Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-25

saw mills nave Deen shipped up the st. Johns
river.
Hon. p. ". White has been appointed Com
missioner Of Land and immigration at Kew
West.
Il Is estimated that Marion county shipped
during the past season o.. 900 boxes Of oranges
that uetted at least 50 per box.
Ii Is said that the chances are good for a.
female college being established aHS.ake City.
Florida has built 235 miles Of railroad dur
ing the past year.
D. f. LambIas, Of 81 Augustine. has hen
twenty years old.
r. {. scrimgeour has been appointed post
master OF Titusville.
Gainesville has iwehty-onc telephones in
use.
\ post Office has been established at Crest
view.
The uncollected tax Of fernando county
amounts % 1882 80
Royal Putnam has been appointed Inspector
81 Customs at Pensacola.
The publication of a sunday school monthly
iS soon 10 be commenced al Manatce.
The sunday schools of Fort Dade and vicin-
ltA are To have grand May-day festival
Al the town of Magnesia Spring Alachua
county. two artesian wells are to he sunk.
The last rail has been laid on the line of the
road between jacksonville and Pensacola.
BrOoksyille is eighteen miles from the Gulf
OF AcNico, and Is lI5 feet above the sea level.
The oyster season has closed in jacksonville
none being allowed 10 be sold after the 10th
( inst.
+ J. II. sans has resigned the office of Super
lntendent Of Public Instruction of Brevard
county.
The Ocala Baptists are going to build a
three and half or four thousand dollar
church.
The value of the domestic exports from
Pensacola fol the month Of February was
$290,OJ0.
General sebring's LeCoute pear trees seven
years old, IN Bronson. are white with
blossoms.
Immense beds OF phosphate rock have been
discovered near Magnesfa Springs, in Alachua
county.
over $4,000 were paid into the county col
leri'i.s Office at jacksonville during February
ipr whisky licenses.
Young man named Lee Jones. accident
aiiy shot and killed himself while duck hunt
ing near Fort Dade.
The dry weather has seriously injured the
pea crop al Lake City, cutting OF 1T least
one-half the shipment.
There are six stores al BroOksvilIe, four at
Crystal river, and one each at Fort Dadc.
Magnolia Bluff and MayO's HILL
q. y. Bryan. Of Glencoe has purchased the
large herd of cattle belonging to w. II. Cliff
ton. oi the Clifton settlement valued az 500
COS.
= monster gar fish, weighing thirty-seven
pounds, and iiyc feet two inches long. was
caught IN the II. Johns, near SANFORD a few
days ago.
Two sch0Oners per month will leave New
ork ioT Palatka, laden with iron for the
South Florida Railroad. The company has
1850 tons II rails IN New York awaiting ship
ment
Malcom Baker, living near Nolusia, was
assaulted lay q negro with club as lie was
returning from town one night last week.
The rascal was recognized, and is now in Jail
at Enterprise.
PrOt. Dexter. the magnetic doctor OF Jack
sunNille fame. has decided To locate in that
city. He has purchased lot and intends to
erect a hospital. 1t is to contain over one
hundred rooms ami Will cost SjJ,000.
The steamer Alabama failed TO put in an
appearance II Braident0wn on sunday even
ing last, and the consequence il that fifty
crates Of vegetables will rot in the warehouse
waiting transportation To Cedar Key.
The dredge Alabama at the mouth of the
Manatee river, = cutting channel sixty feet
wide and between nine and ten feet deep at
low water, which will enable vessels drawing
from twelve to thirteen feet to cross the bar
at high water.
The iron on the Jacksonville, ST. Augustine
amt Halifax Railroad has been laid 10 within
eight and three-quarter miles of st. Angus
tine. II w0rkmen can be employed in sutii-
cient numbers. the company expects To have
trains running through toy the middle OF next
week.
Owing L. the absence ofimportant witnesses,
the ease Of the state vs. Abe Wilkinson for
the murder uf -teCd at Fort Myers, some
fifteen months ago. was continued to the next
term OF the court Wilkinson has already
been i'm jail twelve months. II was mainly
his witnesses who were absent
The Brooksvilie Crescent announces that
railroad meetings in the interest of GOrdon's
scheme viii he held 1T various places in Her
mandO county at stated dates. The meetings
will be managed by State senator Mann. who
has been actively engaged in aid of the road
since the adjournment of the Legislature.
PalmasOla Bay was visited by whIrlwind
ON ~undA week. Ii apparently came from
II at4- -ftlFtE 10 Gf
erlv course across PalmasOla Bay To the mouth
of the river. where it tore up the cattle pen,
stripped the trees, and drove slOOp out to
sea. 1t also demolished the frame of new
house which had Just been put up.
The overplus of Mexican dollars in Key
West caused something of panic, and mer
chants refused to take them unless ut eighty
cents. As il was known that some $4,000
were in town. and all had been taken at
ninety cents. a meeting was called by the
business men, and cOmpromisewas effected
10y them. agreeing to rate them at eighty-hve
hereafter.
The Key West Democrat says that Duke
Pindcr. who killed Henry Jones near ChOka-
Iu>ka some four weeks since, Is now IN jail
There and the grand jury has brought in an
indictment against him. Jones was with Ap-
thOrps surveying party when killed. The
shot dred by Pnder was not intended Tor him,
hut missed its mark and took deadly effect on
Jones. The man for whom the shot was in
tended Is the principal witness against the
murderer
captain PeaCOn. Of the schooner Champion.
arrived this week with the finest cargo of
sponge that has been seen in Key West for
MANY 4 long day. Many OF them would
weigh as much as two and three
pounds. When il is taken into consideration
that an ordinary sponge VIII weigh about slN
ounces, one can readily perceive the size and
quality Of this lot. The Peacon brothers are
among our most successful spongers and fish
emen."
Tie .SDring says work on the rOadbed of the
Green Cove Spring and MelroSc Railroad has
heed actively resumed by the contractors,
but the heavy rains during the week have
greatly retarded operations. In the cutting
on Bav street some wash has occurred, but
rial damage during the suspension of opera
tiOnS Mr.. ShreVe Ackey, the President OF
the company, arrived on Monday from Phila-
HeIphia. and every effort will be made to pre-
pare the road for the locomotive as rapidly as
possible.
The jacksonville Tunes Union Is responsible
for the following: Mr.. DeWall, the photo
has a little twO-year-old son called Charlie,
who is allowed to play IN the yard Charlie
Is Of an investigating turn Of mind as well as
\ deyOtee of pleasure, mental combinations
which led him to crawl under the house and
afterwards to play there regularly. About
three weeks ago lie told his mother he had
found a bird under the house that he played
WITH and almost every night since he has re-
lated happy stories of the beautiful times he
has had beneath the house playing with his
.bird' Last Saturday he was frolicklng IN
the ward when his bird, getting lonely, came
ont 10 sport with him. lie was running 10 II
when Ills mother discovered that his bird
hand. and being called, dispatched the reptile
with A hoe.