Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-04
Florida Affairs.


hOeing his cane few days ago and reached
down to draw grass oIt Of the drill, when
large rattlesnake struck him on the arm. For
tunately the fangs of the reptile did not reach
the flesh. but hung in the sleeve in his shirt uu-
ill he jerzed 1t out at full length aud dispatch
ed it with his hoe The nervous shock to Mr..
Mcmillan was so great as to lay him up for sew
eral days
Justice A. w. Dacosta, OF Jacksonville, has
been a magistrate for twenty consecutive
years. and his commission ex piring by its own
limitation on Friday last he retires from the
Office.
The people Of West Florida are much en-
couraged on account Of the near completion
of railroad facilities and the general prospect
of good crops.
The grading of the Florida Tropical Railroad
is now completed to Moss Bluff on the Ockla-
waha river towards Sanford. A large force is
at wOrF
The Masonic Hall at Orlando was publicly
dedicated on st. Johns day, the 24th of June.
The Grafton delivered by Hon. ]. ]. Harris was
interesting. instructive and entertaining, as
was also that of Major A. J, Russell OF JACK
sonvilIe, on that occasion.
There will be a general holiday at SANFORD on
the fourth Everybody in the town and Vicinl-
tv will 20 on a railroad excursion over the
South Flsrida Railroad, which has arranged
special rates for the occasion.
Out of two hundred and twenty-seven water
oaks plaCted in Sanford four months ago. only
about a dozen have lived.
Mr. John Warburton, of Lawrence, Mass. is
in Florida for the purpose of looking after the
remaining children OF his deceased brother,
who, with his wife AMI two children. was
drowned recently in Fiddler's pond.
Capt J. W Bushnell, with his corps Of engi-
neers. reached Tampa last Thurs lay. He
states that after the necessary preliminary
survey of the Florida Tropical Railroad be-
tween Tavares and the Washington county
line is completed, work on the permanent
route will be commenced and pushed rspidly
| forward.
A Postmaster in Alachua county, whose
office pays him about four dollars month,
has been called upon by the Republican Con-
gressional Committee for seventy five dollars.
| The report that yellow fever exists III Cedar
Keys is Officially denied by Drs. Owen and
Thomas. who state, in dispatch dated June
2sth, that no yellow fever is in the city, nor
has there been any this season"
The town of Mariana elects Marshal to-
day. The position pays four hundred dollars
per year.
Twenty seven vessels. with en- average
OF i75 tons, entered the port of Jackson
| vile during the month OF June.
| In the course o, a few weeks Quincy will
bnast OF Chinese laundry. Several Chin 'se
are anxious to settle in the place, which cffers
/ a good opening fOra laundry. as there are but
/ few good washerwomen in the town.
Governor Bloxhan has signed and forwarded
/ to Sheriff Cone the death warrant of Merritt
| Jackson. now in Nassau isii. Jackson was
| convicted at the las term Of the Circuit Court
/ OF the murder OF John Thomas, at Kings Fer
/ ~ both eOlOred men Friday, August 4th is
/ the day fixed for the execution
i The chief engineer and chief carpenter of
| the Menge dredge boat, now cutting the canal
| to drain Lake OkeechObee. give it as their
/ opinion that the hardest part Of the work has
/ been accomplished, tnd the dredge is now
| walking through sand rock find saw grass at
| the rate OF 225 cubic yards an hour. Four and
/ a half miles of the canal has been cut
Duriug the month of May there were 697,-
| 34t feet of yellow pine lumber shipped from
/ the port Of Jackson; 4242. COO feet went to do
/ nestle aud 455.341 feetwent to foreign ports
| In June 1881 there were 6,59i, 600 feet of lum-
/ ber shipped, and for the same month in 1880
/ there were 4 1850. 379 feet shipped Besides the
| above lumber there were 39,5 $50 crosstes ship
| ped last month.
| The driving OF the cabbage palmetto piling
| for the new Broome street slips at Fernandina
| beeau on Thursday. As soon rs these docks
| have been completed, the Transit Railroad ex-
/ Dects to build the new steamship wharf. south
| Of the present New York steamship pie-. Both
| the new and the old dOcS are to be extended
| to deeper water, so a. to afford wharfage
/ facilities for deep draft vessels. The new dock
/ il TO have river front OF three hundred feet.
| PaIatka Journal: 'Weextend a cordial invi-
tation to all brethren Ct the press fraternity
who may be present at the Paatka celebration
/ to call at the Journal Office and m 'ke iJ their
| heac quarters while in tie city. We have
| large front room on a prominent thorOughfare.
i and will fit it up as well we can with tab 'es
/ and other writing conventnces, and would be
| glad to have our visiting brethren call in and
/ make themselves at hOmt. We shall do our
/ utmost to make their stay in the Gem City
| pleasant and enl 1yable. and their recOllectiOns
/ Of the day lasting and agreeable Recollect
| 'scribes. that the Journal Office is on Water
street. arid that our iatch-stiug' hangs on the
outside"
On Saturday last Sheriff T. W. Turner re-
eel 7ed information Of the whereabouts of one
| Gilbert, an escaped murderer from Thomas
county. Ga He promptly repaired to the spot
and laid hands on Gilbert (who was a very stout
man and had a large knife in his hand) but the
murderer resisted and made his esclpe into a
large swamp near by. While escaping the
Sheriff fired two pistol shots at him and re-
turned to the city under the impression that
he had hit his game in the side. On Monday a
messenger came 10 town and Informed the
sheriff that Gilbert was at the point OF death
Nv this time the Sheriff from Georgia had ar
rived and he and Sheriff Turner went out that
evening to see Gilbert He acknowledged the
murder and said that he would % bacz az
soon as he got able. He is now in charge of
Deputy Sheriff Cato. near Newnansville. and
when the officers left him he was in dying
condition. There was reward Of $500 for
Gilbert.
Tavares Herald: "The steam saw mill of
DonnelIy, Reed & Co., near the eastern end of
Lake Dora was the scene OF horrible clsu-
atty last Saturday. resulting in the death Of
Lewis Kellogg, an estimable citizen residing
near Lake Joanna. The deceased was en-
ploYed as setter of head blocks, and TO keep
the saw pit cleared OF saw dust, and while per-
forming the latter duty in the pit beneath the
saw. in which he worked In stooping posi-
tiOn, he raised his head, bringing iit IN contact
with the rapidly revolving saw. Nearly the
whole top Of his head was torn IN, The saw
tearing tine scalp from over the leit eye 20 the
back part OF his head, in a rough Jagged cut
nearly four inches wide. u. S.
SaWin, Of Tavares, was sent for, but before
he arrived the wounded man was dead. On
examination OF the ugly wound, the doctor
made the following report: THE saw struck da-
ceased at the malar process making wounc
extending up the temporal ridge entering tie
brain near the frontal and parieta' articulation
above the 1arietal eminencs. ard extendiDz
back 20 its posterior edge 1fr kellogg lived
about six hours after the accident, nd vas
buried on Sunday afternoon He ynOsed here
from Michigan last March. and uas.s soref, in
dustrious man. about fifty years ctSlsa. Re
lived near the northern end of Iaat TIoaunn.
and leaves an invalid wife and d@agili sr s.bont