Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-17

Manatee wants to De Incorporated.
4 school house viii son be erected at
ChipcO-
The city ordinances Of Waldo have never
been published.
The basin for an artesian well Is being
built at st. Augustine.
The widow of the late Gov. o. Il. Hart Is
Postmistress AT kissimmee.
Monticello wants a line of hacks between
that city and ThOmasville. Ga.
A new paper has been started at MeIrose.
called the MeirOse and Lake Reqf0H Pilot
The skeleton of an unknown man was
washed ashore at Pensacola on Thursday last
\ resident of Jacksonville has within few
davs lost between eighteen or twenty hogs
from cholera.
senator c. W. Jones had engaged passage
ON the steamer that left Liverpool on the 7th
of July for New York
A. ii. Neal, of Orange county, Is making
preparations 10 exhibit sweet potatoes at the
Louisville Exposition.
A telegraph line from Port Washington to
a convenient point on the Pensacola and At
lantic Railroad, viii be built.
Monticello. Quincy and Tallahassee talk of
uniting IN the formation OF a gun club and for
the purpose Of enforcing and improving the
game laws Of the state.
Joseph Garcia, Cuban cigar maker. who
had been IN jacksonville about three months
died quite suddenly Friday of congestion of
the brain, aged 63 years.
The case of the state vs.. VIM. Newton. for
murder, which was lately concluded by Judge
Cooke, at Orlando, by verdict of guilty. will
De carried to the supreme Court.
Reports from Jackson county represent the
caterpillar as being very bad i'm that cOuntv
and that they are spreading rapidly and doing
considerable damage To the cotton crop
At johnson station on the Florida Southern
Railroad. last Wednesday. Mr.. VIM. johnson.
of that place, was seriously hurt by being
thrown from hand car and run over. caused
by a COW being on the track, while going down
steep grade.
Captain o. !. Leite. commanding the
Metropolitan Light Infantry. of jacksonville
has received from Captain !. &. Ayrcss Of the
National ArmOry. at Springfield, Mass. a
complete outfit Of arms and Equipments for
forty men. The invoice inclndes forty
Springfield cadet rifles. with she'll eNtractorS
wiping rods, instruction books and arm chests.
The Times Union says: 'eThe large draw
bridge which has been building al Clarks
mIll-yard for some time past. and which Is To
be put up over McGirt's creek for the Jack
s0nyillc, Tampa and Key West Railroad. has
been completed, and is now being loaded ON
lighters preparatory 10 being shipped up the
creek early next week. when 10 will be put i'm
position just rs soon as possible. As soon a.
the bridge and trestles over this creek are
completed the work Of laying the iron VIII be
commenced.
The Live Oak Bulleffn saws that Engineer
Johnson. running a passenger train from
Tallahassee to Lake Citv on Monday of last
week, made the fastest time that has ever
been made on a Florida railroad. The dis
tance Is los miles. and the run " as made i'm
three hours and thirty minutes including fif-
teen stoppages which average five minutes
each. Taking the IS minutes occupied In
stOppages from the 3l0 i'm which the run was
made, it viii be seen that the rtn of los miles
really occupied only AS minutes or two hours
and twenty live mimutes-a little less than
mile every minute and half.