Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-05-26
FLORIDA NEWS,

ROasting-ears sell at Jacksonville fol
seventy-tive cents a dozen.
Marion county is bound to have her
railroad from silver Spring to Blue
Spring.
The Jacksonville Press says that MIR.
d. L. Yulee is large owner in the Fer
nandina Observer.
Mrs. Moseley, Of Jackson county, was
rendered insensible the other day 0y a
stroke Of lightning.
DR.. A. S. Baldwin has discovered a
sulphur spring in Jacksonville. He had
to bore for it, though.
Mr.. Charles Gareiss, Of Gadsden
county, has cotton stalks with fogms on
them. This is rather ahead Of the season.
There were eight deaths in Jackson
vile during the month of April, four Of
which were of nOn-residents.
The Semi.Tropical is the name Of q
new magazine shortly to be published in
Jacksonville by Harrison Reed and
Charles W. Blew.
A bouquet OF statesmen graced Jack
sonville the other day, consisting Of
Stearns, Eagan, Cowgirl, Walton, Mont
gomeTy and Dennis.
A German named Sehaffer robbed his
employer of two thousand dollars in
gold and silver currency, in lamps re-
Gently. He is in Jail.
The death-warrant OF James Monroe,
COlOred, OF AlsChus county, has been
signed by Stearns. The negro was to
have hung last Friday.
Cheney will hereafter practice law.
He assures the editor of the Jacksonville
Union that che leaves the newspaper
business for that Of the law, that he may
earn an honest living"
The Tallahassee Sentinel says that o.
A. f. Miller made his first shipment of
cUcumbers on Friday last. It Is only
the beginning Of busy times with him.
He has twelve acres of them 10 ship
from, looking finely, aud with tinoaIy
showers, will ship at least fifteen hun
dred bushels.
Jacksonville Union: Can any OF our
readers inform us why every variety Of
tropical fruit can he purchased at much
lower price in Savannah, Macon, Au-
gusta, and, in fact, at almost any point,
cheaper than here? These fruits are sent
direct from Jacksonville, and ore would
think that transportation ought to add
to the cost of fruit, but it certainly does
not.
Palatka Herald: The prospect Of an
outlet from Orange lake through Orange
creek to the OcklaWaha river is very ell
cOuraging. There is no one section OF
east Florida that can boast OF finer or
larger orange groves, and it may be said
that there is no class Of settlers better
able to succeed in orange culture. The
Nf n
lake extends within five or six miles Of
the OcklaWaha, and the settlers around
the lake go to make up a class than
whom there is not better in the cOun-
try. We learn from Rev. P. P. Bishop
that the navigation of Orange creek is
feasible, and that it will certainly be
made available for the next crop.
The Palatka Herald has this: The
old captains say that the st. Johns
river above Lake George is lower
on the bar of VOlusia, and Lake
Monroe, Is four feet. Ii is not without
some difficulty that our large river
steamers get through these channels.
AS a close observer of the rain fall on
the AtlsI tic side Of the peninsula, dur
ing the pest six years, we are lea to the
conclusion that, during that period the
rainy season, which usually sets in dur
ing the month Of July to a very cOnsid-
cradle extent, has fallen off. We are
sure that the old fashioned rainy sea-
son, from some cause or other, has
failed. What we call Florida rain
season in summer, since our residence
here, we have not seen. The old prob
abilities may account for this-We can
not.