Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-10
FLORIDA.

except Sundays.
Kings Ferry now has a daily mail to
and from Hnliard.
There will be at lest forty houses erect
ed at Starke this winter.
X. j. Mckee has been elected Assessor
and Collector of Jasper.
Mayer ~ Bro. will soon begin to re-
build their store at Milton.
The planning machinery for the saw mill
IS expected al Tavares ia a short time.
A banking institution is SAID to he one
OF the possibilities of Tavares this fall.
Shark ten feet in length are captured
every few days by st. Augustine fisher
men.
The newspaper men OF Orange county
will hold convention at Orlando on
Aug. IA.
The unceasing hum OF Crescent City
sawmills indicates that orders are coming
in daily.
The contract for erecting the Metho-
dist church at Orlando has been let to l..
NJ. BOykin.
Some of the Live Oak young men are
speaking of organizing an amateur dra-
matte troupe.
Several carloads OF material for making
orange boxes have recently passed
through Callahan.
Burglaries are Ofnightly occurrence of
late in Palatka, and SO far the police have
not made capture.
There is growing on the Goodwin place,
at Orlando, geranium that measures 80
feet In circumference.
Mr.. Buck, of st. Augustine has dispos-
ed of his livery stables and mail contracts
to Louis and George Pacetti.
The much needed repairs on the Metho-
dist Episcopal church At Cedar Key, are
likely to be commenced soon.
No property was sold at Cedar Key last
Monday, (saleday); neither WAS any sold
At the regular sale day last month.
The Tavares Gun Club have sent to
Tallahassee for some pigeons, and when
they arrive there will be a pigeon shoot.
The Ponce de Leon hotel syndicate have
purchased the Andrew property. on TolO-
mato street, st. Augustine, for $4,000
cash.
Almost every steamer brings number
Of railroad hands into Crescent City to
work on the p. & l. extension of the J. t.
IL X. w. r. r.
George BaIsden, residing one mile
northwest of Starke, killed three large rat
tlesnakes last Monday. The largest one
measured II feet.
The work Of removing the old school
house at Starke IS nearly completed and
work on the new institute building has
been commenced.
The plans for the large new warehouse
at Jasper have been submitted to bidders
by the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway Company.
The erection OF the new opera house
with stores beneath it has been COM
menced at st. Augustine. The building
will be the finest in the city.
Jasper boasts that about one-sixth of
her whole population are members of the
Sons of Temperance, and nearly one
fourth Of her white citizenship.
Three box cars of a freight train on the
Florida Railway and Navigation jumped
the track Wednesday night just below
Callahan. No damage was done.
The White Sulphur Springs are looming
up as a summer resort. and parties from
different portions of the State and else
where are spending the summer there.
o AT Tavsres the steamer Lake Ap0pka,
which was raised about three weeks ago
and subsequently sank again about
week ago, has again been raised above the
water.
county will be: State tax entire, mills;
county tax proper, mills; county tax
special, mills; county tax school, 2h
mills-making total of 81 % on the nun
dred.
Postmaster Speir's latest addition to the
Orlando post office is n regular city,
letter box placed in front of the Office. 1t
won't be many years before just such
boxes will be placed ut every corner in
Orlando.
jackson county has many curiOsities,
one Of which is a large cat that is owned
by DIR. W. r. Snead, OF Snead's station.
This cat drinks milk out of a wine glass by
slow process, first dipping his foot into
the glass and then his mouth.
The first preaching done in Hamilton
county was by the Knight family, and the
Fryars. The latter was LOwndes coun-
ty, Ga, family, but the minister often
preached in Hamilton, at church OF
''meeting house" on Tiger creek, in an
oak grove below BelPs mill.
Willis Anders. a colored man, was at
work chopping cOrd-woOd, just north of
Fort Mason, a few days since. A thunder
shower came up, and be took refuge under
a tall piue tree Lightning struck the
tree and killed Willis. The electric bolt
completely stripped the body OF clothing
Tallahassee correspondence News, Aug
Z: The new postmaster, Judge ID. W
Gwynn, expects to take charge tO-mOr-
row. G. J. Shine will be money order
clerk, and l.. A. Perkins mail clerk. The
people are greatly pleased with the
change New cotton is coming in rapidly.
Green Cove Springs correspondence
NEWS, Aug. 3: have just finished the
first tax book for Clay county. The tax
value for real and personal property in
CLAW county isl .687,3 ll. The number Of
inhabitants is 1924; Of that number one
negro man is married 10 a white woman,
and one white man is married to negro
woman.
Some days ago j. w. Kennedy, Of West
vile, Holmes county, arrived at Jasper
and proved the ownership OF two watches,
one n gold hunting case and the other a
filled case. These watches were taken
from the man now in jail, under the name
OF Hodges, for burRlarizlng o. h. Pax
toms safe at White Spring. Hodges. 1t
seems. had practlced his art in Weatvllle
some time previous and had not disposed
OF the property. Mr.. Kennedy reoog-
nized the prisoner but did not know his
name.
Orlando Sentinel: From a circular sent
out from England by Mai. NJ. Il. Marks,
we see that he IN making use OF printeTs
ink IN that far or country. On the back
OF his circular offering orange groves IN
Florida from $4,000 10 100000, IL "A BIRDS
eve view OF the international Inventions
Exhibition, OF South KensngtOn, which is
~. Ns.N IN la