Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-12
Florida Affairs.

Apalaehicola's lumber boom is on the grow.
According to the Tribune, there are three saw
mills in operation there and two in course Of
erection.
Ten-pound trout are the smallest caught in
Sumter county.
1t IS stated that lumber is being gotten out
for the Ckeechobee Drainage Company's saw
mill at Lake Tahopekaliga.
Editor Wall. of the Tampa Tribune. has an
orange leaf which measures seven and half
by four and half inches.
Green Cove Spring wants good shoemaker
aud timer.
Captain Peters, of Enterprise, has seven
century plants in bloom.
Leesburg is to have a new Jail.
4 convict who escaped from ore of the
camps on the WaycroSs Road has been captured
at Cedar Keys.
Work on the Jacksonville Street Railway is
progressing rapidly, and cars will soon be run
ming.
Work on the new Methodist. church in Jack
sonvine has been resumed.
a large number of colored men are leaving
Jacksonville for Ohio and Louisiana to work
on railroads.
Green Cove Spring has laid an embargo on
street pasture for cows and hogs.
Helm & Co, of Manatee. have shipped seven
ty bushels of tomatoes from one patch. which
ne;ted Sc per bushel
ApalaChicola wants big hotel and line Of
fast steamers to New Orleans. The Tribune
contends that cotton could be shipped from
Bainbridge and Columbus to the Crescent
City for 81 per bale if the steamers were at
hand.
The Brooksville Cresctnt states that an ex-
cursion party recently boarded Captain Nal
lard's steamer, the Forest Flower, and went
down the WithIacoochee to Shell Island. They
found the river narrow at some points, and at
times INSTRUCTED, but the boat forced her way
through the tangled vegetation, and the river
was found to be for the most part broad and
easily navigated. The Crescent concludes that
few thousand dollars would develop large
section of territory if properly expended on
the stream.
1t is stated, and apparently on good authori-
", that before another winter a commodious
hotel will be built at Wilcox or Formosa, and
that the three points-Maitland. Rormosa and
Orlando-win be connected by telephone, with
probable extension to Sanford.
a new aGultlO0 10 the EdSl6 Iencli Mill AZ
Cedar Keys has been built to the main building
1t is 20xS0.
Right Rev. Bishop Young, of the Diocese of
Florida, recently delivered an address upon
the growth of the Episcopal Church in the
State, which appears from the figures eXhib-
tied surprising TO those without the Episcopal
communion as well as those within it. Ten
years ago there was one communicate for
every 3D. of the entire population of the State
Now there i one communicate to every l72 of
the population. q gain of $50 per cent. The
VigOr of the church is better shown, however,
from the number of church edifces
erected or in course of erection. Among
the places which now contain or will shortly
contain church edificeS are: Pensacola. Ma
rianua, Tai ahassee, Lake City, Orange Park,
Green Cove Spring, Federal Point. Welaka,
Sanford I.ongSoOd Maitland Cedar Key 8, Fair
baDks Waldo, Santa Fe, Ocala, and besides
these the Chapel OF the GOOD Shepherd in
BROOKLYN which the Bishop opened Sunday
before last, and the Church of the Holy Cross
at Marguerite near SandeFsoD, which has been
c1DsecTated within the two years. Another
church is soon to be begun at Fort George Isl
and The Bishop also has fu d OF 81 ,UOO, 90
mated by gentleman of Hartford, Conn, TO
be used at his discretion, in the erection of
church or churches. These churches are free
from debt, are strictly church edltlces IN aren't
lecture. and are free to ell alike. The churches
at Milton and Hibsrnia are well advanced. and
at Madison. Mandarin, Orlando, Lake Como,
DeLand, Yalaha and Fernandlna EFFORTS are
making for the ere -tion of edihces which 1t Is
hoped wiIl be completed during the year,
These, when added to those already finished,
" i'll make Twenty-Five churches built in three
years.