Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-16
FLORIDA.

Artesiau wells are great success at
New Smyrna.
A large dredge is at work on the river
near OrmOnd.
A deer weighing 200 pounds was shot
Tuesday week near Blake.
Lafayette county is out of debt, and has
a surplus of cash in her treasury.
There are about 300 sulphur wells on
the East coast, all furnishing good water.
The ex-soldiers and sailors on the East
coast have formed post of the G.. A. r.
Rev. j. r. Powell has accepted a call to
the pastorate Of the Sanford Baptist
church.
A wild cat Is inches high was shot the
other day at Hawks Park, near New
Smyrna.
Henry Bryan has bought the stock of
goods lately owned by Joe Underhill at
Barberville.
Live Oaks artesian well has been sunk
over 1000 feet and no water yet, and
money for boring it exhausted.
George c. White has received his COM
mission as Postmaster of Live Oak and
will enter upon the discharge of his duties
on Oct. l.
Mrs. John Gardner, at Ponce park, near
New Smyrna, caught in one hour last
week four fish that aggregated in weight
100 pounds.
The Enterprise people want that delay
of II hours IN receiving their mail looked
into, and have petitioned the authorities
to that effect.
II. D. Allison has severed his cOnnec-
ton with the Live Oak Inteliigencer to as
sumo the business management of the
Jasper Times.
Capt. NJ. o. Burnham, the oldest light
house. keeper in the United States, cele-
brated his golden wedding at Cape
Canaveral on Sept. 9.
The channel cut through the rock at
the mouth of HillsbOrough river is $50
feet wide for distance of $50 feet and 8
feet deep at low water.
The trustees of the Wesleyan institute,
Of Orlando. have secured the services of
Prof. s. G. Brinkley, of Quitman, Ga, to
take charge of their school on Sept. %.
Fort Pickens is to be repaired and sup
piled with more and better guns. One To-
inch gun and one each of the 100, 200 and
300-pOunder rifled guns are to form part
OF the forts armament.
All necessary steps have been taken for
holding camp meeting at Willow Sink,
Levy county, from Nov. 81 to Dec. 3. This
is to be the permanent camp meeting
ground. 1t is to be decided to the MethO-
dist church, and supplied with arbor.
tents, etc.
1t is said that since the work OF i'm
proving Pensacola harbor commenced
that there is now at least l foot more
water in the channel on the middle ranges
across the inner bar than there is across
the outer bar, and ample for vessels
drawing % feet on an ordinary full tide.
Charles l.. Fildes, formerly of Gaines
vile, who, with his family, left Florida in
June for Colorado, where he went with
the expectation Of residing permanently,
returned to Jacksonville Saturday de-
termined to live and die in Florida. Mr..
Fildes was not as well satisfied with the
far West as be anticipated he would be
upon leaving Florida. Denver, he says,
is dull and offers but meagre Inducements
to young men In search of business and
home.
Some bad blood has been stirred up
among the citizens on the Halifax river, the
cause of which is the announced intention
OF the East Coast Canal Company TO cut
channel OF their own in the Halifax
river, throwing the mud and earth only on
one side, thus dividing the stream into
two channels and destroying private navi-
cation. The citizens do not object 10 the
dredging II the canal company will re-
move the mud thrown out by the dredges,
but il this is not done an injunction will
he asked for to prevent the dredging in
Halifax river.
Piers0nville correspondence Emp0ria
Gdzette: s. d. Wilson, the surveyor of
EmpOria, was In town this week and laid
out G. r.. Persons 160-acre homestead
into building lots. This land is half a
mile square, and is within half mile OF
! the railroad station. There will soon be
Il schoolhouse on the property, and it is
expected that the growing population
will demand new church before long,
which may also be placed at this end OF
our settlement. Three Of the new streets
run north and south, while three run east
and west. They are go feet wide outside
Of the lots.
Emporia Gazette: An unusual sight
was witnessed by several OF our citizens
| last Thursday near the sawmill. large
frog came bounding toward them, and
with few 6-fOOt leaps disappeared near
the lake. About ten minutes had passed
when a large black snake came directly
toward them, evidently trailing the frog.
knowing It's harmless and useful nature,
OuF friends remained quiet until the snake
had got close 20 their feet, when slight
movement apparently caused 1t 10 lose
tho trail, but II soon recovered the course
and proceeded between the feet OF the
on-lookers. 1t soon came up 70 the frog,
which gave a big jump into the water, the
snake following, but IL missed It's prey
and returned to the shore.