Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-27
FLORIDA.

J. II. Graham, of Manatee county, is re-
ported to have mysteriously disappeared.
The press and fixtures for the publica-
tion Of the Crescent City Globe have ar
rived.
A small fire at Tallahassee last week,
Friday, was putOut by gas from two soda
fountains.
The Tavares Union Congregational
Church have united in a call to Rev. r. f.
Hall, of Mt. Vernon, O..
The Ocala Ddily Item is to be enlarged
and issued as a weekly paper. 1t is
already very spicy little sheet.
Arrangements are being made to i'm
mediately rebuild the Leon Hotel at Tai
lahassee, all but 81, 900 of the stock having
been subscribed
The gin house of w. w. Walker, of
CrawfOrdville, Wakulla county, was
burned last week, Friday, with two gins
and ten bales of cotton.
The eldest daughter of Daniel Bloom,
residing at New Hope, four miles below
Fort Meade, committed suicide on Satur-
day last by taking arsenic.
Thirteen clerks will be dismissed from
the Jacksonville post office May l. Post
master Ledwick says that the five men
left will not be sufficient to run the office.
The Ocklawaha boats will be taken off
the tri-Weekly line which has been run
during the season just closed, and only
one trip per week will be made during
the summer.
The steamer Ellis, plying on the Chatta-
hoochee river, was attached at River
junction Thursday, for debt and tied up,
disappointing several persons who left to
make connection with it.
Oil Inspector Meream, of Jacksonville,
has Inspected for the year ending April /
1886 barrels and 80 gallon cans of kero-
sene oil. The fee is 25 cents a barrel. the
owner of the OIL paying the fee.
One of a party of five men travelling
somewhere between the Miami and st.
Lucie was fatally bitten by a rattlesnake
a few days ago. His remains were de-
posted in a hole dug with an AK.
A bale of cotton was found lately on the
beach opposite New Smyrna, which pro-
badly came from the wreck of the Gale
donna, which went ashore on the Bahamas
March "a with 1000 bales on board.
In the three-hour walking match at
Orlando between II. j. Davis and ID. X.
Edwards the former won by TWENTY-FIVE
laps, or five-siXths of a mile Davis maxi
ing Az miles and Edwards 1879 miles.
Frank W. Pope has returned to Jack
sonVille from Madison, where he had been
to dispose of his house and lot there and
to suspend the publication Of the Net0
Era and place the office upon the market.
A New York gentleman caught three
large tarpon near Punta Rassa recently,
which in size we're as follows: feet s
inches, feet 9 inches, and feet respect
lively, all being captured with braided
perch line Of the ordinary size.
A court of inquiry was in session at the
Pensacola navy yard last week inVest-
eating charges against Ensign Jeffrles, of
the United States Coast Survey Service
1t appears that Ensign Jeflries had the
money to pay OF the crew of the coast sur
vey steamer Barataria, but reports that
he was robbed Of the money belonging TO
the crew, although his own money was
saved.
The most elegant way to eat an orange,
SAYS lady from Philadelphia, is no
longer 10 extract the juice by a spoon, but
to put fork in the orange at the part
precisely opposite the stem. With
steel knife that has been sharpened for
the occasion pare down the peel in slick
slices until you have all the white inner
skin cut away, Then, without removing
the fork. hold il up TO the mouth side
WAYS, and eat It as you would corn from
the ear. This gives you the pulp only.
Jacksonville Herald A few years ago
there was not one Chinaman residing in
the CITY: now there are dozen or more.
on several occasions some Of them would
have been summoned before the courts as
witnesses, but what oath or law 70 bind
them 10 the truth was a mystery. Enter
tanning no regard for the usual Christian
oath no one could swear, hence their
escape as witnesses. A few days since
an Intelligent Chinaman passed through
the City from New Orleans 10 New YORK.
He was questioned relative to the
oath administered TO his people In courts
of justice, when he wrote down the ioi-
lowing. used on the Pacific slope and in
their native land: "This is 10 inform the
spirits Of the gods, also the evil spirits
and demons, all 10 descend here to hear,
oversee and examine into the case
manning the parties litigant) and crime
charged. II l come here 10 swear pro-
faneiy and tell the untruth or not, accord
ing h. the facts Of the case, humbiy peg
the celestial and terrestrial spirits TO
redress the innocent party and punish