Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09


shrimp have just begun to bc plentiful al
rhe Jacksonville bar.
Titusville has a junior base ball club. All
the members are under len years of age.
The Florida Southern near Palatka Is TO he
reiaId with new heart ties and steel rails.
Peach grated into plum stock is reported
from Lake City as progressing satisfactorily.
The cornerstone of the south Florida COL
lege was laid at BrOOksville on the 4th inst.
FromAiay y to June y. 2.674 packages Of
vegetables were shipped from LOchbie station.
Jersey cows are In demand in some parts of
Florida. In Cedar Key milk is fifteen cents a
quart.
Co0us. 'possums and squirrels have mate
rally reduced the melon crop around Day
tOua.
Judged. b. Grim. of Lake CITY. died q few
days ago from an attack of cholera morbus /:
aged IS years.
FGFty-dve persons were received into mem
hership in the Baptist churches mn this state
during the quarter ending July lst.
Gulf Hammock has a hen that has made a
nest and hatChed "a brood Of chickens in a tree
twenty-f0ur feet from the ground.
Governor BlOXham has appointed jefferson
HigginbOtham and William johnson as COun-
ty Commissioners Of Nassau county.
4 Florida man has grown q radish that
was over two feet long. eighteen inches in di-
ameter and weighed fifteen pounds.
Messrs. Jordan X Carroll. Of Madison. re
Gently shipped ear load of watermeIous the
J C.. Eastman is erecting a large building
SO Gainesville for the establishment Of Il
French and English day and boarding school.
Sammie Tigner. aged L years, Of Barlow.
formerly resident Of Orlando. recently
caught a soft shell turtle which weighed sixty
pounds.
Gainesville pays her city scavenger. tnclUd-
ing board Of mules. S336 per year. Orlando
pays, not including board Of mule, 5000 per
wear.
It Is reported that about $50 hands were re-
Gently transferred from the ROwlands BlUh
road 10 South Florida. and that about 500 still
remain at work.
The Tribune says a cypress log was offered 10
The saw mill at ApaiaehicOla and refused. be-
cause il was 50 large it could not be handled
on the mill carriage.
Willie Haddock, boy OF 10, son OF Zach
HQddock, of Jacksonville. was accidentally
shot in the leg on July lth by Eddie Herman,
with a small pistol.
The fish fertilizer manufacturing cOmpa-
ny, Of New smyrna. NOlusla county. Is said 10
be making immense catches of fish. often
h.gh as 100000 day. just outside Of the Inlet
Florida constructed more miles Of railroad
last year tlin any other Southern state eN-
cept Georgia; and at her present rate of rail
road building SHE VIII discount Georgia this
year.
The City Council at 1t. Augustine are hav-
ing q fountain reservoir builf- -Op the ufaza fD
accommodate the hne How of water from the
new artesian well recently bored at that
place.
The Enterprise Herald says that Mrs.
Harris, living e. Turnbull bay, Nolusia
county. a few days ago chased doe into the
bay. and then pulled oet IN a boat and
killed il.
The steamer Athlete, which was so serious
ly damaged near Fernandina recently by
breaking her walking beam and blowing out
ier cylinder heads. has been lowed over to
jacksonville for repairs.
For she months OF NAY and June Polk
county sold over $4,000 worth Of cattle. sum
merlin Bros. of that county. recently bought
80 head. and TF0m the lith to the 18th uitiIlO
paid out SI9,250 foT cattle raised IN Polk
county
A quarterly meeting Of the Executive Board
OF the Baptist state Convention was held in
GAINESVILLE on the fth inst. when IL was de-
Sided to hold the next cOnsentiOn at Lake
City IN December.
The condition Of the cettOn throughout ,ae
STATE Is very favorable to an abundant yield.
a month ago. owing to the heavy rains and
y9ol nights,u was backward. but the seaEOna-
PIE weather since has caused it TO grow Wig
or0usly.
There were received at the express Office at
Sedar hey, between October ist lSsz and
July Isl, 1888, 800, ,30S pounds of freight of
winch f6,doE was merchandise, Ia $40 perish
able and 56,05s pounds Of malt liquors
7Humanity's great hsPe for the future
IS alone g. be realized in improgcd cOndi-
tlons Of matEiwOnY. What a prOfOuiaG
OUhgatiOn does this fact involve: Those
"he realize the responsibility can har.lly
90 better than take advice from Hrs. Ly-
9ia Z. Pinkham, whose wonderful renee
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