Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-08
Florida Affairs.

General James II. Lane, recently Principal
Of the Cape Fear Military Academy in VIII
mington n. c., has been elected President of
the West Florida Seminary, at Tallahassee.
Merit jackson colored, will be hung in Fer
nandina August 4th.
Putnam county public schools had an ave
rage attendance Of 1900 pupils the past scho-
lastic year.
A band Of gypsies have encamped round
about Tallahassee, and are doing good bust
| ness among the Leon county negroes, telling
their fortunes at one dollar per head.
The Waldo cigar factory. recently started
under the proprietorshtp Of w. Entenza. lately
OF Havana, is doing good business, and en-
ploYs twenty-five hands in the manufacture Of
cigars.
The new town of Astabula, which is the
orisinal name of Lake Harris, in Orange
county, has been founded by Mr.. Edgar D.
Miller of Newark. New Jersey. and his asso-
ciates.
a few days ago notice was made in this col
umn Of the death of Mrs Jones. from the mis-
take Of a blunderlng drugyist who put upa
prescription OF tartar emetic instead of caIomel
Her husband. Mr.. James D. Jones. died at
starke a few days ago. 1t is thought that the
The crop reports from Alaehui, Madison,
Columbia, Levy Volusia and Marion counties
are quite encouraging The acreage in corn
in those counties has been increased over last
year, and its condition is on an average from
ten to twenty-five per cent. better than it was
last season.
The town OF Mcanopy has within its corpo-
rate limits one hundred and fifty acres
in orange groves, and within a radius of five
miles not less than one THOUSAND acres Of
orange trees scent the air with their fragrance.
The drainage Of Payne's prairie by the Mi
canopy and BrOOksville Railroad Company
will reclaim about forty thousand acres of
land incomparably fertile. end will shorten the
line OF the road between the points above
named by several miles.
Prof A o. Wright. formerly Principal OF the
Pensacola Public Schools, has accepted a posi-
ton on the staff of the Jacksonville Daily
Times
By the decision Of the Supreme Court Of
Florida no man has power to dispose of his
homestead by will. 1t belongs to the heirs and
the wife, provided that the wife within a year
renounces under the will and elects to take her
dover II she does not do this, she takes
nothing under will, and tue whole of the
homestead goes to the children. So the court
interprets the constitution Of 1868.
A street sprinkler is one of the latest addi-
tions to the comfort Of the dwellers of Penn
sacola.
The Sumter county authorities have offered
a reward of $3.50 for the arrest of the two
Whiddens. murderers, dead or alive.
The amount Of licenses collected and paid in
g. a.
of the present year is S66 236 g. as against
S51 .s9s Il for the same time in 1881, and
S99.C69 "a in 1850.
Florida is without floating debt The war.
rants issued by the Comptroller are pail on
demand
Mr. J. w Barclay, OF Jacksonville, has pro-
cured forty thousand eggs OF the Jal anese
silk-worm and begun the raising of silk-worms.
He has already grown the mOr1ts alba ana
Ossge orange for food.
Dade county hss never had a court to meet
in it since its organization years ago.
A party OF thirteen sturdy farmers from Con-
coTdia, Cloud county, Kansas. passed through
Jacksonville this week on their way to Marion
c0uutY.
''Pefore the colOred folks broke up their de- !
batting society At Jasper. says the Times this
question was up for debate: Am fire more
gained it had not sable member on the other
side thrown this bombshell: Ell il hadn't been |
fer iron de white folks would er bin lickin de |
niggers tel yit. "
OF Si,2:5 O10 OF Florida's bonded debt $685.
800 were held by private parties at the report |
Of tie Comptroller last January. Siuce that |
time It has been reduced TO $4,000 The hal |
ance is held by the State as express trusts for |
the school aud seminary, agricultural and sink |
ing fund The interest on the bon s is re21l- !
larry paid yearly and semi annually.
At Jacksonville. on Tuesday afternoon a /
colOred man. by the name OF Cornelius Wilson. |
Uas drowned in the river between Baya's and /
richardson's wharves, in the rear Of the post /
ofi,e Wilson was in a boat and partly intoxi |
Gated when his hat blew of. He jumped into |
the water after the hat, and at once sank to |
the bottom His body was recovered about an !
hour afterwards and turned over to his father |
for burial. Wilson was about twenty-one years |
of age.
The corner stone Of Mt. Zion Baptist Church |
(cOlOredl, in Pensacola, on Alcaniz street, be- /
tween Wright and Gregory, which was laid /
with appropriate Masonic honors by Eureka /
Lodge No. (colored) F. and NJ. on the 26th /
ult. was on Saturday night. rem owed and |
robbed of its entire contents. The stone vas 1
recovered near SotO's store corner of Govern
ment and Alcaniz streets, but the box contain
ing the highly priced contents was carried
away.
Pensacola Commercial. I'VE take great
pleasure in heralding the advent to this CITY OF
the Caldwell Boiler Works. MesSrs. Caldwell
& Co, of Detroit. Mich, are now. we under
stand, en- route for this place with all the neces
sary implements, machinery, etc, for the
OF marine aud Stationary boilers,
turpentine and oil TANKS. smokestacks, etc
They also prep lse 20 repair all kinds of such
Suitable quarters have already
been selected. and this important acquisition
10 our manufacturing interest is expected to
be in full blast. with pay roll sggregating
3 COO monthly to start on, by the 20th inst"
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A sure cure for impoverished blood, PIN
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