Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21

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Okra Is blooming in the gardens of Talla-
hassee.
Sweet potatoes 20 begging at Yalaha at 25
There is considerable demand for cot
tGges IN Palatka.
fernando county has a citizen who claims
to be the father of p children.
\ single grape vine in Levy county yielded
this season l,OU0 pounds of fruit.
The new town of Whitledge, IN Polk county,
has been re- named Winter Haven.
A brace of WOOdcock were shot near Palat-
ka, Friday. rarething in Florida.
The FIRST annual session of the FlOriJ Chau-
tauqua Assembly Will open on Feb. 10.
More long staple cotton than usual has been
produced in GadsGen county this year.
Tallahassee Is to have Eew brick sidewalks
on Monroe, the principal business street.
The second crop Of figs, as large as guinea
eggs, are to be seen on trees in Tallahassee.
Half dozen families from Chattahoochee
county, Ga, are settling in Orange county.
A number of prOspectOrs and visitors have
arrived al Tallahassee during the past week.
Noah Taylor VIII be hanged at Ocala on
Friday, Jan. ?, for killing Deputy sheriff
Gramllng.
The architect Of the new court house at
Gainesville says that work viii be begun on
il this week.
have vacation from the day before Christmas
TO the Monday after New Year.
4 gentleman from New York is in treaty
with Mr.. Strack, of DeLand, to erect a steam
laundry and bath house near his well.
ESThe 500 feet Of new fire hose purchased by
Jacksonville has arrived from New ork.
The fire department nOW has about l,500 feet
of hose.
f. L. Robertson retires from the BroOksville
Crescent, giving place to W. J. Barnett. who
will conduct the in the fufnFp The
office viii also issue the SeatiHet and Watch =
man, religious paper, Of which Rev. II. l..
Partridge, Of Ocala, is editor.
Wild cats have been playing havoc with the
poultry on the place Of Hon. b. j. Earle, at
Waldo. They have destroyed all his turkeys
and geese and a large number OF his chickens.
Notwithstanding hunters have assiduOusly
pursued the Varmints, they have not yet sue
ceeded in capturing or killing any of them.
Tallahassee LGHd of FZ0JCers: 4 farmer
living on the OcklOckOnnee river informs US
that nearly all the hogs in his neighb0rhOOd
were killed out during the summer by chOl-
era. Now the cattle are dying up with dis
ease that proves fatal in a few hours after
attacking. He says that his nelghbOrs call it
COW cholera, but that it is unlike any cholera
he ever saw. The cattle, he says. are in good
order, and viii lie down at night apparently
in perfect health and are found dead the next
morning, sometimes three or four in a bunch.
Daytona Journal: The steamer Greenwich
was built in Wilmington, Del, in 1873. She is
100 tons net. Capt. FulfOrd, her commander,
has made 15S trips over Mosquito bar without
an accident inficting any personal injury
upon crew or passengers, or without any ma
terial loss to cargo. For the year ending July
! she carried 300 tons OF general freight to
the coast, and 630 tons of honey, oranges and
turtles from the coast; also $50 passengers.
The schOOners in the same time, as nearly as
can be estimated, 200 tons of freight and 100
passengers. The increase in freiehts this
year is very much larger, especially the
Shipment of ORANGES, honey and fish from the
coast. With railroad facilities the increase
would be enormous The arrivals by stage
from VOlusia and st. Augustine during the
same time noted for the Greenwich and
schOOners have more than equaled their total.
Considerable merchandise has also come by