Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-09
FLORIDA.

A lodge OF Knights of Pythias will be
Instituted at Orlando Wednesday.
The Orlando Guards held their first drill
at the Opera House Monday night.
The yachts Agnes G. and Wild Wave
are to race on Lake Eusts the 25th.
The Sanford Packing Company's new
packing house is almost ready for occu-
pancy.
a drove of sheep from Georgia passed
through Orlando Friday on their way to
Gotha.
A forty-room boarding house is one of
the possibilities Of the near future at
Winter Park.
The new furniture for the bank of Or
lando has arrived, and is being placed in
their new rooms.
The Cedar Kew oyster trade has just
opened and yet about 400 barrels were
shipped last month.
Mr.. Francis, an Ohio man, is thinking
ofstarting planning mill at Grand Island,
on the Aston branch.
Plenty of venison and wild ducks are in
market at Titusville-venison 121%c. per
pound and ducks 15c. each.
The total number of pupils on the rolls
of the Orlando public schools are 227, and
average attendance is 2l4.2-5.
The society of the Sons of Temperance,
recently organized in Green Cove, is rap
idly increasing its membership.
Speculation in land lii the northern
part of Florida has opened this season on
much larger scale than ever before.
The Orlando planning mills have taken
in another partner in the person of G. G.
Macleod, brother of w. =. Macleod.
A pOst-office has been established at
Clay Springs. 1t is located just east of
the hotel, and j. D. Smith is Postmaster.
w. A. Mahoney, the newly-appointed
Collector of Customs for Fernandina, was
in that CITY last week getting up his bond.
DR.. Charles B. Scull having resigned
the postmastership of ChattahoOchee Fort
Morgan has been appointed Postmaster.
The Cedar Keys Ice and Fish company
have shipped during October nearly 600
barrels Of fish ana still they cry for more.
Love Lee, of Leesburg, is building a
tram road from his gr We to his packing
house, recently built near the F. 4. g. N.
depot.
On Tuesday G. W. Biddell & Co.'s wild
land agency at Orlando sold 600 acres OF
choice Florida lands to Northern parties
at So per acre.
Daily hack service has been put on the
route between Lake Jessup and Oviedo
to Chuluota, carrying the United States
mail and passengers.
Game is now plentiful in the vicinity of
Green Cove Spring, and the huntsman
has his choice between partrldges, ducks,
squirrels, turkey and deer.
A meeting of ex-Confederate soldiers
and sailors will be held at Leesburg,
Thursday, for the purpose OF organizing a
Camp of Confederate Veterans"
John Miles, the colored keeper OF the
North Range Beacon light, near Fernan-
dina, suffered broken leg a day or two
ago by the capsizing of wagon in which
he was riding.
The Magnolia hotel at Cedar Key has
been taken by Decatur Pittman, formerly
of Nebraska. Mr.. Pittman expects
number of guests from Nebraska to spend
the winter here.
MI. Plummer has resigned the agency
OF the Southern Express company, at
Green Cove Spring, and the business will
be attended to in the future by MIR. Banks
at the railroad depot.
The report of the commissioners in the
case of the j. T. & X. W. railroad VS..
Fred De Bary, condemning the land in
controversy for the use of the road at En-
terprise, has been confirmed by Judge
Baker.
The editor Of the Sumterville Times pur-
chased mis- present residence from the
Lieut.. Governor of Florida, and his resi-
dence in Charleston was sold twenty
wears ago to the Lieut.. Governor OF South
Carolina.
An Englishman named William
FOulkes. who arrived at Sanford Friday
from Southport, Lancashire, England,
died Tuesday. He had just come over
from the mother country, and was taken
i'll during the voyage.
The lot belonging TO the Turner estate,
located on Main street, Leesburg, was
sold 10 MIR. Gold, Monday, for $4,000. The
improvements upon it are are of little
value. Mr.. Gold will doubtless put a
brick block upon it soon.
The steamer Governor Stafford returned
to Cedar Key Tuesday morning, having
broken two OF the bolts which held down
the Journal caps Of the walking beam
shaft on the port side. Repairs were made
on Wednesday, and she sailed again.
Eli johnson, OF Leesburg. has a curios-
ity in the way OF water jar which has
been covered thick on the outside with
grass seed. which seed has grown, still
Sticking closely 20 the jar. The jar is
kept filed with water to feed the grass.
Gov. Mabry addressed the people and
the IeesDurg hlneb iuebudy evening.
The object was 10 arouse the interest OF
the people In the military organization,
and awaken the young men u sense Of
their duty to prepare themselves to save
the country.
l.. s. Moore, presented his petition 10
the Board OF Commissioners Monday for
license TO sell liquors in Leesburg, but
the petition was refused on the grounds
that the petitioner had not secured a
majority OF the names Of the legal voters
in the precinct.
The phrase, "better late than never"
was exempllfed by a couple IN Clay
county. last week. who, after living To-
getner Tor twenty odd years. and raising
children TO the age OF maturity, conclud-
ed 10 get married, and 70 that end bad
the Rev. Joseph BROKER TO tie the connu-
bal knot.
Florida Is becoming somewhat obtru-
sive, and this week made It's appearance
in the carriage department Of the National
horse show in New York. A village cart,
built nv jacksonville mechanics, after an
original design by Maj. n. b. Clinch, oil
Green Cove. took second prize 10 the COM
petition Of two-wbeeled vehicles.
The Columbia County knights chal-
lenqe any other tournament cluD IN tne