Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-15

Gulf Hammock is to have post Office.
David A. Dunn, an ApalachicOla saw fler
dropped dead a few days ago.
No new cases Of smallpox have developed
AZ jacksonville within the past two days.
a colony OF fifty families from Wisconsin
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A few days ago Captain w. j. vason, OF
Tallahassee, lost valuable COW. It was
struck by lightning.
Wednesday was the hottest day of the sea-
son at Jacksonville, the thermometer going
up 10 sOl2 at the Signal office.
The owners of the orange groves say that
the crop of 1888 will be the largest and most
valuable ever known in Florida.
single firm in Tallahassee. Messrs. Coles
4 Beard, during the twelve months ending
May 81, 1883, bought and sold 6,2O5 pounds of
butter.
The State of Florida will soon have an i'm
mense territory of sugar lands redeemed by
the drainage of Lake OkeechObee. These
lands will doubtless soon be put in cultivation
by capitalists.
The child of a cOlored woman living in La
Villa was drowned Wednesday afternoon by
falling in tub Of water which was carelessly
left standing on back piazza while the
mother went out for a sOciable chat with 4
neighbOr-
There were four bids received for building
the seminary az Gainesville, the highest be-
ing Sl4.5OO, and the lowest $ll, 900, by Mr..
tiOOdale, TO whom it was awarded. 1t seems
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more than $1,000.
It is reported that the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia Railroad Company are to
build road between Jesup and Hartz road,
and are negotiating for the control of the
Florida Transit and Peninsula, and the Flori-
ia Central and Western Railroads.
The dredge boat now opening the canal
through the extensive body of sawgrass on
the north side of Lake ApOpka, has been cut
ting through a bed Of tenacious clay, under
which is a bed of clay mari containing large
portion Of carbonate of lime supposed to be
of great extent.
The Wekiva, Blackwater and Central Com
pany have commenced active operations on
the Wekiva river near AltamOnte, and also at
the mouth of the Wekiva, on the st. Johns.
This company proposes to straighten and
clear out the channel of the river, putting 1t
in navigable condition, and opening it to trade
and traffic.
The freight war which has been waging for
some time past between the steamers running
south from jacksonville has been settled by a
meeting OF the managers, but the cutting of
passenger rates continues, and unless another
meeting is held and some rate is agreed.upOn,
some of the lines will soon be carrying pas
sengeus for less than il costs to feed them.
The Times Union saws: son Sunday night
two negroes by the name of Jesse Harris and
Isham Hampton, got into a quarrel while re
turning home from church, about eight miles
south of Madison, which resulted in Harris
kicking Hampton, from the effects of which
Hampton died Tuesday morning. COrO-
ner's jury was mpaneleds Dut at last ac-
counts had not returned verdict.
The jacksonville Daily Herald has the fol-
lowing telegram. received from Tallahassee
Wednesday afternoon, which announces that
in the case of the -Etna Steam Fire Company
vs. the city of Jacksonville. suit Tor labor per-
formed at fires. the decision, reserved at last
sitting of the court, was delivered by
Associate Justice WestcOtt, reversing the
Judgment of the lower court, rendered on
findings of a referee for about $4,000, and
granting a new trial. The suit has been
pending for nearly five years, and the claim
Is fixed mt more than s., 600.