Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-10
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FLORIDA.
PensacOla's Board of Health has not vet
taken any steps in the matter of public vac
cinatiOn, and its tardiness is causing unfavOr-
able criticism.
Pensacola viii be enlivened by the annual
fire parade on May lst.
During recent thunder storm near Pensa-
cola cart, in which boy and girl were
riding, was struck by lightning, and the mule
drawing it was killed. Beyond the shock the
boy and girl suffered no harm.
About week ago Furnan Young. a colOred
man living ten miles from Tallahassee. on 60
ing home about o'clock in the evening found
MS daughter lying dead eighty yards from the
house with her throat cut and in the house
the remains of his wife riddled with bullet
and buck shot. No clue had been obtained at
last accounts 70 the hendish perpetratOr of this
horrible atrocity.
Tavares is agitating South Florida fair.
forty-siX pound drum fish was caught at
81. Augustine last week.
j. i. WOffOrd, of Lake Eustis. netted So 90
per crate for his first shipment of snap beans
At Tallahassee the market is supplied with
new Irish potatoes at 90 cents per peck straw
berries at p cents per quart, and green peas
at so cents peck.
An invalid lady, of Pinecastle. Orange
county, while returning from the store to her
home, was caught by negro fend carried
INTO the woods and outraged He Threatened
TO Kill her, but the timely appearance of rail-
road hands saved her life. The scOundrel has
not as yet been caught.
Mrs. y. L. Phillips, of Sanford, lately had
a hyaciuth in bloom that was something of
curiosity. Thinking it was dead, she pulled it
up and discovered that she had planted il up
side down. The part under the ground was
actually in bloom. although it had bleached
and unnatural appearance.
Some valuable phosphate beds have been
found IN Florida, which will before long be
brought TO public attention and fully de-
Yeloped by Georgia capitalists.
The Florida Methodist has been temporarily
ana probably permanently suspended
The government has leased a part of the
piazaIn ST Augustine to a private party who
VIII erect a handsome building on the tract
\ Palatka hotel has adopted a novel wav of
advertising. 1t publishes the number of de-
partures from il by the different routes.
\ colored butcher from Tallahassee was be-
ing tried for stealing beef when a witness in
the case was discovered To be the thief him
self. The prisoner on trial was released and
the witness at once arrested,
4 barkeeper Of Hawthorn announces that
after May !, when his license expires, he will
dlscOntlnue the sale of all kinds of spirituOus
liquors and 'in the future will deal only in
what Is good for man and beast"
\ post Office at Crestview, in Walton coun-
ty, four miles east of Chaflin, is announced
Crestylew Is on the summit of ridge midway
between Yellow river and ShOal. H. F. Pow
ell Is Postmaster. i post office is also an
nonnced at Snead's. five miles west of ADala-
chicOla river. Lewis Taylor is Postmaster.
This young village expects to handle 1000
bales of cotton next season.
One OF the section masters on the Pensacola
and Atlantic Railroad was thrown from his
hand-car Il week ago by an obstruction placed
upon the track The passenger train was
aimed at. All the facts pointed to a negro
named stephen Yates, who was captured bv
the railroad men, carried to Milton and con-
yicted and sentenced to ten years in the pen
itentIary.
The Pensacola Gas Company has resumed
laying It's mains consequent upon the termina-
tiOn Of an injunction suit.
In the suburbs of Pensacola lately two or
three cows have been found dead. having the
appearance of being killed by cuts from an
axe or some heavy. sharp instrument on the
neck. One of them was found with the head
nearly severed from the body. 4 COW belong
ing To Mrs. Frank Mason was found dead near
the old graveyard. \ lot of negroes skinned
thecOw and buried it, and. after burying it.
wanted the owner to pay them fifty cents in
addition TO the hide, which they had carried
or.
The Central Florida mill at Apalachicola
was totally destroyed by fire week ago
Thursday night. The fire had its origin IN
some dust on top of the boiler. The loss is
$4,000 and the insurance $4,000. The mill
of the largest in Florida. and Its
destruction is a serious blow to the business
interests Of ApalachicOla. Superintendent
Rowland expects 10 rebuild at his own
expense.
At meeting OF the Board of Health of the
port of ApalachicOla on the 3d instant the
services of a Port Physician was engaged
and revision of the. rules and regulations
ordered. The board resolved that quarantine
20 into effect on the 18th of MAY next. DR..
Etheridge, OF Georgia, received the appoint
ment of Port Physician.