Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09
Florida AHoirs

ElOIlua AHHlES.
Work on the Jacksonville street railway has
been resumed.
Cedar Keys ice dealers charge two cents q
pound for the indispensable commodity.
Among the contributors of money and labor
to the Tallahassee monument were George
Fitzgiles and Curtis Hill, two colored men.
The Catholic Fair in St Augustine Melted
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Pensacola is sending fence planks to Aspin-
wall.
Two steamers are to be run from Pensacola
to havana next fall under the auspices Of the
Louisville and Nashville combination.
Florida is to have another new paper the
Barlow Independent
The Eliza Hancox is said to have consumed
200 cords OF wood the past season.
Hernando's crops are growing finely.
Measles have given BrooksvilIe rest.
Mr. elch, who lives on Salt river. is said to
be the Oldest man in fernando. He is aged 81
fernando takes the cake according to the
Crescent, which says Of the orange market
"Hernando is on the Gull. and the --LATEST mar
ket here has been gle 50 per 1909, and brisk
demand for all marketable fruit"
The iron on the Apopka Branch Railroad has
already been ordered.
Several investigations have been made as to
who burnt the houses recently destroyed in
Leesburg, but no clue as to the guilty party
has yet been discovered.
Pslatka wants a first class furniture and
hardware store combined. The Herald says
there is money in it.
Fishermen recently in from the Gulf stream
| report having seen schools of Spanish macker-
81 which were unprecedented in number
The following gentlemen. recently appoint
ed by Governor Bloxham. constitute the new
| Beard of Health of Pensacola: Drs. Robert B..
S. Hsrgis, j. G. Whiting and D. G. Brent; B..
/ R. Pitt. President Board County Commission
| ers ana the Mayor are both ex-officio members.
! The schooners J. E Woodhouse and ]. H
| Eells have arrived at Pslatka with six hundred
Lions of iron Tor the railroad, also an assorted
| cargo OF hay aud other freights. There is now
! at hand iron sufficient to finish the read to
Gainesville.
Says the Apopka Citizen: I'VE are sorry
| that the erection OF the Lake Joanna Steam
| and Planning Mills should be delay ed for DAY,
/ but they will soon be ready to accommodate
/ the pubic. The 18th Of May. two weeks ahead,
/ is The time set. They viii embrace all the
/ modern improvements and be able te fill al
/ most any order.
Saws the Pensacola Adrduee: "Notwith-
| standing the large number of vessels that have
/ left port in the last few weeks thus iniicat-
/ ing the approach Of hot weather ami a COM
/ paratively listieSs period in business aft airs,
/ there is still fleet of at least fifty ships in
| port The prediction OF ten years standing
| that our great staple would soou bs exhausted
| is still repeated by a few prejddiced minds
| but Pensacola loads her ships all the same"
The Apopka Citizen saws: "Mr. Ingram,
| President of the South Florida Railroad, and
| Mr. TraffOrd. Chief Engineer, were at the resi-
| dence of Major Champneys yesterday, and tue
| party went over the route Of the new road be-
! tween Apop6a city aud Lake Apopka. The
| MaiOr thinks the survey will be made from
| ApOpBa to the lake before the other part of
the route"
The UI.ion states that Col Co-yell has gone to
Join the engineers who left Jacksonville on
| Monday last. These gentlemen, after inspect
| ing the cuts on the Halifax, will proceed to the
| head of Indian river and run three levels
| to Lake OSeechobes for the purpose OF aseer-
tanning the most available line for the proposed
| cansL I5 IS thought that the directors of
| the company recently formed to drain the
| EvergIa es sill meet at Philadelphia on Satur-
/ cav for the purpose of perfecting their organ
| zltion by electing oilicers.
The Palatka Herald reports that at the late
| term of the Circuit Court, held in Leesburg,
| Sumter county, Willis Wilson, q negro, was
| convicted of the crime of rape little negro
| girl nine years of age, and was sentenced to
| twenty ) ears hard labor in the penitentiary.
On tLe nigh after sentence had been passed
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| follow 2 night the jail was burned Wilson
| took up in the neighborhood of Hon. Gus
| Muuroe. in this county, where he hiss been al
! work A special deputy from Laesburg arrived
| there and in company with Sheriff Thomas
! ShaIley arrested the convict who is now in
iaif awaiting the order to convey him to the
convict camp
TIE Platka Herald states that Dir. W. L.
| Wright has bought another slice OF DrRyton
| Isia1d. go acres. Before this last purchase
| ne owned goc6 DaTt of the west side OF the
| island Mr. ". has been ia Florida for twelve
| wears and wss the first wh3 introduced into
| fhis section the business of market gardening.
| For the past ten years he has cultivated vege
/ tables for the Northern market. He has had
| as high as fifteen acres n cncumberS IN one
| season This year he cultivated over 4 acres
/ 70 cabbage alone 1t may be said in his case,
| az iessE hat he has ascertained the positive
| reality OF the vegetable industry. and his tes
| timony is favorable. The additional 300 acres
| lust purchased by him, as foF Eesetaeie grow
| ing- It is a piece of low, riGh prairie. which.
| in order TO render tiabIe, lie is now diking and
| draining
/ Pensacola .Aduance "For the benefit of the
/ DaopiA q the counties between this and the
/ Auals chicoie riSSF. ee vii state Ihat we nave
/ a,,.hentic inform stion 20 ti;s esrect that q
| -. Cf engineers will begin tEe Ho.k OF
! io-sffuy the linz Of the Pensacola ana Atian'lc
| RsiIrcad ffOm this point within week from
/ this date. AMI that il is confidently pFedlcted
! inst the road viii be cGmpleted between Chat-
/ tahoochee and Pensse2i2 Ni<li', elshIeeh
mcuths from this time.
A few deys ago Mr.. Thomas Shaliey, sheril.
/ of Putnam county, afrs=ted negro named
/ Nat Sanders. at san Mate0. SANDERS was
| teamster at McGlenny's Mills. in Duvai county.
/ and on the 18th of last January. he shot an
| o her negro, Walker Lewis By name. and made
/ his escape to Ptl nam county where he re-
/ maiued 10 to the time OF his arrest. The pris-
| oner was delivered to q special constable from
| Clay county aud returned TO Duval
TIE Apopka Citize7. states that the delega-
tions from South Apopka, Apopka City and
/ Altamorte met the directors of the South
/ Florida Railroad. at Sanford, On the zSth, and
| formally 81 yned articles CT agreement, by
| which the directors agree 20 begin the surveys
| of a branch road from some point az or near
| Iongwood or Shows Station, and run the line
| of the great Lake Apop&a, 10 begin in one
| month, the road 10 be finished to the lake by
| The first of January, 1882. The delegates
| niedged SIS 09O worth of land to the road. and
| Ne iron VAS 10 ba ordered this week, and
| everything dCne that could be TO place the
/ work ia the hands Of contractors This action
| consl,rumateS matters and renders the road
| certainty which vi be good news TO great
many.
Tho Thirty-eighth Annual Council OF the
| P-oteStent Episcopal Church in the Diocese of
| FLORIDA assembled at st. Johns Church, JACK
| scnyille on Wednesday. There were present
the Right Rev j. Young y - ni PaOIsc o.
/ Ia. and Carter. of Tallahassee; KeVs. Messrs.
| Thackara, OF Fernandina; Weller, OF JacSson-
vilIe Meany. of Gainesvillei hooIe, OF Of s;
/ Augustine: Martin, of Palatka; Williams, OF
/ Crescent City; SnOwden, of Lake CITY; Hode-
/ fer of Waldo; Taylor, Of Orange ParS; SUR
/ ges OF Mandarin; Bicknen, OF Ja0kSons,Iie
/ Weller. Jr of Ocala; Sturges, SF., OF ONO
| Stevens, OF Chicago; Carpenter, OF Detroit,
/ and 8 number OF lay delegates from various
parishes and missions. The Rev. K
1 r weller was reelected Secretary.
/ The Couneu aulourned uho
/ Thursday. where the usual committees were
| annoinred the standing committee made its
| anppual report, and the Bishop delivered the
annuaI sermon The total receipts of the
| Women's Mission Society were g. $50 80. 1t
80 ae,reed 10 hold the next council IN Jack
! w. n n Nav 1892 The Treasurer's report
s1o,rad the receipt for Diocesan purposes to
he Sl056 "a The following officers Of the
diocese were elected for the ensuing year
Ssc-afsrv. Rev. r. H. Weller; Treasurer, II e
Dofterer: Registrar. DR.. A. S. Baldwin; stand,