Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-22

| Japan plums are ripe at Fairbanks.
Roller skating is the rage with the young
7 folks of Archer.
The price Of fine strawberries in Fairbanks
/ is % cents quart.
Orange Park boasts of the first large tan
merry in the State TO tan leather with Palmetto
! roots.
Chief Justice Waite says his sojourn in
Florida has entirely cured HIM OF a serious if
! not dangerous ailment.
Maitland has a Catholic, Episcopal and a
Methodist Church, and the Presbyterian
| Church will soon be finished
An effort is now being made to get a mail
route established from Fort Mead, By way of
Fort Thompson, to the Kissimmee valley.
There have been shipped this year from
Fair Oaks orange grove, near Manatee. 5000
boxes of oranges, which have netted $4,000.
There has not been prisoner in the Brad
| lord county jail IN SIX months and there has
been no criminal offense in the county of
sufficient magnitude to require bond for ap-
pearance.
a citizen OF Plant City being compelled by
law to tear down his hog pen, and not being
allowed to let the hog run, tied HIM to post
and he chOked to death. lie vows that he will
sue the town for damages.
Live Oak Bulletin: A few days ago we hap
pened in Judge Blackburn's office, and there
saw the largest turnip that our eyes were
ever greeted with. 1t weighs Is pounds, and
measures 3l13 inches in circumference. 1t
was raised by Mr.. VIM. Bra LEY, a few miles
below Branford, and was sent to Judge
Blackburn to be forwarded to the New OF
leans exposition, and Will go forward at once.
The State tax for the cHrrent year will be
mills. In 1876 it was 1917 mills; in 1880 it
was mills; in 1888 it was mills; in 1884 1t
was mills; thus showing a gradual reduc-
ton under Democratic administration from
the high rate in 1876, which was during the
last Republican administration. Gov. Drew
in four years made a reduction OF 81 mills,
followed by Gov. BlOXham in the next four
| years OF a reduction of m lis, to the present
time.
Ocala Daizy Item: Floridaiis par excellence
the place for the truck gardener to utilize his
| skull and labor. We get our products into
market at least three or four Weeks in adj
vance Of the "truck ers' of Savannah and
! Charleston. We can paralyze the stOmachs Of
New Workers with full grown "cukeb" be-
| fore other gardeners can show a bloom on
! their vines; we nave tomatoes in bloom and
! bearing which have gone through the past
! winter uninjured by frost.
! Tallahassee FI0ridi3n: There are 4 plumber
/ of soap trees growing in Tallahassee In the
! yards of DR.. q. ". Betton and Mr.. Philip
! Sullivan. the former On McCarty and the lat
! ter on puval street, fine specimens # tGis
| tree. in bearing. may be seen They are urO-
| life fruters, the berries being about the size
| OF an ordinary marble, having We loWish,
soapy appearance, With hard black seed,
| from which the trees are prOpagated. Par
! ties here boil the fralt to make soap, but
! judge Van Nalken'uFg Gays III China, Japan
and other tropical countries the berries are
! used as a substitute for soap just as they are
| taken from the tree.
! Jacksonville Times Union: From a gentle
| man who has recently returned to the city
! from South Florida, we learn some of the par
| ticulars of q dIabolical affair which ocurred
on Monday, Feb. g, at BraidentoWn. which ia.
| only few miles from the town OF Manatec
! Our informant got his information from Mr.
| kirkpatrick, of the firm of kirkpatrick &
! Bros, of Montana, who went there to invest
| large amount of money in lands, and who
! would have done so had it not been for this
! occurrence. 1t seems that q number Of per-
! sons were in conversation at BraidentOwn on
! Monday, when the subject OF the Able muir
/ der came up, and one Of the party. a Mr.
! Campbell. made remark to the effect that
lie was Of The OPT Mon that the courts would rot
! convict the parties who have been arrested for
| the murder. and he would be one to
! assist IN killing them if they were turned
/ loose. Ihe party afterwards dispersed, and
| within very short time Mr.. Campbell was
/ notified TO leave the county within four hours
! or he would bc killed for expressing himself as
he did. lie did not leave, and that night come
one knocked at his door. lie got up and
partly opened it, when the person outside
threw IN ball of dynamite, which exploded,
blew the house to pieces, and broke Mr.
died shortly afterward. Our informant was
also told that other parties had been notified
to leave the county inside of 81 hours or they
would meet with like fate. Among these
was Mr.. S. G. Upbam, formerly publisher in
Philadelphia, but now 4 large property owner
and citizen of that county.