Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-18
FLORIDA.


Mayor of Lake City.
The Santa Rosa Rifles is to be the name
OF a military company at Blackwater.
Paul Cook, of Whitesville, has shipped
OIL of ten acres $500 worth of cabbage.
The United States Fish Commission has
established a station at Clearwater Har-
Dor.
Leesburg has paid almost all of its in
debtedness and, it is expected, will soon
nave money in the treasury.
Telegraph rates to Key West have been
reduced to 81 80 for ten words, and ten
cents for each additional word.
j. G. Gaflord. of Belleview, shipped $50
boxes of Strawberries to New York last
week, netting 4S cents per box.
Wakulla has nominated Hon. T. f.
! Swearingen and Mr.. w. II. Walker as
delegates to the constitutional conVen-
ton.
The replacing of the bridge across the
OcklOck0nee river was completed We'd
nesday night, and trains are crossing
again.
While fishing last week Messrs. Simon
Bell and Burr Crosby, of Tampa, caught
saw-tish which is the largest ever
caught in Tampa bay. 1t was Is feet 8
inches long, 6 feet wide, and weighed 500
AT Tallahassee, as the wife and mother
of E. A. Afford were passing near the
Methodist Church they were attacked by
vicious cow. The elder Mrs. Afford,
attempting to escape, fell and broke her
ann and came near being gored by the
beast, but was saved by the heroism of
the younger Mrs. Afford, who put the
COW to flight.
Jacob Jordan, colOred, one of the en-
plOyes on the new custom house at Pen
sacola, met with an accident by which his
left leg was broken, his shoulder dislO-
Gated and his right leg badly bruised.
The accident occurred in handling one Of
the heavy iron beams, weighing about
three tons, which in canting over caught
Jordan and crushed him, with the above
results.
1t is said that at the meeting held at
San Antonio to elect delegates to the
county convention, what is known as the
Quinn delegation held a meeting on the
second floor of a private house, and upon
a qualified voter of the precinct going
there, he was refused the right to vote,
owing to the manner in which he voted
at the last election in the county. A
public meeting was held by the disfran-
chised at another place.
Ocala Item: The shipment of straw
berries is now at its full height. Large
quantities leave by every train for the
North. Mr.. ID. S. Williams shipped on
yesterday 1900 quarts, ID. G. Eichelber-
ger 235, and L. T. and II. G. Munroe 100
quarts. The latter gentlemen have
shipped in all 625 quarts of of only a
half acre, and are not through yet. The
prices have advanced, and our shippers
are receiving good returns.
A meeting of capitalists has just been
boII nf 10 ba Of
ing the purchase Of the valuable tract of
land known as the Yulee property, which
lies on the HomOsassa river, and includ-
ing Tiger Tail Island and the noted Hagan
and JOes places, consisting Of 5000 acres
in all. The property lies in fernando
county, and is at the head Of the famous
Duval spring, a few miles from the Gulf,
a river running from the purchase to the
Gulf.
The Jacksonville police have arrested a
negro by the name of b. Tillman. Some
time ago Tillman got into a difficulty
with his brother and killed him by knock
ing him in the head with a lightwOOd
knot. He made his escape and went to
Jacksonville, where he passed off on Mr..
;. RitZewaller a forged check for S26 on
the First National Bank, and then went
over to Cuba. He came back few days
ago and set up a barber-shOp in Hanson
IL
of shaving man.
The steamer Queen OF the st. Johns
will probably make no more trips up TO
Sanford until next winter. Owing to her
length and size it has been fully demon
strated that she cannot be run on the up
per river without loss. She is too long to
round the short bends Of the river with a
propeller. HerOwners contemplate chang
ing her to a sidewheel vessel during the
summer, and if they do she will be a very
swift boat. She will be run as an eXcur-
sion steamer until June, when the work
OF changing her will probably commence.
The Gadsden county Democratic con-
vention met in Quincy April II. and nomi-
mated Hon. +. c. Love, Col. John W. Ma
lone, George l. Davis and n. T. Scott for
delegates 10 the constitutional conyen-
tiOn. The Democratic nominations in
Dade and Breyard are III. l.. Parker and
Alexander Ball. The Democrats of Frank
lin and Calhoun counties have nominated |
Senator William r. Orman. Messrs.
Campbell, McCaskill and Edge are the
Democratic convention nominees in Wal |
ton county. Messrs. Mcclellan, Milton,
COker. and Gen. Thomas +. Clark are
Democratic nominees for the convention
in Jackson county.
During the late term Of the Circuit |
Court at Palatka Judge King sentenced /
sam Bruton, convicted Of assault with at /
tempt 10 murder, 10 seven years Ia the I
state pentcntiary. Wednesday morning
his wife begged a final interview, and the /
soit-hearted jailer consented. soon after |
she had left the sheriff shifted t13 fumes /
of burnt powder. Inspection showed
that the powder had been poured into the
lock and exploded with match, but with
out throwing back the bolts. search
brought out package Of powder and a
box Of matches from BrutOn's pocket;
and these articles had been given the
prisoner by bis wife. The convict is now
securely ironed.
r.. +. Field, Of Mddletown, y. j., has
300 acres planted In cOcoanuts on Bis
cayne Bay. ON this area $4,000 nuts
have been planted. They came from
south America. They are thriving spleu-
didly. At least 90 per cent. Of them are
up and doing we'll. Some OF the stalks
are 4 = feet high. but the average height
of the entire lot IL about ~ feet. In
planting they lay OF rows about 20 feet
apart, then 20 along and bury the nuts
about two inches under the sand. There
Is no expense Of clearing up the lands, /
and that OF caring for the trees Is simply
nominal. But one man was employed
last summer looking after the first 10000 /
planted Ordinarily 10 requires about 10 /
Years FOR a cocoanut tree 10 bear from the /.
seed. and the annual yield should not be /
less than 100 nuts per tree. some place /
the yield at more than that, and say that ]