Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-03
Of course make no difference with the running
OF his LanesbOro iron works, which are now
IN the fullaar nflarafir.r, y
FLORIDA.
Leesburg has a spelling club.

Leesburg has a spelling club.
Lake City is complaining Of a lack OF rain.
Two new drug stores will soon open up in
Palatka.
4 broom mandatory will soon be started
at Enterprise.
There are 625 Indians and I25 warriors in
the Everglades.
Mr.. Arthur Daughtrv. Of Columbia county.
died last Wednesday
The Western Union Telegraph boys of Pen
sacOla have been supplied with uniforms.
There were four cOlored editors in the re-
cent Florida press excursion to Louisville.
Miss Jones, young lady from Pensacola.
has been appointed telegraph operator at
Mariana.
The Stanton school. of jacksonville. will in
future be known as the Jacksonville Colored
Grammar School.
There were eleven marriage Hcencse issued
from the Columbia county clerks Office du-
ring the month of October.
Licenses for the marriages of IL white and
10 eolored people were issued in Jacksonville
during the month Of October
The first carload of oranges shipped to Chi
cagO this season was collected from orange
groves near Leesburg by J G. Lanier.
Last Wednesday evening a man named
Daniel ID. Sturges, section master on the Flor
ida Central and Western Railroad, was killed
near Lake City.
Judge W. VI. Ives, one of the oldest citi-
zeus Of Columbia county, who, at the time of
ms death, was % years of age, died at Lake
City a few days ago.
During the months of September and Octo-
Der there have been shipped from Lake CITY
lOil bales of cotton, valued at Sis per bale,
making total valuation of SlI9.7I5.
The steamer Thronateeska of the Peoples
Line, met with an accident a few DAYS ago at
Kings Rock, above HaywOOd's Landing
whereby the steamer had large hole knocked
in her.
Jacksonville, on Thursday last, raised her
quarantine against Pensacola and other
points, and the guards were Withdrawn by
order of the city authorities, upon the recon-
mendatlOn Of the Board Of Health.
The Baptist Association for the AIachua
district convened at Moss Bluff, on the Ockla-
waha river, ON Saturday, sunday and Mon
day last. Messrs. J. II. Richards and Finlav
Chjlds were the delegates from the Baptist
Church in Leesburg.
There were shipped from jacksonville last
month 4,7S4,S52 feet of pine lumber; 4,67S 900
to domestic ports, and the balance to foreign
Much Of this was for bridges now being erect
ed for various railroads North. There were
/ about $1,000 shingles sent from Jacksonville
20 foreign ports.
Circuit Court for Duval county convenes in
regular session next Tuesday morning. There
having been no spring term held on account
of the prevalence of smallpox in the county
I at that time, the dOckets as a consequence are
[ heavy. There are 3 criminal cases continued
from last term. ll2RiVil, Is civil appeal , gar
nishee, q claim and IL criminal appeal cases
now ON docket at the Clerks Office.
Henry Atkinson, living about SIX miles
northeast of Monticello, was fatally shot last
saturday night. In company with two or
three white men Atkinson attended q festival
given by some friends, and after remaining
some time they all started for their respective
hemes. Atkinson failed to get of as soon as
the others did, and for the purpose of overtak-
ing them he took short cut through the
woods. The party that had preceded him
were not aware of his purpose to Overtake
them 10y passing through the woods, and sew
eral of them being armed with pistols fired
them OF. One Of the shots penetrated the
neck OF Atkinson, nfiicting a mortal wound,
from which he died on the evening of the next
day. He was aged 26 years, and leaves wife
and two small children.