Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-13

Lakeland has a new Baptist Church.
Ocala has received its certified charter as a
city.
The new hotel at Madison has been sold at
Sheriff ( sale.
A telephone exchange is among the prOba-
bllities Al Palatka.
Z. c. Patterson, County Commissioner Of
fernando, died last week.
An effort is being made TO start a new paper
at BranfOrd, near Live OAK.
Strawberries are being grown on a large
scale for shipment by many of the Alachua
truckers.
Maitland mas a Methodist, an Episcopal,
Catholic and negro church, and Presby-
terlan Church which Will soon be finished.
An effort Is now being made to get a mail
route established from Fort Meade by way
Of Fort Thompson to the KIssimmee valley.
There have been shipped this year from
Far oaks orange grove, near Manatee, 5000
boxes OF oranges, which have netted $4,000.
J. G.. Bates, Of Lake City, has a native
/ Florida COW from which he has taken twelve
| quarts OF milk per day, besides taking care Of
! the calf
Two new cigar factories have been epened
during the past week at Key West. One hum
| dred and thirty operatives Will be employed
/ in them.
Irish potatoes invariably prove a good and
| profitable crop in AlaChua county. the soil
producing them IN large quantities, good size
and excellent flavor.
&. NJ. Knott was confirmed Clerk Of the
Circuit Court Of Sumter county on Feb g.
HIS bond was accepted by the County Com
mlssioners at their meeting last Monday.
AT Jacksonville Monday evening Cant. W
l.. crawford, General Manager. was pry sented
by the employees of the jacksonville, st. Au-
gustlne and Halifax River Railroad with an
elegant gold watch and chain, made to order
at a cost OF ABOUT $500.
4 few members Of the Baptist Church at
Ocala have pledged themselves to assume
that part Of the debt OG their new cdifice not
already provided for until such time as funds
can bee gathered 10 release them. and thus
save the building from incumbrance. On
sunday morning last the new house was dedI-
Gated.
At Jacksonville Saturday Mai. Durkee re-
ceivei instructions from Washington to lease
all the rooms on the south side and one on the
north side OF the second story of the Mohawk
block for the term OF four years for a United
states court room and offices. The new court
room VIII be 3INj0 feet, well lighted and
ventilated.
Gen. Bullock has sold a portion of 100 acres
OF the Dupont tract a mile and half east of
Ocaa, ON the Fort King road, to Elisha 7.
Bugbv, of Chicago, represe 0ting thirty fami-
lies from the Western metropolis. Among the
purchasers Is Judge of the supreme Court
Of Chicago. The land is TO be surveyed and
laid OF ia lots at once.
Fort Mason correspondence NEWS. Feb. 10:
The train ran over and cut TO pieces a man
tAlr. William Patterson, who built the new
boat on Lake Eustis,) near WInn's field last
night. His funeral took place this afternoon.
Ii appears that he had been over to Leesburg
on the new boat, which weat on private eX-
cursiOn, and had imbibed too freely. He either
stumped his foot in crossing the track aud fell.
or perhaps had sit down o. the side of the
road on the crOssties to try 20 sober up and
went to sleep. His brains we're scattered all
ABOUT and his feet, arms and legs were cut of.
Ii happened just about three-quarters of
mile from the Fort on the Leesburg branch OF