Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-14
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Farmers in Middle Florida are planting
corn.
Plum and peach trees are in bloom about
Tallahassee.
Truck planting is being INDUCED in in the
truck sections.
"RattIesnake Charles a Tallahassee snake
charmer, Is dead.
Mr.. W. 0. Ames is now ticket agent at the
Tallahassee depot.
The editor of the St. Augustine Press is
eager for leap year party.
a. j. Kemp, of Key West. bought 100000
worth of sponge last week.
Fires in the woods are doing a great deal of
damage IN HernandO county.
The St Johns comfy Teachers Associa-
ton meets Saturday, March /.
Col L. A. Hardee's funeral was largely at
tended at Jacksonville Tuesday.
Irish potatoes that were planted before the
freeze are sprOuting up nicely at Tallahassee.
a disease supposed TO be cholera is prevail
ing among the swine in Cotton Plant, near
Ocala.
Burglars have been rumaging the residences
OF St. Augustine. They escaped with their
booty in every instance.
The building occupied by the Press at St.
Augustine has passed into the possession of
Genovar for Sl0,2j0 cash.
The Key West Base BAH Club has Just re-
turned from Havana, after being twice de-
feated by club in that city.
a petition is now in circulation It Key
West, asking Congress for an appropriation
TO dredge the CalOOsahatchie.
George II. Norris, Of Spring Garden. has
picked 100 boxes of Mandarin oranges from
trees budded one year ago last June.
= mail route has been established between
hey est and Largo, and MeHendcZ johnson
has received his appointment as Postmaster.
y telegraph Office has been opened at
PanasOflee. The steamboat Susie Z. has been
purchased and VIII run on the Withlac0o-
chee river and Panasofree Lake.
Two passenger cars, the nail car and ex-
press car were deraIled February : on the
Live Oak and ROwland's Bluff Railroad bv a
DfOKen ran. No one was injured
Austin Blair, the war Governor of Michi-
gan mas purchased six acres of land in
orange county, Fla, where he intends to re-
side hereafter during the winter months
Col. A. Piper. late Commandant at St.
rancls Barracks, st. Augustine, was pre-
sented last week with gold d-headed cane by
the enlisted men of the Third Artillery at
that place,
\ large number Of settler ~,
Pa, and vici"'- 40 - ~ from bra1.ord ia
tne 25th inst. They will settle in the
Pennsylvanla colony, in the Keystone Park
neighbOrhOod.
The Pensacola Board of Trade estimates the
value OF the real and personal property of
Escambia county at not less than $l5,O0O,O00,
while the assessed valuation for taxes is less
than Sc, SEQ 900.
The Lakeland Improvement Company, with
Lakeland, Polk county, as its chief place of
business, has been Incorporated. The object
Of the corporation is the laying out of town
site. with streets, avenues and lots, the sale of
the lots, and the purchase and sale of lands in
the county of Polk and, elsewhere in the State
for profit and for internal Improvement.
About two weeks ago paper was found in
match box on MatanZas beach stating that
a vessel named Cracker Six had gone down
November 6, 1888, and that all hands were on
raft. 1t has since been found that q vessel
of that name left New York in October and
has not since been heard of and is supposed to
be lost. 1t is probable that the paper was au
thentic.