Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-19

cldent on the narrow gauge road at ocs1o
Wednesday last, are doing verv we'll The
tWo men mat were killed were buried Thurs
day morning. ~ nuns
o.. \ .eolored man named Matthews. driver
Lof the express company in Ocala was de-
tecteq robbing the company of three Dacka0es
containing SlO3. and on Wednesday he v7as
arrested. Most all of the money was secured
MAJ. Norris, of Orange City, has sold one party
+.5r0 boxes of oranges from his ceIebrsted
grove at Spring Garden for So 10 per hoy To Ie
delivered at the railroad wharves in Jackson
NIlle. Inc grove viii yield over 2.OOO,OOO the
present crop.
At their netting last week the ORANGE civ
council decided TO employ as teacher Of tbe
school at that place, fOrthe present scholastic
term, gentleman with whom they have been
corresponding in New York The school ,,-iii
open the lst Of next month.
The Orlando Reporter saws: "A ! Raco
Town solicitor of kissimmee. and form1 nv
the Prosecuting Attorney of the sCommIttee
9I fuDlc safety Of New Orleans. was intro
nucei 10 the court on Monday last bV MessrS
Ammo Drew and admitted to practice"
lne Orlando Reporter says: ''JOhn Holden
on Monday last presented us with a tropical
paW-paw-a purely tropical fruit. which Is
not grown TO any extent IN this latitude This
specimen, however, was grown upon a tree nm
W. H. Holden's grove, which has borne tbe
the conditions"
\ letter from a gentleman in Germany
states that he, with a colony of thirtv-eirht
Dermans, mostly men, will sail for America
IN Few days and arrive here about Januorv
lst. They are all bound for Florida. which
they viii make their future home and will
purchase for cash between 400 and 500 acres.
probably at Glen st. Mary.
j. L0rillard has had built at New York two
steamers, which viii run on Indian river.
one OF the steamers is a side-wheeler and the
other Is a propeller. The former is 80 feet
long. IA feet beam and feet depth of hold
They have been fitted up with passenger ac-
computations. Ihey are now on their way
10 lndlan river, and will probably arrive
there some time the present week.
The Orlando Reporter printed the follow
ing; ~ singular death occurred in Orlando
l1st saturday morning, y week ago DR.. E.
Mitchell and Mr.. Charles Griswold arrived
here from Lancaster, y. H., the latter
beng in very feeble health. On Saturday
morning a young man who had been in
attendance upon Mr.. GriswOld started
with him for Wilcox. After going half n
mile he seemed TO imagine that some one was
after him. and darted OF through the woods
The young man then started for assistance,
and when Mr. Grlswold was found an hour
afterward he was lying in ditch alongside
the railroad IN a dying condition. Drs.
Mitchell and Pillev had accompanjed Tho
searching party, and did all in their power to
restore him, but he died in an hour. He was
highly connected, and his parents are wealthy.
He leaves a wife and one child. His remains
were taken North by DIR. Mitchell.
The Madison correspondent Of the Times
Union writes as follows: "If YOU could have
seen the scene enacted upon our streets this
ciHvoh tiiuh y Vu Noulu ldNof pfOnlDl-
ton. George Glass. a young man living in
the country, has come to town a number of
times and got drunk, and deiied the Town
Marshal and all others in authority. Once he
was arrested, after shooting his pistol DrOmis-
cuOusly in the streets. and fined $40. To-day
he returned and carried on worse than usual.
running his mule through the streets and DEFY
ing arrest \ young man named Stockton
smith was sworn in as Deputy Marshal.
lie then mounted his horse and ran him
through the streets yelling as il he was drunk
also. Glass, thinking smith was also on a
spree. stopped his mule and turned round so
they could both run together when smith
eaught Glass reius and both put whip to their
horses. and smith carried him TO the Marshal.
Glass fell of his mule and commenced strik-
ing the Marshal. who then knocked him down
with his club. IL looked for some time as il it
would end in big difficulty, as a number of
the country people wanted to interfere. Quiet
Is now restored, and Glass has given bonds for
his appearance at the Mayors Court next
Tuesday.