Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-18
FLORIDA.

A Grand Army Post has been organized
at New Smyrna.
Orange county has fourteen papers pub
Iished within its borders.
Work on the public school building at
Gainesville Is rapidly progressing.
A telephone line is to be established be-
tween Milton and Otcheite, Santa Rosa
county.
Nearly 1000 feet OF foundation has been
laid for the Ponce de Leon Hotel at st.
Augustine.
Mt. Dora, Orange county, is to have a
branch of the Chautauqua circle estab-
lished there.
Frost is reported last Tuesday week in
Sumter county, doing considerable dam
age to vegetation.
Peremptory writs of mandamus have
been granted and executed for three
licenses to sell liquor in Barlow.
The new hotel building in Monticello
will be completed next year, and be
opened to the public in the fall of 1886.
The woods east of Orange city were
burned last week Wednesday, }, including
800 cross-ties of the railroad company.
Fifteen orange trees near Plant City
are said to have yielded 10000 oranges
this year, an average of 10000 TO the tree.
The name of the DeSoto Springs Courier
is TO be changed to the DeLeon Springs
Courier, as soon as post ONCE Is estab-
lished there.
J.B. Craft, the builder of the Gaines
Vile ice factory, has gone to New York to
make arrangements for enlarging the
capacity of the factory.
Gen. Spinner still 'holds the fort' at
Pablo Beach, and will probably remain
through the winter. The General looks
hale and hearty, and enjoys excellent
health.
The Wyckoff pavement is the favorite
of the committee OF three citizens appoint
ed at Jacksonville to make a report on
what pavement they considered best
adapted for Bay street, in that city.
Mrs. n. j. Pitkins. for the past eight
months proprietress of the Oliver House
at Gainesville, was adiudged insane on
Monday last by Judge Thomas F. King,
and taken to the State asylum at Chatta-
hoochee.
The Boord OF Public Instruction Of
Alachra county met In regular session
Wednesday. Several thousand dollars
ware disbursed among the teachers OF the
countv. Reports from the various schools
Indicate great prosperity in the work Of
educating the youth OF Alachua county.
Horace Lee, a young negro of jefferson
countv living on George Ray place,
act Are TO the stable and crib of Mr.. Ray
sor the night OF Dec. 3, destroying the
building. corn, fodder and wagon. A
morse and buggy were saved after great
effort. The negro fed, but was arrested
in Madison county.
We. Scull had a very narrow escape
from being bitten by a slx-ioot rattle
snake Friday. while engaged in laying on
town lots at Pablo Beach. Having driven
a stake at the end OF the chain, Dis ass0-
ciate came up with a paint pot 20 mark
M when he discovered his snakeship coll
III and in readiness 10 strike, the stake
having been driven within two inches Of
his coils.
There will be a special session Of the
sunerior Court OF SuWannee county,
Fla. on Jan. ls, 20 try Bogue Selph for
Inc killing OF william Kirkland, Of Coffee
county. Ca. mt Lake City last summer,
Inc venue having been changed from
Columbia county. Hon. John q. Nichols,
of Blackshear, Ga, and ;. II. Findley,
Fso.. of Gainesville, Fla, are retained for
the prosecution.
The destruction in Wednesday nights
ARE OF the outfit OF the jacksonville
Herald IA an incident Of the cOnfiaRration
which will excite the sympathy Of every
contemporarv OF that excellent journal.
Devotlng Itself particularly 70 local and
state afairs, the paper earned for itself
me reputation Of being one OF the most
readable and spicy in the South. lts