Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-27
LEE Ar TALLAHAssEE.
Leon Tells the News of the Town in an
Interesting Budget.

Leon Tells the News of the Town in an
Interesting Budget.
TALLAHASSEE, July 26.-At last we
have had rain-the town people rejoice
and the agriculturist felicitates himself
with the thought that his crop is no longer
in danger. With a cooler atmosphere we
no longer swelter in the noon-tide heat,
and congratulate ourselves that the not
test weather is over. A number OF our
citizens and their families, taking adj
vantage of this cessation OF intensely hot
weather, have betaken themselves TO
cooler chimes. Captain Dyke, now
released from editorial work,
left with his wife last evening
for an extended tour through the North
and Northwest. 1t is his intention to re-
turn about the middle of September, when
he will devote his time exclusively to his
model farm near our city. For some years
past he has been making a specially of
the LeConte pear, and already has one OF
the most thriving orchards OF tnls
section. He has also attempted the
culture of the cassava, and is the
only person in this country who has had
the courage to try it. Many of our farm
ers are unwilling to take any new depar-
ture. unless some other one has been sue
cessful in that line. But our veteran eX-
editor believes in progress, and as the
cassava root is a profitable crop in other
sections, he Justly concludes that it can be
made a paying one here. If life is spared
and health is his, he will display the same
energy in agricultural pursuits as he dld
with the pen, paste and scissors, and Will
be equally successful.
PREPARATIONS ARE BEING QUIETLY
though actively made for full exhibit
from this county in the Louisville Expo
sitiOn that will open next week. There
has been no public meeting, but Mr.. Il.
c. Long, of the immigration Bureau and
Mr.. B. A. Meginniss, one of our leading
merchants, have at the request of others,
taken the matter in hand. Mr.. Meginniss
informs me that there will be a Leon
county exhibit which will probably be
larger than that of any other county in
the State. Some twenty or thirty OF our
planters and truckers will contribute, and
up to this writing, the number of eX-
bibits amount to one hundred and
ten. There will be full car load, which
will be dispatched next week. 1t twill thus
| be seen that old Leon is not content with
| hiding her light under a bushel. She not
only proclaimed by neat pamphlet her
| wonderful resources, but she Will give
proof to the world of the nature of those
| resources. This exhibit will be in charge
| Of the Assistant Commissioner, former
resident of Louisville, now a citizen of
! Tallahassee. Notwithstanding the Legis-
| lature made no appropriation for a fit
| representation of Florida at the coming
! Exposition, yet from the interest mani
! tested throughout the State, the Land of
Flowers will be so worthily represented in
the number and variety of her exhibits
! hot
| beware, for little Florida may bear off
the palm. Besides the exhibits from the
various counties, several of our railroad
companies will contribute, notably among
these, the Pensacola and Atlantic Rail-
road Company, which will send on a great
variety Of woods. Northwestern mill
men are looking out for timbered lands,
and Florida will not lose her opportunity
of showing what she has.
AN EXCELLENT LAW
is our general incorporation act, passed
several years ago. Too much time lad
been taken and needless expense incurred
in the passage of bills Incorporating va
riOus bodies. In too many instances.
these corporations existed only on the
statute book, and were of no benefit
either to the projectors or the pubic. Of
! ten the incOrpOratOrs were men of straw
who hoped to forestall capitalists and
| sell out to them. In the meantime the
State was subjected to the expense of
printing in the journals and statute book.
of enrolling, engrossing, etc. Thus every
little bill of that nature involved cosl TO
the taxpayers of several hundred dOllars.
while the parties interested were not PIT
to one cent of expense. And now that
this evil is Obviated, it is possible for
every association to become incorporated
by filing a copy of their articles in tie
offices of the Secretary of State and Clerks
of the Circuit Court in the county o.
counties where they propose to do bus
| ness, and also giving the necessary notice
in some newspaper. So simple and easy
is this method that many avail them
selves of it. Visiting the office of the
! Secretary of State, few days since
the genial Secretary, Hon. j. l.. CraE-
| ford, kindly permitted me to look over the
list of articles of incorporation that had
| been filed since the first of January last.
| Though the number was not quite u TO
what it was this time last year, it demon
strated what an enterprising people Flo
ridians are. Some forty associations nave
thus been incorporated. OF these fifteen
were for railroads, seven for steamboat
/ and canal companies, two for colleges.
one for bank, and fifteen miscellaneous.
1t will be seen that railroad charters exceed
those of any others, and if all are built
then Florida, in every portion, VIII be a
complete network of railroads. 50 many
have been built during the las twelve
| months that she has exceeded in mileage
that of any other Southern STATE except
Georgia.
AND NOW THE NEWS FROM TIE PAGE
SYNDICATE
is that the location of the route between
here and Townsville is to be de iermined
by the engineers and the Executive Com
mittee. First, the Executive Committee
| here were to determine then it was an
nounced that the Board of Directors, at
their meeting in New York on the 18th,
was to decide this important point then
it was postponed to the 18th, and now re-
ferred back to the Executive Committee.
AS | remarked in previous letter, the
route was long since selected. and, for
purposes best known to themselves, the
board see fit not to dlVulge it. 1t is sur
missed now, however, that parties in Sa-
vannah know more of this matter than
does MIR. Page. But we shall soon see,
for next week the company have to com
mence the work of construction or forfeit
their claims to the liberal grant of land
made by the last Legislature
The st. James is the only hotel open in
our city now, Mr.. Slusser, of the City
Hotel, having closed about week ago in
order to make certain improvem ents pre-
THE SUMMER SEEMS
to be the base ball season here as well as
elsewhere. Every week notices may be
seen that a match game will be played be-
tween this and that club Last Thursday
a match game was to have come off be-
tween the Floral Citys, of this place, and
club from Monticello. Quite a
number of visitors came on from
Quincy t. witne the interest
ing sport, and at appointed time
many went out to the Sir grounds where
the great game was 10 Gene off. But
alas for human calculations! A heavy
rain set in and no game was played. So
much, however, was rain needed, that
some of our visitors sapieEtly remarked
that of the two the rain was preferable to
the game of base ball. Tallahassee boasts
of quite a number Of these clubs, both
white and colOred, from the little ten
vear-old who seeks to initiate his seniors,
to the athletic young men of two and
| three decades. So far no accidents have
occurred, and our young America enters
with vim into the sport Of the season.
Getting as we do our supply of ice from
| Jacksonville, we occasionally experience
an ice famine. Where the use of it is
habitual it becomes not so much luxury
as a necessity. The low price at which il
is retailed to customers one cent per
pound) puts it within the reach of all
And so it happens that when occasionally
the news spreads ''NO ice in town." much
Inconvenience arises, and no little dis.
satisfaction exists. What we need
is an ice machine, that there may
be a regular and steady supply. Sc
| long as our ice dealers are depend ent upon
TooI-eOnviIIo m, Savannah fhpra r1.1Gt NOE