Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24

FLORIDA.
Enterprise has been Incorporated.

FLORIDA.
Enterprise has been Incorporated.
Lakeland wants the next State Fair.
Orlando has nearly $1,000 in her treasury.
Madison cOutemplates boring an artesian
we'll.
',ockledge has justreceived cargo of coral
from Key West.
s'ers arr being taken to build a parsonage
Hutton Eros are about opening q cigar fac
tory n Orlando.
Peach trees in the vicinity Of Emporia are
beginning 20 bloom.
\ meeting to organize a Board Of Trade is
/ TO be held at Tampa his week.
There are nearly $40 acres Of orange trees
I IN grove form in OrmOnd aud vicinity.
An Orlando real estate agent made five
sales last week, which aggregated S12.' 90.
The fgular spr ug term OF the Circuit Court
Tor lliilsboro county viii convene at Tampa
Dr. Appel has now growing on his place,
near i-aSe City, siNty-three different varieties
Of grapes.
Efforts are being made to build Presbyteri-
an churches At Nashua and Buffalo Bluf Put
nam county.
Pensacola wants the Georgia journalists to
snaHd p Gay with her on their return from
New Orleans.
20 les Wr ~ of DuckpoInt on Indian river. got
70 deer one day lass week.
Forest fires have bcen quite common Of late
in thc vicinity Of Wildwood. and a good deal
ol fencing ha, been destroyed.
Mrs. Middleton. Of Green Cove has set out
2 numHcr of tea plants N one OF her lots,
which are In a nourishing condition.
Louis Cauova, who has q very fine Ice fac
r1ry I'm EaiatSa. VIII establish Il branch of his
business IN Green Cove this summer.
30 is estimated by competent Judges that
there are over 1000 acres of orange groves
within a radius Of five miles OF DayJOna.
Amos Hayes, after whom is named a steamer
now plying the thattahOochec river, diet at
his home near Greenwood = day or two ago.
The President of the West Florida Invest
mcut and Improvement Company has gone,
with bis engineers. to lay out their first town
site. az or near Chip!ey. which will be the
junction Of the st. Andrews Bay and Chipiey
Railroad.
Tho attempt on the part Of the Democrats
and Republicans Of Walton county TO agree
ou fusion ticket. composed OF the best men
Of sll parties. resulted in failure. and the
Democrats nave called a County Convention,
tO meet on April 4, 10 nominate delegates TO
revise the constitution
Cyrus Beedc, the Indian sgent who has r.
Gently been on mission 20 the SeminOles in
the Everglades region. has returned. HIS OBJ
ject IN visiting the hunting grounds OF the
Semiucles was To induce the remnant Of the
tribe now In the State to settle upon home
steads. He met with very little success.
Among the cases that will be disposed OF in
the Circuit Court at Tampa this week Is that
completes, who are charged with the murder
by poisoning OF a cOlOred man and five chl.
dren near that place about year ago. The
defendants. who are all cOlOred, have been ia
jail ever slIce he commission Of the crime.
4 fire occurred at Millville FRIDAY, hv
which five or SIX houses We're burned down.
The fire hrOse out IN the large building known
as Ihc ~heaTer, formerly the Perdido House
building, a portion Of which was occupied by
Mr.. GlanCps as a hotel and boarding house.
aud another portion Of which was used by
Oscar wilkins as barrOOm. This and several
other &tiJo ming buildings were burned down.
The PcrdidO store. owned and operated by W.
J. witch, narrowly escaped It Is supposed
mat the hotel was fired BY sparks from the
PcriidO mill.
Jasper 7imes: Somebody asks us, What is
q Florida land sink. and what causes it2
Flur.i has a good many caves and under
ground rivers. As general thing these
caves ara arch ad over with rock and supported
hy huge rock pillars, but In some places veins
of sand. vary ing IN size from a few inches 10
one or two hundred yards in diameter, run
through the roCk. During the wet seasons
these slud veins get filed with water. which.
pcrcolatmg through. sometimes causes the
entire vein 20 fall through. When the VEIN
happens % be only few inches or feet IN
diameter It Is known as natural well, but
when the vein comprises an acre or two II is
called a ''siuk-'
Hiram Atkins. editor and proprietor of the
Montpelier lNt.) 4 rglfS and Patriot. is visit
n- Florida. Although less than third o the
voters ~ the state are Democrats. the 4 r0liS
has ut Grlv ccuble the circulation Of any state
paper, which Is proof of Mr.. Atkins ability
Us q newspaper man. The nomination Of
Hancock cmanated from Camp Watson, Mr..
Atkins summer resort, on Lake Champlain,
it being there proposed by him. He kept the
stealing Of the Presidency before the public
hv heading column every week with rOOs-
ter and the words "Tllden Elected and hayes
Counted In" during the entire period that
Hayes occupied TiiGen's chair
About three months ago a man by the name
Of PoSey. halling from south Carolina, settled
40 CrawtordvIllc. built a rev house and
moved lniO nc. ast week the sheriff of Aiken
county. :. e.. came TO Tallahass e bearing a
requisItlon Scr Posey. but when he arrived at
Crawiordville he learned that POsev had fed,
ami he returned without his man. Mr.. Frank
nuval followed POsey into Liberty county,
captured him and brought HIN back TO Craw-
foruYille, where he was lodged in jail Fri
dav Judge W. L. Duval came to Tallahassee
and teiegrS phed To the authorities IN South
Carolina, aud Is 2watlng an answer. IL Is
said that Posey embczzled money belonging
10 the singer Sewing Machine Company. and
his whereabouts was ascertained by the post
mark On a letter to his father.
Henry q. Damon anu family. OF COrsicana,
Texas. are visiting his father, George Damon,
al Tallahassee. At the breaking out OF the
war MIR Damon went 10 Virginia as a mem
her OF Col. Wards regiment, the Second FlOri-
da. Later he was transferred 10 Col. Dukes
regiment. IN Gen. MOrgau's command. and
during q rad IN Kentucky was taken prisoner
and sent 10 Rock Island, Illinois. From this
prison he escaped. but was recaptured in
about ton DAYS and taken to Camp Morton,
in Indiana. where he was one Of party OF 60
who charged the guard. and all but three es-
capped. Mt. Damon made his way into Ken
tucsv. where he rested for a month. and then
entered the Confederate lines at Abingdon,
W. Va. In southern Historical Society
Papers" for July. August and September,
1874. Is "A Florida Boys Experience In Prison
and in Escaping OF which Mr.. Damon Is the
author.
Lake City correspondence NEWS. March 81:
The weather has been cool and dry for the
past week OF ten days. The late frost nlpped
some OF tke beans, but did not kill the crop,
only in a few instances. Il is raining now,
and the weather is cool. A great many
PLANTED corn this week. and some have
planted cOttOn.-The Columbia County Fair
= e-OciatiOn was permanently organized on
MaTeG Is. Capt. j. +. Baya, Jas. +. Young,
\. a.. Bieelcw. q. W. Watts, J. G. McFar-
land. w III. ferry. W. II. Wilson are the
directors. Capt. J. r. Baya has been elected
President c. W. Watts Treasurer, and Capt.
{. R. King Secretary. The capital stock is
limited 20 $4,000. The fair viii take place on
the irst Tuesday in December next. The as
sociation Will be incorporated, and made one
of the fixed institutions OF the county. IL mHst
be remembered by our farmers that the high
road to the prosperity Of a county dates from
its first agricultural fair.-Ihe new railroad
: being rapidly graded.
In vaia the eyes are filed with light;
In vain tile eLcek with beauty glows,
Unless the teeth are pure and white,
Unless the breath IL like the rose;
And SOZoDONT alone supplies
These beauties that we al so prize,