Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-30
Florida Afairs.

Judge William Bryson, Of Live Oak, is seri-
ously ILL.,
Mariana is receiving beautifully of rew
cotton Of fine quality.
The iron for the Live Oak and Rowland Bluff
Railroad is arriving in large quantities at Live
Oak.
Lake City has gone largely into the ginning
business. She has five large ginning establish
ments and number OF small gin mills Not
whisky mills.
nearly completed.
The prohibition of the liquor traffic at Kings
Ferry. Nassau county, has operated very much
ID the improvement Of the place.
Sheriff Richards, OF Brevard county, with
the long sought Allen Padgett, who is charged
with participation in the Lang murder on In
dian river in 1873, arrived at Titusville on Sun
day. Padgett is now safely lodged in jail.
The new locomotive, Henry S Sanford, for
the Florida Railroad, has been shipped from
the Northern workshops and is daily expected
to arrive at Sanford. The workshops at San
ford have received orders for the building of
twenty-five freight cars Immediately.
Nassau county has seven white Sunday
schools five Methodist. Episcopalian and
Presbyterian, with an average attendance of
900 children.
The railroad train was fred into between
Madison and GreenviIle on Saturday last, but
no damage was done.
With twenty new railroads in process of
building, and additions being made to the pas
senger and freight steamers on her rivers
Florida boasts a remarkable season of pros
perity.
It is said that 5000 men are now employed
in railroad construction in Florida.
The expenditures OF the city of Key West
during the nine months of the present admin
istration foot up the neat little sum of
sls341 21.
One thousand acres Of land on Matecombie
Key, Monroe county, has recently been pur.
chased by three Key Westers, who intend to
convert it into one big cocoanut grove.
Special Deputy Collector E. L. Ware, of Key
West, died suddenly at that place on Thursday
last from a stroke Of apoplexy.
A Jonesville correspondent of the Gaines
vile Weekly Bee writes that on Wednesday
last little white boy was sent on an errand
to a neighbor's house, when he was stopped on
the way by party Of negro children, stripped,
bound hand and foot. blindfolded and severely
beaten. The negroes threatened the lad, in
the event he Informed on them, they would
serve him even worse. One of the parties
implicated in this transaction has confessed to
the maltreatment Of the boy
The Gainesville seminary building fund is at
last complete. the plan for the building
adopted, the specifications made out. and the
work will commence Immediately.
Tracklaying will begin on the Chattahoochee
extension of the Savannah, Florida and Wes-
tern Railway about September 1st.
About four hundred acres in and around
Madison will be planted in watermelons next
SESSION. One firm alone expects to plant one
hundred and ten acres.
The Florida Southern runs two daily trains
into c Gala now from Gainesville and Palatka.
company at Jacksonville propose to light
up the ST. Johns river fIom its mouth to San
ford with T. Curtis calcium lamp.
Already Pensa cola has been very seriously
affected by the wild rumors that have gone
abroad in reference to the yellow fever. The
merchants generally complain Of en- almost
complete stagnation OF business, and it is i'm
possible TO collect any money.
A big saw mill is being erected at MilIview,
Escambia county, which viii contain TWO cir
culars-one to cut logs " TO forty five feet.
the other up TO seventy. The engine has a S6x
D
inder boilers snd two smoke stacks. ana is ex-
pected TO cut from $1,000 to 10000 feet Of lum-
Der per day.
Ocala Banner: I'VE had pleasant call last
Thursday from Mr.. A. W. Giichrist, a member
Of the engineering corps of the Savannah.
Florida anu Western Railway and its branches.
He informs US that there are upwards of a
thousand hands at work on the Rowland
Bluff division, and that it is fastening on down
the peninsula at a speed unprecedented in
raiIroading in Florida 1t will have strict re-
gard for the twenty mile limit and may miss
Ocala, but il wi pass through t1ne secuon OF
country and will speed on the development
and settlement Of the State
The hardships Of the quarantine enforced
against KEY West is thus illustrated by the Key
Of the Gulf: Mr. A. f. Tiff, one OF our most
active business men. having urgent business a.
Albany, Ga was compelled 70 embark on MS
own pilot boat, the Telegram, on Monday last
for Havana. From thence he takes passage TO
Albany, Ga, via New York, travelling tome
twenty-five hundred miles, which he ought 70
nave accomplished in two hundred and nItY
ana occupy only three and half days In m AK
ing II, while the route he is compelled to take
viii consume over ten days to get to his busi-
ness house In Georgia. So much for a useless
quarantine"
Between two and three O'Clock on Sunday
morning the passenger train from Jacksonville
Tor Iailahassee, while passing through q cut
ABOUT TOUR ana half miles west or Mad1Son,
was fired into by party OF men who were
standing on the bank near the track. The
sleeping car was struck in three places once |
in the end and twice in the side two of the
balls penetrating the wood Toe passenger
coach was also struck. a b II breaking through
the glass window on one side and passing out
through the blind frame on the other side of
the car. Fortunately no one was hurt, though
a lady passenger narrowly escaped. As this
outrageous attack on the train was made at
night and entirely unexpected, those in the car
were unable 70 see who the would be assassins
were or ascertain their number
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