Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-19

OeSh established at Forest City, near
orlando, with capital stock of $4,000,
ana Is now fairly at work.
Inc residence and grove OF Capt. Jor-
oah, situated in BroOksyille, and embrac-
my a NIUE over two acres of land, was
SOLD for $4,000 day or two ago.
u. M. Shaw, living near Fort Mccoy,
mas ilveoak tree in his horse lot that is
70 years old, and measures feet in
diameter and 70 feet across the branches.
The value of cotton and cotton seed
shipped from the Lake City depot since
sept. last, amounts to $7S,500 Last year
LOT the same time it was nearly double
this amount.
change is reported In the deputy COL
lector's Office at st. Marks. A man by
the name OF Oliver has been appointed
deputy collector there. The salary is
81 So per day.
G. K. Pendleton is proprietor of new
paper, the Equator, published at Key
West. One OF the peculiar features of
this new weekly is that one page lie printed
in the Spanish language.
TIE f. r. and N. had crash near
Starke Monday night on account of
freight and passenger train attempting to
run on the same track at the same time.
A young man named Stith was seriously
hurt.
At Ellenton, on the night OF Oct. %, I'M
known parties entered the house of Geo.
Jacobs, who was absent, and stole $500
and some other articles of value. The
parties are still at large. The above is
the initlatory occurrence of the kind in
Ellenton.
The new Ponce de Leon hotel at st. Au-
gustlne will cost, it is said, over $4,000
goo, and will be unlike anything in hotel
architecture in this country. Excluding
this great hotel enterprise, more than
$3.0OO0O0 will have been invested in st.
Augustine, not counting the railroads and
canal, within the year 1885.
A strenuous effort to induce the fruit
growers Of Orange county to ship their
produce to commission merchants instead
OF the Fruit Exchange in Jacksonville Is
being eXerted by agents of the commits
sion houses. From what can be learned
from Oranse county, 1t Is evident that the
Exchange has the inside track and will
probably keep it.
There is reported to be a veritable ghost
on Emerald Island, near Leesburg. 1t
was surrounded by armed men the other
night, and closed in upon by those who
were determined to unraVel the mystery
or die, but il vanished in thin air and IN
creased the mystery. 1t is supposed to
be the same Oh lst that escaped Col. Hart
and Gen. Ledwith and came up the Ock-
lawaha.
Information was received last night,
that the man Hunter, assasslnated in La
fayette county few days since, was not
Dick Hunter, who delivered Selph, the
slayer of Kirkland, to the Lake City au-
thOrities, but another Hunter, and he, it
is said, is the fourth one of the same fam
lily who has been assassinated within the
last 20 years. An old family feud is SAID
to be the cause of the recent and former
killing.
P. McQuaid has decided to accept a
reappoint ment as a member Of the Board
OF Pilot Commissioners for Duval county,
and with his appointment the board is as
follows: George s. Wilson, p. McQuaid,
L. H. Livingston. Dexter Hunter, and
Capt. VIM. A. Hallowes. 1t is expected
that meeting of the board for organiza-
ton will be held in few days, and the
matter of issuing new licenses to pilots
and stevedOres considered.
In order that Florida may be represent
ed at the New Orleans Exposition, So, $50
must be raised by Nov. %. The sum
total to be raised was originally $1,000,
$1,000 of which was subscribed by the
exposition managers, the Disston COM
panies $3.50, the Pensacola and Atlantic
rail way $500. the Louisville and Nashville
$l25, the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West $3.50, the Palatka and Indian river
$125, and the Coast Line canal 800. Un-
less the So, $50 remaining be raised by Nov.
% the project will collapse. 1855
At ST. Augustine Saturday night, about
$3.50 O'Clock. an alarm was raised that the
prisoners confined in the county Jail were
escaping. Upon investigation it was
found that while at liberty in the outer
corridor of the jail, which is located on
the second floor, the sheriff and his family
living on the first floor, the prisoners had
sawed off two of the bars of the south Win
dow, and making a rope of their blankets,
had passed through the window and low.
cred themselves to the ground. When
first discovered all bad gotten out but two
colored men confined for larceny. The
sheriff appears to have been absent at the
time, with no deputy on the grounds. All
the escaped men were cOlOred except one,
Leesburg NelcS w. N. Justice, of Phil
adelphia, who has done the State pretty
well looking after the orange crop, ex-
presses the opinion that the present crop
will not equal that of last year by one
half. That is. that it will amount to
about 500, 900 boxes. We think bis esti-
mate low, but have no idea that it will
exceed in amount two-thirds of last years
crop. The crop in the region of Lees
burg is pronounced the largest in proper
ton of any other section of the State.
The quality OF the fruit generally speak
ing, is good, and the net returns will very
likely exceed, in the aggregate, those Of
last year. 1t is better, financially, to
have a small crop at large price than
large crop at a small price.