Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-29
Florida AHnirS.

The Manatee NeICs says quite a number of
lard buyers and home seekers are in that
town, the cultivation of early vegetables being
their object.
The County Commissioners Of Alachua cOun-
ty have been ordered by the United States Dis
trict Court to levy a special tax to pay off the
judgmen's Of Dennis and Lawton.
The County Commissioners of Madison have
fixed the seed cotton license at $500, and the
rate of taxation as follows: County tax proper,
4 mills; county school, 216 mills; county bond.
S1s mills; builIiug fund. , nils; making a total
of y mills
Two men were arrested in Cedar Key last
week for making sn attempt T. take the life
Of another. One cf the would-be slaughterers
WAS iarmed with two razn nFs. and apparently
Intended making hash meat Of his victim.
F.nley's brig de had g,orious reunion in
Jacksonville on the sab.
Key Wes- d mOcra': Lieut. Gov. Bethel
and Mr.. Patterson ara preparing to plant
coc'arut grove on key twenty mil, above
this city.
The Tampa Tribune SAYS: "Mr. J. d Spang
Of Jacksonville, has been on the coast for six
weeks endeayoiing TO capture devil fish for
his museum Mr. Spang informed US that his
patty tackled two Of the monsters. but they
had 10 cut the lines u save themselves "
The upp-r wOrl of the steamer VoluSia were
entirely destroy ed by fire at Jacksonville a
few DAYS ago The origin Of the fire is un-
knO n. But for ne timely ard well directed
Efforts of Capt. Lurd and his crew. that the
steamer , ouli have been burned 10 the waters
eCge.
Miss Mary Hart of Madison, while riding in
a buggy near MOsely Hall last week Sustained
a painful sccideHt by having her shoulder dis
located The horse sttachei to the buggy OK
ffiskt at an umbrella. ran a~sy, turning ever
the buggy. ami throwing its occupant with the
above result.
Jacksonville Uni0n: General J Hickison
and his daughter Mrs BRYAN, passed through
the " yesterday with the remains Of J. J.
Dickson, Jr-, on their way 10 Qlincy. where
the body will be inferred in the fsmily burial
ground. They came from Leesburg on The
steamer Okeehumkee and left Immediately on
the train for Quincy"
Jacksonville Union: The schooner Annie
Barton. consigned 10 Mr. A NJ Beck. with
cargo OF iron for the South Florida Railway.
has arrived, and Is now discharging at Wight
man & ChriStOpher's wharf The xork on the
road Is now being rapidly pushed. and yeSter-
day Mr. Beck sent tiftyf five men to Sanford TO
commence the work Of exteRring the road.
and expects to enlarge the working force as
fast as men can be employed There are now
thirty miles Of iron atl )at for this road
Palatka Herald: There is an enterprise that
cou be made very pr fitable TO any company
engsg ging in it. hat Is the business Of cam ng
thought TO bring his matter before the public,
but we hesitate not 10 say that this business
will become one OF the most profitable in that
section. The oys er be IS on Indian riv are
mex xhauStibe ST present, the bivalves are
large and very fine. and it is a wonder that this
immense resource. which promises such profits
If utilized, should lie idle"
Fernandina Mirror: I'VE undertook some
time since TO find out where South Florida
was. We found one authority ire uding the
counties south of IS degree :, and another in
cuding Orange ami VOlusIa. We are now
again perplexed by finding from the Putnam
County Journal that the section Of country
known as South Florida, bordering on the st.
Johns river. consists OF the counties OF Put
nam, orange. VOlusia aud Brevard-' Well. at
TINS rate, South Florida is working up this
way. Nassau will soon be in S0u'h Florida
II PUTNAM county is in South Florida why
bors -
.falatka Herald So far as the Lake Okee-
chooee enterprise is concerned we never did
put any faith in il. The bonds have already
been put upon the market in New York and
while u believe that the State will not lose any
thing, yet there are hundreds who may be in.