Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-04
Florida Affairs

ID. K Hotchkins, Of Putnam county has
head Of early curled Simpson lettuce weighing
tnree pounds and measuring five feet in cir
conference.
Inc Marianna Courier says there is a good
Outlook for fruit. The peaches promise an
abundant yield.
Inc Annual Council of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in the Diocese of Florida will
meet IN st. Johns Church in Jacksonville to-
day at II O'Clock a. m, and continue its session
through the week.
Rsv. B. W. Beck was badly hurt last weat hv
being thrown from his horse In Putnam county
Greenwood is to have brass band.
Last week Mr.. W. Il. Pillow, of Jacksonville,
shipped $500 quarts Of strawberries North.
Mr. Pillow has shipped during the season about
$1,000 quarts of Strawberries, principally from
this county, netting the growers nearly $4,000
The Mirror says the Fernandina Board of
Health has promptly organized, and made the
necessary regulations for the enforcement of
quarantine upon vessels coming from infected
or suspected ports.
1t Is stated that a panther was recently killed
in jackson county, measuring fourteen feet In
length and weighing 125 pounds Twelve hogs
feet were found in its stomach.
NJ. j. SHREDDER has bought the Gardner Hotel
at Crescent City for S7,OcO. and viii enlarge it
SO as TO accommodate two hundred guests.
A correspondent writing from Temple Mills
relative to the explosion there on Wednesday.
says the boiler was driven twenty five feet into
a pile of slabs and sawdust. No one was seri-
ously injured. though many narrow escapes
were made.
The Duval County Court is in session. There
are thirty criminal cases On the docket
The Sanford Journal states that the survey
for the side tracks to the car shops near the
residence of Mr.. Thompson has been made
and the track viii be put down and the shops
built Immediately, after the completion of
which numerous new cars will bs constructed
The.following is a list of the new post offices
recently eStabiShei in Florida: Citra Marion
county; COnesvIlie, Nassau county; Hilo, Santa
Rosa county Homosas a, fernando county;
Medulla, Polk county; Palma Sofa. Manatee
county; Panama, Duval county; Wildwood,
Sumter county.
With reference TO the Florida Southern Rail
road the Jacksonville Union remarks: "Work
on the above road, from Palatka to G ainesville
IS now progressing finely. On the first section
from Palatka west about fourteen miles of the
road has been completed, on which Iocomo-
tives. hauling construction trains, pass daily
On the second. on middle section. seven miles
have been graded and twelve miles of the right
of way cleared. On the Gainesville end of the
road about five miles have been graded"
Lake City Reporter: I'VE are sorry to learn
of the destruction of the mill of Mr.. d. B. Rob-
erts on Wednesday evening It seems the mill
had closed owing to the breakiBg of some
piece of its machinery, and the hands were all
engaged in bringing up logs. A fire had been
allowed to burn in the sawdust, and while the
hands were absent this fire communicated to
the mill and gained such Roadway before it
was discovered that it was impossible to check
it. The loss will be heavy, the mill was in
successful operation and demand for all the
lumber it could make.
Pensacola AduGnce: lone thousand one hun
dred aud thirty dollars was the sum paid by
Dir. S. ). Harvey for the Old custom house
ruins. There were many, 1t now appears, who
had not the slightest conception as to the
wealth there was in that pile of debris From
one party alone, who is MIR. Cosgrove. more
than the purchase money has been realized by
Mr.. Harvey in the sale of cast iron simply, and
when the wrought iron. amounting TO many
tons, and the thousands of brick, are taken
into consideration. il is plainly seen how well
this speculation has ne.ted Mr. Harvey"
The Brooksville Crescent remarks with ex-
aItation; Mrs d. A. Pea ce sent us two
mammoth orange leaves. the smallest of which
measured 10 by 81 inches and the largest
by 61S We are also in1e5ted TO her for some
fine large oranges, one OF which now before US
measures 141S inches in circumference aud
weighs one pound aad six ounces. How is
this for the pine lands of Hernandog The
Tampa Guardian can put this item in its pipe
big oranges, but there are, though :"
The Marianne Courier tells of the death of
a young man in that section caused by the kick
OF an OK. IL says: We learn that young
man named Metcalf was kicked in his side by
an few days ago. and died from the effect
OF the injury thus inflicted about twenty-four
hours afterward. He was a comparative
stranger in the county, and was engaged in the
timber getting business with MIR Lewis Jordan.
He came here from Apalachicolas several weeks
ago."
The Palatka Journals Syracuse CORE
sp lndent says the following is the cost
for land, lumber, etc, there: Land is
costs from SIS to $ 3 an acre to clear and fence
it. and 81 to So per acre for Flowing. Lumber
is worth from S14 to so thousand delivered
here Labor from 81 to 50 SO per day. plain,
substantial house will cost from $3.50 to $780,
according to style and finish.
The following sentences have been imposed
in the Nassau County Court: John Mccarthy
burglary; sentenced to penitentIary for five
wears Emanuel Williams cOlored, indicted
for murder. the jury found a verdict of man
slaughter in the fourth degree; sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary George Level
len, colored, burglary; sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for five years. Jerry Reed, cJlored.
burglary; sentenced to the State prison for five
years Lewis Holmes, cOlOred, burglary; SEN
fenced to four years in the penitentiary."
The Palatka Journal tells this about raising
onions in Florida: Capt Gale, Of Syracuse,
landing six crates more of fac Bermuda
onions, raised from the seed on his place in the
pine woods. We saw, when at Fort Gates
few days ago, a Bermuda onion raised at that
place which measured sixteen inches in cir
conference. Any kind OF vegetable can be
raised in Florida by fertilization and cultfva
tiOn."
New York Journal of Commerce: Arrange
ments have been completed for new line of
steamers between this port and Jacksonville
Fla The pioneer vessel of the line is now
being built by J. H. Woodhouse, at Middle
Haddam. Conn, and she will leave this port
on her first trip early in August. The steam
ers are to be especially adapted to the carry
ing of pitch pine lumber, which will constitute
the main portions of their return cargoes
Messts Drew REV; BueKI. lumber w merchants
are the prOprietorS of the new
line" In this connection the Florida
Union remarks: captain Woodhouse has
built and is pril cipal owner IN two or three
scbooners employed in the Jacksonville trade
and had in view the building of a steamer
when Mallory stepped in and occupied the
ground. Now that the latter has withdrawn
he goes on with his original plan in coniunc-
ton with Messrs. Drew & Bucki, and we hope
will make a success of it. ;"
Lake City Reporter: "On Wednesday NJ. c.
Jordan, ESQ OF Jacksonville, examined the
witnesses subpoenaed in behalf of Mr.. BiSbee
Notwithstanding the number of witnesses in
attendance the facts of fraud, violence, in
timidation, etc. were slim and scattering.
Very few of the colored men knew of any
frauds-about seven out of seventeen could
testify TO no fact whatever. Evidently this is
an effort to search for something unknown.
The people of Columbia county have been con-
tinually abused, but when the charges of mis-
eoduct in elections have been laid at their door
they have always, as in the present instance,
shown that the charges do not rest against
Democrats. General Finley filed his protest
against the testimony, and consequently no
one appeared to cross examine the witnesses.
Hal il been in the proper course and the wit
nesSes subjected to a croSsexamination, Mr..
Bisbee would have found boomerang in this
county.
The Sanford Journal states that Gen. San
ford has merged his large interests there and
ia Middle Florida in an English company, com
posed of business men and capitalists of high
standing in Eng and and Scotland, and called
The Florida Land and Colonization Compa-
nv 0imitedl of which he is President. The OBJ
iect OF the company is 10 continue the impor-
Iant work of Improvement and colonization
commenced by him eleven years ago, and to
extend it over a larger territory with the
larger means now afforded. Sanford will nat
uraIly be he headquarters OF the company,
which. started with capital of 81 25O OGO IL Is
already proposed to increase it to S5,OOO. OO0 In
order TO carry out the various plans and pro
jects on hand. Until a charter Is obtained the
business of the company Will be continued I'M
der the direction Of General Sanford. The
foresight which located this town at the head
Of navigation fer the st. Johns gateway of
Orange county will be conspicuOusly vindi-
Gated when it becomes, as II certainly VIII IN
near future. the outlet for the Gulf and the
products of the Mississippi valley for South
Florida and the st. Johns river region"
The Putnam County Journal urges that at
tention be given to the development OF fig Gull
ture, and, in furtherance of its views, re-
marks. efforts have been made at times to
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