Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-20
FLORIDA.

Il Live Oak turnip weighs Is pounds.
The hummOcks around Palmetto are full of
vegetables.
Several new buildings are in process of
erection at st. Augustine.
4 hook and ladder company was orpanized
at st. Augustine few days ago.
a Bradford county Okra stalk is Is feet 6
inches in height and has 126 DOds
The new opera house at Barlow was opened
last week with "CasIe" by local amateur
company.
a cOlOred man named Sam Stuart was shot
and killed at Leesburg last week while re-
ssting arrest.
The short meadow grass growing about
tOrt thompson Is said to furnish excellent
forage for cattle.
The camp meeting that started about Dec
near Levyville was revived and run for an
other four days last week.
joseph ROgerO and Frank Usina. of St
Augustine, bagged sixty-fve quails in three
hours hunting last Saturday.
The express business done bv the Teesburo
Office now is at least six tunes as great as il
was few months ago.
Last Sunday night some party or parties
cut the cable OF the artesian we'll at Lees
burg and stole about 30 feet of it.
Large numbers of quail and suipe reward
the iabOrs of nimrOds who go skirmishing
in the woods around st. Augustine.
ii. a. COrdsOn & Co., of Mariana. have.
mp TO date bought over 4,50O head of chickens.
which, at the average price, twenty cents, re-
presents $500.
The ladies of the Catholic congregation of
81 Augustine are preparing fair to take
place after Christmas. The proceeds will
benefit the cathedral.
cOlOred man named Henry Henderson
was run over by the cars at PanasOfTkee de-
Pot last Tuesday week, and one of his feet and
part Of his leg we're terribly mangled.
The receipts OF cotton in Monticello the
present season have been remarkably good.
There have been shipped from the Monticello
depot upwards of 1000 bales in excess of any
season Tor the past ten years.
\ negro boy in jefferson county, about IA
years old, living on Mr.. ;. J. Turnbulrs Dlan-
tation, had his arm frightfully mangled in a
cotton gin one day last week. Or. TheO
| TuTnbull found il necessary to resort to
ampUtatiOn.
ID. y. Bass. who was convicted Of murder in
Lafayette county two years ago and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life, has made
his escape. and is now at large. 1t is sup
posed that he Is in the lower part of Taylor or
Lafayette counties.
Up TO the first of last week there had been
received at Pensacola 9,l97 tons of guanO.
with 3.o50 tons in transit, making in sight so
far l2.244 TONS The entire receipts in this
line were about 1900 tons last year, which
this seasons business promises to largely eX-
ceed.
4 petition is in circulation about Fort
MYERS asking Congress to make a suitable
appropriation for dredging the harbOr at
Punta Rassa so as to make it suitable as an
entrance, landing place and anchorage for
vessels drswlng 10 feet OF water. Another
petition asks for a survey of the river.
On Nov. the bark GiOvanna. Syra, Greece,
Capt. Z MatUnelis, went ashore seven miles
north OF Orange Grove House OF Refuge, near
| the lower end OF Lake Worth. during a north
easter. She was loaded with lOgwoOd. last
from Jamaica, hOmeward bound. The vessel
| stranded a quarter of a mile from shore. Her
crew OF eight men were taken of safely.