Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-11
FLORIDA.


Vile has dsbanded.
The public school in Gainesville will
not close until some time in July.
There are four large and fourishing
sunday schools In gainesville.
The net proceeds of the Guards festival
at st. Augustine were about $500.
An ice factory appears to be one Of the
coming necessities of st. Augustine.
Tomatoes and cucumbers are now being
shipped from Gainesville in large quanti-
ties.
The Halifax Rifles of Daytona are to
take part in the Pablo Beach encamp-
ment next month.
The oat crop is an unusually prolific
one in Jefferson county this season, and
is being harvested.
The returns Of the sale Of potatoes con-
tinue entirely satisfactory to the farmers
OF Jefferson county,
Apopka City is only one year old and
already looms to the front as a promis-
ing city of South Florida.
A mango at Fort Myers, Monroe county,
has been measured and found to have
grown l0h inches in two weeks.
Work Will soon be begun on the new
Anastasia Island hotel. 1t will contain
40 rooms and cost about 100000.
A colony from Bowling Green, KY, will
shortly settle near Fort Meade where land
is already being put in condition tor
them.
Three hundred. partridges and seventy
five ducks are claImed TO have been killed
recently in Escambia county by a party
of hunters.
The Gainesville News makes a strong
appeal to the citizens of that place for
system OF water works for protection
against fire.
LyttIe's livery stable at Barlow has
been sold out to two new parties for ST.
800. who will continue to run the business
and improve it.
DR.. Dewitt Webb, of st. Augustine,
has been appointed Acting Assistant
Surgeon. u. S. A., in charge OF the Indian
prisoners of war.
Capt. r. l.. HOXie, of the United States
Engineer Corps, has been ordered to Pen
-sacOla to make examinations of fortified.
tions in that haTbor.
The city tax books of Gainesville will
be closed on june "a, after which date all
property on which the taxes are not paid
Ffwill be advertised tor sale.
Some. of the temperance people are APP
prehensive that politicians are entering
their organizations for political influence
in the approaching election.
The Gainesville Guards will enter the
State encampment at Pablo Beach on
July >, by which time an artillery corps
will be added to the company.
A young man named Anlco Pellicer
was instantly killed on the st. Johns
railroad Thursday while coupling cars,
his head being crushed into shapeless
mass.
The Alachua County Bible Society held
10 10, Cn
ming. received the annual reports of its
officers, land elected new officers for the
ensuing year.
Senator Gal4 has presented a memorial
of the citizens of Pensacola protesting
against the passage of the bill imposing a
tax on oleomargarine on the ground that
it will deprive many people of a healthful
article of food.
There never was a better prospect in
Jefferson county for a more abundant
crop of watermelons than at present.
Several new varieties are planted the
present season, but those who are Guilt
waiting for shipment cling generally to the
kolb Gem.
A young man in Gainesville sent Toe. to
fellow in New York who advertised
show to make money fast" He received
from the New Yorker the valuable intor-
nation, "Take paper bill and make it
fast to something with PASTE" The young
man now feels that life is deluslOn.
Fred Hubbard has started new tenn
perance society in Palatka, which will be
known as the "Anti-Treating Society,""
the idea being to let every member drink
all he wants to provided he pays for it
himself, neither treating any one nor al
lowing others to "set 'em up" to him.
The first cargo Of cattle has left Tampa
for Cuba, looking to the reOpenlng of the
beef trade between Florida and Cuba.
The resuming Of this trade is hailed with
qualification by the people of this section,
as this cattle trade in the past has been
one of the most potent factors in bringing
wealth into South Florida.
The way fieight train, running between
Waldo and Cedar Key, made a fearful
wreck at the trestle four miles east of Rose
wood and eighteen miles south OF Bronson
Tuesday afternoon. The engine driving
wheels ran of the track; the tender was
thrown several feet from tue track and
was badly damaged. Four freight cars
were smashed up and their contents well
scattered. The track was torn up for 100
yards and the iron trestle was twisted
INTO every conceivable shape. The wreck
was due to rotten cross ties. No one was
injured.
Daytona's donations to secure the build
value to $26, 900, to be turned over when
the road is completed. 1t is proposed to
adopt line for the extension of the road
from Orlando through Holly Hill down
the chain Of what are called the 'Pine
Islands," comingI through the first pine
island back OF RidgewOOd in Dayt0na
about midway between First and Second
street. The present intention Is to make
two stations. one at the north end OF the
town, the other at the south end, whose
locations will be settled 10 suit the con-
yenience Of the people and tue railroad.
A Mayport correspondent writes: For
several months past, and at the present
time, this place and adjacent country has
been cursed with party OF pot hunters
or bird destroyers. They are residents OF
the Northern States, and as the strictly
enforced game laws there prevent their
shooting they come here, Kill. ekin and
buy birds and snip the skins by the thou
sand TO supply the millinery stores North.
SparrOws, red cardinal, snipe, curlew,
widgeon, core, pigeon, white heron, and
all the other many varieties of land and
sea birds, bOtn game and other kinds, are
almost exterminated; as high as 500 birds
nave been killed in a day, aud over 10000
skins cured and shipped North 10 supply
the millinery molochs there. The par
ties pay no license here and daily
rob our state OF that which adds much
10 It's many attractions and beauty,
leaving nothing but empty birds nests
with dying Hedglings In return. II Is