Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-12


from Tampa to a Northern port.
The work of removing the rubbish and
debris from the site of the Leon Hotel, at
Tallahassee, commenced last Wednesday.
The contractors, Il. 5. Williams and T..
j. Rawls, engage TO have the proposed
new building finished by Jan. l next.
The boat on lake Apopka is already too
small for the business it has to handle.
y barge is now used in connection with
the steamer and before many months the
company will be compelled to put addi-
tlonal boats on the lake.
Rev. r. l. Hall left Monday for Mount
Vernon, Ohio, after definitely deciding to
become citizen of Tavares. Before leav-
ing he purchased a six-acre lot in town
and will have a $1,000 residence con-
structed on it Immediately.
Mrs. Lucie ri. Buckner, editress of the
BraidentOwn Progress, has laid aside her
trenchant pen. On May , she was united
in marriage with George A. Vanneora. of
Tampa, and a note announces that she
has permanently abandoned the tripod.
Lake City correspondence NEWS, May s:
Dry weather continues in most parts of
the county. A very good rain fell south
of Welborn on Tuesday. The vegetable
and cat CROPS are put down as failure,
aud few planters have no stands OF
cotton.
On Sunday the store of the English
colony at NarcOOssee was entered, desk
broken omen and box stolen containing
$40 in greenbacks, $40 in checks drawn
in favor of different parties, and dia-
mond ring which cost SO at Liverpool
nearly $3.50 A clue is being worked
Which may lead to the the recovery Of the
stolen property.
The indications are that Tavares will be
the first brick tor in South Florida. The
President of =. l.. T. & Manufacturing Co.
has advertised for 1,000,000 bricks, and, it
is understood, that in addition to the opera
house some eight or ten two and three
story double buildings will be con-
structed by the company, by Frank Jones
and by others during the coming summer
and fall.
Col. j. NJ. Kreamer gave assurances
while he WAS in Fort Myers the other day
that his company would, with a reasOna-
bic amount of aid and cooperation on the
part of the business men, put on steamer
to run weekly between Kissimmee and
Fort Myers. A canvass Of the question
has been partially made and the people Of
Fort Myers will take the required amount
of stock and more.
Shipments OF vegetables by the t., o.
and A. Railroad are progressing lively.
From Victoria station alone 1920 or ates
were shipped during the last week in
April, and about 1900 crates the first
three days in the present month. These
are mostly from the Lake ApOpka region /;
are picked up by the steamer ApOpka
and hauled across by teams from Blue
Point to the railroad.
The fishermen of MaypOrt have forsaken
the river fishing, and are now plying their
avOcation in the surf, where the fish are
plentiful and of much better quality.
They commence at the terminus of the
Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad and
90 northward until their carts are loaded
or they reach the river. when they convey
their nights catch to MaypOrt and thence
to the Jacksonville market by steamer.
Near Suwannee station, a young negro
was seen sitting very near the railroad
track as the passenger train was APP
preaching. The engineer sounded the
whistle to give the alarm, but as the man
was in posture that would naturally lead
one to think that he was going to get out
of the way, the brakes were not put on in
time to prevent a collision that landed the
young fellow in a ditch. He was badly
hurt, but not dangerously so.
S. A. Luckey, of Orlando, has bought
hthe Allen mill at Kissimmee and the Sim
clair mill at Wilcox, which he proposes
to unite in a heavy belt of timber just east
of Orlando, making by tar the largest and
most extensive saw mill in South Florida.
His mill will be 800 feet long, and he al
ready has on the ground 40 horse power in
steam and so horse power in engines,
which he proposes to add to until the ca
pacity of the mill reaches upward of 50,-
coo feet per day.
There IS a colored boy in Madison who,
for hardness of head" will take the ''di-
lapidated linen from any dimlnutive tree -
Good authority says that he won wager
of So upon a "butting match" with VIII
liam goat recently, in which the latter was
killed outright, and that he has also been
known to smash hole in freight car
with his head. He also boasts of being
able to drive a ten-penny nail into the
hardest of wood as completely as any
hammer by placing a board over it to
prevent its cutting the skin.
The large iron safe belonging to J. W.
Han, of Live Oak, was placed on a wagon
for removal, and by an oversight the front
wheels OF the weighty depository were not
checked. AS the wagon rolled over the
sidewalk the safe took a tilt forward
and rolled through the front of the wagon,
knocking out the driver, falling on the
tongue and traces and throwing one of
the horses. The driver, an old cOlored
man named Peter Robinson, had his arm
broken above the elbow, and one of the
horses was pretty badly used up.
Hon. Thomas A. Carruth, County Judge
of Hillsborough county, has forwarded
his resignation of the office to the Cover
nor, but at the Governors request it will
be held over until the election returns are
certified to. The friends of Charles T..
Harrison will present his name to the
Governor and it is more than probable
that he will be Judge Carruth's success
sOr. Judge Carruth takes this step on
account of the criminal business which
not only consumes a great deal Of his
time but also because IL is distasteful
to him.
The court house of Walton county, at
Euchee Anna, has been burned, with all the
books and records of the county. II was
the work of an incendiary without a
doubt. A chain of circumstantial evil
dence points almost directly to the villain
who committed the foul act. This is the
second time in three years that that cOun-
ty has suffered in this way. The loss TO
the county so far as the house is con-
cerned is trivial. IL was only tempo
rary place, provided after the destruction
of the court house in 1888, for holding
cOurt-an old store house that cost but
little-but the books and records were in
valuable. Judge Maxwell adjourned
court, which was TO have been held there
last week, sine die.
Merchants at Pensacola in renewing