Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-14
Florida Affairs.

lAst tuesday. II uprooted trees, overturned
bulldogs and did much other damage.
The cotton crop of Florida for 1881 averaged
higher than that Of any other State, being 90
per cent OF a full crop.
The United States Court for the Southern
District Of Florida convened at Tampa Mon
day ]. W. Locke, Judge, presiding.
Rev. Mr.. Hill. Of Mariana, recently had $17
stolen from him
There were shipped last week from Key
West to Galveston 451 crates Of tomatoes and
1,436 crates to New Orleans.
Mr.. Menges killed near Fort Meade, few
days since. six alIigators at one shot
Sophia Robinson, colored, left her child
asleep in her house. near Tallahassee. Tuesday
last, and went to the spring to wash clothes.
She returned an hour afterwards and found
her baby burned to death.
Sections Il, 12, 13. Ia. Is. IS. 19. 90, 81 Of
the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad. are all
almost completed. On several of these sec
TORS nothing but leveling the top dressing is
necessary.
The village OF Manatee is the oldest settle
ment on the northwest coast and has passed
through many difficulties and dangers peculiar
to the history of most frontier settlements.
The vote in Marion county. on the 1st inst.
was Overwhelmingly against the issue of
county bonds for the purpose Of erecting new
public buildings.
On the 1st inst. during a thunderstorm in
Orange county, the BaY Spring Presbyterian
Church. rear Umatilla, was prostrated and
several other stfuc' 'ures were Injured.
A schooner with over 3'0 tons OF railroad
iron for the Southern Florida Railroad was ex-
pected at Palatka last week.
The exports from Pensacola for the month
OF February were: Vessels cleared, 20; ton
mage. 1882; exports, 649,373 cubic feet of
hewn timber (or 2, ,792. .476 feet. board measure);
919 695 cubic feet of sawn timber (or II ,036 352
feet board measure). and 9294,O ,OCO feet of lum
ber-msking grand total Of exports of 49,
i22, ,s2S feet, board measure, OF timber and lum-
Der.
An aged colored preacher living in Volusia
county has lost his orange grove by the forest
fire iend. Mr. W. S. Norwood, of the same
county. also lost his grove of two hundred
trees in the same way few days since.
The Palatka and Indian River Railway have
let the contract for ten miles of their road.
commencing at the point to which the road is
now greded-about ten miles east of Buffalo
Bluff
Pensacola is about to lose the shops of the
Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad through the
obstinscy of the City Council. Milton offers to
donate land to the company to erect shops upon
in thattowh, and the probability is that the
shops win be located at Milton.
The City Council of Tallahassee has reduced
salaries as follows: Mayor from $500 to $500.
Clerk and Treasurer from S275 to $175, Assessor
from $50 to SIS. The Marshal is paid $50 per
month and per cent. on all collections; police
SIS per month.
Florida has s7.OOO Sabbath school scholars.
The totaltax OF Hillsborough county assessed
for 1881 was $4,000. of which 500 is uncol-
lected.
Manatee c,unty has 1891 bearing orange
trees which yielded last year 2,COOO0O, valued
at $4,000.
Corn is sixteen inches high in HiIlsborough
county.
The Catholic Fair in St. Augustine lass week
netted f524 60.
A lodge of the Knights Of Honor has been
organized in Leesburg.
Now comes the news of a sixty-room hotel to
be erected during the summer at Lake Eustis.
Unon the organization OF a stock company
for the purpose OF peTfecting and carrying out
al the arrangements for new ceT etery in
Fernaudina, Hon. l.. Yulee offers to donate
eight screS Of land and one thOusa d dollars
provided the citizens will raise another to be
added to il for improvement of the grounds.
Dr. J. Henion, OF Rochester, N. Y, with
other capitalists. have purchased thirty acres
of ground near Lake Eustis. upon which is 10
be erected a sanitarium, with frontage Of 300
feet with two wings 80 feet in length. The
view from the grounds is a magnificent one,
overlooking Lakes Gertrude, Dora aud Beau
clair.
A short distance below Leno, Columbia
c1unty a cOlOred woman recently locked up in
her house her three small children two of them
young twins. hid the key under the house and
went 10 the field TO work; had done but little
when she discovered her house on fire, and
fastened 10 it, but was too late. The fire had
done its work.
Fernandina Express, 18th inst: 1.-The work
Of demOlshing the walls OF the old DuDgenesS
mansion preparatory to commencing work on
the new was commenced on the 9th inst.
Blasting powder is being used in the work We
cannot but regret the destruction OF the old
ruins, even though q fer finer structure Will
take their place"
Sanford Journal 9Th inst: "a ride through
our county shows thousands Of panels Of fence
burned up, and in some instances yOnng groves
almost ruined The woods for miles and miles
are dive sted Of everything green. and present
6 scare Z, charred, desolabe aspect but there is
a law of our State that permits the burning,
and those who suffer have no redress, and sim
ply have 70 grin and bear it.
Tallahassee FTorididn: The Pisgah Method
ist Church (white), near Centreviile in this
county, has been robbed three tines within
the past few months Of boz ks. lamps, an organ
stool and other valuable articles The thieves,
Timothy Kenny. Moses Hill and Major Q1aSh.
al cOlored were finally caught. and confessed
10 all the theftS. They were arraigned before
Justice J. B. Conner, convicted. and each SEN
fenced to sixty days on the chein gang and
fined fifty dollars. Some young girls were i'm
plicated in these outrageous thefts, but on ac-
count of their age and mitigating circum-
stances they were fined one dollar and costs. >
There has been discovered in the lower part
Of Wakulla county, near the locality Of the
famous Florida volcano, what is supposed to be
oil flowing Gus Of crevice between two rocks.
Some OF the prominent citizens of Tallahassee
became interested in the matter and had an
araly sis and geological survey msde. the re-
suits Of which we're deemed sufficiently en-
couraging to induce them to form company
aud purchase all the lands ac cjscent thereto
The members OF the company" says the Tai
L1hdssee Land Of FlO1CerS, will meet next Mon
day to incorporate and take steps leading to
the developmenfOf the discovery, of which we
will say more in the future"
Jacksonville Union, 18th: Yesterday morn
ing about four O'Clock a man by the name of
Albert Schidroth killed himself in one of the
rooms over BergmanS saloon by taking strych
nine He come 10 this Stale about five weeks
ago with his family. consisting of his wife and
three children, and settled at DeLand. He re-
turned TO this city on last Friday and told some
Of his acquaintances that, owing to domestic
troubles, he had decided to leave his family.
He took rooms over Mr.. Bergman's saloon,
where he remained until yesterday morning.
About two hours before his death Mr.. Berg
man heard him cry out with pain. He went
into the room and proposed TO send for a doc
tor bus SchiidrOth objected. After remaining
in the room a short time Mr.. Bergman retired.
hut returned at four O'Clock ana found him
dead"
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