Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-02
Florida Affairs.


man named Nelson Floyd carelessly left his
pistol within reach OF his children. One of
them, little f1ve-year-old boy, got hold of il,
and in playing with it shot his two-year old
brother, killing him instantly.
The recent rains in the vicinity OF Orange
Lake has played havoc with the public roads
in that section, rendering many of them inn
passable.
At Mr. Quarterman' s store, in Millwood, they
have Gagged a six-foot rattlesnake. He is a
watchful sentinel. and gives notice of the ap
prOach Of anyone INTO the store by vigorously
shaking his bunch Of rattles.
Mr.. P. B. Perry, Sr.. County Commits ioner
Of Sumter county, at his residence near Sum
JeTville on Sunday last went into his stable to
gather eggs, and was shortly afterwards found
lnsensib'e, with two severe fractures in his
skull, supposed to have been produced by the
kick Of his horse He is in a critical condition
and remains insensibie.
A party from Minnesota have entered !, ,45O
acres Of land between lakes Minnehaha and
Minnecola, and expect to build a town.
In the yard of Mrs. W. c. Brown, at Tampa,
is growing three-year-old mango tree, loaded
with fruit.
The Tampa girls are adopts in the art Of
rowing, and most of them can swim like fish.
A report has reached Tampa that the
steamer Big sun Flower. on her way round the
peninsula, and intended to ply on the st
Johns, foundered in the Gulf off Clear Water
Harbor day or two ago.
The Sumterville Times is On'y six months Of
age. and has one thousand subscribers.
Washington Eddy, charged with the assassina-
ton of Mr.. Osteen, near Sanderson few weeks
since. appeared before Judge Vann at ldisOn
Saturday, and applied for a writ of haheas
corpus. through his attorney, B. H. Palmer.
Mr.. W. A. MahOney, Superintendent Of
Schools for Nassau county, gives notice that
the Board OF Public instruction will examine
teachers in school room No. IN Fernandina
on the 2sd inst, and again on the second
Wednesday in September.
At the request # the citizens of Gainesville,
Governor Bloxham appointed on Friday last
Drs J. F McKinstry. n. D. Phillips and J. d.
Cromwell and Iis ssrs. j a. Carlisle and ID. Z.
Day. q Board Of Health.
a Sunday School convention will be held in
Fernandina on the 23d instant. a mass meet
ing Of all the city schools will be held at the
Presbyterian Church at half-past seven p m.
on same day.
An orange tree with considerable fruit on it
was shipped from Ocala last week by Messrs.
(. W. Agnew & Co to Willimantic Linen Com.
pany, Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. N. J. Bryant has disposed Of her hand
some orange grove in Yalaha to Mr.. Whedon,
of New York, for $1,000.
During the month of July there were 13
deaths in Jacksonville against 19 for the same
month last year, and p in 1881 Six of these
were white and seven colored. Five were over
30 years of age. Seven were natives Of Florida
one of New York, one OF Pennsylvania. one of
Maine, one OF G eorgia, one of South Carolina
and one unknown.
There were entered at the custom house at
the port of Jacksonville for the month OF July,
1882, one foreign vts sci OF o. tons and twenty
two cOastwise vessels, whose total tonnage is
5293 The amount Of lumber shipped coast
wise 4, To-, 40 feet, crOssties 100 feet;
amount of lumber shipped to foreign ports
l36, ,75l feet; whole number of seamen employ
e1 $50.
SltnIand Tribnne: THE epidemic of break
bone fever Is still prevailing in this community,
ana probably in the course OF a week or ten
days more will have entirely subsidized for lack
of material. Il has already got through with
the troops in the garrison, nearly all of whom
had it. Not single death from it has occurred,
and this should be convincing evidence to out
siders, If any is needed that it is not yellow
fever, SIS has been reported, we understand, IN
some localities in the country"
Viii e coming up the bay on her last trip,
between Manatee and Tampa, an alarm of fire
was sounded on board the Cochran; smoke
was seen issuing from the hold, and con
siderable panic ensued. but the officers acted
with great prOmptitude and presence of mind,
particularly the mate, Frank Hall, who went
down into the hold, and, after a search, found
the cause OF the fire TO be a box containing
acid shipped from Savannah and consigned 10
Dr. F, Branch, Which had ignited. The box
was at once thrown overheard, thus preventing
the loss of the steamer and cargo, and perhaps
a great loss of life also. This Is the c1nd
time this steamer has come very near being
burnt in exactly the same manner.
There are now about two hundred hands ct
WORK n the Jacksonville and st Augustine
Railroad. and the grading is being pushed for
ward as rapidly as circumstances will permit.
The amount Of grading finished is as follows
Fourteen and one-half miles from Jackson Vile.
three and one-fourth miles from the nine mile
post toward the city, then from the terminus
of the shell road, three miles out. The balance
of the right of way has been cut, and the
grading vii. be finished in a short time The
contract for the croSsties, and the wharf op-
pOsite Jacksonville. have been awarded, and
The iron has been Orcere'. The officers Of the
road are working energetically, aud the grading
has been done in the most thorough and sub
stautial manner.