Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-06

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FLORIDA.
Fred +. Meyer proposes to build a telegraph
line from Mariana to ApalachicOla. provided
the people of the latter place VIII subscribe
S2,5O0.
Ike Taylor, cOlOreds cut the throat of Wm.
Davis, cOlOred, in Apalachicola on Saturday.
Taylor escaped, and Davis will not die.
The number of arrivals in jacksonville is
decreasing.
Sanford has twelve buildings in process of
erection.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, is at Green Cove
Spring.
new Methodist church is to be erected at
Eustis.
Judge King held the first term of his court
at Sumterville last week.
Key West tomatoes are bringing only 81 90
per crate in New York.
Col. f. W. Perry has become editor in .chief
OF the Cedar Key journal.
The finishing touches are being applied to
PensacOla's new opera house.
Cotton planting has just begun in jackson
county.
Lake City is to have female college.
Monticello is putting up her first brick resi-
dence.
Rev. Dewitt Talmage leetured at Pensacola
last week.
Live Oak will hold her municipal election
on the 10th prOXimO.
Madison has organized a Joint stock COM
pany to build a $4,000 hotel.
IL Is said the dry weather has lessened the
pea crop one half near Lake City.
some one has been stealing indictments
from the Clerks office at Lake City.
The Jacksonville City Council has passed an
ordinance To refund the city's bonded debt.
Vice President Edmunds will visit Florida
with his daughter, whose health is precariOus.
The lakes in Orange county, it is reported,
are remarkably low for this season of the
year.
The naval stores works of Major DuttOn. at
Live Oak, are the largest of the kind in the
State.
The Mariana Courier is about to put up a
new 81, 800 cylinder press and Gordon job
press.
The public schools in Sumter county have
been extended another month, making a six
months term.
Mr.. Pillow, the strawberry man of Jackson
vile, has this season shipped 26,269 quarts of
berries North. .
A large pulp factory. for the manufacture of
paper from palmetto fibre, is soon to be estal-
lished in Jacksonville.
\ gardener at ArredOndo has a strawberry
patch of twenty acres, and has sold largely at
fifty cents per quart.
EX-United States Senator Thomas A. Hem
tour of the orange belt.
The underground outlet that was draining
Lake Hamburg has been found and closed
and the lake is rehlling.
The Key Of the GUlf states that a sufficient
amount OF money has been raised to start
Democratic paper in Key West.
4 narrow gauge railroad from Neal's Land
ing TO Greenwood. in Jackson county, is
among the probabilities of the future.
The signal display stations at Fernandina.
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discontinued for lack of the necessary appro-
priations,
The town Of Eustis now has railway COM
munlcatlon with the outside world through
the extension OF the ST. Johns and Lake Eus-
tbs Railroad.
The Jacksonville Times Union has been
sued for libel by Mr.. Townsend. Democratic
candidate for City Assessor. The damages
are laid at 5000.
The draw of the railroad bridge across
the river at ChattahOochee has been com
pleted. and the eutire bridge will soon be
ready for the passage Of trains.
At a recent meeting of the Directors of the
Green Cove Springs and sIelrOse Railroad
Shreve Ackley, Esq, of Philadelphia. was
elected President, Gen. Earle having declined
a reelection.
Several merchants of Tallahassee have been
victimized by a swindler, who pretended to
be getting up advertisements to be inserted
in hotel registers. They paid in advance and
nothing has since been seen of either j. b.
King or the registers.
During the performance of the Havana
Circus in key West last week a number of
persons crowded upon the band stand. en-
deavOring to get a peep without paying for it.
The result was that the stand fell. severely
injuring two cOlOred women and one white
man.
Jacksonville consumed in one week 81 FlOri-
da beeves, 100 Tennessee sheep, 500 pounds
New York sheep, 1000 pounds Florida sheep,
81 hogs, 10000 pounds Tennessee beef, Is. 200
pounds New York beef, 1000 pounds Kentucky
ei, doOOV nj PSnS Sa Oicgo ago, peel o,ySY POUNDS
son, 5000 pounds turkeys, 4.l75 pounds chick
ems. 900 pounds ducks, 400 geese, $40 quails,
S,475 dozen eggs. 900 strings fish, 1900 shad,
400 barrels oysters, besides vegetables, etc.