Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-21
Florida Affairs.

Sumter county has voted to change her court
house from Leesourg to Sumtsrville.
In the prosecution Of persons engaged in the
killing of young Dickerson in Sumter county
Jail, the grand jury have indicted n. B. Mara
wether, Hotcher, Sheriff. and another person
for manslsughter in the fourth degree. These
were guarding the Jail at the time Of the lynch
ing.
| A band of gypsies are camped near Quincy,
deluding the ignorant by their fortune tell.
ing tricks.
The Mayor OF ST. Augustine has issued his
proclamation for an election for municipal Of
hcers on November IS.
The Escambia Rifles, an organization which
was at one time the pride of Pensacola, has
| gradually died out.
The Union depot to be built in Pensacola
will be OF Swiss style OF architecture, and one
hundred and fifty feet in length by thirty eight
in breadth.
Franklin Circuit Court held only two days to
hear some civil cases. there being nothing
criminal on the docket. Hlllsboro takes rank
by her side with blank criminal docket
The SunIdnd Tribune is now printed clear
and bright on good paper. Great improvement.
Island City Nelrs. a new journal from Key
West, by ]. B. Brown and P. 7. Knight, has
reached our sanctum. Small, but neat and
newsY.
A correspondent Of the Barlow Informant in
forms the public that one Joseph H. Brooker,
on the 9Th Of April last, left his wife with his
sister, on Bowlegs' Creek, in Polk county, and
he was afterwards seen at Cedar Keys. saying
he was going to Texas. That one Peter Carl
ton also left his invalid wife in that neighbor-
hood. with two little children. at the house OF
William Bowen He is reported to be near
Fort Dade, in fernando county. Both left
their wives penniless. The correspondent
rightly thinks the heartless brutes should be
looked after.
The Circuit Court for Duval county convsnes
on the first OF November. Court will be held
at the new court house on Bay street, between
Laura and Hogan.
Fine Florida oranges are on the way to the
Florida Exposition Department in Atlanta
The Magnolia is the name Of a new hotel soon
to be erected at Green Cove Springs, on the st.
Johns, to be magnificent piece OF architec-
ture, with one hundred and fifty rooms.
A party OF young men recently dug into an
Indian mound in Lake Hollingsworth. in Polk
county, and exhumed therefrom human bones,
old broken clay pottery and large quantity OF
beads. One was large silver bead, such as
are worn by the chief of an Indian tribe.
A car load Of cotton took fire between Mid
way and Quincy on Saturday. and several
bales were injured before the fire could be ex-
tinguished.
The grand jury Of Sumter county Circuit
coprt utterly failed to find out who were the
parties that lynched ]. J. Dickson, Jr, some
two months ago.
The Ocala L1eon Is issuing daily during the
session of the Circuit Court in that town.
A lodge OF the Knights OF PythiaS was or.
ganized in Pensacola recently with thirty elShb
charter members.
VIII. Ward, while at work on the City Hotel
in Pensacola last week, fell from tine secOnu
story and was badly crippled
Our Banana correspondent writes, OCTOBER
17th: Cotton crop playing out Orange trees
shedding-dry, dry, dry. Corn ana coeeIn ci
short. Potatoes and cane short Oranges ony
half size. Can't plant any greens pa'cn-
Things look blue"
Monticello Constitution: THE unfortunates
who under bonds to answer indictments oy
the United States Court are reminded tnat
said court meets in Jacksonville on the nIst
Monday in December, and it will be well Tor
them to make arrangements 90 as 60 be present
and respond at roll call"
BrooksviIls Crescents- "The carpeted earth
Of our ample forests is now bespangled with
nameless millions of beautiful fall flowers.
They are Of every shade Of color, from the
places there are acres covered with apparently
. solid mass Of snowy white blossoms. IL at
no other season, now at least, il must be ad-
mitted that Florida Is land OF aowers."