Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-19
Florida Affairs.

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There has not been a single death in Jackson
vile since 70 O'Clock on Saturday last
Rev.R. H. Weller, Jr., rector of Grace Church
Parish, has teneered his resignation to the yes
| try at Ocala. The vestry, not desiring to ac-
| cept the resignation. has granted the pastor
leave of absence until next Easter for his
health, and during his vacation he will labor in
Providence. R. L, as assistant rector of All
Saints Church. at that place. This young
minister is the son of Rev R. H Weller. Sr.,
the esteemed rector Of st. Johns Episcopal
| Church. in Jacksonville.
There is considerable sickness reported in
Jefferson county.
The only loss of life in Jefferson county dur
ing the recent storm was a colored child.
The new hotel at Palatka will be finished
by November l. 1t is to have forty-four bed
rooms and is three stories high.
| Mr.. George A. Alba has been appointed
Deputy Collector of the port of St. Augustine.
In Franklin county last week hungry bear
entered the apiary of VIM. Allen and destroyed
nine bee hives. He was afterwards killed in
/ contiguous swamp.
! At Chattahoochee last Thursday night, Brit
| ton Summervile and Robert Derse, two
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| tic Railroad. got into a dispute as to which
| could eat the most, and quarrel ensued, when
Derse drew his pistol and shot Summerville in
the mouth. the ball lodging in the neck about
the root Of the tongue. The wound is thought
to be fatal. Derse made his escape, and is still
at large.
All work on the Pensacola and Atlantic Rail-
road bridge and trestles at Chattahoochee has
been suspended on account Of the high water.
1t has been over a week since the storm, and
the river has just begun to fall.
A communication from City Point says the
land in that section of the State is too valuable
for agriculture in the general sense of that
term, and the raising of semi-tropical fruits is
far more profitable. Early vegetables, in view
Of promised transportation, engage the atten-
tion of the people. Sugar cane is now the
principal field crop, and that, also, is being
largely increased, and it is heped that i'm
mense quantities Of both will be shipped. Not
one pound OF cotton and but little corn is raised
in hat-Brevard-county.
Only three miles of iron remain to be laid
on the l. o. & R, B. Railroad. It will be hn-
ished in the next ten days, and a schedule
train will be running through on or before Oc-
tober 1st.
Colonel John F. White, Of Lake City, is max
ing up his grape crop into wine. He has fine
vineyard. and with an average crop can put up
thirty barrels of the juice.
The fruit and vegetable shipments from Live
| Oak last season amounted to 2.7O4 packages.
The Pensacola Advance Gazette is laboring
under great disabilities Another Of its COM
positors is down with yellow fever. and it has
now only one journeymsn at work. This
necessitates a reduction of the dimensions of
the Gazette, and a consequent decrease in
local news
The press of Florida In the legislative con-
test will be represented by two candidates who
viii be hard to beat. They will both run like
scared rabbits. We alude to Colonel Moore.
OF the Starke Telegraph, and Colonel Pendle-
ton, Of the Key West Democrat.
The storm struck Cedar Key broadside and
did an immense amount Of damage to indivi-
duals and to the city generally. The loss Of
property was great Old residents Of twenty
six years declare they never saw anything
like it. The water came up into all the houses
| On the lower side Of the town. 1t came up into
the floor of the Journal office, which is nearly
foot above the level of the street. tits esti-
mated that the damage, including that done to
the railroad, viii reach S150.0O0.
Mr.. W. H. Allen, Of Leon county, had his
splendid rice crop completely destroyed by the
recent Storm When the cyclone struck it it
was seven feet high, and it was literally torn
| to pieces.
A number of Tennesseeans are on their way
to Sumter county.
Two hundred dollars has been voted for the
completion of the new school house from the
funds in the Town Treasury Of Sanford by the
Board of Aldermen. Itcould not be put to a
better use.
On October Sd a vote will be taken in Suwan-
nee county to decide whether ths compro-
mise Of thirty per cent on the county bonded |
debt will be accepted or not. The principal |
and interest of the debt amounts to about !
500 OOO. thirty per cent OF which will amount |
to S21, ,232 So
At Point Washington, Fla, the cyclone was
very severe, Judging from q private letter to |
Mr. F E. de la Rua- OF Pensacola. Mr.: Fred.
Woodwerd's store was blown to pieces, McCul |
lough's mill and the smokstacks Of McLaneg |
mill were blown down, two or three lighters |
were blown ashore, fences were generally lev |
eied, and one woman, name unknown, killed.
The Temperance Coffee House Association Of |
Jacksonville was permanently organized on |
Monday afternoon. The number OF shares |
subscribed were 400 In all. The following |
Board Of Directors were elected: Judge X q. |
Archibald, Alderman VIM. Hurter and J. q. |
Greeley from the general body OF sharehold- |
ers; Mrs. g. B. Griffin, Mrs. Solon Robinson an |
Mrs. Walter Gwynn, from the Women, 8 chris
tian Temperance Union; Rev. VIM d. Simp- |
SON. Jr., Capt. John I. Talbot and James M.
Fairlie. representing the Magnolia DIVISION
Sons of Temperance.
South Florida Journal: "At the first open
ing of the South Florida Railroad, the business
was done with one engine and three or four
cars Now hve engines are required, ana ABOUT
forty cars used, and still there is demand Tor
more. Mr.. A. d. Stentiford, Superintendent
OF the car shops, informs US that the wheels
and irons for twenty more cars have been re-
ceived and the work of building commenced
on them. II Is great credit to our county TO
have shops where such work can be turned out
comes from the South Florida Railroad
shops. They build the finest of passenger
coaches and the most substantial freight and
fiat cars y
Pensacola Commercial, Sth inst: ''The lurid
glare OF tar, pitch, sulphur, birthstone and bon
fires Illuminated the several points throughout
the city during several evenings this week. in
stituted by the Board OF Health as an auxiliary
in terminating our dread enemy yellow fever. |
The piles were numerous. and when lighted
were quite imposing. and but for the hOrrid
associations connected with them might have
produced an effect decidedly pleasing If any
virtue attaches to this method the most bene-
ncial results will certainly accrue to u.s. eSpeci.
ally IN that part Of the city which has been
designated as the infected district, because, as
before iHtimated. the fires were numerous and
OF huge dimensions. -
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