Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-07
FLORIDA.

Piersonyille is to have a schoolhouse.
Rev. K. T. Rogers, of Baker county, was
paralyzed last week.
Simeon Towne, born at Bucksport, Me-,
about 1877, died at MIddl eburg, Sept. "a,
of old age.
The Gainesville Guards have been
granted full outfit OF new arms and other
military accoutrements.
The Florida Southern Railway have ar
ranged to run twenty-siX trains daily to
the Evinston camp-meeting.
All the liquor licenses in Palatka ex-
pred on Sept. so, and on Oct. mary"
0arroom was open for the accommodation
OF the thirsty.
United States Marshal W. G. Bird has
appointed John b. Griffin, of Pensacola,
Deputy Marshal for the Western Division
OF the Northern district OF Florida.
The Strathmore hotel, on Fernandina
beach, has closed its doors for the season.
The railroad from Fernandina to the hotel
was much damaged by the late rains.
Seville is still on the boom. The streets
are being cleared up rapidly and large
palmetto trees set out at all street cor
ners. Several new houses are being
built.
IL. 8. Bilyen. of Emporia, has souvenir
Of I'VE olden time'' in the form of foot
stove nearly or quite 200 years old, it
having been used by his mother, grand
mother and great-grandmother.
| IL. d. Rhoden's little son was bitten on
toe by rattlesnake last week while
| playing in his fathers yard. The toe was
| split open, cooking soda and ammonia
applied, and the child's live saved.
There has been more than $500, 900 worth
of buildings put up in Ocala in less than
/ fvun rgoI~
! buildings now in course of construction,
and about as many more in cOntempla-
ton.
The parties who started petition for
a license for the sale of liquors at EN-
pOria have abandoned the project, as
they do not desire TO offend their neigh
bors but to live in peace with all man
kind.
Arrangements, it is said by citizens of
Orlando, have been made that on and after
Oct. 10 mails coming from and going
north from Orlando will arrive and depart
by the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic
railroad.
A pig was bitten by rattlesnake and
killed in Clay county last week. Two
sows, after biting the pig, attacked the
snake and tore it to pieces, not, however,
until both of them received fatal stings
from the reptile.
At last Mariana has white postmas-
ter in the person Of j. E. Hearn. This
town, since reconstruction, has had a
darkey preacher for postmaster. He
finally fell from grace at the tune of
$500 and skipped out.
At Palatka, Monday night, large crowd
of cOlored men were standing at the
Kean corner obstructing the sidewalk.
| A gentleman tried to make his way
through the crowd, and asked negro to
let him pass, and receiving an impudent
reply, he struck the negro, knocking him
against the large plate glass window of
Peck's drugstore, SCATTERING 1t into
fragments.
Collector John j. Mcguire, of Pensa-
cola, has invented a heating drum to be
used on stoves, and for the purpose of
diffusing the heat which usually passes
out through the stove-pipe. The new APP
paratus consists of a large sheet-iron
drum attached to the stove by pipe, and
which contains a smaller drum, which
receives the heat from the pipe and forces
it down TO the bottom and around the
inner surface of the larger, a draft being
caused by pipe from the larger drum to
| the chimney.