Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-19
Florida Affairs.


SCISSOR. The following were chosen Aldermen.
W. A. Sheffield. ]. G. Thornton, ]. J. Young,
W. R. Bush, J. s. Chalker, A. Hull. JE.
Henry and s. R. O'Quin received q tie vote for
the seventh Alderman
Mr.. J. Berrien Oliver, late editor of the Flor
ida NelC Yorker, is dead He was we'll known
IN Florida. having been formerly editor of the
Tallahassee SeTtineI. and having lived in that
State many years. The Jacksonville Union
says Of him that he was about fifty years of
age. and was warm-hearted and charitable to
all and this, with his polished and dignifed
manners, drew unto him many good and true
friends. who will be panied to learn Of his
death. He had his faults as well as other men,
but they were counterbalanced by his good
heart and generous nature.
The Mayor of Jacksonville has determined
to stop all manner Of business in that city on
Sunday.
The Pensacola Gazette says that about two
| o'clock Thursday on the east side of Seville
| square, in that city, very tall negro man
Alex Gross by name-was beating his wife,
when their son Charlie, a boy fifteen or sixteen
/ years old. interfered The brutal father i'm
mediately whipped out his pocket knife and
plunged it into the boys side, making fright
| full wound, which VIII probably result in death
He also tried to cut his wife, but without sue
cess. He then ran in the direction of Bayou
/ Texar, meeting several persons on the road,
and boasted Of having cut his son. The Sheriff
/ started in pursuit as soon as the facts became
kaown to him, and came in sight of the fugi-
tive just as he was disappearing on the other
| side of the bayou. Two minutes more time
would have been sufficient to insure his cap
| ture. As it is, the man is at large
The Fernandina Express reports that the
| peach crop on Amelia Island promises to be
large and fine. Although there are not great
many trees. yet all are filed with fruit in an
advanced stage. The cold does not seem to
have hurt them
Mr. NJ w. Dimick. of Lake Worth, has sent
| to this office sample OF tomatoes grown on
his place. which have been duly received
They we're sample of 500 bushels shipped by
| him to Northern cities and Jacksonville and he
| says he has been shipping them weekly since
the 1st of January. He has also shipped some
to this city, and if the report from them is
favorable will ship more He writes: I'VE
| will soon send out the luscious pineapples by
the thousands, and then will give your city
call We have also tons of bananas and cocoa
nuts to ship. We have new schooner to run
the csast, which has made one trip to Jack
| sonviIle with tomatoes, and now loading to
| 20 to night. We are doing with our home
made communication, and feel much en-
couraged with the promise of that projected
steamboat canal to connect our lake with the
northern rivers and give us a good outlet
with our immense production. Have about
5000 c1cOanut trees coming to production,
and world Of pineapples and other finer
fruits. We are entirely fres from frost, and
can beat the world in all the fine fruits and
vegetables. but want better communication"
The Jacksonville Union is informed that the
Jacksonville and Waycross Road will uadoubt-
eily be completed by the 25th inst
The Orlando Reporter reports that during
the latter portion of last week fires were raging
a about the town in the timber In some
cases fences were burned, and houses were in
great danger. 1t was very dry. and a high
wind prevailed for several days, which added
to the danger.
A rat bit a soldier in Tampa last week, and it
made his comrades so mad that they turned
out and killed twenty-five of the varmints
before they stopped.
The body of Mr.. C. W. Walker. who, with
a colored man, was drowned near Tampa last
week, was found by Mr.. Charles Dishong last
| Sunday on the eastern shore of Hillsborough
Bay, few hundred yards south of the mouth
# the Six Mile creek. The Tampa Tribune
says the drowning is supposed to have occurred
on Saturday night week previous Neither
the boat nor the body of the negro has yet
| been found.
The Cedar Key Journal says some of the
shell mounds in that neighborhood are nearly
twenty feet high. Where they are being dug
down for building purposes. quite a variety of
shells were discovered. The Journal asks:
'who can tell how they came heres"
It's stated that the Peninsular Railroad is
within two miles Of Ocals, and will reach there
before the close of the month.
Saws the Pensacola Gazette: Capt. W. D.
| Chipley. President Of the Pensacola and At
! lautic Railroad Company, and Colonel de
| Funiak well known in Pensacola because of
| his interest and connection with the Louisville
| and Nashville Railroad, have taken right hold
OF the proposed new road, and will rush things
aS rapidly as possible; Inc companys eng,
| marking out The route. This looks like busi-
| ness and will prove 10 our people and the out
1 side world that the Pensacola and Atlantic
| Railroad is not myth. but an enterprise of
| con iderable solidity. and one likely to furnish
an impetus toour growth which nothing else
could give.
| Regarding the complication In city affairs ia
Fe' nandina the Express says: AT this writ
1 ing Friday noon. the city affairs are still un-
settled, though the case was being tried in
| Jacksonville yesterday. The Haley faction
still virtually hold possession in defiance OF
| law. assuming that the act for the dissolution
| Of cigy governments is unconstitutional before
the courts have had an opportunity Of decid
| ing the question. Excitement has run nigh
| 1uring the past week, and the celored citizens
1 have evfiently been receiving bad advice from
! some one. they threateHed TO resist the
/ serving OF any writs on the officers OF the old
| government LawlessDsss should meet the
Strong condemnation Of all good men"
| Tauna Tribune: 1--WE have made many in
| quiries OF the farmers OF this and the adJon-
| tng counties concerning the damage to the
| er1pS bv last Saturday nights cold, and the
| General verdict is that there was no serious in
| iurv. 1t is possible that there may have been
| few isolated exceptions to this, but no one
| Dss tald us so. Mr M. ID. Mayo. of Polk, has
corr breast high, knee high and some just up
| he says that his older corn was not injured,
| though that just up was slightly nlpped beans
! aud peas in open exposed situations suffered
| the worst OF the vegetables, as rule"
| Fernan6ina Mirror: "The discontinuance Of
| the mail by the Cumberland route is one OF
/ those unaccountable oficial orders which In
1 convenience everybody, and seem to have no
| foundation in any possible benefit. The mail
| oy the Cumberland route has for a long period
| the short line this mail reached Jackson
three and q half hours sooner, and reach
ed Fernandna five hours earlier. By the
| new order OF the Post ONCE Department
letters from Jacksonville and the st. Johns
| river are twenty four hours in reaching
| ing FeFnAndinR, instead Of an hour and twenty
| minutes and letters TO Jacksonville and the
| river towns are twenty hours in going via Bald
| win instead of one hour and twenty minutes
! via short line. The lost Office official who or
| dered the discontinuAnce could not have
| known. it seems to us, how the change would
| work TIis is g matter Of great interest to all,
| and we are glad to learn that the Postmaster
| at Jacksonville has represented to the depart
| meut the inconvenience Of this change, and we
| trust it will be at once corrected"
| Saws the Tallahassee Economist: I'VE learn
/ that plan.irg is progressing favoraby. and
| thar the prospects for good crops Of cotton
Tbje i only a eIrmise and what the final result
/ viii he no one can tell. Old farmers say that
xhen there has been wet winter, such as the
/ past, there is sure to be good crop year, es-
i lo.-s - G. crnn ,Eas never better. we are