Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-08
FLORIDA.

There were but five deaths in jackson.
Vile last week.
A system Of sewerage is now being agi-
tated at Pensacola.
Settlers from six different States North
located at Orange City last week.
Inc colored A, NJ. 4. conference. at
Mariana, adjourned last Tuesday.
One man at DeLand is advertising Is
orange groves to be sold at auction.
About $50 pupils are in attendance in
the St.John's county public schools.
Six more teachers are wanted TO teach
IN the public schools of Volusia county.
There is a regular influx of immigrants
TO orange City from Eau Clare, Wiscon-
sin.
jackson county has new safe, weigh
ing 6,400 pounds. 1t took SIX oxen to pull
1t up from the depot.
The people of the east coast are said to
he having great trouble in shipping their
fruit away and receiving freights from the
North.
Nearly 200 men are now employed at
and around the union depot in Gaines
vile. 1t is the most misunderstanding
place in the city.
The Alabama Coal and Coke Company
have just established retail yard for the
sale of Alabama coal and coke to the oiti.
zens of Jacksonville.
A capitalist has under consideration a
proposition from some of the citizens of
Orange City for the erection of $4,000
hotel in Orange City.
The Sheriff of Escambia county IS said
to have allowed prisoner serving a three
months sentence to 60 to a circus with
party Of female friends.
The new Catholic church building at
Pensacola will soon be finished on the ex-
terror, and each day makes the beauty of
the design more apparent.
Ex-Gov. VIM. d. Bloxham, recently ap-
pointed by President Cleveland Surveyor
General OF Florida, Is the only native who
has filed the executive chair of Florida.
In consequence of the dangerous illness
Of Gen. Ayers, cOmmandant at st. Au-
gustine, the military salute in memory Of
Vice President Hendricks has been de-
ferred few days by advice of his attend
ing physicians.
The measles scare in Gainesville is not
halt so bad as some people think it is.
Many who thought they had the contagiOn
have found that it was imaginative in
stead Of real. The seminary has not been
closed, as was reported.
William III. Hinton, a white man, killed
Jesse Rogers, a colored man of desperate
character, on the streets of Jasper Satur-
day, shooting him four tunes. The negro
had threatened to take Hinton's life, and
during the difficulty had his knife drawn,
but did not use it.
In Robinson's mill, at MIllview, the
foreman of the mill, MIR. Mcmillan, was
instantly killed. Mr.. Mcmillan was SUI
perintending the gearing part of the ma
chinery of the mill when he was struck
in the head by the piston rod of the steam
feed and had the whole top part of his
head cut off.
Supervising Inspector Curran, of Balti-
more, has reversed the decision of the dis
trict inspectors in the case of the collision
between the st. Johns river steamboats,
Captain Miller and Port Royal. He eX-
onerates Capt. Garner, of the Port Royal,
from blame, and says he can find in the
evidence no sufficient reason for disturb
ing his license as master and pilot.
The latest and most prominent enter
prise developed in Alachua county Is IN
the founding of the new town of Suther-
land, two and a half miles south of Are
dOndO. on the Transit railroad, by DR.. G.
II. Sutherland. DR.. Sutherland, the foun-
der of this thriving young burg" offers
tree to any person VINO will Immediately
build house thereon, lot 80 by 100 feet.
During the year ending Dec. 81, 1884,
there were manufactured In Florida co.
5S0,592 cigars. From Jan. to Oct. / of
the present year there have been sold and
removed from this State by manufactu-
rers $500, 600 cigars, on which the tax
paid was $4,000. This does not by any
means include the number manufactured
the present year in Florida; it covers only
those actually sold. The manufacturers
have on hand constantly from 100000 TO
100000 cigars, which, added to those
sold even up to Oct. 1, will show great
increase over the number manufactured
last year, with two months yet to heal
from. There were 1888 special taxpayers
on the lists of the collector Of internal
revenue on April 80, 1885.