Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-21
FLORIDA.

There are fourteen lawyers in Gaines
vile, and yet'they all live.
The corn crop was never better in
Alachua and cOttonis looking finely, but
the "truck' farmers look sick.
The ice factory at Gainesville. de-
stroyed by fire few months since, is rap
Idly rebuilding and WILSON be freezing
again.
The Gainesville authorities are be-
stirring themselves in the matter of town
drainage. The Board of Health insisted
upon it.
Mrs. Capella has made arrangements
forthe erection of six cottages on her
property In North City, a suburb of st.
Augustine.
William Mitchell has a force of hands
engaged in erecting a depot on the St.
Augustine and Palatka railroad at Moe
-casin branch.
1t has been limited that firm OF North
ern capitalists have been looking out for
a suitable location to erect a large hotel
at East Jacksonville.
Capt. w. FL. Stanton, formerly Captain
OF the steamer Manatee, contemplates
putting another steamer on the line be-
tween Tampa and Fort Winder.
The st. Augustine Improvement Com
pany has purchased a tract OF land in the
vicinity Oh SlOgBebJS hill. LOT WllCl
something over $4,000 was paid.
The steamer ROckledge, Capt. R. p.
Paddlson, is owned by the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West Railroad Company,
and will connect with it's system to run
between TItusville and Melbourne, forty
miles.
Activity in building operations fails to
sustain the cry of hard times in Gaines
vile. There will be upwards OF fifty
new dwellings erected this season, be-
sides a,goodly number of brick business
blocks.
The mills at East Jacksonville con-
tinue to work night and day. The supply
of logs has not been 80 plentiful for sew
eral years, and the local orders for lum-
Der are almost enough to keep at least
five out of the six mills working con-
stantly.
The Episcopal church at Ocala was
crowded to its utmost capacity Wednes-
day last to witness the marriage cere-
mOny between Mr.. George G. Griffith, of
Jacksonville, to Miss Maggie Finley, the
accomplished daughter of Gen. j, j. Fin
ley, OF Ocala.
The Postmaster General, upon the re-
commentator of Postmaster Clark, has
appointed Gilbert Randall and Samuel B.
Love as auxiliary letter carriers at Jack
and Lewis G. Shap. Both OF the new ap-
pointees are white men.
The city employees of Jacksonville have
not been paid OtfYet for the month of June,
and 1t is SAID to be uncertain when they
will be. These employees are all poor men,
who are entirely dependent upon their
small salaries to support themselves and
families, and il looks as If the authorities
would make some arrangement for their
prompt payment.
There was considerable "kicklng'' in
the City Council chamber at Ocala We'd
nesdav last on account of the Mayor or
dering the ordinance in relation to keep
ing COWS off the streets to be strictly
enforced. Three petitions, with over 200
signatures, were brought before the COun-
Gil, praying that the cows might be
allowed to roam around as usual. The
Marshal had over sixty COWS in the pound
one day this week.
Eustis Semi-Tropical: The refusal OF
$4,000 for 40Xl32 feet on the corner
Of Bay street and Magnolia av-
enue, and that offer sto be back
ed by an agreement to place thereon
a handsome brick building, has caused
much unfaVoraOle comment, which re-
fleets discreditably upon the owner, in so
much that it is openly stated that a one.
story frame building will be put up
there by the present owner OF
the lot, and rented to the same
party who offered the above figures
for the bare lot. Such action does the
town no good, las it prevents the introduce
ton of new capital. The growth of the
town and its business depends as much
upon the increase OF population and con-
sequent additional capital as anything
else, and 1t is unwise policy to do any
thing TO discourage the free influx of
either. Refusing the sale OF desirable
property to willing buyers at advanta-
geons prices is most certainly one way to
discouragethe investment Of more CAPT.
tai and restrict the erection of better
buildings.