Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-13


The assessed value of property in De-
Land Will amount to nearly 1925, 900.
1t is rumored that Col. Protois would
like to be Mayor of Leeshurg.
V. DeLeo, barber of Tampa, was
s202
Col. Hopson, OF Emeralda, had a valu-
able mule gOred fatally by a bull few
days since.
tits thought that a contract 10 warrant
flowing artesian well at Leesburg can
be had for 81 900.
The Methodists at Fruitland Park pre-
! pose building church. They have $1,000,
but want $1,000
A frog with a chicken leg half swallow
ed, hopping about,is one Of the latest our
iosities al Leesburg.
An alligator two feet long was discov-
cred peram0ulating Bay street, Jackson
vile, morning or two ago.
j. E. Hearn has been appointed Post
master at Mariana to succeed Living
ston, the absconding darkey.
Mrs. Bronson. wife of Mr.. - Bronson,
a brother of eX-Postmaster Bronson, died
! in Fernandna Monday night.
! 1t is estimated that between now and
! Dec. n there will he nearly $4,000 put
/ lnto new buildings IN DeLand.
G. Nj. Hendry, of Fort Myers, recently
| killed in one day two deer five turkeys,
| two wild cats, one fox and five coons.
The Mechanics Base Ball Club, of Jack
! sOnville, was defeated by the club at AL
bany, Ga, Tuesday, by score of Is to 0.
A cute colored woman at Pensacola
named her pet pig for a neighbOr she dis
/ liked, and now abuses the pig Oy name
| fearfully.
The Christian SocietY's chapel recently
/ erected in memory of the late Hal B.
Smith, in Riverside, near Jacksonville,
was dedicated Sunday.
Two petitions-one to retain Il. w.
Speir and another for the appointment Of
! d. 5. Shine Postmaster at Orlando, are
being circulated in Orange county.
/ Paupers are continually arriving at Key
/ West from Nassau. They leave Nassau
without any money, and the vessel holds
their baggage until the passage fare is
| paid.
A colored girl cut off the end of her In
ger last week in Orlando. A white lady
picked up the piece, replaced and bound
it on, and the parts have reunited and are
nearly healed.
The steamer Capt Miller is being re-
modelled at the shipyard. She will be
ready to commence running in about ten
days, and will DE one of the jauntiest little
crafts on the river
In every portion Of the State there
seems to be desire to erect new churches,
/ the Preshyterians and Baptist leading.
a new Presbyterian church will shortly
be erected at Starke.
! 1t is rumOred that arrangements are be-
/ ing made TO put a line of first-class pas
senger steamers on the route between
/ Jacksonville and Crescent City to run
during the winter season.
Postmaster Childs, of Leesburg, is tax
/ ing bids for a new post office business
block. II is to be 20 feet deep. 40 front,
! two stories high. and will include a store
room, several offices, and the post office.
| Col. q. A. NJ. Ralues, superintendent of
construction Of the life-saving service. re-
fused to accept the lift-saving station Just
completed at Jupiter inlet, the same not
being built according TO plans and specii-
cations.
Capt. f. Il. Howard returned to Jack
s0nville Sunday. from Orlando, where he
had been to move the Magnolia hotel, a
building 66 by 1851 feet. After he got
! things ready he moved the hotel "a feet in
~ hours.
Thomson & Slocum, of Orange Park,
have commenced the manufacture of the
tanning from palmetto roots, for the tan
ming of leather, and are sending out sam
pies to the different tanneries North. 1t
is good thing.
Leesburg Nelcs: The yellow boy An
drew, whose serious injury we have twice
mentioned, died last Friday night. The
artery, which was with 80 much difficulty
tied mp, sloughed off and he bled to death
in few moments.
According to the United States census
of 1880 the population Of Orange county
Of Inu 9sV1k
been completed, and the official figures at
this time are l5,73l-an increase of 9,113,
or nearly 1900 per year.
There is a movement on foot to build a
new hotel at Orlando, of $50 to 200 rooms,
thoroughly fre-prOOf and supplied with
all the modern improvements and equip
ments, the whole to be lighted with cleo
tricity and guaranteed to be unequaled in
the State.
The schooner John s. Davis, now dis
charging a cargo of railroad iron at Pa
latSa, has been chartered TO take thirty
cords of pine wood and one carload Of
lightwOOd knots to Philadelphia. This
wood is to be split up into kindling and
sold TO the citizens OF Philadelphia.
AT regular meeting Of the Cigar
makers Union Of Jacksonville, Monday
night, Fred N. Meyer was elected as dele
gate to represent the Jacksonville union
at the International Clgarmakers' con-
vention, which cOnvenes at Cincinnati
Sept. IA, aud Phil. Garcia was elected an
alternate.
Tallahassee correspondence NEWS,
Aug. ID: Last night lightning killed
fine OK and two sheep six miles northeast
Of tOwn.--A severe thunderstorm passed
over the city, hut did little damage
cigar factory was put INFO successful OPP
Grafton on Monday The roof is being put
on the new Leon h0tel.-The ice factory
has been repaired and Is in successful OPP
Grafton.
A division of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association has been organized at
Ocala, and is only waiting 10 become in
cOrpOrated into the national association
before going into corporate organization
and permanent quarters. The member
ship already enrolled amounts TO more
than 80 names. embracing some OF the
most INTEL gent, progressive and moral
men OF that city.
At Leesburg, Saturday night, Gus An
derson, a Swede mechanic, was found in
his room paralyzed and in a comatOse
state Five hours before he had com
planned 70 his employer that he was sick |
and would like ~ quit work. He went 20 his |
room, and IL was not discovered that he |
was sick until late at night. He died the |
next evening without having spoken OF |
recovered consciousness.