Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-16

Jul AtA oNHSIe tUiHh sue IS All IlGuI.
Thousands of boxes of oranges are now
passing through Jacksonville, Thursday
there were some 900 boxes received
at and shipped North from the " aycross
depot.
The real estate association at Leesburg
is eudeav0rmg TO start a bank with a
capital OF $4,000. Seven thousand five
| hundred dollars has already been sub
| scribed.
A committee will go to Washington
next week to arrange for the naval drill
totake place IN Pensacola harbor in March
next, after Mardi Gras festivities at New
! Orleans.
Prof. Pitcher, of Louisville the famous
| organ-bulder, has closed with the Florida
Chatauqua Association for a grand So, 900
instrument, TO be placedin the Tabernacle
| at DeFuniak.
a hre occurred at Citra about O'Clock
! Friday night, destroying Mrs. Whites
boarding house, and GlOver's drug store.
The IRE was caused from a defective fiue
in Mrs. Whites house.
y few days ago the dynamo boiler. en-
gine and other machinery for the Edison
experimental station at Fort Myers went
to toe bottom Of the river by the sinking
Of the wharf at that place
the completion of the Palatka gas works
and branch pipes have been laid in nearly
all the principal streets. In a very short
time now the gas viii be ready for the con-
sumers.
Rev. w. II. Potter, n. d., editor of the
Macon (Ga.) IPeSteydn Christian Aduo-
cate, dedicated the Plant City M. +.
| Church last Sunday. The $500 due on the
church was raised in a few minutes by
the congregation.
South Flerida business houses are not
prepared tor freezing weather, and it is
really amusing to ace the proprietors and
clerks lowering around bOnhres outdoors
or nugging lamps in the store. The large,
base burning lamps seem to be the favor
ties.
Palatka NelCS; The rumor mentioned
in Yesterdays paper regarding the prob
| able loss OF the steamer Atlanta, as pre-
dicted, proved to be without foundation.
| The City OF falatka arrived here yester-
| day, and she had made connection with
! the steamer at Charleston before leaving.
1t was rumored in Orlando on Monday
! that Casbwell VINO severely cut Police
man Dean two months ago, had skipped.
After Deans recovery, Cashwell was adj
luitted TO bail for 81 300, and probably be
would not have left had it not been for
! the excitement caused by the murder Of
Policeman Beasley.
At EuscIs Monday of last week the fol-
| lowing municipal ticket was elected:
Mayor, Charles u. Edwards; clerk,
| George W. Church; marsai, Charles J.
Balloon; treasurer, George F. Miner; COL
lector, Peter Parsons; assessor, George
! +. Fearing; aldermen, Charles L. Smith,
GuitOrd ID. Clifford, Guy Hutchings,
Benjamin f. Adams.
DR.. Ed. Powell, a promising young
physician of Bradford county, while exca-
waiting an Indian mound" on the Santa
Fe river, at WOrthington Springs, found a
human skeleton at the depth OF six feet.
The bones were perfectly sound and well
preserved in every respect. The man must
have been almost a giant, from the length
OF the temur and other bones.
The Pensacola water works company
have purchased a square of land on the
railroad one block north of the gas house,
and are busily engaged in erecting build
ings. The buildings are to be of brick
upon a solid foundation of rock and
cement, and will be an ornament to that
part Of the town. The grounds about the
works are to be beautifed with flowers
and shrubs.
Leesburg NeteS, Jan. .: Mr.. Albright,
whose place Is on Lake Harris, some two
miles from this city, showed US a bouquet
of flowers Monday, picked from his plants
"
ter. consisting of thirty-siX varieties,
each Us bright and beautiful as they could
have been in midsummer. This speaks
pretty well for protection from frost in
this community.
A young Cuban. employed in J. A.
Huau's cigar store at Jacksonville says
that he has received news OF ice being
found sunday last at CaibarIen, the sea
port Of the town of Pernedias, on the
Of 4 10 II },
time such a thing has ever occurred there.
The frost line is eternaliy lost now beyond
the peradventure OF doubt OF the hope
of resurrection. DR.. Huau-CadOrette, of
Jacksonville, VINO resided in Cuba many
years, saws he never saw ice there, but
has seen frost.
For the first time 10 a great many years
the people of Jacksonville this week had
a chance to witness the singularly rare
novelty of skating0u ice with steel skates.
The young skaters on the frozen ponds
and edges of the river We're IN high glee
Sunday and Monday while sliding
smoothly over the ice. Those who had
the good fortune to have steel skates en-
loved a pastime that may not be had
again for a half century. such spec
tacle was INDUCED in only in imagination
until the recent cold weather, which made
1t an absolute fact.
tdpL. Jonn hlcu. local agent III JdCh-
soDvile for the Mallory steamship line,
in 1878 erected the first house and planted
the first orange trees at the now flourish
ing town OF DeLand, on the st. Johns
river. The first religious meeting held
there WAS in Capt. Rich's house, and his
daughter Clara was the first child born
there in 1871. The Captain is certainly
the pioneer Of that section, and where he
now has valuable property, which,
through hard work, he brought out Of the
wilderness, and now stands as m0nu-
ment to his indOmtable energy,
Palatka Meas. We made a slight err
ror in yesterdays paper in speaking of
the sale by Capt. William Betsworth OF a
half interest in his grove. As reported to
us, we stated the price paid for the grove
about three years ago was $4,000, but
Capt. Betswortn informed us yesterday
that he paid only $4,000 Tor IL. The fruit
sold from the grove for two seasons netted
the owner $500 and the sale OF one-halt
Interest in the grove on Tuesday for SO,
600 made his investment OF turee years
agO pan out very handsomely. Messrs.
Ives Brothers. OF POtsdam, n. y, were
the purchasers. who will take charge Of
tho property ard manage II hereafter.
only portion OF the oranges from the
grovo nave poen Slapped this season, and
fhp ORANGES On the trees will of COurgn