The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-22

pers could be arranged Lynn gave bond in
the sum Of $500.
When 800 marines passed through Miami
Thursday enroute to Key West it was re-
ported that they were hungry The PEG
pie on the dock thereupOn bought every
pineapple TO be had and tossed them
aboard snip to the marines.
Miss Mamie Brian Of Ocala, granddaugh-
ter Of Gen. J. J. Dickson, is receiving the
congratulations of her friends on her APP
pCintment to the position of sponsor at
the unveiling of the Hemmlug monument
at Jacksonville. She has chosen Miss
Hemming of Texas as maid of honor.
The transport ship St Charles, which
was in Port Tampa Wednesday, is a queer
craft, and attracted a great deal of at
tention. She is a sidewheel steamer, and
is built so that she can run either on land
or water. She was built for use in the
lakes around New Orleans. and could go
from one to the other without any trouble,
travelling over the ground almost as
smoothly as over the water. 1t IS report
ed that the St. Charles Will be used for
hauling water from Key West to the feet
al Tortugas.
A civil war souvenir has been found in
Liberty county. 1t is a copy of the New
York Herald dated Saturday, April 10,
1865, and gives detailed account of the as
sassination of President Lincoln, JEFF
Davis last proclamation, the position of
the armies of Grant and Sherman, and the
refusal of Rosa and Fitzhugh Lee, to be
surrendered by Gen. Lee ana other i'm
portant matters. This relic was
obtained from an old ante-belum
negro woman who can neither
read nor write She came in poss sion
of it through her old master. The paper
is very well preserved. c. c. Archben of
Apalachicola now owns it.
Lieut.. Lyons, Of the Twenty-fourth Reg
iment, U. S. A, Is the victim of a sharper.
Soon after this command reached Chicka-
manga d young man with a very plausible
tongue and little of anything else APP
preached the lieutenant and introduced
himself as a representative of the Asso-
ciated Press and several Western papers.
The fellow was treated as a guest of the
regiment and went to Tampa with it. At
the latter place one day he turned up miss
ing. An army pistol and several other
articles of personal property were also
missing. They We're soon located In
pawnshop, where they had been left by a
bogus newspaper man. Since then a dill
gent search has been made for him, as it
is believed that he is not only thief, but
a Spanish spy.
Another very destructive fire occurred
at Live Oak Thursday night in the heart
and business part of town. south of the
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
track. on the west side of Ohio avenue,
destroying every building fronting Ohio
avenue to Howard street. The origin of
the fire is unknown 1t commenced at
about the center of the block. The prin-
cipal sufferers are: DR.. III. f. Airth; John
Cobia, general store; w. r. Lee, market;
Micklen Bros, groceries; J. B. Barton,
furniture and general store; s. j. White
gentlemen's furnishing goods, boots and
shoes; Live Oak Grocery Store; w. c.
Folks, druggist; DR.. Mankeor, office, col
ored; -- Lewis, shoemaker; j. w. John
ston, cabinet maker; and slightly damaged
the law offices of Col. NJ. f. Broome and
Rees & Rees The Live Oak House caught
on fire, but was saved, with Slight dam
age. The total insurance on the property
destroyed is $1S 600; the estimated damage,
So 900