Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-17
FLORIDA.

John Milton has been appointed Treas
uTer for jackson county in place of J. E.
Hearne.
The shipments and receipts of freight
at Yalaha are just double what they were
last year.
The iron bridge across the Ocklockonee
river is said to be in very dangerous
condition.
Mrs. Henry will exhibit quilt at the
Lake City fair that was made over fifty
years ago.
A half interest in the Cedar Key
Journal has been purchased by DIR. r. IL.
McIlvaine.
4 Florida Railway and Navigation train
was deraied near Tavares last Wednes-
day by COW.
Inc Florida Town Improvement Com
pany will soon place the Cedar Key lots
on the market.
There have been more than 100000
worth of buildings put up in Ocala in less
than two years.
Hugh Gordon, eldest son of Gen. John
B. Gordon, will soon take up his residence
in Sumter county.
Reed Thornton, a colored man, was
Bluff, Leon county.
building to anyone who will start livery
stable at DeSOtO Spring.
st. Augustine's hook and ladder COM
pany is raising money to purchase fire.
alarm bell for the city.
The new Scandinavian church at Pen
sacola Is to be of brick, and a great i'm
prOvement over the old one.
The Okeechobee Company's dredges cut
&C, 122 cubic yards during the month, and
$3.50 lineal feet OF canal SX50.
An index of the records from the earli-
est history of Nolusia county has just
been completed by Clerk Faulkner.
A new steamer, the Mary Disston, has
been built at Pittsburg for the Gulf trade.
She is en- route down the Mississippi.
1t is understood that the Ward Line of
steamers to Havana will stop at st. Au-
9ustiue also this winter as they did last
winter.
The administrator of the estate of Les
ter Clark, deceased, has sold the Brock
house at Enterprise to Messrs. Champlin
q Stone.
The Mavor of Plant City has resigned.
His ideas on the hog law did not coincide
with other officials is the cause Of the res
ignation.
The Volusia county Jail is to have
the Jail to prevent the escape of prisoners
through the floor.
There are fifteen prisoners now in jail
at Palatka. The jailer says they are con .
stantly making attempts to escape from
their confinement.
Through the efforts or influence Of j. b.
Watson, Narcoossee, Orange county, has
Just received ten new citizens direct from
England, relatives and old friends OF Mr..
Watson.
A block OF IS lots, two and half acres,
including streets, three-quarters OF mile
from the post-office at Eustis, was sold
lately for 81 800, or $640 per acre. The
lots are in the woods aud entirely unim-
proved.
The citizens of Yalaha offer to donate
a handsomely situated lot, overlooking
Lake Harris, 10 any one who will build
hotel thereon. A beautiful park lies just
in front of the lot, and will always be re-
served for the hotel use.
Emporia Gazette: AS Mr.. Ekman was
returning home one day last week he was
surprised at seeing smoke Issuing from
some packages OF goods in his wagon.
An examination showed that the reilec-
ion OF the sun on a new tin pan had
caused paper box TO get on fire.
Crawford & Lee, says the Courier last
tie cottage II by % feet, with an eight-foOt
piazza and kitchen. In iorty-eight hours
after the FIRST lick was struck they turned
the keys over, the house being neatly ia
ished inside and out.
Charles w. Wilt, who was convicted
and sent to the penitentiary from Alachua
county, has, after serving seventeen
months incarceration, been pardoned by
Gov. Perry upon the petition OF many CIT
liens Of Alachua county, who have be-
come satisfied Of his innocence OF the
crime charged.
A weeks mail was received at the
MORNING NEWS office from Florida yes
terday. none having been received until
yesterday since the railroad washouts
occurred in the early part OF the week.
To this embargo is 10 be attributed the aO-
sence of any news from exchanges In the
Florida department.
The First Assistant Postmaster General
has ruled that the DeSot0 Springs Courier
cannot be- entered at the Spring Garden
post Office as second-class mail matter
unless the same Is dated At Spring Gar
den. The Courier is not published at
Spring Garden, but at Desoto Springs,
village two miles south OF the Spring
Garden post Office.
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