Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-23

FLORIDA.
Lines are ripening in the southern part of
the state.
All quarantine against jacksonville has
been raised at Palatka.
4 telegraph is to be built from the p. and A.
railroad To Geneva, Ala.
Another newspaper will soon be started at
Lake City.
The farmers report excellent crops of cotton
in all sections of Columbia county.
Titusville has yacht club styled the SIN
dian River Yacht Club"
Gainesville has given notice that all dogs
not licensed within twenty days will be shot.
Considerable quantities of both wool and
cotton were stored in the Mariana ware
house last week.
Judge W. I. Duval, of Wakulla county, has
discovered gold mine on his lands on Sop
chOppy river.
Major r. L. Burnett, of New York city.
sent a check for 500 to aid in the building Of
the Episcopal church at Tampa.
There is a white oak tree half mile
northeast of CerrO- -GOrdO, Holmes county,
which measures feet in diameter.
1t is said that 100000 per year could be
realized in jackson county by the gathering
and marketing of moss in that county.
Another telegraph wire will soon be erected
from jacksonville to Wildwood. the present
one not being enough to do all the work.
Columbia county will exhibit thirty two
varieties of wood besides sending siXty-tive
articles TO the LOUISVILLE eADlDlIlOu.
George Carnley, residing near Lake View,
Walton county, has IS acres of rice which he
thinks viii mdke 200 bushels, or 80 to the acre.
1t Is rumored that since his trial began
Archibald Newton has fallen heir to an i'm
mense fortune reaching INTO the millions, by
the death of an uncle in England.
Two of GainesviIle's mechanics are said to
have about perfected a machine that can cut
the sweet gum without steamng into as
smooth crate material as the Bangor beech
il cut after II is steamed.
The smallest town lot ever purchased in
Florida was a small triangular section just
large enough for surveyors tripod, sold to
the South Florida Railroad Company at Tam
pa the other day for twenty five dollars.
\ cOlOred man, name unknown. who was
al work on the trestle now building over Nc
Girt's Creek, for the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West Railroad. on Tuesday last got
caught between two spiles and was badly
squeezed. II is thought that several of his
ribs are broken.
Ten thousand pamphlets, descriptive of
Columbia county and its many advantages,
the Columbia County immigration Associa-
tiOn.
Capt. Ben Peacon, master wrecker of the
ship Northampton, was awarded $4,000,
which Is to be divided pro rata among the
different boats and their crews engaged in
the wreck.
Baker county is noted for the fine peaches
which yearly find the market. The best are
fifty years in that county, without any signs
Of deterioration from the original stock.
The telegraph line from Mariana to Apa-
lachicOia VIII soon be completed. The owner
of this new line. Capt. X. ii. Walker, may
build line from Mariana to Columbia, Ala.
his home, to connect with his other hines.
The New Branford fast mail train jumped
the track at the l69 mile post, or about the
beginning of the Suwannee grade on Monday
afternoon last. The accident was Occasioned
by the displacement of an entire rail on the
curve.
The cause of the accident on the Florida
Central and Western Railroad, near Talla-
hassee on Thursday was a sharp tlange on one
Of the freight cars belonging to the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, which was attached
to the train.
The p. and 4. carries fifty to seventy car
loads of WatermelOns a week from Middle
and West Florida to Western points. The
Road VIII send specimens Of the woods grow
ing along lis line to the Exposition at Lou
i5Fllte,
The Atlantic aad Gulf Coast, Canal and
OkeechObee Land and Drainage Company,
composed entirely of Philadelphia capitalists.
has received from the State of Florida an
award of 535, ,3S5 acres of land located in the
southern portion of the peninsula for the re-
clamatiOn operations in that state. This COM
pany has reclaimed nearly 100000 acres of
land in Florida, and work is still being yigOr-
Ousiy pushed forward.