Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-17

Milton complains of scarcity of ice.
| lee can te had in Key West only for sick
I persons now.
4 new town in Alachua county is named
/ ashingtOn city.
Cedar Kew has raised the an arapt,pe
against Pensacola.
Captain Salmoneus. the living skeleton j.
I on exhibition in Jacksonville
Cholera has thinued out the hogs in some
localities Of Columbia county.
The crop Of Indian river oranges this fall
viii be the largest ever shipped
MicanOpv has a fig tree which bears inward
Oh hity bushels OF hgs every year.
There Is move being made to establish a
hack line between ApOpka and Orlando
William Irvine. residing about six miles
rom Ocala, died last week, aged SO years.
There Is a movement towards the cultiva-
ton OF tobacco in the cotton belt of Florida.
There were y vessels arrived at Jackson
vile from foreign ports during the last month
one of the Interesting curiOsities of Florida
Is the natural bridge over the Santa Fe river.
ocala has had tins year 50 far thirteen births
ana three deaths among her white population.
Ocala will soon have an artesian well. an
electric light. 81 market house and fire en-
gine.
\ large cave has been discovered eighteen
miles from Gainesville, and is now being eX-
plored.
Leesburg fruit growers are sending large
numbers OF sicily lemons into the Northern
markets.
sicily lemons shipped North from Orange
county recently, have brought an average
price of 81 per box.
The sanford House al Orlando has been
leased 10 ScOyille a Co., who had the KimbalI
of Atlanta, before it burned
The wife of Dr. Bosso Will continue the
manufacture and sale of his celebrated yellow
lever medicine, at Pensacola.
The Florida Land and Colonization Com
pdny Is putting up "a saw mill on the line Of
the south Florida Railroad at Boggy Creek
The drought in the neighborhOod of Mica
nopy Is becoming alarming. Orange trees
consequence.
The Florida Land and Colonization Com
pany appropriated two thousand dollars for
the purpose of clearing out and gra ing the
streets of sanford.
W. /. jackson, of Archer. has a clock which
was purchased by hs grandfather in the
month OF september, l744. 1t has been keep
ing good time for l39 wears.
The Board OF Public instruction for Nassau
county nave appointed G. 4. Key, late Presl-
dent OF the Middle Georgia College. Principal
of FernandIna Public school No. I.
There Is pine tree on the place of Mr.. J. &.
Needer, five miles this side of La Crosse,
which measures at a distance of one foot from
the ground y feet in circumference.
The shipments by express from Ocala last
year We're 1000 crates fruit and 3,4I6 crates
Vegetables. This year there has been so far
shipped l7.223 crates fruit and 2l7IS crates
vegetables, total gain of p ,g25 crates
Mrs. +. J. Lauders, a lady living seven
miles from Lake City. is forty years old and
the mother of nineteen children. the oldest of
which Is twenty-five years of age. Mrs. Ian
ders is hale and hearty, enjoys good health
and bids fair TO live many years.
W. I. Hoover, near Lake City. last winter
planted One-fOurth of an acre IN cabbage,
from which he realized $50. and in the spring
put the same land IN snap beans, for which he
received Sl4, making total of S74 for the
fourth of an acre, while the same land is now
in good corn.
ON Thursday morning last the dead body
OF General Commander was found in front Of
his store, two miles from LOchbie. The cause
of his death Is supposed to be cholera mOrbus
resulting from eating oysters which had been
so long canned as 10 become lead poisoned.
lie was 20 years of ge.
st church a few miles from Lake CITY
colored woman experienced rel giOn last sun
day night. aud after undergoing great excite
ment fell into a trance She fell on the floor
and there remained up to last Tuesday night
without food or drink. The building being
used as a school house, the exercises of the
school proceeded as usual, the woman lying
ON the hoOr covered with a shawl.