Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-06

}. :. Acee, of Gainesville, is dead.


o. :. Acee, of Gainesville. is dead.
Galveston melons are selling at Kew West
SanfOrd's new bank will be built Of brick.
Levy county has thirty eight public schools
>umterville has a flOurishing reading club.
Gainesville was pelted with hail on Tues
day.
The new hotel at st. Augustine Is being
erected.
\ candy factory has been established in
Live Oak.
\ 5000 horse has been presented to Gov.
Jacquelin J. Daniel, Jr., of jacksonville,
dici Monday.
It. Augustine no longer quarantines against
Jacksonville.
Key West has a population of 10000 souls.
without a banking house.
X. &. Moore killed fine doe last week
within mile or two of Enterprise.
Levy county is out of debt, with money in
the treasury, and her warrants are at par.
Thirty miles of the jacksonville, Tampa
and Key West Railroad was graded last week
Leon county is working up large exhibit
Tor the southern Exposition, at Louisville.
Ky.
Work ON the st. Augustine. Halifax and
Indian River Canal will be resumed this
month.
Hon. W. ". Cassidy formerly of Jackson
vile. Is building a business block in Sumter
vile.
The cigar business of Kew West Is flourish
ing. Large forces are employed and orders
are plentiful.
\ gentleman living at Seville. on Lake
George, has netted $500 on strawberries
alone this year.
No less than 100000 cocoanuts have been
planted ON the keys near Key West within
the last two years.
Newnausville has promised to appropriate
$50 towards publishing the new Alachua
county pamphlet.
The farmers all over Volusia county are
putting i'm a large potato crop. It has been
am excellent season for them.
The firm of Gibson & Brothers, Of Cincin-
natl. have bought several hundred acres Of
land near Altoona, in Orange county.
ON the first Of July there We're twenty-five
prisoners in Duval county iail Sixteen were
discharged during the month of June.
TrI-weekly service has been commenced ON
the mail route from Tampa TO Fort Meade
Capt. John ii. Graham is the contractor
1t is reported that the farmers upon Key
Largo and adjacent islands have not netted
~ much from their crop of pines this year as
they did last.
The crOss-tie contractors for the South
Florida Railroad, with gang of hands.
reached Tampa on the steamer from Cedar
Keys last saturday.
one thousand one hundred and fftv-fiye
papers We're filed in the Office of the Clerk Of
Putnam county last year.
The southern Express has been removed
from ~. Augustine on account of a license
tax of S25 imposed by the City Council. which
the company refused to pay. The incOnye-
nience 10 the public in consequence will be
great No other city in the State eXacts the
license.
At the meeting Of the County Commission
ers. L. II. Ncbber read selection from a
page Of the work he Is preparing on Alachua
county. and on motion the Commissioners
-Ordered that 1000 copies of the same be pur-
chased and 10 cents be paid per copy on their
delivery.
!. l.. Walfenden, of Geneva Lake. Wiscon-
sin, recently purchased Il. NJ. Reeves place
near MicanOpy. consisting of eleven acres
with orange trees, some of them bearing
paying $3.50 therefor. Mr.. WOlfenden will
bring car load of goods with him next fall
including seyenty-fve hives of Italian bees
The report Of the superintendent of the
Duval Hospital and Asylum shows that during
the month Of June two patients died and two
abscOnded. There were at the beginning Of
the month ten persons in the asylum and
during the month two were admitted. leaving
on the lst Of July seven, all males.
r. +. >harrard. Assistant Commissioner for
Florida at the Louisville Exposition dated
sanford. July !, reports marked success i'm
working up the Florida exhibit, and saws the
pnterprISiug citizens of Sanford and ORANGE
county are wide awake and enthusiastic on
the subject of the great southern Exposition
on Friday, while Alfred Taylor. a colored
man. and his son, a small boy, were working
in his field. three miles west of Palatka. The
former fell dead. The boy, thinking his
father had gone TO sleep, returned to the
house. and 1t was not until the following dav
that the dead man was discovered The re-
mains were buried on Saturday.
1t was q custom of the late Sol0n Robinso,
of Jacksonville, IN his life time to raise the
stars and stripes every Fourth of july morn
ing in token Of his patriotism. and So strono
was his attachment for the nag that no ,,-o2
wrapped IN II by his own request when he
fannH nHansas NN.afa
her life TO keep up the custom of her husband
i'm raising a flag on the Fourth, and Wednes-
day ii nOated from its accustomed nag stan.
Tie first prize for good conduct of the mn
pills of ~. Joseph's Academy of St. Augustine
was gold medal, presented by z. Carr ESQ .
of New York. This prize being equally mer-
tied by Miss Mica Andreu, Miss Lula CanOva
and Miss Whisenant, was drawn for bv them.
and resulted in Miss CanOva being the Iuckv
winner. The medal contains the following
inscription: st: JOseph's Academy ST
Augustine, Florida. Good Conduct..'
The Palatka Herald saws: 'sWOrz ON tho
new addition to the Larkin House has com
mcnced. The building viii be 90 bv IS feet
three stories high. with piazZas to CORRESPOND
tG those on the main building. will contain
45 rooms, with closets IN each, 36 rooms with
fireplaees and halls opening out on balconies
with fire escapes from upper stories The
contract. which Il in the hands of J. H.
Mclean. Of Mclean Bros. calls for a compile
tion of the work by the lst of December"
The Palatka Herald says: ''This morning.
while a number of hands were dragging for a
LOST 2nchOr. their graphing hooks came i'm
contact Win some weighty object that re-
quired the use sc the windlass on Powers
pile driver TO bring iU IL the surface When
it came mp it was discovered 10 be the bow of
a very ancient boat, supposed to be the wreck
of an old spanish craft that at one time
plOughed the waters of the st. Johns when
its banks were populated 10y the wild Semi
mole. and before the Spaniard had succeeded
i'm effeeting footing in the Land Of Flowers.
4 great many have viewed the wreck. and. i'm
the R4emOrv of the oldest settler, never has a
boat been known to sink at this particular
point. The peculiar build of the craft con-
firms the opinion that u is the remnant of an
old Spanish craft"