Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-01
FLORIDA.

Emporia is to have brass band.
A new depot is to be erected at Orange
City.
Cedar Key spends the evenings in shark
fishing.
The Apalachicola Baptist Church has
been reOrganized.
A cat 10 years and 8 months old has
just died in Quincy.
5. B. Smith, of Madison, has book
over 100 years of age.
The odd Fellows at Tallahassee have
new regalla and Jewels.
A new post office building is being
erected at Port Orange.
The court house at Enterprise will be
closed on Saturday, July 4.
A library and reading room association
has been organized in DeLand.
The iron span of l25 feet over the Ala
paha, in Hamilton county, is finished.
A late measurement makes it thirty
two miles from Enterprise to DaytOna.
Tie closing exercises of the Daytona
Institute were given last Thursday even
ing.
The Peninsular Hotel at Tavares is to
be enlarged by the addition of 20 more
rooms.
The school house at Oak Hill has been
removed to more central location and
much improved.
John W. Howell, Collector of .Customs
at Fernandina, will soon return to Baker
county to reside.
A health resort is talked of to be located
at Daytona, the structure to cost from
$4,000 to 100000.
The piles for the new railroad wharf at
ENTERPRISE have been driven and the cap
beams but in place.
Adam Bailey, cOIOred, lost two children
last week by falling into the Alapaha
river, Hamilton county.
A new Methodist church will be built
at Osteen, land having been given for the
purpose in the new town plat.
E. G. Hewitt, Of New Smyrna, has been
appointed Deputy Sheriff of Volusia
county by Sheriff B. F. Brooke.
Dick Clark, while driving a cartridge
into gun at Elaville, a few days since,
lost hnger by the gun exploding.
Capt. r, A. Shine has been elected Sec
rotary * the Board of Education of the
State Seminary, at Tallahassee, vice
Judge j. 7. Bernard resigned.
A commercial traveller had the misfor-
tune co drop his sample case of cigars,
tobacco, etc, overheard at the Palatka
wharf, and after 1t was fished out he sold
out "dirt cheap"
Cedar Key has chemical fire engines,
but no one to instruct the citizens how TO
operate them. .She also has a hook and
ladder truck, which the boys are endeav-
oring to learn to engineer without an in
structor.
The pilings are being driven prepare
tory to building another canning factory
in ApalachicOla. This is the work of the
same company who are building the ice
factory, and the ice factory will be OPP
Grated in the interest of the canning es-
ta0lishment, that fish may be preserved
In summer.
The Eustis Lake Region says that E. E.
Gilbert, the jeweler Of that town, was the
originator Of the famous alligator jewelry.
The first set he mounted brought him $50,
and his first sea bean S.. This was some
sixteen years ago, and now you can find
the 'gatOr teeth dangling In the ears Of
beauty and fashion all over the land.
The Jacksonville Journal was seized by
the Sheriff Monday at the instance of
parties who had obtained judgments for
aebts due them by the journal Company.
He, by satisfactory arrangement, how
ever, agrees not TO close the establish
ment, upon the managers depositing
weekly, certain specified amounts to his
credit in the bank until the first Monday
in August, at which time the establish
ment viii be sold at Sheriff sale, provided
the Indebtedness is not llquidated preYi-
ously.