Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09
FROM TALLAHASSEE.
Decoration Day-TOlu Rock and
Rye no Medicine The Peach Crop
A Small Farm MOvement-Warm
Weather-MiscelIane Waiter.

TALLAHASSEE, FLA, May 5.-"Decoration
Day passed by quietly and solemnlY, and as
our city papers have already given full ac-
counts of the manner in which it was observed
it is useless for me to do so.
The Attonery General has decided that
"Tolu, Rock and Rye" does come under the
head of alcoholic compounds and cannot be
sold without liquor license. So it is Good
bye john with it, unless the barkeepers take
hold of it, and, as it is more popular as a bev-
erage than as medicine, guess they will.
have been inquiring into the condition of
the peach crop this week, and find that the
trees are loaded down with fruit, and that
there is no sign of worms on them at ALL Old
farmers say that they will have the finest
peach crop this year that W as ever raised in
Leon county.
There is a new move on foot among our
land owners. They propose cutting up their
land into small forty-acre farms, and selling
every alternate lot to settlers at very small
price, so as to encourage live young farmers
to come here, thus increasing the population
and, likewise, the value of the other lots
We have been having our share, if not more,
OF warm weather for the past week. and
think that last Friday must have been the most
uncomfortable day felt here for years The
thermo meter registered 50 degrees Fahrenheit
in the shade with not breath of air stirring
1t is still warm, but is moderated considerably
by the delightful Gulf breeze to-day.
Bream, trout, perch and other toothsome
sweet and juicy lake fish are becoming plen-
tiful
Our barrooms, etc, are all kept open on the
Sabbath, both night and day, and transact even
more business on this day than through the
week. If our city government would copy
some after the Jacksonville officials it would
help our city. morally, more than anything
else. | hope they will begin to follow suit at
an early day.
The roseola, which very near every one here
has had during the past month, has about died
out for want of material to work on.
There is general dissatisfaction among our
business men on account of the new schedule
which goes into effect to day on the jackson
vile, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad The
mails have been arriving heretofore at S:25 a.
m. and leaving at 5:l5 p. m, thus allowing
plenty Of time to answer letters on the day Of
arrival Now, by the new schedule the mails
about halfpast eight at night, and as we have
such slow set of officials, Postmaster, clerks
and all combined-(why, it actually takes them
over an hour to open the little handful
of mail which we receive dailY)
it will make it too late to answer let
terS at night, and the train will leave in the
morning before more than one or two could
be written, so you see we will be somewhere
between twenty-four and forty eight hours be-
hind with cur mail, unless We sit up half the
night to write, which would go nightly
against the grain these short nights Another
bad feature of it is that there will be no Sun
day train don't see how they are to do this
though, for if am rightly informed, the rail-
rosd company have a regular contract with
the Post Office Department to carry the mails
eUe!y day. Disco.