Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-04
FLORIDA.

Sanford is to have the telephone.
The cotton crop looks well about Month
cello.
A militia company is to be organized in
MiCanOpy.
Freight car thieves have been operating at
Gainesville.
There are. seventeen prisoners in the
Gainesville jail.
The Mariana Times has been enlarged to
an elght-page paper.
There are TO be five steamers on the Chatta-
hOOchee river next winter.
The new dretige boat that ia being built at
Iayares has been launched,
The post Office at Crescent City has been
made money order Office.
Plenty Of rain and consequently good crops
at McLeOd's. in Dade county.
Mack White. Of MeLeod's. near Fort Dade,
| has sold his bearing orange grove for s., 900.
Work has been begun on the new Dlaninr
mill and sash and blind factory at Tavares.
The latest addition to GainesviIels Veitch-
vile, line body OF land lying south of the
union depot
As Live Oak now has no school house, there
viii be no more public schools taught IN town
until there Is one built.
r. Mes .Byrne and Benjamin Robinson have
been nominated by the Democrats of Orange
county 10 represent them in the Legislature.
Enterprise is to have a Catholic church.
which, il is said, will be an ornament to the
I
erection.
The erection of large brick store has been
begun at GAINESVILLE, and it is said that a new
/ hotel VIII be ready for guests when the winter
/ influx begins
Thomas Cronan, after a prOtracted spree,
/ killed himself by firing bullet into his brain
at Manville Friday morning. Dependency
and jilt led 10 the act.
The Fort Dade Agricultural and Horticul-
tural society VIII hold its next meeting at
Fort Dade Wednesday, Aug. 6. They will
have dinner on the ground.
George Center, the railroad agent at Mi
canopy. estimates the shipment of oranges
from that point the coming season at $1,000
boxes. The orange crop in that section is Un-
usually good this year.
MicanOpy Gdsefts: The idea that figs will
not do well after being transplanted seems to
be not well founded The large flo tree which
was removed by Mr. SimOntOn last January
To his lot, and has astOnished everybody with
the vigorous and rapid growth it has since
made. lt has a crop of thousands Of figs on it
now, which viii soon be ripe.
Ja=per Times: Buck BOhanan and John Jor-
dan were out dipping turpentine the other
day, and saw wild cat and gave it chase.
When they found they were out of caps. and
had treed the ''critter,' Buck told John if he
would watch he would run home and get CAPS
So he ran mile, and finding neither caps nor
matches he got an old flint. ran back and told
John 10 hold dead aim on the cat, he struck
his tuder over the tuJe of the gun, when
bang went the fuse, and of jumped the cat:
whipped dog and ran about fifty yards be-
fore il fell dead. Only one shot struck II, and
that went through the heart.
Palatka Herald: The Florida Steamship
Company, owners and managers of the steam
ship City of Palatka, have Just purchased the
IRON steamer CITY OF Norfolk now PLYING be-
tween Morgan City, La, and Galveston.
Texas, and it is expected that she will arrive
here and be placed on the line between
Charleston and Palatka on or before Sept. Is,
and run in connection with the steamship City
Of Palatka, when each steamer will make one
round trip per week, touching at Savannah
and Feruandina both WAYS. The City of Nor
folk is SAID to be about three years old. very
nearly the size of the steamer St. Johns and
built about on the same model. She is elegant
ly filled up, has splendid accommodations for
one hundred tirst-class passengers, is in every
wsy seaworthy, having been buIlt with a view
to running on the ocean.
Maitland correspondence Sanford Journal:
Our esteemed tOwnsman. Capt. j. &. Eaton,
"a day or two ago, received an orange tree
from JOppa, the ancient JOppa, the sea port of
Jerusalem, and forty miles distant from it.
. The tree Is about two years old; was sent in
the box in which the seed was sOWn, and al
though rather badly bruised in its travels
tplaiuly done after getting pretty well towards
its destinatiOn) has signalized its arrival by
putting out "a new and vigorous growth, be-
ing still rooted in the sacred soil. This tree
was sent a present to Capt. Eaton by Lieut..
LOWery, United States Navy, an old time
friead and shipmate. He sent it because after
v, ars of familiarity with oranges of the Med
iterranean and South America, he thought
the Joppa oranges by all odds superior to any
he had eaten elsewhere. lt Is TO be hoped
that in this manner may be introduced to
FLORIDA a new and most valuable VARIETY.
Mr. keduey. who Is an expert in such matters,
declares that IL has quite different leaf from
that which is here sometimes called the
.TOnua.