Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-14
Florida Affairs.

ton OF her citizens, and the Banner promises
lecture on the subject, which we trust will
effect the desired result
The report Of the County Treasurer Of Ma
rion county shows that there is $685. 20 in Uni
ted States currency in the County Treasury.
Ali the debts have been cauceled. the scrip
taken up. and for the first time in thirty years
the county is back to a gold and silver basis.
A correspondent of the Tampa Guardian,
writing from Kansas, says: Eight families
from here are selling out and preparing to
move 70 Florida in September next"
Micanopy has shipped. during the past sea
son, fifteen thousand boxes of oranges and
thirty-nine thousand crates Of vegetables.
man was put in the DeLand jail last week.
Re broke out, hunted up the Mayor of that in
| cipient Saratoga and paid his fine.
The Orlando Masons have so far completed
their new hall that they will dedicate it on Sat
urday, June cath.
| Orange City is a six-year-old town and has
nine stores, ard is constantly improving.
Rev. F. Pasco, Of Monticello, has been Sc
lected as the Florida Corresponding Editor of
the Wesleyan Christian AdUOcdte, the official
organ Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South in Georgia and Florida
The cattle trade is booming on the Gulf
coast. Twelve hundred head passed through
Key West last week.
Key West is in melting mood over eight
and a half pounds pineapples, the growth Of
the present crop in that vicinity.
Seven cargoes of rock to be used en- the jet.
ties. are on their way for Jacksonville
There are now about sixty laborers at work
on the Jacksonville, st. Augustine and Halifax
Riger Railroad.
Mrs. E. L GetcheIl, wife Of Col W. Getchen,
OF jacksonville. died at 9:4i o'clock Monday
night. from an accidental overdose of NOR
/ phine. AT the time the drug was taken Mrs.
Gefchen was alone in her room, and when
/ found was in a stupor and remained so until
her death.
! TIE last appropriation of Sl25.O-O for con
>tTucting jstties at the mouth of the st. Johns
river is nearly exhausted, and it is probable
the work will cease about the 4th OF July.
/ The drunken freaks of two men in Jackson
vile Saturday night in the third story Of the
/ Ledwith building. came near causing a serious
couhsgration. They threw a lighted kerosene
lamp down stairs to the lower fl lor The op-
/ perfume presence of persons on that floor pre-
/ vented a serious fire.
An amateur naturalist Of Jacksonville, while
attempting to tame a grown rattlesnake, was
bitten on the finger by the reptile Prompt
medical application probably saved his life,
but he has given up the business Of snake
/ tanning
/ There were nineteen cases before the Mayor
! of Jacksonville Monday. the principal charges
being drunk and disorderiy, and only two or
I three were dismissed.
| The Supreme Court of Florida met at Talla-
hassee yesterday at noon in regular session.
The iron drawbridge at Milton has been
swung and trains are passing over it.
w a Patrick has been appointed Postmaster
/ at kissimmee, has sent on his bond, and hopes
/ to have the needed post office in working order
/ in few days. The people of that region need
! post Office.
The Ocala Banner ssyS: THE crops in the
/ northern part of Marion county are simply
| splendid. A great deal of corn is planted and
/ il promises heavy yield The cotton crop. too.
is good II the other parts OF the county are
| making as good a showing then the farmers
| have prosperous times ahead
A post Office with a daily mail has been es-
| tablished at the new village Of Emporia, and
| MIR Robert Jones is Postmaster. The town now
| has a general store, steam saw and planning
/ mill, blacksmith shop. etc; also a five hundred
| dollar school house under way, and other inn
/ provements are contemplated.
! The Tampa Guardian says: Pensacola
| offers inducements for the following manufac-
| turing industries. viz: A cotton factory. cot
| ton compress, cotton seed oil mill, glass
/ works. wOolrn mills a tannery, sash and blind
| factories. a fish-drying est lbShment a tur-
| pent ne still manufactory. and indeed, facto-
/ ries of all sorts and descriptions"
Orlando Reporter Nine head of John
Laniar's cattle were killed by lightning in Joe
! Halls pen, on Shingle creek, one morning last
! week Mr. Halls family had but just left the
| pen when the electric fluid struck pine tree
| which stood inside the pen. with the result
I vi a
| a wholesale slaughter OF beef"
The Big Sunfo,Yer is ct the navy yard. Pen
| s,c0ia taxing q cargo of steel rails for ChCc-
| tawhatchie river. This is the last to go TO that
l point. as the rails now at Half Noon Bluff, on
| the above river, and at the Apalachcola river
/ end of the line will build the road east of the
! Choc awhatchie. while Colonel Lane is push
! ing along west of the same river.
DIR Tully. OF the Ocean Street Presbyterian
| Church at Jacksonville, last Sunday preached
/ a sermon in the course of which he made the
| statement that out of a population of lOOJO in
| tie city OF Jacksonville not 1,5OO Of them at
tended church on SUNDAY last; ana adde1 mat mat
I at least seven-eighths OF the city s population
/ are never reached by the pulpit, the press, or
any other educative and civilizing II Ifuence.
Florida Dispatch. From what we can
| learn the average in oranges. lemons, pineap-
/ Piles etc. will be largely Increased throughout
| The county during the year. There were nearly
[ one thousand transfers made in our county the
| mast YEAR ending March lst but yet there are
| many eligible sites for groves, and we trust as
/ many more will seek homes among us and
start their groves this summer and fall as have
settled among us the past year"
The editor Of the sumteiville Times received
the following on q postal card thrOu h the post
/ Office: In the Swamp June lSS9.-Mr Shecut
| editor of the Sumterville Times sur Yu adver-
tis me in yure id Gle sheet fur murdurer
an ak the County commissioners to civ a price
fur my he'd and my suns ded or alive II yu
make them du il an IL yu put my nam in yure
id ole paper agin or my trends will slip
r0un and blow yure - d ole braues out
Now tax warnn if yu valu yure life. sur as
du va ar a ded man-JOhn Whidden." Whd-
| cen il an outlaw. having recently committed
/ 1libl0Oded murder In Sumter county.
The Tallahassee Land Of FIO,rers says: "Mr
| J B. Collins showed us last week ample of
bird guano from his lately discovered guano
! bed in Hillsborough county. South Florida.
The be d covers an area of five acres, and is
about eight feet in the deposit Millions
and millions OF sea birds cougrePate
there every night to rsoss, and have been been
deposit appears to be as rich in fertizing quail
I ties as any Peruvian, and Mr. Collins has sent
I on samples TO the Agricultural Department at
| Washington 70 be aaalyzed. If it proves as
good as appearances indicate, Mr. Collins has
an easy fortune within his grasp, as one of the
| South lorida railroads VIII run within ABOUT
half mile OF the place OF deposit. PIT 1,ol-
Inns has already refused one thousand dollars
for one acre Of the land"
Speaking of Irish potatoes cultivated in
/ FIorf a. Monticello comes to the front. 8he
/ Constitution says. 'MesSFs Bird & JaQuot. on
7 their model farm near Monticello on the 18th
! OF February planted seven-eighths of an acre
! tsctual measdre) in Irish potatoes, and on the
! i-th Of May made their first shipment OF
I twenty-five barrels to g. l. Lawrence, of New
| Yo-k aud they were sold by that reliable mer-
Z chant for $50 and netted the shippers $50 -.
| on last Monday the parties made their sec nd
shipment Of fifteen barrels, which are OF the
| Burbank Seeding variety, and average better
thau the first lot and il is safe to say that they
I nm net the same as realized from the first lot,
/ IS 90 per barrel, which wi amount TO $54
! which makes a net income from this seven
I eighths Of an acre Of Sl4i l3-and this is equal
! 90 Sl66 per acre
4 eorrespendent OF the Key Of tie Guf,
| writing from Caloosahatchie river in reference
I 10 the Disston drainage scheme, now being
l opsrated upon at the heaowaters or the Caloo-
| sshatchie river, SAYS: The dreoge IS at WORK
I and il doing very excellent work The stream
OF water is gaining force every daY, and when
he ditch II call It ditch. for il is only twenty
| feet wheel nears Lake OkeechObes, we may
/ look for a rush Of water that will astonish the
! natives This will doubtless enlarge the chan
/ mel to a great extent but not enough TO nave
| any visible effect on the great lake IL viii re-
| ouire ten such cuts to carry cf the single
! str-am from the Kissimmee. without touching
| the waters flowing from Fisheattng Creek,
/ Istokpoga. etc. Il is the general opinion here