Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-14

tai Marri age Help Association" " has been start
ed at Tallahassee and meeting will be held
At that place on the 1eth inst to perfec. the
organization.
The Gadsden County Fair, TO be held at
Quincy, is booked for the 2ist Of November
next.
Mr.. S. 7. Walker has retired from the edi-
torial chair Of the Milton Nel0s ana is sue
eeeied by Mr.. W. P. Howell
The United States Steamer Ia 'lapoosa having
in tow a section Of the Pensacola dry-dock, ar
rived at the navy yard on the 18th. Her con-
sort, the POwhatan, with the fourth and last
section, is also hourly expected.
The Florida Southern Railroad has resumed
work, which will be pressed vigorously for
ward until the road is finally completed,
There are eleven vessels at quarantine at the
port Of Pensacole-ten barks. and one ship
from South American and West India ports
Messrs COioney & Talbot recently closed a
contract for $1,000 acres Of land in Sumter
county TO a colony from Duluth, Minnesota.
The land is on the route of the FlOrifa South
ern Railroad, between Orlando and Tampa.
and $1,000 acres of i has lake fronts. The set
tlement will be named Suwannee Land Park.
Tallahassee FtoTidian; LAST Saturday Mr.
George Lewis pulled two LeCOnte pears from
n AAuU 6AOHAAAE III Ills ldEu Auhl tEllbot any
thing we ever saw Ia the pear line. When Mr..
Lewis exhibited the smallest pear a gentleman
asked him IL he was raising gOurds. One
measured 10 by 1016 inches in circumference.
and the other II by ll14, and weighed Il
ounces
E T. Cicero, an aged colored elder Of the
Baptist Church at Pensacola. and residing on
| the Naval Reserve, fell asleep on Thursday
night before extinguishing his candle, which by
| some means came IN contact with his bed cloth
| ing. He was awakened by the smoke and flame,
| which almost enveloped him, but before he
/ could get out OF bed he was so badly burned
that he died from the effects OF his injuries on
/ Saturday.
The principal Office Of the Florida Fish Oil
| and Fertilizer Company, recently organized,
| will be located at Tallahassee. The company
/ will probably establish their works at some
point on the Gulf coast between 81. Marks am
Apalachicola. The establishment Of this en-
| terprise on the adjacent coast will doubtless
| create lively competition with those already
| engaged in the business there, and thus enable
/ Middle Fioridians to obtain fertilizers at rea-
/ sOnable rates.
| A S. Abel, editor and proprietor Of the Bal
/ timOTe sum- last winter bought large lot on
/ the northwest corner Of Adams and Newman
/ streets Jacksonville, AMI has arranged through
| Ellis & Mcclure, architects. to have three cot
| tages built thereon with ell the modern i'm
prOvements including hot AMI cold water con
| veniences- Mr.. A. G. Lee has secured the CON
/ tract for building them, and Is now proceeding
/ with the work. These cottages have been all
| leased for a term Of years.
The Internal improvement Board Of Florida
/ is in funds to meet all demands againstlt This
] is a c0nsummation long wished for For the
| last twenty years this fund has been heavily
| embarrassed by debt, and a few years ago it
| was considered insOlvent, and its relief, with
/ OUT the sacrifice Of the entire fund, was con-
/ sidered well nigh impossible. But Governor
/ BlOxham and the board have solved the prob
4 lem, and the debt is now paid
Col. J. c. Gibbes Of Quincy has recently
| completed a survey Of the Chattahoochee and
l East Pass Railroad from ChattshOOcheee to
/ Csrrabelle a dstancs Of 20 miles, Sixteen miles
j Of this road extending north from Chatta-
| tahOOchee are already under contract and the
| work progressing rapidly. The contract for
| grading the remaining fourteen miles neces-
/ sary To make the connection at Climax, on the
/ Savannah Florida and Western Railway, will
/ be let on the 9th, aud Il Is intended to have
/ this thirty miles built and in operation By the
/ time the p nsacola and Atlantic Railroad is
/ completed.
Early Tuesday morning a colored man,
/ name unknown. attempted TO steal ride on
! the passenger train bound from Jacksonville
| to Tallahassee When about half way between
| Houston and Live Oak he was discovered on
| the platform Of one of the coaches by train
| hand who put him OF while the train was IN mo-
| ton In falling o. of the unfortunate mans
legs fell upon the rail, and the wheel OF the car
| passed over and almost entirely cut 1t OF.
/ The affair was reported to the inward bound
! passenger train. and that train picked the man
I IN and brought him TO Lake City, where the
lee was ampgtated. 1t is thought that he will
not recover.
| Col Koerner. Chief Engineer of Sir Edward
| Reefs system of railroads, was in Jscksonville
| 1T,,osdav He savs that while surveying a
| route extending the present Fernandina and
| Jacksonville Railroad IN an air line 70 slatlon
! No , on the Macon and brunswick RsIiroau-
I NOT long since. he had occasion to pass ever
| that portion living between Waverly river and
| White Oak river. TO use his own language:
] Il encountered substance which was too
/ hard to swim through, and too sort TO walk
over, and having left my Sunday wings at
/ home il was impossible 10 ny over II, There
fore I had to go around it, proceeding thirty
| five miles to reach my objective point. only
| one mile away"
On Sunday last, about noon. on Zarragossa
| street. near its western terminus, tragedy
/ was enacted between John Kelly, white, AMI
| Henry Green, cOlOred, in which the former
| plunged his knife into the heart Of the latter
/ killing him outright. It appears that the par
| ties met Kelly accompanied by his Wlfe) on
| the narrow plank way or bridge that expands
! WashwOmanis Branch. when Green, very much
/ under the inf lence Of liquor, demeaned him
/ self in a most uncivil and uncalled tor man.
| ner in action as well as speech, towards ooth
/ Kelly and his wife. After passing, however,
! angry glances, if not words, were exchanged,
/ which caused Green to return aud commence
/ the assault, terminating as above stated.
| The Tallahassee FToridian says: "A few days
| ago we received the following postal card, with
| a request to publish: Winston, n. c., July 1,
| Is Ss2.-Dear sir: 1 have in my possession the
| prayer- book and diary OF Bernard McLeer, a
member Of Company +, Eighth Florida Regi-
/ II am Of his family or friends will send me
/ their address / will take pleasure in forward
/ ing Very respectfully, Paul w. Crutchheld ;
/ This company was commanded by Capt. II. L.
| Simmons. Of fernando county, and the muster
/ rolls now in possession OF Judge J 7. Bernard,
/ of this city. show that Bernard McLeer was en-
/ listed at Fernandina, and mat IN January,
/ 1868, he was reported in hospital at Rich
mond."
! It appears that the report which has been
| circulated that yellow fever exists at Cedar
i Kew is without truth DR.. Knight. of Jack
| sonville left for Cedar Key on Monday morn
I iua for the purpose of investigating the truth
| IN tha report and returned to Jacksonville
| Tuesday, with the following report as the re-
suit of his examination Il have just re-
| turned from Cedar Key. During the past
/ sixty days there have been three deaths, on
/ Wav Key and Atsena-Otie Key, two white and
| one colored. One OF these was confined in his
| he'd seventeen days, one twenty-five days, and
| one nineteen days Each OF these cases was
/ a rsed bv impure water from surface
/ TeUs There Is one case now under treatment,
! same type of fever and same cause, all typhoid
| in character Visited and examined carefully
| last named case"
! the following civil appointments have been
made bv the Governor and duly commissioned
tbe pas5 week: Alfred s. Campbell, 10 be
County Commissioner IN and Tor the county or
Orange: J. Grady to be q member of the
Of Health IN anu AOE AAAC Glly VI q 4Da-
| iscbicoIa. James W Fleming, to be Notary
Public in and for the county Of fernando; +.
| K simmons, of Escambia county, to be Notary
| Public IN and for the state at large; John ..
pio. 70 bs Justice of the Peace in
and for the county OF Escambia;
| Wsr.haiI Morton. to be County Commissioner
| in and for the county OF Hernando;, oliver W.
Rronvell Of Duval county, to be Notary Pub
| IL in and for the state at large; John Z.
| SNOWFALL. to be Justice Of the Peace in and for
the county of Nassau; A. L. Lopez to be
in and for fn9 CITY Of ST
! A1,oustine. w 4. Gray, to be Inspector of
| TiriSer and Lumber N and for the county OF
! Nassau: John G. ward. TO be Inspector OF
Timber ana LumOer in and for tue county OF
/ Santa Rosa.
MANATEE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Democratic meetIng-AII for David
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