Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-09
Florida Affairs.

Now that they have money enough to pay
the State debt aud probably little to spare,
some Of our Florida contemporaries want
convention to revise the State constitution.
Twenty-nine white schools in Alaehua coun-
t. are run at an aggregate expense Of S2,6OO
per annum.
A cOlOred man, employed on the new rail
road near Gainesville. was crushed to death a
/ few days ago by falling shelter.
Houses are being built and land cleared and
/ improved along the line of the Florida South
ern Railway.
Abiding to the dissatisfaction of the Mari
anna people with the location Of thePensacola
and Atlantic Railroad. the Jacksonville Union
| says: Suppose the Savannah, Florida and
I Western Railway should extend their road
/ from cambridge and connect with the Pensa-
/ cola and Atlantic, which is virtually q branch
/ of the Louisville and Nashville system. at
| ChsttAhOochee. where would the benefit to
/ Middle Florida from the building Of the road
! through West Florida be found Would not
/ al through freight 60 10 Savannah over GeOr-
| gia roads, aud the Florida roads thus deprived
| Of all through business be compelled to depend
| on local business for support Is this outlook
-thi. possibility encouraging 2"
/ Florida Agriculturisi; Mr.. J Hartley.
/ who purchased and improved some property
/ here last spring. has been left fortune Of
/ SIOO 600 by an uncle in England"
! Two men have shot and killed, near Palstka.
| fifty alligators the past week, measuring from
/ seven to twelve and half feet in length. The
hide, teeth and tallOw are preserved
Alachua Advocate: 1T is rumored that the
mails by stage between this place, Micanopy
ami Ocala are to be discontinued This is
very important route, and the withdrawal OF
/ the same would be not only great inconveni-
ence but an indefensi0le injury TO the public.
St. Augustine Press: Last Wednesday. Mr..
Antonio b. POmar. while engaged iu digging
/ well at his newly purchased farm, three miles
| from town, near Red House Branch, struck q
solid bed OF cOquina rock a Few feet below the
/ surface-a freak OF nature which must puzzle
Z the geOlogistS-"
The pistol agaln. The Ocala Banner learns
/ that a shooting affray took place last week in
| Leesburg. in which J. J. Dickson, Jr., was
! sbot three or four times with pistol in the
hands Of Mr.. Bitch, and it is thought the
wounds be received may prove fatal The
reports that reach Ocala say that Mr.. Dickson
vas the aggTesSor,
The editors of the Sanford Journal have
seen Captain Duval, Deputy United States Sur
| vevor who has iusF finished the survey Of the
| Everglades, and he informed them that he was
misrepresented by the editor or the Key West
/ DeDlOcrat in the account published in regard
10 this survey, wherein he the EDITOR stated
/ thar the Everglade lands were rolling. This is
/ an error, and the Captain wishes II corrected.
Jacksonville Union: Richard B. and Haley
PAGE we're before United States Commissioner
! A. II. Meek yeSterday. on the charge or having
| been connected with the distillatiOn Of ardent
spirfts without the proper endorsement Of their
/ 'iJncIe samuel Under advice OF their at
torney. Colonel John A Henderson, they
wafyed examination, and gave satisfactory
/ bonds fOr their appearance at the Decemoer
/ term Of the United States Court. still, said
/ to have been found on the'F plantation, was
/ seized last January and brought 10 this city,
/ where Il now lies"
Brooklyn" 70 Jacksonville UnfoH: Last
1 Saturday Z score or more Of men, more or less
| drunk, at Brooklyn bridge. got up regular
/ knockdOwn fight and followed it up Through
/ BroOkiFns rush of men. mad with liquor,
| staggered and surged, cHrsing. striking, yell
ing, terrifying families. VINO commenced 1t,