The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-15

beautiful summer afternoon and wantonly
slaughter those innocent. useful creatures
is a mystery. of no value as game bird
and Of inestimable value as a destroyer
Of nOXious insects, yet II falls a victim 70
B that strange human propensity to "shoot
( something" The destruction OF the birds
I and forests Of the United States is pre-
Z pairing for countless woes in the future
We Will be dead then. but somebody VIII
/ be here.
Next Thursday afternoon at Jackson
/ Vile Messrs. SudIow. COrse. ord, Mitch
I ell, Wilds. Mitchell and Turten. all nrst-
/ class polo players, viii give the public an
I opportunity of seeing this exciting ana IN
teresting game. A nominal admission lee
Will be charged. and the proceeds W1u 90
towards the fund now being raised TOT
/ the reopcning of St Luke's hospital me
game will be played with three men on a
side.
Last week at Tallahassee three little ne
I gro boys the eldest of whom is not more
I than fourteen, got into a fight resulting
I in the death Of one OF them, and the incar-
ceration of the other charged with muir
: der. The names of the boys are Pnllup
Simmons. Allen Baker and John Berry.
The latter held simmons Wlue BAKER
slashed him with a pocket knife IN a most
brutal manner from which he died DAY
or two later. From what can be learned
of the affair IT WAS one of the most in
human acts ever heard of, and VIII DOUBT
less 90 hard with the youthful criminals
Indian River Advocate. A rumoT is afioat
| that Mr.. Pierre LOrillard. one OF the Ad-
voCate's subscribers. who has made sew
eral trips on Indian HillsborO and Halifax
rivers in his palatis1 house-bOat Caiman,
has become tired of the United states,
and, following in the footsteps OF William
Waldorf Aston will go to England to live.
Recently Mr.. LorillUrd sold part Of his
fine stable to william II. Vanderbilt, and
now he has placed his magnificent house
in New York on the market, and 1t is said
he intends dispOsing of his country seat
at JObstown, n. J., where ne owns thou-
sands of acres
Indian Rfvpr AdVNcafas The Sisters
Marguerite and Bernardine of St. Josephs
Academy, St. Augustine, visited TitusVille
on Saturday last returning on M2nday'
These ladies came for the purpose OF look
ing over a young ladies academy at this
point. We learn that they were very raw
Orably impressed with our town, ana eX-
pect soon TO erect a branch house OF their
convent here. Many mothers in T1tusvilie
and along the Indian river are anXlously
looking forward to the building of this
educational institution, which viii doubt
less be Of great benefit to those who are
unable TO go far away from home in the
pursuit of their scholastic studles.It would
be a nice thing for the town, and we hope
the project will meet with that success
which il deserves. While in town the sis
tiers were the guests of Miss Florence
Norwood. a former pupil of their school
at st. Augustine.
Indian River Advocate: The last issue
of the Nassau Guardian, Sust to hand at
the Advocate office. says: The shooting
affair which occurred at Green Turtle
Cay on July 26th. when Neil Roberts,
resident of that place shot seaman nam
ed William Hutchinson belonging TO the
American schooner Queen, OF Eau Galiie,
Fla, has had a serious termination
Hutchinson, the wounded man, not being
able to receive medical assistance at the
Cay, was sent homeward on the Queen,
leaving the same night, and Roberts was
held under bond by the magistrate to
await the result. Mondays mail brought
dispatches from Washington to the Hon.
r. j. McLain, United States consul, in
forming him of the death of Hutchinson,
who died on the voyage from the effects
Of the wound In the abdomen. which he
had received at the hands of Roberts, and
the authorities have been notified in order
that further proceedings may be had
against Roberts in view of the fatal term
nation of the affair. Roberts at the time
of the shooting was also on the shipping
articles Of the Queen, and both men were
on shore leave and were said to have been
drinking"