The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-25

lacerated in a frightful manner the mus
! Giles and badly shattered the bone.
Rev. S. H. Day of St. Augustine pro-
tested against a contemplated excursion
Of the First Battalion, Florida state
troops. from Jacksonville to st. Angus
tine on Sunday. The clergyman looked
upon the scheme as threatening desecra-
ton of the Sabbath. Maj. NJ. p. Turner
of the First Battalion, Florida state
troops, has sent tart reply to the COM
munication of Rev. Mr.. Day.
The revenue cutter Mclean is at Tampa,
and will remain for some days. The cut
ter is simply cruising around, and will
spend a few days in the neighborhood of
Tampa. Lieut. A. p r. Hanks is in com
mand of the boat, but he will soon be
transferred to the Pacific coast, while
Capt Munger, from the Pacific coast, will
take command of the Mclean, and First
Lieutenant McLendon of the Forward, at
Mobile, will be the executive officer on
board of the boat.
Several days ago the tug Dewey, with the
schooner Cora in tow. returned to Key
West from the Bahamas. The schooner
and the tug went to the islands to assist
in raising the English steamer Viceroy,
which had gone to pieces before the
wreckers got there. They went on a tour
Of inspection on Pelican Key. While there
they took load of cocoanuts from the
plantation Of Albert Griffin. The state
ment is current that Mr.. Griffin, who is
resident of Key West, will report the in
cident to the governor of the Bahamas and
demand an indemnity.
Six hundred operatives in the Ybor and
Manrara cigar factory at Tampa, walked
out on strike Friday morning. The work
he Ohio 4 artrT 1qraf Glrad or
an increase of price, claiming that instead
of making cheroots they were required to
make regular cigars. The demand was
refused by the managers of the factory
and a meeting of all of the operatives was
Immediately called, when it was decided
that all should go out until the demands
were granted The operatives are prin-
cipally Cubans and Spaniards, and they
are in an ugly mood, having no good feel
ing toward the firm.
The $4,000 monument which was to have
oeen erected by L. C. Heming of Texas at
Jacksonville, as a tribute to the memory
of veterans of his native state, Florida
has not yet developed into a reality, al
though the members of r. +. Lee camp,
in Jacksonville, have abiding faith that
Mr.. Heming will fulfill his generous prom
Use. Lee camp has not heard from Mr.
Heming in some time. The last letter
pany to whom he had let the contract
had failed, and in the failure he had lost
5000, the first payment, which they re-
quired as a guarantee of good faith. This
failure caused Mr.. Heming to change the
design.
The Strathcaron, an English steamship,
is lying at the Port Tampa docks loading
with phosphate. 1t is the second largest
boat that ever entered the port, and draws
twenty-six feet of water. The vessel came
direct to Tampa from Capetown, South
Africa. A large number of steam vessels
are lying at quarantine waiting for their
time to go up after phosphate, and there is
more activity in phosphate than there
has been for a long time. More of 1t is
being shipped now than since the days
Of the first craze. A number of large YES
sells have already loaded and sailed, while
numbers are simply waiting at quarantine
until they shall be released to go up and
get their loads.