Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-10

A House struck Dy AlkiAbAAAA's
among Children in Their Ieens-Bears
t,rowIing Near Tavares-A Model arm
Ssar st. Augustine - Astor's New
Hotel.
GEORGIA,
rfsrrveIl Is very healthy at present.
seventh Is to be added to the saloons at
Na.jOsta.
Mrs. NJ. r. Hobbs, OF DuDuh' Il "eau- iieI
ege was 81 years.
7r. thermometer stood at SO in the shade in
Harrwell IueadaS'
lanes II. Carroll, Of Ousley. died suddenly
.. auuopleNy recently.
r-to commissioners VIII be voted for in
r|.erIe- county to-day.
Tbeuaaple of Cedar Greek have determined
-.r.sulll their church.
Trr.. -lipments for this season are nearing
.a.ard l Brooks county.
tapt. James r. Robinson, one Of the pr0mi-
r-rr citizens Of Brooks county, died few
LAYS ua.A-
one effect of Valdosta's traffic in melons is
rla su. EmSAt by necessity Of three tele-
graph UHeratd-&Sin the office at that place
Erae-- VIII pick but half a crop of water
mt.r-- Qultman mas eaten most Of the mel
.r- coming within her limits.
,r- w. R. Hester. an aged lady OF D17f,Iip
about .l years of age became demented and
e-.- last week conveyed to the asylum at Mil
I.I-..lIe.
T.-grb Robinson, a seventeen -year-old lad.
.+U.. .rmau.i- subject 10 fits of mental y gberra
r... .nJ has been sent 20 AlilledgeviIle for
treatment.
Tr..e Aaron, former cOOred resident of
E-.t- county. who is bowed down bv the
vs- of LOB years, as be claims. has lust
r.-t. t.- olj home
tI-.rIiu- EaShof lightning. followed bv a
terrific thunder clap, threw pictures from
r..r..H luI overturned several chairs in the
r.- ..uea 1f a. * Wilson, at NaldOsta, a few
days a-.-
d.. Kerosene war between two druggists of
Dublin. the price of the fluid dropped from
a-ruL uL.raut- per gallon. The dealers claimed
lie losing money at the latter fgure.and the
tr..s bias already assumed an upward ten
o-utg.
FLORIDA.
lIr-. Martha Moore, of Apalachicola. died
.s-t week. aged - years.
Tho Tampa market Is being suuuIied viii,
ml1-ac- trOm Point Penellas.
TU-I.a factory at Orlando has been started.
aaI is UnW turning out an excellent qualitvOf
.re
The Lake Eu-tis Railway Company has
erected abeautiful hotel at the st. Johns ter
minus. A-tnr-
Ta. entrance To- Pensacola harbor Is now
u feet deep hy $50 feet iu width. 1t is to be
Iaereu.i t1 - feet at mean low tide
u- &C. A. Hentz. a son Of the famous
Caroline Lee Heniz. of jackson county. is
gardening and growing oranges ON Indian
rFgr-
A-uark was recently caught at Fernapdina
that ua- sixteen feet four inches long, and
measured two feet and nine inches between
tle eyes
ueIaud has made a sale of its public school
iu.I.u- to tine Catholics. and will now erect a
larger and more imposing building farther
rut .f town.
Tlep post Office at sanford has been removed
ts @ more commOllOus and better ventilated
.N rrrr
boxes from tine Yale Lock Company of 2J2
boxes.
Several bears are roaming through the
woods on the opposite side Of the canal from
Tlylres. An old bear and her cub have sew
era. times been seen during the past week by
different parties.
k.Ij smith was arrested at Pensacola Fri
daV and committed to iail on a warrant
charging him with stealing rope. yellow
metal bolts. etc, To the amount of 500 from the
Pensacola Fish Company.
S negro named Harrison Thomas. confined
Il fIe iail at ApalachicOla. FOR murder made
sod attempt % free himself last week. some
of the neIghbOrlng residents heard him at
work in time TO prevent his escape.
Captain samuel A. Smoke. Of the East
Florida Seminary CdQets. who received the
appointment % West Point from this Con-
-re-sl0ual district. recently. has passed tho
examination and been admitted TO the sceo0l.
The Tallahassee FI0gtdian says:'sCius Bovd
temeuted cOl0red youth. who killed his
brother I'm a recent alteration IN which both
used clubs pretty freely has been bailed i'm
the sum OF 5000 tO appear al the fan term of
the Circuit Court TO answer to the charge of
manslaughter-'
The Apalachicola Tribune contains the fol-
lowing: Last week a negro woman and a
white woman lthe latter married a negro
were at creek in Calhoun county fishing
Tie former woman is called Crawford and
the latter Minnie Brown. The women had
their children with them. but the children
left them during the course of the dav and the
Crawford children got the Brown child of
and threw her down ON the ground and
severely beat her. They then picked the
child mp and Put her i'm the water close bv and
held her head under the water until She was
srrauEled to death. The body of the child
was found by its mother I'M the water where
DO had been left. The elder Crawford girl Is
lt wears old"
Tie FI0T5di1a SAYS: About fiftv miles
north of st. Augustine. and at the junction of
Ode Halifax and TOmOka rivers. Mr. y b.
HlrUOOd has been at work for two wears in
getting under way q great plantation and
stock farm. His grove includes twelve thou
sand orange trees of all varieties. His pas
ture OF ten thousand acres is fenced with
1lrued wire. and he has several hundred
berkshire hogs and many sheep. For his cat
Gle Doe has fields Of approved grasses. and for
hIs hogs fields Of Chufas and cassava and corn.
Between fifty and q hundred laborers are
employed and lodged i'm comfortable cottages
aJ different points on the lands, which were
cultivated IN cane and cotton fifty years ago,
the remains of the sugar works DESTROYED bv
ile Indians IN 1850 being still 10 be seen.