Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-29
j. Fl. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR
Florida Affairs.


pounds.
The necessary machinery for the erection of
a palmetto fibre mill has arrived at Fernan-
dina.
Mr.. G. Harrison. Of Columbia county, has
cotton seven inches high growing in a patch,
and about ready to bear forms.
The grading Of the Peninsula Road is finished
to Lake Panasoffkee.
Moses Sims. a colored man, in attempting to
board Chattahoochee steamer last week, was
drowned. He resided in Jackson county.
Five hundred barrels Of oyster shells are to
be poured upon the streets Of st. Augustine.
Charles Ferguson. colored died last week in
Gadsden county from blood poisoning.
Mr.. Joe Bocardy was thrown from his horse
on Sunday. in PaIatka, and had his thigh
broken.
The Eagle Pencil Company received, at
Cedar Keys, a large amount Of cedar last
week. Several large RATS came in, and there
is considerable on the railroad.
Mr.. Henry L. Sheppard, whose arm was
recently crushel by falling timber, in Gads-
den county, and had the injured part ampu-
tated, has just undergone a second amputation
of part of the same arm.
About Thousand acres in the vicinity of
Ocala have been planted out to orange trees,
and owing to the excessive dry weather many
Of the tres will die, but they will be trans
planted again as soon as the rainy season be-
gins
A lady in Jackson county who was long con-
hned to her bed by sickness, was recently
almost restored to health by an electric shock
The lightning struck her house. tearing off
Notwithstanding in several places, and killing
COW near by and cured the lady.
Last week a company was organized in Or
landO for the purpose of constructing and
operating a railroad from Orlando. in Orange
county, via StarEe Lake. Lovell's Landing
and Orange Heights to Leesburg, in Sumter
county.
The Mariana Courier says of the Pensacola
and Jacksonville Railroad: There is no fall
ing of in the number of hands. Work goes
rapidly on on the suburbs of our town and
elsewhere. Pile driving over the water ways
between Mariana and Chattahoochee is going
on"
The large saw mill at Boardman Station
near Hawthorne. on the Florida Southern
Railway, and belOn Pirg to the owners of that
road, was burned on the night of the 23d. Four
fats loaded with lumber we're destroyed. Loss.
$4,000 The accident delayed the trains on
the road several hours.
Mr.. Robert A. A Wright. an emUloye Of the
Bay Point Mill Companv, of Santa Rosa county.
is II years Of age and the father of triplets. all
OF whom are now living and % years old. His
father, who is a resident OF Canada, is 1i6
years OF age. He had an uncle Davis Eaton.
Of Virginia, who died in 1922 at the age of 13O
snd who was a Mason 102 years Of his life.
Tampa Guardian: ''Mr J. R. Swingley and
Daniel Livingston, the parties employed to
select and grade the Disston lands in this
county, have selected and graded from town
ship SO to the Anclote river north. and from the
Gulf coast to range 19 east which includes all
the northwestern part of this county, with the
exception 81 one township and few odd sec
tiOns, on which they are now st work"
Tallahassee FIOrididn: Captain c. A Bryan
has strange but beautiful anomaly in his
flower garden A large rose bloomed on one
OF his bushes, and when the leaves began to
fall from it fOur small but complete roses ap-
peared in the centre. and now on the END Of
the stem where the large rose grew may be
seen four fullv-developed roses not larger than
a gold dollar"
Lake Eustis Semi Tropical: "The Apopka
Branch Railroad is thing of the distant
future. It seems that the south Florida
Railroad Company has removed the location of
the line from the original survey and nov the
settlers refuse to give their lands for building it
elsewhere This hitch in its affairs prolongs
the matter indefinitely. large amount of
work will have to b. done over again"
The Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad is hav-
ing built large freight depot directly in the
rear of the Gulf Ice Factory. in Pensacola.
From Mr.. \. V. Clubbs, the contractor we
Learn that the building is $50 feet long by %
feet wide one side to have a gallery or plat
form % feet wide, which will make the fOunda-
ton l5Oxi5 feet. and &c feet square In the front
the building will be two stories high. ana be
used for offices
Pensacola Weekly Commercial 'sAfr. James
Jordan. an employe On the AIuscogee wharf
fell from that structure last Sunday night and
sustained a severe injury in the breaking of his
right thigh bone. He was so unfortunate as to
be left without medical attention until the next
morning. when he was brought to the city and
is now at the infirmary of Drs HaTgis and
whiting. The broken limb was treated by the
former gentleman"
Jacksonville Union: 'sThe large trestle over
a creek a short distance north of Lawtey on
the Transit road, caught fire few days ago,
AMI had il not been for the efforts of the
passengers Of the nOrthward bound passenger
train, who, under the direction of the conduc-
tor. succeeded in extinguishing the flames, the
trestle would certainly have been destroyed
Owing to the derse smoke the engineer did not
see the fire until the train was passing over the
trestle.'
Pensacola Commercial: "JObn Castage. an
Austr an, 10 the oyster business. fell over board
from the slOOp boat st. Louis in Fscambia
Bay last Thursday night and was drowned
His comp Mon, RenardO Antonio, endeavOred
to rescue his shipmate. but owing to the dark
ness his efforts we're unaveiling. The deceased
was polling his boat at the time of the occur
renee, aud losing his balance fell from the
deck The slOOp belonged to Joseph Stewart.
The body has not yet been recovered"
Tallahassee FGoriiidn 'On the night of the
11th inst, Isham Edwards, colored tenant on
the Papy place. six miles from the city, on the
Townsville road had about fifty panels of
fence burned by malicious scOundrels. On the
following night some barbarous villain went to
his stable. securely fastened lot of bagging
on his mules shoulders, saturated it with kero-
sene and set 1t on fire Had the unfortunate
animal not escaped from the stable, every
building on the place, with all the poor mans
supplies to raise crop on, would have been
burned. The mule was so seriously injured
that he will not be able to work for weeks, If
ever"
st. Johns Weekly: "wednesday afternoon
a fire started in the woods adjacent TO the rail-
road track. said TO have been caused by sparks
from the locomotive. The wind was quite
fresh at the time from the north, and the fire
ragged in a southerly direction, causing sad
havoc to property among the people along its
line. MessIs Bevan, Weedmen, Cooper, Ran
dali Corbitt and others lost their fences, and
Mr.. COrbitt lost one hundred young orange
trees The inhabitants OF the section through
which the fire pasSet turned out in force to
suboue he flames and it is to their unwearied
efforts that the residences along the line of the
fire were saved"
Jacksonville Times: son the first of April
next Colonel 1. Coryell will be relieved of the
lantic and Gulf Coast and Okeechobee Land
Company. James NJ. Kreamer will occupy the
position OF both Engineer and Superintendent
from that time. Colonel COryell has laid
the foundation of this enterprise by the selec-
ton OF proper machinery and the building
of the peculiar dredges adapted for the work. |
All that is necessary now ia the direction Of |
success is in the hands Of his successor, who |
becomes responsible to the company and the |
State for the practical direction of the great |
work which has been so thoroughly and efficf-
emily equipped for its prosecution. The Colo |
re 'slabors will very soon be employed in an
other direction, and if the energy and tact here
tofore displayed by him are any Indication of |
success, he is sure to win
Orlando Reporter: IS B. Carter, the slayer
OF John W. Griffin. was captured at Maitland
on Saturday night last, and is now in jail In
this place. Carter was captured at the resi- |
dence Of Mr.. Barlow, at Maitland, about 9 |
o'clock on saturday night. by Sheriff T. w. |
Shine and two or three assistants He made |
no resistance, and IL seems had about decided |
TO hide no longer, but rather to give himself |
up and stand trial. Carter states that he did |
not do the shooting; but that negro fired the |
shot which killed Mr.. Griffin. He says he has |
not been fifteen miles from Orlando since the |
night of the murder, and this statement is in |
with the opinion OF some or the |
shrewdest Of our local prophets, expressed |
from time to time since the shooting. There |
has been no lack of indications that he was be- |
ing harbored by friends in the vicinity; and so |
full and complete were the plans laid, that had |
he ever broken cover and attempted to leave |
the State, he would have been taken In day"
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The Imprisoned Members CT Par
Lament.
LONDON, March 2S.-In the House Of |
Commons this afternoon, during the discus |
sion relating to the supply, Mr.. Gladstone |