Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-09

Bri .ht Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and AfaT.


The five new coaches for the South
Florida Railroad are expected at Sanford
daily. At last accounts they were at
WaycrOss.
Interest in the Seville and Halifax
Railroad in Florida has been revived. Inc
prospects for the completion OF the ROAD
by next spring are now considered gooG'
1t is reported in jacksonville that the
East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia
Railroad Company will shortly undertake
to build an airline road from Jesup 10
Jacksonville.
The surveying corps lately engaged IN
surveying the proposed route OF Tue
Brunswick and Western Railroad BE-
tween Albany and Columbus, mas hhlsh-
ed its work and disbanded.
The Central Railroad ticket office is
undergoing a complete renovation. cap
tain James Shaw, the indefatigable agent
of the company. viii then have one oil the
handsomest offices in the south.
The canal has been damned up at the
upper ford, at Tavares, and workmen are
engaged i'll building the draw bridge OF the
st. Johns and Lake Eustls Railway Com
pany over it. The road is to be completed
to Lane Park, on Lake Harris, as soon as
possible.
Capt. James l.. Taylor, the General
Freight and Passenger Agent OF the
savannah, Florida and Western Railway,
accompanied by Capt. George A. White
head, the General Freight and Passenger
Agent of the Centeral Railroad, lett the
city last night for Louisville, NY, 10 at
tend the convention of the general 1relSht
and passenger agents of the southern
roads, which will convene in that city To-
morrow.
The Tavares Fla. Herdld has the fol-
Of
branch of the st. Johns and Lake Eustls
Railway is progressing rapidly. About
3 miles are already finished, and 1t is
hoped the track will be finished to Orange
Bend in time for thesshipping of oranges
from that place. The road branches of
from the main line at Fort Mason, which
which is to be the centre of all the lines
of the company, goes through what is
known as Grand Island, crosses Goose
Prairie, and thence through Pine Island
to Orange Bend, which is now the princi-
pal point on the line of the road. Thence,
it extends on the shore OF Lake Griffin to
Leesburg.
Advices from Gainesville to the Jack
sOnville Times Union, of Sunday, state
that the ROWland's Bluff Railway has
been finally located into Gainesville.
The company has bought 40 acres of land
at Gainesville, on the south side of the
transit halfway, eAlClluln9 W IHe CIOSS-
ing Of that and the Florida Southern
Road. The survey of the new line
runs within quarter of mile of New
nansville; then it takes a direct course to
Archie Hague's, which is the present
northern terminus of the Florida South
ern road, 10 miles north of Gaines
Vile; then it keeps along down the
west side of the Florida South
ern to within half mile of Gaines
vile, where it crosses the latter road and
comes down on the east side Of Sweet
Water branch past Dogs mills, where it
crosses the Transit road; here it makes
an abrupt turn and passes through its
own land back to the line of the Florida
Southern. A large force of men have come
come down to point three miles this side
of Newnansville, and will begin grading
on Monday. The telegraph line will be eX-
tended from Gainesville to Live Oak at
once. The surveyors of Plants company
start for Tampa tomorrow to begin the
location of the line toward Gainesville.
The completion of the road will take a
great deal of South Florida trade away
from Jacksonville and carry it direct to
Savannah.