Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-16
FLORIDA.
Real estate business is quite brisk.


The steamer Comet. which sunk at her
wharf at Palatka, has been raised.
Between 1000 and 1900 persons arrived
at Jacksonville on the various trains Fri
day.
Business is improving at Milton, though
money is scarce. Everybody is busy, and
trade is lively.
Six and one-quarter cents is all a coun-
ty judge can collect for going through all
The red tape necessary to sell stray DO.
vine.
Lieut.. Gen. scorehue, of Her Brittanic
Majesty's Indian service, is prospecting
at Orlando with view to making invest
ments.
There are several cases Of measles in
Palatka at present, but the disease has
not developed into anything like an cpl
demic.
All Tung We, who runs large Chinese
laundry in Baltimore, contemplates re-
moving his entire establishment to
Tampa.
E. II Foy and H. S. Bundy are under ar
rest at Green Cove Spring, charged with
burelarizing j. r. Coffee's store. The
stolen property was worth 800.
The Ocklawaha ats bring down large
quantities of oranges to Palatka on every
trip, when they are forwarded ahead to
the Northern and Western markets.
An arrest has led to the discovery that
on account OF a failure to ingraft pro-
hbitory law in the city ordinances, Pen
sacola BARRIERS can ply their aVocatiOns on
Sundays.
The Islander case of c. r. Griffin VS.. S.
Robertson, occupied the attention of the
circuit court at Palatka, Saturday. The
amount OF damage claimed by complain
ant is $4,000.
The committee appointed at the Jack
sonvile meeting to draft resolutions in
memory of Gems. Mcclellan and Finne-
gan. has prepared them and Will be ready
to report at to-nights meeting.
The contract between the town Of Tam
pa and the Holly Manufacturing Compa-
ny was signed on Monday in accordance
with the provisions of the ordinance
passed by the town council last July.
Owing to the increasing demand for
Motifs orange wine. Capt. Mott is perfect
ing arrangements looking to the torma-
zion of a company to go into manufacture
ing the wine upon large scale at Or
landO.
The steamer Queen Of the st. Johns, is
now on the ways underlying repairs, pre-
paratOry to going on her line between
Jacksonville and Sanford. AS soon as she
hauled out.
The fact that there are five saw-mills
running now within a radius of twenty
miles OF Titusville is sufficient evidence
OF the demand for lumber and the prog
nOsis of the incoming immigration and
Improvement.
Sneak thieves are at Sanford. The
Shrine house was entered Thursday
night. and clothing stolen. The Shrine
house h d g narrow escape from fire the
0taer day. The kitchen caught, but was
extinguished with slight loss.
Lewis Anderson and another colored
man quarreled over the speed of river
boats, at Thrasher's Ferry, Thursday
night. Andersonls head was laid open
with an ak. The wound is very serious,
the Enterprise Jail.
There is not, nor has there been for ten
DAYS, anv postal cards in the Jackson
vile post Office. A request for loan Of a
few thousand has been denied at Phila-
delphia. savannah, Charleston and At
lanta. The cause OF the shortage is I'M
known to the postal officials.
Purman Waters, a small colored boy s
wears old, walked three miles to report a
broken raifin the track near LlOyd's sta
ton on last fuesdaV. Section Master
Griffin arrived at the place just in time to
save an extra train from going down an
embankment. The boy was rewarded.
A meeting OF the Harbor Improvement
Committee of the Jacksonville Board of
Trade was held at the rooms of he board
Saturday, to make arrangements for CON-
piling the statistics so az to have them in
readiness to take with them 10 Savannah,
where a meeting OF the HarbOr Improve
met convention is to be held on the oath
inst.
A number of young Englishmen have
recently arrived in Clay county, with a
view of establishing themselves in Flor
ida. after having compared the advant-
ages and disadvantages of the different
sections. Some OF these gentlemen have
friends already here, and they will, of
course, be influenced in some degree by
their advice.
One night, about three weeks ago, the
dfice of the Southern Florida railroad
freight house ct Sanford, was entered
and 800 stolen from the safe. A negro
has been arrested on suspicion. Freight
Agent Awde has since disappeared. His
accounts are correct, and it Is believed
that he left because he feared that he
would have to make good the amount Sc
cured by the robber.
A number Of citizens OF Hillsboro coun-
tv have petitiOned the State legislature To
pass an act for the preservation Of the
food tish on the gulf coast. In view OF the
fact that the mullet. the staple food fish
Of the gulf coast. are being RAPIDLY exter-
minated, bv the incesSant war upon them.
They ask the legislature 10 pass an act
prohibiting the taking of mullet with
seines. gill-uets or other appliances for
gathering them in large quantities, dur
ing the months of December and January
In each year-thus securing time for an
nual spawning of these valuable fish.
SOUTH CAROLINA.