Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-23

he was about to enter a saloon.
Enterprise is organizing cOlored-
Observation-Disclosures oncert-company.
j. H. Taylor, OF Lane Park, has thirty
acres OF land planted in castor beans.
Tire is a colored girl in Orange county
l212 years OF age who is the mother of a
bouncing boy.
W. 5. Deidrich, late of Smithville, Ca,
Will manage the Lake View hotel at San
ford this winter.
Maj. John Crow Gallaher, of Live Oak,
has been licensed by the 81. f. Church,
South, to preach.
Putting up new fences and repairing
old ones is improving the looks of num-
Ger of places about Emporia.
The building committee of the Pierson-
Vile schoolhouse are ready for proposals
FOR the erection of the same.
The Sumter county tax levy for 1885 is:
County tax proper 80 mills, school 4
mills, building mills, roads l 4 mills.
Travel on the railroads and the river
boats. continues to increase, and large
crowds are going toward South Florida.
d. j. Chires, of Tallahassee, will open
a dairy in Sanford soon. His COWS will
be carried to Sanford from Leon county.
Charles Baker, OF Silver City, is ex-
pected back from England shortly. He
expects to sell out his place and return
to England for good.
There is a cape jessamine bush grow
Ing at Plant City which IS 10 years old,
and 10 feet high, 50 feet in circumference,
and is never without blooms.
The DeLand academy will open Oct. 10.
1t is a school for both sexes and it's aim
to prepare pupils for college, either in the
classical or ecientifC COURSE
While G. G. Garter was assisting Alex
Reed to set out strawberry plants at Em-
porIa, last Friday, be dug up $40 gold
piece that Reed lost SO years ago.
Lyman Wiley, of Emporium, Pa, will
soon return to EmpOria. He has bought
two additional groves, and intends to build
a handsome and commOdious residence on
one of his places this fall.
Ocala Free Press Lawyer Stanton F.
Perrin, of Stanton, Lake Weir, has brought
suit against Judge Rapallo to recover
damages by leVylng on all the property
belonging to the latter at that place. lie
has taken possession OF the property,
which is very valuable, aud viii test his
claims before the Circuit Court"
The schooner S. II. LeYen, which was
bound for Jacksonville from Philadelphia
with cargo of rails for the j., r. and X
W. r. r., Is given up for lost. She sailed
from Philadelphia on Aug. II, and had on
board 400 tons of steel rails. 1t is sup
posed that the late storm. which played
such havoc at Charleston. wrecked her.
All hands are supposed to be lost, as no.
thing has been heard from her. The cargo
was insured.
A negro boy about 90 years old was the
victim OF a very painful accident at Hart's
boat yard across the river from Palatka
a day or two ago. He had 3 pail full Of
boiling pitch carrying it from the shore to
on board one of the boats, when his foot
slipped and he fell, the contents of the
bucket striking him about the shoulder
and covering one of his arms entirely.
The boy was severely burned, as the en-
tire arm pulled up in a solid blister.
A company organized in London and
Edinburgh have purchased 10000 acres of
land on the st. Lucie river. A colony will
arrive to settle upon the lands in NOvem-
Der. Gen. p. F. Roddy, formerly of Ala
bama, will accompany them. The Cen
eral has resided in London for the last
ten years, and is one of the Florida Land
and Mortgage Company, which pur-
chased over 100000 acres of land in
Florida. Gen. ROddy will make his resi-
dence at Eau Gallie, where he owns
property.
A negro calling himself John Houston
was arrested at Gainesville, Saturday,
charged with breaking into house and
stealing a suit of clothes and several
other articles from a colOred man named
Scott. Houston was lodged in Jail, and
Monday morning Sheriff Tucker went 10
the house OF Rachel Gamble, a woman
with whom Houston had been living, and
instituted search for the stolen property
A trunk was found containing not only
the suit Of clothes and things stolen from
Scott, but also the greater portion Of a
large lot Of clothing, hats, etc, stolen
from Isaac Steinberg's house month or
six weeks ago.
Mrs. NJ. Branch, of DeLand, an insane
lady, was a few days since taken to San
ford for the purpose of having her exam
ined and to obtain an order from Judge
Foster to have her admitted to the asy-
lum. The Journal says: "While Sheriff
Brooks went out for Judge Foster Mr..
Alexander and the insane lady remained
in the city hall. There is a base drum
and several horns of the defunct Sanford
band in the hall, and the poor unfOrtun-
ate passed the time by beating the drum
Justify and singing a wild accOmpani-
ment, occasionally changing the mOnOt-
ony by blowing a clarion blast on the
horns"