The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-19

VI WorhllSton, supposedly her father
d HVed' While this was transpiring the
g 'uple was on their way to Lumpkin,
by private conveyance. Papa Worthing-
Ion found out the deception of Miss VIII
son and the whereabouts of the lovers
upon has arrival at Eufaula and tele-
graphed Sheriff Holder to arrest his
daughter and prevent the marriage But
the message came a short While after the
ceremony was performed
FLORIDA
Lee Bird of Live Oak killed ten hogs
last week that netted 1900 pounds of
pork.
Accounts from al lover South Florida
indicate an increased acreage in tobacco
the coming spring.
Rene ST John is on trial at Tampa for
the second time for the murder of Phil
Thompson at Key West
Twenty-four thousand pounds of tobac.
co was shipped from Dade City last week
via the Florida Central and Peninsular.
Out of six murder trials at the late
term of the Circuit Court in Tampa. five
defendants got discharged or acquitted.
Burglars made raid on r. b. Hodsons
store at Archer last Saturday night and
helped themselves to several suits of
clothes and other articles
meeting of hotel proprietors in the
state was called at the Windsor Hotel at
Jacksonville Monday morning, the object
being to organize a State Hotel Propre-
tors Association
Dick Cane, colored, who made his es-
cape after conviction for murder in jack
son county, twenty-four years ago, was
recaptured in Clayton, Ala, last week and
was brought back to Mariana.
J. 7. Landrum of Stage Pond, Citrus
county, this year made 900 gallons of
syrup from one acre of cane on ordin>
airy hammock land without fertilizer, be-
sides he saved 1880 stalks of cane for
seed.
Packing fresh fish in Spanish moss for
shipping is said to be an excellent way of
preserving them. Two shad were sent
from Palatka TO ST. Louis last week. pack
ed in moss, and they arrived in perfect or
der
Plans have been drawn for an immense
auditorium for the Moody meetings, in
Tampa. The lumber men in that city are
at work. making estimates, and as soon
as the preiiminaries are completed the
work will be begun.
The fish commissioners of the state of
Ohio have made formal application as an
exhibitor at the Tampa Fishery Congress.
Ohio probably has the finest fish hatche-
ries of any state in the union and con-
sequently the exhibit will be specially i'm
portant. Missouri will also make a state
exhibit.
Tampa Herald: Never in Tampa's his
tory has the demand for lumber been
so great as now and the saw mills in
and around the city are crowded with
orders which force them to run as many
hours per day as possible. The ship
ments on small vessels to points along
the coast are increasing every week and
during the past few days about ten car
| goes have been shipped.
Two years ago a well known manufac-
turer at Tampa imported a certain lot of
$1,000 pounds of tobacco from Cuba. The
government agent appraised the tobacco
| as filler, and assessed the duty at the reg
! ular rate, 80 cents per pound. Soon after
! this another manufacturer wanted the to-
| bacco and it was sod TO him as filler, sub
! ject to the 80 cents duty. Now comes the
! government, through it's special agent Mr..
| Roberts, and reappraises this lot of to-
| bacco and declares that it is wrapper and
! is subject to a duty of $1.S5 per pound
! Naturally there is a protest on the part
! of the man who bought it from the i'm
porter, and he asks the gentleman who i'm
| ported the tobacco to protect him. as he
! bought it for filler tobacco. The courts
will be asked to say who should pay the
| additional duty and who should stand the
! loss.
Sam Venable of the Venable Construc-
ton Company of Atlanta, which company
is now building two immense disappear
j ing batteries for the United States gov
! eminent at Key West, was in Atlanta last
week. He says that the work, so far as
their part of the contract is concerned,
viii be completed some time in May Their
contract amounts to 100000 for the two
| forts The largest of these two forts is
| SO0x162 feet, and the smaller one is 2oOXl5
| feet. The parapets of the walls is thirty
/ four feet above high water marx, ana the
work is as substantial and as durable as
if is possible to build a fort. The material
used is steel stone and cement, all OF
the very best quality obtainable, and the
work is being done in the very best man
ner possible. SO as to stand the strongest
test that structures of this character are
likely to encounter. United states oHceIs
are in charge of the work inspecting AL
the material that goes into it, There are
400 600 pounds of steel rails and beams
in the two forts, and 5000 barrels of ce-
ment is used in working stone and other
material of like character into the walls.
The amount Of material computed to car
,oads shows that the total number OF car
loads of material in the structure is over
| Gao These forts will be armed with SIX o
teen s and 10-inch guns, guaranteed 10 0
effective work at fifteen miles. Some of
these guns throw solid shot while 9th ers
fire dynamite shells. These guns are ts be
r,o,,nted so that they can be handled With
he greatest ease. When ready to be fired
thew are raised to the level OF the wan by
1o,,.ers Them again below the wall and
within the battery.
New Marshal at JesUp.
Jesup. Ca, Jan. 1S-The ne'S board OF
o1darn,en to-day elected Henry Bennett