Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-27
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
a fire alarm bell is to be put up at St.
Augustine.
The public schools Of Orange county
open Oct. 1.
A Chinese laundry has been opened at
st. Augustine.
The Sanford Argus will be enlarged to
pages ~ columns on or about Oct. l.
Charles Stewart has completed the
moving of the Methodist church at ST.
Augustine.
Mrs. w. A. Gardner, of Live Oak, has
put up this season seventy-two quarts OF
the finest kind of peaches for winter use.
There is negro at Bakers mill, in
Hamilton county, who, when he wants
fish, goes out, catches them and eats them
raw.
The Rolleston House, at St. Augustine,
has been rented to Mr.. Judges0n Scott,
who runs summer hotel al Highgate
Springs, Vermont.
A committee has been formed and sub
scriptiOns to the amount of $500 have
been collected in two weeks toward
building school at Lake Maitland.
The Florida association convenes with
the Macedonia church about six miles
east of the town of Madison, near West
Farm station, on the railroad, on Oct. l.
A "suit for damages for defamation OF
character" mas been entered against the
South Florida Argus, published at San
ford, by c. w. Jaoocks, Treasurer of
Orange county.
A man by the name of Norris, living
near BlOunts ferry, in Hamilton county,
clipped with his brothers. daughter one
day last week. Up to the present the
fleeing parties have not been caught.
A company is being formed at Altamonte
for the manufacture of jellies and the
preservation OF fruits. Work has already
begun on the factory, and it is expected
that the processes of jelly-making will be-
gin within three weeks.
Rev. Mr.. MusgraVes, a newly appointed
pastor for the Madison circuit, has been
delivering q series of lectures at Hickory
Grove church. The funds 80 raised are
to be devoted to the erection of parsOn-
age for the Ellaville circuit.
A Masonic hall is to be erected at st.
Augustine at once. Work on the new
Ponce de Leon hotel is also about to be
commenced. Many private residences
are going up, and taken all in all the
lively building boom may be said to be in
progress.
After a stubborn fight by the temper
dnSc pGOBlo Va DahlOItla ICDIGStHttu Nv
Attorney J. b. Swayne. the petition of
Robert Simms to sell wines, liquors, etc,
in the Sanford district, was granted by
the County Commissioners, Tuesday; that
of John Davis was acted on, Wednesday,
and granted.
The negro Peter Earnest, who was in
dicted at Tallahassee for killing Jack
Perry, and last year acquitted at second
trial in the Leon county Circuit Court,
where he was defended by Col. Frank
HarralsOn, of Atlanta, bad both legs cut
OFF above the knee in railroad accident,
and still survives.
There were six carloads of machinery
on the side track at Winter Park On Sept.
10, for the new Seminole Hotel, including
gas machine boilers, engine, laundry ma
chinery, sewing tables, ranges, a large
tank which is now being placed, all sorts
Of kitchen and bathing apparatus, and
many other articles.
The mother of Edison L. Hewitt, of Bran
don, VT, who spent theyear 1877 in Flori-
da, is extremely anxious to get infOrma-
ton respecting him. Hewitt left Sanford,
as his letters to his mother stated, to go to
Mexico, and in 1873 she received a letter
from him, written at the City of Mexico.
Since then she has heard nothing.
The outside work on the new Leon hotel.
at Tallahassee, is about completed, and
the carpenters are nearly through, and
the painters and plasterers are making
rapid progress. The new house is said to
be much better building than the first
one, containing ten more good rooms on
the first floor, and other desirable changes
have been made in it's construction.
Lake Maitland has put on a squirt, and
there is now every appearance of going
right ahead and having boom. The mu-
nicipal authorities have made great
improvement in having all the road sides,
ETC., within the corporation limits cleared
of-the scrub. At the municipal election
on Saturday last, DR.. Haskell was elected
10 take the place Of DR.. Packwood, who
has resigned, and DR.. Simmons was
elected Assessor.
A few days since as Mrs. c. +. Bur-
nette, of Madison, was crossing field on
the way to the house of a neigbOr, she
heard the rattle of a Tattlesnake, which,
after search, was found cOiled and
ready for spring. She returned to her
home, took down her husbands shotgun
retraced her steps to where it was and
shot it. Ii measured upward Of five feet
in length, and she now has the rattles,
seven in number, as trophy other marks
manship and pluck. She is but II years
Of age.
G. G. Gibbs, Of Tallahassee. who last
week returned home from North Georgia,
thinks that even the railroad men at At
lanta discriminate against Tallahassee.
Upon inquiry at one ticket Office he was
told the fare TO Jacksonville was $40 30,
IN Tallahassee $i4 50, TO Townsville
81 90. He went 10 another office and was
offered a ticket to Tallahassee for Si3 90,
but he went to ticket broker, bought
ticket TO Townsville for 81 30, from
which place he paid regular fare TO Talia-
hassee, SO 90, making total Of $40 10 from
Atlanta home.
Friday, John w. Shaw, Seaborn Bran
non, a Mr.. Moore, one or two negro mon
and several little children, all OF Madi-
son, having found a bee tree, went to u
for the purpose of gathering supply OF
the delicious honey IL was thought 10 con-
tain. The tree-a dead pine-was cut,
and, while falling, the top was broken of
bv tree against which IL fell. Mr..
Brannon. who stood near the stump, was
struck on the left side and under the arm,
and was almost instantly killed. Several
ribs wero broken, and his arm, which
seems 20 have been thrown upward 10
avert the blow, WAS terribly skinned. A
little boy standing by Mr.. Brannon's side
was knocked down by him as he fell, but
was uninjured. Mr.. Bannon was man
approaching the decline in life, and leaves
O wife a nd several children.
Farm Facts.