Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-30

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Milton. Three for murder, one tor forg-
cry, one for carrying concealed weapons,
and one for stealing.
Cotton continues to roll in at Quincy
Notwithstanding complaints of a very
short crop, and number of bales are
marketed every day.
A large excursion is contemplated IN
the near future from southern points on
the Florida Railway and Navigation Com
pany's road 10 Amelia Beach.
1t is rumored that II W. Southwick, OF
Fernandlna, Is having crack sloop built
In New York, which is intended TO take
the Carnegie challenge cup and hold it.
The Huot mill at Fernandina, which is
now about TO be taken down to make way
| Tor the railroad extension, was built new
some three years ago, and was valued at
upwards Of $4,000.
Walter Russell has received the mate.
rial and will issue the first number Of a
| four-column quarto paper at Apopka
| City, Orange county, to be called the
Apopka City Observer.
The closing OF the Huot and Duryee
saw mills at Fernandiua loses the city
over $4,000 annually in wages to the
laboring classes, outside of the loss to the
log men in the country.
There is need in Tavares of a good con-
tractor and builder. Several buildings
are contemplated, but they cannot be
| built for lack OF competent builder. All
OF the mechanics now In Tavares are
| busy.
| Ex-senator Yulee, of Florida, has pur-
chased the place built at Bar Harbor two
years ago by George Pendleton Bowler,
OF Cincinnati, aud known as DevilsGQne.
II is occupied at present by Mrs. William
II. Vanderbilt.
| At Milton negro called Sandy Sam,
| who was IN Jail for stealing, was bailed
out by Mr.. H. Bray some time ago and
and soon after jumped his bond. He was
caught on Wednesday by Squire Holly
and was lodged in jail.
| The post office at Ellerslie, in Her.
| nando county, was burned Thursday
and the building, with all it's contents,
including the mail and the mail pouches,
were totally destroyed.
| 1t is now a little over eighteen months
since the Seville Methodist mission was
formed. II has four regular preaching
| appointments, with a membership of over
100, an elegant church building and par
sonage valued at $1,000.
A party of young men went out to Little
| river, near Quincy, last Sunday afternoon,
for ride, and while there bullet from a
carelessly handled pistol struck Lee
Nicholson in the leftstoot, making pain
full though not dangerous wound.
There is no public road from Tavares to
either Mt. Dora or Eustis. It would be
well for those interested to take some
steps to have public roads laid out to
those two towns before more of the land
Is fenced, as more direct routes can be
thus obtained.
Mr.. Wright, the banker of Townsville,
and Mr.. Bradley have purchased eight
| lots in the west side of town, and will at
once have several cottages erected there
! on to rent to the colored residents OF Ia
wares. All of the small cottages on joan
ma and Texas avenues will be moved to
the same locality next month. The col
| ored population of Tavares is becoming
| quite large.
| Last Sunday afternoon, near an A. NJ.
Il. church, about six miles north OF
Quincy, on the Bainbridge road, Martin
House was shot and killed by another
| negro named George Walker. A Coro-
ner's jury viewed the remains on Mon
! day and brought In verdict that death
| was caused by a shot from pistol ia the
hands OF George Walker, and that the
| jury believed 1t to be murder. Walker
mad an examination before Justice o. W.
Plttman on Tuesday morning, and Was
committed to jail to await the action of
the next grand jury.
Frank Lambert, young man Is or IS
years old, hung himselfat Muscogee, near
Pensacola, last Tuesday. The young man
Is said to have been subject TO irritable
spells and queer freaks, the result, his
mother said, of snake bite received sew
eral years since, and was hardly regarded
as OF sound mind. On the morning in
question ne was unusually fractions, and
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close to him until near noon, when the
| deceased disappeared. Later on be was
found in an clubhouse hanging by the
neck and quite dead, having tied an old
piece OF rubber betting, some two inches
wide and several feet long, to joist, and
then slipping a moose over his neck was
strRngled TO death.
Mariana Courier: We have made nu-
merous inquiries as to the condition of
the crops OF this county. and from as
many replies we have arrived at the con-
clusion from the reports received and the
manner in which they are told, that the
cotton crop, which is more appreciated,
more depended upon, and upon which be
who soWs expects to realize all the
dollars he will handle for twelve month
hence, will be less than last year-with
few exceptions as to locality. From this
standpoint but little more than half crop
may be expected. In corn, the yield will
be greater than last year. This, however,
is questionable, as 1t is reported good
deal having been blown down. The
smaller crops are doing well and will
yield an average.
Seville Gazette: Our reporter cornered
Maj. Healy on Thursday and asked him
many questions in reference TO the band
some buildings which will soon be erect
ed by the Seville Company. He said
the two brick stores, 80 by 60, will be
pushed forward with all rapidity, as he
IS now putting the lumber and brick upon
the ground, TO follow with a handsome
brick cottage for Mr.. Mason Young to be
built directly opposite the hotel. When
completed 1t will be as handsome IA any
dwelling in the State and deliberately fur
nished. Then comes the large addition
to Hotel Seville, OF forty rooms, to be I'm
ished for the winter travel. There will
be several other neat cottages built to
supply the demand for tenement houses.
The iron columns for the opera house at
Tavares left Boston laht Thursday.
Messrs. Pelligrini IL Castleberry, of the
Southern Terra Gotta Works, are making
the terra Gotta ornamentation for the ex-
terror. Designs for the decoration of the
interior of the theatre have arrived. They
are exceedingly rich. Meantime the
walls are going up steadily and the build
ing begins to make quite an imposing APP
pearance. Twelve or fifteen more brick
layers and several carpenters are needed