Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-14
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The Tallahassee cigar factory is in sue
! cessful operation.
! The Tallahassee ice factory is repaired
and is now in running order.
The Florida Southern Railroad Com
! pany has purchased M. H. Rogero's house
| in Palatka at cost of $4,000.
A leather wing bat, IS inches from tip
| TO tip, with peculiar head ana tail like a
rat, was killed last week at Plant City.
| The old dock at Blue Spring has all
| been torn up, and the wOrkmen have COM
menced the foundation for the railroad
| dock.
| An old colOred woman, upon being i'm
mersed in Palatka last Sunday, ex-
! claimed, Bress de Lord; dis am five times
Pse been baptized"
| A man by the name of Rogers, from
| Massachusetts. left China recently after
/ spending ten years there, and purchased
home in Orange county.
A thief bored 30 holes with an auger in
| the rear door of John Lawless' store at
| Pensacola and was then frightened away
\ before he could remove the panel and
secure any booty.
Arthur T. Williams, long connected
with the Land and Mortgage Company in
| Jacksonville, has just received from
! President Hemming, through Capt D. f.
| Maxwell, an appointment as Land Com
missioner of the Florida Railway and
| Navigation Company in place of Col. S.
| |. w allies.
Palatka Herald: We have some of the
/ LATEST negroes in the world right here in
| Palatka, and in summer they live on cat
| fish and melons. We saw one of these
| lazy creatures the other daV. He had his
fishing line tied to his dogs hind leg, and
when fish would bite he would give his
dog a kick"
A few days ago there was an ice famine
in St. Augustine, and in response to a
telegram Mr.. CanOva. of the Palatka ice
factory, shipped II cakes, which were sold
for about 25c. per cake. On It's arrival at
st. Augustine there was such a brisk de-
mand for it that it was sold in a jiffy for
| 81 per cake.
Pensacola Advance Gazette: The COM
mandant of the navy yard has been
exercising his prer0gative, by ordering
some Of the citizens to leave the naval
reservation. The citizens, however,
didn't leave worth cent but demanded
written charges and fOrcible eiectment.
The ukase has not heen enforced and the
''cits" remain. The department viii do
well to give affairs at tue Pensacola navy
yard thorough oyerhauling.
The 7-year-Old son Of Mr.. Hamilton, re-
siding mile and half from JOnesvlle,
in Alachua county, was kicked by a horse,
three weeks ago, on the forehead or from
tai bone of the head. over the right eye,
causing fracture of the skull through
which the brain protruded. A physician
was sent for at once and the wound prop
erly dressed. The case is an aggravated
one, and the attending physician is not
very hOnaf1l of n favorable r0suIt.
Pensacola has garbage crematory
which is 10 by 70 feet in the clear on the
inside, with brick walls feet thick and 6
feet high: about feet from the ground
series of iron CRATE bars form the bottom
of the crematOrY. with the space below
arranged for building the fires which burn
the garbage. A centre wall from the
ground to the bars, forms this lower space
into two furnaces, with a door in each
end, the fires being kindled below and
reaching the garbage through the grating
on which IL is placed. The cost OF the en-
tire structure is about $500.
At Pensacola a cOlOred woman by the
name Of Josephine Stanley was shot while
she was preparing for bed-the assassin
firing from the outside through an open
window and making good his escape with
out being seen. The bullet entered the
fleshy part of the thigh from the rear, and
passing through lodged near the groin,
where it was found and extracted. She
does not know positively who shot her,
but she suspects her husband, Charles
Stanley, from whom she has been separ-
ated some three or four weeks, and who
she says has threatened violence TO her.
No arrest has been made.
Mayport correspondence jacksonville
Herald: A rather absurd, but true. 0c-
currence happened down here last night.
Col. Blank, prominent and well-kn0Wn
real estate man Of your CITY came down
Yesterday afternoon on the Kate Spencer
20 see about engaging suitable quarters
for his family, who wish To spend "a rev
weeks on the beach. After eating heartily
of supper at the Atlantic house, the Colo
mel started for his room. Ia or
der 10 enjoy the salt sea breeze he
left tho door Of his room open. Some
time during the night persons VINO
roomed near the Colonel we're awakened
by strange sounds which Issued from his
room. The Colonel was hopping around
on s,ail foursu Once. climhin on 70
sofa, he stretched his mouth until u
almost extended from ear 10 ear, uttered
"a loud "iskv and leaped head aud bands
foremost 10 the floor. One OF the gentle
men grasped the Colonel by the shoulder,
shook him, and asked what was the mat
ter The Colonel awoke with start
and, excusing himself crept back into
bed. The stfange performance was soon
explained Colonel had made a heavy
supper OF frogs legs.
The unloading OF beef cattle from the
Observation-Disclosures schOoners ON the Bay
front at Pensacola. II accomplished IN
very dangerous manner. The sohooners
anchor ont In s or 10 feet OF water qua
throw the cattle overheard, allowing them
20 hv'im ashore. The cattle, having heeh
worried and frightened, are wlld wnen
they got ashore, and, aimlessly dashng
about, are dangerous animals 20 encoun-
ter. DR.. F0rdham's family were the we
tins Of one OF these wild steers Few
days ago. and some OF the members
barely escaped with their lives. iha
steer on reaohing the beach came r la,a,..