Savannah morning news., 1885-10-09
FLORIDA.


A building boom is progressing at Lake
land.
Acton is to have pork packing estab-
lishment.
A select school for girls was opened in
| Tampa on Oct. l.
The new hotel at Desoto Springs will be
done in time for the winters business.
There is reported quite building boom
! among the farmers around Seward lake.
1t is reported that a canal is to be
opened from Crescent City to Georgetown.
A number of counterfeit silver dollars
are said to be in circulation in Middle and
West Florida.
The stock of the Apalachicola and Ma
| rianna telegraph Company is now all
owned in Apalachicola.
Messrs. shackleford & Preston have
commenced to make a set of abstract
books for fernando county.
South Jacksonville is growing rapidly.
There are a dozen houses within a stones
throw of the railroad being built, and
more are talked of.
Plans are being drawn for complete
system of water works and sewers for
Seville. The sewerage system is modelled
on that used in Berlin, Germany.
William Kemble Lente has returned to
Seville from the North. He is building a
telephone line from Lake George to Seville
with some short lines in the town.
NJ. W. King & Co., of Palatka, are hav-
| ing q new warehouse erected Just in the
rear of their store, on Front street, which
they Will use to store goods in. They pro-
pose to do large wholesale business this
winter.
Tuesday. Welaks was disappointed in
the non-arrival of the steamship MOntl-
cello, in whose honor they had arrangeda
grand barbecue and ball to properly show
their appreciation Of her regular visits
hereafter.
One of the lighters belonging to the jetty
contractors remains on the bottom of the
river at MaypOrt, where it sunk during
the late gale, in II feet of water, with 100
tons of stone on board. No successful at
tempt has yet been made to raise it.
The carpenters are right after the brick
| layers on the Putnam house at Palatka,
and foundation wall Is hardly finished
before the carpenters are on it with their
frame. The first tier OF the frame is up
along almost the whole Front street front,
and the foundation walls are being run
back as fast as excavations can be made
and brick laid.
People who are interested in good roads
Kemble avenue, in Seville. 1t has been
| paved with concrete Of blue clay aud
sand at a cost OfaboutSl $50 per mile. The
road bed is as firm and smooth as New
York or Chicago boulevard, despite the
great rains of this season. II is being lined
with orange and palmetto trees and is TO-
day one of the handsomest streets in
Florida.
Mr.. J. J. Brewer, who was under arrest
| it Jacksonville for embezzlement, has
been discharged. A telegram in the
MORNING NEWS of the 4th, states that
the amount which il was alleged that Mr..
Brewer took was $1,000. This was mis-
statement, the amount being only $40.
The Times Union referring TO the eXami-
nation into the case, says On the hearing
yesterday the prisoner pleaded mot gull
ty." Capt. g. Il. Garner, upon whose aiii-
dayit the arrest was made, testified sub
stantially thai $40 was given Mr.. Brewer
with which to pay certain bills of the
Mary Draper, which he failed 10 do, but
lett and went TO Fernandlna. Upon tur-
ther examination he said that the agree
ment with Mr.. Brewer, whereby he be-
came engaged on the Mary Draper, though
"practically verbal, yet was essentially
connected with a written contract which
was in the hands OF Mr.. Aiken, the other
part owner Of the Draper, who lives In
| knoxville, Tenn" WhereupOn defend
ants attorney asked him # the verbal
agreement could be understood without
said writing, and on his answering that II
could not, the attorney asked him 70 state
its contents from recollection. To TINS
the prosecuting attorney objected, and
/ Brewers attorney, replying, said II the
| writing had been reported 10 him with
one.fourth degree ofaccuracy Mr.. Brewer
| could not be guilty OF any ofiense, and
insisted that Capt. Garner be compelled
| 10 1--WE his recollection OF its contents, or
/ that defendant be discharged. After sew
eral arguments, pro and con, justice
! jackson. upon Garner's still objecting to
] state the contents Of the written agree.
ment, said he could not justly detain the
defendant, and thereupon discharged
him. ----