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6 GEORGIA AM) FLORIDA. NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLU IN PARAGRAPHS. Many Improvements in Progress at Waynesboro A Columbus Boy Car ries a Button in His Nose for Six Months—The Washerwomen of Al bany Earning $26,000 Per Year. GKOJtOIA. J. IV Wheatley & Co.'s ginnery and grist mills at Ameriens are fur sale. A hunting party killed over 200 doves ■ear Haddock's station one day last week Col. Mannerlyn talks of building a hotel at his mineral spring, near Muunerlyn, at no distant day. The Methodists of the Augusta Confer ence have decide! to build a parsonage at Augusta for the Presiding Elder ut a cost of $3,000. A man aged 45 years, in Eudora settle ment, Jasper county, has just bought his first "stoie bought" suit, and was out at church last Sunday looking like u brand new man. Saturday William Forsythe (colored) fell off the excursion train oil route to Savan nah at Glenmore. ten miles west of Way on s, and was killed. He is supposed to Have been drinking. The Algernon Mills at Augusta are erect ing a large brick warehouse, 35x1 il, for the Rttr&ge of cotton and goods. The ware house will lx-supplied with sprinklers, and they have also been ordered for the factory. Sla.j. Wilkins will have his three brick stores at Waynesboro completed in a short time, and will then completely upset and re pair the Masonic Hall building. The col ored Baptist college in the upper part of the ;ity will be soon completed. At Macon Saturday the Collins Manufac turing <'oni]inv\s large establishment changed hands. The sale has been negotia ting tor some time. The property is one of the finest in the city. Mr. James McGregor and Mr. Turner were the purchasers. The survivors of the old Burke Guards are making preparations for attending the reunion of their regiment at Eatonton on Aug. 3 and 4. A year ago eighteen names answered the roll-call. Now there are four voices silent, four brave hearts having ceased to throb. At Columbus Saturday Dr. Bullard had a little patient sprit to him for treatment for what was thought to he catarrh, but after examination the cause was located and re moved, which proved to be a trouser button which the little sufferer had been carrying in his nose for six months or more. The Piedmont Exposition is extending special invitations to the veterans of the Army of the Cumberland to visit Atlanta during the progress of the Exposition, and go over the old battlefields. The manage ment claims to expect *10,001) visitors per day on two days of the Exposition. The representative of King's Great AA’est ern Powder Company of Cincinnati has pur chased a lot of K. C. Neely at Waynesboro and is building an iron powder magazine with a storage capacity of about 5,000 pounds. They propose selling their (towder to merchants throughout that section. The agents of the Standard Oil Company at Waynesboro are in correspondence with the company for the ereetion near the depot at that place of a large oil tank. The oil will be shipped there in oil tank cars and from them will be pumiied into the large tunk, and the barrels will bo filled from the tank. The office of the Clerk of Superior Court of White county was forcibly entered dur ing Saturday night and valuable papers re lating to the civil and crimiuul business of the next session of the court were taken away, as well as “Book C” of deeds, the lat ter embracing the recorded deeds from 1873 to 1878. Owing to some defects in the titles to the lots fii-st selected for the new college at Jackson, T. J. Dempsey has donated two acres in a beautiful grove near his residence which was accepted by the committee on location. Tho site selected is covered by a fine growth of forest oaks, is retired from the public thoroughfares and admirably suited for school purposes. Comptroller General AV right has received from u friend in Washington a piece of cop per that was a part of the famous Merrimae —the first war ship of the Confederacy. It is suggested that the Comptroller have the copper fashioned into an anchor and at tached to his watch chain. Tho donor is beaborn Barnwell, of AVitkes esuntv, who received the copper front Minor Hobt>s. There was a very heavy rain in AA'aynes boro on AA'odnesday afternoon. In the neighborhood of AA'aynesboro it fell in spots and places. AVhile one Held was overflowed the adjoining one received only a sprinkle. It was noticed in the city' that while it was falling in torrents on one lot it would hold its own there for several minutes before making encroachments on the adjoining lot. Miss Gena Watkins, the young lady who was murdered in the horrible tragedy at Gainesville, Tex., last week, was the only daughter of Capt. J. C. Watkins, who went from Atlanta to Texas some throe years ago. Capt. Watkins was for many years a mer chant in Atlanta, doing business on Decatur, Broad and West Mitchell streets. The family has a great many relatives in and around Atlanta. Joseph K. Jobson, of Augusta, holds a patent for a car-starter for street cars, in vented by him. He has a model of his in vention, and the appliance will he manufac tured hv George K. Lombard. The starter has the advantages of stopping the car promptly and assisting the horse to start immediutolv and without effort. The patent, will Is* t ried on the line of the Augusta and Summerville road. E. G. Kramer, of Carrollton, has nil egg which is something of a curiosity. It was found in L. C. Mandeville’s barn, and from its size is doubtless the production of a last fall's pullet. The peculiarity of the egg con sists in its illustrations. ITaiulv inscribed on the idiell is tlie outline of a heart, an acorn and the figure 77. Clifton thinks the phenomena means that tho world will come to an end in 1077. We shall wait and see. Dr. Westmoreland and Messrs. Lowe and Bhubrick made a thorough investigation of Boudurant ft, Joplings's convict camp, on the Augusta and Chattanooga railroad, Saturday, and found the sensational rejiorts Sent out in regard to scurvy being in the camp to lie without foundation. They state that the camp is in good order. Only six out of 100 convicts arc sick. Only one of these is in iied. They made no recommenda tions whatever. There was a reunion of the Ezell family on last Tuesday, in Jasper county, at the borne of Braxton Ezell. Mr. Ezell is no years old and his wife 80. E. B. Ezell and family attend and tho reunion. There were sixty-six members of the family present, representing four generations of children, grandchildren and great -grandchildren. A remarkable feature m the history of this family is that only four of this large family have died, and not one who hud passed the age of seven years. Here is an interesting artesian well item from the Eufaulu Times: “A voluntary flow of MJ,(XJO gallons a day has been secured by the water works company in the well under the bluff. A pump will increase the qmntity about three Mini's, or at least to L)0,000 gallons a day, so we are informed. A car load of street pipe has already been received, and active work will begin on them in a few days. A strange thing about the last well is that it lues wtomied the flow of the other throe wells below the compress. Tlie water Is said to be strongly impregnated with sulphur.” K. M. Horton, who lives six mill's above Itnhlouegu, in Yahoo la district, was intown Monday with the wing, bill and leg of a curious lard. The bird somewhat re sembles a crane in the I><>dv, but Its bill was spoon shaped and til >out two and a quarter inches wide and seven inches long. Tlie wings uiwl tail were a lieaiitiful pink color. Ftuiu tip to tip the bird was about five feet I long. It is the only one of tho kind ever j seen in this country, and is thought to boa j sea-foxvl which had got lost. It is believed to be one of the large spoon-biffs which live on the seashores. AV. S. AA'alton, of Baeonton, has on his parlor door a caYprt with somewhat of a history attached to it. In the first year of the war the capital of the Confederacy was at Montgomery, Ala. The President's man sio.n was a rented house belonging to a Col. Harrison. President Davis occupied it as long as the capital remained at Montgomery, and when it was moved to Richmond, Mrs. AValton’s father, AVillis R. Callaway, pur chased the house and some of tho furniture. Among other things bought was this carpet, which lie afterwards gave to his daughter, who has kept it ever since as a sacred relic of the lost cause. Adit. Gen. Kell received Saturday from the Avar Department at Washington a com munication notifying him of the receipt of the various requisitions for arms and ammu nition made by tho Slate under the general act appropriating *400,000 among the militia of the States. The Adjutant was informed that his orders had been filled, and tho guns and ammunition were now on the way to their proper destination. The companies who will receive the benefit from these or ders are commands in Seri veil county, Tul bot county, Morgan county, Chatham county, and in one or two other places in the Suite. I)r. J. S. Lane, of Aurun, has some rich specimens of gold. He exhibits several reeks of the quartz family, every nook and cranny of which fairly shone with the yel low Virgin gold. Nuggets almost as large at a number two shot could be extracted from several clefts in the rocks, and smaller ones scattered in profusion all over it. The doctor says that it is a lair sample of a vein which he has recently discovered in about n mile of the old Fountain camp ground on the line of AVarren and McDuffie counties. It is as rich as any' from the noted mines in California, and promises to rival tho mineral wealth of Goloonda. At Macon Saturday argument in the in junction case of Henry Horne against the Mayor and City Council of Macon, to pre vent their signing the water contract, was concluded before Judge Simmons ill cham bei-s. City Attorney Patterson and Hon. George AV”. Gustin appeared for the defense, and put forth the plea that the Mayor had a perfect right to sign the contract, as it was not in any sense a dobt. The defense claimed the right both by act of the Legislature and by the absence of any such net. Judge Sim mons agreed with the defense and declared that the injunction would not hold good, and he refused to grant it Comptroller General Wright has in his office yet several insurance certificates of agents who have not paid the special tax re quired by the law. The companies they represent have paid hlio taxes demanded of them by the State, but these agents are yet behind with the special tax required of them. The certificates will not lie sent them until they do pay, and their names will be published in a few days unless they come forward and pay' tho special amount. The matter is a very important one, and should receive special attention, as the agents have no authority to transact business under the law until these special taxes have been fully and completely met. , A sou of A. C. Durham, of Watkinsville, w hile on the creek or. Friday last, caught a very large and strange bird. The bird seemed to lie very tame, and flew up to Durham, Jr., and remained quiet until picked up. When carried home it was turned loose, and walked around and played with tho chickens as a pet pigeon would. The head of this bird was as large as and shaped like that of an eagle. The bird was perfect from head to tip of wings; the legs were only two inches in length, the feet were like those of a chicken; the general color was n beautiful snuff, and it measur ed four feet from tip to tip of wings. The bird seems perfectly happy with the chickens and preceded the wind storm only a few minutes. Crawfordville Democrat: AVo wore told this week of a terrible encounter Miss Flynt, of this county, had with a snake one dav last week on the mountain at Hillman. ft is said that she was sipping the balmy breezes of the evening, and while sitting on the ground she threw her urin back behind her and at that instant she espied a good sized black smake crawling over her arm. She immediately knocked at the reptile to free her arm, but as she struck at it the horrid thing wrapped around her arm and began to squeeze tighter. She screamed for help and her horrified companions were afraid to venture to assist her. The brave lady seized the snake by the neck and choked it loose. She was not hurt, but badly frightened. A close calculation shows that there are between 400 and 500 white families in Albany. It is safe to say that there are at least 425 families who hire their washing done. Tho average cost of washing | Ha ve:-k, with soap and starch furnished to the washerwoman, is not less than $1 25. Many families pay more; very few pay less. But cut down the number of families to 400. At $1 25 | XT family per week the washing and ironing would then amount to SSOO a week or $20,000 a year. This is a small estimate and doi-s not cover tho cost of soup and starch nor include the lax-ge number of un married men who pay $3 a month for their washing. A more complete estimate would doubtless show that not less than S6OO is paid out to the washerwomen of Albany every week. Eatonton Messenger: A professedly brave young gentleman ot the town, so the report goes, who had been on a visit to sumo young ladies recently, on his return to his room at a late hour of the night, found himself sud denly confronted by a human skeleton hanging by the neck over the center of the sidewalk. Witnesses say he did not tarry for an examination, but cried out, “Great s[>ooks alive,” turned about and run for dear life. Dr. Brown says when he first heal'd him lie thought it was his horse out on a rampage. Tiie young mini passed the doctor's house running at the rate of 100 yards in nine seconds, the fastest time on record. The last heard of him that night, he was at Ins boarding house lying at full length on a bench resting and cooling off. The thermometer registered that night ID . A work of great importance is 1 icing pushed at the Augusta factory. On June 23 the work of taking out tiie old wheels (which were nearly worn out and did not give the power requisite) was commenced. Anew wheel pit was commenced and two huge iron flues erected, thirty feet long and eight feet wide. At tho terminal of the fines are three herculean wheels manufactured by the Holyoke Machine Company. Those wheels are enclosed in a for bay, 51 feet long, 10 foot wide and 7 feet in height. Around these two huge wheels an arch brick wall is L-ing built. AVhen the work is completed it is calculated that the power of mill No. 1 will lx' increased one-quarter. Tho entire work has been done under tho supervision ot Supt. Crnmlie, by the hands of the factory, mnl will lie completed by Aug. 1, and when 111118111x1, wifi iwld materially to the factory. Jackson Xerrs: AVe learn that parties are circulating jx'titions in this county securing signatures, importuning the legislature to pass an net authorizing the sale of 1 he Indian Sining Reserve, Also that li. J. Lunar, the lessee, is causing a petition to bo circu lnt.xl in other portions of the State, for the sain 1 purpHc. The citizens xvho liought property adjoining the Reserve are opposed to having tiie State's property | kiss into the hands of private indi viduals. AVe are of the opinion that the Jieople of Georgia do not wish to sell In dian Spring, and that no considerable num ber wil| sign a ]x'tition authorizing the legislature to pass an art for that purpose. The proposition that tho purchaser lie re quired t> erect 11 $160,000 hotel at the Spring is bosh, and is only thrown in to en trap the unwary into signing the petition. Ld the State improve its own property and keep it forever free for the peojile of Geor gia Albany Sewn and Advertiser: Oldman Billy Hopkins, the rag man, so universally known to the Albany children, has changed his business. His voice Is one,' more heard singing the songs that drew chiidmi to the THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1887. gates for a bargain. Armed with candy, he goes the rounus of the city, and the child that doesn't rush out with a bottle to barter for his candy has never enjoyed the pleas urable excitement of trade with him. The rag business, which he followed for years, has been abandoned, and he is now bartering for the bottles that have ac cumulated in and around the houses of the city. It matters not how valuable a bottle may lie, the child of the house will lay it away for a trado when Uncle Billy' comes around. A.s soon as his song is borne to the ears of the child, there is a rush for the hoarded bottle, and off for the gate ho rushes, when the trade is quickly effected for the coveted candy on the one Land and the prized bottle on the other. A terrible murder was committed at the yards of the Chattahoochee Brick Company, near Atlanta, at about 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. A convict named Charley Schuler cut the throat of Dick Lester, a fel low-convict, who died within four minutes after the assault. Both men are negroes. Lister, who was about 26 years old, was sent up from Oconee county, about five years ago, to servo a fifteen-year sentence for horse stealing. Schuler, who is about the same age, is a Lawrence county con vict, having been sent up for burglary'. He had served about ten years on a fifteen-year sentence. Both men {sire good reputations for industry and deportment about the camp, and neither has ever been regarded as particularly quarrelsome. Lester was re garded as a man very easy to get along with, and Schuler, whilo he did not bear quite so good a reputation, was never re garded as jiartieularly pugnacious. Tho crime was due to a dispute over cards. At Lumpkin Friday about sundown a serious difficulty occurred on a plantation three miles from town. Walter Harris has a boy hired about, tho house to wait upon him. He told the boy to bring him a bucket of water. The boy was rather slow about going, and Harris pushed him toward the door and kicked him. The boy reported it to his sister, and she went to see Mr. Har ris, and told him that “nobody could kick John where she was.” Harris then slapped her face, and the boy’s father, Anderson Trotman, seeing the difficulty, came up. Upon hearing the cause of the trouble, he bit Harris on the head with a stick or a niece of fence rail, hurting him pretty badly. Harris then jerked out his knife and cut the negro Anderson on his left arm near the shoulder, severing all the muscles and came near cutting the bronchial artery. The negro commenced running, when Har ris seized a gun which the negro boy John had, and shot Anderson in the back of the head and neck. Dr. Miller was caJled to see him and found the wound serious. AA’lule little J. I). O’Hearn was strolling down near the branch just north of Thorn asvillo lie discovered a large snake under a log. He at once tried to capture the snake, but it escaped. Just then he saw two more, and he grabbed one of them back of the neck and then drew its tail up and held it in the same hand and proceeded to catch the other with tho other hand. In doing this he got bit on the hand, and deliberately stopped and sucked the poison from tho wound and then captured tho snake as at first attempted. Getting this snake's head and tail in one hand, just as lie had the other, he returned home, stopping several times on the way to show several parties he met how he could make the snakes light by putting their heads together. After play ing with them as long as he wanted to, lie took them home and placed them in a box. Mr. Fudge, his brother-in-law, having found out about them, had the snakes killed. "J. I).,’’ ns the hoy is commonly called, is a boy aliont 14 years old. The bite of the snake, although it was a poisonous moccasin, never even made a sore. He says he is not afraid of snakes and catches them just for fun. Several digests for 1887 were recieved Saturday by the Comptroller-general. Hull county’s digest shows $3,2*10,615 worth of taxable property, an increase of $76,404. Hall county adjoins Gwinnett county on one side where for the past three years the amount of taxable property has been stead ily decreasing, until within three years it has aggregated more than $170,000. The reason for this decrease as given by the re ceivers of tax returns for Gwinnett is that the value of land is steadily decreasing, but in Hall county, adjoining, no such decrease is manifested. Returns were also received from Scriven, Glasscock and Johnson coun ties. Seriven county’s digest shows taxable property to the value of $1,300,316, an increase over the returns for 1886 of $4,543. The digest of Glasscock county shows property to the amount of $433,333, a de crease over that of the last year of $1,655. Johnson county makes one of the best showings that has been received so far Tiie value of the taxable property in the county is $873,150, an increase of $70,816, ox-er 1880. If all the counties in the State will show the same proportion in the values of taxable property, the aggregate amount of taxable property in tho State w'ill be very largely increased. Last week Paul F. Long, of Milton, went to Tunilin’s farm in search of relics. He was gone four days, and on his return spread out a lot of articles that were once used by the mound-builders, a race of whom little is known. History gives no account of them, and all that is known of them is learned from the vessels, tools, images, etc., once used by them and found now in the mounds erected by them. The North Ameri can Indians knew nothing about them; the Indians built no mounds, neither did they know who did build them. They had no tradition of their origin. It is supposed that the mounds now found were erected to mark the graves of the chiefs of a now ex tinct rare, and Hint their earthly goods were buried with them. All their implements were made of stone, and their coo!.- vessels of elay. Mr. Long had a variety of articles. Among them was a stone mortar and iiestle, used to beat up com, a piece of white marble about eight inches across, two inches thick, and was concavo concave. Mr. ltoitg said this was called a “clmnkey stone," and was probably used as a target. It had almost a hatful of arrow and spear heads, nil made of flint and quite sharp on the sides ami end. Also stone knives used to llesh hides, ami to cut the bark off of trees. Several stone anx-ils were in the collection; also round granite balls about the size now used by school boys, and supposed to have been used to play some kind of game. He had two small pots of cla\*burnrd very hard, one holding about a gilt the other about a quart. There was only one piece of metal in the lot; this was a tomahawk or ux made of iron, about three inches long and something over an inch wide. The oldest looking mid highest prized article in the lot were two hair pins made of sea shell; one seven inches long, Br other five inches. They were hoary with age and will hardly hear handling, crumb ling off at tho slightest touch. They were probably worn many centuries ago, by the proud daughter or wife of some king. FLORIDA. There are thirty-live saloons at Jackson ville. No collector has yet Ihh-h appointed for the port of Pensacola Doctor Kline, of Eustis, killed a lvear on AA'ekiva river Thursday. Tho Santa Rosa Rilles think of going to I’oblo Reach next month to tho State drill. A petition is being circulated at Lnchbir calling for an election on tho liqui a- ques tion. The gas company's buildings, near the T. O. and A. depot at Orlando, are fast ap proaching completion. Prof. Proctor is building a house at ()ak la*wn, one mile south of Lorlibie. It will cost about $5,000, and he will nutke it his home. The new Commissioners for Sumter county have received their commissions and will tie sworn in on the first Monday in August. The schooners Ida McKay an 1 Gertrude are at Key West from the bars with sponge. They report tho fleet doing very little at present. A crane has Ik-u put up hv the side of the railway track ut Buffalo Bluff and the mail will bo delivered there instead of on the river, os heretofore. A colored man, Robert Mathews, who was married at Key AA’est Thursday night, got into a row, which caused him to have to spend the night in jail. Dr. AA’. A. Spence has been appointed act ing assistant surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital service at Jacksonville, vice Dr. J. D. Mitchell, removed. At Seville on AA’odnesday a thunderbolt struck and shattered three large pines near Mr. AVarnoek’s residence, and the shock came near prostrating Mrs. Rossie. A “riot” took place at Key AVest Thurs day night, near the cemetery, and the 4 >- lice had to interfere. The Marshal was pretty roughly bandied by parties resisting arrest, Charles B Pendleton, editor of the Key AVest Equator, charged Manuel Escassi, a prominent Cuban, with attempting to as sassinate hitn. A jury trial resulted in an acquittal. The schooner burned with the Crigler mill, at Point Washington, last Monday, was the I,aura, owned by G. W. Crawford. The vessel was valued at about $1,500, and was not insured. Gen. Edward Hopkins, Collector of Cus toms, Jacksonville, is at AA'ashington visit ing the various divisions of tho Treasury Department, in the interest of the customs service at that port. The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key AA’est Railroad company have now the plans for a pretty little steamer 120 feet long, which will be built immediately to carry the mail from Melbourne to Jupiter. A few days ago some of the prisoners con fined in Sumter county jail made an at tempt to escape, but was foiled in their ef forts by the sudden appearance of Sheriff Chapman and Deputy Howell. At Key AVest the larger cigar factories, notwithstanding lad transportation facili ties, are all wonting more or less their full force. AVoli’s factory is closed, B. Alfonso <fc Cos. have stopped temporarily, and Reynolds & Cos. are not working now. H. M. Flagler, who returned to St. Au gustine Saturday, is at present the guest of Mayor Anderson. His visit at this season of the year is to look after his interests and to oversee the progress which is being made toward the completion of his structure. Senors Rivero and Delgado havo retired from the editorship of the Spanish depart ment of El Ecuador, of Key West, their connection with which, after a recent at tack of its English editor upon the charac ter of Hon. Manuel M. Escassi, was consid ered impossible. At the annual election of officers of the Lake Parker Telegraph Company, C. B. Stephenson of Lakelandwas elected Presi dent against H. C. Sloan, who has so long and faithfully served in that capacity. Mr. Sloan still retains a large share of the stock of the company. Four prisoners are lodged in tho county jail at Milton. One for murder, one for an assault witli intent to murder, one for larceny, and one for carrying concealed weapons. The fii-st and last arc from AY’al ton county, there being no place of safety for them there. The steamer Lena C., intended to ply the Choctawhatchie river, arrived at Pensacola from the Conecuh Thursday. She was in spected to-day by Messrs. Blakeslee and O’Brien, United States Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers, and proceeded to the scene of her future operations. Col. Jim Harris has just shipped 2,000 orange trees from Citra to Panasoffkee, to be set out on his tine hummock place on the famous Panasoffkee Lake, in Sumter county. Counting fifty trees to the acre, this is a sufficient number to plant forty acres, and is only a beginning of the improvements Mr. Harris intends making. An untenanted house belonging to Mrs. Burgoyne, situated near Muscogee wharf, at Pensacola, caught fire and was totally de stroyed Saturday. The house had been set on tire three or four times in the past week, it is said, and Saturday s fire is plainly the successful work of an incendiary. The loss amounts to about SSOO. Insured. On Saturday night a colored man em ployed by P. V. Jones, went to Lakeland and hitched His two mules in front of Mr. Bouacker’s store. 011 going back in a few minutes to where he had hitched the mules, he discovered that they were gone. Next morning the mules were found on the streets, with the saddles and bridles literally cut to pieces. No cause can be assigned for it. Two of tho four beacons to lie built on the 1 iay at Warrington have been com pleted. They are about thirty or forty feet high. Tuesday, while work was going on, the boss and a negro got into a difficulty, and the negro struck tho white man on the head with a piece of wood, but with no very serious effect other than stunning him for a short time. As soon as the negro struck him, he, the negro, fled. The records of the Patent Office show that in the way of inventions Florida takes a leading place among the Southern States. As is well known, the South has been last, if not least, in the originating of mechanical designs, hut of late there has been a noticea ble improvement in this respect. During the past year the number of patents issued to citizens of Florida was forty-one, which is an average of one for every 6,573 of pop ulation. Feeber, who was arrested at Orlando some two weeks ago for gambling and fined $25, anil who claims to be a Deputy United States Marshal, but is not able to produce any credentials, is now mixed up in a still more disgraceful uffair. It seems that some time since ho rented a room for a woman whom he claimed was his sister, but as he has steadily refused to pay the rent she has lieen turned into the street without money or friends. The southbound freight train on the Flor ida Railway and Navigation railway ran into a hand ear one mile south of Leesburg Sunday night, uml killed one vvjjite section hand named Parrier, and dangerously in jured Section Foreman Fail, it was on a curve, and the engineer did not see the car in time to stop. The body of Parrier and tho injured man were brought back to Leesburg. The body was turned over to the authorities, and Fail was placed under a doctor’s care. Six years ago there was not a single house where the flourishing eitv of Sanford now stands.— Enterprise Herald. That's nothing to brag about; five years ago there was a cornfield where the beautiful city of Bran lord now stands.— Branford .1 lessen per. You are both left, gentlemen. Kissimmee did not even have a cornfield to start from. Five years age there was nothing but.a heavy pine and hummock forrest where the ener getic eitv of Kissimmee now stands.—Kis simmee Bender, When proposals in the proper form are received ut the department, the contract for nursing sick and disabled seamen at Jacksonville will lie awarded. They will not lie sent to the county (loor-houso as pro posed. Seamen fora long time, and up to about three years ago, paid a hospital tax of 10e. per month. This created a large fund, sufficient to provide those requiring it with suitable and comfortable quarters and necessary medical and other attention, and it is certainly not just the proper thing to send them to the pjor-housc. Aponka City Union; Many think that truck fanning in Florida will not pay, and have given up the id-a of engaging in this branch of industry altogether. No business will prove remunerative unless persistently and industriously followed, and the want of proper management and attention has caused some to foil in vegetable growing right here among us. These should lake courage aud pattern after our friend John T. McCol lum. of Utishtiell, who has netted this year at least $1.560 upon less than three acres of land planted in cucumbers, tomatoes and egg plant:. R. ii Buekinan left Jacksonville Satur day for 11 wick's visit to flic “Pirates" at May port. He went in his little clinker built sail boat. T • total weight of this di minutive craft will not exceed 150 pounds. Mr. Uuckmnn ha. taken all accoutrements necessary fora wren days' fishing ami hunt ing; trip, bat by some it ia hinted that he will join the pirate bund and spend tho re- mainder of his days in following their ma rauding chief in his warfare against mer ohant vessels. These “Pirates," as they sttyle themselves, compose a band of a ba Iter's dozen of Jacksonville’s young men who have rented the McDuff House on the beach at Mnyport, and to symbolize their quarters, have planted a tall flag pole from which the black flag of their order is daily unfurled to the breezes with the booming of their sunrise gun, and with the sound of the sunset gun it is furled to await the return of daylight. On the night of July 8 Starling & Hen dry’s mill, situated on the Belleville road, alout four miles west of that place, was burned. There were three gins, gin house, grist mill, cotton press, saw mill and engine shelter all destroyed. Fortunately the pile of lumber wits not in the direction of the wind, and was saved. The coals had been raked oift from under the furnace, and water thrown upon them before the hands left the mill. But everybody went off fox hunting, and while they were gone the coals started to burn again, and soon everything was enveloped in the flames. A few of the crowd came back to the mill soon after, but too late to do any good. The engine and boiler was damaged but slightly. Mr. Star ling says his loss is about SI,OOO. Since there has been so much flurry over the pensioners of the country, and as they aro all supposed to live in the strong Republican States, it may not be amiss to say that hundreds and thousands of the pensioners of the government have found happy and contented homes in the South since the war. Florida has her share, and it is a matter of business interest, for the amounts received as pension money goes immediately into the channels of trade. The actual number of pensioners living in the State is li-Mi, and they are paid each month $7,000 fil, or every year $84,835 712. It may bo of interest to know how these pensioners are located, and hence the fol lowing statement, giving the number of pensioners in each county, together with the monthly payments to them, will be of interest: Alachua4s, paid $533 91; Baker 2, paid $18; Bradford 11, paid $210: Brevard 9, paid SBS; Clay 15, paid $170: Columbia ‘2, paid SJ2; Dade 1, paid $25; Duval 70, paid S7BB 55; Escambia 22, paid $360 00; Frank lin 2, paid $42; Gadsden 4, paid S4B; Ham ilton 2, paid $18; Hernando 24, paid $274; Hillsborough 32, paid $458; Jackson 4, paid ssl; Jefferson 4, paid $25 50; Lafayette 4, paid SO4; Leon 7, j>aic 1 850; Levy 0, paid $54; Manatee 13, paid S9B 83; Marion 30, paid $3114,75; Monroe 17, paid $138; Nassau 0, paid $138; Orange 92, paid $1,030; Polk 22, paid $288; Putnam 50, paid $470 66; Saint John’s 29, paid $233 25; Santa Rosa 5, paid $36; Sumter 14, paid $lO7 25; Suwauee 0, paid S4B; Taylor 5, paid $52; Volusia 52, paid $516 75; Wakulla 1, paid $10; Walton 10, raid sl4l 50; Washington 13, paid $72 .50. Last Tuesday, and one or two days subse quently, no attention was paid to the non appearance of (.'apt George A. Moore, of the American schooner Henry Waddington, who was supposed to have left Pensacola on Monday night for Mobile; but failure to hear from him Thursday and Friday caused his mate, Caleb McGee* a little uneasiness, and the latter at once instituted an inquiry into the matter. It was learned that lie had taken a bus Monday night for the depot, intending to go to Mo bile, but he was seen in Pensacola the same night after the train had left, by An drew Brassel, the bus driver, who informed the mate of the circumstance. The mate with a police captain took in all the public places in the city last night, but the search failed to reveal the presence of the missing man in any of them. Telegrams were sent to Mobile, but the Captain had not boon seen in that eitv. When last seen he was drinking, had drawn S7OO on that day, out of which he had paid one or two small bills, and he was continually “flashing his roll” throughout the day. It is supposed that his condition was noted by someone in des perate need of his money, that he was watched, waylaid, and probably murdered and robbed. The mate Friday telegraphed the vessel’s owners of the Captain’s disap pearance and they wired instructions for the mate to bring the vessel home. Capt. Moore was about 40 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, rod lace, light hair and mous tache, had a slight scar over the right eye, and, at the time of his disappearance, wore a black diagonal suit and a brown straw derby hat. He belonged to Ferry Village, near Portland, Me., where his family re sides. Pensacola Commercial: Pensacola has a case of precocity that bids fair to be dc veloped into a first-class criminal career, if its rapid growth be not checked and checked very shortly, for it is attaining to such an altitude in a criminal record that already good cases for a term or two in the county jail, if not in the State penitentiary, have come to light as perpetrations of the youth ful offender. As no charges have been officially preferred against the party, it will be as well to withhold names, but an insight into the crimi nal ingenuity and predilection of the “kid” may not be amiss. He is not yet 14 years of age, and he lives not far from the business center of the city. It has been his custom to approach well-known business men and obtain money from them on vari ous false pretenses, a favorite dodge with him being the plea of his mother’s poverty. To be just to him, he does spend part of the money thus obtained for provisions, which he takes home, hut the remainder is squan dered for tobacco and other things con tributing to a depraved taste. Very recently he went to a prominent bus iness house in this city, whore, rep resenting himself to be the son of a well known steamboat engineer, he opened an account, obtained a pass lwok, bought a small hill of groceries and borrowed $2, all of which business he found no difficulty in negotiating, on account of the good credit possessed by the gentleman whom he claimed to be his father. His mother liqui dated tho account when the fact was brought to her notice hut she had received no intimation of them from the boy. who as soon as he had completed his purchases and obtained the $2, threw the pass hook away. TV BEE RAILROAD. SAVANNAH ANDjM RAILWAY, Standard Time. pOMMKNC'INO SATURDAY, .Inly 18, 1887. the V following schedule will be ill effect: No. 3. No. 1. No. 5. No. 7.* Lv. Savan nah 10:80 a m 3:00 pm fi:oopm 9:50 pm ArTybee.il :45 a m 4:15 pm 7:00 p m 11:03 p m No. 3. No. 4. No. 6. No. B.* Lv. Tybee.7:oo a m 4:05 pm 9:15 pm 8:00 pm Ar. Savan nah .8:15 a m 5:30 p m 10:25 p m 9:10 pm ♦Trains 7 and 8 Sundays only. All trains leave Savannah from Savannah and Tyhee depot, in S., 1 \ and \V. yard, east of ias siuiver depot. Is’avo Tyhee from Ocean House. Tickets on sale at depot ticket office, ami at Fernandez's t fear Store, corner Bull and Broughton streets. C. O. HAINES, Supt. Savannah, July 15, IRB7. BUBI RBAN ItAII.W AV. City and Suburban Railway. Savannah, (la.. Mav 81. 1887. / \N and after WEDNESDAY, June Ist, the ' ' following schedule will be" run on the Out side Line: HAVE AIIHI vis leave: isle leave CITY. CITY. or HOPE. MONTGOMERY •8:55 6:49 ! 6:90 10:9.3 j 8:40 I 8:H 7:50 ••8:23 9:00 I ]:3O 1:00 +7:15 I 8:40 | 8:15 i There will be no early train from Isie of Hope on Sunday morning. *l or Montgomery only. Passengers for Isle of Hope go via Montgomery without extra charge. This train affords parents a cheap ex cursion before breakfast for young children with imrsns. ••Title 3:3,3 p. si train last out of city Sunday afternoon. tOu Saturdays this train leaves city at 7:45 r a- J. O. JOHNSTON. SHIPPING. OCEAN COMPANY FOR New York, Boston and Philadelphia. PASSAGE TO NEW YORK. CABIN $29 00 EXCURSION 3a 00 STEERAGE 10 00 PASSAGE TO BOSTON. CABIN S2O 00 EXCURSION 32 00 STEERAGE 10 00 PASSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA. (via Nbw York). CABIN $22 50 EXCURSION 26 00 STEERAGE 12 50 'T'HE magnificent steamships nf these lines I. are appointed to sail as follows—standard time- TO NEW YORK. CITY OF SAVANNAH, Capt. F. Smitii, TUES DAY, July 26. at 10 a. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. J. YY. Catharine, FRIDAY, July 29. at 1:30 p. M. CHATTAHOOCHEE. Capt. H C. Daggett, FRIDAY, July 31, at 3:30 p. M. NACOOCHEE, Capt. F. Kempton, TUESDAY, Aug. 2d, at 5 r. M. TO BOSTON. GATE CITY, Capt. E. R. Taylor, THURSDAY, July 28, 12 m. CITY OF MACON, Capt. H. C. Lewis, THURS DAY, Aug. 4. at 6:30 p. M. TO PHILADELPHIA. [for freight only. I DESSOUG, Capt. A. F. Howes, SATURDAY’, July 30, at 2:00 p. m. JUNIATA. Capt. S. L. Askins, SATURDAY, Aug. 6, at 7 p. M. Through hills of lading given to Eastern and Northwestern points and to ports of the United Kingdom and the Continent. For freight or passage apply to C. G. ANDERSON, Agent, City Exchange Building. Mcrchaots 1 and Miners' Transportation Com’y. For Baltimore. CABIN sl2 50 SECOND CABIN 10 00 OMIE STEAMSHIPS of this Company bit ap- X pointed to sail from Savannah tor Balti more as follows—city time: WM. CRANE. Capt. Biuxps, SATURDAY’, July 30, at 4 p. m. WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Snow, THURSDAY, August 4, at 6 p. m. WM CRANE, Capt. Billups, TUESDAY, Au gust 9, at 11 a. m. WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Snow, MONDAY, August 15, at 4 p. m. And from Baltimore on the days above named at 3 p. m. Through hills lading given to all points West, all the manufacturing towns in Now England, and to ports of the United Kingdom and the Continent. JAS. B. WEST & CO.. Agents, SKA ISLAND KOU TE. STEAMER DAVID CLARK, Capt. M. P. USINA, \\7ILL LEAVE Savannah from wharf foot of ' * Lincoln street for DOBOY, DARIEN, BRUNSWICK and FERNANDINA, every TUES DAY and FRIDAY at 6 p. m., city time, con necting at Savannah with New York, Philadel phia, Boston and Baltimore steamers, at Fer liandina with rail for Jacksonville and all points in Florida, and at Brunswick with steamer for Satilla river. No freight received after 5 p. m on days of sailing. Freight not signed for 24 hours after arrival will be at risk of consignee. Tickets on wharf and boat. C. WILLIAMS, Agent. SEMI-WEEKLY LINE FOR COHEN'S BLUFF AND WAY LANDINGS. r PHF, steamer ETHEL, Capt. W. T. Gibson.will 1 leave for above MONDAYS and THURS DAY’S at 6 o'clock p. m. Returning arrive WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDA YS at 8 o’clock r. M. For information, etc., apply to YV. T. GIBSON, Manager. Wharf foot of Drayton street. For Augusta and Way Landings. STEAMER KATIE, Capt. J. S. REVILE, XI7ILL leave EVERY WEDNESDAY aj 10 ' v o'clock a. M. (city time) for Augusta and way landings. All freights payable by shippers. JOHN LAWTON, Manager. PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE. Tampa, Key Wont, Havana. SIMt WEEKLY. SOUTH-BOUND. Lv Tampa Monday and Thursday 9:30 p. m. Ar Key West Tuesday anil Friday 4 p. m. Ar Havana Wednesday and Saturday 6 a. m NORTHBOUND. Lv Havana Wednesday and Saturday noon. Lv Key 'Vest Wednesday and Saturday 10 p.m. Ar Tampa Thursday and Sunday 6 p. in. Connecting at Tampa with West India Fast Train to and from Northern and Eastern cities. For stateroom accommodations apply lo City Ticket Office 8., F. & W. Ry, Jacksonville, or Agent Plant Steamship Line, Tampa. „ C. D. OWENS, Traffic Manager. H. 8. HAINES, General Manager. May 1,1887. Blufi'ton and Beaufort Line Wharf Foot of Abercorn Street. CTFAMFIt SEMINOLE leaves for Hiulfton, Beaufort and Way Landings EVI- R V TUBS DAY at 9a. m. EVERY THURSDAY for B can. fort and Way Landings at 11 ,\. in. lor I luff toil EY’ERY SATURDAY at 2pm U. A BTBQBHAR. . RAILROADS. SC if EDII Li E CENTRAL RAILROAD. Savannah, Ga., July 3,^887. ON and after this date Passenger Trains will run daily unless mar ked t, which are daily, except Sunday. The standard time, by which these trains run, is 36 minutes slower than Savannah city time: No. 1. No. 3. No. 5. No. 7. Lv Savannah .7:10 am 8:20 pm 5:15 pm 5:40 pm Ar Guyton 8:07 am 6:40 pm Ar Milieu 9:40 am 11:03 pm 7:30 pm 8:45 pm Ar Augusta. t1:45 pm 4:ooam 9:35pm Ar Macon 1:40 pm 3:20 am Ar Atlanta ...5:10 pm 7 :15 am Ar Columbus..9:3o pm 2: 45 pm Ar Montg’ry. .7:25 am 7:09 pm Ar Kufaula.. 4:38 am 3:50 pm Ar Albany 10:00 pm 2:45 pm Train No. 9+ leaves Savannah 2:00 p. m,; ar rives Guyton 2:55 p. in. Passengers for Sylvania. WrightsviUe, Mil ledgeville and Eatontou should take 7:10 a. m. train. Passengers for Thomaston, Carrollton, Perry, Fort Gaines, Talbotton, Buena Vista, Blakely and Clayton should take the 8:20 p. ni. train. No. 2. No. 4. No. ti. No. T Lv Augusta. 10:00 pm 6:00 am Lv Macon . .10:85 am 10:50 pm Lv Atlanta . 6:50 am 6:50 pm LvColumbus 11:00 pm 12:45 pm LvMontg'ry. 7:25 pm 7:40 am LvEufaula. .10:15 pm 10:49am . .•.. Lv Albany.. 5:05 am 11:55 am Iv MiUen— 2:28 pm 3:loam B:lsam s:2oam Lv Guyton.. 4:o3pm s:olam 9:4oam o:sßam Ar Savannah 5:00 pm 6:15 am 10:80 am 8:00 am Train No. 10+leaves Guyton 3:10 p. m.; arrives Savannah 4:26 p. m. Sleeping ears on all night trains between Sa vannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta, also Ma con and Columbus. Train No. 3, leaving Savannah at 8:20 p. m., will stop regularly at Guyton, but at no other point to put off passengers between Savannah and MiUen. Train No. 4 will stop on signal at stations be tween Milieu and Savannah to take on passen gers for Savannah. Train No. 6 will stop on signal at stations be tween Savannah and MiUen to take on passen gers for Augusta or points on Augusta branch. Train No. 6 will stop between Millen and Sa vannah to put off passengers from Augusta and points on Augusta branch. Connections at Savannah with Savannah, Florida and Western Railway for all points in Florida. Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths on sale at City Office, No. 2U Bull street, and Depot Office 80 minutes before departure of each train. J. C. SHAW. G. A. WHITEHEAD, Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass. Agent. Savannah, Florida & Western Railway. [All trains on this road are run by Central Standard Time.] r riME CARD IN EFFECT JUNE 19, 1887. I Passenger trains on this road will run daily as follows: WEST INDIA FAST 31 AIL. READ DOWN. HEAD UP. 7:00 a in Lv Savannah Ar 12:06 p m 12:30 pm Lv Jacksonville Lv 7:00 a m 4:40 p m Lv Sanford Lv 1:15a in 9:00 pin Ar Tampa Lv 8:00 pm PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE. Monday and! , Tamnft . jThursand Thurs.. pmj Lv.. lampa... Ar Sun pm Tuesday and i . Kev West Tv i We4 - and Friday, .p m f Ar. Key 4Nest .Lv j- Kat p m Wednes. and I . T | YVed. and Sat a inf Ar... Havana .. Lv noo „ Pullman buffet cars to and from New York and Tampa. NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS. 7:06 am Lv Savannah Ar 7:58 pm 8:42 a m Lv Jesup Ar 6:16 p m 9:50 a m Ar Waycross Lv 5:05 pm 11:26 u m Ar Callahan Lv 2:47 p m 12:00 noonAr Jacksonville Lv 2:05 p m 7:00 a m Lv Jacksonville Ar 7:45 pm 10:15 am I.v Waycross....... Ar 4:40 pm 42:04 pm Lv Y’aidosta Lv 2:56 pm 12:34 pm Lv Quitman Lv 2:28 pm 1:22 pm Ar ThomasviUe... .Lv 1:46 pm 8:35 p m Ar Bainbridge .Lv J 1 ;25 a in 4:o4pm Ar . Chattahoochee... Lv 11:80a m Pullman buffet cars to and from Jacksonville and New York, to and from Waycross and New Orleans via Pensacola. EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS. 1:30 pm Lv Savannah Ar 12:06 pm 3:20 pm Lv Jesup Lv 10:32 am 4:4opm Ar Waycross Lv 9:23am 7:45 p m Ar Jacksonville Lv 7:00 a m 4:15 p m Lv. . Jacksonville Ar 9:45a ra 7:20 p m Lv YVaycross Ar 6:35 a m BjßlpmAr Dupont Lv s:3oam pm Lv. . ..Lake oily Ar 10:45a m 3:45 pm Lv Gainesville Ar 10:30 am 6:55 pm Lv Live Oak Ar 7:10 am 8:40 p m Lv Dupont Ar 5:25 a m 10:65 p m Ar ThomasviUe Lv 3:45 a m 1:22 a m Ar Albany Lv 1:25 a m Pullman buffet ears to and from Jacksonville and St. Louis via ThomasvUle, Albany, Mont gomery and Nashville. ALBANY EXPRESS. 7:35 pm Lv Savannah Ar 6:10 am 10:05 p m Lv Jesup Lv 3:15 a m 12:40 a m Ar Waycross Lv 12:10 am 5:30 ani Ar Jacksonville Lv 9:00 p m 9:00 p m Lv Jacksonville Ar 5:30 a m 1:05 a in Lv Waycross Ar 11:30 p m 9:90 a m Ar Dupont Lv 10:06 pm 7:10 ain Ar Live dak I.v 6:55 pin 10:30 ain Ar Gainesville Lv 8:46 p m 10:45am Ar .. Lake City Lv B:SS pm 2:55 a m Lv Dupont Ar 9:35 pm 0:30 a m Ar ThomasviUe Lv 7:00 p m 11:40a ni Ar Albany Lv 4:00 p m Stops at all regular stations. Pullman sleeping cars to and from Jacksonville and Sa vannah. THOMASY’TLLE EXPRESS. 6:05 ain Lv YVaycross Ar 7:00 pra 10725 amAr . .ThomasviUe..... .Lv 2:15 pin Stops at all regular and flag stations. JESUP EXPRESS. 3:45pm Lv Savannah Ar B:3oam 6:10 prnAr... .... Jesup Lv 6:25 am Stops at all regular and Hag stations. CONNECTIONS. At Savannah for Charleston at 6:45 a m. (ar rive Augusta via Yenmssee at 12:30 p m), 12:26 }> m and 8:23 pm; for Augusta mid Atlanta at • )00 am, 5:15 p m and 8:20 pm; with steamships for New Y’ork Sunday, Tuesday and Friday; for Boston Thursday: for Baltimore every fifth day. At JESUP for Brunswick at 3:80 a m and 3:33 p in; for Macon 10:30 ain and 11:07 p ill. At YVAYCROSS tor Brunswick at 10:00 a in and 5:05 p m. At CALLAHAN for Fernandina at 2:47 pm; for Waldo, Cedar Key, Ocala, etc at 11:27' a in. At I.IVE OAK for Madison, Tallahassee, etc., at 10:58 ain and 7:30 pm. AtGAINESVILLKrorOcaIa, Tavares, Brooks ville ami Tampa at 10:55 a m. At ALBANY fur Atlanta, Mnonn. Montgom ery. Mobile, New Orleans, Nashville, etc. At CHATTAHOOCHEE for Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans at -1:14 p in. Tickets sold anil sleeping ear berths secured at BREN'S Ticket Office, and at the Passengol Station. WM. P. HARDEE, Gen. Pass. Agent. R. G. FLEMING Superintendent Charleston & Savannah Railway Cos. pONNECTIONS made at Savannah with Sa- V vaimah, Florida and Western Hallway. Trains leave and arrive at Savannah by stand aril time ('.Kith meridian), which is 36 minutes slower than city time. NORTHWARD. No. 11* S3t 86* 78* Lv Rav'li .12:26 p m 4:00 p m 5:45 ain 8:33 p m Ar Augusta 19:30 pm Ar ileaufort 8:08 pm 10:15 a m Ar P. Royal 6:90 pin . . ,10:30 am Ar Ai'dafe.. 7:40 p m 8:15p in 10:90 a in Ar Uha stoii 4:13 p m 9:90 p m 11:10 a m 1:25 a in SOUTHWARD. as* 85* 27' Lv Cba’ston 7:10 a m 8:35 p m 4:00 a m Lv Augusta 19:35 p in Lv APußle. 5:10 a m 8:07 j> m Lv P. Royal. 7:1X1 a in 2:00 ji Lv Beaufort 7:13 a m 2:15 p Ar Sav h.... 10:15 ain 6:58 p m 8:41 atr •Daily betwisui Savannah and Charleston. tSumlaysonly. Train No. 78 makes no connection with Port Royal and Augusta Railway, and stops only at. Rklgeland, Green Pond and Kavenel. Train It stops only nt Ye masse* and Ureeti Pond, and connect* tor Bomifort anil Port Royal dally, and for Allendale daily, except Sunday. Trains 85 and 08 connect from und lor Beaufort and Port Royal dally. lor tickets, sleeping ear reservation* and all other Information apply to WM. HREN, Siieeial Ticket Agpnt. SK Roll street, and at < 'haileston mid Savannah railway ticket ofßce, at Savannah, Honda and Western Railway depot, C. S. GADSDEN. SupL JUuu.a 1887