The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-25

changed hands, and that other real es-
tate deals are in negotiation
Postmaster Montgomery is in receipt
Of a communication from the postofiice
department. announcing that Apalachicola
VIII be made an International money order
office about April Is next.
A small child Of Andrew Williams, liv-
ing a few miles north Of Chlpley was
kicked on Ehe head by a horse Friday and
fatally injured. His skull. above the eye,
was fractured and he is reported in a crit
lcal condition.
The republicans in Washington county
have decided not TO put out any ticket
this year. but win indorse the pOpulist
ticket r. l. Scarlet and Gabe Syfrett
We're elected as delegates to the conven-
ton at Tallahassee
Capt. ". b. Denham and F. NJ. Jolly.
officials Of the Florida Southern railway,
were at Leesburg Friday An inventory
Of the stock Of the ST. j. and l.. r. rail-
way was taken Friday, both gentlemen
making the trip over the road Capt Den
ham officially stated, that the railroad s
repair shops. now located at Eustis would
be moved TO Leesburg soon.
Lewis Huber. a logman, was shot and
mortaIy wounded Saturday on the Broth
ers river. near Apalachicola, by John Por-
ter (cOlored). There were only three per-
sons present at the time of the shooting.
Huber and Crawson were coming down
the river in a bateau and Porter was on
a raft with his back to them. Huber shot
at Porter twice with a shotgun and miss
cd HIM both times. Then Porter picked
up his rife and shot Huber through the
left breast. Two physicians say that there
is not much chance for him.
A dispatch to the Jacksonville Citizen
from Clermont says: "A few days ago a
colored man was working in a shed in
which two-horse Southbend pillow was
hanging overhead, some ten feet from
the ground In some manner the plow
broke loose and the sharp point Of the
ploW struck Sim on the top Of the head.
and then it fell to the ground All Sim
did was to feel the top of his head, which
was not even scratched, and to regret
that hole was cut through the hat he
wore. The blow did not stop him from
work fifteen seconds"
Two Illicit stills were captured in Jack
son county last week. The first was four
teen miles south of Mariana, near the
home of William Freeman, who was also
brought in. On being arraigned before
commissioner John Thomas Porter, he
pleaded not guilty, waived an examination
and was bound over to court at Pensacola.
The second still was found in the smoke
house Of William Tharp,, about six miles
were brought in. tried. and found guilty.
Mrs. Tharp was put under bond for her
appearance at court and the man is now
in JAIL in absence Of satisfactory bend.
1t was learned at Tampa Saturday that
the Plant system contemplates the con-
struetion OF a railroad from Punta Gorda
TO Fort Myers and that the work will be
taken up in earnest as soon as the nee
essary preliminaries are arranged. Frank
Hough Of Boston, who was in Tampa a
few day days ago, is reported TO- have been
people to go down to Punta
GOrda and secure the right of
way, and if this proves to be the case
% acfF TOT o. 10 10.
ed upon as an established fact The dis
lance Is about thirty-five miles. and the
new road Is one which is urgently de-
manded by the rapid development Of Lee
county
At Land Pebble. in Polk county, a few
days ago Joe Weir accused a negro of
stealing some money from him. The ne
gro became enraged but Weir avoided
him to keep out of trouble. Saturday
when he visited his store, the negro came
up and asked to have word with him.
Weir had an idea that the negro wanted
fuss, so declined to have any words
with him and told him to leave, whereup-
on the negro graDpled him from behind
around the shoulders. Knowing the char
acter of number of Land Pebble despera-
does, Weir pulled his gun and shot at the
man over his shoulder and from every 9TH
er available point and soon filled him full
or lead. When last heard from the negro
was still alive.
The republican executive committee of
De Soto county met at Arcadia Saturday
and elected as delegates to the state and
congressional conv entions to meet in Tai
lahassee in March, u. MiZell and Daniel
T. Carthen. They go uninstructed, but
are Mckinley men. The democratic exec
utive. committee viii meet in Arcadia on
March 10 to reorganize and elect dele
gates. The republicans will meet in Ar
cadia on April to elect new committee
and to nominate a county ticket The
populists are quiet. They brought out all
their voters in the two nraNTiOliG aIaafiorac
and only elected one candidate on the
school board, d. D. Sutherland. They will
hereafter have no help from the repub-
ltcan party, and will not have the voters
they had before
Some maliciously disposed persons who
are well known by the troopers of that
section, placed some sweet potatoes con-
tanning paris green around the fields of
tomatoes of Lppincott Bros, and some
other gardeners in Clermont, and then
went to the cattlemen and told them
that the poison was placed there by these
gardeners to poison cattle running at
the fields and showed the poisoned pota-
toes. of course, this caused a great deal
of hard feeling against the gardeners by
the cattlemen, with threatenings to inno-
cent people, but there was no trouble in
proving that the men who told the cat
tlemen were the very men who put out the
poison. and everything is quiet now No
legal proceedings have been taken against
them yet, but 1t is thought probable there
will be soon.
John Allen. a farmer living in Column
bia county. reports that some six weeks
ago a boy in his neighborhood, about six
years of age, stuck an orange thorn into
his hip which infiamed until the boy was
terribly fevered and swollen from head to
foot. Finally the peculiar swelling sub
sided, however, and the boy recovered
But Immediately his skin began to flake
off in great dead strips and patches, until
he had as completely shed his entire GU
ticle, from crown to head, as a snake at
moulting time, including that over the
palms of his hands and soles of the feet
which came off whole and resembles some
what a cast-off shoe. and being quite as
hard and thick 1t is a perfect cast OF
the feet. showing the lines of the skin
and 1T is about the consistency and much
of the appearance of hard glue. But the
boy has a completely new skin and is doing
we'll.