Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-18
FLORIDA.


snow fell at Pensacola on the Sth inst.
Both the Pensacola papers are advocating
the establishment of a merchants exchange
in that city.
The underwriters will claim the derelict
cotton recently brought into Key West and
pay the salvage.
Every arrival of vessels at Key West brings
more settlers from the North, the Bahamas
| and the Antilles.
J. l.. Bartles has established a daily hack
line from Plant City to Barlow via Lakeland.
| carrying the United States mail.
The strawberry crop has had another back
| set by the recent cold weather, and II Is
/ feared that there will be none for shipment
| within at least q month.
r. NJ. Pulsifer. of the Boston HeraEd, is
| having his beautiful lot Oh the north shore of
Lake OsceOia put into fine shape. About
| sixty bearing orange trees are being planted
! upon il.
During the past year the Christian Guild,
| of Key West. has distributed over 5000 pages
/ OF religious literature among seamen and des-
/ tltute persons, besides many copies of the
! Bible and the New Testament
5. p. Hayden plucked a ripe watermelon
/ last Thursday from a vine on his fathers
/ place ON the west bank of the IIiiIsbOrough
/ river. near Tampa. The vine and fruit passed
/ through the recent cold snap without injury.
The Levy EnferBrise of the llth inst. says /:
! "a few days since a shark, said to be of the
man-eating family. was caught of the rail-
! road wharf with hook and line. This saw
dEt lugAliiH ltulLtu OF the AFuiI WIS ~ lttL
3 inches in length, and in its capacious nav
| was found dozen mullet, and besides q few
trlnkets, such as an iron bolt p inches long,
and four feet of rope
An important case was tried in the Circuit
| Court at Pensacola on the 9th inst. The suit
/ Of l.. !. Hunt against W. L. Witch, the
/ claim being damages to the amount of $4,000
! for breach of contract. The plaintiff OBJ
| tanned q judgment for Sl,l55 with interest,
/ this being the amount admitted to be due by
| the defendant. The plaintiff moved for new
trial, which motion was denied by the court.
The election of officers for the ensuing year
| was the only business of Importance trans
| acted by the Grand Chapter of F. & A. Ma
/ sons at IFS session in Jacksonville Wednesday.
and resulted as follows w. +. Anderson. of
4 Black Water, Grand High PRIEST W +. Scott
/ of Fernandina, Deputy Grand High Priest; J. d.
/ W. y. r. Plummer, Of Key West. Grand King;
/ a. Patercon, of Madison, Grand Scribe; L. 5.
| Wilmarth, OF Jacksonville, Grand Treasurer:
! ID. {. DaWklns, of jacksonville. Grand Secre-
! tary; W. a. Mclean, of Jacksonville, Grand
! Chaplain.
The estate of the late George Turner, Esq.
I of Marion county, was sold on the 10th of this
month to Mrs. y. e. Bates, of Hawthorn. 1t
has taken years to obtain the consent of all
/ the heirs at law to the sale of this estate
/ which consists Of l60 acres Of rich land upon
which there are two orange groves. The
main one Is six and a half acres in extent and
I contains 591 bearing orange trees, some of
which are over twenty five years old and
capable of producing three to four thousand
oranges each. The property is situated close
to the boundary line Of Alachua and Marion
counties.
The following municipal ticket has been put
! in nomination at La Villa, the jacksonville
| suburb: For Mayor. Joshua l.. Burch: for
/ Marshal, II. \. Higgins: for Clerk, Daniel
| Virgins; for Collector, L. c. Claibourne: for
| Assessor, j. =. Hill; for Treasurer, Samuel
/ Spearing; for Aldermen. d. W. Trumpeller
| Alex. Campbell, John Spearing, 5. II. Hart
| John Powell. The Aldermen who hold over
! are A. W. Barrs and stephen Virgins, white
and J. f. Scott and Robert Green, cOlored If
! the ticket as nominated is elected. as it uu-
| dOubtedlv will be. with the Aldermen who
| hold over, the complexion of the La Villa
| officers viii be as follows: Whites the
/ Mayor, Clerk, Assessor and four Aldermen:
colored, the Marshal, Collector Treasurer
and five Aldermen.
Tie PeRsac0lidn SAYS: son the 9th inst. as
! the morning lightning express of the Pensa-
| cola and PeTdido Railroad was on its south
I bound course. the train was sienalled bv a
/ grouB of women and men. The conductor
fearing that some alarming event had occurr-
ed or would occur, ordered down
/ brakes and the train was brought
to halt at wood yard. The fact
J. II. B3gby, conductor, and also a Justice of
the Peace, that his offices were desired in the
performance Of a marriage ceremony. While
the fireman and brakesman were 'rousing up
Capt. Bagby firmly tied the indssouble knot
for MIR. J. Baker and Mrs. johnson. and kiss
ing the happy bride and wishing the newly
married pair smooth seas and faxoring gales
for their voyage OF life. signalled go ahead,
and arrived at his destination on tIme.''