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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
Florida Facts.

JACKSONVILLE, Oct. IA meeting of
the Executive Committee OF the Florida
Fruit Growers Association will be held
at an early date, It's purpose being among
other things TO authorize the Secretary to
instruct Secretary Judson OF the last
New Orleans Worlds Fair, to appropriate
$T2 of the $3.50 premium awarded TO the
association for the best display Of citrus
fruits, to the purchase OF gold medal,
evidencing the award. Other matters Of
importance will come up for discussion.
Gov. Perry has made the following APP
pointments as delegates to the Southern
Forestry Congress, which is to be held at
De Funiak Spring, Dec. 10 and Il:
State at Large--Rev. e. Warren Clarke,
Hon. Angus Patterson of Madison, Gen.
j. j. Finley of Ocala, Maj. g. A. Hanson,
OF Barlow.
First Congressional Distribution. r.
J. Perry Of Key West, Capt. A. r. God
win of jackson county.
Second Congressional Dlstrict-Col. G.
b. Magruder of Rocklidge. Hon. John
Westcott of st. Augustine.
Sanford is now the terminus NJ five rail-
roads, (or will soon be). The city ooun-
Gil has passed a resolution grant
ing the right OF way TO the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West railroad through
Myrtle avenue TO Lake Monroe.
Inc cltlZenS OF CeQar hey are very
much put out at the recent announce
ment Of the Morgan Steamship Company,
of New Orleans, that It's steamers will
not touch at that point en- route to and
from Havana, but will only touch at Tam
pa. The company give, as a reason for
this decision, that the f., r. & N. CompR-
ny had not made the promised improve
ments upon It's wharf. The Cedar Key
people say this is poor excuse as they
have one OF the best wharts on the Gulf
coast.
The State Shooting Tournament comes
off at Pensacola tomorrow. Ills expected
that every gun club in the State will send
one or two representatives. A State asso-
citation will be formed, and steps taken
towards securing proper legislation for
the protection Of game and enforcing
the present laws.
On Oct. "a the Morgan Line Steamship
Company will run a weekly line of steam
ers between Tampa and Havana, touch
ing at Key West. About Dec. Is, when
1t is expected the new steamers now be-
ing built by the Plant system will be
ready for use, 1t is said the service will
be performed tri-weekly.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
Navigating the Ockiawaha.
From the Leesburo tFhl Yeqos.


The growth OF our transportation facil-
tiles is thing we'll worth noticing. In
1S49 man named Porter brought steam
boat from the st. Johns into Lake Harris,
but the venture did not pay. In 1859 a
barge came up the Ocklawaha ON the
same errand, but it too found there was
but little freight to be had. Then began
the era of boat building on our own
shores soon after. Akin Stivinder made
a dug out, which was the first craft of the
white mans make to undertake the trans
pOrtation of what little syrup and cotton
were made hereabouts. Mr.. l.. b. Lee
followed the dugOut with the more pre-
tentiOus barge. Then the steamer Tusca-
villa, now lying up on Lake Griffin in its
dotage, the days OF its usefulness being
over, succeeded the barge, and the steamer
Waneta, now on the upper st. Johns,
built by DR.. Bouknight, and barge by
Mr.. Chaplin, closes the list of the more
important craft which have slid from the
stays OF our local shipyards.
The matter OF transportation remained
in very crude state until within two
years. The trip by steamer up and down
the devious Ocklawata was a tedious one
but great improvement upon the barge
Then the railroads came into view and
now we have boats and roads both, and
facilities for getting our produce out and
supplies in that are second to those OF nc
other point. And the amount OF produce
to ship out and of supplies to bring In,
has increased about as greatly as the IA
cilities for doing so have increased.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13

OF bonds were sold in less than forty-eight
hours after they were put upon the mar
ket.
W. Ii. DeLoach, of Excelsior, has Sc
cured the contract to build the Jail at
Springfield, EfhnghGm county, and will
begin work soon.
l.. B. Miller. proprietor OF the Mansion
House, New Bedford, Mass, has been
prospecting in Townsville, with a view
OF opening hotel here.
Three boats arrived at Columbus Satur-
day, bringing an aggregate of 932 bales OF
cotton. The receipts OF cotton by the
river are $500 bales in excess of the same
date last season.
Leesburg has contracted with Mr..
Grant, late of Florida, to bore an artesian
well. He is to receive 81 per foot for bor-
ing the well, which is now something
over 100 feet deep.
The Muscogee cotton seed oil mill re-
sumed operations Saturday. The mill
has been undergoing a change in ma
chlnery, and its capacity has been in
creased 81 barrels per week.
Ocean View, on St. Simon's beach, is
1ast becoming a popular summer resort.
Mrs. Arnold, proprietress, is about closing
Tor the winter. She reports patronage
quite satisfactory and profitable.
~ -. NOle AZ NOss OF. NtWuAn, HGNt JUST
turned out three freight cars FOR the At
lanta and West Point railroad. The rail-
way facilities Of Newman. together with
the cheapness Of labor, material and coal,
makes it a favorable manufacturing
point.
Some Eastern capitalists are at New
nan looking tor location to start man
ufactory. They believe that Georgia Of
fers better inducementslthah any State in
the South, and they are charmed with the
! climate, the people and the flattering
prosnects for capital investments in this
locality.
The first shipments of cotton ever made
/ from Americas to the interior Of Europe
We're made the past week on direct orders
by cable, TO mills at DEMONSTRATIONS, and
smichov, in Bohemia. The sterling drafts
against these shipments were drawni on
the banking house Of Messrs. n. NJ. Won
ROthscnilds 81 Sons, London, and were
| cashed by the bank of Americas.
Mr.. Klinglesmith, of Atlanta, who man
ufactures windmIls here, has added a
new industry to his regular business. 1t
is the making Of wooden boxes for pack
ing crackers, candies and patent medi-
clnes. He is now turning out a thousand
day and keeping at home about $4,000
that annually went north. He has a
press that prints on wOOd-perhaps the
only one south of Baltimore.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
FLORIDA.


Clay county's Treasury is supplied TO
the amount Of S2,190 %.
Work has been temporarily suspended
on the new Methodist church at Orlando.
Aaron Register is having a dwelling
house erected upon his lot at Green Cove
Spring.
The arteslan we'll at the residence of
Gov. Gleason at Eau Gallie, has now
reached depth of 140 feet, and water is
looked for shortly as solid rock has been
reached at that depth.
Judge Copeland, of the legal firm of
Copeland & Rogers, of Orlando, will erect
this fall, 2-stoTy brick block on his Or
anEe avenue lot, adjoining Birnbaum's
| clothing establishment.
A pair OF shoes was ordered by Starke
merchant for certain girl the other day
who wears a No. IA. II is said that she
broke up four pair OF skates at the skating
| rink the other night and didn't half try.
Twenty acres OF "flatwoodsV land, two
and half miles from Bronson, brought
$3.50, at sherif's sale Monday. AS there
/ is only about eight acres Of tillable land
in the tract, this is at the rate OF about
$50 per acre.
| W. A. Patrick and John NJ. Lee, of ks
| Slmmee, realizing the unreliableness of
u
intend TO open an employment bureau in
connection with their real estate enter
prise, and induce car load Of coed look
| ing, hard working Eastern girls to emil
CRATE to that rapidly growing place.
Hibernia is happy. For some weeks
| o. H. Wade, a contractor for sinking ar
! tesian wells, has been engaged in boring
! for water. Saturday, at a depth of 46S
feet, there was a commotion in the piping
! and soon torrent of water shot upwards
| some 30 feet in mid air, and, descending,
/ christened the heads of the joyous spec
! tatOrs. An estimate was made, and it was
found that the well discharged about 800
/ gallons OF water per minute. The water
/ is slightly impregnated with sulphur, and
its temperature is 70 deg. Fahrenheit.
The residents of Clay county have asked
! the commissioners to reduce the assess
ment on property % per cent. 1t was a
matter of doubt in the minds OF the board
as to the proper course to pursue, and a
motion to accede to the request of the
| petitioners was finally tabled. The Spring
| says: sit was admitted that in
! but two other counties in the State
were the assessments higher IN pro-
portion to population and Improvements
than in Clay county, but the Overruling Of
! the law requiring the assessment of real
estate at its true value was the barrier in
! the path of our scrupulous equalizers.
| This, in our estimation, can DE readily
! overcome by arriving at probable con-
clusiOn as to the method by which the
other counties of the State base their esti-
mates, and that is, what the property
! would likely bring il sold under the ham
mer. There is no better method Of
arriving Tits true value-any other would
be speculative"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13

bumper between two cars attached to
the through freight on the East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia railroad. When
discovered he started to jump, but his foot
got caught and he was thrown on the
track, the train passing over and break
Ing both legs below the knees. He was
carried to Eastman where he Is now. DR..
Herman is doing what he can for the
wounded man, but says that his recovery
Is extremely doubtful. OConnor is about
80 years Of age and states that he got on
the train at Cochran. ,ds 4. ,sa.',...
Sheriff r. T. Mills, OF Sylvania, has gone
70 Hampton county, S. c., to take charge
OF John Burns, a negro, who, a little more
Than year ago, shot and killed James
Rivers, at J. Kline's Mill, In Scriven
county, and escaped to South Carolina.
a reward of $50 was offered for his cap
ture. and Deputy Sheriff w. +. DeLoach,
OF that county, succeeded afew days since
In erresting him. When captured, IL is
said, the negro had three pistols and a
bowie knife on his person. He Is one OF
the four negro boys who were put on trial
several years ago for the murder OF w. II.
Mckinney, near No. 6, Central RAILROAD,
but was discharged for want of evidence
against him. Since his arrest he has
boosted of having killed Mckinney as
well rs the negro Rivers. ..as-
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
Painted the Wrong House.

There are two brothers who live in At
lanta, whose residences are opposite one
another on the same street. One decided
a day or two ago to have his house paint
ed, and closed a contract with painter
who was TO do the work last Saturday,
and as he was anxious to be paid for the
job that night, the gentleman agreed to
accommodate him.
The painter with large force went to
work with zeal, and shortly after noon
notified the gentleman at his place OF
business that the work WIS done. He
was promptly paid, and the gentleman
soon went out TO see his newly decorated
house. Imagine his CONSERVATION on ar
irving on the ground 10 find his house un-
touched. while that OF his brother, Just
across the way, shOne like new circus
poster, with its gorgeous trimmings and
fringes. The painter had mistaken the
house.
The lucky brother now refuses to pay,
"as he did not want his house painted,
anyway" The unlucky brother is on the
warpath, and the painter has gone to the
tropics to pass the severe months Of the
winter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
Georgia's Spiritual Welfare.

The Baptists of Waco have the frame OF
their new church up.
The Sunday schools Of Toccoa propose
to organize teachers class.
Rev. j. A. Wynn has resigned the pas
forage Of the Baptist church of Franklin.
Twenty people have just been brought
into the Baptist church at cambridge as
the result OF a revival.
The camp meeting at bonneville was
largely attended, numbers OF visitors hav-
ing come from points up and down the
Savannah, Florida and Western.
At the last regular meeting of Ebenezer
church, at Birdford, Tattnall county,
Rev. j. G. Tatum, the pastor, baptized
six persons, and the church is greatly re-
vived.
A Baptist church was constituted at
Reidsville on the fourth Sunday in Sep
TENDER, with II members. Rev. j. c.
Brewuon acted as presbyter and was
called to the pastorate. The people will
build nice church.
The fourth quarterly conference of the
Methodist church for the Cochran Circuit
will be held in Cochran on Friday and
Saturday, Oct. is and II. Rev. J. W.
Hinton, d. D., the presiding elder, will
preach at the Methodist church on both
days.
The Centennial Association, which had
been meeting with the Baptist church at
Miner since last Monday, closed it's SEES
sion Thursday. Rev. r. j. Williugham
acted as moderator, and j. G. McMichael
as clerk, and among the prominent di-
vines present were Rev. James Evans, of
Wales; DR.. G.. r. Mccall, who delivered
a lecture on education in behalf of Mer-
Ger university; DR.. IL. Hatcher, Rev. j.
NJ. Wood, and others. The next meeting
of the association will be with the Cabanis
church, Monroe county, the Friday be-
fore the first Sunday in October. 1886.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
How They DO in the Mountains.
From, no Spring Place tGa.) Times.

From. no Spring Place tGa.) Times.
The blue Cohuttahs were lifting their
solemn neads into the mellow silvery sea
ofmoonlight as party Of men and boys
with tin horns, gnns and musical instru-
iuents, made their way 10 a certain house
for serenading purposes. Finally the
music began, the whole neighbOrhood
was aroused, horns blowing. pans rattl-
ing, guns booming, voices yelling, and
the deniZens OF the mountain home b
some extent offended. You ask the cause
Of all this. IT'S simple. She bad become
offended at him and sundered the gordian
Knot Of matrimony and took her depart.
ure. and after an absence OF ten days mad
returned as meek as a lamb. Harmony
had been restored. and the boat OF married
life was again sailing smoothly over tims's
often compositions sea, and the neighbors
ohose this method Of expressing their
appreciation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
Poultry Patience.

From tho Tallahassee (Fla.) 7d1LaAassean.
One of our farmers drove in last Satur-
day with basketful Of eggs. Taking his
horse out in Shines cotton yard he
reached under the seat OF his buggy for his
basket Of eggs, and, behold his wife's old
speekled hen that he had been trying to
break up for six weeks was sitting on the
basket Of eggs, and DONG her level best to
hatch them out. He threw the old hen
out in the yard, sold his eggs to Saxon Il
Co., and spent the day attending to bust
ness in the CITY. When be started out
late in the afternoon he looked under the
seat Of his buggy, and there was the old
speckled hen again patiently sitting on
two small nubbins and the buggy wrench.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
Farm Facts.

Butter is very scarce at Hartwen.


Butter is very scarce at Hartwell.
The crops of sugar-cane are remarkably
fine in ScriVen county.
A Hartwell hens egg measures 81
inches around lengthwise and inches in
circumference.
Cotton piekers are scarce in Bulloch
county and planters are giving 81 per 100
for long cotton picked.
There is a chestnut tree at CarrOllton
that has been blooming and fruiting all
the year, and is still blooming and taking
on more fruit. Old men say il is the only
ever-bearing tree of Its kind they have
ever known.
Quitman Nelg South: 1t has never been
our lot to see the cotton crop 80 neatly
gathered as il is this season. Over tour
tifths OF the crop is already gathered.
Many farmers would nave been done by
Oct. l II the weather had been favorable.
Capt. A. &. Bell, OF Sumter county, has
a chinquepin tree in his orchard from
which his children have gathered some
thing over Ii, 900 nuts, and IL Is estimated
that there are between 5000 and 1000
remaining on the tree. One morning,
a week ago, the children gathered 1925
In halt an hour.
The farmers of Clarke county are COM
sell seed cotton is doing them great deal
of damage. They are anxious for the
Legislature TO pass bill stopping the sale
of seed cotton altogether. widow lady
living in 0glethOrpe county has lost sew
eral bales OF cotton that was stolen nom
the cotton house in the seed. aai'th
L. A. Rumph, OF this State has on his
fruit farm the largest dg tree aud Chinese
ounce tree in Georgia. The Nc tree 10 ~
feet across the top circumference Of
spread OF limbs and f0llagc), and the
trunk is feet in circumference. Ihe
Chinese ounce is 1914 feet nigh, 10 inches
in diameter, and is 9 or feet 70 the first
limb. He shipped one year 50 crates Of
figs from this tree, and did not get more
than one-third Of the fruit.
FLORIDA.
Japan plum trees are blooming at Green
Cove Spring.
The orange groves at LaGrange are
looking much better since the recent
rains.
Some Jackson county farmers have
included rice In their crops this year Win
good results.
II il predicted that the orange crop Of
Bradford will be larger this year Than
ever was known before.
E.J. Summerln, OF Orange county, ex-
pects 10 gather and ship 100000 oranges
from his grove this season.
There are about $50 acres OF young Or
nnge groves in Oconee. About 200 acres
will DO planted 10 cabbage the coming
season, with probably twice that amount
in other vegetables.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
A Strange Case OF Adoption.

fFD'I ~ NfHTV IIfA'I tVNTleT.
The Courier sent out q representative
10 Interview the squirrels last week, but
was unable 70 find any old ones &C home.
However, be climbed sapling, and
secured = young one from It's nest, which
ne brought home, and turned II over 10
the tender care OF an old cat, vino Is Just
now engaged in rearing q numerous and
Interesting family Of eight kittens. The
old cat without hesitation took the SOUR
rel into her little fold, and lavishes a
warmth OF affection upon II. The little
fellow seems perfectly 40 home, and so
far has held his own against the kittens.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
No New street Car TicIset.

froin me nome lrHsi C0urfcFs
The new tickets for the street cars were
received Friday. They are about tho size
Of r nickle, made OF red celluloid, and are
very beautiful. ON one side Ia "Rome
Street Railway" with figure five in the
middle, and on the other side Is ~ d..
Williamson. President" aud anOther az
ure Eve. The manufacture OF these tick
cts cost two cents apiece, but as they are
20 preferable 70 The paper tickets, being
more convenient b. carry, and can be
used all the while, they will BE- found
cheaper and better than the old tickets.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13

Georgia Thrift.

The tax assessment for Hart county for
1886 is 35c. on the 500.
Several new buildings are going up on
McCay's hill at Americas.
Scarletps new stores on Bay street,
Brunswick, are nearing completion.
Heard county's quota for this year 70
wards building the State capitol Is about
50. Ia 30.
IA. shaw, OF Houston, has moved 20
,sAFfollton. where no 10 engaged IN mer-
s. 90 3D..
..,,,4er lands. n0ar Eatonton, sold,
Ia rnpadav. on a cash bagis, brought
% igarnging nearly 81 per acre.
NVcaran'B i've thousand dollars Worll
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
Love In Florida.

From the Lice OAK tF1a.) Bulletin.
The following paragraph was handed us
one day this week by young man here in
town. He said ne was going to send It to
his girl, but would give us a copy OF it
first
"Id like to be 3 little hog,
Out of your garden hurried,
II you were but the little dog
By whom / should be worried"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
Economical and WIG.

From the HdaobinsriLe (6a.j DisDatch.
Green c. Matthews, OF this county, emf
grated three years ago to Arkansas,
where he lived until December last, when
he returned 10 his old home. On Jan. /
last he made up mis- mind that be ought
70 celebrate ms return to citizenship in
Georgia by some act Of reformation, so be
abandoned tobacco, and has not taken a
chew this year. His weight has increased
10 pounds, and he is now satisfied that
chewing tobacco and drinking whisky are
useless accomplishments.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13

IRON Tho 5qGraa0e lGa.J Report,

From the 1aGraR0e tGa.) Reporter.
A little 4-year-Old, whose parents live
near LaGraDge, was attentiyely contem-
plating the cook, who was engaged In
"cleaning" a squirrel for dinner. when
she was called by her mother. Reluctant
10 miss seeing the interesting process, the
little one asked her mamma 10 "wait."
For this answer 10 the maternal command
she was Tebuged. whereupon she spoke as
follows: MAMA, wait I'LL soc 'em peel
this tat.O
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13

Holds such an enmty with blood Of man.
That, swift ~ quicksilver, Il courses through
The natural gates aud alleys Of the body"
and causes the skin 70 become ''barked
about, most lazar-like, with vile and
lOathsOme crust.D such are the effects
Of diseased and morbid bile, the only
antidOte for which Is 10 cleanse and
regulate the llyer-an Office admirably
performef by Dr, Pierce's Golden Medi-
a. DiL/ lfervV
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
A Joke on the senators.

Senators Colley, Falligant, Maddox and
Cabaniss, had their pictures taken in a
group at Atlanta. They wanted TO
mail some OF them 10 a friend and
asked the operator n he had any large en-
yelOpes. 'Oh, no." he replied, SIT don't
need them. just paste II between two
pieces OF pasteDoard and send II along.
It's second class mail matter.w
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13

FUI7t tTIU WTceFaDyTV IVUsI IItFlTtLs
1t is astonishing how much faith the
average darkey has in horseshoe. They
swear by them, and on every occasion
will hug them 10 their bosoms as 1t we're.
IL don't make any difference where the
horseshoe is, they try TO obtain posses
sion Of 1t. Not long since a darkey who
was troubled with this disease had such
a mania come over him that he took four
shoes at one time. Having. however,
neglected to remove the horse 10 which
the shoes were attached. he Will serve Ten
years in the penitentiary.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-26
Saloon Keeners at War.

War to the knife is waging be-
tween Mr.. Harris and Mr.. Fowler,
over the right of the latter TO open
barrOOIn near the former, in
Oconee county, In a house in which
Fowler claimed he had the privilege OF
controlling the sale of liquor. This is a
valuable franchise, as it is the nearest
outlet for the prohibition city OF Athens.
Harris rented from John Bird building
on his farm on the Athens side of FOw-
Ier's, and moved stock Of liquors. He
could not open on the day set, owing TO
an inability 20 procure a license,
Fowler having employed counsel TO de-
fend his rights. Wednesday the matter
eliminated by a coup d. etdt on the part
oil Fowler, that ended in landing Harris
stock high and dry upon the roadside,
and leaving Fowler master o. the field.
Mr.. Bird rented HIM all OF his land on the
right hand side OF the road leading from
Athens, but he afterwardslet Mr.. Harris
have house on the premises. Wednes-
day. Fowler entered the house rented by
Harris, and forcibly taking his stock OF
liquors moved them on the roadside
What action Mr.. Harris will now take Ia
not known. The case will doubtless 90
into the courts, but in the meantime Fow.
Ter will be raking in the ducats.