Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-10
FLORIDA.

A post office has been established at
Rock Springs, Marion county.
At St. Augustine the Ponce de Leon
pay roll now amounts TO $1,000 per day.
The st. Augustine First National Bank
has raised over 5000 for the Charleston
sufferers.
1t is stated that cigar factory will be
established at st. Augustine with 700
employees.
The amount of fines collected in the
Mayors Court at st. Augustine has aver
aged nearly 5000 monthly since the begin
ming of the year.
The opening OF the many different streets
In Sevil makes great improvement, and
| affords pleasant drives through some of
the attractive parts OF the town.
One of the pumps in st. Augustine that
previous to the earthquake shock gave
pure water, now gives water with a very
strong taste and odor of sulphur.
The sound of the hammer aud saw is
continually heard in St. Augustine. The
city has a building boom never equaled
before, and the mills are overcrowded
with orders.
The DR.. Clinton Douglass grove at San
Mateo was sold to A. s. Hall, a few days
ago, for the comfortable little sum of $10,-
600 The grove is small one, but is a
heavy bearer and very valuable.
Three negroes in the Twelfth district of
jefferson county who were arrested
few days ago, charged with stealing cat
tie, and placed under bonds for their APP
pearance at the Circuit Court, have
sought other fields and pastures green.
At St. Augustine Sam Sinclair, the man
who forged check for s., signing W. w.
Dewhursts name, was brought before
Judge NJ. r. Cooper last week. He was
committed and remanded back to the
county Jail TO await the action of the Sep
TENDER term of the Circuit Court, which
convenes in our city on Sept. ii.
An immense rattlesnake was killed on
Anastasia Island one day this week ny
Nelson McMullen. 1t was seven feet in
length and mad just satisfied it's inner
cravings by the absorption of two large
rabbits. Its head was severed and pre-
served in alcohol. The body was given to
an old darky, who will extract the oil to
be used for many ills which flesh is heir
to. The snakes head weighed over a
pound.
On Aug. % Messrs. Gustave Pothin
and Henri Loiselle left Savannah in their
little tive-ton schooner, the Marsouin, for
Jacksonville, the former as captain and
the latter as mate, there being no one
else on board. They arrived at Jackson
VILE. On their way down they stopped
at Warsaw, st. Catherine and Sapelo,
and other places, where they spent sew
eral days fishing, killing one buck and
considerable smaller game. They say
that while on the ocean they did not feel
the earthquake, and knew nothing about
it until they arrived at st. Andrews, hut
that on Tuesday strong northeast wind
prevailed, reaching such velocity
as to force them to take in their
sails. They are experienced carpenters
and cabinet makers, and have gone to
Jacksonville with view to locating per-
manently.
Tallahassee Floridian: Two or three Of
the leading planters OF Leon county last
spring determined to make an experiment
with ramie this year. Mr.. John 5. VIM
throp Is the only one we have heard from
thus far, and be Is entirely satisfied with
the result and regards ramie as sure
and safe crop for large and small farm
ers. The roots are planted in rows four
feet apart and from six to twelve inches
in the rows. The plant is perennial, and
the roots spread and send up numerous
stalks several feet in height. Thirty
thousand roots to tire acre is not an un-
usual crop, with four or five times as
many stalks, ard, in our climate, three
cuttings q year may surely he relied
uDon, and sometimes four. Mr.. Winthrop
made his first cutting about June %, and
last week he made second cutting, the
stalks averaging fully five feet In length.
Mr.. Winthrop Will send bundle 20 New
Orleans and one to New York, where
there are machines for working the ramie
separating the 6bre from the stalk, etc.
TIE product from ramie IL used in
the manufacture OF various fabrics
silks, plushee, velvets, reps, ducks,
linens, jeans, aid even laces and
many other articles in common use. Mr..
Winthrop has demonstrated that ramie
can be successfully grown IN Leon coun-
ty, and it is hoped that sufficient num-
Der OF persons Will engage in it's culture
to secure tho placing of decorticating
machine here to work up the crop at
once. Ramie can be grown with little
labor, the cost of handling is very small
as compared with cotton, and II does not
impoverish land like cotton; in fact, the
strippings from the stalks are an excel
lent fertilizer.
Apalachicola Times: Last Tuesday
night at $40 O'Clock, standard time, a
large meteor, apparently as large as
mans head, was seen In the southwest
ern horizon, and then suddenly disap-
peared In tho northwest. A track OF
lurid dame followed 1t, aud the city for
some distance around appeared as If cleo
trio ights were burning brightly on the
streets. 80 powerful was tue light