Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-09


Bunco men have made their appearance at
Palatka.
jackson countys immigration society has
been reorganized.
The De Barry grove, at Enterprise, produced
1000 boxes of oranges this season.
There Is an orange grove in MicanOpy of one
acre that brings its owner one thousand dol
lars yearly.
new line of steamers to run between
Jacksonville and sanford in connection with
the steamship City of Palatka, from Charles
ton, has been established.
Sixteen cords Of wood are consumed by an
engine on the +. 7. and p. road during a run
from Fernandina to Cedar Keys and return.
The March meeting of the Duyal County
Teachers Association viii be held at the
jacksonville grammar school building on the
last Saturday in the month.
At Mariana George Stewart and John
Clements, both cOlOred, became involved in a
difficulty, when the former shot the latter. but
without fatal result. Stewart was jailed,
being unable to give Sl00 bond.
a burglar of considerable nOtOrietv and two
printers who appropriated a box containing
S75 belonging to the local Treasurer Of the
Printers Union, were lodged in the barracks
by the Jacksonville police Friday.
The Jacksonville Herald SAYS: 'sBishOp J.
+. Oung, OF this city. is now IN Cuba, and
VIII remain there for month. He is there in
the interest of the Episcopal Church. This
island is not included in any church diocese
OF this country, but some Bishops in the
united states make q visit there annually to
further Episcopal work"
The Mariana Courier SAYS: stAn old white
woman came to town one day this week with
a p00r, blind, afflicted sister whom she wished
to put in poor house. Our county not hav
ing anything of this kind, the miserable sister.
If she is deserving of such a name, went of
and left this poor woman IN the streets at the
mercy Of the public"
The Presbytery of st. Johns will hold Its
spring sessions in the new Presbyterian
Church of Orlando April 9. Eight years ago
this church was organized in the court house
Of Orange with only twelve members. Now
there are nearly one hundred members. and
they have cOmmOdious building, erected at
q cost of about $1,000.
The proceedings in the United States Court
on the part Of spencer Trask and Others
stockholders Of the old Jacksonville, Pensa-
cola and Mobile Railroad under the Little
field organization, represented by Gen. W. G.
NJ. Davis and j. b. G. Drew, which was eX-
Pected to come up at Pensacola on Thursday,
has been postponed, to come up before the
court in Jacksonville in April next.
The steamer Merrimac has been secured
and another steamer about the size of the
1 Welaka, called the Vista, now at st. Angus
( tine, has been purchased A third steamer
! will be added shortly. These steamers will
form direct line from New York through to
/ Tampa, the City of Palatka connecting at
/ Charleston with New York steamers, and the
I river steamers connecting with the South
/ Florida Railroad at Sanford.
The annual meeting Of the State Sunday
/ Tuesday and Wednesday. The following Off
I GERS were elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, Hon. Z. C.. Cobb, of Escambia county,
/ First Vice President, @. NJ. Roper of West
I Florida; Second Vice President, E. d. Beggs,
I of Madison county; Third Vice President,
/ Rev. c. c. Mclean, of Jacksonville; Fourth
4 Vice President, James Snediker, of Marion
/ county. The association will hold its next
/ annual meeting at Gainesville in December.
/ The Palatka Herd2d contains the following
which refers to an occurrence already more
I briefly noted in the NEWS: t'The decayed re-
mains Of what was once a human being came
! ashore below the railroad wharf. and was
I found there on Saturday morning. The head
/ was missing, together with one foot and part
! of the other. The remains are supposed to be
those OF a white man. The pockets of the
( pantal0ons are turned, giving rise, in the
/ though that fact might perhaps be accounted
! for by the action of the water. There being
no evidence OF violence, no inquest was held,
/ and the body was inferred on Saturday"
Joseph Allen, a cOlored lad from Aiken, S.
/ G., on a. visit to Berry Riley, living near
/ O'Neill's Crossing, not far from Fernandina,
was bitten by a rattlesnake on Sunday morn
ing last and died from the effects of the poison
at midnight. The place had been recently
cleared and the boy, in company with anoth-
er lad, were out playing. Allen put his right
hand into a hole which he supposed to be 4
rabbit hole, when he was bitten in the hand
! His companion supported him to the house.
/ where he fell in a dead faint Turpentine
! was applied to the wound by his relatives,
I they not knowing at first the nature of the
wound. Upon investigating the hole they
found a slX-fOOt rattlesnake, with nine rattles
and a button, which they killed. The lad
lived till midnight, suffering very little pain,
I He was conscious within half an hour Of his
/ death.