Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-10
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Clay county will pay election inspect
ors 81 % per day hereafter.
There were ten deaths at st. Augustine
during January-fve whites and five ne
groes.
The Florida Central Railroad train ran
into line flock of partridges on Saturday
and killed half dozen of them.
Three hundred trees IN the Hunt & Glea-
son orange grove, in Brevard county, were
more or less injured recently by forest
fire.
At Mayport, the weather for the past
three days has been cold, windy and
stormy. Slight frosts were noticed Thurs
day and Friday nights.
The best hunting of the season at Green
Cove Spring was done on Wednesday and
Thursday, when party of five in two
boats bagged 243 ducks.
At Mayport, Saturday, John Arnau
caught the largest sha1 of the season. 1t
weighed over six pounds and was a mon
ster among the shad species.
Palatka has a new policeman in the
person of Preston Counts, negro. He
wears an ear-drop in his right ear, and
his official badge full on his breast.
The interior walls of the Hotel San
Marco at St. Augustine are to be embel-
ished with $4,000 worth of oil paintings,
the arrival of which is daily expected.
At Orlando the case of the johnson
brothers, for assaulting and cutting two
nyqaphS du pare from jacksonville, last
fall, resulted in mistrial, the jury stand
ing 5 for acquittal and 1 for conviction.
The present bank of st. Augustine will
be changed into a national bank, with
capital of $4,000, on March 1. There will
be few, if any, changes OF officers or in the
board Of directors.
The Confederate bureau" in the Fort
Marion museum at st. Augustine has been
augmented by several additions from the
battle OF Olustee, donated by a prominent
officer who participated in that battle.
A steam pile driver was moored to the
railway wharf at Green Cove Spring
Thursday, and owing to the gale during
the night it suddenly fOundered. A man
on board had narrow escape of being
drowned.
Byrd Knowles, we'll known citizen of
Clay county, died at his residence in the
county, during last week, aged 81 years.
Mr.. Byrd was a native Of Georgia, but had
lived in Florida for fifty years. He leaves
large family and many descendants.
Jonn G. Borden. of Green Cove Spring,
has offered to all the colOred people who
Will make a successful effort to whitewash
their premises, gift of 81 and the neces-
sary lime. Ten dollars is the prize for the
first man, and So for the second man in.
John G. Borden has purchased 1000
acres of land on the Bayard tract, near
Green Cove Spring, taking in considera-
BILE river frontage, including the noted
Bayard Point, with the old Spanish Fort
Boppa, and running west nearly to Three
mile swamp.
AT meeting of the st. Johns County
Medical society, Wednesday, the follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, DIR. w. +. Shine; vice
president, DR.. j. h. RaIney; secretary,
DIR. William Miller; tOaTd of censors,
Smith, Webb, and Alexander.
A gang of roughs on the rampage de-
stroyed considerable property on South
Charlotte street, st. Augustine, at a late
hour Thursday night. The front window
of Canova's barroom was demolished, and
a quantity of blue ruin appropriated TO
''tUrther fire the hend that turks within"
The Orange Park, Fruit and Vegetable
Growers Association are building pack
ing and warehouse, near the Jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West Railway de-
pot at Orange Park. The building is TO
be 25x4j feet, two stories high. Tue work
will be finished inside of three weeks.
The man who was arrested at Green
Cove Springs on a charge of being wanted
in Wisconsin tor murder and burglary,
was inspected on Tuesday by Wisconsin
officials, who declared that he was not the
man wanted. The resemblance OF the
man TO the photograph sent on was very
close.
The IdtldbdsSedR puts its hands behind
IL, shuts both eyes, and says: 'Sarah Me-
Daniel, colored woman living on Mr..
Flsh's place. one mile from Tallahassee,
has given birth TO ~ children, and is now
a robust, healthy-loOking woman" Aud
yet we have heard OF great freeze In
Florida.
Col. q. w. Wooley, Of Cincinnati, who
created good deal OF stir some time since
by indorsine D0nIvan's charges regard
ing the Payne bribery, has telegraphed
from St. Augustine 10 the committee az
Columbus that he will appear before IL II
desired. though mis- health is such that he
ought not TO leave Florida.
A fatal accident occurred at the new
opera house at St. Augustine Tuesday.
Elliott Church, carpenter, formerly OF
Geneseo, N. Y, was preclpitated TO the
ground floor, distance Of about 40 feet,
by the giving way Of a scahold upon
which he was working, fracturing his left
thigh and right arm and receiving severe
internal injuries, which resulted In his
death Thursday.
Work has been temporarily suspende d
on the repairs OF Fort Marion, st. Angus
tine, for want OF material. The irregular
arcn supporting the stairway within has