Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-31

=, Inc M IOhoWlng appointments were made by
Sne G doVernor last week: S. Whitman, County
t@el missioner Santa Rosa; J. NJ Smith, No
Iary fuohc Alachua; W. h Heafford Notary
Euonc, State-at-large; ]. A. Hunter, Justice Of
the Peace, Sumter -'''N0 "a
Inc barlow Informant says what is want
ed IN Polk county Is a good executive commit
Iee IoE eaen district in the county. the Chair
ss nan 3 OF winch should form the County Execu-
i've Committee when called together for bust
ness, and little more interest taken in the no
htcal welfare Of the county by the people.
corps Of engineers commenced Monday
S eloLlllL z, ~oo tne survey OF branch road from
2uWannee station. on the Savannah, Florida
shu western Railway. to the Lower Suwaunee
springs The work is under the auspices of
1!essfs- Cuipepper & Scovile, VINO some time
template improving them.
The financial condition Of Escambia county is
good. The county warrants are paid on pre.
sentation. The school fund entirely unincunn-
oered, amounts to S2010. In 1876 the amount of
scrip on the market was about S36 COO; now tax
payers pay their licenses and taxes in currency
which IS quite positive proof that this scrip has
oeen ABSORBED. The total tax State and county
that year was p mills, now Is mills
Jacksonville Times: From a letter received
IN this city by Mr. W. H. Tate, from Mr.. G. c.
Vandegrifft. at New Smyrna, under date of
October .. we learn that while an oyster boat
was being toWed over the bar by the schooner
May Montanye. the oyster boat capszed and
man named Thrasher was drowned Everv-
thing in the boat was lost. Mr. Hartley viii
llams was also on the boat, but he was rescued,
The boat is aground on the bar"
Tallahassee. .FTOrididn: "Nlr. E. E. Philbrick is
exhibiting a meteOric stone found seven feet
below the surface in this city. 1t is Hat on the
bottom and oval on top. perfectly round and
about the size OF a silver quarter-just large
enough for a pin. He says it contains iron
pyrttes, sodium and silica. The rough casing
has been removed from the top or oval side,
and when exposed TO the sun or lampIight IS
quite brilliant He will forward it to the
smithsonian Institution at Washington, and
when its nature is definitely ascertained he
proposes to have it set in gold and ut lie it as
breastpin.'
Hamilton County Times: "A cutting scrape
occurred at Belville last Saturday night in
which three men were severely, though not
fatally, injured. As we are informed, late in
the evening some men came in town from
ecross the Georgia line. among whom was a
man by the name OF John Lotion. Lotion,
who bears the name Of being of a turbulent
disposition, INDUCED pretty freely in LIQUOR
and finally drew his knife, and, without any
prOvOcatlon whatever, made a serious cash
across the breast of a cOlOred man named
Cesar Lassiter Mr.. r L. Stapler was stand
ing short distance, with his back turned to
the disturbance, when Lotion made q stroke
at him with his knife. Mr.. Luke Hunter en-
deavOred to throw Lotions arm up, when he
received severe cash in the arm, and Mr..
Stapler also received a wound in the back by
the same stroke seven or eight inches long"