Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-09
FLORIDA.

Fairview, Polk county, is to have a school
house.
The Presby terian Church at Eustis is fin
ished.
a delegation of settlers from Colorado Is
expected at Eustis.
The orange crop is beginning to come in
rapidly in Polk county.
4 majority of the Levy county farmers are
yet b1sy picking cotton.
The late high water has caused great deal
Of harm IN the Indian River narrcws.
A number of clay holes at Barlow have
been tested, and make excellent brick.
A project is on foot in st. Augustine to sup
ply the city with the Edison electric light.
An artesian well company has been organ
her at Eustis, and will commence work this
week
4 2lO-pound bell was received last week and
placed on the school house on the island OppO-
site KOckledge.
IN. Leggett, who lives near New Troy,
has two stalks of cotton containing over $50
full-grOwn bOlls each.
Eustis cOlOred man says that he caught a
> pound turtle recently N that place that an
alligator hadIn his jaws.
7. J. Yearly 4 Co., have shipped over 81 COZ
worth of venisOn and wild turkeys from OF
ter Creek during the past year.
The juvenile orange packers of Plant City
struck last week for an advance to cents
box. but finally concluded 10 remain at ~
cents per box
\ new post Office has been established one
and half miles north of ROckledge, at what
is plated as Indian River City, and for the
present Is TO be called Cocoa.
The Young men of Orange Lake and vicinity
will have tournament on Nov. y. Twenty
riders have already been secured. and hand
some gold badge vii be given TO the winner.
The necessary working tools employed in
grading railroads have been received at Long
wood. and work viii begin at once on the
Florida Midland Railroad, known as Henck's
road.
Vile. was entered by thieves on Saturday
night last. An OEercOat. pair of pants and
hreech- loading dOuble-barre shotgun were
carried away.
The LaVilla street railroad boom seems to
have died Out entirely. The charter was
granted the Street Railway Company over
moath ago, and no visible steps have yet been
taken 10 build the road.
Noah Taylor. the negro man who killed Dep
uty sheriff GramLlIng at Citra in May last,
was tried at the fall term of the Circuit Court
I last week and found guilty of murder in the
I first degree. The jury was cut only - min
/ utes.
/ The assessment books of the town of Eus-
/ It's foot up rs follows: Personal, S21, lSj; real.
\ Sll3, 325; total. Sli0.6l0. This assessment Is
! basel on the valuation OF property IN April
last. and on thC lowest minimum value at
/ that date.
W. z. Watly- of Mariana. gathered and
] sold between SO and 900 bushels of ground
peas. most Of which nave brought him ninety
] parisOn between the relative profits made on
cotton and ground peas.
At the home Of John B. RaulersOn, near
J Lakeland. Is an orange tree with fOur crops
/ OF fruit of this seasons growth now hanging
\ on il. The first crop is now about ripe, the
7 second just grown. the third about half grown,
and the last about the size Of a musket ball.
Mariana Carrier: f. J. Bryan has a 30
I acre pecan grove which he planted out last
spring that IS doing well. The pecan bears
well in this sectiCn. is more hardy than the
orange tree, aud produces more abundantly.
7 II our farmers would plant out groves OF pc
cans IN a few years they would be able to reap
more profit from a few trees than they do
I from their cotton crop.
On the evening Cf Tuesday, Oct. y, two cars
/ loaded with oranges left Orange Lake con
! signed To Messrs. Thacker Bros. and Porter
I Bros. of Chicago. One of these ears, No. l5.-
I 30, went VIA the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
I way. Florida SOuthern and Savannah. Florida
and Western Railroads. while the other, No.
4l2, OF the Florida Transit and Peninsula. went
via the Florida Railway and Navigation, PEN
sacOla and Atlantic ana Louisville and Nash
vile Railroads. As they started at the same
time lt was understood that a race would bes
run for the purpose of seeing which cOnnec-
tiOns could get their car through first. The
lrst named car arrived at Chicago on Tues
day morning, Nov. 4. at o'clock, just twenty
four hours in advance OF the latter. which ar
rived at O'Clock Wednesday morning, Nov. 5.