Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-09
FLORIDA.

ported to the railroad authorities and
lively developments are expected.
FLORIDA.
Apalachicola needs facilities for fight
ing fire.
Fowls at Yalaha are dying rapidly from
cholera.
q. B. Telford, Marshal of Live Oak, has
resigned.
The Pensacola bar has an average depth
of rs feet OF water.
Lake City's streets will all soon be trav-
ersed by water pipes.
A colOred photographer is putting
kissimmee on paper.
There has been only one death in Lees
burg in three months.
Pensacola had "a deaths last months
white aud IL cOlOred persons.
DR.. J. d. Rush has been appointed sur
geon to the Marine hospital of Apalachi-
cola.
The new Methodist Church to be built
at McKinnOn is to be 20x30 feet, and is to
cost $3.50.
The English colony is still talking of a
railroad from East TOhopekaliga to Ne
KinnOn.
A party of Mennonites from Russia ar
for Mango.
Charles Lindley, of Apopka, recently
killed an alligator eleven feet long in
Pages lake.
The Presbyterians of Lake City have
been holding a series of religious meet
ings the past week.
Sixty buildings are now being erected
at Key West, and are often rented before
! they are finished.
For the month ending June 80 there
were 1880 gallons of wine imported for
consumption in Key West.
| The Key West wreckers in the case OF
the Morgan steamer City Of New York
shared $46 66 to a single share.
Within the last eight or ten days starke
has added eight valuable accessiOns to
/ her population from Kentucky and GeOr-
/ gia.
! Passengers and immigrants from Cuba
| and the Bahamas are filling Key West to
| repletion. They will average 400 monthly
/ the year round.
Three cOlOred prisoners escaped from
| the county Jail at Brooksville Monday
night by forcing the windows. They were
! confined N the north room, and were COM
mitted for larceny.
The rector of st. Luke's Church at
Z
nounces that it will be his aim, during
the summer months, to have short SER
vices and short sermons.
! The Cypress Lumber Company's mills
| at ApalachlcOla are still running, and
| turning out large lots Of lumber and
| shingles. 1t is rumOred that the company
made a sale of about 100000 shingles yes
terday.
The highest point reached by the Their
mometer in Sanford last month was 96
| degrees. For same month in 1888 it was
! 50; for 1884 il was 4 degrees less. This
! summer the heat has been more oppres-
sive at Sanford than at any time in three
| years.
! John w. West, Abraham H. West, and
! Eugene West, who, it will be Temem-
! berad, were engaged i'm a shooting scrape
| with the LangfOrd brothers two months
| since in Madison county, have been al
! lowed bail. tue two former 81, 600 each, and
the latter $1,000.
The Hebrew congregation Of Jackson
| Vile has elected Rev. DIR. Rosenspitz, late
OF Portland, Ore, pastor Of the Hebrew
! Temple in Jacksonville, vice DIR. Marx
Moses, resigned. Mr.. Rosenspitz has just
! returned from trip TO Europe and is now
! in Jacksonville.
During a recent storm mt Ormond J. A.
Bostrom's residence was struck by light
| ming and badly wrecked. The weather
boarding at the north end was knocked
1 of, the plastering in nearly all the rooms
/ knocked OF, and the windows, furniture
and looklng-glasses were smashed.
/ A lady has arrived at Key West from
/ New York % look after her husband. A
/ Cuban, who represented himself as fore
man of one OF the factories i'm Key West,
/ married the lady In New York, and she
is now in Florida to identity him. Parties
who know about the matter say 1t Is
true, and that the man is now on the
island.
The wharf at Key West for the light
! house department will be completed
about the end of the present month. The
main wharf viii be 400 feet long aud viii
afford % feet water on the J. end. The
building is l1SX35 feet, and will be used
| for coal and buoy shed. IL IL fine
structure and will probably last for years
10 come.
Apaachicola handles q good deal OF
sponge and the trade IL increasing. The
following are the receipts OF the sponge
! sales for the past week: Schooner Alice,
SOB lunches. 1896 %; schooner kuge, 5i2
| lunches, S730 20; schooner ROelna, JZ3
| lunches, 1914 10. The schooner Alice,
Wing master, takes the prize for spong-
lug this season, having shared 9sl on her
last trip.
From the earliest settlement Of HIS
| borough county, the citizens In the Nlcin-
ity Of ThronOtOsassa have buried thelr
dead on an eminence overlooking the
! beautiful lake OF that name. This burial
ground is upon the land Of Gen. W. J..
llazen, and not wishin9 20 disturb the
sleep Of the dead, be has generously decided
to the county five acres OF land, TO De
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