Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-24
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Palatka is working up a big wholesale
trade.
Alachua county has as teachers twen-
ty-tve graduates of colleges.
Sorrento has an organized educational
society that is doing much good.
The second story of Genovar's opera
mouse at st. Augustine is under way.
Four new residences are to go up at AL
toona as soon as the lumber can be had.
w. A. Day, Sanford fruit packer and
shipper. is building new public packing
house 30X70.
The young men Of Mariana have organ
lied debating club. They hold regular
weekly meetings.
G. M. futile, of Jacksonville, has a val
| ued relic in piece of marble off Mai.
Andres monument.
Union academy (colored), of Gaines
vile, is accommodating $50 pupils. Four
| teachers are employed.
The Illustrated Hotel Nelos, a new
| paper, is expected to issue it's first publ
cation to-day at Jacksonville.
Camp meeting at Oak Grove, Suwannee
| county, commenced last Friday. Quite a
| large crowd was in attendance.
The presbytery OF East Florida will
uCSb IuuISudy. NONs y, al Jn6 If6BDy-
terrain church at ST. Augustine.
The Sanford argus is now published
| semi-weekly. For local news it is hard
to beat, and deserves its prosperity.
Fifty-seven packages of freight were
forwarded from the Federal Point wharf
| Monday of this week, bound North.
Carlos Cushing purchased Hencks no.
tel, at LongwoOd, which was sold at auc-
| ton by King, Miller e. Hall last Thurs
| day.
Two more heirs to the New York Mercer
! estate have come to light in Suwannee
| county in the persons of Mrs. Revels and
| Mrs. Lloyd.
B. Geuovar and J. A. Spencer were
| granted liquor licenses at the last meet
| ing OF the County Commissioners at st.
| Augustine.
Enterprise people are pleased over the
advent into their midst of a real English
lord, who has come for hunting and sport
Of all kinds.
One Of the pet bears belonging to the
Peninsular house at Tavares deserted his
companion Saturday night and struck out
for the woods.
Max Bloomfield, OF st. Augustine, is
quite i'll with consumption. He has for a
long time conducted news and station
cry store in that place.
The Southern Elk press Company have
removed their Office from LOn9woOd to AL
tamOnte station. The arrangement is
said to be only temporary, however.
The tax collector of Suwannee county,
upon application for further time, was
granted by the honorable Board of County
Commissioners until the first Monday in
next year to complete his books.
Turner Lewis was shot by Wallace
RiGhnn W. nru
Creek, in jackson county, Saturday night.
Both are c0lored. The difficulty grew out
Of the ownership OF some stock that
Bishop claimed Lewis had stolen from
him.
1t is reported that Bogue selph, the
Lake City murderer, takes his cOnfne-
ment very compOsedly and talks as if he
thought he would not suffer the extreme
penalty of the law. His father is still
held in custody, and the probabilities are
he will remain till his trial comes off.
The editor of the Sumterville Times
says some wretch devoid of all hope OF
reaching heaven, entered his residence
recently during his absence and stole
nearly all of the tinware presented to him
at his tin wedding last year, quantity
of crockery and numerous other articles.
Ex-Gov. Gleason is up again, after a
few days serious sickness. Last summer
he was FRUSTRATED in New York city by
sunstroke. from which he has never fully
recovered, and has recently suffered from
partial paralysis OF the neck and brain,
which has somewhat affected his speech.
At Sanford, night or two ago, as one
OF the city policemen was endeaVOring to
frIghten a negro prisoner (who had es-
caped) into stopping, the officer fired
three shots after the fleeing son of Ham,
the balls going directly towards a BUSH
ness house and endangering the life of a
gentleman.
A large number OF men are engaged in
draining the marsh land just west of the
Sunnyslde hotel at st. Augustine for the
purpose Of laying the foundation for the
new mammoth Ponce de Leon hotel. after
which the hlling in Of this land Will be
commenced and work pushed to rapid
completion. lfiea n.f
The rival steamboat lines on the st.
Johns river will make things lively this
winter, ard some oil the fastest running
ever witnessed on the river will doubtless
take place. Passengers and shippers will
reap the benefit of the rivalry, as rates
will necessarily be low. now that railroad
competition will soon open.
A west-bound passenger train collided
with box car near Mariana last Sat
urday night. The box car contained the
g. 900. mound safe Intended for Jackson
county. The cow-catcher Of the passen-
ger and the box car were badly smashed.
No lives were lost, but the engineer and
fireman, who jumped of, were severely
bruised.
Pensacola Commercial: W. G. Howell
has brought TO our office piece OF the
capst0ne Of the Washington monument at
Washington city. which vas brought
from Washington by his daughter, Mrs.
Tierney. The rock Is OF white porphyny,
and was presented 10 the United states
by the German government for the cap
stone OF the monument, and struck by
lightning after being placed In position,
which broke of several pieces OF the rock.
At the DeBary-Baya wharf at Jackson
VILE Wednesday could be seen magnih-
cent English mastif, which belonged 70
Reginald J. Aston, Of Palatka. Inc
animal had come all the way rom West
Minister, Eng, and did not seem a bit the
worse for bis long trip. The brute
weighed 100 pounds, and was over ieet
In height. II was amusing 10 witness
how cautiously the darkeys on the wharf
eyed him. With such a guardian chickens
could roost in absolute comfort