Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-01
FLORIDA.


The prospect is that Federal Point will
soon have large influx of immigrants.
The saw mill at Island City is now in
full blast and turning out lumber rapidly.
The depot at oxford. near Leesburg,
was burned ON Wednesday of last week.
Only'24.000 pine apples have been ship
ped from the groves ia Monroe county this
month.
Cotton is still being shipped from Lake
City, sales being made last week at 201zc.
per pound.
The steamer on Lake Apopka now makes
a schedule round of the lake ports for
vegetables.
Thirteen hundred quarts of strawber-
ries were shipped from Federal Point to
Charleston last week.
A club has been organized in Manatee,
which meets every Friday evening to play
cards and dissolve ice cream.
Albert S. Lockwood, missing from his
home in Michigan, is supposed to be in
Florida. He is about II years old.
The Everett House at Jacksonville
closes its season to-day. 1t has enter
tsiued more guests than any hotel in
Florida.
Judge Wash Ives has severed his con-
nectiOn with the Lake City Reporter. He
Will be a member OF the constitutional
convention.
Arrangements are being made to run a
steamer either from Tampa to Peace
creek. or from Punta Rassa to Fort Myers
and Cleveland City.
The Pensacola Gun Club viii do some
fancy trap shooting at the park this af-
teTnoOn Tor the entertainment of those at
tending the fireman's picnic.
George Rossign0l and Stuart st. Clair
have chartered the steamer Seminole and
intend establishing a line between Fed
eral Point and Palatka, commencing at
once.
In row at Sanderson Tuesday viii
liam Green struck Jack RaulersOn with q
Ratchet, inilicting a dangerous wound.
The latter's death IS expected. Green IS
under arrest.
A man from Mayport, by the name Of
Silas, claims to have been robbed of about
$40 in cash on Monday night, while under
the influence of liquor and asleep on one
Of Jscksonville's back streets.
Mr.. Gutierrez, Cuban cigar manufac-
turer of Waldo, shot himself Tuesday
the ball entering his mouth and passing
out through the upper part of the nose.
He is seriously, if not fatally, wounded.
Estimates on the cost of the extensions
to the Duval Hotel, at Jacksonville, are
now being made by contractors, and it Is
expected that the contract viii be let and
the work commenced just as soon as the
hotel closes.
DIR. Quackenbush, the port physician
of Jacksonville, says that he has selected
suitable quarantine grounds for vessels,
as instructed at the last meeting Of the
Board Of Health, but will not indicate the
spot until the next meeting of the board
80 hal rhav no Will uf "a D. "a
There is small pawpaw tree in Mrs.
Deiannoy's yard, at Rock Ledge, which is
n curiosity The tree is only about ten
feet high, and has nine large pawpaws on
it. The largest was measured and found
to be fourteen and a half inches long, and
twenty-oue and halt inches around.
The prospect for a place OF worship at
Cocoa in the near future is very brilliant,
as two citizens have offered a piece OF
ground for the building, and Mrs. Board
man, OF Warren, o., has 600 which she
VIII donate for building an Episcopal
church. The lot TO be donated is one Of
the handsOmest on the river, beautiful
rIve~ front, and the church is to be built Of
coQuina rock or concrete.
Il is estimated that 1000 families have
settled In Florida during the past winter.
The major portion Ot these newcomers,
from what can be- ascertained. are OF a
class possessed of means sufficient 10 im-
prove the property purchased by them and
b live comfortably. They are generally
intelligent moral and progressive. The
counties af Marion, sumter, Orange.
Unraand0. X0luaia aud Polk have been
especially bent fitted hy these new settlers.
Nearly AN 80 them have purchased prop
lrty ana BEGUN On improve lt-sQme for a
place of permanent qh1de aud others for
4 winter resort FROM Che snow and lee Of