Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-02
FLORIDA,

Charles d. Sweet has been elected chief
OF the Orlando fire department.
There are only TWO aspirants for the
county clerkship of jefferson, vice Col.
w. G. Bird, resigned.
The building boom at De Funiak Springs
has subsidized for the present. Only one
house is now being built.
Col. w. 5. Jones, of Jefferson county,
has decided to accept the appointment AS
Consul at Messina, and will take his de-
parture at an early day.
Robert Burden and Ben Green, of Or
lando, both cOlOred, became involved in
difficulty last Thursday. and both were
shot. Green has since died. Burden
claims selt-defense.
The Ormsby ten-acre orange grove at
Wilcox, that was sold by Collins Ormsby
last spring to Sam johnson for $1,000, was
sold day or two ago for $4,000 to g. q.
Small, OF Bowling Green, KY.
The New York Clothing Company, of
Sanford, has changed hands, Mr.. Travis
having sold out to Mr.. GOldstein, of San
ford, aud Morris Brown, of Savannah, Ga.
They viii take possession Oct. 1.
Madison receives recognition from
Cleveland's administration in the appoint
ment OF M. IL. Waring as route agent be-
tween Jacksonville and ChsttahOochee,
vice A. G. Light6ourne, removed.
Lake Lucerne takes its name from the
lake of the same name in Switzerland.
1t was named by c. A. Boone about ten
years ago, the name being suggested to
him by Swiss who was passing through
Orlando.
Count William BernstOrff, Prussian
officer who has only lately left active SER
wee, and who has been for some time
Of
home, has just bought property on Lake
Hollingsworth, in Polk county.
Tuesday evening fifteen of the guards
at the convict camp near Live Oak struck
and marched into town. the trouble, as
far as we can learn, arises from dissatIs-
faction with the Captain. At last accounts
no compromise had been made, and the
guards are enjoying an agreeable rest.
In Madison county Bob sutton, an aged
negro man, died. and his family or neigh
bOrs, wishing to establish new burial
ground, and entertaining the idea that If
his WAS the first grave in the new ceme-
terry that the deaths Of the remaining
members of the family would soon follow,
they dispelled the illusion by cutting a
tree down, encased a length of 1t in a
coffin and buried it with due sOlemnities.
The next day BOb's remains were inferred
beside it.
William B. Porter, who lived about two
miles beyond Welaka, at Orange Point,
was assassinated by some unknown per-
son or persons on last Tuesday. Mr.. POr-
ter had the care OF a large grove at Orange
Point, and was at work as usual in the
grove when the assassin fired on him
with shotgun, putting seventeen large
buckshOt in his body, two OF them strik-
ing vital parts, one through the heart,
which, to judge from the surroundings,
must have produced instant death, as he
seemed to have fallen in his tracks. From
the tracks left the assassin stood about
seventy-6ve feet from Mr.. Porter when
the fatal shotwa fred.
J. NJ. Hull in Live Oak Bulletin: l
had several hands pulling fodder in q
field adjoining my oat pasture, where l
had some - or 30 meat hogs. | heard one
of them squeal, and the rest rallied, so /
went to the spot as rapidly as possible,
and on my arrival found the hogs having
a regular battle with monster rattle
snake. l never saw such biting in my
life on both sides, and the hogs
seemed 10 be perfectly enraged.
l finally succeeded in getting
the hogs away after an old
SOW had caught tho snake
back OF the head and gwen him a
good shaNing. The snake made for me
apparently lItBnbb0ous DtluE AROUND
with rail, gave him death blow. One
hog WAS dead on the spot, another fell
about 100 yards away. and since then l
have found another. SO he killed three.
verify believe the hogs would have had
him had they been left alone, but / was
afraid he would kill more.
At Mayport, Thursday, as a party OF
young ladies' aud gentlemen were walking
along the beach near the wreck between
the Atlantic and Burnside houses, one OF
the ladies' gave a scream and dropped into
the arms OF her escort. He looked around
10 see what had produced such re-
markable effect upon his fair companion,
when he saw a skeleton lying partially
buried near his feet. The skull and one
side were exposed in the
bright moonlight, and near the bony
hand was the remains Of an Old hat such
as IL usually worn by sailors. On the In
side of the hat band was wittten: "John
smith. Nertschinsk, Siberia" This isthe
only clue 70 his identity. Tho screams Of
the young ladies aud the yells OF the men
brought TO the scene the occupants OF both
camps, who rolled around in the sand la
hilarious giee. The skeleton had been
neatly carved out Of the sand by the artist
Lew Brannan. Theyoung people quickly
recovered themselves, and continued their
STROLL down the beach.