Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-16
FLORIDA.

Everything looks tlOurishing around
Narcoossee.
Several new buildings are in course of
erection in Dade City. ..o.
The Chautauqua Literary Circle are to
picnic at Lake Jessup on Aug. %.
Jack Irvine killed very tine buck last
week about two miles from Orlando.
For about two months Ocala's post
office has been without postal cards
Col. j. Mcclellan, United States Sur
Veyor General, was at Tallahassee Friday.
Gainesville's new court house will be
completed before the fall term OF court
cOnVenes.
One of the hunters in Marion county
recently killed an AlbinO fox, 3 species
that is very rare.
The assessed value of property in Leon
county for 1885 shows an Increase of more
| Than 5000, 900 over 1884.
There are 2,410 Inhabitants In the first
district old division of Hamilton county,
and 1907 in the second.
Hon. VIM. Hines with CORPS of as
sistauts Is actively engaged taking the
census OF Sumter county.
Real estate is beginning to advance In
price at Gainesville, and the market bids
fair to be lively during the coming winter
The daughter of Mrs. Eliza A. smith. of
| Oxford, is Is wears old and weighs 1S5
pounds. MILFORD Eugene Vining, OF Wild
Wood, son Of Darius L. Vining, aged 1
year, weighs G3 pounds.
p. II. Moore, of jacksonville, died Fri
day. Mi. Moore was sen of the late DR..
Benning Moore, of ThOmasyille, Ga. He
married Miss Mamie Jones, eldest daugh-
ter OF Mrs. Marion King, in Thomas coun-
ty, Ga, Just at the close Of the late war
The Leon County Commissioners have
made the following tax leyes for the year
( 1885: Three mills on the dollar for county
purposes, 81 mills for interest on county
| bonds, ~ mills for school, mills for
interest, etc, on judgments against the
county, and 2 mill for roads.
The Plant Investment Company have
lately laid out new town at PembertOn,
where the Florida Southern railway
crosses the WIthlacoochee. The site
| covers l40 acres, which have been cleared
up and laid off into lots and streets mark
ed BY white posts inscribed with the APP
prOpriate number and names.
Col. Walter Gwynn, Land Commits
siOneT Of the SOGth Florida railroad, saws
that the sales Of land during the month of
| July exceeded those Of any month since
June, 1884, and a noticeable feature of the
business was that the land was sold
mostly to actual settlers, and in small
tracts of from town lot to eighty acres.
Quite number of rObberies have been
committed in Live Oak of late. The first
was Mr.. J. b. Evans, who was robbed OF
$50 He missed il Saturday night, July
18th. Mr.. e. Gornto was robbed of some
81 or So on Tuesday night of last week,
| and on Wednesday night Of last week
| Mai. J. G. Gallaher was relieved of some
$40 or Sl2. The latest was Or. Bynum,
who was relieved Of S57 40 and two or
three shirts on Friday night last.
Capt. }. E. Hanna, of Madison, has an
heirloom in mis- gTandtather's clock, which
was brought from Ireland. The running
gear has been twice buried in the II l-fated
lsle-Once during Cr0mwePs reign Of
terror, aud once during the Irish Tevou-
ton. The case was made by his grand
father, in 1915, and has the initials OF his
name and the date thereon, in silver let
ters. 1t is now owned by the sixth gen
GRAFTON. Capt. Hanna is from Chester
field, S. G.
A young lady entered the Office of DR..
Paisley, Ocala's dentist, to have a mOar
extracted, and insisted upon being first
placed in condition Of Inconsistencies
to pain before submitting to the opera
tiOn. The doctor put her under the inru-
ence of chiorOfOrm and took the tooth out
WITHOUT ulllcultNa W men bHe pdllehb uhl
recovered from the cOmatOse state into
which the chlOrOfOrm had thrown her, she
naively inquired, ais the tooth gone"
and teing answered in the Affirmative,
she screamed with all the powers OF her
voice and almost went into Mysteries.
Ocala Banner: At a picnic Of the col
Ored population last Friday at Silver
Spring, Two fiery enraged ebony damsels
engaged in personal encounter that re-
suited seriously but not fatally. 1t seems
that one noted damsel became jealous Of
kindred-minded sister--the latter having
been boat riding in company with the for
mer's suitor. After short dialogue, or
namented with multitudin0us express
siOns more emphatic than classl-
cal, it was agreed that the TWO
women resort to grove and
denude a la John sullivan style, and &C
cord ng 10 the prize-ring rules, settle the
matter. The fight was vigorous, boid ana
blOOdy-blows were dealt with death-like
Jury. II was a drawn battle. owing 10 the
interference OF two rival lovers, who took
the fight out of the hands Of the women
and went a. it themselves; but the crowd
soon gathered and separated the wrathinl
beiligprants. The two women have not
yet adjusted all differences, and there Is
talk OF another duel with keen-edged
razOrs for weapons.