Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-20

FLORIDA
Inspector Frey. Of the Post Office Depart-
ment has been notified by telegram from Tam
pa that John McDermid. Assistant Postmaster
at BaypOrt, arrested January slst for embez-
cling a letter, has entered plea Of guilty.
Lake Clty's street railroad is now in the fun
tide Of successful operation.
The telegraph line was finished from Pensa-
cola TO ChattahOOchee on Wednesday last and
the Mariana and CottondaIe Offices opened
for business.
Madison Is on a regular boom. so to speak.
There is large hotel, to cost $4,000 in sight:
an oil mill is on the way for operation, and
the present depot is to be enlarged and ex-
tended andOtherwise improved.
The number Of arrivals last week at Jack
sOnvIlle at the various hotels was 2,4II.
n gang Of fifty men are now and have been
for several days at work grading on Gen.
Gordon's railroad. The men are about two
and half miless south Of jacksonville. moving
southwark
The municipal election at Fernandina will
take place April 4th. The officers to be chosen
are Mayor, City Marshal, Clerk and Treas
urer, Tax Collector, Tax Assessor and four
Aldermen-the latter for two years.
The people Of Ocala held a public meeting
tion law recently passed by the legislature
In Pensacola cOcOanuts and bananas sold
Ireely IN the city last week and at good prices
@ IN tne Hay Islands cocoanuts are worth $25
per 1000, and bananas 81 &c. per bunch.
narrow gauge railroad from Meals Land
ing TO Greenwood, is likely to be built. We
understand that an engineer is now making
preliminary survey Of the route, for the
purpose of arriving at its probable cost
The infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hill.
of Lob
drowned IN an average sized tub on Tuesday
last. The child was only fifteen or sixteen
months old, and was playing around the tub.
when lie lost his balance and was drowned
before he could be reached.
Mr.. J. W. Bushnell. chief engineer, assisted
Dy Mr.. r. i. Damon. Thursday morning COM
menced locating the line of the Beach Rail-
road. The road viii be a narrow gauge
steam, and will run from the depot on Centre
street, Fernandina. down First to Beach, and
up Beach in a straight line to the ocean.
a negro named Ellis Lemons was shot and
killed at ChattahOOchee OnSunday last during
an alteration with George Jones. stOrekeeDeF
concerning payment for some whisky winch
the negro had purchased. Reports differ con-
corning the killing, and as il Is stated that
none but the principals in the affair were pre-
sent at the time. it is probable that the true
facts concerning it will never be known.
shortly after ten O'Clock Wednesday night
the dwelling house of Mr.. David Dial who
lives on the WaycrOss road. about TWENTY-FIVE
miles from this city, discovered his dwelling
house on fire. Vain efforts were made to
save the building. but soon both house and
furniture were reduced to ashes Mr.. Dial's
loss Is said TO be between $4,000 and So 600
No insurance. The fire is supposed to have
originated from defective lue.
Captain \. \. IIaig, master of the schooner
II. NJ. Clarke, Of New York, well known as an
old pioneer of this section of country, is in
Jacksonville. soliciting stock for a new steam-
ship of about 1000 tons register. to be built
this summer for the Florida Nassau Kew
and Havana frnfU fUl,f az,
Considerable stock has been already taken in
Nassau and St. Augustine by merchants and
capitalists well known in the commercial
world.
Gangs Of men have cleared two miles of the
line OF General GOrdOn's railway from Ocala
toward Tampa, and grading has begun. This
is the old Tropical Railroad, whose charter
would have expired the same daV if work had
not been begun. Great surprise is felt here at
the prOmptness with which General Gordon
has commenced operations. It is understood
that the road entire from Ocala TO Tampa will
be pushed through as rapidly as possible.
Bosses are hiring gangs OF labOrers.
Dr. John c. l. Engle. OF Jacksonville, made
quite a small fortune last week. On Satur-
day week the fine iaFge schooner Mary F.
Carson, laden with coal, went ashore in the
breakers while attempting to enter the har-
Dor. On Wednesday the vessel and cargo were
sold at auction by the uRdeFWriter's agent
and bought by DIR. ItEngie for -. 100. I'm
mediately after the sale the doctor went down
To the vessel wth his tugs, threw hundred
tons OF the coal overheard, pulled the vessel
OF with little trouble. and tOwed her up to
the city in splendid condition."
There is now probability that the 5000. 900
appropriation for a custom house building at
Pensacola viii be soon utilized. After q year
or two of red tape haggling about the pur-
chase OF piece of adjacent property neees-
sary to increase the size of the custom house
lot the department finally agrees to buy at
the not unreasonable price demanded bv the
owner, Major John j. Guttmann. This price
we learn from the AdrGRce- Gd=ette. Is $iS.OO0
Upon the LOT are spacious and valuable brick
premises erected since the great fire, and the
owner has to tear down These and clear the
ground, which measures seventy feet by one
hundred and seventy-tWO feet deem, in the
business heart Of the city.
\ letter from Mr.. c. X MunrOe, at New
port reports the arrival at that once noted
FlOFida port, of Capt. ;. ID. Kendall in the
canoe ''sGlid Comfort" The Captain was
last heard Of at Pensacola, where his COM
paniOn. DIR. Neide. who had essayed with him
the round trip from Lake George. n Y,
abandoned the undertaking. taking rail for
his Northern home. Capt. Kendall was well.
''brOwn and hearty" but found vOyaging so
lonesome after losing his associate that he
was inclined to think he would give up the
voyage at Cedar Key or Tampa. at the farth-
est. He arrived at Newport Wednesday 9TH,
and left for the PenhallOway river next even
ing.
Tallahassee FIOrididR: ''COl. John Brad
ford, the Chief Engineer of the ThOmasville
Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad. accompanied
by Hon, EdWaFd Lewis, Mayor Of Tallahassee,
Hon. IL. ID. MeGullOeh, of Wisconsin, John E.
Page, Vice President, J. Edmond Page, Sec
rPtary. and several citizens of Tallahassee.
left town to-day to meet the surveying party
at ThOmasville, Ca, where the line will be
commenced that is destined to unite Talla-
hassee with the North and Northwestern sys-
TEN OF railroads, and by the Gulf terminus
with New Orleans, Cuba and even the South
coming for old Tallahassee and Middle Florida
ia the near future"
4 correspondent of the Bdnner- Lacop, writ
ing from Grahamville, Fla., says; "Qn Mon
dav March 8 while Capt, j, II, Howard was
returning home from Ocala and passing the
residence of Mr.. Robert Holly, the tongue
strap of his buggy came lOpse and let the
tongue OF his buggy fall to the ground. when
his horse took fright. Captain Howard was
Immediately thrown TO the ground. receiving
a seyerc cut on the head-hOpe nothing seri-
Gus. One ~ bis horses, better known as the
Dunn horse. sS6R struck tree and killed
himself as dead as a piaeksmith,s hammer
Bad luck for Captain Howard, but we much
rather learn that the horses neck was broken
tkan the Captains. for then we should have
missed him very much at Grahamville."
The following eiyil appointments have been
made bv the Governor and duly commissioned
4 ('Iubbs and J. b. Guttman, members Board
OF Health in and for the county of Escambia;
Clark stephens county commissioner IN and
rance. Justice OF the Feace in and for the
county OF Manatee; John II. Coleman and
George L. Barthew, Auctioneers IN and for
tbe County Of Monroe; Charles Curry,
County freasSyer in and for the county
If Monroe; A. J. COEee, l.. Livingston, G. ii.
smith and J. y. Martin, County COmmis-
sioners in aud for the the e'eonnty of Madison;
L. r. COttFeil. JF,. HaFbor Master ip and
for the county Of LeVys j, I, Price, Justice OF
the Peace in and for the county of Alaehua;
u. VI. Delk, Justice of the Peace in and for
fbe countv Of Bradford; Joshua Mizel, JUS
tee Of tie Peace in and for the county of Her
nando: r. 4. Crawford, County Judge in and
Tor lie county OF Manatee; W. III. johnson,
Assessor of Taxes in and for the county OF
Polk: {. +. Venable, County Surveyor in and
for. the county of sumter; J. b. Hardee, Col
r. tSy. of Revenue in and for the county OF
Taylor. Z. Y. Watts, superintteTn.dlelnt nj at, OF
Sc6ools i'm and for the county of Wakulla;
n r Vrrelst, Notary Public in and for the
state at large: J. NJ. Owens, Assessor OF Taxes
in and for the county of Orange
.,rain and Meat in Europe.
In paper ca agricultural statistics,
read before the British Association, Mr..