The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-12

freight. and more or less merchandise
I goes south 10 ocklawaha river points
] General Manager Thompson OF j art s Line
] thinks. accordingly. that il may not Do
I practicable 20 run weekly freight rip
| during the summer. as in former years.
/ The tourist travel Of the past season
/ has been comparatively light but by
/ the combination fun rates have been
| obtained.
! John n. Lennon. general manager Of the
| Florida Long distance telephone system,
| Of Orlando has force Of men at work.
| this week. extending the line 10 Winter
/ Park. where there VIII be five phones 10
/ begin with. and one tOll-statiOn at Charles
! J. Lacu's store Alr- Lennon mas right
/ of-Way over every street IN Winter Park,
/ and expects TO have connection by Monday
night. and on Monday morning he will
| continue the extension 10 Maitland and AL
| tamOnte Springs. farther north Mr.. Len
| non viii also endeavor TO put in a FIRE
| alarm signal service and striker, il the city
| council IS willing 10 assist him.
Rev. ". y. Conoley. formerly pastor Of
St. Matthews church in LaVilla, but now
pastor Of the Methodist church at San
| ford. IS IN Jacksonville on business. While
| travelling on the train from Sanford Mr..
| Con0ley had the misfortune to get a Gin
| der in one eye. He succeeded in removing
n part Of the cinder. but was obliged to
call upon an occulist to get the remainder
Of 10 out The eye was very much in
| iamed, and the Occulist gave a prescrip-
llon iur a wash 10 be used upon IL until
the soreness should have disappeared. The
prescription was filed and after using il,
the bottle was placed in a sachel for
| further application. During the night Mr..
ConOley found that his eye was paining
him considerably, and he asked the gen
tleman with whom he was staying to get
tne D0ttle from his sachel. Not knowing
that there were two bottles of a similar
size in the sachel, one Of them was hand
cd TO Mr.. Conoley and he applied the
10
carbolic acid, and the pain that resulted
was little less than maddening Now Mr..
Conoley is wearing a green shade over his
eye, and is congratulating himself that
the mistake turned out 10 be no worse than
it did.
Fort Ogden letter in jacksonville Times
Union: The coming campaign will be a
lively and close one, as the indications
are that the peoples party and republic
cans VIII fuse, dividing evenly the nOmi-
hees. The republicans viii have the first
choice of representative. The division of
the county is likely to be made an issue
at large. Punta Gorda will endeavor to
nave a DIVISION of the county an issue, as
~ would give that place the court house
OF the southern county. Should Punta
Gorda build the court house and Jail there
would be but little, If any opposition. The
candidates for legislative honOrs will have
70 DO some close calculating as to which
TO advocate-a division or not. If opposed
TO a division, he will not have the sup
port of Punta GOrda; and If in favor of
a DIVISION, he will not have the support
or Arladne. Gen. A. W. Gilchrist has not
expressed his preference yet and Punta
Gorda claims he is on the fence. The
general has represented DeSoto twice in
the legislature, and the presumption IS
mat he wishes to represent the county
again. The race for representative has
many complications, as the democratic
candidate Will have a tight squeeze to get
elected over the fusion of the popuHsts
and republicans and if he loses any sup
port from his views on a division of the
ha 10 1aff Nl.. NE ID,..
Gcrda is a division, regardless of politics
or anything else, and 10 get their support
a candidate has to come off the fence and
openly advocate a division of the county.
There is no doubt but that a majority Of
the voters are in favor of a division of
the county A lively, campaign is a GER
tainty for the candidate for the legisla-
ture. The woods are full of aspirants for
all the offices. There are about six can
dldates, up TO date, for clerk. and more
names are continually coming to the front.
The timber merchants of Pensacola have
published a card explaining their side of
the existing labor trouble. They set forth
that the wages of baymen for loading lum-
Der before the recent demand averaged
-. 80 per day. and that they now demand
about 50 per day, an increase of about 20
per cent; that the present wages of bay
men Tor loading sawn timber are from
- TO ~ per day, averaging about s. per
day OF eigth hours. They state that the
rules OF the labor associations do not give
the contracting stevedore the benefit of
what the men could naturally do without
such rules. They also protest against the
rule which considers a steamship the
same as two ships, and prevent a gang of
men working in one part from working
in another part of the same vessel which
they assert makes the cost of slowing a
small quantity of lumber greater than Ii
Is worth. The custom of stopping all work
in the bay on the occasion of the funeral
of member of the association is also
protested against. The merchants say
that such custom does not prevail in other
ports. Another protest advanced by the
merchants is. that under the rules if at
5 p. m. a steamship lacks only a few
sticks of lumber to complete loading. IL
must wait until the following day and a
half gang of men be employed for a whole
day. They ask that the rule be changed
to require the men to work overtime i'm
such cases at the rate of 81 per hour
Finally they protest against the rule of
the association prohibiting the use of
steam in loading cargoes. They argue that
1t places Pensacola at a disadvantage
with other competing ports, where the use
of steam is allowed.