Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-19
FLORIDA.

Times.
II. A. DeLand bought 70 acres OF orange
groves near DeLand last week
branch lodge of the knights of Labor
has been organized at Pensacola.
Lumber is on the ground and work has
begun on the Sanford house wharf.
1t is likely that Quincy will have new
opera house before another season.
A party OF Quincy sportsmen bagged
700 birds near town one day this week,
The Milton Academy opened a free
school on Monday, with very good at
tendance.
Ducks are plentiful on the river at
Green Cove and hunters are just now
having lively time.
Anthony Carruth and Sherman Carruth
are suspected of having murdered Nelson
Calhoun near RiXford.
Orange City will shortly have tele-
graphic communication with the outside
world via j. 7. & Z. w. Ry.
Capt. Tom Bass is going to erect two
story building 25NjO on the corner OppO-
site the bank at kissimme.
A man al DeLand is ready to donate the
sum OF $4,000 toward the erection of an
opera house for that town.
Speckled trout are now caught in large
tian bridge, 81. Augustine.
The new bank building at Kissimmee is
enclosed and the root being put on. 1t
VIII soon be ready for occupancy.
There is no express office in Milton at
present, and business men are very much
lnconVenienced by the want of one.
The prOprietress of the Cory house, at
Baldwin, was found dead in bed Saturday
morning, having died suddenly during the
night.
Ten cars were wrecked between Quincy
and Mount Pleasant last Thursday, and
there was no mail from the west until Fri
day noon.
St Augustine nimrods are bagging
plenty of game now adays. The markets
are well supplied with wild turkeys, geese,
duck, deer, etc.
1t has been fully settled that Miles John
sons horses, found dead on Mr.. Clark's
plantation, IN Leon county, were not shot,
but died Of blind staggers.
DR.. W. G. Wallace has bought a half
interest in the city drug store, at Gaines
vile, from DR.. II. Ballard. The firm name
will now he Ballard d W aIlace.
The steam sawmill of the East Florida
Land and Produce Company at st. Angus
tine was idle last week in consequence of
the breakage of some heavy machinery.
The firm Of p. A. Demons & co.. Of Long
wood, was dissolved last Wednesday by
mutual consent, W. 4. Cotter retiring.
Mr.. Demons will continue the business.
Governor Perry, W. D. Chipley and d.
X. Hickey are in Washington, and viii
use their influence in having naval drill
and fleet mapquvres ordered for Pensa-
cola bay.
The new town Of Jaffray is being sur
md al, Ia, 1, e
\olusl3 county, embracing what is known
as the Baya track, two miles north OF Sc
Vile,
Fire in the brush and cedars in the
rear OF Hotel san Marco at 81. Augustine
Friday created widespread alarm, and a
large force was employed to night back
the rapily spreading flames.
The new hotel and the big mill at Mil
ton are being pushed forward as fast as
the weather viii permit. Mr.. Amos
thinks he VIII open the hotel in March,
and the big mill VIII not be far behind.
The employees of the f. r. n n. railroad
shop at Tallahassee made up. purse of
$fS ana treated their foreman. David Cook,
to a Christmas surprise. II was a heavy
gold watch chain with beautiful charm.
The schooner Redwood, advertised for
sale at ST. Augustine on Tuesday, by
Capt. Eels, agent for Underwriters, was
libeled by John G. HEngle, ofthe steamer
! Seth Low, and the sale Indefinitely post
pOned.
While excavating for the gas mains on
Marine street at 81. Augustine A day or
two ago the shOyelers threw up several
pieces Of human skeletons. some in fair
state Of preservation. while others crum-
bied at exposure.
There are offered for sale in Jackson
D. ass..
which were stolen during the fire at Pa
latka, and purporting to have been issued
by the Florida southern railroad. Per-
sons are cautioned against purchasing
them.
Col. W. G. Ponce, OF st. Augustine,
has purchased a large drove Of Florida
hogs from J. A. Clifton, at the head Of
Halifax river, in Volusia county, for
which he paid 81 600 cash. Many of these
p0rkers, it is said, will dress from $50 to
| 800 pounds.
Unexpected that the bank OF ST. Au-
justine will put on national airs next
| month. The officers have been some time
preparing for the change. Negotiations
are also pending for the purchase Of a site
| upon which to erect a bank building IN
the near future.
The talk about the removal of the naval
stores from Pensacola seems to be entire
w uniOunded. Mr.. Davidson, seeing
some allusiOn to it in print, visited the
| Navy Department, and was assured by
| Secretary Whitney that he had no such
| thought.
Mrs. Sigsbee, OF Kissimmee, recently
picked a cluster of eight oranges which
weighed q trihe over nine pounds, the
largest of which was 49, inches in cir
conference and the smallest l2l4 inches.
/ They are beauties, aad snow no effect OF
the cold weather.
The cadets in the East Florida semina-
nv. at Gainesville, will attend the prize
drill during the state fair al JacksOnville.
Capt. h. J.. Carter has received from the
! United states military department an al
diioual number Of breeca-loadln2 rifles
for the seminary. This makes q total Of
100 guns now in the institution.
Charles II. Jones and Joseph II. Durkce
have been appointed a special comL..ttee
! by the jacksonville Board of Trace TO pro-
coed TO Washington at once md initiate
movement i'm behalf of appropriations for
% government building at Jacksonville,
and for the further Improvement OF the
ST.. Johns bar al the mouth OF the river.
Or. sandys, OF kissimmee. and couple
Of capitalist friends Of bis from New or
leans met with a disaster last Monday.
While out sailing ON the lake To a small
boat. the boat upset. throwing the 0ccu-
pants into the water, where they rec
ftafuaa for abouf two hpure Thau finally