Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-30
FLORIDA.


Cotton, picking began in Alachua county
last week.
There was a fall of hail in fernando county
last week.
\ new paper will soon be started at Pine
Level called the Times.
The Panama variety of pineapples are sell
ing at 81 80 each in Leesburg.
In order to rid the streets of hogs, New
smyrna is going to incorporate.
The government Land Office at Gainesville
gives employment to twelve persons.
The Baptist Church at Waldo has received
the new bell ordered some time since.
\ small steamer has been purchased by
Tallahassee citizens to ply on Lake jackson.
Five miles of the Green Cove Springs and
MelrOse Railroad are now in running order.
There are thirty springs Of clear water
within two miles of the court house at Lake
City.
Orlando is agitating the project of organ
izing a Fruit ana Vegetable Growers Associ-
alton.
Mr.. Davis. of Waldo, has realized already
a net profit of 500 80 upon one acre of water
melons.
During the vegetable season Orange Lake
station, Florida Southern Railway, shipped
6,62S packages.
Farmers in Madison are experiencing diff
Guilty in getting a sufficient number of hands
10 pull their fodder.
BIackberries are still sold in the Tallahas-
half cents per quart.
Hampton }. Williams, residing near Lake
Butler, has open sea island cotton on his farm
Of this years crop.
Brown. the bigamst. who was confined in
the Braidentown Jail, cut his way out through
the ceiling and escaped.
The summer Normal School. in connection
with the West Florida Seminary, will open on
Monday. July 30, at Tallahassee.
The jacksonville District Conference,
which held latp session at FpruaOdiua.
will he held next year at Sanford.
PanasOfikee IS in need of barber shop,
livery stable, a meat market. shade trees,
vegetables, and steam saw mill.
An athletic association has been lately or
ganized at Jacksonville for the development
of the brain and muscle of her Young men.
1t is said that the Peen To peaches do not
satisfy the fancy buyers of New York, owing
TO the peel becoming bitter from being picked
unripe.
The Governor has offered a reward of $3.50
for the arrest of Duncan Morrison, the muir
derer of Mrs. Matte Y. Mickle, of Marion
county.
The steamer Anita on Friday last brought
down the st. Johns river a curiosity in the
shape of a cOlOred man having six fingers on
each hand.
The first raft of logs freighted over the Mel
rose Road and deposited in the river was
tOwed down to Jacksonville by the Mary
Draper on Thursday.
F. :. Francis. a well-knOwn cOlOred con-
tractor and builder, and an efficient fireman
-Of the Duval Fire Company, of Jacksonville,
died on Friday morning.
There are now thirty-fve prisoners in the
Duval county jail. OF these four are white
and seven are women. One Is a murderer and
another is horse thief.
4 large rattlesnake, having fourteen rattles,
was sent by the Messrs. Ashmead from Jack
sonville to the Geological Institute at Phila-
delphia a few days since.
H. d. Lewis, of Ocala. who has been on trial
at Jacksonville for embezzlement, has been
hOnOrably discharged. 1t is reported that he
will sue DR.. Butt for $4,000 for alleged dam
ages.
About one hundred hands arrived at Ocala
last week, from the northern extension of the
Florida Southern. to work on that end. Work
present.
4 young lady residing near Temples Mills
poisoned herself on Monday night last by an
overdose of laudanUm taken for headache.
After a few hours of intense agony she was
relieved.
According to the very lowest estimate, ten
thousand bushels of Leon cOunty's last years
corn crop remain in the hands of the pro-
ducers, and can he bought for thirty-hve
cents bushel.
All prOclamatiOns Offering rewards for the
arrest Of fugitives from justice, issued prior
to January, 1888, have been revoked by the
Governor. This is done on account of the last
Legislature having confined the apprOpria-
ton for paying such rewards TO the years 1888
and 1884.
One thousand million oranges were imported
into England for home consumption last sea-
son. none of which were from Florida; and as
il is an acknowledged fact that these foreign
oranges cannot be compared to the Florida
fruit, this Will be good field for Florida or
anges as soon rs there is a surplus to export.
The famous live oak tree known as the
Devils Riding Whip" which is situated
three-quarters of a mile northwest of the
ssDevil's Mill Hopper" measures thirty-three
feet and four and a half inches IN cjrcumfer-
ence one foot from the ground. The tree is
hollow and affords ample shelter for forty
hogs.
Tuesday morning a shooting affray took
place about five miles east of Gainesville, in
which Ike Stewart alias Ike Thompson was
shot in the eye and instantly Killed at the hands
of LuCius stark, cOlOred. His capture mas not
vet been effected. He is supposed to be con-
cealed in some of the swamps not far from
where the murder was committed.
Wittie Eures, a mOulder in the machine
shops of the Florida Central and Western
Railroad in Tallahassee, was struck IN the
eye by piece of molten iron a few days ago.
and has been a great sufferer ever since the
accident. His eye Is very much swollen and
closed, and the physician Is unable to deter
mine whether the sight Is destroyed or not.
Friday afternoon Jack Kief. a welI-known
eX-pOllceman of Jacksonville, was shot by
Doc. smith, the desperate saloon keeper.
who, about month or six weeks ago. tried to
o
one of which struck Kief in the middle of the
left thigh. one missed him entire, and the
third gTazed his forehead. A physician who
was called in to attend Kiefr made a partial
examination of the wound and pronounced il
serious but not fatal. smith was Immediately
arrested and locked up.
The Mariana Times says: "Judge r. NJ.
Walker owner of the Mariana and Apa-
lachicOla telegraph line. with his foreman,
Mr. Hale. passed through Mariana, Wednes-
daV on the way home. The line Is now ready
for the wire, which will be here and at Apa-
lachicola about the lst OF August. Half the
wire will be delivered at Mariana and hat
at ApalachicOla. The distance between the
termini is about 10 miles. 1t is Is miles to
the jackson county line and 80 miles from
thence to WeWahitchka, making the latter
the half way point. Mr.. Hale Informed us
that for eight days not a single person was
seen except the members of the line force.
Often he had to wade or swim the creeks,
ponds and bayous. The line runs from Ma
rlanna down the ChipOla river to the Dead
Lakes and thence direct 10 the Gulf"