Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-22
FLORI0a.


Green peas are becoming plentiful at Lake
City.
DIR. Griffin, an old resident Of Lake City, is
dead.
1t is said that there $4,000 visitors in Florida
at this date.
The new brick block at Mariana is rapidly
nearing completion.
The public library of Monticello has been
closed Tor want Of support.
Only $500 remains unpaid on the newly con-
structed Methodist Church at Jacksonville.
The Gainesville excursion to St. Augustine
has been postponed until Sunday week, the
30th.
Steps have been taken to have the cemetery
at Madison enclosed and otherwise made a
more appropriate resting place for the dead.
At Wildwood a couple of negroes muddied
small lake which was drying up, and with
sticks succeeded in capturing forty-five or
fifty very fine trout
Upwards of forty oss-tie choppers left
Gainesville for Wildwood Wednesday to en-
gage in cutting cross-ties for the Peninsuar
Hallway, going south to Panasofkee and Polk
county.
An eye witness Of the stOrming of Sebasto-
pol. the battle Of Balaklava aud other stir
ring scenes in the Crimean war, lectured at
st. Augustine last night. Rev. 5. d. Paine is
the gentleman's s name and title.
The wholesale grocery house of Lewis Bear
X Co., at Pensacola, was burglarized Monday
night. The safe was blown open and rihed Of
fovU IN CASH. one tItlll OF Suo. one que Dill lOf
ElOO ana one gold watch and chalns while
lot Of silver coin of foreign coinage was left
undisturbed. There is no clue to the perpe-
traitor Of the crime.
The Lake City Star says: ain one of the
oaks cut down in front Of Chalker's old store
was found an iron ring imbedded about six
inches beneath the bark. In saving up the
tree the saw struck a hard substance, which,
upon examination, proved to be the ring. The
suppOsltion Is it was driven in the tree years
ago and the tree had grown over it.
Capt. Joseph Brooks. of Boston, claimed to
be the originator of the system of weather
observations in this cOdntTy, is at PaIatka.
Capt. Brooks speaks in rather disparaging
terms of the governments weather service as
compared with the service of some of the
great dailies. To use his language. "the gov
ernment needs no army, but it needs 10000
men in its Signal Service to perfect it,
The Pensacola Commercial says: "The death
of jefferson ID. Smith, which occurred at Mill
stances which give well grounded apprehen-
slons that he was poisoned by dose of some
kind Of patent medicine which he had taken.
soon after taking the medicine Mr.. smith was
taken with cOnvulsiOns, accompanied by
vomiting and the various symptoms of strych-
nine poisoning, and died duriRg the course of
the day. Before losing consciousness Mr..
smith stated that he believed he was poisoned.
several other parties who had taken the
medicine, we learn, were affected in a similar
manner, though in a less degree" The COrO-
ner's jury decided that the Immediate cause
OF death was ''the rupture of blood vessel of
the left side of the brain" DR. Renshaw
stated that it was likely the rupture was
caused by the violence of the commissions or
the straining in vomiting. He could not give
the name OF the medicine, but showed a small
vial Of if which he nrOpOsps to qDalvzp