Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-09
FLORIDA.

Gas will be introduced at Ocala.
Key West has turnIp the fac smile of an
elephant
Leesburg's ice factory will be in operation
in month.
Japan pums sell readily at 25 cents per
quart at Waldo.
Pien-to peaches are ripening at Waldo and
will soon be ready for shipment.
The cost of building operations in Waldo
for the past year has been about $4,000.
The number of teachers at the teachers
institute at Orlando last week was forty-fve
Capt. Maurice. of the Second United States
Artillery, died at the st. Augustine pose last
week.
The Suwanee river rose ten feet at the
White Syringe last week, Saturday night and
Sunday.
Mr.. Neiskopf has discovered bed of brick
clay near Sanford and will at once begin the
manufacture of brick.
radish grown at Welaka by Clark Ste
phens weighs twenty four pounds and is
forty -threa inches in circumference.
Over half million brick will be used in the
new buildings now going up in Gainesville.
This does not include the court house.
The driveway around Lake Lucerne, at
Orlando, is now opened and in sOod condition,
with the exception Of a small distance.
According to al reports the Narcoosee
colony, some fifteen miles east of kissmmee.
is making very rapid as well as substantial
growth.
The Atlantic Coast Canal Company Will
soon have a force at work digging a new
canal between the Lagoon aud Indian river,
a mile and half above the present one.
Kissimmee's new paper has made its
appearance. Klssiu nee is one Of the pref
tIest locations in Florida, and its new expon
ent promises to be just what is needed to
attract settlers
Peter Gordon, the negro who was so severe
" injured Saturday afternoon by being run
over by the passenger train on the Jackson
vile, Tampa and Kest West Railroad, died
from his injuries at a late hour on Saturday
night.
Last Saturday the negroes and Republicans
IF Columbia county met in convention and
nominated the folio aiug ticket, to be voted
for as delegates to the Constitutional Conven-
ton: Robert H. Bush, John W. TompkIns,
W. NJ. Ives, Joe Tolbert.
Lake City Is having water tower and re
servOir erected which will hold 1880 gallons,
at an altitude of fifty feet from the
ground. It will be connected by large
pipe from Lake De Soto. from which the
water will be pumped by steam.
P.Walter, Clerk Of the United States Court
sold at Gainesville Tuesday as Special faster
per decree Of the United states Court, $50
acres Of land in Alachna county for the sum
OF $3.50. 1t was purchased by Egbert A+s-
dorf and was sold to satisfy claim OF Alsdorf
against Mary A. Simpson and others.
gentleman of several years residence in
the woods of Florida SAYS that he Kills every
snake ne can, except lHe DldcA snake. Iris
reptile. he declares, earns right to live by
killing all other snakes with which it comes
in contact, after the manner of boa con-
strictor, and then, unless It's victim be too
large, swallows 1t.
whale was washed ashore twenty miles
south OF Matanzas on Friday, April Its
total length is thirty-three feet. and its diam
eter six and a half feet Cornelius Dupoat
writes Eugene Hernandez, OF st. Augustine,
that possibly he will cut and render the fish,
and supply the Ancient City with genuine
whale oil Tor a whole year.
The election at DaytOna on the new incor-
poratiOn proposition, held last Tuesday, re
shifted i'm total vote Of 32-Of which % were
for and against Through a failure of
number of the citizens of the territory to be
incorporated to turn ont and vote for and
against the measure, il was not carried. two
thirds vote of the total number being re-
quired.
The annual report OF the Town Council Of
Green Cove shows that during the year end
ing April ]. isS5, the exl enses of the town
have been S2.057 81. The amount OF scrip re
deemed was 81 .7S5 Sc. and 96 IS in scrip is
still outstanding. The cash on hand aud the
amounts due the city foot up $3.50 II. This,
less the scrip outstanding, leaves the town net
assets OF Sl6- 40.
Dnring the season the orange Shipment
over the Savannah, Florida aud Western
Railway. from jacksonville, has average
from 5000 to 5000 boxes daily. There are still
large quantities Of fruit on the trees IN south
Florida Not more than half OF the oranges Of
the celebrated Belalre grove, owned by Gen.
IL. :. Sanford. have been gathered, ana there
are vet between 5000 and 10000 boxes Of fruit
in the Indian River country, most Of which is
choice.
At Clearwater Harbor saturday a Young
man bv the name Of HendrlcA, son Of }. II
Hendrck, Of AnOna, attempted suicide by
shooting. The weapon used was a small pis-
tol. The bail entered just below the heart.
passing through The lung. " men Dr. Fay
arrived ne found the patientin great distress.
The doctor administered an oplate and re-
lieved the sufferer. since which ne na pecn
| dong well, and az last accounts seemed likely