Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16

FLORIDA.
4 All the cisterns and wells in Tampa have
nearly gone dry.
! Meanwhile protests against Sunday excur-
sIons as a nuisance.
/ The Baptist Church at Fruitland has de-
! cided to do without a pastor this year
/ 4 monster temperance mass-meeting was
/ held in the new theatre at Jacksonville Fri
day night.
I A cypress tree 22,s feet in circumference
/ and IS feet in height Is standing near Muir
/ phys Island.
Real estate has advanced 80, and wild lands
/ 100 per cent. during the past six months in
Manatee county.
/ The frame Of thu school house on Central
/ avenue, TaEares, is up. The building Is two
! stories in height.
( Land at $50 an acre is one OF the evidences
/ Of Francis good location. \ colony from
/ Iowa Is expected daily.
/ About 100000 oranges have been shipped
1 from Liverpool, Manatee county, to North
ern markets this season.
/ The good people at Thonotosassa Lake have
+ their new building now completed to be used
for a church and school house.
! Quite number of Connecticut and OHIO
men have bought land in and around heuka
! and viii build the coming fall and winter.
Capt. W. d. Avery purchased six hundred
! acres near keuka and cut IL mp into ten acre
/ lots. He has already sold eight to New York
I ers.
/ Mr.. Rumley has donated an acre Of land
! on the east side of keuka lake for a school
I house. The money has been raised to erect
/ the building.
( Forest fires are raging in Putnam county
and considerable complaint is caused, al
though no serious damage had been reported
4 at last accounts.
/ Judge Locke, of the United States Court,
made an order at Kew West this week restOr-
/ ing Gen. J. B. Wall, whose name two years
4 agO was stricken from the roll of attorneys of
! that court.
The South Florida Orange Groge is the name
I Of q neat little weekly paper which has lust
been started at Liverpool, Manatee county.
! Its first issue shows that 1t win be made de-
/ serving Of generous patronage.
/ The capacity of the hotel at Mannville has
been doubled. The establishment of WO-
mans Christian Missionary Society and an
intellectual lyceum is among other recent
/ evidences which goes to proveithat the place is
/ on healthy boom.
( At Tampa w. c. Crum's barns have been
destroyed. Mr.. Crum had barely time to save
valuable carriage horse and two buggies,
the top Of the phaeton being badly burned be-
7 fore il was rescued from the flames Every
/ thing else in and about the buildings was
I destroyed.
! While out alligator hunting near Tavares
Saturday night, W. ii. LatlmeT shot one
about seven feet in length. On opening the
stomach of the saurian Mr.. George Lucas
found a number Of small 'slightwoOd knots"
] chips, some plants which grow on the bottom
! Of the lake and two buckshOt.
John p. Varnum formally surrendered the
/ city editorship of the Jacksonville Times
/ Union yesterday to accept his position of Sec
retary of the newly organized Board of
I Trade. Mr.. Narnum is pleasant gentleman
/ and euterprislng journalist, whose less could
/ not but be matter of regret with any paper.
/ drifting sail-bOat near Esperanza was
( found by a negro to contain the almost wholly
( decOmpOsed body OF p man. What remained
/ OF his garments indicated that he had been
/ well dressed. The boat and the remains were
7 towed to Palatka and the burial was made, il
4 is said, without any legal investigation what
/ ever.
| In the Negro Town Greek settlement, near
! Fort Mason, on Tuesday last J. NJ. Simms' son
+ was killed by the accidental discharge of
/ gun. It is supposed the gun was cooked and
! that he attempted to blow into it, when the
I charge By some means exploded as he was
/ found shot through the head, the load entering
/ at his mouth.
( Peter Wilson, first assistant engineer of the
{ Florida, was seriously injured on the last trip
/ up the river from Palatka. While engaged in
| his duties his hand got caught in the machin-
/ cry and was badly crushed. Vice president
/ Cox, Of the South Carolina Railroad, started
( q subscription and $50 was raised for the
! benefit of the injured man.
Satsuma is gaining rapidly in population
| and improvements. The residents nave sue
/ ceeded in getting a post office, with II. Il.
! Philips as POstmaster.=A sash and door fac
/ tory will in all probability be erected this
I summer, and negotiations are now in progress
/ for the erection of a large hotel on the high
I point OF land near the river.
/ The Kdnatee County Times gives the follow
I ing list of taxable property. etc, in that
/ county for the year 1883; Number Of polls,
/ $50; number of acres of land. 3l9,2774; num-
/ Der Of acres cultivated, 1853; value of land,
/ s572, ,625; value of town property, S23, Az; mum
/ Der Of horses, asses and mules, 9l5; number of
/ cattle, 2,1o2; number Of sheep, 2,323; number
OF hogs, 9,2Sl; value of animals S544, ,265; value
of personal property. except animals, Sl99, ,5SS;
+ aggregate value of personal property, sI43,S53;
/ aggregate value Of real and personal, Sl.339,
J $50: an increase of value of property in Mana
! tee county over the valuation of 1882, Of $780,,
6i2; total tax for state, S7,O43 95; total tax for
/ county, $9,05S 1o"
I MORNING NEWS, under date of March IA,
I writes that a fine ram fell last night. Crops
are being rapidly planted. The area given to
cotton Will be about 10 per cent. greater than
| last season, while the area given to corn viii
! not be as great. Some of our farmers are.
/ however, gradually leaving of cotton and
/ looking forward to stock farming. Several
! shipments of peas have been made the present
I season, and If we have good weather, in a few
( weeks the shipping Of vegetables will be
( lively. There is a heavy bean crop planted.
] Quite number Of strangers are in Lake City
/ and all are pleased. Orange groves in this
! vicinity can be disposed of at handsome
/ prices. Inquiries are coming in for groves of
! ten acres. etc. MIR Reynolds, Of the Plant
J engineer corps, was in town yesterday. From
him learn that the Lake City Road Will tap
| the Rowland Bluff and Jacksonville Road
I near the Itchtucknee river on the east. At
this junction there will likely be a lively little
| town in good country. Lake City has quite
{ q nuuAucI VI GulCl lpIlsAAB NouuhClIidA AASl.
and with the proper railroad facilities. will
/ grow to place of much greater Importance.
! In the case Of b. C. Lewis & Sons VS.. the
/ county of jefferson, one of the many cases in
4 vOlving the validity of the bonded debt of the
! county, a verdict for the plaintiffs
for the sum of $7.573 80, principal
and interest was obtained-which is
/ SAL 33 more than the parties claimed. The
/ error was made in calculating interest The
/ Monticello Constitution continues: "a care
I fully written charge by his Honor, Judge
Walker. was submitted to the counsel for
/ plaintiffs and defendant previous to giving the
/ same to the jury, and Mr.. Malone lone of the
counsel for the plaintiffsl, dis Oyering that
| certain white bonds" involved in the pres-
/ ent suit, were held by the court to have been
illegally issued and therefore void, said gentle
man asked and received permission to with
draw thessame. ThereupOn the Judge elminat-
ed that portion Of his charge which was fatal to
the ''white bonds.' The number of bonds
! Withdrawn from the suit was thirty seven.
calling for 500 each, and fifteen for 200 each
| -aggregating $ll 200. This action left in the
/ suit only ''blue bonds" to the face value of
| $1,000. That portion Of the charge, not given
/ to the Jury, if we are correctly advised. very
| emphatically declares that the ''whIte bonds
! issued in 1865. in liquidation of accumulated
! interest, are illegal and void. This is an i'm
/ pOrtant official intimatiOn, and will necessi-
| tate a change of tactics by the plaintiffs in