Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-17

,.,;1s ~. AuuIahs supply Haines City with
xr h;lssslmmee IS organizing lodge Of
knights OF Pythias.
broom making has been added to the
industries Of EustIs.
Inc Pensacola Commercial will soon be
issued as morning paper.
IL Is said that the naval drill which was
W s&He place in Tampa Bay has been in
uennltely postponed.
Everybody in the liquor business seems
70 nave gone crazy over Bell Gin. There
ID one years supply in bond.
twenty-five sweet potatoes, weighing
q pounds, were grown on J. A. Whites
pace In Orange county this season.
A Gainesville girl has gone rack on her
sweetheart because his nam IS Tom. She
saws half the cats in the county are named
after him.
A gentleman who bought land in Eustis
nVe years ago is now realizing $1,000 per
cent. ON the investment, and he SAYS ne is
giving the land away.
The amount taken in at the custom
house at Key West on Dec. I was over
$',OOO, nearly all Of which was in in pay
ment Of duties on tobacco.
A Spaniard named Gabrara suddenly
became insane at Kew West on Thursday
iSst, and stabbed himself in the breast.
HIS recovery is not probable.
Rev. j. I. Bell has resigned the pastor
snip OF the Baptist church at Kissimmee,
and Rev. Tatum, of Adairsvile, Ga. has
been chosen to fill the vacancy.
There is to be parasol drill by twenty
handsome ladies at the Orlando opera
house on Dec. II for the ben
eht of the Presbyterian Church of that
place.
Herman Opitz had his legs lacerated
by wire fence near Orlando a few DAYS
since. His horse ran into the fence
with him. The animal was also badly in
jured.
Hiram Johnston, who is engaged in
nshing on Lake Eustis, caught $50 fish in
two hauls of the seine on Thursday after
noon, and among them was trout that
weighed nine pounds.
At the last meeting of the Board of
Aldermen of Key West an ordinance was
passed to prevent the erection of wooden
buildings in the front portion of the city
and for other purposes.
The OkeechObee freight car Jumped the
track while being run out to the end Of
the wharf at Kissimmee Saturday, and
found resting place at the bottom of the
lake. The car was not loaded, and no
harm was done.
Palatka Ne'es: A solemn-looking
darkey on Adams wharf. the other day.
was asked the loan Of 90 cents by brother
Gully, when he replied: "Bill, what yo'
AK me such question: as dat is for when
yo' knows rs JUS out OBJ jailP'
The new cigar factory at Brooksville,
which will be conducted under the firm
name OF A. c. Groom & Co., will begin
operations about Jan. l next. The bond
has been executed and forwarded to the
Internal revenue collector, and the license
will be issued very soon.
Kissimmee Leader: The repairs and
general Overhauling dredge No. 2 has re-
ceiyed were completed in q solid, substan-
tial manner on Nov. %. In the six work
Ing days between that and Dec. she cut
800 lineal feet of canal. No. cut during
the month ,2l0 lineal feet, SX50. equal TO
Is, 100 cubic yards.
There is some talk here about the sud
den disappearance of Mr.. Reagan, who has
had charge OF the Orlando telephone ex-
change. Mr.. Easterlin has been looking
the matter up, but the telephone people
are close-mouthed, and no particulars are
obtainable. 1t is reported, however, that
Regain got of with small amount OF
money.
OdlHcbNllle NbtCSs OHe Vi JUe mOSI CIuSl
and heartless murders ever committed in
the State of Florida occurred in Bradford
county, near Lake Butler, last Friday
night. The circumstances are about as
follows: A man by the name of Cohen,
well known in Gainesville as a contractor
on the ;. f. i W. railroad, had sold mules
and wagons amounting to about one
thousand eight hundred dollars, and was
returning from South Florida to Savannah
with team and wagon. Mr.. Cohen had
with him one negro servant, and the two
were in the habit of camping when
overtaken by night. On Saturday the
dead body of Mr.. Cohen was found with
the head severed from the body, short
distance from the camp OF the previous
night. Suspicion was at once aroused,
and the wagon was followed until found
in the possession OF a colored man with
whom it had been left by the driver with
instructions to sell at any price, and for
ward the money to Valdosta, Ga. The ne
gro also shipped two trunks to Valdosta.
AS officers are on his track, the scOundrel
has likely been captured before this time;
if so, he will probably wear homespun
necktie.