Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-18

ApaIachlcola had no mail arrive last
week.
There are twenty prisoners in the coun-
ty Jail at Ocala.
A new German Lutheran church is go
ing up at Pensacola.
Salt Lake Landing, in Volusia county,
Is TO nave new Jail.
Seventy-eight thousand pipeapples were
shipped from Key West last week.
The LeesbUrg Rifles will soon be on the
list OF the volunteer militia of Florida.
A party of seventeen Apalachicola
hshermcn caught 20S snappers in one day
last week.
5. G. Upham, Esq, at one time editor Of
the braldentown Progress, died May 30,
in Philadelphia.
The lightning struck in Lake Griffin,
sumter county, last week, and killed
great number of fish.
OYSTERS are eaten without regard to
season in Apalachicola. They are said
TO be very fine just now.
Silver Spring has two aspirauts for the
postmastership 49, Messrs. Proskey and
Cameron. The latter is a newcomer,
while the former is an old resident.
David Watts, Jr., was accidentally shot
and killed by Henry Blocker with a pis-
toll at Putnam Hall Sunday. Both are
colored. 1t was another case of boys
fooling with pistols.
A waterspout, in passing from Lake
TaVares to Lake Dora, Orange county,
last week, struck W. S. BlaisdelPs apiary
and destroyed about two tons Of honey
and several swarms of bees.
A sensation was created in the Mayors
Court at ApalachicOla one day lass week
by an offender drawing a pistol. The
Mayor mat il with tho carna lind Of orO,,
ment, and peace was soon restored.
June Spates, a colored boy Il years of
age, became involved in an alteration
with two of Lafayette Burney's daught-
ers. One of them inflicted a wound with
her wedding hoe on the top of his head
that resulted in almost immediate death.
The difficulty occurred last Wednesday in
a field near MiccOsukio.
Yam DOnk, of Tallahassee's Dutch colo
ny, and his family consisting of a wife
and five children, joined the Presbyterian
church in that city last SUNDAY week.
Not being able to speak English Prof. +.
Wespy, Of the Florida University, acted
as interpreter, and made the profession Of
faith for them, and they all went home
happy.
John Otley, an English gardener, who
has been living alone and gardening on 9.
{. Pearce's place, near Tallahassee, for
the past three months, was found dead
Saturday in a spring near his house. 1t
was decided that the deceased had become
thirsty, the water having given out at the
house, and had attempted to drink water
from the spring by getting on his hands and
knees, and being very weak from illness,
was unable to lift himself up the steep
bank again.
man named Ellis, who had beea sent
from the State insane asylum at Chatta-
hoOchee to convey two upfOFtunates from
Alachua county back TO the asylum, be-
came drunk on the train, and falling
asleep left his charges to do as sthey
pleased. One was man and the other
woman. The woman became violent,
and, succeeding III freeing herself from
the straightjacket, began to raise the very
old Harry in the car, to the great annoy
ance and uneasiness of the other passen-
gers. She finally made frantic effort to
jump from the car, which was going at
full speed, and would have done 80 had it
not been for the strong efforts of Conduc-
tor Epps and other train officials, who
finally succeeded in restraining her and
getting her back in the jacket. At Bald
win the trio were confined in box car
over night.