Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-01
Middle Florida, some $4,000 acres. The land
lies along the coast south of Tallahassee, per


lies along the coast south Of Tallahassee, per
haps partly west Of the ApalachicoIa river
Maadtee Netrs "As an evidence that Mana
tee is not only a fruit growing country, but also
good agricultural spot, we would say that
Mr. Tatum, OF Bee Ridge raised Cne hundred
and forty bushels OF fine corn on a six acre
field. No fertilizers OF any kind were used
and it was grown upon what is known as good
pine land. We bought several bushels of this
corn and know that it is above the average
quality and worthy Of a local"
Jacksonville Union: "On Saturday an old
eolored man by the name Of Irven fell over
board from boat while fishing near the draw
bridge on Trout creek, and was drowned. His
body has not 0een found. On Sunday morn
ing the body Of an unknown cOlOred man was
Iouna una hOatlng IN McCOy's Creek near the
Brooklyn bridge. Coroner Fairbanks sum-
moned jury, aud after consultation A verdict
OF accidental drowning was rendered. The
body could not be identified, and the circum-
stances connected with his death are un-
known"
Palatka Herald: without attempting in
the least to excite speculation in this matter,
we may say the yield Of sugar under fair
cultivation is enormous. No exertiOn Of labor
has paid so well since the placer digging Of
California. No crop is more free from insect
enemies. and from the length and breadth Of
Florida it is free from any injurious infiu-
ence from its great enem in Louisiana and
Texas as it is in Cuba and Mauritius 1t
grows luXuri 4ntly in the rich hammock lands
and will grow admirably on all good pine
lands throughout the State. 1t Is prof table
of five to ten acres and would be immensely
so in plantations Of from fifty to one hun
dred acres"
Florida Crescent: THE wav Hernando keeps
flush with money is this: From January to
warm weather she amphibiates in the swamp,
cutting and selling cedar, plants crops and
ships vegetables North In the summer she
stampedes her cattle to Cuba, pulls fodder and
eats watermelons. When the cattle stampede
subsidies she gathers her crop and starts the
fish boom to booming, and when that blows of
she ships oranges and sells her cotton, and gets
ready for Christmas. So there is an influx Of
money nearly the year round"
Florida Crescent: "a correspondent in the
Barlow Informant says he measured an orange
tree in Polk county with the following result:
Ten inches above the ground the body is six feet
around; about three feet and haf from the
ground the tree separate S, making two sepa-
rate bodies, one a little larger than the other.
The tree is a fraction Of thirty-eight feet high.
The spread Of the branches covers a space of
about thirty feet. This tree is no doubt the
first orange tree settler Of that country"
Florida Press: "AIr, Arnold, who is acting
for Mr. LawtOn, and has the management of
the building OF the Jacksonville and st. Au-
gustine Railroad has been in town during the
week He reports five miles already graded
and ready for the rails, and the work will be
pushed forward with the greatest dispatch"
Barlow Informant: "a few mornings ago
Miss Beulah Wilson, aged fourteen, while on
her way to school in the Bethel neighborhOOd
with her younger brothers and sisters, found
and killed an alligator about four feet long"
SitnLdnd Tribune: We state, not in a spirit
of bOasting, but with devout gratitude to the
Giver Of all good, that Tampa was never more
healthful than at this date. There have not
been half dozen deaths in our town from natu-
raj causes since the incoming of the present
year"
Sunland Tribune: We are sorry to hear Of
the disaster that has befalleu our young friend,
Mr. W. II, Craft. His house, on the tract of
the six-mils creek, with all his farming uten-
sis and furniture, was consumed by the fire on
the night OF the l4th. Mr.. Craft was in Tampa
when the fire occurred, and there was no one
in the house. It is believed tha the burning
was the work OF some svil-minded person"
SisnIdnd Tribune: The steamship Ellie
Knight Mckay master, arrived from Havana
via hey West, on Saturday, received a cargo
Of - head Of cattle and left Sunday morn
ing for Sagua La Grande She returned yes
terday and received another cargo this morn
ing"
Leesburg Adudnce: Sumter county con-
tinues TO improve verV rapidly. Every section
is improving so rapidly that, after an absence
OF few months only, one loses sight OF the
old land marks, The forest trees are being
cleared away for the profitable cultivation OF
fruits. vegetables and field crops. In place Of
the log huts handsome residences are being
reared, showing that the wealth of the county
is rapidly increasing, and she will soon be one
of the richest in the State. "
The Palatka Herald says: Reuben Lee,
cOlOred, while engaged 10 throwing telegraph
poles from Florida Southern train last Thurs
day, was Knocked Cff, and received such severe
injuries that he died next day
Palatka Herald: "TEers is a grave evil under
the sun in this st. Johns country; it is, that
nearly every new conner wants more land than
he viii ever be able to cultivate well 1t used
to be that a man who could boast of one hun
dred bearing orange trees was considered
fortunate. But now the rage is large groves
of oranges, say from one to ten thousand. Yes
all this looks large, and promises great profits
ia figures. To be sate it is better to invest in a
few acres and set out two or three hundred
young orange trees, take good care Of them
and wait"
Palatka Herald: 1.-The source of the St.
Johns, though three hundred miles from its
mouth, is only thirteen feet above the level of
the ocean With every variety OF soil, the land
Is divided into three general classes; The prai-
rieS, the hammOck-which are covered with
heavy hard wood trees and a dense under
growth, and are of inexhaustible fertility-and
the pine lands. much the largest in extent.
In the hammOcks a rich vegetable mold pre-
dominates and they may be cultivated, year
sfter year, with the most exhausting crops CT
tobacco or cane, without the slightest appar-
snt diminution of their prOductivenesS. The
pine lands contain less vegetable matter, but
nave everywhere substratum OF mari and de-
cayed marine shells, that gives them an en-
during fertility -