Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-11
Florida Affairs.

Florida Affairs.
AS another evidence of the fact that the
prosperity Of Jacksonville rests on a more
solid foundation than that of being a mere
winter city, we learn from Messrs Scoville &
Lee, proprietOrs Of the Duval House, that iu
future this hotel will be kept open in summer
as well as winter This is a new departure in
Jacksonville, as heretofore none of the first
class hotels have remained open during the
summer In a short time extensive improve
ments and additions will be made both to the
Interior and exterior Of the building, which
will make it complete in all the comforts an1
| convenienees appertaining to a f1rst-class
/ hotel. We cannot name these changes in de-
| tail. but they are so MANY and so marked that
when completed the house will no longer be
the old Duval but should be chris'ened the
new DuvaI. Messrs. hcoville & Lee are both
young men and Georgians, ami we note with
pleasure their success in our sitter city.
| Our Blackshear correspondent reports that
/ on last Thursday. CO ored boy named Willie
| johnson. aged thirteen, who lived on the
place of Mr. JOS s. Wilson, tried to fire a pis-
tol 1t snapped, and he turned it round to look
down the barrel, when it fired, sending the
bullet through his heart killing him instantly.
! Mr. Russell, the millman, is building a rail
road from Olustee 70 Lake Butler, to transport
/ logs for his mills.
| Out OF 1900 cross ties delivered to the new
railroad at Live Oak by Mr.. A. johnson,
| the past week, only five were rejected.
farmer at Welborn says he purchased
eleven sacks OF fertilizer in Savannah January
10Th. and it was shipped the day following, and
arrived at WeIborn March oath.
Columbia county has fi;ty-four public
schools forty for white children and fourteen
for colored. The daily average attendance of
pupils in these schools is !, ,1s6. The cost of
these schools is S2.744
ack laying has commenced on the Live
| Oak and Rowland's Bluff Railway, and in
week there will be four miles Of the track laid.
The Tax Collector OF Leon county has set
tied in full with the Comptroller the taxes for
| 1881.
Six thousand red snsppers were brought into
Pensacola on the Sd instant.
| Common laborers ara paid 81 per day and
board In fernando county; carpenters from 81
to g.
The "w. B. Nichols is a new locomotive just
received By the Florida Southern Railway.
County scrio in Jackson county is down 10
! forty cents on the dollar.
The old Tallahassee gas works were sod the
past week for s5). They were abandoned at
the commencement of the late war
The farmers Of Leon county are ordering
| improved agricultural implements to till their
soil with and supply the place OF laborers who
have left the county.
Live Oaks Postmaster sold during January
February and March s44l worth of stamps. and
registered 215 letters. besides issuing money or
| ders representing s6.s74 "a. and paying orders
| amounting TO Sl,147 76
| PensacoIa's Loan and Building Association
his already loaned cut to eleven Of IT'S stock
| holders s5sOn. upon which It has made
| profit Of $3.50 premium and S65 interest The
| restitution was organized about three months
| ago
Sheriff Cone captured in Volusia county on
/ the 1st inst. & man bv the name OF Shall, who
| hsd been manufacturing aod passing counter
felt money. He is now safe in Jail at Sanford
| Il is reported that be has put about $1,000 in
| circulation in VOlusia county.
Ben. Dickens became involved in a difficulty
Inst Saturday at Mariana with his wife. whom
fault Of a two hundred dollar bond he was
committed to jail. md now awaits trial at the
next term Of the Superior Court.
The exhibition hall at the Mariana Fair
Grounds has been taken down in order to give
wsy tO the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad.
| The Courier says it will be re-erected south
west OF the former place, whereby the grounds
ard building will he entirely separate from the
| line of the railroad.
A young machinist nv the name Of Samuel
Wester, employed at Murphv's machine shop.
on Fast Bay street, Jacksonville had his right
| foot badly mashed on Saturday while rolling a
car wheel from The Fernandina and Jackson
Vile Railroad wharf to the machine shop. The
| wheel passed entirely over the foot, brlising
and otherwise injuring it.
Jacksonville Union: Captain William II.
KeaHriel has recently returned from an
extended trip through Marion, Sumter.
| Hillsborough. Polk and Manatee counties.
where he went for the purpose of selecting
large lot OF United States Internal Improve
/ ment School anf Disston lands Captain Ken
| drcE has been down as far as Charlotte Har-
bor and on Pesce creek He saws that the
/ drought extends all through Southern Florida,
and many of the farmers have rot planted
their crops vet. Notwithstanding the drought.
| the orange trees are in splendid condition. and
| an immense crap is expected next season."
Marianns Courier: Work on the railroad is
progressing very satisfactorily at ChattahoO-
chez and on all points Of the line. Mr.. Curtis
began work at SamsOn's Ian ling with a c0nsid-
| cradle force last week ann is pushing ahead
/ verv rapidly. The Intention is to lay a few
| hupdred feet of track by the end of next week
| for the reception OF = train which now lies
/ loaded with iron. fish bars. ard the track lay
| ing machine. at Louisville. Ky. IL will come
/ by rail to ChattahoOchee, thence foated down
| the river to SIMPSONS Landing barge,
where it will be put on the Pensacola and At
4 id0ElC LFaCks trdGk viii De lalQ as AdSL as tue
i grading is completed"
| Philsdelphia Record: "a letter was forward
al 70 Secretary Crew. Of the Society to Protect
/ Chil1ren from Cruelty. indirectly from a lady
| st HATS Road. Florida. relating the arrival
| and suspicious surroundings of a little boy who
/ she believes belongs in Philadelphia She nsks
1 that her name be withheld from the public.
and says: 'He was brought here by two men.
i who say their names are 'Husten'-an old man
i whom the little boy calls Grandpa and
i Young man who says he is the father. The
| Young man returned at once to Philadelphia,
| or at least left here. The old man is still here
| with the child. and the child is sick and
| starving but for the care Of the neighbors.
/ The writsr then goes on to describe how the
| boy is abused She says that he is half starved
| and is compelled to beg The little fellow has
| often complained Of his lot, saying that he
wished his mother knew where he was, for she
would come after him; but when questioned he
trembe. and becomes frightened, refusing to
answer When food is given him he invariably
carries IL to the old man. The boY hiss often
accidentally dropped remarks that give ground
to the belief that he has been Kidnapped. Mr..
Crew hopes that through publicity he may be
able to find out something about the boy"