Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-04
FLORIDA.
LOhIUAs
Tallahassee is improYing every day.

Tallahassee Is improving every day.
A mule 81 years old died at Glendale a
day or two ago.
1t requires over 100 beeves per week to
supply Key West with fresh meat.
Lake Bonivar. near Grant Park, prom
ises to be as attractive as Lake Weir.
The camp meeting near Levyville
promises to be very important gather
lag this year.
Mr.. Agnew contemplates erecting two
brick stores next TO the bank building at
Ocala shortly.
A cOlOred man claiming to be over 100
years OF age, and the father of sc children,
visited Madison Saturday last.
The schooner Oracle Blum was run
ashore on Picken's Point, Santa Rosa
island during the storm last Friday.
The rough weather on the gulf coast for
the past few days has driven a number Of
6ponging vessels into harbOr at st.
Marks.
Mrs. Alice Ellis is suing for divorce
from her husband, G. S. Ellis, of Enter
prise, on the ground of drunkenness and
brutal treatment.
Barbour Walker has backed out of the
trade by which Mr.. Afford was to take
the store building at Tallahassee, next to
Damon's for $4,000. The trade is of.
TdllGhdSsean: Some of our merchants
would like to take fifty cents on the dol
lar for some accounts against parties who
put on too much style at the expense of
others.
The framework is up for large car
riage repository on the corner adjoining
Kemper's stables at Tallahassee, and the
woEkmen are pushing it rapidly to COM
pletiOn.
A party of nineteen persons from Bris-
toI, n. h. sailed Oct. / on the steamer
Gate City for Florida. They are under
the pilOtage of &. N. Porter, who has been
summering in that vicinity, and intend to
locate at South Lake W cir.
A. j. Vaughan, who lives a short dis
lance from Sanford, on the Fort Reed
road, killed n bear on the 22d in the
swamp near his house. The bear had
killed and carried off one OF his pigs, and
Mr.. Vaughan, who, though quite an old
man, is still as active and spry as as a
boy, pursued and killed him.
Snakes have been more numerous in
Jacksonville and vicinity this summer
than for twenty years past, though no one
hes been bitten by them. Those Versed in
snakeOlOgy assert that they are not of the
biting species, and have been driven from
their hiding places by the high water and
excavations made for new buildings and
new docks.
At the Waycross depot, atJacksoRville,
a few days ago, several articles of freight
were consigned to some place unheard of
before 10 the State, The clerks were in a
quaudary which way 10 send the pack
ages, when one of the bosses came along
and said, send them TO Orange or Polk
county, as new towns are daily born
down there.
Each county west Of the Suwannee
river is entitled to send to West Florida
Seminary, located at Tallahassee, rs many
scholars or beneficiaries as It NAV have
Representatives in the the Assembly of
Florida. These scholars are TO be Sc
lected by the County Commissioners OF
the respective counties. The fall session
begins on Monday.
Jacksonville Herald: The first time a
lady has been noticed wearing boots on
Bay street was Tuesday. Her skirts
were plenty short to defy mud and water
and she perambulated promiscuously. 1t
was both wise and prudent Tor her to thus
protect herself IRON the inclemency Of
the weather, as she was compelled 10 be
out doors while the streets were over
flowed by water.
Can't. W. II. Hausman, of Madison, has
in his possession one Of the best preserved
and oldest family relics probably in the
State. 1t is gold snuff box once the
property of his great grandfather, and is
said TO have been in Use l0S years. On
the case it has the family initials "W.
H." raised in gold, handsomely set in dia-
monds, and was presented 10 the Captain
by his eldest brother, while he WAS in the
northern markets recently.