Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-26
FLORIDA,

FLORIDA.
Seville is to have new Deputy Sheriff.
The new jewelry and drug stores at
Sorrento are opened and ready for bust
ness.
The second crop OF oranges are now to
be found in many of the groves around
Sorrento.
Efforts are being made to give an ex-
cursion from Sorrento on July l to st.
Augustine.
The TOwr Council of Eustis has decided
to build Jail, and work Will be COM
menced at an early date.
S. l.. Benhsm has received his commits
sion as postmaster of Crescent City, and
has taken charge thereof.
The excursion from Apopka to Silver
Springs, on May -, was decided sue
cess. Two hundred or more tickets were
sold.
The new 1,000-pound bell has been placed
in the belfry of the Presbyterian church
at CrescentCity, and is the sweetest toned
bell in the city.
Gen. Bentley's new house at Seville is
nearing completion. 1t will be occupied
by Mrs. DeWoIf, from Wisconsin, who
will start poultry farm.
The carpenters are now engaged build
ing the Chamberlain hotel at Crescent
City, which will supply to some extent
the loss of the Potter house.
At Seville Superintendent Bates is laid
up with a very badly poisoned ankle.
Perhaps he will be more careful in future
about the color of his stockings.
At Crescent City the loss of the orange
crop caused many to plant more corn, po-
tatOes, beans, peas, etc., than usual,
hence there Is good supply in that Sec
ton.
Preparations are in progress for the
holding of such Fourth of July celebra-
tiOn at Eustis as will draw the people
from all surrounding towns to Eustis on
that date.
A new wharf is to be built at Eusts
soon on land of G.. D. Clifford for the
steamer North State, connecting with the
Florida Railway and Navigation Com
pany's railway.
Gas mains have just been LAID, at st.
Augustine, the entire length of Bronson
street from King to Bridge streets, and
brilliant lights will soon flicker from Or
namented posts.
Land at Sorrento that sold for 81 % a
few years ago now ranges at $50 to 800
per acre. Lake fronts are more valuable
and orange groves bring high prices in
this section of the country.
The back bone of the protracted drouth
in St. johns county was broken on
Thursday by cOpious showers, which
thoroughly drenched the parched earth
and gave to vegetation renewed life and
vigor.
meeting has been in progress in the
Methodist church at Madison for several
weeks, conducted by Rev. Robt. o. Smith,
OF Georgia, assisted by Revs. Barnett,
Miller, Scruggs and Lisle. Much good
has been accomplished.
Polk county is one of the best in the
State; has six growing towns and its tax
able property has doubled in the last
eighteen months. There are four weekly
and one semi-weekly paper published in
the county, and they are all excellent
newspapers.
Barlow, like all the rest OF south Flor
ida, is on a regular boom. Judge Hughes
recently sold three-fourths of an acre on
Main street for $ll 300. One-eighth of an
acre on the same street sold for 81 800
four weeks ago, and the purchaser has
since been offered $500.
so great is the local demand for lumber
in Jacksonville that the various large
saw mills are kept running both night
and day IN order to ill il, and to get large
orders delivered when the lumber is
needed
instances to put them in at the mills
ahead.
Around Madison farmers are working
with will to try 70 regain the losses
from last years failure OF the crops, and
in most cases the crops are in good con-
dition, though backward. Business is
very duh in the mercantile line, and
clerks can enjoy fishing in the lakes near
Madison.
At Gainesville the commencement SER
mon SUNDAY night ut the opera House by
Rev. A. b. Curry was an able discourse,
ana the house was well filled. The prize
debate on Friday night by the members u
the pasconian Society was a credit 10 all
the speakers. d. l.. Anderson, Of Ocaia,
won the first prize, and G. g. Whitaker,
Of sara Sofa, the second.
A Mrs. Dckerman. Of Mt. Dora, while
returning alone IN buggy from Eustis,
was stopped by a large negro, who de-
manded her money. Mrs Dekerman re-
piled that she had no money with her,
wnereuDnn the negro declared she bad, as
be had seen her have a check cashed that
morning at Eustis. He secured about Sll
and lett the lady. Efforts 10 catch the
rascal have been made. but as yet Moth
ing has been heard OF him. The negro
probably belongs to the railroad gang.