Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-17
Florida Affairs

lows unner date of the 18th instant. ssTha
largest shipment Of beans for the season from
TINS place was made yesterday, amounting to
SS7 crates. The weather is very dry. and If ii
does not rain soon the crops will be injured
materially, especially vegetables
There is good outlook for peaches In Co.
lumbia county.
Palatka has shipped four hundred and fifty
barrels OF cabbage since the opening of the
season.
Quite number of Northern families are
preparing to locate in Orange county.
The past week there were thirty-three arrests
In Pensacola and S1S9 in fines imposed.
The ladies of Lake City netted $40 at their
recent supper for the Confederate Memorial
fund.
There is temperance boom in Gainesville.
Lake City's Mayor has shut down on Sunday
traffic
negro Is lodged in Gainesville jail charged
with the murder Of the colored man from Ar
redondo, recently found dead on the railroad,
and who was thought to have been killed by
the cars.
Material for the new Methodist church at
| Orlando is accommodating upon the ground, and
work upon the structure will commence at an
early day. The edifice will be built at the south
side Of town and east of the water tank.
Madison's new court house is well on the
way towards completion. 1t is 5ox6O in size
two stories, and built entirely of brick. with
fat tin roof and heavy patent metallic eornice
| There are four rooms for county officers be-
low, besides a hall, each I7x22 feet in size and
with ceiling IA feet high, with floors laid in ce-
ment and brick partitions. The court room
and two jury rooms occupy tho upper floor
The total cost will be between SO 900 and $40 600
/ and there will be used in it altogether over
$4,000 brick.
Saturday afternoon a colored man by the
name Of Nathan Prosper had one of his fingers
cut off and another badly mutllated while saw
| ing shingle blocks at Penniman & Co. 3 mill,
Jacksonville.
Live Oak Bulletin: ''The authorities of the
| Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railway
/ have had the large Howe car scales belonging
to the road, at this place. taken up, and will
put them in at Lake City"
The Milton Standard learns that Mr. Willis,
who has the contract for surveying the route
| for the AtIantic and Pensacola Railroad, is now
in the field with a competent corps of men. 1t
is reported that President Chipley says that the
road will be built inside of a year.
The Quincy Herald says: There is some
| talk of another Clement attachment soon TO
/ be put up in the western part of this county.
| The capital will be furnished by Western par
/ ties some Of whom will probably come to
Gadsden county and make their homes We
/ will have more to say about this matter at
/ some future time"
The Jacksonville Onion of Sunday states
| hat. Judge Settle having returned from zen
aco4a. the United States Court will again be
/ pened in that city on Monday morning at 10
| O'Clock. IL is expected that at this session
/ some action will be taken in the matter OF the
recent sale of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and
Mobile and Florida Central Railroads.
| The Milton STANDARD states that the camp-
| meeting at Williams camp ground is set for
/ July LIST. 1t is expected that the attend
| ance will be large, as the accommodations are
ample, as number of tents have been added
| since the last meeting, IN addition to large
| hotel building, with capacity to accommodate
| hundreds, and it will be conducted by a
gentleman of known ability.
The Mayor and aldermen of Pensacola were
| arrested last Wednesday and brought before
| Judge Settle, OF the United States Court to
| show cause why The mandate of the court rela-
tive to the collection of an extra tax in salts
| faction of the demands of bondholders hold
/ ing judgments against the city was not obeyed
! General Perry. attorney for the bOndholders
| deemed it advisable to release the prisoners,
| and il was so ordered
The Unt0n states that ''the government
| quarantine station at Sapelo will be onened on
| and after May IS. The St. Johns bar pilots in
| accordance with Mayor DzialYnSki'S order will
| be REQUIRED to make inquiry as to tue Sani-
| tary condition of all vessels bound for
| this port before boarding the same, and if
| any serious cases Of sickness have occurred ON
| board during the passage, or at the ports of
| departure, the vessels are to be ordered to pro-
! coed to Sapelo before crossing the bar"
Orlando Reporter: 1.-The attractions of Lake
/ Conway are fast forcing themselves upon the
notice of visitors as we'll as settlers. The
| people living on the lake are frequently
| Obliged to entertain strangers whether they
| wish it or not, as the fine hunting, boating and
fishing draw people there aud they must have
bVnel l,~,E,
another winter commodious hotel or board
ing house will be erected for the accommo3a-
ton of visitors. No better locality for such
house could be found IN South Florida"
Pensacola Advance, 18th: "Alonzo Weeks, a
boy fourteen years of age. and standing about
two feet high, has claimed the attention of
wondering population this week. Weeks halls
from Geneva. Ala. arriving in the city on the
last trip of the steamer Peerless H. is mu-
latto, and though in no wise laxative, will
nevertheless answer all questions intelligently
There is nothing to indicate that this mon
strosity had reached the age designated ex-
cept the general appearance of the head that
| being well developed, the remainder of this
singular freak OF nature being extremely
d Sarish, snd the extremitieS or legs are not
only crooked and out Of shape, but apparently
emaciated,''
Judgments were rendered at the recent term
of the United states against the city of Pepsa-
cola as TO lows: James Mcdonald VS.. city Of
Pensaco a: verdict S5i, 6S5 10: principal 1872 900;
interest, S22,0S 10. John N Millner, as ad-
ministrator vs. city Of Pensacola ems. verdict
80 233 81. Samuel G. Jones VS.. city of Pensa-
cola; verdict, Sl3,SO4 %; principal, S10,9f So;
interest, g., $50 IS. O. d. Farrell, as admins
traitor. VS.. city of Pensacola; verdict, $780,
$40 -; principal, sos 151; interest. S4S 400 90
making grand total Of S263, 100 A."
Saws the Mariana Courier: THE West Flor
ida Fair Association has become a fixed iustI-
tuition, and will in he future be more success
tut than ever before Though yet in its infan-
cy it has realized sufficient means to pay off
nearly all outstanding debts and will soon re-
turn to its stockholders handsome dividend.
The directors being elated over the success
they have met with in the past, will give q
grand picnic at Waddell's mill on next Wed
nesday, at which time sId place an election of
President and directors will take place.
The Fernandina Express reports that the
! schooner Elias Moore, Captain Lewis, at
| Broome street wharf. loading with lumber, was
/ the scene Of an accident on Thursday morning
last, which might have resulted in serious
| loss of Yaluab property. The mate was en-
| gagged in heating a pot OF vsrLiSh on the stove
in the galley, when an explosion took place,
| enveloping the entire galley in a sheet of
flames. The fire spread rapidly, aud gained
considerable Roadway before the united efforts
of large number of men succeeded in extin-
gushing it. The galley, foremaSt and new
| foresail were badly damaged by the fire, the
damage amounting TO between five hundred
end a thous and dollars. The mate had both
| HANDS i,Sdly burnt, but fortunately was not
seriously iniured-
! Milton StunQuf1: -'On fF1Qay, the otL luSb. la
/ the neigh borhood Of the Centennial Mill, the
| evil results OF ungoyernable passion, stimu-
| lated with "bust head, !" resulted in the killing
of coiored man by the name OF Alexander
/ TlSusOn by another colored man by the name
| of Jeff Williams. So far as we know, IL was
] fight Of the moment in which several were en-
/ -Sgs johnson received a blow on the head.
| from which, acco1-h3 to the verdict OF
| a Jury summoned Dy Justice William
| NJ diamond. acting Coroner he died on
| sunday the Sth. WhereupOn Justice diamond
| issued warrant for the arrest o. Williams.
| Deputizing Mr. John Curry to execute IL. he:
| Diamond accompanying him to the house OF
| one Joe Weaden. colored, where Williams was
/ found, and notified by MI. Curry that he was
| vented TO answer to the charge OF kllhng
! johnson. Wi Jams refused to surrender, drew
| a pistol and Joe " eadeI, the proprietor or the
| house, seized it. and in the scaale tat ensued
! the pistOl was wrenched from Williams and
/ strusE Justice Diamond quite blow near the
| eve Williams tsen rushed for q shotgun
that be knew vas hebine curtain, hut Dia-
/ uaSna vas too quick for hlfn, dtscnarging ms
.saorTuu ~ ss Qit5gttou s-As ~ .A.lAeilts s
( Tie charge PASSED, t.-roueh the curtain aud
/ entered williams body, from winch ne died IN
! about one hour and half SO anosser Gore
/ nerfs inquest was necessary. s1d tais was rei3
{ ~ Justice Mann, aDd the ver1ct re1te red Ve.5
thar VILLAINS haa come . BIS sea4A ~ &
charge 81 bylg AshOf from = gan la l-e sasld8 az
| W., Diamond, and the ecsii q inquiry found
I fbaf sad Diamond did the deed 10 self defense,
while discharging nus lawful duties.
How AN INDIAN Took THE CENSUS
| rrha tereoSc toll us of an Indian who