Savannah morning news., 1885-06-03
FLORIDA.

! was put In type we learn that Whitten
died during Thursday night.
FLORIDA.
improvements are still being made in
EmpOria.
1t is rumOred that Daytona is to soon
! have bank.
Apalachicola's wharves are badly in
need of repairs.
Manufactured ice costs but Soc. per 100
/ pounds at Palatka.
! An amateur dramatic club has just been
| organized at Palatka.
Apalachicola citizens are developing a
taste for fine roadsters.
A starch and tapioca factory is about to
be started in Lakeland.
| A band of Indians from Big Cypress are
encamped at Fort Myers.
A preacher is acting as the 'deviP' in
the Tampa Guardian office.
An excursion from Starke is expected
in Jacksonville Thursday.
The sanitary committee have been max
ing the rounds OF Leesburg
The rate war between the steamers on
the ChattahoOchee continues.
The best of beefsteak can now be had at
10 cents per pound in DeLand.
Twenty-Five rooms are being added to
the Ryals House at LeesbuTg.
The ice factory at Cedar Key manu-
factured its first ice Saturday.
The ladies of Barlow are making exer-
tiOns to secure chemical fire engines.
The people OF Eustis and Leesburg are
striving to obtain better school facilities.
Live Oak didn't have a theatrical per-
fOrmance du1ing the whole of last winter
season.
1t is reported that Daytona citizen has
been offered the Consulship at Glasgow,
Scotland.
Levy county claims more school chill
dren to the inhabitants than any county
in the State.
A. II. Stockton, late of DeLand, will
probably build large hotel in Volusia
county next year.
VIM. Allen, of Port Orange, is having
five artesian wells put down on his place
for irrigating purposes.
A. c. Barr, of Daytona, is shipping to-
matOes to Northern markets at the rate of
ten to fifteen crates per week.
The iron of the street railway at Lees
burg has been laid as far as the Grand
Central Hotel from the Florida Southern
depot.
/ Emporia is about to lose an esteemed
resident-the Rev. Robert Stork moving
shortly into the new parsonage at Person
/ vile.
Henry Bryan, OF Tomoka, has sold his
stock of cattle, about 200, to Henry Cliff
ton, Sr., for $S 80 each, including cows
and calves.
Arthur COwan is settling with those
who had freight destroyed by the recent
burning of freight train on the SaYan-
] Poi
A handsome brick building is to be
erected on the lot at Apalachicola oppO-
site Capt. Cooks. 1t has long been COW
cred with the ruins of burned building.
D. u. Rogers, Of Daytona, is in receipt
! Of letters from the representatives of a
large COLONY of Germans who desire TO
secure 10000 acres Of land for their settle
ment.
At Apalachicola the Circuit Court
! Clerks office has been moved into the
second story of the Geniro building, all
| of which floor the county mas leased for
county purposes.
One of the most marked improvements
/ this season in New Smyrna is the large
| new dwelling being erected by Congress-
/ man Charles Dougherty. IL is expected
/ TO be completed before the winter sets in.
Judge Hicks is having built on his lot
adjoining his Office at Apalachicola a
building for a drug store, to be occupied
by DIR. w. T. Marler, dentist, and DR..
Rush, physician, both from Columbus,
Miss.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany are now cutting poles, preparatory
TO building a telegraph line from Marian
ma to Apalachicola. This will be in direct
opposition TO the local line now in opera
tlon between these places.
A man who entered Leesburg sick and
penniless and was so well treated by the
people that he was able to live well and
save a snug little sum Of money, left town
a few days ago without paying his board
aud a few other small bills. lie was ar
rested and settled.
Mr.. Barnett. OF Jacksonville, has a fine
apiary In his grove at New Smyrna num-
bering nearly 200 hives. The yield last
year was very large and Of the best quail
ty, the honey being extracted from the
mangrove bloom, viii oh yields the most
delicate OF all nectars, clover bloom not
excepted.
IL is said that Edward Swindell, OF Apa-
laehicOa, has been offered and refused
5000. 900 Tor bis model steamship. lie Is
now in Washington to perfect his patent
She will have four prOpellers running
through her KEEL, with patent tenders,
and an upper deck which will iloat when
the vessel may have been wrecked.
Henry M0dlin. Fred Randolph and
George Archer, all small boys the last
colored) Of A ApalachicOla, were discovered
Monday night attempting 10 break into
the store Of George A. Patton. They had
Just succeeded In entering JOhnsOns
butcher shop, whore they secured several
dollars in change. They were locked iip
day or two aud had visited up0a tpem
the lash.
During the thunder shower Fr.d1} ~
ternoOn lightning struck q high p.ur tree
standing near the residence Of DR.. X. y.
Priddy, two aud a half miles fr0m Pa.
latka, and glanclng Off struck the house
knocking the little daughter Of Dr.
pdddy, Ethel. senseless. and setting iIre
20 some papers la the hallway. Etnel re-
t.an 0eing stunned.