Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-09

/ A chicken with two heads and four legs
Is q receaJ production OF Sumter county.
/ 'Ocala's youngest business firm has dur
I ing The past week made IA sale of groceries
TO citizen of Fernandina.
Ed. Swindell is TO have built soon four
/ propeller steam yacht, which, 1t is af-
nrmed, will make forty miles per hour.
Mr. Weisk0pf, ofSanford, has purchased
Chiet Drlck machine, and will put it up
at once, ana put up kiln of $50, 900 brick
/ right away.
| post office between Levyville and Trenton.
TO be known as McElroy, with Jacob
Dupree as Postmaster.
The Cray brothers, charged with assas-
sinatlng Reuben Young, their brother. in
law, IN Hernando county, have been re-
fused the privilege Of giving bail.
The Florida Southern railroad has inst
come into possession Of about s. 600 acres
more of land in Levy county, the deed
/ from the State having been put on record
last week.
Capt. j. NJ. Renfro has obtained char
ter from the Board Of County Commits
sloners to operate ferry on the Withla-
| cOochee river, mile and half west of
the mouth of Blue Spring run.
The Panasoffkee post office some six
weeks ago made requisitiOn upon the
department at Washington for supplies
acquisition embracing some thirty items.
| Their request has been answered by the
! sending of two balls OF twine
The city council OF Ocala has passed a
resolution calling In ali outstanding scrip
by September 1, as it Is important to as
| certain the exact Indebtedness of the city.
! All scrip not handed in on or before that
date Will be debarred payment.
flna 80 In CT
! from Tampa to Sanford made the 115 miles
In three hours and forty minues, consum
ing sixty minutes In stops at stations,
| thus making the actual running time only
two hours and forty minutes-Very nearly
A miles an hour.
L. L. Ellison, Tax Assessor of Madison
has received the assessment of taxes OF
the Florida Railway aud Navigation
Company for the years 1879, 1880 and
1881, which in this county amounts TO
about $4,000 and Is to be paid in YEARLY
installments of 20 per cent.
A burglar entered the store of r. ID.
Howell & Bro, at Francis, Wednesday
night The post office is located in this
store, and the thief secured about $50
postal cards, few stamps and some little
money. He secured about S25 in cash
from the mOney-drawer of the Messrs.
Howell, and they estimated their loss in
goods, Jewelry, etc, at about $50. The
thief was tracked to Palatka.
Jacksonville Herald: eyes. why don't
MIR. Cleveland hurry up and turn 'em
out" and not allow them to enrich them
selves further? For instance. there is the
Collector OF Customs in this city, drawing
salary Of $500 per aDnum and fees. and
| the fees for the past month amounted to
tue magnificent sum of SO AZ. Now, we
| hope that this item will not be the means
/ of rush to the White House aud defeat
/ of Mr.. Cleyeland's summer trip. AT this
rate the ''rascals may stay in.'
| PanasOtfee correspondent Sumtervllle
| Times: Rumor has it that mutiny broke
| out one day last week upon one of the
steamers plying the lake. The com
manding officer Of the steamer, it is said,
| dispersed and discomiOrted the mutin9ers
| by means of his strong right arm. 1t
seems to be difficult TO learn all the par
! ticulars Of the affair, but if, as has been
! threatened, the United States Marine
! Courts at Jacksonville are to be invoked
! to adjust the difficulties, we will prob
ably learn 1t all in due time.
Last week w. r. Perryman, who lives
| eight miles from Bronson. was absent from
home, leaving Mrs. Perryman and two
little children at home. The oldest child,
a boy eight years old, went near a pond,
and dug spring, sinking hole about
! two and half feet deep, which filled
about half full of water. just as he had
! finished digging his mother called him to
\ the house, when his little brother, three
/ years old, passed out of the gate, and not
returning for some ten or fifteen minutes,
the mother sent the elder boy to look for
| him. In his search he went to the spring
| he had dug, and found that his little
! brother had fallen head first into the hole,
which was not more than foot square,
and, being unable to extricste himself or
| give an alarm was dead. The water in
| the hole barely covered his head.