Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-15
made OF better stuff than to be deferred by
sucn threats, and he went and attended
TO his business.
FLORIDA.

JAN
Daytona has levied 5-mill tax for fire
protection.
A hunter killed eight deer in Taylor
cou ~ last week.
The furniture is being put into the new
Leon hoIel at Tallahassee.
Belleview had an addition nf three more
FAMILIES last week from Boston.
Oysters have made their appearance al
Ocala, selling at 407ceuts per quart.
1t is reported that there was frost with
in seven miles of Ocala on Tuesday mOrn-
ing.
The Orlando public school has 245 stu
dents and receives AccessiOns almost
daily.
State Treasurer Grill adYertises for
bias Tor bonds and coupons payable OUT
OF funds accrued in his office for the relief
of bonded counties.
A subscription of $500 more will secure
the Fallyho line between Tallahassee and
brownsville, Ga. Four thousand SIX
hundred dollars has been subscribed.
A party of forty Ohio and Pennsylvania
people, en- route to Brevard county to set
tie, have arrived IN Jacksonville in a
special car. They left Pittsburg Tuesday
evening.
Allen Jones, a colored elder in the Cedar
Kew Baptist church, WAS held in $50 bonds
by Justice L'senby on Oct. 30, for larceny
oil an overcoat from William Bat;y, val
ued al $50
The Blain Bros, car builders at Ella
vile. VII remove their works To Palatka,
where they will at once build sixty box
and forty tiat cars for the Florida South
ern railroad.
Mr.. Papot, recently from Savannah,
Ga, is having erect on the north side
OF Lake Eola, very FIVE two-stOry, ten
room residence, with piaZZas extending
around the building.
The ginning establishment of. S. Jelks
at Be lville was destroyed by fire a day or
two ago. He had let dsr KEY have the
use of it to gin some cotton and it was
burned while in his hands.
Phe citizens of Kissimmee protest
against tn SEEMING of their lakes for fish.
parry with 300-toOt seine recently ar
rived at Kissim nee b. commence whole
sale catching and shipping of lisa.
The State convlcts were last Monday
awarded to Fl. NJ. Wood. OF Live OaE,
present lessee. This year the State paws
Mr.. Wood $500, and the new lease is for
four years, tree OF cost to the State.
At Pine Grove camp.meeting, in Su-
wannee county last Sunday, there were
twenty-sX Methodist ministers present
and over 1000 people. Much interest was
manifested in the meeting and many souls
converted.
The people of Palatka we're gratiied a
few days since at seeing a full-filedged
white policeman instead of the usual
black FORMULATING the streets of that
city. as the representative of their mu-
nlclpal government.
A curiosity was discovered at Clear
Water HarbOr a day or two ago By s. j.
REYNOLDS, who caught fish (sheephead)
which had all the scales on each side
turned the wrong way, so that be had to
scale the fish from the head to the tail, in
stead of the usual way.
Gen. A. H. Colquitt, now United States
Senator from Georgia, is said by histOrl-
ans TO have been 10 command and won
the BATH of Olu stee, instead of Gen. Fine.
gan. as has lately been stated by many
papers. Gen. Finegan was a brave
officer, but was not present when this
battle was fought.
Here is what the Palatka Herald has to
say bout the St. Augustine Belle Boyd,
the Confederate female spy: "a greater
imposter never visited this State. This
Mrs. Murphy, who says she is the real
Belle Boyd, lived in Palatka for several
months, and when we deny that she is
Belle BOYD we know what we saw"
THURSDAY, Messrs. Bars. Hunter &
Stockton, sold TO Mr.. p. Tschler the prop
erty just north of the fremont house. at
Jacksonville, for $1,000 This property
consists Of two-st0ry house and a lot
60xl05, and formerly belonged to Col.
John Q. Burbridge. 1t cost him, about
three years ago, in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
There are so many British subjects
making homes in Florida that IL is proba.
bic that they will apply for British Con-
sulate at Jacksonville. At present they
are put to much trouble aud expense in
having IN visit Savannah to have papers
signed by the Consul here. 1t is proba-
bic that some one will get uD signatures
for an application to the British Minister
at Washington.
Among the 800 heirs to the Lawrence
Townley estate in England, consisting of
S5,000,0O0 in money, and 400, 900 acres of
city and village lands, are two residents
of Gainesville, |. Il. Webster and G. w.
Chase, greaf-grandsons of Aquilla Chase.
The estate would have been divided many
years ago, but thrOu n the false claim Of
one Orange, was thrown into chancery,
where it remained for % years. The es-
tate was inherited by four brothers of che
Chase family, three of whom, William,
Aqulla and Thomas, came to this country
before toe revolutionary war.
In the United States District Court at
Key West Monday last, the masters OF
the British schOouers Eastern Queen,
Gertrude and Mary Jane, trading be-
tween Nassau and Key West, were tried
tor having carried an excess Of passen-
gers other than cabin passengers, in viO-
lation Of the passenger act OF 1892. They
all pleaded guilty of returning false pas
senger lists and offered in eXtenua-
ton that the law had been miscOn-
strued by former collectors, who be-
lieved it did not apply to small vessels
trading with the West Indies and BAHIA
mas, but only 10 immigrant ships going
beyond seas. The evidence Oh which the
indictments were found showed that the
names Of persons from whom passage
money had been collected had been will
fully placed on the crew lists and suDse-
quently discharged or reported as desert
ers at the British consulate. In passing
sentence judge Locke laid particular
stress on this fact. He fined each master
500.