Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-29

appear as witnesses to the bond. There
are thirteen indictments against SnalI Tor
forgery.
FLORIDA.
Charlotte Harbor is having big boom.
Silver Springs runs two moonlight ex-
Alachua county politics are sweetly
slumbering.
AT Gainesville peaches are abundant at
40c. per bushel.
Work has been commenced on the big
hotel at Punta Gorda.
NJ. A. Cawthorn & Son, OF De Funiak
| Springs, offer to pay 10c. pound for
the nrst bale of cotton brought to that
market.
At Winter Park the residences of Mrs.
! DR.. John Bull and Judge Melbourne,
| both Of which have been under the arti-
sans hand for some time, are now
| finished.
| Arrangements are now being perfected
| for grand excursion to Palatka or st.
Augustine some time within next month
! by the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Ocala.
Last Saturday and Sunday Charlotte
! Harbor was visited with heavy south
west gale, and the incoming waters meet
ing the outgoing floods of Peace river
| caused several points on the harbor to be
OVeriowed.
A Madison editor has gathered statis-
| tics showing there are IL widows, 10 mar
| riageable young ladies and II nurses In
their teens, total 43, and 6 widowers, q
marriageable young men and 10 young
men in their teens in Madison.
The Lakeland soda water manipulators
mourn the shutting down of that protita-
! hnS i0a n fa n
having monopoly have charged Lake
land people sc. pound instead OF lc.,
making it Improbable to run the founts.
The new building erected for Rollins
| College, at Winter Park, to be used as
| lodging for the male students, is about
| finished, and presents very beautiful
appearance. 1t is of the Queen Anne
style and contains thirty-fye sleeping
apartments. 1t Will be known as the cot
tage, and no doubt be a pleasant home.
Saturday several young men of Mari
anna, sons of prominent citizens, went
out hunting, and while out in the woods
one of them, named Master Walter Lur-
ton, son of the general manager of the
Pensacola and Atlantic railroad, acct
dentally shot himself in the knee. 1t Is
! thought that both legs will have 10 be am
putated.
The cattle steamer Lizzie Henderson,
of the Miller IL Henderson line OF steam
ers on the Gulf, has made her last trip
with cattle for Cuba for the present. There
is a demand tor cattle there, but affairs
are so unsettled and times are so close
and the money is 80 drained from the
island by the Spanish government, that
the returns will not justify further ship
ments.
Mr.. Eugene Smith, sof Lake Winnmis-
sett, was fishing Thursday morning, and
at dinner time left his hook setting, and
when he came back commenced hauling
in the line. When near enough to see
what he had he found that he was haul
ing in a siX-pound trout and a six-foot
alligator clinglng to the fish, He brought
the fish to town, and it contained marks
OF the alligator's teeth.
Capt. Bill Kendrick, of Jacksonville,
has just returned from trip to the south
ern counties, and says he can remember
| tifty-fve corn crops in this State, but in
all his life he has seen none TO compare
with the present. lie also says the
orange crop is going to disappOint the
people. He has seen some groves with
more young fruit on the trees than they
ever had before. His estimate is that the
| large groves of Harris and Bishop and
HOyt, in Marion county, will produce
more fruit the next season than they did
last, and that the Harris grove will yield,
at the least calculation, 100000 boxes.
| About three weeks ago a quantity of
! stolen goods of various kinds were found
in the house of Jerry Flo, colored, two
miles west Of Jacksonville. Among the
| recovered articles was fine gold watch
and chain. No one claiming it for time,
| Justice Harm, in whose custody the
stolen property was placed, turned over
| the watch to NJ. G.. Jordan, attorney for
Fllo's wife, now under arrest, Flo having
escaped. Tuesday Rufus Ii. Wells, an
employee of the South Florida railroad,
filed a claim for the watch as his prop
erty, it having been stolen from him about
a year ago. A full and coinplete descrip-
ton of the watch was rendered by him,
| and Deputy Sheriff VinZant replevied the
watch for the owner, and will restore it in
a few days.
At Parsloe's Lake, near Barlow juno
ton, lives man with a history. 1t is
Afford IL. Parsloe, for whom the pretty
little lake was named. He Is now pleas
ant, wide-awake, jolly gentleman of
means and taste, living In beautiful
home. Yet he has been In the Jaws of
death, escaped, and can say that he came
out alive from one OF the most sensational,
terrible, and wOrld-famous railway acct
dents. He claims that he was the sole
surviving passenger OF forty passengers,
men, women and children, in one of the
| coaches OF the train wrecked at Asnta-
bula, o., several years ago. The train
was precipitated down 100 feet embank-
ment, through Irestle work, and on huge
rocks. The country was astounded and
| sorrow stricken by this accident. Many,
many lives were lost, among the rest the
lives of Mr.. p. z. Bliss and mis- wife, the
famous gospel singers. Mr.. Parsloe was
frightfully mangled and torn, but finally
recovered, grew strong and hearty, and
has adopted Florida as his home.
Georgia Politics.
BENZ. Leigh has been nominated for the