Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-17
Florida Affairs


st, Pauls Church, Jacksonville. Januarv 2
1888, Bishop Kavanaugh presiding.
Some thief at large in Florida has been rep
resenting himself as the son Of Br.H. ]. Smith.
OF Blackshear, Ga, and some OF his nnisdeeds
having been published in the Jacksonville
Union giving the fact that he claimed to he
lhe son OF the gentleman named, Dr. Smith
mas written to the editor denouncing the i'm
postor, and denying any relationship. The
thief IS undoubtedly tramp, who lives upon
the reputation Of good citizens.
The Governor Of Florida has issued his
proclamation, recommending Thursday. the
'Oth OF November, as a day Of Thanksgiving.
prayer and praise.
MAJOR Vogalbach has returned from New
York toGreen Cove Springs, and has announced
that he is fully empowered to settle all de-
mands against the Green Cove Springs and Mel
rose Railroad, and that work on the road will
be Immediately resumed.
An empty mail bag which had evidently been
recently robbed was picked up on last Friday
AFTERNOON by a negro short distance from
Sumterville. 1t was a way mail pouch. and
had been freshly cut
Last year at the county election, when every
vote was brought out, SuutervilIe poIle1 sixty
SIX votes. This year, when the vote fell short
twenty eight Of the registration. the poll was
ninety nine votes-showing a remarkable in
crease in population for the past twelve
months
Inc Lake City Gin Company have a contract
TO prepare long cotton for the use Of the J. &
P Coats Thread Company.
A regular schedule between Chattahoochee
and Mariana, on the Pensacola and Atlantic
Railroad. will go into effect this week.
The editor Of the Starke Telegraph was
candidate for Tax Collector Of the county at
the recent election. We have not been in.
s formed whether he was successful in his aspi-
rations. but suppose not, as in the last issue he
| heads his editorial: Sure Enough, We are a
Busted Community"
The grand jury of suwannee county, in their
recent general presentments, congratulated the
citizens Of the county upon the decrease Of
| crime in the community. They say: "But a
few years ago our dockets were crowded with
criminal cases. Now there are but few. The
people seem to be quiet and attentive to their
| own business"
The orange crop is ripening so much earlier
than usual and so fast being marketed that
there is a likelihood of its being gathered be-
fore the real cold weather sets in. In the parts
/ Of South Florida where the fruit is not in dan
| ger Of being injured by the cold it would doubt
less be an advantage to growers to hold back
their crop for the late market.
| The new court house at Titusville is nearly
| completed, and is quite an improvement to the
pretty little town it adorns.
| Green Cove Springs is rapidly spreading out
| its area, snd the vacant lots in the town are
being adorned by neat residences, which give
evidence Of material progress. The place is
remarkably healthy. the record for the past
month showing no deaths
The Tallahassee Land Of FIOlgers, which was
burned out by the recent fire in Jacksonville,
will soon bloom freshly under the plucky man
agement OF the editor and proprietor. R. Don
Mcleod. who says: Although wrecked by the
fire. the office will be refitted at once and will
be all right soon"
The Indian RiUeT Nel0s is the title Of new
| paper published at Titusville 1t is edited by
Minor s. Jones and JamesS. McCrory.
The expenses of the fall term of the Nassau
court were only $3.50; an economical admins
tration OF justice, suggestive of good govern
ment
The criminal record OF Hamilton county
shows marked improvement during the past
six years. In 1876 there we're thirty-two crimi-
nal cases disposed of in the court, and in 1882
but six. cases, none OF them of a very serious
| nature.
There we're shipped from Cedar Key during
October 370, 600 pounds Of fish, q GOO pounds of
oysters and 2S00O0 oranges.
| The Gadsden county grand jury. in their
| presentment. say that the present term OF the
| Circuit Court has been the shortest OF any in
| the history of the county, and it is a subject
| OF cOngratulatiOn that not only has the con-
| duct OF the people been that of law-abiding
| citizens generally, but the civil docket of our
| court shows that there is but little litigation
| and strife among the people.
Mr.. J. Knapp writes to the Tampa Tribune:
| M. DiSStOu. with his large location OF land in
| this county, has been offered bY one firm in
| New York S25. 600 for the establishment Of a
| farm and school, If he will give / 500 acres of
suitable land for an experimental farm, which
may be made cOnjunctive with the agricultu-
| raj experiment. Both these may be secured
to this county by timely action"
The following civil appointments have been
| made bY the Governor during the past week:
! c. s. BeerbOwer, to be Notary Public in al
| for the county of Orange; N L. Lsngford to
| be Justice Of the Peace in and for the county
| of Monroe; John g. Long, to be Notary Public
| in and for the State-at-large; J. p Roberts, to
| be Justice of the Peace in and for the county
/ OF Wakulla; Alexander Hunt TO be Justice Of
| the Peace in and for the county of Columbia; /;
/ G. d. Bryan. to be County Commissioner in
/ and for the county Of Volusia,
| The Ocala Banner LdcOn has this item Of
4 interest: "Messrs Brown & Mccain have sold
/ their beautiful grove on Orange avenue, one
/ mile from Ocala. for a magnificent sum of
| lucre. The grove consists OF two thousand
| trees, and covers twenty acres and was com.
/ menced in July, 1879, from sour stumps, which
/ were only four years old at that time. After
/ wards nursery was planted among the trees,
/ making il more valuable and realizing profit
| enough to pay the expenses Of the grove. 1t
/ was sold to Mr.. g. W. Green, former -four
/ merchant OF Cairo, Ill, for a, 900 cash. He is
| a newcomer among us, ana intends making
/ his home in our sunny land
| st. Augustine Weekly: zone Of the results of
| our county election cannot but be a subject OF
| cOngratuation to those who have at heart the
/ interest Of the colored race. 1t is well known
/ that not small number of the colored men
/ voted the whole part Of the Democratic
| ticket. This initiatOrY assertion OF their inde
/ pendence Of the political shackies they have
/ hitherto worn as though they were race ne
| cessity, will be a long step to broadening the
| political horizon of he race and making them
| real voters. Not until they show themselves
| as citizens, worthy Of respect, by virtue OF
| their intelligence and independence will they
| receive it from their white fellow c .tizens."