Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-14

| FLORIDA.
! st. Augustine has 1924 AZ in her treasury.
/ near Tallahassee.
\ 1t has been estimated that nearly $4,000
/ worth Of improvements have been made in St.
/ Augustine this year.
/ There is a great demand for medium priced
| dwelling houses in Tallahassee just now, and
I the supply seems exhausted.
The receipts Of the Key West Treasury for
/ the year ending October show an excess over
| the expenditures of -, ,30S 90.
| Mr.; Blac kshear, in the IamOnia neighbor-
hOoOd, lost his gin house last weeksby fire. 1t
I Is thought TO be Of lncendiary origin.
| Inc business men Of Jacksonville meet to-
night to organize what they intend to make
| the crack military company of the state.
| One of the oldest merchants SAYS that for
| every $1,000 worth of goods sold in Green Cove
| Springs four years ago, there are now sold
! more than $3.50 worth.
Captain Nichols, of the steamship Guada-
/ lupe, reported on his arrival at Key West
Ihursday morning, that there was a brig
ashore between HillsbOrOugh and Jupiter lie
slgnaled her and found out that she was
spanish.
John Rich, OF Port Royal, will tomorrow
succeed Will J. Young as agent at Jackson
vile for the Mallory line of steamers. Mr.
u Oung Will have charge of the company's
business at san Antonio, Texas. 1t is pro-
motion Tor both gentlemen.
Malicious soOundrels about the suburbs of
Tallahassee have turned their attention to
| manning cattle. Several persons have had
| line milch cows seriously injured by being cut
and gashed with sharp instruments of some
/ sort, probably pocket knives.
| Last Saturday morning at Martinez cigar
| factory, IN Key West, the eldest child of Mrs
| Albert saunders oVerbalanced himself and fell
i from the secOnd-stOry to the first floor break
\ ing his neck, almost causing instantaneous
death. He fell through skylight in the floor
| Eight families of practical farmers from
| Rhode Island arrived at Tallahassee last
| Wednesday, and have gone out to begin work
| on the Nv alters place." on Lake jackson,
| recently purchased by Messrs. Purvis and
| Clark Of Rhode Island. Eighteen more fami-
| lies are expected soon.
| The Tallahassee Ldnd Of FIoloers SAYS: "Dr
4 Morgan and DIR. Becker, with their families
| arrived in this city few days since, and have
| moved into the Lamb residence near the
| depot They have Travelled all the way from
/ North Michigan by private conveyance. They
| come TO attend lectures this winter in the
| Tallahassee College Of Medicine and Surgery
| Nine other students from their section are on
the way. These gentlemen inform us that
| they are much pleased with Florida. and will
| make 1t their future hOme.'
| The Green Cove Springs says: ''In recent
| issue of patents was one by our occasional
| editor Mai. y. Il. Clinch. The devise is an
! ingenious one for the improvement of the mo-
| tiOns Of the sulky or village cart, now SO pop
| ular The object sought Is the getting rid of
| all horse motion, which has ALWAYS been so
| Objectionable in this class of vehicles. We
| understand the method applied is very simple
| and inexpensive, and that thorough trial on
/ the road during the past summer fully demon
| strates that the object sought has been com
| pletely attained. A leading manufacturing
company Of New England is now giving the
| Improvement trial. We hope that the Major
| viii reap an abundant harvest from his enter
| prise
| The Green Gore SpriRgs prints the following
| which Is worth pOndering over: Nv. ;. Plum
/ mer brought us a basket of sweet potatoes
/ rich and mealy-the Providence. he calls
| them. They are white. even in size, smooth
| and, IN fact, first class. Mr.. p. tells us they
! were raised on new land at his place, right on
| top of Oak Ridge-a light, sandy soil, and that
| without fertIllZlng of any kind. he had, bv
| actual measurement, $50 bushels of them on
| little less than one acre of land. Potatoes
OF this quality readily bring 80 cents per bushel
| IN our home markeJ-nOt bad return for a
| crop so easily raised as the sweet potato on
! new land, requiring no work at all between
planting and digging; and be 1t remembered
| that this Is on what has been thought our
| poorest lands for vegetables. The same land
| COW -penned, or highly fertIlized. Will produce
! 800 bushels per acre
| At Jacksonville, Monday night the marine
engineers organized marine engineers as
| sOclatI0n, to work under the auspices of the
| National Marine Engineers Association of
| the United States the said association To he
| known as the Jacksonville Marine Engineers
| Association, No. u. The objects of the asso-
| citation are for the mutual aid and benefit OF
| all members, and not, as is generally sup
| posed by owners OF steamers, for the pur-
| pose of demanding more salary or less work
ing hours. The organization was perfected
| by the election of the following officers
| President. John Einig; Vice President, John
! L. Phillips; Treasurer, John +. Coure; Cor
| responding Secretary, Charles n. Spencer;
| Recording Secretary, W. Il. Hills; Financial
| Secretary, {. I'll. Cash; Chaplain, Il. K. Ha-
| good; Conductor, j. W. Dunn; Doorkeeper.
! W. L, Masters. After the election of the
! above officers the association adopted, by a
unanimous vote, the Constitution and By
Laws of the National Marine Engineers As
! sOciatiOn, and according to the articles il is
| unlawful for the association to set or even
adopt a standard of wages-in other words,
! the nmesLInn of salarN Is nnIIrelN imnnrnl-