The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-13

teen years.
FLORIDA.
Mr.. H. NJ. Flager mas just conclude
a tour Of inspection Of his hotels on the
East coast
E. o. Morgan, the great cattle king
of South florida has recently sod 1900
head of cattle to Cuba buyers at slS per
head.
The very latest from Tampa says that
the manufacturers ana cigarmakers have
reached settlement of their difficulties.
ana the factories Will start work to-mor-
row morning.
I L. y. Gates, aged a, and Mrs Annie
T. Cooper were quietly married at Brown
Vile last Sunday, Rev. James T Mitch
ell officiating. The contracting parties are
favoTably known in that section.
De Land Record: Not paper in the
Seventh judicial circuit is opposing the
Hon James D. Beggs for Governor, ana
present indications point to a united sup
| port from the district in which he has
| signally distinguished himself as state
attorney for many years
Tampa correspondence Tmes-Union and
| Citizen: Henry Pinknay, colored, was
placed in the county Jail yesterday be
| cause no one knew what else TO do with
| him. He is apparently crazy, ana just
| 10 the extent that no one wants to bother
with him. He is suffering from long
| drunkenness and will never have his right
mind again
| The British cable steamship Daca Capt
r. Hudson, has arrived at Key West from
London. The ship is three-masted and
! looks like an English warship. and has
| on board the cable and appliances for lay
| ing the new Florida and Havana cable.
! between Havana, Key West and Miami
! The Dacia viii commence the work of
| laying the cable Immediately She will be
| assisted by barses, tugs and the lighthouse
! tender Laurel
r. J. Musselwhite of Ocala had an ex-
| perience the other day he does not care
/ to repeat. He went to the dentist had
| tooth extracted. Returning home il
! began bleeding. An kinds of antidotes
were tried, out still it kept bic eding, aud
| did this for nine hours. Finally alum was
/ applied and the blood ceased to flow.
! but it had made Mr. Musselwhite very
| weak from loss Of blood. He tried the
| scales, and found he had lost ten pounds.
Indian r yer Advocate: Mr.. r. J. john
son, living at La Grange, had a close call
last Tuesday afternoon. During the heavy
! thunderstorm, the lightning struck his
| house, knocking out the entire end, and
/ otherwise demolishing it, Mr. johnson
! was reading newspaper, and the cur
/ rent of electricity set the paper on fire,
! burning, ana otherwise njuring his hand.
! Mr. J0hnson's daughter was living down
| on the bed in an upper room, and while
! the bed was Knocked down, she escaped
without injury.
The Green Cove Spring: Mr.. John Bat
| TOR hi la
| farm, recently. while crossing branch.
was attracted by sound in the swamp
| as If terrific conflict was being waged
/ between two large animals. and on going
to see what IL was he beheld a cow be-
! ing pulled into a large alligator hole by
| one of the inhabitants thereof. The ALI
| gator had the cows head partially in his
mouth but was frightened away by Mr.
| Ration who then assisted the COW. which
| had been chewed about the throat TO
| get as far away from the hole as was
| possible and there he left her ana came
| 10 town and when ne returned he found
| that the COW had disappeared and saw
| where it had been dragged back toward
the alligator hole and there the remains
were found down in the saurian's den. ii
| is supposed that the cow Went there to
procure water, and Wilde drinking was
| graspe1 by the throa4 and mad 1t not
been for Mr. Baton the COW would have
been killed at the first onset.
a case Of parental abuse has been dis
covered near Miami that is causing a vast
amount of indignation among the people
There is living west of that town a man
that has a wife and several children, and
reports of his brutality have been rife
for several days r. r. Taylor ESD and
Deputy Sheriff FrohaWk went out to in
vestigate the reports They found the
eldest, a girl of 10, with a younger broth
er, in the field grubbtng palmetto roots
The girl was eompelled to use heavy
s.X-inch grubbing hoe Her clothing con-
sisted of an old pair of boys pants. reach
ing only to her knees ami on either side
they were torn to nearly the waistband
over her shoulders and body she had the
remains of an old waist, torn in shreds
Her clothing was not sufii cient to cover
her nakedness. Messrs. Taylor and Fro
hawk We're so shocked that they gave the
mother sufficient money TO purchase hel
some clothing. The father was working
in town. When they arrived they hunted
him up, and read the riot act to him, Civ
ing him fair warning that unless sucf
brutality was stopped they would have
him arrested. There is much indignation
expressed by al that know the circum.
stances.