Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-28
Florida Affairs.

1 - ~" PNRDA NaiAoA LII OpDOTtNfttttQ, mas luSL
been started at Key West. Its articles are
written entirely by contributors, who sign
their names and assume all the responsibility
The United States troops stationed at Tampa
are to be moved to Mount Vernon, Ala, and
the Tampa post will probably De abandoned
altogether.
Up to date the present month the revenue
tax collected in the State. not including Key
West, amounts to sI4 $40 %, of which S14, 4O9 so
was the tax on cigars and tobacco. For the
fiscal year ending July 80, 1882. there were col
lected S2S0,27 32, an increase over the year
1881 Of S25, 3S7 SO.
The new town Of Hilliard, on the Wayc -oss
Railroad, is said to be now the most flourish
ire town in Mass au county. This place, at the
time Of the completion of the road. was pine
thicket; now there are a number OF large
houses there and more being erected, good and
comfortable ones, TOO.
4 railroad train will invade the hitherto un o
broken seclusiveness of Walton county by the
middle of August.
| Messrs. Peter Williams, D. 7, Sweeney and L.
W. Pierce expect to plant 10000 cocoanut
trees on MatecOmbie Key, which they have
lately bought. There are over 900 acres of very
i
if they set about improving it.
Seventy-tive additional laborers have been
added to the force on the railroad between
Jacksonville and st. Augustine.
Preserving figs is an important industry at
st. Augustine and also at Jacksonville.
The Governor has. during the pas week, ap-
pointed J. W. Smith, of Gainesville, Notary
Public; E. W. Whitmine Inspector OF Timber
and Lumber at Pensacola; W. E. Dortch, Sur
veyor Of Columbia county; ". P. Horne, Of
Baker county, and VIM. Wagner, of Dade
county. County Commissioners.
In Jefferson county the total number Of
scholars enrolled is ? 25O, and Of this number
there are whites 7O5, colored 1,545. There ere
in the county forty-six schools twenty-six for
whites and twenty for colored.
Six thousand orange trees five years old are
/ being shipped from the Honeymoon nurseries
i to Eugene Washer, at Weaks, for the Pennsyl-
| vania Company's grow. This company has a
i capital OF 5000 600 in the orange and land bust
ness near Welaka.
/ Sumtervllle Times: Mr. c. n. Williams
contractor o. the Florida Southern Railway, is
reported as having left for parts unknown,
| leaving magnificent pair Of horses and a
double buggy and heavy amount OF indebted
| ness behind him. The horses and buggy have
been attached" ."
This is how L ,esburg is improving: New
| sidewalks completed all through the town. new
1 churches about finished, three more large
| stores being built, one at either end OF our
| chief business thOrOughfare. and in every di-
rectiOn and from all sides the watchword u.s.
| work and improve.
The lovers of orange fruit will read this arti-
1 Gle from the Florida Dispatch with watering
I mouths: The following are few OF the large
orange trees in Florida: The Fort Harley tree
/ in Alachua county, supposed to be y years
old. which has borne 1900 oranges in one sea
son; another in St. Johns county yields IS 900;
another in Bradford county over 10000; and a
/ lemen tree at Fort Reid 32 years old has borne
/ over 20OUO. These are only few OF the large
/ orange and lemon trees in Florida"
| Pensacola Commercial: Another death oc-
| CURED on the bark Iris from yellow fever ON
/ Friday morning last at quarantine station. the
| victim being one OF the crew, and the second
since the arrival Of this unfortunate craft at
/ this port the latter part Of Juue last In addi-
/ ton TO this three other cases were reported
| aboard when the vessel was, by the Board of
Health, ordered TO Ship Island about noon the
Il same day. Our Board of Health are certainly
on the alert, and the efficiency well as the
| prompt mode which has characterized their
/ action in this case has won for them the conf
| dence Of this entire community"
| 9he following are the stations on the Pensa-
cola and Atlantic Railroad, with their distances
/ in miles from Pensacola, the starting point:
| Magnolia Bluf. 4 miles; Bohemia, 8: Gull Point,
/ z; Bellevue. s.; Escambia,9; Duvals, 13; Arcadia
/ Il; Milton, 20; Blackwate river, q; Good
Range, 30; Halts. 80; Binotes. "A; Chafins, 46; ;
II.
Deerland, 81; Messy Head, 66: Lake de Funiak,
/ 80; Argyle. 81; Ponce de Leon, 81; Westville,
/ 81; ChOctawhatchie river, 80; Crescent, 100;
/ Bombay, los; New orange. 11S; Cottondale I25;
MarfaIna 1875: ChfpoIa river. f36: BraSton'' 1s9,
Cypress, las; oste-, 155; Lake Side, 157; Apa-
lachicola river, 159; Chattahoochee, 100.
Monticello Constitution: Parties unknown
/ to us procured a judgment in the County
Court on last Monday against the Florida Cen
/ tral and Western Railroad Company for the
value OF one or two cows killed on the track.
| The execution was placed in the hands of
special constable aud a levy made on the loco
| motive that is used on the branch road The
result was a stoppage of the malls, express
and passenger travel, and this entire commu-
nifty greatly incOnvenienced. If the levy had
been placed on car, on certain furniture in
|. the depot, or even the building itself, it ap-
pears to US that such property would have
been ample to secure the payment Of the
claim and no detriment would have accrued to
business or to the travelling public"
Colonel W. J. Forbes, manager Of the
Disston Company, is quartered at st. Angus
tine, and in an interview answered the follow
ing questions: How about the Disston
domaing'i There" said the Colonel you
touch an interesting topic. The vast Prelimi-
nary work-the prospecting, surveying selec-
ton classification, map drawing and appoint
ment Of agents-is now substantially Finished
and within month we shall be ready to make
deeds for sny Of our lands in any quantity to
suit purchasers. And make mote OF my pre-
diction: We shall sell between two hundred
thousand and four hundred thousand a res
before the close of next winter" How is the
company satisfied with the lands which it has
obtainedf" I'VE have been more and more
pleased every month as the work If selection
progressed Our purchase does not by any
means include all the good lands in Florida,
but we shall have Two million acres
selected with a care never before bestowed
upon such a matter; and from them we
can satisfy the wants OF every class Of
buyers. "one thing we have discovered, y con-
tinued the Colonel which will surprise not
only you but most of the old residents of the
State; and that is that the best timber lands
are not, as is commonly supposed, in outh
Florida. We have given particular attention
to this and our finest timber lands have nearly
all been located in Duval, Clay, st. Johns ana
Nassau counties may say. moreover, that
the supply OF good timber lands Is mere limit
ed than is commonly supposed" =" What is
likely TO be the tendency of immigration?''
ssTO South FlOrida-fOr time at least Twenty
wears from now South Florida will be as dense
iy peopled as any other portion of the South
ern States. AS that section fills up, there will
be liberal overflow TO the northern and west
ern counties, which oner especial advantages
for the raising Of vegetables and for general
farming"
The Mayor Of Pensacola has published the
following specifications for the construction Of
a street railroad in that city: LocatiOn-The
line Of the road shall extend as Iollo%s; From
the south end Of Palafox street in the centre
Of said street. above Garden street denectlng
west TO the sidewalk; north to Gregory street,
and east on Gregory street 20 Cevallos street,
a
Railroad Depot on Tarragoua street, west on
Gregory street to DeVelyre street., and on Gov
ernment east from Palafox street 60 the Bay.
tonstruction-Ihe rails shall be OF plate pat
tern: the sIeepers or str1ngers shall be bedded
hush with the surface OF the street. as shall be
determined by the City Surveyor. The road
bed shall be kept crowned, so as 70 oe Iree
from standing water. Suitable turnoutS
will be allowed for the accommo-
dation OF business. The roadway shall be kept
in complete repair between the rails, and Tor
two feet on either side Of same. II at any time
the street be paved by the city, the prOprietors
OF the road shall pave between the rails ana
two feet on each side with the same material
The prOprietors Of said rad shall be liable Tor
all loss or damage resulting from faulty con-
struction or management Fare-The fare
snail De limited to five cents for each way.
Inc cars shall run at intervals or not more
than thirty minutes, and from the hours or
a. m. to II O'Clock midnight Time-The work
shall be commenced on or before the first day
OF November, and completed BY the first Gay