Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-03
Florida Affairs.

The Democrat boasts that In Key est, where
the Thermometer never goes below fifty
seven degrees, chlmneys are seldom built,
there being only two in that place of 12, 900 in
habitants.
Last week quite a sensation was caused in
Key West, by the marriage Of a man aged
seventy six to a blushing widow of sixty and
four years. The bridal dress was of white swiss,
trimmed with forty yards of lace.
Mr. Isaiah Williams, of Fort Ogden, not long
since found near Cape Hays. on the Charlotte
Harbor. the skeleton of an Indian. with bull
let imbedded in his frame Lying beside him
were his rifle barrel the stock having rotted,
and twenty-six glass beads.
The bunko men have not forgotten st. Au-
gustine this winter. They are there, as usual
Their manners are as plausible as ever, and
the greenhorn from far Western wilds is easl-
Iy persuaded, One of them was arrested
Thursday and mulcted in the sum OF so and
costs. with the admonition that things would
90 harder on the repetition of the offense
One gentleman has been badly heeced.
On Saturday night last some negroes came
into BroOksville from the country. and stirred
up disgractful row. Deputy Marshal Gold
rioters but the negroes were too many for
him. During the melee the ringleader got cut
severely in the side Marshall MickIer also at
tempted to quelI the disturbance, and made
good use OF his billy" but the negroes soon
outnumbered him, snd prevented the arrest of
several of the parties.
When track-laying commenced Mr.. NJ F.
Gonzales started a pottery at his excellent clay
banks at GabarOne. His foreman says he will
ship car load Of jugs this week, making the
first freight shipped over the Pensacola and
Atlantic Road.
Mr.. James Johnson. grandson Of Rev. James
Keen, was accidentally killed in Polk county
last week by the sweep of sugar mill He
had gone to the juice barrel TO drink and rails
| irg his head, he was caught between the sweep
and the frame and his neck was broken.
No doubt a Florida orange grove is a good
thing to have. but how shall a an support
himself while the trees are grOwings A per-
| son OF experience answer the question fol-
| lows through a correspondent OF the Atlanta
| Constitution. "Plant vegetables, plant cassava
plsnt arrOwrcOt raise melons. split rails at one
| dollar per hundred. build cabins for your
neighbOrS at one dollar and half per day.
/ raj, e chickens catch fish and eat them make
/ fertilizers shoot alligators in Lake KiSSimmee
/ and sell their hides, hire 1t to your neighbors
/ at thirty collars per month and work your own
place at night. sell land, swap horses work on
| some Cne of the railroads. put up saw mills
cut and haul posts end stakes, plant nurs ry
| for the taking, and sweet pOtatOes are indigo
nous to the soil We have eight thousand peo-
/ pie in Orange county and only three paupers.
| ami we have never seen q beggar in the county"
St Augustine Press: "a few days since as
s1me Of the men in the employ of Air. Genovar
were at work near the st. Sebastian river close
By his orange grove. they saw three men with
a cart and derrick come out Of the pine woods
at the west side Of the river. and. approaching
the bank, on the land OF F. Whitney, Esq,
proceed to erect the derrick and lift from an
excavation they had made some apparently
heavy object. and. placing IL in the cart disap-
pesF as mysferi 'uslY as they cane The dis
tancs from which the observation was made
prevented those who saw il from determini e
the character OF tue object removed. It ap-
Feared, however. to be very heavy. and gives
rise 10 many cOnjectureS as 10 what it might
have contained, whether it was buried treas
ure or the evidence Of some dark crime.
The spot is a lonely one well fitted to have
besn the scene Of a tragedy or to have been
selected to secrete treasure
Jasper Times: "A wonderful escape from
total destruction was to be seen during the
slight thunderstorm on Saturday even ng last,
when the lightning ran over the private tele-
graph wires between the residence of J. II. An
crum and his store, in this place; the line at
the house being disconnected, two reports like
pistoIs firing were made by the electric fluid
from the ends OF the wire only, but at the
other end il Jumped from the wire into -four
barrel and then into a ten gallon can in the
bottom Of the barrel. which, fortunately, had
only about pint OF tcat explosive material in
it. known as gasoline The can exploded with
a heavy report, filling the store with smoke.
and hurting things about at that end Of the
store in a lively style. When il is known that a
can OF gunp0Tder and a barrel OF kerosene
were about - feet from the gasoline on either
side. the danger to life and property may be
imagined"
Mariana Courier: Thursday night thieves
entered Mr.. j. L. Avery's jswelry store, stu
ated in the most central part Of town. This
vas done by boring holes in the back door and
a closed II.
been done was not discovered until Mr. Avery
came down the next morning, when he found
that his store had been OveThauled rrOm0ne erd
to the other. Fortunately all Of bis valuables
were locked up in an iron safe into which the
burglars tried 10 effect an entrance by means
Of powder. chisels, etc. etc, all without any
that It could not be unlocked and had to be
broken open, making 1t a total loss. Only
few articles out OF ths stock OF clocks, pistols.
guns jewellers implements, etc. etc. all on
Open shelves, could be missed. Every box was
W. II examined. The parties, we would infer,
were either after money or nne jevelry. No
cine to the perpetrators"
Tampa correspondent Jacksonville Times;
"a Young man named W. J. Canning was taken
sicS some time ago with chills and fever, and
continued to have them up to about ten days
ego. Then there appeared on his under lip
small pimple. This pimple commenced TO grow
ami get very painful. Canning then pic ked the
pimple with q pin. and it discharged feeely
bloody matter and water Instead OF healing
grow longer aud worse, aud got 80 bad that It
gave him high fever. and he took TO his bed.
he called the family physician DR.. J. r. Wall,
Dr. Wall pronounced il a case OF carbuncle on
the lip, and so treated it The lip swelled
and became so infiamed that il was lanced
This did not check the disease. In spite of
the doctors efforts the case grew worse from
day to day. at the request Of Canning 8 fami-
~ and friends, Drs. Branch and Benjamin wee
called in consultation Yesterday. Now the
doctors disagreed DR.. Wall says it was Sc
OF carbuncie OF the lip, aud Drs. Branch and
BENJAMIN are Of the opinion that 1t j a clear
case Of erssipelas. The young mana face
was 90 swollen that his best friends could not
recognize hiao Yesterday the fever was so
high as 70 make hiua delirious and he com
menced TO sink fast This morning at ten
o'clook he breathed his last. His death is
very much regretted by theentire community,
As be was young man OF good promise and
prospectg He had lived in Tampa all his life,
and was about twenty one years Of age"