The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-19
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.oc of good natured comment by those
who heard it.
The Circuit Court of the Fifth judicial
district will convene in Bronson next
Tuesday. For the first time in many years
there is not a single capital case of any
kind to come to trial There is not a case
on the civil docket ready for trial, and
only two cases appear on the criminal
docket. ~They are Adam Clyatt for sell
ing whisky Illegally. and S. A. Dennard
for obtaining goods under false pretenses.
There are several cases to be Investigated
by the grand jury.
The orange shipping season at Leesburg
opened up lively last week and continues
with increased vigor. The crops of the
Alsobrooks & Davies groves at Lisbon
began to go forward last week, and Nj.
w. Lowell shipped 125 boxes from his
Eclipse grove to Boston. f. H. Mote is
shipping a carload to Boston from the
Roberts grove at Orange Bend, and
Fletcher S. Johnson is sending several
carloads from his Sunnyside grove on or
ders to New York. Robert Bird has ship
ped a part of the Christopher crop at
EldOrado, and ]. w. Miller a part of his
at Dead River. The Hubbard crop on
Corley Island has also been shipped. Nj
merous small shipments of from ten to
fifty boxes have been made.
Jim Clarke, Deputy United States mar
shall for the Tallahassee district, was in
Ocala Tuesday and tod good moonshine
story as having actually happened in his
territory. A certain white man ran a still.
A certain negro heard of it and appeared
for bottle of moonlight clarified. assur-
ing the masher that his goods had the
finest reputation in all that county "All
right" exclaimed the stillman, who went
in and put a good load of very fine shot
in his gun, came out and said: you
have been misinformed; this is the only
fine brand 1 possess" and remarked 20
the dusky visitor that the quicker you
move the less shot you viii carry" and
the darby, taking the hint, lit out but
not too soon to receive good modicum
of che shotted contents of the gun Since
that day the stillman has not been trou-
bled with spies.
Tampa Correspondent Jacksonville
Times-Union: A negro named Anderson
lies in the county jail to-day with five
pistol balls in his body, and is lowering
between life and death, with the chances
in favor of death. Anderson has been
at work on the Notifications al Egmont
Key. He came to this city and drank
mean whisky and went to Fort Brooke.
Yesterday morning it became necessary
for Policeman Driver of that place TO ar
rest the man. A desperate fight ensued,
and after the negro had been knocked
down several times he fought more des-
perately than ever At last he was about
to secure the club from Policeman Driv-
er when Marshal ]. j. Stephens ran up
and chol1ed him Off Marshal Stephens
and the negro then went to the ground
in a hand-to-hand struggle. Policeman
Driver rallied to the battle, and soon the
three were all on their feet, fighting des-
perately At last the negro flashed a large
knife and made a cut at Marshal Steph
ems. Policeman Driver saw his superior
officer stumble, and thought the negro
had cut him. Just at that moment the
negro ran. The policeman told him to
stop and the order not being obeyed he
opened fire. He placed five shots from
his pistol in the small of the mans back,
and the physicians says that one of them
will prove fatal 1t afterwards proved
that Marshal Stephens was not cut.