The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-28

O~i4ts'i-S wiz Dc iilQ up near the mouth
of the Indian river until after the war
scare is over.
The Ocala House will close for the sea
son, at least as far as the dining room is
concerned in few days. The remainder
OF the house viii be kept open as usual
throughout the summer
At meeting of the citizens of Neptune.
Saturday night. fifteen members signed the
roll for home defense. Another meeting
viii be held, officers elected and an appn-
cation will be forwarded for arms
There are many spaniards in Key West.
and all of them are in sympathy with
Spain in the present embrogllo, yet every
one of them is as safe and secure from
insult or injury as If ne We're promenadiag
the streets of Madrid.
At Neptune. Tuesday, a young buck of
the Seminole tribe. when asked if he want
ed 60 go to war, said: mo; let white
man go to war; kill off lots Of white man;
leave lots of squaws; then Indian have
three-four white squaws"
The State Normal and Industrial College
at tallahassee viii hold its closing exar-
cises on May a. Is and 26, at Muuroe's
opera house. There will be no graduates
this year from che normal department, ow-
ing to the extension of the course.
George Mckay, contractor of Ocala,
has between twenty and thirty men at
work erecting a number of large new
buildings for the Duunellon Phosphate
Company. He also has the contract for
the erection Of new county bridge across
the Withlacoochee river, near Dunnellon.
At Key West, Tuesday night, a fgat
took place between a citizen negro and
negro soldier The soldier jerked out his
bayonet and stabbed the citizen negro sew
eral times in his right side causing the
blood to flow profusely The wound is rot
dangerous, but is a painful one. No arrest
has been made.
The little steam launch Leo formerly
known as the sklpjack, of Georgiana-on-
the-Indian-River, has been chartered by
the government to run as a dispatch boat
between Titusville and Cape Canavarel.
This little craft can make twelve knots,
and will make daily runs between the
points mentioned.
The County Commissioners of Brevard
county are preparing to build several
purchased
at Snake Creek for q convict camp. When
the buildings are completed the county
prisoners will have to employ their time
in breaking stone which win 'be used on
the county roads.
Large shipments have been made from
Montclar of lettuce cabbage and Irish po-
tatoes, in spite of the prolonged drought.
Many of the truckers are ''hatwoods men,"
who only recently began TO feel it's eff
fects. Pears and peaches will be almost
nil the trees being unable to hold their
bloom or set fruit.
Some one has been firing the woods
around Ojus lately with disastrous effect.
Only a week ago Prof. r. E. Mcdonald
lost all of his fruit trees, and a few days
later an unoccupied house belonging to
John Pulaski of Buena Vista was burned
The same fire burned valuable mango
trees on the homestead of j. L. Megent.
DR.. Tate Powell started out at Starke.
Monday, to enlist a company of Bradford
county citizens over As years of age, 70 be
known as the Bradford County Home
Guards, for the purpose Of preserving the
public peace, to suppress instructions ard
riots and to repel invasion in the county.
BY noon twenty-six names were enrolled,
and it is probable that a large company
wil be organized to protect local interest
during the Spanish war.
AS the war between the United States
and Spain becomes more of a reality, the
excitement grows more intense at West
Palm Beach. The remaining winter visit
ors are making rapid preparations for an
early departure while some of the more
timid all-year residents are planning to
leave Lake Worth for the present, at least.
The Lake Worth Home Guards, in COM
mand of Capt. Enoch Root, are drilling
daily In the marchings and the field move
ments. They hope to secure guns from
the government at an early date, and will
then be instructed in the manual of arms.
At a mass meeting held at the court
house at Live Oak Tuesday to consider
the advisabllity Of sending delegate TO
Washington, d. c., TO urge upon the ways
and means committee the levying of an
import tax upon Egyptian cotton. NJ e.
Broome was elected chairman, George
Wolfe secretary. After a brief statement
of the chair of the object of the meeting,
resolutions favoring same were passed,
and Worth Stephens of the firm of Worth
Stephens & Co, selected as delegate. his
expenses to and from Washington being
raised in few minutes the farmers pres
ent contributing literally.
A fusilade of pistol shots rang out at
Cedar Key Sunday night about O'Clock,
followed, a few minutes later, by two
heavier reports from shotguns. Inyestiga-
tion showed that a number OF the Key
West spongers. on their way home from
church, had been assaulted by party of
young coored sports, with the result that
two men had been shot painfully, but not
seriously, both being flesh wounds No
arrests have been made but an effort is
on foot to discover and punish the guilty
persons The men shot are Samuel Kelly
of the schooner Cherry M. and George Lu-
Their Of the schooner Mary Eliza, both veg
sells being owned by John Lowe, Jr..
The officers Of the Second battalion,
Florida state troops, met at Leesburg Sun
day in the Leesburg Rifles afmory. for
the purpose OF formally rendering their
services 10 GOV. Bloxham IN a body Those
present were: Major Charles p. Lowell,
commanding; Capt j. ". Bradshaw, Shine
Guards. Orlando Capt II. f.. Davidson,
Ocala Rifles; Cart J. u. Lucas, Gem City
Guards. Palatka; Capt. George =. Lowell.
Lieut. ]. c. West and Lieut.. j. r. Cum
ningham. Leesburg Rifles: G. d. Lehier,