Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-21
FLORIDA.


The Supreme Court met at Tallahassee
Tuesday.
A canning factory is again talked Of
near Lloyds.
Surveyor General Bloxham's bond will
be for $4,000.
The new Episcopal Chuch at Month
cello will soon be occupied.
Fifty carpenters are busy at work in
Seville erecting houses.
Only white servants are employed at
the Plant hotel, Tampa, this season.
Rollins College, at Winter Park, now
numbers rs, and is growing every day.
Sawmills at Wildwood run night and
day, and still are unable to supply the de-
mand for lumber.
There are now in process OF erection
upwards of twenty neat houses, including
a substantial church.
Very good progress has been made on
Genovar's opera house at st. Augustine
during the past week.
-Four accessions were made TO the men,
bership of the Method st church at Madi-
son last sunday morning.
A long train of Georgia wagons passed
through Tallahassee Wednesday en- route
for the bay, on fishing expedition.
Subscriptions are being taken in Eustis
for the purpose of purchasing a steam
pleasure yacht to run on the lake at that
place.
The third annual session of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars for the State of
Florida will meet at ST. Augustine Tues
day, Dec. s.
Burglars are plying their trade at San
ford with vim. DR.. b. Y. Herndon was
their victim TO the tune of nearly 500 a
night or two ago.
Some one, for fun or mischief, fired the
woods near Orange City last week, and
many valuable orange trees and much
fencing were destroyed.
The st. Johns river steamer Waunita
has been so crowded recently with freight
business that she has been compelled to
make several extra N'ips.
DR.. Won Rel, who is representing the
Dutch bond-hoders of the f. r & N, ar
rived in Tallahassee last Saturday and
remained until Wednesday afternoon.
United States Senator Call visited
Winter Park on Nov. 10. and in company
with Judge WelbOrne and L. A. Chase
inspected the Seminole. He expressed
himself as greatly delighted.
The Presbytery OF East Florida has
been in session IN the Presbyterian church
at st. Augustine. The presbytery closed
its session after the evening service to
meet April IA, 1886, at San MateO, Fla.
Francis has shown it's public spirit by
the organization of brass band under
the training and leadership of Prof W.
&. Tilgbman. Also the organization
and successful management of literary
society.
The Commercial wants a harbOr con-
ventiOn held at Pensacola at as early a
date as possible. The one TO be held at
Savannah on Tuesday aud Wednesday Of
next week will probably answer every
pur pose.
Preparations are in progress for a
grand international hunt, to start from
| DeFuniak Springs Jan. 10, 1886. the hunt
to conclude with a grand torchlight bar
becuc around the shores of the lovely Lake
! DeFuniak.
Less than four years ago Wildwood had
/ only one store. Now it has ten stores, a
! gun shop, barber shOp, blacksmith shop,
! pool room, livery stable, three large no
tells, several private boarding houses, and
a sawmill.
The newly-elected Aldermen of st. Au-
gustine qualified Thursday. The present
council consists of b. r. OliverOs, c. q.
Beasley, Roscoe Perry, Jacob Jordan,
A. B. Phillips, John Il. Edwards. George
Atwood, E. F. Joyce, and d. NJ. Papy.
Quail shooting among the Auburndale
hills Is satisfactory sport for the boys.
The birds are bagged in great numbers.
Irvine Wilson fred p shots at birds on the
wing, and killed 80, not missing a shot.
He also killed 10 at shot on the ground.
The Circuit Court for Jefferson county
will commence Monday. There are very
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it is said the grand jury will mako thor
Ough Investigation into all matters that
the law demands that they take cogni-
zance of.
Prof. o. NJ. Crosby, acting for the South
Publishing Company, OF New York,
shipped Thursday several boxes of choice
oranges, via Mallory Line and Baldwin's
Express, to the editors of prominent
British papers, and also the London Office
of The South.
At st. Augustine last Saturday before
the hour OF midnight three prisoners made
coed their escape. The leader,s it seems,
had obtained a saw, with which be sawed
the iron bars, and the three took to the
woods. Dligent search failed to result
In their capture.
W. F. Paige, who has managed the
mammoth KaaterskIll, in the Catskill
mountains, in New York, house Of 700
rooms, and whose register has numbered
1000 people at one time. has become as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Forbes IN the manage
ment OF the Seminole at Winter Park.
A colored deck hand employed on the
st. Johns river steamer Waunita, WIS
lost overheard as the boat was on her
trip up last Sunday. The officers can not
say how or where he was lost, but think
he had fit and fell overheard near
Puzzle Lake. HIS body has not been re-
covered.
The town of Cbipley, although only n
little over two years old, is growing with
the most surprising apidity-exceeding
tie most sanguine expectations OF It's
founders. The town has recently been
Incorporated, and contains now about
two hundred and fifty. people, most Of
whom are whites.
At ''Liberty Hail." the name given to
Capt. j. G. Pettersen's hOspital abode,
may be seen great piles Of m0hOgany and
muck. where they have lain possibly for
monster trees towering TO the skies.
The man David Gross, who killed Owen
Miller at Vernon last week, was indicted
by the grand jury the day after the kill
ing. The trial took place the next day;
the man was found guilty Of man.
slaughter in the fourth degree and SEN
fenced 10 four years Imprisonment IN the
penitentiary, and he is now in the prison
serving out his term.
The Southern States Forestry Congress,