Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-15

Church this winter. The lot on which it is to
be erected has been purchased and the build
ing will be commenced Immediately.
Levy county is manufacturing good article
of wine from the juice of the huckleberry,
which fruit is one Of the staple productions OF
the county.
The new hotel now in process Of construction
at Fort Mason, Orange county, will be forty by
forty-six feet, two stories high, and will con
tain seventeen rooms, with piazzas all around
on both stories. Tle lumber will come from
Jacksonville and the brick from Philadelphia.
The County Commissioners OF st. Johns
county have instructed the clerk to pay no
bounty for wild cats unless the scalps of such
cats are presented to the clerk during the month
they are killed. and that no mutilated scalps
are to be received. Somebody has evidently
been playing of on the Commissioners and cir
culating bad wild cat currency.
Apopka City has been incorporated, and has
elected the following municipal officers:
Mayor, J. D. Fudge; Clerk, q. L. Jones; Mar
shal, Timothy A. Wick; Aldermen, E. c. Nor,
gan, c. W. Mills. z. H. Mason, J. F. SiHings and
J. J. Combs.
G. B. Pendleton, editor Of the Key West
Democrat, has been nominated by theDemo-
Gratis as their candidate to represent the Twen-
ty-fourth Senatorial district in the next Gen
eral Assembly.
Some of the large land owners of Leon coun-
ty have secured the services Of a surveyor for
the purpose of cutting up their large planta-
tons into forty acre tracts. This is move in
the right direction, and if generally followed
will add increased wealth and population to
the commonwealth.
The Florida House at st. Augustine has been
closed for the season.
Owing to the destruction of one of the sand
trestles on the Florida Transit Railroad, near
Cedar Key, there have been no trains out from
that place in several days.
Mr.. h B. Plant intends to foster the musical
idea in Jacksonville. 1t is stated that he in
tends to erect a $4,000 opera house this win
ter, and that the plans and specifications are
all prepared for the edifce.
The schooner Jeanette, bound from New
Smyrna to jacksonville, was caught in the
gale of Saturday night and blown ashore four
miles from Fernandina.
The authorities of Montgomery have quaran-
tined ali mail matter from Pensacola except.
ing letters. on the ground that visitors in per-
Sun arc nut uhll 81 uduEcEOu6 dS Inc IldllS at
bring fever-infected air wrapped up in folds
This We think is carrying quarantine to an ex-
treme.
Captain Thomas Langford, one of the first
settlers of Madison county. died at his home.
four miles foom Madison, on Friday last. In
the early days OF Madison county Captain
Langford participated in several battles with
the Indians two or three miles from where the
court house now stands. He was also Gap.
tain" in the late Confederate army.
Up TO the present time there has been but
one colored person, a mulatto, attacked with
yellow fever at Pensacola, and he died of the
disease.
The Governor Of Florida has offered a re-
ward Of $500 for the arrest of the person or
persons who shot into the train of the Florida
Central and Western Railroad at Madison, on
the 2sth of August; also, $500 for the arrest of
the person or persons who removed rail from
the track of that road, and the company have
supplemented this by adding reward of $3.50
for the arrest Of the parties, making 81 500. in
all.
Mr. Elmore, delegate 20 the County Demo-
cratic Convention recently held in Mariana,
from Underwood. who is sixty-ive years of
age NdiAtu LHNulg AAAAiCo W tAC COHNCullOu
Now that's what we call inaugurating a vigor-
GUS campaign.
Suwannee county Democrats have nomina-
ted Major J. c. Gallaher for the Senate and
Captain R. F. Allison and Andrew j. Mcleod
for the Assembly.
Dr. L. H. Potter proposes to have a street
railroad in operation at Lake City within six
months
Duval county has a cash balance on hand of
50. .SS2 g. besides 81, 100 or $1,000 Of a building
fund.
A party of immigrants from Tllinois-six
ladies and four gentlemen-passed through
Lake City last Tuesday, bound for VOlusia
county.
1t will be week or ten days before trains
can run through from Bronson to Cedar Key.
Both sand trestles and No. tres'le are washed
away. The length of the two sand trestles is
alone one hundred and fifty yards, and the
damage to the trestle extends probably four
hundred yards.
The following civil appointments have been
made by the Governor and duly commissioned
the past week: George w. Davis, to be Notary
Public in and for the county of Duval; ]. r.
Kimbrew, to be Judge in and for the county of
Taylor; Levi Brown, to be Inspector of Timber
and Lumber in and for the county of Santa
Rosa; John ]. Berry, to be Inspector OF Timber
aud Lumber in and for the county OF Franklin;
Thomas Chambers. to be Inspector of Timber
and Lumber in and for the county of Escambia;
Alden ]. Adams, to be Justice Of the Peace in
and for the county OF Manatee.
A coIored man by the name of Rogers AIber-
tie residing on Cumberland Island y hiIe
engaged in hauling his boat out Of the water at
Leech's mill, was struck on the head by a
piece OF timber blown off the mill shed by the
wind at II O'Clock Sunday morning and
knocked in the water, instantly killing him.
Two or three boys who saw the accident say
he was killed by the timber when struck His
body was recovered shortly afterwards and
placed in the mill.
In Quincy the coIored M E. Church and
Fchoolhouse, Pittman's stable. T. B. Nathans'
warehouse and great many outhouses are
lying fiat on the ground. The rear end of A.
X. Icons bar was smashed in by large oak
tree falling against it. The roof Of the cupola
on the NJ. E. Church is gone, and the cupolas
of the court house and market house are badly
damaged. Large oak and hickory trees that
stood the storms OF 1873 and 1876 are torn up
By the roots, and 1t is almost impossible to get
along the streets.
A train hand by the name Of Henry Marsh
who was employed on the log train on Drew &
Bucki'S track, was thrown from the cars on
Saturday, while the train was in motion, and
instantly killed, the wheels of several cars
passing over him. Henry was passing from
the rear end of the car toward the engine, for
the purpose Of driving a COW n the track,
but about the time he got halfway the engine
struck the COW, which had the effect to throw
the unfortunate man between two of the cars.
Inc Rfduu OEhbko SOuubys III To-
cent presentment, says: I'VE congratulate
the people of Orange county upon the striking
fact, developed by our most diligent inquiries,
that we are crimeless people. For nearly
two weeks this grand inquest has been In ses-
sion, and. save one or two instances of race
antagonism, developed upon the spur Of the
moment, and resulting in no mutilation or
serious injury to person or property
only offenses Of the lowest type cogniZable
by u.s. AMI but few OF them-have been
brought TO our attention. In view OF the rapid
increase OF our population, coming as it does
from every quarter of the habitable globe, it
might be supposed reasonably that we would
be liable to those evils and crimes usually
found among heterogeneous peop es RAPIDLY
thrown together. Such, however. is not the
fact and we can only conclude that Orange
county is drawing to herself a population COM
posed of the wealthy, intelligent and virtuous
of the localities whence they come"
In Quincy the storm was fearful. writer
in the Union SAYS: up to this time have
heard of five deaths, ell colored; three women,
a child. and one man. The man "a driver for
Thomas G. Smith, who lives several miles in
the country left town about O'Clock last
night driving a pair Of fine horses, and while
crossing a small stream on the outer eoge OF
town was drowned, with one OF the horses
The other horse managed 70 break the harness
and escape The wagon was torn 20 pieces oy
the wind and scattered along the stream for
hundreds of wards. Two women were literally
scared 10 death, it seems, as there are no
marks or bruises on either Of them. One or
them was picked up in an open space nfteen
yards from her house: the other, woman
living by herself, was found dead In bed