Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-15
FLORIDA.

oAol Lu0u thdt Iueg IOunu Ihe leWelry IN
trash pile behind Bernd's harness estab-
lishment.
FLORIDA.
Apalachicola is hoping for four mails
week.
GAINESVILLE will vote for school trustees
Thursday.
Ft. Ogden wants to be the county site
of Manatee,
The ice factory at GAINESVILLE is nearly
completed.
The framing OF Tampa's new Congre-
gational church is up.
Many building improvements are in
progress at Monticello
l.. o. Gold is about to erect two large
storerOOms at Leesburg.
ApalachicOla has a military company
called the Franklin guards.
fernando county will have a teachers
institute at BrOOksville, Sept. s.
5. z. Wreford, mail contractor of PEN
saoola, has mysteriOusly disappeared.
Monticello's new hotel will be sold at
auction on the first Monday in September.
Ex-senator Platt, cone tOO,"( of New
York, owns fine orange grove in Sumter
county.
Gen. Yonge, of Pensacola, predicts that
the new constitution will be ratified by
the people.
j. NJ. BOwland's son has withdrawn
from partnership with his father in busi-
ness at Pine Level.
University street at GAINESVILLE is now
macadamiZed to within seventy-fVe Yards
of the Transit depot.
The first batch Of New York mail for
Cuba. under the new arrangement, passed
through Tampa on Aug. 4.
The taxable property of Leon county
has increased during the past year from
$L93l, 900 to nearly $2,500O.000.
No paper in any city of TaIlahassee's size
in the United States has a better local
page than that of the IGlidhdsseeGn.
A mullet weighing 8 pounds and meas
uring 27% inches in length was recently
taken from the waters of Tampa bay.
Shivery's new building at GAINESVILLE is
more than half completed, aud when
finished will be leased for hotel pur-
poses.
T. i. Dekle's mill, miles south of Lake
Butler, was washed out several DAYS
since, involving heavy loss on its
owner.
lnman II. Fisher, an old and respected
citizen Of Leon county, died Wednesday
Of heart disease at his residence near
Centreville.
A building boom has struck BeresfOrd,
and great improvements are going on.
The last addition is a $4,000 house for
Capt. Alexander.
The census returns from Monroe cOun-
ty show up as follows: Number of inhabi-
tants 14,742, farms 100, manufactured 9S,
deaths for the year ending with June,
1885, 1925.
The Florida Railway and Navigation
Company's officials have decided to make
Lloyds a meeting point for trains, and
they are now engaged in lengthening the
side track about 200 yards westward.
The Cypress Lumber Company's mill at
Apaiachicola cuts 100000 feet per
month, COombs Il Co.'s mill cuts 8. 100000
feet per annum; Clary & Co.'s mill cuts
3,000,0O0 feet per annum, and G. II. Par
lin & Co.'s mill 100000 feet per annum.
Charley Williams, a colOred train hand
on the Florida Railway and Navigation,
was accidentally killed at Eilaville We'd
nesday. he dropped his cap just before
the train reached the bridge, and was
reaching his head out looking after il,
when his head came In contact with the
bridge.
Col. J. y. Brown is beginning the cree
tiOn of 30-rOOm brick building at Gains
vile, which when completed will be- used
for hotel, with tho exception OF two
rooms. which viii be waiting rooms for
the Savannah, Florida and Western pas
senger depot. The building has already
been leased 10 a party from New York.
From Pine Level TO FIT. Ogden by
Dishong's ferry along the road five new
houses are being built, TO say nothing OF
those recently completed. Along that
road few years ago IL was desolate and
lonely. but now the notes Of the organ,
the hum OF the saw mill, and the sound OF
the hammer impress the traveller with the
advance Of refinement, energy and pros
perity.
The following figures show the cost Of
the Constitutional Convention: Printing
election notices and stationery, $l.4S3 n;
incidental expenses, $50 %; mileage,
s 1921 80; payroll Of members (casb J,
$l7.S94; payroll, officers and attaches,
S4304; extra enrolling, $3.50; extra record
ing, $50; printing proceedings, etc, 81, I24;
total cash cost. S34,sT2 30; pay certificates
issued. Sls, 100; grand total, $4,000 ~.
A negro girl, about II years OF age,
named lydia Wilson, who lives out on the
Heights. reported 10 the police of Palatka'
Wednesday, that while she was walking
into town on Tuesday, negro man as
saulted and by threats OF violence ana
company him into the woods, where she
received terrible treatment nt hls hands.
She describes her assailant rs black,
short and stout built young negro. Po-
liceman Brown made a search for him
among the railroad hands at work be.
tween here and Buffalo Bluff, but failed
TO find such man.
A. W. Raysor. OF Monticello, has an
Indian stone pipe almost ~ hard az g hint
and Of the following dimensions: Boz"
~ inches, neck inches. bottom of bowl
20 where stem enters 4 inches, depth .
inches, weight AZ ounces and holds
fluid ounces. This pipe was found by nn
old negro ON the late Squire Aloid
Rayaor's plantation while plowinR
near nm Indian mound on th'
AuellIa river fhirty-three Years ago,
and haa always remained IN me
possession N the Raye0f family, ana is
hislly Ofixod. An 0ld negro man, VINO