The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-28


can be made to pay off all the
| membranes upon them. and all Of the
debts Of Redwine. now unsecured.
FLORIDA.
George NJ. Hawk, postmaster at Chip
ley died Thursday of consumption.
J. P. Talaferro Of Jacksonville candi-
date for the United States Senate, SEN
ator Pasco, and Hon. s NJ. sparkman,
nominee for Congress, will speak at Ar
cadia, Sept. s.
NJ. H. Buckets house and furniture in
Kissimmee were destroyed by fire Fri
| cay morning. Both are covered by in
eurance. Mr.. Buckets has a saw mill
few miles south of Campbell Station.
The rain of Tuesday was very heavy
at Oakland. Four and a half inches fell
in two hours and twenty minutes. Some
| damage was done to roads. on Wednes-
| day night three-eights of an inch fell,
making August rainfall eleven and quar-
| ter inches TO date.
Judge Dan Carmichael OF Newton, Ala
died at his brothers residence near Chip
ley on Tuesday last of hydrophobia. Some
time ago, while rescuing a grandcaild
from the attack OF a vicious dog HE
manu- was Ddulg DldDBteQs ana diLuOu4Il
he applied a maidstone and took other
! precautions. he was taken Ill while on a
| visit TO Chipley, and lived only a few
days.
large field of water hyacinths was
banked against the draw bridge in front
of Palatka Friday A raft of logs, be-
J ing towed by the tug Fearless. got caught
| In them. and had to be left. The steamer
| Alice NJ, plying between that city and
| PicoIata. also got caught in the pests
and could not get out for several hours.
Instead of the pests disappearing, as re-
| ported some time ago, they seem to nave
easily increased I'm that part of the river
within the last few months.
N. G. Wade of Bingham, S. c., spent
last week in Phenix arranging and To-
eating a site for his saw and planning
mill, which he expects to move there soon.
| Mr.. Wade attended a meeting of the pa
irons of the public school while there, and
offered to furnish the lumber for a school
| building if they would walt until he
moved his mill. ii will take about 25,0C0
| feet of lumber to erect the building Dro-
| posed The citizens feel very grateful for
this generous offer, and will wait until
Mr.. Wade has his mill at Phenix.
Largo's Oldest citizen was buried Tues
day Uncle Billy McMullen, as he was
Familiarity called. would have been So
| in October. He was the Oldest of seven
brothers, who were all actively engaged
| in the Confederate service. All went
! home and were among the pioneer set
| tiers of the Gulf coast. He was an uncle
| of d. c. McMullen of Largo, who has
| been nominated to the state legislature.
The Democratic county executive com
| mittee held another meeting in the opera
| house building at st. Augustine Friday
morning The only important action taker
| was in reference to the holding OF th'
| primaries. The committee decided after
| fully discussing the matter, to hold the
! primaries on Wednesday, Oct. 5. The
/ first date set was Sept. IA, but it was
/ found that the voters living in the rura
| precincts would not have sufficient time
| to register, and ii was thought best tt
postpone, but the committee Friday mo2n'
| ing decided 10 make it three weeks longer
so that no one will have grounds for com
plant This date is final, and the primary
| elections viii be held on Oct g. Candi
| dates must pay an assessment of $40 10y
| Sept H. The committee discussed othel
| campaign matter al the meeting, but moth
| ing of importance. The meeting was helt
| behind closed doors. One of the qualih
| cations for voting is 10 consist of having
| voted the state Democratic ticket in 1896
Jacksonville Times Union: The extent o
| the WOrk Oh the ARMY ana Navy 6uIlS
ton commission of the Young Men,
| Christian Association, as carried on among
the soldiers stationed at Jacksonville, i
little known by the public. Fifteen larg'
tents are used by the commission in it
| work at this point Two of these tent
| are at Springfield, five at Fairfield an(
| eight are stationed with the regiments
camped at Panama Park, or near there
| Daily reports sent in to the headquarters
by the secretaries in charge of these tents
show daily attendance of over 10000 sol
diers, and over 5000 letters written daily
| on stationary furnished by the associa
| ton Sixteen secretaries and one evange
| list are giving their time to the work Tht
| attendance at Gospel meetings, held in tbs
tents on Sundays and on week evenings
| exceeds 10000 weekly. About 100 daily pa
| pers are received at the headquarters o
| the commission. the Carleton Hotel, eacl
| day from the larger cities of the country
| and these are distributed to the various
| tents In addition to these secular papers
| about 500 religious periodicals are received
each week and are placed within reacl
of the soldiers. Several thousand each o
hymn books, Moody's colportage books
and Testaments have been placed in thu
hands of soldiers that have asked for sucf
| literature.