Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-14

Vegetables are scarce I'M ANUpka llLN-
-rie Apalachicola spOngers have had pro
ftatie season.
WatermelOns weighing ~ pounds are raised
in Leon county.
Orange trees are blooming again in the
vicinity of Tampa.
gang Of three card monte men are plying
their ayOcatlOn in Palatka.
Two large catamOunts were killed near
Tampa one daY last week.
santa Rosa county has insured her court
house for $500 at l12 per cent.
party Of New Workers will engage IN silk
culture near Tampa next fail.
A snapper fish weighing Is pounds was re
gently caught OF ApalachicOla.
Gainesville uses from fifteen hundred To
i've thousand pounds Of ice daily.
~iuce the completion of the Pensacola and
Atlantic Railroad II only requires twenty
four hours TO travel from Gainesville TO PEN
sacOa.
Gainesville and Pensacola will soon have
street railways. Pensacola is putting down
her track.
Fiftr-two students are registered at the
eu.nred Normal school at the Lincoln Acade-
my at Tallahassee.
A Presbyterian church is being organized
in the Keep neighbOrhOOd. in the southern
part Of AlachUa county.
A tomato canning factory would pay in
almost any part of Florida, hundreds OF BUSH
els being thrown away every season.
has been begging throughout Florida. was
arrested i'm Pensacola the other day. and over
$500 found on his person.
Owing to the previous drought potato vines
are scarce in Clay county and the farmers
have not a sufficient quantity &C. plant the
usual acreage Of this crop
Twenty-Five hundred Putnam county
pamphlets were sent off this week-l.s0O 10
the Louis yiiie Exposition and 100 TO the state
Immigration Agent at Jacksonville.
The Peters place at Enterprise was sold re
Gently under foreclosure of mortgage. lor
$4,000, and was bought by FREDERICK DeBary.
The mortgageF bad before reused Sls,OOO Tor
&c.
last wear there yyas shipped from Milton
lUe OG0 pounds of wO0ls this wear only $4,000
pounds The balance was shipped from otner
points on the Pensacola anu Ailantle' De
FuniSB alone shipped 9.t0O pounds
AT Pensacola on Monday last negro named
Perry Nelson. while At work IN mlll' was
killed outright through the 0re3klng ol a il e,r-
.cular saw. A fragment of the broken imple-
ment struck the Unfortunate man aDout the
head, almost cutting 80 IN two.
The grading Of the jacksonville, Tampa
ana Key West Railway l. practlcally com
nlefeo' between Gainesville aud Palatka,
there being nOtim0re than hVe miles aliosellieII I
a. -r,aT sactiOns, unfinished, and II the rains
are NOT TOO heavy. viii be done within the
next two or tlsree weeks
Onions Of the Bermuda and Italian varie-
ljes are now beng extensively SI9Wh .n IN III
A.
truckers list OF regalar crops Tor Shipment
They are very large sGd desirable VaIletle , l.7
and when DrnperlY grown SIN command Soou
prices-perhaps S. 60 s. per bSshei.
The Jacksonville, st. Augustine and HallfaN
Railroad COMPANY has inst closed contract
to transport the lumber, brick ana Otilef ma
ferial FOR the immense new hotel soon 20 De
constructed at st. Augustine, from Jackson :
willie to that place. The material. an lolu-
will make ever i've hundred car loads.
The Tampa TribHEs SAYS: a snag boat has
been compRted for the purpose Of clearing
Tiger creek and other tribstaries Of kissimmee
river ureplratOry 10 running . steamer from
Kissimmee to Walk in thew ateF lake = when o
mail route will lie established connecting ks
simmee City with Fort sieade and Barlow.
thence to Tampa and Manatee, accommodate
Eng the st. Johns river travel 10 "a trip into
Vale interier of south Florida.
The Alaehus j dUocate saws: "James Lewis.
MI . Has fined - 50 by Mayor Burnett for
syye,, wing, was on MOSsday evening entrusted
to ne care Of POlicemeB Griffin. who Went
utyritb him "a secure m0heS with Whlch "a
nav MS i1ne A tter passing Eils corporate Z
limits Lewis curset the policemen aaa Dlu
him gOod-day As pOheemah nas IL. nS - !
thOrity outside of the COZ poTa.ion, NIlii IL ~
10 come bacs, and pay Lev is Hne Ou' u HE
own pocket
William Mitchell, the negro N}S SO serious
ly cut his sisfer-in-law while atteuiFllhs "
Kin his wife m Ia Vile on last Tuesday eve
ming. was captured on Thursday since ss7
arrest IL has been ascertained that ne Is an
escaped prisoner from the ThOmasyilles Ca
Jail, where he was confined for horse stealing
He is now confined in the Jacksonville laii,
having been taken there on Thursday. Inc
wounded girls condition is still very critical.
and it Is not yet known what the result
viii be-