Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-09

FLORIDA.
Tavares has a cooperative restaurant
Milk is Is cents per quart at Cedar Kew
An apiary has been started at Kew West
inst. VII 'iie ''i
Eustis, Orange county, is to have news
An ice car is being run between Sanford and
orlando, making tri-weekly trips
steam mail service will be established be-
tween ApalachicOla and st. Marks
Eggs are 80 cents per dozen at DeLand and
Jacksonville, and only cents at Tallahassee,
move is on foot, at BroOksville, to organ
iLe stock company to erect large male and
female college.
Bishop of Florida, will visit Emanuel Church.
/ Welaka, on sunday, June 10th.
There are thirty-five prisoners in the Duval
county jail. Five of these are white and seven
are women. One is a murderer.
party OF Cncinnatians have bought 5000
acres in Florida, known as the ApOpka Noun
tains, and viii build a $l0O.O 600 hotel there.
Judging from receipts at Key West thus
Tar, over fifty thousand dozen pine apples
West this year.
John Williams, a cOlOred man in the emplOv
of ii. A. Tanner, of DE Land. got drunk one
day last week fell of his mule and was run
over and killed.
ls making contracts with parties in Sumter
county 10 exchange land for stock in General
GOrdon's railroad.
Granville Burke, who last year lived at
EllaNille. shot and killed a man by the name
OF Madison, near New BFandforvl in Suwannee
county, some time last week.
Water in Lake Jesup is getting very low,
there being only about three feet at the mouth
OF the canal. Rain Is greatly needed not only
Tor the benefit OF navigation but for crops.
During the past season, commencing i'm No
vember. 1882, and in April. lSS3 los 366 sacks
anu 5'6 barrels, aggregating ll,3i2 tons of
guano, were shipped from Pensacola to differ
ent parts Of the country.
X. Mclaughlin, ID. Eagan, &. c. Collins and
:. Il. Carter, of Jacksonville are the incOrpo-
raIors OF new railroad to run from Jackson
Alile 10 Enterprise. II viii be known as the
-. Johns River Railway, and will he about
l40 miles in length.
4. B. Carter, charged with the murder of
the late J.. w. Griffin, at Orlando, has
heen found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree. II Is thought that the case will be car
ried to the Supreme Court before it is finally
disposed Of. This is the second time this case
has been tried, the jury having made mis-
trial before.
While Mr.. Tharp, OF Greenville. was absent
from home few nights ago, his house was
burned and his wife. who was his second one
was missing. II is now surmised that she stole
$500 rom rlned trunk which was saved from
the fire, fired the house TO conceal her crime
and elOped to Texas with an unknown man.
riding IN buggy. Mr.. Tharp's son is safe
with his father.
The Putnam County Journal has the follow
ing: The steamer Twilight was sunk at'the
old wharf at Georgetown last Friday. The
waves from the Dugan. which was passing,
caused the Twilight to be forced against the
spiles of the dock, one of them breakinga hole
IN her hull. She sank IN nine feet of water.
WOrkmen are now engaged on her and it Is
supposed she Will be raised sOon."
ON Wednesday evening a serious, if not
fatal. accident happened on the tug Athlete
near FeTnandna. She was towing a large
vessel in, and when near the fort the walking
beam suddenly gave way. This was followed
by the blowing out of the top and afterwards
the bottom cylinder head. Captain sam De-
nette was blown through one partition wall
into the wheel house and lodged in what is
known as the "a frame on the outside of the
wheel house. He was seriously if not fatally
injured. The engineer, William Bowman,
ran into the engine room TO shut OF the
steam, and was also badly scalded about the
face and arms. Captain Parsons, who was
on board at the time. and all of the crew lex
cept the cook jumped overheard. and were
rescued by the vessels boats. The cook at
tempted TO get through a small hole in the
guards and got hung, and remained so until
the crew went back on board and pulled him
out. The damages are between $4,000 and
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