Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-28


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Cant. GeorgeP. Washington carries the
e.. ~. INV wv rom tampa TO the Little Mana
80 Inc !, formal opening of the Tampa street
at an early day.
Inc Episcopal festival at M ADDISON last
week was we'll attended and the receipts
were satisfactory.
IL s more than probable that Tampa
WIN, In the course OF few months, be
lighted with electricity.
sara Sofa is on boom. The Hostetter
mas taken down recently a number OF
supplies.
The city authorities Of Tampa have had
posts put up at every street corner to keep
drivers from cutting catacornered across
the sidewalks.
Inc Tampa Lumber Company have fur
nlsned over 100000 feet of lumber for the
Iooacco factories, and have bills in for
as much more.
Capt. Tom Shine has sold his lot and the
one adjoining tOOConnell Bros. for $4,0 900.
Inc purchasers will erect three-story
brick building,
runlak Springs will be commenced at
once and the institution put in operation
as soon as possible.
The coloTed people are erecting two i'm
posing church editices in the western por-
ton OF Orlando. The buildings are ap-
preaching completion.
Orlando is having an endless number of
oalls, parties, concerts, operas, bazars
ana dramatic entertainments. The city
is glddy with amusements.
The Windsor hotel property, late Or
lando house, corner Central and Orange
avenues, Orlando, was sold last week for
$4,000. Last summer this property sold
for $500.
One OF Orlando's young merchants paid
50 for 25-cent Japanese paper parasol at
the Presbyterian festival held at the
opera-house last week just because his
best girl held it.
The young men of the different evan
gelical churches of Orlando met Thurs
day evening in the Office of Moo Iaig,
Fletcher d Curtis, and organized Young
Mems Christian Association.
Last Saturday afternoon the Orlando
Park Company was organized. Charles
JOY, President; p. o. Foster, Vice. Presi-
dent; Q. FL. Smith, Secretary and Treas
urer. The above officers and James NJ.
wilcox, DR., comprise the board of direct
ors.
The people living along the Manatee
river are DESTROYS of having telegraphic
communication established between
Tampa and points on the Manatee, and
they will, in the near future, start a sub
scription paper for the purpose of raising
means to carry on the work.
Alfred Coffee, the negro preacher
charged with the murder of one of his
children, has been returned from the Tall
lahassee jail to Madison by order of the
Governor. The jail at Madison has been
put in thorough order and Is considered
safe enough now to hold the most des-
perate criminal or the most sklllful Jail
breaker.
Jacksonville Herald: 1t 1s not generally
known that the late Joseph Malchus, who
died last week at st. Luke's hospital, of
consumption, was the artist whose pic
lures of Florida landscapes are so highly
valued. He was a Kentuckian by birth,
and came to Florida for his health. AS
an artist, he was a great success, as the
rapiditv with which his work is bought
by connoisseurs attest.
In addition to the large lot of material
for the construction of the new light
house, at Volnsia bar, which arrived some
weeks ago, another lot arrived at Jack
sonville Thursday evening, on the
schooner G. W.. Lewis, which has been
transferred to lighter to be shipped to
destination. The latter is material for
the keepers house, and is all prepared
for immediate putting together.