Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-07
Florida Affairs

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Florida Affairs.
thief has walked off with Congressman
Davidson's biggest turkey.
Farm labor is scarce in Suwaunee.
Four hundred orange trees were burned in
| Monroe county last week.
Sanford refuses to extend her borders
Sanford is clamorous for water works.
Hon. E. G. Love, Of Gadsden county, has
gathered his tea crop, and is curing it. The
Quincy Herald says: IF any one will examine
the tea raised by the Judge on his lot in our
town, they cannot fail to be convinced that as
good tea can be raised in Gadsden county as
can be produced in China or any other coun-
try"
Fort Myers is feasting on ripe watermeIons.
There are one hundred and seven inmates at
the State Insane Asylum
The Florida URiOn tells Of a sensation in
cOlored circles in Jacksonville. Mamie NJ.
Virdie, dusky damsel of twenty-one sum-
mers, complained to Justice Hearn that she
had been led astray by Edward j. Reece, col.
ored. Reece was arrested. While awaiting a
hearing of the case she learned that Reece
was about to assail her reputation. She &C
cordingly determined to quit the world, re-
paired to drug store and bought two ounces
OF laudanum, which she drank on the way
back. Stomach pumps and osher agencies
were applied, and she was brought out of
her stupor. 1t is said she swallowed enough
laudanum to Kill ten men.
Three onions. weighing five pounds and three
ounces. were raised on Mrs W. D. PoweIl's
farm in Orange county, so says the Sanford
Journal
The guanO boom in Orange county con-
tinues.
All the winter hotels in Jacksonville are
closed.
The Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit
Railroad will hereafter be known as the Flori-
da Transit Railroad.
division Of the Sons of Temperance was
organized at Gainesville Monday evening.
The Port Royal, which is to take the place of
the Mary Draper between Jacksonville and
Green Cove Springs is to be supplied with a
new boiler and overhauled before leaving New
York.
The schooner David Luner has arrived at
Jacksonville with a cargo of new iron for the
Florida Central Railroad.
Our Welborn correspondent, under date Of
May 5. says: Yesterday evening, about $50
O'Clock, the alarm of fire was given, and the
kitchen of Dr. W. c. Mallory was found to be
on fire. The flames had made such Roadway
that nothing could be done to save the build
ing. The dwelling, being emily few feet dis
tant, soon caught and the entire premises
were soon in ashes. None of the family were
at home, and the doors were a. locked. The
fire probably caught from the stove and was in
| progress some time ere it was discovered The
kitchen door was opened, but the flames burst
| out and nothing could be got at. The house
hold furniture was all saved There was no
Insurance.
The Sunland Tribune states that "the survey
of the Tampa, Peace O. eek and ST. Johns
Railroad was begun last Saturday by Mr. S.
| B. Carter, Chief Engineer of the company
with a competent corps of assistants. Several
preliminary lines are to be run, and the route
offering the greatest advantages will be adopt
| ed"
Pensacola AdUdnce Fishermen in the in
| terest of Messrs. Warren q Co. caught on
| Puckens Point, last week Thursday thirty
two hundred pounds of Spanish mackereI the
most of which were packed and shipped the
/ same day. These, we are told, the first of
| the season, hence the very ready SALE
The Herald SAYS Mr.. DarSey, of Concord,
| came to Quincy few days since to pay his
| taxes He brought his money in a corn sack,
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pieces, and $3.50 in one-dollar and halfdolar
| pieces.
| The Orange City Times wants to know if
| there is a town in Florida that beat this:
To-day ends April, and up TO this time we re-
/ cord 300 lots sold the past winter. and besides
/ this, 900 acres more have changed hands inn
! mediately surrounding The city. Can another
/ town IN Florida say as muchg
Says the Manatee NelrS: 'They will be busy
| at the mill these days as Mr. Warner has the
cOntract to furnish the cross ties for Jay Gould
| & Co. to complete their Mexican Railroad
scheme; also one to furnish one hundred thou
sand feet of heavy material for the construc
ton of wharf at Fort TAYLOR, Key West, and
! another for one hundred and fifty thousand
for Jamaica. If you want work go to the
| mill"
The Tampa Guardian remarks: s'The
GUdrdiGR has always expressed great conf
deRce in Mr.. Yulee's extending his companys
railroad to Tampa, and we are now realizing
the truth of our prediction. This week we
came over the Tampa Road from Waldo, in
company with Captain Maxwell and a corps of
civil engineers, who are now surveying the
route from Ocaia to Tampa. 1t has been sup
posed by some persons that the read would
stop at Ocala for some time after reaching
there, but this is a mistake, for the work viii
be pushed ahead until the road reaches the
waters of Tampa Bay. The iron is being laid
a. the rate of three-fOuTths of a mile day,
and the road will be in good running order as
far as Ocala by the last of this or he first of
next month"
Saws the st. Augustine Press: THE latest
scheme in the way of improvements in st
Augustine is to transform the unSightly creek
known as the Maria Sanchez into beautiful
lake, which will be delight to the eye of the
cOunOiSSeur in art and nature. Every year
some grand scheme Of this kind is alked Of
something which is 70 transform st Augustine
into veriiable paradise-but somehow or
other lust when public feeling Is at fever heat
the courage OF the projectors 'oozeS out at
their finger ends and the scheme dies out
never again to have an existence. We trust.
however. that this time we shall see some
thing done. The parties interested have ample
means, and if their faith and public spirit is in
proportion to the rotundity or their pocket
books something is sure to happen"
The st. Augustine Press reports that Thurs
day night of last week an attempt was made
10 enter the store of b. Genovar on Charlotte
street. The thieves entered the yard and made
an at empt to open the Office window, which is
protected by heavy shutters ana an IRON BAR
an augur and compass saw were used, and
one of the shutters sawed completely through
DR.. McQuie, who is stopping at the Hernandez
House, only about hundred rect distant,
heard the noise and going TO his window gave
a shrilI whistle. which frightened the thieves.
who in their hssty flight left behind compass
saw. Mr.. Genovars establishment was broken
into once before about three years ago. and
the perpetrator is now repenting his sins at
Major Wyse s turpentine camp. The compass
saw is ia Mr.. GenOvar's possession and the
owner can have it by proving property.
With reference to the tremendous boom in
the lumber trade of Jacksonville, the Union
SLeLeSs OuEluS luc A1AOAeu u Il pIAA there Wcir
3.33O,UO0 feet of yellow pine lumber shipped
from this city, against 1855, 535 in April, $780,
an increase last month of 200, 465 feet OF this,
g. 173 600 feet were shipped to domestic and 49,
900 feet to foreign ports. During the months OF
January, February, March and April, 1850,
there were Is, 407, 446 feet of lumber shipped
from this port, while there have been Is. 743-
663 shipped for the same months this year, an
increase of 336, 2l7. Besides the above amounts
for this year, one or two of our mills have
loaded vessels at Fernandina with lumber
sawed here, and it is estimated that at least
100000 feet have been sawed for use in the
construction of the various railroads, besides
the usual home consumption. which, when
DroDerIv added up. will show an increase
Of lumber sawed and shipped from here this
wear over 1880 Of at least Z, 600, 900 feet"
South Carolina Notes.
T. D. Richardson, Trial Justice at Jackson