The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-14


efforts mat some of the farmers sue
ceedel in saving their residences and
fences. Near Hali Moon last week the
entire ueighhorhoOd turned out ard fought
the flames day and night for Two days
The woods had not been burned OF for
over two years, and great deal Of rub
hish was on the ground. which increased
the Danger anu made Do very dlmcult 70
stop the course Of the flames 10 Is charged
inat the fire was set by a careless tur-
uentine hand.
4 plea Of former acquittal was fled
with County Solicitor Christie at Jack
sOnviue Saturday by A. ". Cockrell &
Son, ATTORNEYS for Robert G. scott. The
document alleged that Scott was tried
and acquitted for embezzling Si,0l0 and
that the present Information filed against
him Tor embezzHng 5000 is part Of the
former alleged defalcatiOn. and that he
has already been tried and acquitted on
tlat charge. Attorney Christie will file
an answer, setting up the matter fully,
and VIII submit the question of fact as to
whether scott has been tried and ac-
quilted Of the whole defalcation. as al
legged IN the new plea The case viii come
up before the criminal court Jan. -.
For a short while late Saturday night
a race conflict at Tallahassee seemed al
most inevitable. The affair started over
lnHlng matter. p. J.. Burdine OF the drug
firm Of Burdine & Co. met John Spencer.
a negro customer Of the firm. who had
been rather slow in settling up,
was going to pay that little bill.
Spencer retorted impudently that he would
pay II whenever he got ready. \ fight
followed in which the negro was arrested.
Spencer armed himself and with a fol-
lowing Of twenty-five or thirty negroes,
pore down on Burdine AZ Co.'S store TO
have il out The police acted promptly,
and through their GOODNESS and determine
ton general fight was prevented. No
further trouble is anticipated.
Max Collins, who dehed arrest at New
nansville recently, and whose house was
destroyed by fire. went to Gainesville
Saturday and swore out warrant against
S. r. Clark. the constable Of that dis
soon as Collins swore out the warrant.
Sheriff Tillis, who was on the watch for
the negro, heard of his presence and inn
mediately placed him under arrest He is
charged with assaulting DR.. j. n. d.
Cloud of Newnansville, and with assault
with intent to murder. The latter Of
Tense, 1t Is charged, was committed when
he fired at the officer when the latter
had demanded his arrest. Sheriff Tillis
went to NeWnansVille and returned, ac-
companied by Mr.. Clark. who as soon as
500 for his appearance at the next term
OF the circuit court. The negro Is in jail
While at play on the northern slope on
the fort green at St Augustine Saturday
two boys while digging in the earth, dis
covered two human skulls and a lot of
bones. Several years ago two collins
were unearthed by Lieut.. Gaillard of the
engineer corps, while grading the slope
They were reinterred near the place where
they were found. The bones found by the
boys are supposed to belong to the skele-
etons unearthed by the engineer officer
four years ago. Time evidently had rotted
the collins in which they reposed and the
boys, in tunnelling into the slope OPEN
ed the vault. and the skulls rolled out
Sergt. Brown, who has charge of the fort
was notified, and the bones were put back
into their resting place. The skulls are
supposed to belong to Indians who were
buried near the fort many years ago.
They have come to the surface several
times during the past half century
Arrangements have been made by the
authorities at Nassau for all mail from
the Bahamas to go over the Florida East
Coast railway by way of Palm Reach
The mail Will come by steamship North
cumberland three times week. The Flor
ida mail will be distributed through the
Palm Beach postofffce, and the mail to
other parts of the United States will be
sent direct The authorities at Washing
ton have been notified that the mail will
come that way by the first trip of the
steamer. Heretofore the mail has left
Nassau via New York once a week. Ar
rangements have been made for a tri-
weekly mail service. Palm Beach will
hereafter be the distributing point for all
Bahama mails. This is believed to be the
first step toward securing all mail from
the adjacent islands, including Cuba, by
the Florida East Coast railway. The
Nassau-Palm Beach mail service will be-
gin Feb. l.
Another turn of the wheel in the Hutch
inson-MiXson law suit was made at Gaines
Vile Saturday, when the store and
goods were placed in possession of l.. j.
Mixson & Co. Jan. Judge Hooker grant
ed an injunction in favor of II. S. Hutch
inson, which restrained Mixson & Co.
from interfering in the furniture bust
ness, and appointing W. A. Sigsbee as
receiver. Saturday the case was argued
before Judge Hooker upon a motion to dis
solve the injunction and to dismiss the re-
celVer The arguments consumed three
hours time, after which the injunction
asked for in the cross bill was dissolved,
and an order diSmissing the receiver was
granted. All moneys collected by the re-
cetver were ordered paid to MiXson q Co.
An agreement was entered into by the
attorneys on either SIDE whereby Mixson
q Shaw have the privilege of taking pos
session of the $1,000 worth of leases .depos-
tied in the First National Bank as collat-
eral security, heretofore placed in the
give qualified bond of $1,000 said bond
CONDITIONED to pay any final judgment H.
p hutchinson ll SON may recover in a suit to
pc tried bv jury in the county. Mr.. Hutch
inson, it is understood, will sue on the
notes he has against the firm.
II. NJ. Flagler, president; J. r. Parrott
vice president and r. T. Golf, superin-
tendent of the Florida East Coast rail-
way; Mr.. Mcdonald, builder of the Flag
Ter hotels; and Prof. Cory, the naturalist
of Palm Beach, made a trip through the
new canal from Lake Worth to Miami
on Biscayne Bay last week which prov
ed highly successful The trip was made
in the steamer Sweeney, which is about
125 feet long and twenty-eight feet wide,
and has very considerable draught for
a river boat. This was the first in
stance of a large boat going through the
canal and the fact that it passed over
the entire distance, both down and back
without the slightest difficulty shows how
thoroughly the work of constructing the
canal has been performed. At Miami the
location of the new hotel that is to be
built by Mr. Flagler. at the terminus of
the Florida East Coast railway, was ex-
amined by the party. Great enthusiasm
was shown to exist among the people of
that region at the prospect of the early
completion of the road to Biscayne BaY
and of the erection of a large hotel there
The opinion was expressed that the place
Will soon become very important and one
of the most prosperous on the Florida
East coast. Many applications for build
ing lots there have already been received.
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