large enough TO make most de
licious drink, and in the dearth of lines
and lemons furnish a much needed beVer-
age
A marriage license was recently issued
in Orlando by Judge Bryan, who was the
attorney who procured divorce from the
mans first wife and from the bride elect s
first husband.
Sunday Dave Gordon was killed at
Crestview. by the train Of the yellow
River Railroad Company. Dave, who was
a fiagman, jumped off the moving cars
! to open a switch when he lost his bal
ance and fell under the wheels. He was
badly crushed. and expired in ten min
utes.
W. A. Roberts Of Tallahassee was sitting
on his Veranda Monday afternoon reading
when the faint echo of a Winchester was
heard in the distance. An instant after
ward the ball took a piece out of his fore
finger and imbedded itself in the wall be-
hind him. 1t is said the shot-was fired at a
buzzard over a quarter of a mile from
where Mr.. Roberts was sitting.
There was filed in the county clerks Of
fee at Lake city Monday for record, a
lease from the Lake City Land and Tim
Der Company of 1874 acres 10 the Atlantic
timber purposes. James +. Young is
ident of the Lake City Land and Tin, .
Company, and the company still owns the
property, which contains valuable beds
of phosphate.
The governor has declined to honor the
recommendation made by the democratic
executive committee of Levy county
wherein Ii unanimously recommended a.
l., Tillis to ~ appointed 10 fill the vacancy
in the sheriff's office, occasioned by the
resignation of Capt. William II. Bigham.
T. w. Stands chairman of the executive
committee, has been notified by the gov
ernor of his refusal to make the appoint
ment recommended.
The latest scheme that has been pro-
posed for the good of Ocala is cotton
factory and a strong and determined eff
fort viii be made to secure the location
of such an enterprise; The. prime mover
the oldest citizens of the city. He agrees
to start the list with a donation of $500
worth of hand within the city limits, and
this land to be appraised by the parties
interested and not by himself.
A meeting of orange growers was held
at Tavares Saturday and resolutions
adopted TO appoint a committee TO confer
their orange grove property by the freeze,
with view of holding a convention of
the citizens at some future time and
place, for the purpose of considering the
situation and devising means to meet it
and to enable the people TO recover from
their losses. and to confer with creditors
and mortgages with view of securing
a reasonable settlement of claims and
mortgages.
The governor has signed two death war
rants. one for the execution of Joseph b.
Morton, white. convicted of murder at the
special term of the circuit court for Ham
ilton county in June and sentenced to
hang on Aug. q, and one for the exc
cution of Spencer Bell colored, convicted
at a special term of the circuit court for
Clay county in June and sentenced to
hang on the same date. Ebert Jones,
colored, who was convicted of murder at
the special term of the circuit court for
Hamilton county in June, and sentenced
to hang, has secured a communication OF
his sentence to life Imprisonment in the
state penitentiary.
The annual report of Superintendent
Holloway of the public schools of Ala
chua county, has been completed and for
warded to the state superintendent of
public instruction. Some interesting in
formation is given. The report shows the
enrolment of white pupils for 1S94-95 was
9, sos; colored, $50; total, 1865. This is a
marked increase over the attendance of
the previous year, The total number of
teachers, both white and colOred, en-
ployed during the year, was 154, who re-
ceived SOS, SOL. 49, The total value of school
lots owned by the county Is IS, 255; value of
all school buildings, $36, sl5i value of furn-
ture and apparatus, SS,064 There are six
ty-six frame school houses for whites and
forty-one for cOlored in the county.
b F. Dillon of Jacksonville chairman
of the new board of bond trustees, re-
ceived by express Monday a package con-
tanning $l77 800 of the old sanitary bonds
Of the city of Jacksonville and the inter-
est coupons, due July IS, amounting to
81 092 He at once notified the bond trus-
tees, the finance committee of the city
council the members of the
old board of bond trustees
and the city treasurer. A meet
the bonds and coupons We're checked up
and delivered to the city treasurer, and
a draft was given the treasurer by Chair
man Dillon for the balance of the money
in the Western National Bank of New
York amounting 20 S57S21.4O.