Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-29
FLORIDA.
Tampa is to have a graded school.

Tampa is to have graded school.
A new hotel is going up at De Soto.
Orange City scrip sells for its face
value.
Northern visitors are. beginning to ar
rive at Tampa.
The De Soto Springs Courier has made
a creditable debut.
The pay train of the South Florida was
at Barlow, Wednesday.
There are nine feet of water at Volusia
bar and the river is rising still.
The Ice famine at Orlando came to an
end last week, the factory resuming op-
creations.
Eleven dollars on the thousand is the
total of the State and county tax in Volu-
STA this year.
Four hundred dollars toward building a
school house at DE Soto Springs has been
subscribed.
Some of the farmers in Jefferson county
have picked and sold their cotton crop
and are still in debt.
Hon. John t. Lesley has been appointed
a member Of the board of health for
Hillsborough county.
The assessed valuation of taxable prom
erty of VOlusia county has increased
S36O,OOO within the past twelve months.
j. o. Fries, county surveyor OF Orange
county, is laying out tract of 200 acres
OF land at Clay Spring, to be divided
tween nine heirs.
The Stillman estate donates a lot front
ing Graves avenue, at Orange City, to the
library association. A library building
is to be erected on it.
Several small snegro cottages, which
were located between the Little and Big
bayOus, near the Pensacola navy yard,
were burned, Thursday.
The dam connecting the two lakes be-
tween Kissimmee and NarcOOssee was re-
moved last week, and navigation between
these two places opened.
Saturday, 4l6 colOred people called and
inquired for mail at the Gainesville post
office, and out of that number only TWEEN
ty-six were rewarded with letters or
papers.
The first Governor of Florida lies buried
at Bethel chapel, near De Soto Springs.
The only thing to mark the grave of this
illustrious man is rail pen-nOt even a
board bearing the name of ex-Gov.
BroOme.
In the yacht race at Port Orange last
Saturday, between the Gretchen, owned
by the Knapp Brothers, and the Cruiser,
owned by Samuel Fleming, the latter
fairly beat the jealous and beautiful Miss
Gretchen. Samuel Fleming had the
Cruiser built TO beat the Gretchen, and
she now carries Miss CPS broom.
Lady Lake is no longer one of Florida's
paper towns with an uncertain future;
seven stores, two good hotels, a good
school building, population of 300, a
number of the finest private residences in
tina county, and energetic and cultivated
people have displaced the lonesOmeness OF
the pine woods Of less than two years
ago.
Judge Cline, while digging on his place
at Tampa, unearthed the skeleton of a
boy, which looked like be had been buried
head downwards. The Judge has found
at different times flint arrow heads and
tomahawKs, brass pistols and battle axes,
and other relics Of warfare, scattered
about his place where many a sanguinary
encounter has taken place between the
Indians and Spaniards.
A mare belonging 10 Chauncey Wells,
was stung to death by yellow jackets at
Tampa last week. A teamster was haul
ing wood with her at the time and while
he was aside the mare stepped into
the nest which was in the ground. She
started of on run, but the wagon got
caught against a sapling somehow, and
being pOwerless TO move, she met her
death as above stated. She died in great
agony.
An unknown man, supposed TO be a
sailor, has been knocking around the
railroad depot at FlomatOn tor a couple OF
weeks, doing odd jobs OF boot backing,
etc, for his living. Some of the boys
thinking to have some fun, took him down
to the bath house TO give him scrubblng.
BE, not understanding the proceeding,
resisted, and in the struggle which en- |
sued be was badly hurt; one party says by |
foII fstrr an 40
being knocked down and kicked. The man |
went from the junction 10 Mobile after the |
fuss, and then came back to Flomaton. II |
is not known what steps he took In NO |
bile, II any, TO be revenged on his tor |
mentors.
Tom Williams bay mule, which has |
been at work on the railroad at Blue |
Spring, was allowed TO Craze on the green |
point across the mouth of the Blue Spring |
creek, and after awhile laid down on this /
point 10 rest, with its back TO the river. |
Only a few minutes elapsed before an Inn
mense alligator was seen 10 dash out OF /
the river, It's Jaws stretched to It's utmost, |
and as he came within reach the teeth OF
the alligator were buried In the poor
mules flesh Just In rear OF the shoulder /
blades. In the terrible scramble that en-
sued the lower Jaw. lt was supposed, was
broken and the shoulder blades OF the /
mule were left bare. An alligator was
seen going into the water with his JAW
swinging, and Tom Williams Is unf0rtu-
nate In the loss OF a very fine mule.
Mr.. Mcclure, who erected the Mag
nolia hotel ut Magnolia, and the san
Marco at ST. Augustine, Is the contractor
for the new hotel ~ Winter Park. This
latter hotel Is ofthe following dimensions,
as given BY the Orlando NetgS; Main
building. 1893 feet long by 40 and SO feet
wide, six stories high; one wing lOOxf9
feet, and this, in turn, Is joined by anotser
wing fo0v4l faof. the dfufuU-fO0fn. 1OlN ~ /