Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-04

a %tt-TNtHl DptEi Is UElUG Dulll AT oudl
lOtte aaTbor, and Capt. Slusser, OF ITALIA
nassea, viii soon be there with fine boat.
Judge King. at Ocala, last week gave
two negroes who attempted 10 wreck
train on the Florida Southern railroad ten
years at hard labor.
Orlando has caught on TO the drummer
. license regulations. Tax Collector Mon
tague nabbed three last weak who were
only released By paying S25 each.
Grove City, on Lemon bay, Manatee
county, is on the boom. Two saw mills
are on their way there. a fine wharf is be-
ing built and avenues are being cleared
W.
/ The new steamer intended for the lower
part OF Indian river. TO connect with the
! steamer Rockledge, is 50 feet long with
I very Eight draft and propelled by twin
+ screws.
Thomas Wingate, IS years OF age.
living near TomOka, IN NOlusia county,
was arrested last week for the murder oil
bis sOn-in4aw, in Manatee county, fifteen
years ago.
The steamer John Sylvester arrived at
Paiatka Monday on her first regular trip
Of the season. bringing lew passengers
and a large freight, which were landed at
Adams wharf.
At the meeting Of the Town Council of
Sanford Monday night Mayor Shrine and
I Marshal Campbell handed in their Tesig-
nations, to take effect at once. An cleo
ton was ordered.
There is now stored in the new freight
house OF the Florida Southern railway.
at Palatka, some fifty tons of Maine hay
and 400 tons of orange box sides. TIE
latter occupy space 125 feet long by 80
feet wide and 40 feet bigh.
The track layers on the Sanford and
Lake Eustis railroad reached Sorrento
last W ednesday, and the populace OF that
/ beautiful village are happy. Sorrento is
eighteen miles from Sanford, and as the
rails have been " est laid that distance
in twenty-one days, the line VIII be COM
pletcd to Tavares By about Nov. 20, and
trains running by or before Dec. /.
While at work assisting in the erection
Of a derrick for driving piles at Dismukes
d BdTlIHg's new wharf at 81. Augustine
Monday, the ground gave way, letting a
/ heavy timber fall, which caught Andrew
Greaney, a respectable White man, across
the feet, and. rolling over, struck him on
the back, from which injury he died in
ten minutes. Greaney leaves wife. He
came 10 st. Augustine few months ago
from Kansas.
About O'Clock Sunday night the house
Of Adam Strickland. colored, situated
about three miles northeast Of keuka,
was burned. The origin Of the fire is I'M
known, but 1t is supposed TO have been
caused by five little children, VINO We're
lett in the house by their parents. The
/ house was totally destroyed with all it's
contents, and three OF the five children
perlshed in the flames, only the two older
ones succeeding in escaping.
With last week the Mallory line COM
menced the seml-weekly trips of it's
Florida steamships. The san Antonio,
which arrived at Fernandina from New
1ork Wednesday morning, brought an
enormous ire, ght and seventy passengers
Inc state Of Texas, which has undergone
thorough renovation this summer, came
into the same port from New York direct,
Friday morning at . O'Clock, sixty hours
from dock to dock-remarkably fast
time. she brought a still larger number
Of passengers than the san Antonio.
The Insurance underwriters OF the com
panies represented at DeLand have
written the insur ance agent that if the
1 Town Council adhere totue fire limit and
4 permit nothing but brick buildings to be
/ built in the same that they Will rate De-
Land as second class as soon as the water
works are completed, giving a full rate
policy at ~ per cent. The insurance
companies require that through the bust
/ ness portion fire hydrants shall be located
not more than 300 feet apart. and that the
town shall own at least LOCO feet of fire
hose,
The fast mail south-bound train on the
| South Florida railroad, while starting
out from Maitland on Oct. %. struck Sec
tion Master Ragland in the breast, in
juring him so badly that he lived but a
short time. The circumstances were such
as to attach no blame to Engineer Dan
Bell, who was in charge OF engine }. MIR.
Ragland was standing alongside the
/ track, and as the train approached no.
ticed that one Of his workmen had care
( lessly left a CrOwbar resting across the
track. lie removed it, but Immediately
after doing so jumped across the track in
front Of the approaching engine, when he
was struck. He left no family. He was
in charge OF Section 2, at Mayo.