Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-24
Florida Affairs.

Pensacola Is now receiving corn from Texas,
the bark Ills. from Galveston, bringing five
thousand bushels to that place.
The Sunday ordinance of Palatka is more
S stringent than the old "blue laws" of New Eng
land. This ordinance prohibits the vending of
milk on Sunday.
Car building has commenced in the shops of
the company at Palatka.
Three schooners loaded with iron are on the
way from New York to Palatka.
Captain g. P Webb has been appointed
station agent at Hawthorne.
Mr. John s. White, of Jackson county on the
10th inst, caught forty pound rockfish. and it
wasn't a good day for fishing either.
A legal contest over a ten-dollar horse in
Monticello, last Monday, footed up ninety dol
lars costs. Experience teaches dear school
but fools will learn in no other"
An addition to the west end of the St. James
Hotel at Jacksonville is to be erected, extend
ing the whole distance of the lot to Hogan
street This is to be fifty feet deep from front
to rear, and four stories high.
A short time since the people OF the State
were astonished by a report made by a survey
ing party that they found splendid high,
well-timbered country south OF Lake Okee-
choice. which had always been supposed to be
a part Of tie Everglades, and for the most part
submerged.
The Middle Florida Agricultural and Me-
chanicaI Association is now opt of debt and on
a solid financial foundation. The directors ars
making extensive preparations for holding
their next annual fair, to come of next fall or
winter.
1-,l,,ss--a - o+bar veeyata l,IeS seven hundred
and thirty-seyen barrels af Irish potatoes have
been shipped this season from tlle Tallahassee
depot. selling in the Northern markets al from
four to six dollars. aud in some instances at
eight dollars per barrel. Shipments are still
being made. The acreage planted this year
was about six times more than any previous
year, and next year will probably double the
present
Palatka Journal. Eight new buildings are
now in course of construction in town. and
lumber is 0n the ground Cor some half dozen
more. Builders Rust be having boom. p"
Land of FIOigers: "a caravan ot clock ped
dlers pa sed through the city not long sine g. =
The peach crop in this section Is better than it
has been for years.-We are told that Colonel
Joha Bradford will clear at least 500 per acre
on his pot4G, crop Of this season.
Leon county Ca boast as efficient set of
county officers as can be e6rnd in any county
in the OnlteQ states lie feGCtLP III lu6
c4erks office are so system atically kept ta.St =
is only tue work of a few minutes to get at any
county document wanted.
Potatoes and otneE vegetables have been
greatly damaged by drought. Corn has been
injured some but is looking ane since the re-
cent raius. and v i'll make good yield II sea
sons will hold out from now on. Cotton IS do
ing well where il got started to growing before
the drought came on froSpSctS are Or gnt Tor
a heavy cotton crop.
St Augustine Press: ''Mr. Fl. Gaillard has
been appointed agent Of the Charleston steam
ers, with headquarters at Jacksonville.-
Mr.. VIM. Genovar has raised N ms garoeR
some very large onions. He presented one %
Capt W. II. johnson which weighed two
pounds and two ounces"
Pulaski Journal: "Good spikers and iron
car workers aFS wanted at one dollar and forty
surveyo-, is laying of the lar@ IN small farms
along the line Of railway "A colony IS now
being organized in Wisconsin, which Coionsl
MacWllliams will locate on railway lands in
October-The camp OF the track-laying gang
was moved Saturday to Hawthorne, 10 which
point the track will be laid this week.
MaaRtae NeIrs: Three saw mills at Pine
that section, or sather for the country that
produces it.-CropS in the vicinity OF Hendry
have sustained consi ierable lnsGry from dry
weather. but are looking up some since having
rain.-if you want knowledge, you must toll |
for it; If food. you must toll for IT, Toll is the
law. Pleasure comes throasgh toll: and not by
self indulgence and Incidence. WHen one gets |
to love work, his life is happy"
Jacksonville URfoB: I'VE regret to az /
uounce that on account of business complica- /
tiops. Mr. J. HUFF, who has always been re- |
garded as one Of Jacksonyille's most snbGtan- |
IiaI citizens has been forced to make an assign
meut-The funeral OF Father Dufau vas |
jargeIv attended yesterday in fact. the church /
go taxad tn its utmost capacity TO accomIno- |
dsta ZIG friends OF the deceased gentleman 1
Wbo rad congregafed there to pay their last /
tribute TO the dead
Leesburg Adrance! ''The water in the /
canal is SO low that the Mayhower cannot as
cend.-The barge which transfers passengers
and freight from the steamer MayAOwer, sank
were little frightened. and small
quantity OF freight damaged.-The yield OF
vegetables in this section is largely In advance
of last year. Some portions OF our section are
experiencing an unprecedented long drouhht OF
ten weeks duration-stil corn has scarcely
wiited On the last trip of the Forest FloweE
from the KEYS up the river, one Of the pasSen-
gers Captain McCllntOck. whilst assisting to
pole the boat over the shoal- in Marion county
accidentally lost his fOOthoid. and was carried
down the current so swiftly that all efforts to
rescue him were unavailable. The body could
not be found, although nearly day was spent
ia dragging the river Dir. MeChntock was
fifty Eve or sixty years of age, and resident
or Panasoekee Run. in this county. This re-
port is from an eye witness on the boat or
the unfortunate accsdenE.'
Palafira Herald: ssOur river steaEerg, espe-
cialiy the through DeBary line. keep Hp
good list OF passengers both ways.-Swarms
Of alligators may be seen on the river. The
absence Of thousand visitors week, during
the winter. leaves them in quiet repose.-The
ockIaWaha steamers bring down heavy freights