Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-10
TALLAHASSEE TOPICS.
The District Conference.-The Rail-
road TO ThOmasvfle-Truek Farm
ing-The Weather and the Crops.

TALLAHASSEE, June 7.-Editor Morning Netcs:
The Tallahassee District Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, which met
in this place on the S1st ult., after harmonious
session Of three days, adjourned on the Sd inst.
This district comprises all that territory lying
between the ApalachicoIa and Aucilla rivers,
embracing the counties Of Gadsden, Liberty,
Leon, Wakulla and Jefferson, and portion of
Franklin There were present thirty
five members - fourteen clerical and
twenty-one lay delegates. In the
district there ara twelve pastoral charge,
with membership of nineteen hund red and
forty-nine. The value Of church property
amounts to $50 $780, while there was paid out
during the past year for the snpp9rt of minis
ters, including missions, 95,512 So. From day
to day reports were called for from the various
charges, as to the state Of the church, number
of Sunday schools, fnancs and temperance
Nearly the entire session of Friday was de-
voted to the topic OF Sunday schools The
Committee on Temperance reported
resolutions in favor of legislation (State)
against the sale of intoxicating
liquors This caused quite an animated
debate, for while the conference seemed to b9
unanimous in favor OF the prohibition of the
sale of Intoxicating liquors, yet few were
under the impression that the wording of one
Of the resolutions was of political cast and
calculated to commit the church they repre-
sented on what might prove a political issue
This, however, was disclaimed by the commit
tee, and the entire report was adopted. The
lay delegates elected to the Annual
Conference were G. W Taylor, Jesse Wood,
j. A. Cromartie and j. T. bernard; alter
mates, T. r. Canty, d. w. Bryan and
John Grambling. The next District Confer
ence is to be held year hence at Miccosukie.
Leon county.
On yesterday the engineers of the Thomas
villa, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad commenced
their preliminary survey. After several ex-
perimental lines are run the route viii be
finally located and a plot filed in the proper
office. This looks like business This com
p'ny has hardly organized before it puts its
surveyors in the field. l hope in a few
weeks to announce the definite loca-
ton Of this Ito us) important road
Pensacola and Atlantic Road that is to con-
meet Tallahassee with Pensacola, are favorable
new engine with construction train. D ssed
up the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
Railroad some time since were transported
across the Chattahoochee river, and now for
the first time the whistle of the locomotive is
heard in jackson county, where track laying
is rapidly going on. Notwithstanding there
will be three miles of trestle at one point and
a costly bridge to be constructed at Chattah o.
chee, another across the Chipola and other
streams yet so vigorously is this great work
prosecuted, that many of its friends anticipate
irs completion by the 1st of September next
Such, however, is The magnitude of the under
taking, that cannot see how it can well be
completed before the 1st of January next
We're there no streams nor marshes to cross
the work would proceed much more RAPIDLY
but trestling and bridge building are expensive
and tedious operations. The comp elton Of this
road will assist m terially in bringing into
market and developing the thousands of acres
OF fine timhered lands west of ChattahoOchee
vai'able either for lumber or agricultural pur-
poses. The country lying between the Chatta-
hoochee end Oh pola rivers boasts of
some of the richest Ian Is in the State, and its
deDiZens may well rejoice at the prospect of
convenient access to market, OF daily mail
and rapid and cheap transit. In coming to
the capital, it will no longer be necessary for
a Pensacola resident to run up in Alabama
into Georgia, and after circuitous route of
several days. reach his destination ; but soon
he can reach here In few short hours The
thousands of acres Of United States lands, too
will flnd purchasers. Heretofore the United
States Land Office of Gainesville has made very
the relocation of the land office at
this point will be a necessity Before
the late war there were four of these offices in
the State, towit: at Tallahassee, Newnanville
(Alachua county,, St. Augustine, and Tampa
subsequently they were all consolidated into
one at this place, and afterwards this one land
office was removed to Gainesville. The con-
sOdation of these four offices into one was a
ment of the country, it was impossible for tee
limited clerical force to keep up with the work
have been assured by the Commissioner Of the
General Land Office that, so heavy was the work
of The & -ainesville office, that they we're always
three weeks behind. 1t is an utter impossibility
TO- them TO answer promptly the numerous let
terS received, as can testify to from experience
For this reason the Commissioner favors the
establishment of a land Office here, which is
provided for by act OF Congress, and has new
er been repealed. Why pressure has not
hrntI h To hoa on 4
this act of justice to this section is mystery.
The department processes to favor it. and it is
earnestly hoped that our Senators and immedi-
ate Representative will push the matter, as a pc
titiou has been filed asking for the relocation Of
the United states Land Office at this point. No
act of Congress is necessary, but simply the
proclamation Of the President making the
necessary order. lt is certainly a great incon-
venience to a purchaser living in the vicinity of
Pensacola to go to Gainesville, and to the poor
man who may wish to avail himself of entering
his one hundred and sixty acres or less under
the homestead act, or purchase his forty acres
1T Is simply impossible. If the clerks at
Gainesville cannot keep up with their work
now, it will be worse when the Pensacola and
Atlantic Road is completed, and the United
States lands find purchasers and settlers
In consequence of the success of truck farm
ing, as we'll as the near prospect Of other and
more direct communication with the great
marts of the East. West and n orthwest real
estate has appreciated, and transfers are more
frequent than in former years. AS compared
with this time last year, the Clerk of the Cir
cult Court for this county informs me that,
during the past three months, he has recorded
three times as many deeds of conveyance as
he did during the same time last year. Indeed,
there seems to be a perfect boom IN real
estate in and around the city. Parties
who never before invested In real
estate, but were content with bonds
and other like securities, are now seeking
investments in city lots and lands lying near
the city. Formerly the office of County Sur
veyor had little or no emouments attached 10
it, as that worthy official was but seldom
called upon But now the shrewd purchaser
must know definitely the metes and bounds OF
his proposed purchase, and our worthy officials
services are in frequent requisftion, both in the
city and country. Tallahassee is once more
looking up. and though. from her peculiar
position. she will never be the Queen City of
the Land of Flowers as to size, YET her borders
will soon be enlarged, and her population be
proportionally inc reased
1t would seem that Vennor has probably
made a right guess about the weather this sea
son. though few believed this modern Cassan-
dra. So far we have had but little hot weather
and as we had dry summer, fall and spring. it
is more than probable we will have a cool wet
summer. Reports from the surrounding coun-
try all agree as to the good condition OF the
crops, ana our planters are already felicitatng
themselves at the prospect of an abundant
yield. The corn crop may be considered as
safe. but if we have long wet spell the cot
ton must necessarily suffer. LEON.