Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-26
FLORIDA.

There is talk of State fertilizer in
spector.
The registration list of Volusia county
contains ,2SS names.
Mariana is to have a new paper-the
West Florida Enquirer.
Much fodder was ruined by rain this
season In Nassau county.
Judge Isaac Widgen, the Oldest citizen
of Mariana, died last week.
A yeast factory is to be built at Lake
City soon by Northern company.
The custom house at Key West COL
lected Monday about 1900 for duties.
The sugar cane crop Of Suwannee is
said to be the most promising since the
war.
An addition of thirty-two rooms has
been made to the Harlan House at Lake
Helen.
Gen. Abe Sawyer is a candidate for
Mayor of Key West on the prohibition
ticket.
A train from Sanford to Lakeland, on
the night of Aug. 16, killed ten COWS and
a mule.
The members of the Masonic fraternity
| are taking steps toward organizing a
lodge at Seville.
d. w. johnson, of jackson county,
wears Panama hat purchased twenty
seven years ago.
A man and family arrived at DeFuniak
Springs last week, who came there in a
wagon from Dakota.
Two grape vines, one thirty-fve years
and another seventy, are growing near
Green Cove Spring.
The steamer Whitney unIoaded Sunday
morning 115 bales of tobacco for Key
West manufacturers.
The shedding of cotton and the appear
ance Of caterpillars Is reported from Pine
Hill, Bradford county.
A large addition is to be made to the
Hotel Seville, at Seville, Fla. A school
house is also to be built.
A farmer in Clay county uses soft soap
and carbolic acid to eXteTminate insects
ON his plants and trees.
The lighthouse at the inlet near Dav-
tona is now IS feet high. 1t will be It's
feet high when completed.
Andrew Glover, reported to have been
killed in Santa Rosa county by one K
Black, has turned up all right.
j. l.. Chandler, of DeLand, lost pocket
book last Wednesday containing consid-
cradle money. A Reward of 5000 is offered
for it.
Almost the entire orange crop In and
about DeLand and In Orange county will
be "rusty" this year. Rusty oranges
| bring 25 cents per box more In some mar
kets than bright ones.
A bicycle ran away few DAYS since on
Amelia beach with g. NJ. Stark, of Fer
| nandina, throwing him violently to the
ground, breaking his left arm, splitting
his lips and bruising his face and body
badly.
A rather fine looking and quite inteli-
gent young man, named Henry Bailey,
was broughtinto Eustis from Mount Dora
| and incarcerated In Jail on the charge OF
stealing horse from parties living at
| that place.
A few DAYS of bright sunshine last
week caused cotton to pop open, and pick
| ing was begun in earnest. The crop fs
very good. notwithstanding the unpropi-
| tious seasons in the cotton growing Sec
ton of the State.
w. II. Housmau, of Madison. late Cap
tain commanding Second Georgia Artil-
lery Battalion, G. s. A., will be ready to
| enroll fifty young men to form an artillery
battalion, and will uniform them out or
his own private purse.
| Bishop Weed, OF the Florida diocese.
was one OF the passengers Wednesday
morning Oh the Whitney from Tampa 70
Key West. The parishIoners of st. Pauls
| church held a reception on W Wednesday
evening at the parsonage in his honor.
The Italian bark Vedora II. arrived at
| Pensacola last week Sunday from Cape
| Town having on board four negro fisher
men whom she had picked up In a canoe
| 140 miles off the Island of Martinique,
they having been blown out to sea by q
| storm.
The Cuba and Three Brothers suo-
ceeded last week In getting of from the
| Quick Sands, near Key West, schooner
with a cargo Of general merchandise
bound to Tampa. Capt. Roberts. OF the
Three Brothers, went to Tampa to look
after the wreckers' interest.
The Atlantic House, at Oak Hill, Volu-
STA county, was struck by lightning re-
Gently, and considerable damage done to
the roof. chimneys, plastering, and the
rear of the building. The rain entering
| the aperture in the roof did more damage.
The building fortunately escaped being
set on fire, and the loss Is covered by in
! surance.
! Com. STEWARD, OF Daytona, while
| going in a boat from Port Orange TO
Pance's Park, Aug. II, came across some
fishermen who were towing fish, when
big shark attempted TO help himself TO
| them. The Commodore happened to have
celebrated Boston shotgun on board
loaded with buckshot, whose contents
soon settled his hash. IL was regular
man-eater, and weighed over 300 pounds.
The County Commissioners Monroe
have for some months pastHbeenemakipg
considerable mprovemshtsson che island
in the way Of opening new Streets, 1lllng
I'D holes, etc, by means OF prison labor.
The prisoners are now, At work digging
large cistern on Jackson square, at Key
West. TO hold 100000 gallons. The stone
ouarrIed from IL is TO be used In building
a new court house, which is very much
needed. ei5
Green Cove Spring; AS an evidence of
the longevity OF the life OF the grape in our
climate we may state that we are IN
formed, on good authority, that an Isa-
bella vine planted thirty years $50 at
| Magnolia ia now in q most flourishing
| condition. although no attention has been