Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-03

Pensacola is soon to have a building boom,
embraced in which will be the erection Of a
new court house to cost $4,000. a Catholic
cathedral to cost 5,COO. and a $4,000 Metho-
dist church.
Cedar Key has a new market, aud the local
authorities will enforce the Sunday law.
Columbia county is offering good land for
one dollar to five dollars per acre.
Callahan enterprie is visible in the several
industries OF the place. The engines, boilers
and machinery for Mr.. Clark's shingle mill
have arrived, and workmen are engaged in
putting the whole in order. 4 cotton gin and
grist mil, saw mill, and thu shingle mill will
make Callahan quite noisy little town.
Two thousand niue hundred and nine pack
ages Of vegetables were shipped from stations
on the line OF the Florida Central and Western
Railroad during the month Of April, 1882.
The Macintosh lands are now for sale and a
more picturesque spot cannot be found in
Florida Nature has indeed laid a lavish hand
on the beautiful hills. dotted with graceful
palm trees. which lends a lovely tropical ap-
Dearancs. Maj. G. K Fairbanks, Of Fernandina.
is agent.
Another big saw mill is being erected at
Miilview. Escambia county, which will contain
two circulars-One to cut logs up to forty five
feet. the other up to seventy The engine is
26x32, and will be supplied with ten cylinder
boilers and two smoke stacks, at a cost Of S50,-
Ooo and Is expected TO cut from s., COO to no.
oO0 feet OF lumber per day.
A large list OF Madisonians have signed a
petition asking Congress to appropriate $50 0
for the improvement OF the Suwannee river.
We hope The appropriation will be made.
There are some as fine lands alcng this famous
river as are 70 be found in the State. and max
ing this stream navigable for good siz I'd boats
@ Ellaville viii give their rich products an out
let.
The population of Sanford has Just about
doubled itself in the past year Seventy four
new houses have been built inside the corpor-
arion in that time ami one hundred lots have
been sold, the most Of which will be built upon
in the next year. IL the prestn n boom keeps
up. IS there is everv evidence that il will. th-
population inside Of the corporate limits one
year hence can safely be estimated at eight
hundred or one thousand. The growth OF San
ford is Of a healthy, substantial character.
Jacksonville UHion: Yesterday morning a
sailor by the name Of Thomas Delannat fell
overheard from the schooner William Miller.
l,sptain II. 1 DOuchon, lying off the Florida
C--tral Railroad wharf, and was drowned. IL
seems that the unfortunate man was engaged
in scruooing the decks OF the vessel, and
sterped over the side on rope for the pur-
pose Of getting something, when he fell and
sank Immediately. boat was instantly low
cred TO render assistance, but the man never
came TO the surface again.
The claim that Governor BlOxham is the first
nafve Governor Of Florida is Incorrect and
rha Question who was has been answered by
the widow OF ex Governor Ossian B. Hart in a
communication published in the Daily Times
10 which she says: Governor % ssian b. Hart
was born m the year 1870 on the south bank of
the st Mary's river. the dividing line between
his State and Georgia Florida had then but
recently been acquitted from Spain In 1921,
his father Hart, moved with his family
10 the st Johns river and settled at a place
then allied the COW ford; he put no a log house
and lived in il several years. This was the first
b use in Jacksonville and the first conception
Of the possibility Of building such place.
Tavares is a new town recently organized I'm
rhe lake region OF Orange county, and is said
20 be the liveliest place in the State. IL al
ready has a population Of three hundred,
though but FIVE months old On the 1st day Of
January the first axe was buried in the heart
% a tree on the present site OF Tavares; tOday
C mas about three hundred inhabitants over
forty houses. a large hotel. a pOstoffice. a drug
store, a general merchandise store. q news
paper aud a saw mill. Another hotel aud
'hirtv-hve new houses are under contract.
while a grist mill and starch factory are under
earnest advisement. Two railroads will be
built 70 this growing city. Tavares is situated
between two large lakes zone OF which is the
source Of the Ockiawaha) just Joined together
uy = canal. A. st. Ciair-AOrams and Robert L
Summerlin founded this town, and are the NOV
iux spirits in its progress. All praise to them
We would there were hundreds more just such
men in Florida.