Savannah morning news., 1886-05-13

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A son of soy. Fenton, of New York,
has purcha the grove or George
! Squires, of ialo Bluff, paying $1,000.
III IS very ds0me and valuable grove |
worth fully price paid tor it.
One of thttle captive Indian boys |
last week fdom the parapet OF Fort |
Marion dow the grassy plot below, !
| distance of east % feet. The young |
warrior wassked up and found to be
uninjured.
w. c. Cans, OF Orange City, has
found ais bror Matt CaunOns. He left
his brother'sst summer, since which
time nothings been heard OF MIN until
now. He is rking in the Spring Gar
den setteme
The trial she negro Henry Virgins,
now in jail Rr sentence of death for
the murder DIR. Porter, has cost Put
nam county ly 81 800. There seems to
De no doubt ais guilt, yet an effort Will
be made for ew trial.
Material full About Florida, the new
monthly maine to be published at
Leesburg byaj. George Z. Herndon,
has arrived, / the first issue of the
magazine winake its appearance as
soon as the nter can be put in type and
printed.
The Board Health OF Key West have
appointed slial inspector to look after
the Mallory sinners and see that they do
not commune with that city. This is
done on accouof the Galveston people,
who object. L Board OF Health are de-
termined thatRlveston shall have no
cause of cOmpht.
But few peophave an idea OF the alti-
tude OF Kerr Ci some parts of the sec
ton about Lak6err being fully 100 feet
above the level the lake. Heretofore it
was supposed at Lake Kerr was only
241& feet abovee level at Salt Springs,
but a recent svey by Mr.. Golden, OF
Lake George, b shown it to be far above
these figures.
Mr.. Frank right, of Mount Royal,
shipped Inventive boxes of very fine
beans and sashes to the Northern
markets TuesV. Next week he will
begin to ship oeumbers, and few days
| later tOmatoesf which he has very large
quantities andf the finest varieties. He
is making lccess of his vegetable
crop this year.
Hon. A. J. RESELL, State Superintend-
ent OF Public IItruction, has been IN
vited to delivern address at Blrming-
ham, Ala, andllso to deliver the diplo-
mas to the gradating class of the public
high schools othat city on June IL. Also
to address the tudents of Emory College,
Oxford, Ca, ad deliver the "SteWart
prize medals'bn June 2.
The orange rees in Putnam county,
which Were cit back after the freeze OF
January last, are doing well, and those
the most tansged are now putting on
fresh growth, and if the new blooms
come they WILDE on the new growth,
and experienced orange-growers give 1t
as their olinionthat but little fruit will
grow on these tees this year.
1t is understood that the Supreme Court
has denied the mtion for a new trial in
the case OF Alfred Bidwell, Edward
Bacon and Leonard +. Andrews, con-
victed OF the murder of Abbe and Riley
near Sara Sofa, in Manatee county, about
a year ago. The only hope of the
prisoners now is in the Board of PardOns
The probability is that they will hang.
B. S. Partridge, Of ofGeorgetown, is boring
an artesian well Tor Hon. Joseph Hicki
on his place just back of Fruitand. Th'
we'll is now 3S5 feet in depth, the contrac
being Tor 500 feet if necessary to go tina
deep. Hard rock was struck at a deptl
of go feet, and the water already obtained
is very good, being very clear. Mr.. Par
fridge recently sunk a well at George
town, having to go 100 feet before striking
hard rock.
DR.. A. W. knight, city health office
of Jacksonville, is now required 30 max
a weekly report TO the Mayor of the san
itary condition OF the city and work o
sanitary inspectors in each ward. Las
weeks report is as follows: Inspectn
Hernandez had 376 loads of garbage ant
tree limbs removed from the streets; als'
: o = \ fol-
and also had one sick pauper conveyed
to the county hospital from No. l04 Eas
Bay street. The health officer condemnel
as unwholesOme and had removed frOu
the city a large amount of fresh beet
cheese and Holsters.
Mr.. Fred. Varne, Of Fort Meade, har
vested two acres of pea-vine hay last DC
tober that when cured ready for the bar
made twenty-six loads as large as tw
good horses could draw. From that tim
until the present Mr.. Varne has used n
other forage, and after feeding his thre
horses the entire season, and four COW
all winter, he still has enough t
last the remainder of the yeal
Although his horses have wOrke
harder this spring than they have eve
before, they are now IN better conditiO
than when he used to feed on NOfther
nav. MT. NarnSS SOWS DfOauCdsb DuS0e
OF ordinary cow peas per acre and hal
rows them in during the wet weather q
July. and harvests them just before the
are ripe in October. One acre of the pea
produces more and better forage than fiv
acres of the best Illinois or Ohio tImC
thy meadow, and the hay would not cos
to raise here in Fort Meade over 81 pc
ton.
Among those who have purchased land
in the vicinity or Orlando are S. V. Harl
ness, President OF the Standard Oil Con
pany Of Cleveland, Ohio; W. A. Cooper
President Of the PsTkersburg, West Vii
ginia) Land Company, and mis- associates
In less than three months over $50, go
nave been expended by Mr.. Cooper r.
Mr.. Hardness, beside a large amoun
which the former gentleman has eN
pended for himself personally. Wit
this mopey thus expended, says th
Record. 1000 orange and other fru
trees, flowers and shrubberv have bee
planted. over 5000 feet Of bitches hay
been dug, and the entire tract fenced, an
that whltewashed. The beach arOun
Spring Lake, located In the tract, has bee
cleared, improved and beautitied, and
park of sixty acres set in magnolia an
other beautiful trees. United States Seni
tor Camden, of West Virginia. has als'
through Mr.. Cooper, expended large sun
of money on "A piece of land adjoining
The ground was prepared this sDrinl
$500 trees set out and the whole Ian
cleared.