Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-25


! Franklin county is to have new school
house, the old one being beyond patching.
Two new stores and three or four dwell
ings are being erected at Welaka. The
town is on regular boom.
The Circuit Court will be held in
| BroOksvllle in October, beginning Mon
day, the 9th day of the month.
| Negotiations have been perfected for the.
purchase by the Apalachicola Lumber
| Company of the Brash mill, in the vicini-
ty OF Apalachicola.
| Monticello is taking steps to have the
present route of the Florida Railway and
! Navigation Company's road changed so
as to touch that town.
Bass, bluatish, mullet, tarpOn, whiting
and other fish have for the past few weeks
been schooling in immense numbers along
the beach at New Smyrna.
Last Wednesday afternoon the shelving
in the south side of Whitney's grocery
store, at Ocala, took tumble, throwing
all the goods on the floor, breaking show
cases, etc. No one hurt.
| Three negroes entered the house of Rev.
| M. S. Higbee at Orange City last week,
and under threats compelled them to sur
render all the valuables il the house. One
of the villains was afterward arrested.
The cotton seed oil works at Lloyd's
have commenced operations. In conse-
! quence of the scarcity of cotton seed the
proprietor of the works will be able to run
the establishment not exceeding four
months the present season.
| AS Waukeenah has tailed to respond to
| Lloyds offer to erect telegraph line to
| connect the two places, the company has
decided to confer with the citizens of
! MiccOsukie, aud will probably change the
course of the line nOrthward.
1 A broken rail derailed freight train
4 between Gainesville and ArredondO
/ Tuesday night near Palermo. Seven cars
in all left the track, three of which were
badly wrecked. The mail, express mat
ter and passengers were transferred.
1t is rumored that twenty-five Northern
gentlemen, who are wealthy and expert
enced hunters. propose to locate in Mon
| ticello for the winter. They will, it is
said, be accompanied by their families,
servants, ETC., and propose to enjoy them
selves.
Last week Lloyd Anderson and a man
named Clay, two cOlored men living near
Tampa. were amusing themselves by
chunking each other with n COW skull.
/ Clay WAS struck by the skull and received
bad wound. from which he died the fol-
lowing Friday.
! The HAYS began its run, Tuesday, from
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with the Naiad. River men report more
water the past summer than for many
seasons past. Two years ago the boats
could not reach Columbus. Now there is
comparatively high water.
S. A. Floyd has been appointed Deputy
! Collector Of Customs at ApalachicOla.
This appointment will necessitate the
election of new Sheriff to fill the vacan-
cy caused by Mr.. Floyd's appointment.
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Franklin county for the past two years.
c. r. Knight, formerly on the editorial
staff Of the Cleveland Herald, and more
recently the editOr-in-chief Of a sterling
Democratic paper OF Akron, o., has
| charge of the engineering work on the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail-
way between Beresford and Thrasher's
ferry, and also of the drawbridge at the
latter place.
Nothing has been heard of the schooner
s. Fl. LeVen, which left Philadelphia be-
fore the great storm a few weeks ago, for
! PaIatka, with cargo of steel rails for the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail-
road, since she left that port. 1t is sup
| posed that she was caught IN the storm at
/ sea and wrecked, probably all on board
I going down with her.
r. b, Bailey, of Monticello, received an
| anonymous letter, written In disguised
hand, few days ago, In which the writer
made sundry threats against certain
prominent citizens who participated in
the mass meeting recently held In that
/ town, for the purpose Of giving expression
| TO popular indignation prevailing against
those who purchase stolen cotton.
Capt. W. II. Roberts, OF Tampa, has Just
returned from a cruise down the Gull
coast. He says that between stump pass
! and Casey's pass the water 10 covered
with dead bottom fsh. AT Casey's pass
they were washed upon shore In large
numbers. He thinks there must be some
distemper among them to cause such
number OF deaths.
During the month OF August the Okee-
chobee Company's dredge No. cut 2,ls5
feet Of canal, 8 feet deep and 30 feet wide,
an average OF about 1900 cubic Yards per
day. During the same time dredee No. 2,
after losing eleven days in repairs, cut
1850 lineal feet Of canal, 6 feet deep ana
30 feet wide. making the excavations OF
the two dredees during August amount
TO 1900 cubic yards.
The engineer corps Of the Silver Spring,
Ocala and Gulf railroad has completed the
preliminary survey Of their road 70 spring
HUI, and are now extending their line
south. via Wiscon and on towards Big
Prairie. The Spring HIN section Is now
on boom, and there will doubtless soon
be a chance 10 purchase town lots In that
embryo city. II Is stated that the new
town will soon be surveyed and plotted.
sam Wo, a Chinese laundryman OF
Jacksonville, has branched out as snip
per OF sugar cane. Tueadny he sent MS
first consignment OF 1000 stake 20 chi
cago, and Wednesday he shipped 1000 70
New York, from which he expects 70
realize a net profit Of &c. per stalk. lie
puts up 20 IA bundle, chops of the tops
and securely ties the stalks together ana
sends them either by freight or express
as the necessity Of the case may demand
Wolaka correspondent Palatka Neaos
The grape season Is about over. one party
making FIVE barrels " wine, anOlner
making a quantity Of vinegar. This
branch OF industry is bound TO grow. AS
warning to wine makers let me say that
barrels are generally fnmlgated WIN
sulphur ire, but do not try II on freshly
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