Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-07

6ulI steamship company Is nearly nm
ished.
The low lands around The depot at Astor
are being raised some three or four feet by
hauling dirt in on the road. It embraces
some four or five acres south of the hotel,
and it Will make a very pretty site for an
addition to the town of Astor.
Il Y. Il. Williams, who was committed to
jail at Tampa in default of. 81 900 bonds
for rapariOus assault on Mamie Moody,
was taken before Judge Mitchell Tues
day on writ of habeas corpus. The
Judge reduced the bonds to 5000, which
were gwen.
While putting on the siding of Sam
| Belcber's house at Cocoa, Monday, the
scatfold gave way and precipitated Mr..
Belcher and Mr.. Bait, who were at work
thereon to the ground, a distance of about
ten feet. Mr.. Belcher had a severe cut in
the head and Mr.. Bait was somewhat
shaken up.
The Rock Ledge Presbyterian Church
Society have exchanged lots with Mr..
Coates, and will commence the erection
of their church edifce as soon as me-
chanics can be procured. The church
will be built in full view of the new Hotel
Rock Ledge and river. 1t will be build
ing 2Sx40 feet, 16 feet high.
Clearwater has at present a home,
farm and grove society, a temperance
society, a reading circle, band of hope,
two missionary societies, has preaching,
Sunday school and young mems prayer
meeting every Sunday, a ladies' and gen.
eral prayer meeting once week, and
class meetings all around at everybody's
house.
The mail route known as the Keysville
route, from Tampa to Keysville, has been
discontinued, and is now known as the
Bloomingdale route, which supplies Lii
mona and Bloomingdale from Tampa.
KeysVIlle, Alfalfa, ChicOra, Fort Green
and other offices on the Keysville route
are supplied from Plant City. The SER
vice is tri-Weekly.
Last Monday night a citizen of Tampa
saw an immense bird of some unknown
species fly across the river in the direc-
ton of town. He says that the body Of
the bird looked as large as the fans on
Miller & HeGdersOn's wind mill, and that
the Outstretched wings would measure no
less than 16 feet from tip to tip. 1t flew
with great rapidity, and made drum
ming noise like pheasant.
Gilbert Harrison, who is at the head of
an English colony at Point PInellas, is
pushing things ahead at a lively rate.
Three or four houses are going up, land is
ments are being made. A man from
South Africa, who was in Sergt. Car
ringtOn's mounted horse, and who was
engaged in the war with the Beers, has
purchased land and has already com
menced improvements by building, etc.
A large bears head was on exhibition at
Green Cove Spring day or two ago, and
was pronounced to be unusually large.
The owner of the head was killed by
Jimmy Durken, about ten miles south of
Green Cove. Bruin gave evidence of old
age in the "wOe-be-gone" appearance Of
the few remaining stumps of teeth, and in
the toughness of his hide, which had en-
bedded in 1t, and in a good state of pres
eryation, large number of shot of va
rious sizes, which had been lodged there
by hunters, doubtless years ago.
Mr.. Carnaghan and Mr.. Blakeslee have
purchased from ThOs. Roberts several lots
at the Intersection of the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West Railroad, at Green
Cove Spring, and the Melrose road and
will soon begin the erection of a factory
for the manufacture of fruit boxes and
various other articles in the same line.
These gentlemen propose to use cypress
lumber mostly in their factory, and will
attempt to turn out strawberry and
orange boxes both lighter and stronger
fruit growers.
Tampa Tribune: We learn from a gen.
tleman, Just from up the country, that on
June "A the mosquitoes were so thick at
Waldo that they completely enveloped a
locomotive on the Florida Railway and
Navigation COmpany's Road The en-
gineer could not see ten steps before him,
and, in consequence, the train was de-
| layed several hours. Clouds Ofthem were
floating around in the air, thicker than
the lOcusts in Kansas in 1871. and COM
pletely Obscured the rays of the sun. 1t
was so dark that lamps had to be lit, and
it was some three hours before the mos
quitoes cleared away sufficiently for the
train to move on.
Tampa Tribune: On her up trip We'd
nesday, when on Mangrove Poiut-be-
tween Mangrove and No. 7 Douy-the
Margaret was struck by lightning, and
sustained considerable damage. The
| fluid struck the flag staff aft, descended
to the ladies' water closet, and from
thence TO the hold, where it came in con-
tact with the rudder chain, which extend
ed the length of the boat into the pilot
house. Capt. Warner and the pilot,
Capt. Randall, were both shocked, the
latter for half an hour having little or
no use of his left leg. A strong, sulphurc
Warner Immediately ran out to ascertain
the cause, which he found as above
stated. The steel rudder chain served as
a conductor of the electric fluid, and may
possibly have saved the boat from de-
struction. There was fine drizzllng rain
at the time, but the strangest fact con-
nected with the whole business is that
there was no thunder or lightning either
before or after the boat was struck.
Santa Fee, Alachua county, cOrre-
spondence of the MORNING NEWS, July ! ::
This place is on the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railroad, in the western
portion of Alachua county. II is build
ing up rapidly since the completion Of the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad
from Live Oak to Gainesville. Mr.. L. NJ.
Colson has built a store and dwelling
house. and is doing fine business. Or.
Barton, Of South Carolina, has been
spending some time with us, In laying of
town lots, building store house
and setting out an orange grove.
The location lis beautiful The santa
Fee river is abundantly supplied with
fish and the town with fresh, healthy
spring water. The land is we'll adapted
for orange culture and truck farming.
The country is settling up with prosper
GUS farmers, who report their crops bet
ter this than for many years. Messrs. } :.
Il. Crazy Il Bro. have large saw mill
two miles south, situated in the best tim
Der regioniof the State. IL is expected
that fifty families from Pennsylvania will
settle here in the fall We already have