Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-11

inteRds doubling its capacity this winter.
The board OF health of Key West assesses
the owner of each pig kept in the city 10c.
John Milton has been appointed treas
urer for Jackson county, in place of j. K.
Hearne.
A colony of Is persons have Just located
in Aldchua county. They came from Lis
bon, Iowa.
One of Gen. Bullock's fine horses died at
Ocala Wednesday, from the disease known
as big head.
w. A. Griffith is endeavoring to have a
lodge of the Knights Of Honor established
in Tallahassee.
Pensacola has three fish dealers who, in
the busy season, ship about 10000 pounds
OF fresh fish daily.
The barrOoms of Apalachicola are and
will be for several days closed, as the IL
censes have expired.
Thirty lots were sold at st. Andrews
Bay few days since. Northerners will
settle there very soon.
There is an active demand all through
East Florida for the services of brick ma
sons, carpenters and painters.
A horse which belonged to Tom Hol.
lings worth, of Polk county, died Saturday
at the advanced age OF 80 years.
The winter session of the Medical De-
partment of the University OF Florida
begins at Tallahassee on Oct 30.
DR.. Belts, of Orlando, is negotiating
with Col. Fred. Grant, son of the late
General, for one of his tine dogs.
The waters of Lake Griffin have risen
decidedly during the past week. The
total rise for the season Is about eighteen
inches.
Men competent to judge express the
opinion that 200 more houses could be
rented in Orlando during the coming
winter.
The liquor dealers have abandoned the
attempt to get petition to sell liquor at
Emporia. They met with too much op-
position.
Conway & spillman are making prepa-
rations to erect a business house and
residence on their lot opposite the jail at
Orlando.
Winter Park furnishes the Jackson
vile Guava Factories with nearly all the
fruit they have used in making jelly and
preserves.
Mrs. Mary A. Heath is the only female
school trustee in Orange county. She is
an active trustee of school Sc, located near
Lake Jessup.
Prof. Curtis Alexander, of Missouri,
will this winter ill the chair of chemistry
and botany in the medical department of
the University of Florida.
A favorite pastime around Clay Springs
now is shooting birds, which are
plentiful. Quail, doves and blackblrds
particularly are abundant.
The Tallahassee gun club will leave for
Pensacola on Oct. IL, and on the 10Th will
shoot a match with the Dixie gun club, OF
Al Oifxy for fha Gtata hadOa
The steamer Benz. L. Curtis will be
sold by the sheriff of Gadsden county to-
morrow. The claims held by the crew
will cover most of the proceeds of the
sale.
On and after Oct. 10 mail will be sent on
the Orlando and TaVares railroad to the
postOftices Of Victoria, ZellwOOd, Tanga-
rine, Grasmere, Merrimack, ApOpka and
Lakeville.
Mr.. Hurd, the Danbury man, has re-
turned to Orange Bend from his summer
ing in Connecticut, and brought whole
colony with him; his mother, sister and
eight men.
The Gulf Coast PROGRESS having sus-
pended, leaves the Times the only paper
published in Manatee county, a county OF
5000 square miles, 5,4S4 inhabitants, and
a voting pop ulation of 1929.
The contract for the completion of the
brick work on the school building at
Leesburg, has been let to a Charlotte, n.
c., man, who will bring strong force
and put 1t up in short order.
The literary department Of the UNIVERSE
ty of Florida opened last week with forty
three students, and the prospects are very
favorable for an attendance Of sixty or
seventy within few weeks.
Of of mn
lands belonging 10 Orange county, Oct. l,
1884, was IS, 297.44; the number OF acres
sold since that time is 1,55l.S7; the mum
Der now on hand is II, 1857.
The Democrats will elect a Board of
County Commissioners for Jefferson
county on the 10Th. Those mentioned as
! candidates are G. I. Carroll, d. Ii. Bryan,
George w. Taylor and j. W. Wething-
ton.
The increase of population in the ten
counties constituting South Florida dur
ing the last FIVE years is 4,0l0 greater
than that in the thirty counties constitut-
ing North and West Florida during the
same time.
The Nel1 Era printing material was
sold at Madison Wednesday, TO Col. Will
liam Speir, of Orlando, and will be moved
there and used on the Orlando Daily NelgS,
a new paper, the publication OF which
was recently begun.
The servants, furniture, ETC., Of the
West Bros, of Charleston, 5. O., have
arrived, preparatory to the commence
ment of operations on their truck farm,
which will be located on the Hughey
prairie, near Orlando.
The County Commissioners OF Orange
were in session last Monday and Tuesday
but transacted but little business Of inter
est to the public. Licenses to sell whisky
were granted to M. X. Hester, Of Sanford,
and W. r. Lester, OF Orlando.
The Orlando post office has now rented
over 800 boxes, and the demand for them
Is increasing daily. Postmaster Spelr is
arranging to order 100 more for the right
wing, and says that every one in the office
will be rented before Feb. next.
The Orlando public school opened last
Monday with an attendance OF 141 schol-
ars. The desks and seats recently pur-
chased by the city have not yet arrived, in
consequence OF which the school IS pro-
crossing under some disadvantages.
The Penlnsular Hotel, at Tavares, is
being enlarged. The extension Will have
a frontage Of thirty feet and depth OF
forty-six feet. II will be three stories In
height, with mansard root and will add
eighteen bedrooms. This enlargement
will cost $4,000.
II Is suggested at Leesburg that the
Florida Railway and Navigation Company
and the counties OF Orange and Sumpter
might unite on bridge across Haines'
/ creek near Lisbon and make 10 cheaper