Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-13
Florida Affairs.

The freight train which left Fernandina Tues
day morning for Cedar Key, was delayed two
hours by an accident at Callahan. The engine
of the Savannah, Florida and Western freight
train, bound for Jacksonville, ran into the
Transit train at the crossing at the above
named place. The damage done was slight.
The whistle buoy off st. Johns bar has either
broken from its moorings or sunk. AtNo. 2,
the outer buoy which marks the entrance to
the channel, parted its moorings Tuesday night.
There has been heavy northwest wind blow
ing for the past week off the bar.
The first brick building ever erected in Starke
is now being built by DR. Gaskins, Of that place.
The Republicans OF Clay county have thrown
''Chubb'' in the political sea to represent that
county in the next Legislature The proba.
bility is that he will be caught before he
reaches Tallahassee.
Sixteen cattle and two deer were recently
found drowned near St. Marks-probably the
result of the high waters during the recent
storm.
Rowland is the name of a new town at Row
lands Bluff, on the Suwannee river. the termi.
nus of the Rowland's Bluff and Live Oak Rail-
road. A steamer will ply between this point
and Cedar Key.
The National Cotton Planters Association Of
America, whose headquarters are at Vicks-
burg, have donated to the sufferers at Pensa-
cola, the sum of three hundred dollars. The
Governor has thankfully accepted this oppor-
tune contribution.
-Four hundred and one names have been
stricken from the registry in Gadsden county
by the Registration Commissioners, and in
T,er 81 hr,pI
have been stricken from the list.
Mr.. G. H. Meginniss, of Tallahassee, sold last
week 4. 300 acres OF Leon county land at thirty
cents per acre to parties in Chicago.
The Democrats OF Nassau county have made
the following nOminatiOns c. W. Hilliard for
the Senate, and I. W. Higginbotham and W.
F. Scott for the Assembly.
Hon. H. A. LEngle, is announced as assist
ant superintendent of the miscellaneous de-
partment at the eighth annual STATE Fair, to be
held at Jacksonville, under the auspices Of the
State Park Association, on the 18th, 14th, 18th
and 10th days OF February, 1888.
Palatka has voted TO furnish her firemen
with proper apparatus and the authorities
have accordingly ordered a brand new Silsby
steam fire engine, two hose jumpers and one
second hand good-as-new truck from the
Jacksonville city government.
On the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad the
condition of the work is as follows: sixty
Choctawhatchie river, and twentY-one miles
west from the Apalachicola river are COM
pleted, ana the cars running within four miles
of Mariana on the east. Steel rails are used
exclusively, track laying Is progressing very
satisfactorily, and the company are confident
that through trains will pass over the line
before Christmas. All the bridges are substan-
tial iron pivot draw bridges, creoscted piles
are used for all the trestles and bridges, and
Captain Duval says the road will be first class
in every respect. and, traversing one of the
best agricultural sections of the South, and the
finest timbered country in the United States
will certainly be successful and profitable
line"
Cedar Key Journal: Mr. James Edwards
Of Micanopy. father OF Judge Edwards OF that
town. and Mrs. Zewadski, of Bronson. is on a
visit to his grandson here, MIR. W. X. Zewadski.
Mr. Edwards is one OF the Oldest, if not the old
est citizen in the State. He is in his eighty
ninth year and though he shows his age very
plainly, is remarkably active for one Of his
advanced years. Mr.. Edwards looks to be in
good health and is cheerful. He conveIses
freely and is perfectly familiar with the earlier
history of the State. which he takes pleasure
in recounting. He came from England origt-
nally and settled in Florida sixty years ago. At
that time there were no white people In the
interior of the State. from Charlotte's Haroor
to the Georgia line st. Augustine on the east
and Pensacola on the west being almost the
only points settled"
A special correspondent of the Jacksonville
Times. now in Madison (where the Circuit
and James murder, writes as follows under
date of the 9th: after breakfast call was
made on Hon. E. J.Vann, Judge Of this circuit,
who received me courteously. He was asked
if he had decided whether or not he would
invoke the military, as several witnesses at
Jacksonville claim TO know great deal about
the Savage-James tragedy, and have asked for
protection in order that they may come here
and testify. He replied that the court would
do nothing in case Of that kind except upon
motion OF the States Attorney or upon
application from the grand jury. The Judge
intimated that objection had been made to his
presiding at the recent indignation meeting as
he was on the bench. but he left me under the
impression that such objections had not over
whelmed him. then sought out Hon. B. B.
Blackwell, States Attorney, and asked him il
such q motion would be made by him. to see il
there was anything in the claims OF the col
ored witnesses now in Jacksonville. He re-
piled that he was not yet prepared to answer
that question He had given IL some thought,
but as it was without precedent in this State,
he would have to look further before answer
ing; that probably it would come better from
the grand jury By applif fation to the Judge"