Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-09

Fresh shad 10 the sanford market
Orange blossoms at Cedar Key last week.
Pere Hyacinthe will lecture at Jacksonville
Friday.
Drayton Island mari is new Florida pro
ductiOn.
Orange trees at Tallahassee We're uninjured
up To Friday night.
A sister 20 the City OF Palatka, il is sai,k
viii soon be ordered built.
Peter sylvester KILLED Allen Douglas at De-
Land receutly-bOth cOlored.
Tle ladies of Green Cove Spring will give a
horticultural exhibit in the spring.
a large new hotel is to be built on Lake
Brdntly. near Altamonte. in Orange county.
The steamer Mary Draper has been placed
on the route between Palatka and George
town.
Mrs. Ellen Cal Long. of Tallahassee. Inns
just ISSUED book on silk Farming in Flor
lda."
Four steamers We're aground at once four
miles above Blue Springs dock, near Orange
city, last week.
Ason of Or. Swain, Il years old. was acct
dentally shot and killed mt Tangeriue, Orange
county, last week.
A tram on the south Florida Road last week
struck SWedc who had got drunk and fallen
by the wayside. The man recovered.
The Men and Women's Saving Society. of
Pensacola, shared out S5.3t2 last week among
$3.50.
Aut.4E AAG AtltI@ tlLL tilt waters OF the ~.
Johns river viii prove too shallow TO allow
successful navigation 10y the new steamer City
of PdlatKa-
Henry Mathews. much respected colored
resident OF Tallahassee, died suddenly We'd
nesiay night. He has been for several terms
member of the Tallahassee CITY Council.
A. Merritt, dealer i'm general merchandise
al Mariauua. made an assignment Monday TO
feiX Merritt and Moses tIuyton for the bene-
ht OF MS creditors The liabilities are $4,000
and the nominal assets 5000.
The Florida Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South viii convene at
Madison to-day. Bishop keener, of New Or
leans. Is ia preside. The Conference viii
represent = coo white communicates.
During the last thirteen months r. H.
Marks. OF SANFORD, has sold s.. .3i5 acres of Wild
land % lol several purchasers for a total OF
Sol'b3. lie sold, besides. 81 improved places
for total OF S1Si7f, making AN aggregate of
Of Slfj,0g9.
ID. NJ. O'Brieu. \. NJ. a graduate OF Trinity
college. Dubiin. Tor many years a teacher in
Aldo una and lately teacher at Pensacola,
was drowned at that place Thursday. He Is
slid TO have been man OF many scholarly
attainments.
Mr.. F0garty. a leading merchant of KEY
W est. sent Two small crates or tomatoes and
some egg plants To- New York "a few weeks
ago, and he was surprised 10 hear that the to-
nttoes had sold for 81 per crate and the egg
plants for "a per dozen.
one Of the large outbulldings at Magnolia
relic Of the former regime, and recently used
To house the employees of the establishment,
was burned on Wednesday night It's proX-
unity To the main hotel caused much alarm.
lest the tiames should spread, but, fortunate
ly, the danger was averted.
Gen. Gonzales, the associate of the late Cen
Lopez i'm his work for the deliverance OF Cuba.
over thirty years ago. from Spanish domIna-
ton' Is now ON % VISIT 10 Tallahassee. The
General. soon after the failure of the Cuban
movement with which he was associate :.
married IN South Carolina. and during the
late war was In active service.
Last wees. while ". Wetseu, a Young Gin
cinnatiau spending the winter at Orange
City. was fishing in the ST. Johns. a few hum
drcd yards from Blue Springs wharf, pa---
ing steamer gave fright to two deer, and as
they passed his boat he shot one with his
pistol through the head killing 1t instantly,
and the second shot wounded the other.
The Key West fishermen this wear have not
realized as much from king fishing as they
expected. This was the consequence OF ONLY
one smack buying the fish. The DsH0crTf
thinks that with careful management money
could be made I'M the business, and that 10
would pay some of the merchants to try and
build up the industry between Havana and
Key West.
The Key West Dc@ocr9t SAYS: "The sheriff
succeeded last Wednesday i'm impaneling AR.
Abraham sawyer. of This city upon jury IN
one of the Justices Court. The General is
- years old. weighs twenty eight pounds. and
for man Of his size acquitted himself with
credit. The General did not like the idea
much. but considered il was "a duty he owed
10 ms STATE anu bore the ordeal like q TrO-
Jan"
Bullard n stewards store at Hawthorne
was burned early Monday morning. When
the IRE was discovered it was too late To do
anything, but it could be seen that the back
door was standing open, and the money
drawer was found afterwards in another part
Of the store. The suppOsltiOu is that the store
was robbed and fired 20 conceal the robbery.
The stock was insured for tW0-thrts of its
value. \ small restaurant next door, kept by
negro. was burned. The loss Is between $500
and 800.
TIE Key West Nelrs SAYS: 'sOnly about
twelve vessels have returned, and the sale of
sponge during the past week has been limited.
Mr.. l.. W. Pierce bought S4,S00 worth, Mr. r.
II. Kemp about Sl.0lO, and some small lots
were sold To other parties. The total sales for
the past week amounted to about 5000 As
the prices offered were considered low. some
Of the vessels refused to sell for the present.
Before the close of next week all the vessels
will be IN with large crop. and 1t is estima-
ted by the dealers that the sales viii amount
70 about $4,000 il prices improve