Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-01
Florida Affairs.


Quincy was burned last week. The house
made a narrow escape.
Several neS buildings are in course of cree
ton at the asylum at Chattahoochee.
James Robinson, a colored man, employed
on the railroad at Pensacola, while engaged in
unloading lumber last week. lost his balance
and fell headforemost ON the wharf-thence he
tumbled into the water. The fall caused con-
crssion of the brain. He is reported improved.
The Starke Telegraph says there is not an
idle mechanic in that town.
The damage done to the Temple Mills near
Starke has been thoroughly repaired.
Judge Dawkins, of Gainesville. has divided
his Cunningham place up into fifteen acre lots
and put them on the market.
The Irish potato shipments from Tallahassee
still continue.
The Hamilton County Times states that
watermelon shipments from that section will
soon begin.
Key West was stirred recently over the
arrest of young Cuban stowawaY who had
come from Cuba on the brigantine Creamer.
He hid himself at Havana and was not found
till the vessel was well out to sea. On arrival
at Key West he was arrested A writ OF habeas
Hamilton Journal: "Nr. Arch Averitt sent
us sample of oats grown at Jennings. nearly
| 6 feet high with - inches of head, And yet
| Florida will buy long forage North and West
Mr.. 7. F. Wesson has crib full OF splendid
| oats cut and cured this spring from ms farm
/ at White Sulphur Spring"
| Quincy Star: Colonel Gibbes left last Sat
/ urday night on the train for Chattahoochee
/ to meet there some gentlemen who have
| charge OF the surveying of the Pensacola and
1 all n
| vii e. Pensacola and Mobile Railroad at Chat
tahoochee This enterprise is no gas bag, but
/ a settled fixed fact.
Mariana Courier: "Mr. George N. Snod-
| grass. General Manager of the Mail. Stage aud
/ Transportation Company, OF Abingdon, Va,
/ was In town day or two last week. The COM
| pany represented by Mr.. s. has the contract
| beginning July lst, for the mail route from
| ChattahOOchee, Fla, TO Troy, Ala. They con-
| template putting on line of two-horse hacks
| and also of getting route established from
| this place to cambridge, Ga.
Mariana Courier: ION Saturday last, while
| the wife of Frank Smith, colored man living
five miles east of this place, was engaged In
scaIding her house, a little colored girl was
| fatally sealded. We get the following particu
| lars: A cOlOred boy was bringing large gourd
full of hot water to tho woman, and the little
| girl ran up to him, probably catching hold OF
| him. The neck of the gourd broke just at this
| time and the water gushed out, striking the
child upon the side of The face and running
down upon her body. The little girl suffered
intense pain for about twenty four hours, when
| death ensued.
Pensacola Advdnee. "a genuine fish otter
was seen near the auction house of 7. w.
| Hutchinson s. Son last Wednesday, by q gen
| tleman doing business with this firm. When
| first discovered the otter was CT ouched amOnR
| the rocks at the waters edge, but when ap-
preached he leaped into the bay and swan in
| the direction OF the Ice House WHARF. He is
described as having rather hettish head,
| short ears and fisttened tail, which answers
to this aquatic animal We believe that this
i the first otter ever seen in the bay, but It is
thought many exist about our bayOus."
Sanford Journal: "Mr. Geo. N. Barbour re-
| turned from New York last Sunday, where he
| saws he perfected ? satisfactgry arrangement
| with the house Of Appleton 4 Co. Eor the pub
| LEGATION Of his History OF Florida 1t will make
hundred Illustrations, very attractively bound
| in cloth Gad will be sold for 50 volume.
! Twenty thousand copies o. the first edition will
be printed and then circulated, and the sale
| be managed by the Messrs Appleton & Co.,
! Nr Barbour receiving a per centage on the
| sales Th2 work will be issued about the first
Of September neXt
| Sanford Journal: 'Hr. !. T. Ingraham,
/ President of the S. T. Railroad Company, re-
turned on Wednesday from two or three
| weeks absence to Washington, Phila felphia.
| New York and Boston. While absent he pur-
! chased thirty pound iron to replace the sixteen
T,a,,.l iron now on the line between here and
| Orlando. bought tVo new fourteen-ton loco
| motives to b. named ths u. 4. Andrews and
1 III S Sunderland material for two new pas
| senger coaches, all ready TO be set UP at the
! sho6s here. He says Gen and Mrs. Sanford
| sndT ~ Shelton. Of Philadelphia sailed for
| Europe on tne 4stA last. re says inquiries
about FIOFids almost overwhelmed ntm VReFs-
| ever he went"
] Ieke Citv Rsporter: .sABout.ten O'Clock last
( Suudav morning Willie Davis, young colored
/ man abous Twenty years OF age. IN company
| with number Of other colored youths. went
| bathing in pORd in tEe ceSstre or his Iatner s
/ aalr Tlav Hell a ~ u
/ the pond. when Davis complained OF feeHnk q
/ little eramped in one leg He was ADVISED not
! 70 go into the water again, put seeing tns
| othees pl;nge in to recross1 followed, ana na .
! reached t;le mi Idle. when the others heard ms
1 cry for help. AssistanCs i as promptly gwen,
| but all parties were too much fatIEteo ..y the
| violent exercise of the race for IL to avail any
/ thing and, almost in reach OF the BANK the
/ MOOT bow "a. IN death The pond was dragged,
! the body fecoyered AID buried OF Monday"
/ orlando Reporter "a curiosity in the shape
| Of a fve-legged calf was recently purchased
| nv Frb. johnson from Jack Evant. The calf
| i now about three months old. or the male
| I,arSuaSion and is hale and hearty, with good
appetite, and gives promise Oh i9ng me, he
/ calves that gEs fashioned after the orthodox
! model T4e'tfth reg grows out OK tie front OF
one shoulder; IS formed iiHS tie o.h es. lore lore
! = es'A--v claws. But the old leg IS an tnch or
anu - "a hers. and does not quite
zach R the ground It does not IN a.. "AIDef
/ interfeFa with his movements. Mr.. johnson
/ Ironoses to exhibit the curiosity at the next
| orange county fair unless harnum should pur-
/ CHASE him before that time
/ Correspondence Apopka Citizen; "Strolling,
| a dav or two ago, into the warehouse on the
/ rafIroad wharf ! noticed some crates OF GU
/ numbers destined for shipment, Inlnk, 70
| pbiI1deIphia. They had a shrunken, pale,
a---eanish- yellow look about them, and nad Deen
/ tbena for two or three day S, awaiting trans poI
| tation although boat after boat had oeen a. ~
ths IEharf and desired TO take them, put coulu
NOT because the shipper had marked sne
sfs,ned to a particular boat which boat hatlns
| SsnsIted before their arrival. the agent c9uiu
NOT shin them by another boat, o9t ha "a ~ -
Heit the return trip of the boat to winch V.Sy
ere oonsigned. At the time OF my sIsl. W ~
/ agS-nt mentioned that had they been MA5A -
/ sinnIv TO their destination, 20 be snlPPeu ~
| sba first boat. they would be at their oest,ha'
80, before they could leave the wharf az San
/ ford In this case the shipper loses everything,
/ 81 bv the time OF arrival they would not nave
L. LID The freight Had they been left untram-
p sa1ad nv this assignment 70 q certain DoaL'
.iSino In good order they. in all probability
s.larId Rave well paid the shipper"
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