Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-04

| The gas house at Key West is finished.
1 Texas watermelons are selling IN Key West
/ at from 30 10 30 cents each.
lake Okeechobee is said to rise one inch
/ daily. notwithstanding the canal.
1 It is estimated that 5000 waternelons were
| eaten in Gainesville on Saturday last.
The Young men Of Orlando have organized
a Young Mems Christian Association.
Three or four reliable men are mounted as
guards at the State prison camp at Live Oak.
The Oat crop in Gadsden county this year is
very good, and a large yield has been har-
vested.
The Monticello Constitution suggests that
the farmers Of Jefferson county get up plOw-
ing match.
The Lake City RsDorter learns that num-
Der Of the railroad hands have struck their
pay being overdue.
A shingle machine with capacity Of $4,000
shingles per day viii soon be in operation at
Longwood- Orange county.
f. 3. Bailey. Of Monticello. received SLY as
the net proceeds Of a car load Of watermelons
shipped by him 70 New Orleans.
Several cases Of smuggling were before the
court at Key West last week. Verdicts Of not
guilty were rendered in them all.
RaceOOns are playing havoc with the corn
and watermelOns in sumter county. Poison
seems not TO diminish their number.
Afr. Grant. Of Bloomfield. Sumter county.
has made over $1,000 net on vegetables grown
on three and half acres this spring.
The late rains have caused the orange trees
in many groves IN the vicinity OF Pine Level
to put forth tender buds and white blooms.
The Marshal Of Lake City claims to have a
gOurd growing on his place three feet six
inches long and growing at the rate Of an inch
per day.
Corn, cotton and all other crops are grow
ing with rapidity almost Incredible and are
better than ever before seen in jackson
county.
A great deal Of rain fell in Leon county
last week. Monday evening last, with the
rain came wind strong enough to PROSTATE
pretty badly the growing corn.
There are about 800 negroes working on the
Jacksonville. Tampa and Key West Railway.
three miles west OF Enterprise. Shooting and
emitting scrapes are Of almost daily occur
renee.
A cOlored child about years old was killed
ana almost entirely eaten up by an alligator
on DIR. Coles place a few days ago. The
gator was afterwards killed, and measured
seven feet.
Gainesville Bee: fernando county was well
represented here last week by parties attend
lng the contest cases OF the Williams and Nell
sons. There IS much confusion about lands in
the Aforesaid county, Owinglt0 the increasing
demands Of purchases and flood of immigra-
ton which Is constantly pouring in that sec
ton. The contractors for the Plant Invest
ment Company viii soon be through with
their work Of grading and getting ties for the
road, which extends from Flat Ford on Hills
borO river TO Pemberton Ferry on the With
lacOOchie river.
Orlando Reporter, June %: The cOmmissary
depot OF the Tayares Orlando and Atlantic
Railroad Construction Company, at Orange
Heights, was burned on Friday night last, and
the entire contents. with the personal effects of
the wOrkmen, were lost. Suspicion rests upon
some gamblers who had been hanging about
the camp and who had been run of 4 short
time before. The men had just been paid of.
and many OF them had stored their money in
their valises andleft them in the commissary
for satekeeping. The loss in goods and money
was supposed to be IN the neighborhood of a
thousand dollars.