Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-26
FLORIDA.

1t costs 1920 per day to run constitu-
tional conventions.
A military company has been organized
at Lake de Funiak.
A lodge of knights of Honor is to be es-
tablished at Orlando.
A division of the Sons OF temperance
is to be organized at Orlando.
Several valuable letters mailed at Ocala
recently have come up missing.
Charles D. Sweet and 7. W. GreensIitt
| have purchased the Tavares Herald.
The population of the Orlando district,
embracing ten miles square, is $500.
The Charleston house at Orlando had
765 arrivals during the last thirty days.
Orlando has a grain board Of trade
which has been i'll existence since May A..
The new hotel at Callahan will not be
! completed before the middle of September.
A negro was accidentally shot by Ar
thur McKinnOn, colored, near CottOndale
Sunday.
Percy Myers, aged years, was drowned
at Sanford while fishing from a wharf.
He lost his balance.
DR.. Walter S. Graham, homeopathic
physician, late of Philadelphia, has
located at Orlando for the practice of his
! profession.
E. A. Richards killed BOZ bats in the old
jail at Orlando last saturday. He says it
is probable there are over 1000 stored
away in it.
A large public school building to &C
! commodate the 400 children within the
district, is one Of the greatest necessities
of Orlando.
Judge Hammond, recently of Orlando,
and Mr.. MacFarland, of Tampa, have
formed copartnership for the practice of
law in the latter city.
F. w. Savage, of Eustis, lost fine
horse few days since by death. He ate
some 'Rough on Rats poison placed in
the stable for killing the vermin.
There is no let up to fashionable mar
riages IN the Marion county boys. One
weighing 50 pounds left this week for BOs-
ton to wed bride of 250 pounds.
The building of hotel at Clay Springs
is to be begun before fall. All the avail
able houses there are now occupied, and
many more would be taken if they were
to be had.
Rev. Mr.. Beaubien, formerly of Toronto,
Can, but recently from Colorado, has
gone to Eustis with his family to become
permanent pastor of st. Thomas Episco-
! pal church.
Charles Abbott took a small boat and
went out ON Lake Butler, and has not
been heard of since. Great alarm is felt
| by his family and friends, as he is believed
to be drowned.
A crazy darkey tramped into Callahan
on Friday and created flutter of excite
ment by parading with big club. He did
no damage, and quietly went on his way
! to p lstures new.
1t is stated that A. p. Roberts, of Wild
wood, has resigned his Office of county
! superintendent OF education. and that G.
| F. Venable, of Center Hill, has been APP
pointed in his place.
Elijah StallwOrth, Sanford negro, has
been arrested and held in 500 bail for
carrying concealed weapons. He will
have to swelUer in the Jail at Orlando,
every cell of which is inhabited by from
three to five prisoners.
Two colored boys near Baird's mill,
| about eight miles north of Gainesville,
were playing with pistol, when one of
them, jim Love by name, received a bull
let III his right lung. In the question OF
life, the odds are very much against him.
The train wrecker, James Irin, who was
adjudged insane and sent to the asylum
from Mariana at the last term of court,
was said to be rational by the asylum OFF,
Gals and returned TO Mariana, is now
repeating his old antics and seems to be
as ''crazy as bedbug."
The artesian well at Orlando has
reached depth Of 20 feet and a good sup
ply of water has been struck in bed OF
! rock. The stream does not possess suffi-
| cient force vet. but Mr.. Holden is hourly
! expecting to strike "A stream that will
send the water 90 feet high. The water is
/ sulphur, as is all artesian water on our
| peninsula.
Anderson Yunge, of Orlando, is making
application to the pension department at
IL. aNa.
! count OF his having been disabled in the
| Mexican war of 1876. The chances are
said 10 be good for him TO obtain about
/ $4,000. Mr.. Gunge enlisted in 1916, and
was discharged in 1S47, having been Grip
| pied in making his escape from a wrecked
vessel
Mrs. John Hite, Mrs. Wilson Brown,
| Mrs. Daniel Wells, and children, were
/ together in "A house miles west of Or
| landO, on the Lake Butler road, during a
| thunder shower, when lightning struck
the house, entering through the window
| The ladies and children were in the cook
rock within a circle of eight feet. Within
! this circle the lightning tore up six large
! shiyers at different points, badly stunning
and sc0rching Mrs. Hite, and shocking
the whole party.
The Rev. Mr.. lander, OF the Evangelical
! Association, who recently moved TO
/ ApOpkd loI Tue puIpOhe Oh making IL MS
/ home. met with quite serious accident
! last Monday. While on the roof OF new
/ house he was building at that place he
\ slipped through and fell 10 the ground,
| striking jOists, posts, etc. In the fall he
| had five Of his ribs broken, beside being
| very much bruised and damaged other
wise. tits supposed that be tainted while
/ at work ia the hot sun, and that this was
the cause Of his falling.
| Palatka Herald: A Palatka young man
whose ailianced went back on him and
/ broke her engagement, received note
asking him 10 return the lock Of hair which
| he had. When be went TO his room he
/ looked over his trunk, collected heap OF
| tresses culled from various sources during
| his lOye-making career, and forwarded
/ them In bundle % his lady love, inclOs-
! ing "A note 20 the effect that he had really
| forgotten which was hers, but she might
/ select 10 from those forwarded, aud return
the rest at her earliest convenience.
WI Higginbotham, living near Gala
| han, who is considered a man OF veracity,
/ tells a wonderful story Of a tiger crossing
! his path. He says that while on his way
/ home on Tuesday night his attention was
/ called TO an object IN the road few steps
ahead Of him. He yelled az it, and the
tiger sprang 10 one side OF the road. and
uttered a terrific yell, followed by fierce
and blood-curdling growl, which caused