Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-06
FLORIDA.

F.A. Williams aud Ben Laseter, of
Carroll county, Ga, are In Barlow pros
pecting.
Fifteen steamers. schooners, and other
boats were at the Palatka wharves at one
time Wednesday.
Colonel Livingston, of OcaIa, has sold
40 acres Of the Harris tract to NJ. +. Bean,
OF W asbington county, Vt.
Since the beginning of the present term
OF the Orlando court. Sheriff Anderson
aud deputies have summoned over 500
jurors.
A. L. Poser has closed contract with
the stewards of The Baptist church to
build parsonage to cost between 1000
and $1,000.
The pipe being sunk for the artesian
we'll III the depot grounds at Tampa, cut
through strata OF copper at a depth of
80 feet below the surface.
The estimated crop of strawberries at
Orange Park this year Is from 10000 TO
10000 quarts. The acreage has increased
at the rate OF 100 per cent.
Mrs. +. W. Craven, wife of Assistant
superintendent Craven, OF tine ST. Angus
tine Gas Company, died Monday after a
short illness, az % years.
The walls Of the Ponce de Leon Hotel,
at st. Augustine, are going up AT the rate
of foot day, and 10000 barrels of &C.
ment have already been used.
A find building lot near the land Office
was purchased recently from j.. X.
Rawiins by Il. G. Pound. Mr.. Pound Will
erect fine livery stable on the lot At once.
Mrs. f. b. Kingsley, of Fruitland Park,
has sweet potato OF her own raising, and
of the Southern Queen variety, measuring
"A inches IN circumference and weighing
IL pounds.
During the last few days, Spar. on the
Florida Railway aud Navigation railroad,
has added TO its permanent population,
six new antilles, three from Wisconsin
and three from Pennsylvania.
f. NJ. Scarritt, formerly connected with
the Sou hern hotel at Barlow. has been
arrested in Lakeland together with an ac-
cOmplice. for knocking dove and rObbing
man at night on the street. He was
lodged in Jail.
Mr. Elliot Church, who met with Sc
we're accident in falling, at the opera
honse in ST. Augustine, on Tuesday, is
not expected 20 recover. Mr.. Church is
quite an elderly man, and halls from New
York State.
q. f. Read. representing the Bal timore
and ohio Telegraph Company. has been
In Jacksonville several DAYS ~ ascertain
" uab nhAuuuh VI NNAAl VIC ot-
cured for his line. aud If sufficient, TO ar
range an immediate extension from Sa-
vannah.
A new ballast crib will he built at the
quarantine station at Pensac la. d..
Wnile has his salary increased 10 $500
per month, and Is hereafter prohibited
from making contracts for the treatment
OF the crews OF vessels, and has 20 supply
his 0 wn boat.
The election for Mayor, Marshal. Tax
Collector, Clerk and four Aldermen, at
Pensacola, last Monday, passed OF very
quietly. The result was "a follows:
Mayor, WIN. Shrine; Tax Collector, Il. n.
TOmlinson; Mar. hal, ID. A. Campbell;
Clerk, T. NJ. MacRae; Aldermen, ii. l..
LIlienthal, Geo. II. Fernald, Wilbur
Mccoy, ). J. Drawdy.
A correspondent OF the Green Cove
Spring says the sensation at Orange Park
last week was the cOwhiding of Prot. Won
Linkey by +. j. SlOcum for alleged im-
proper conduct toward Slocum's t2-year-
old niece. Mr.. SlOcum was arrested on
warrant taken OUT before q. r. Stiles. J.
p, who fined him $25, and placed him un-
der a $500 bond TO keep the peace for Que
year.
A youth Of some Is years Of age commit.
ted an assault, last week. on "A little girl
about years old, living in the Homeland
settlement, near Barlow. A day or two
later the boy was caught at Plant Cfty,
and tied 70 log, when buggy whip was
Obtained and the mother f the girl, after
administering a severe castigatiOn, told
the boy 70 "make himself scarce" which
be did.
The mud Of the st. Johns river fats is
soft and hard. The pillars being driven
for the extension Of The Florida Railway
aud Navigation Company's freight house