Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-17

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The st. Johns River Baptist Associa-
| tlon c0nveues next Saturday with Spring
| Grove Church, in Volusia county, ana
will continue its sessions until Monday
| evening.
Owing to the hard times and rainy
weather. the colored camp meeting at
| Wild wood, which has been SO extensively
! advertised, has not been as well attended
| as was expected.
The whisky men OF Leesburg are again
making efforts to get up petition. 1t is
t0ought that the cutting of OF the Lady
Lake section from the Leesburg precinct
encourages them to hope tor success.
w. NJ. Mcintosh, chief clerk in the
Comptroller's ONCE, Tallahassee, has
been prospecting in Tampa and vicinity
for several days. He was so we'll pleased
with the place that he invested about
$l2 900 in real estate.
1t is understood that the President has
about concluded to act upon Gen. Miles,
recommendation that Geronimo and his
party should be sent to Fort Marion, Fla,
where their wives are now held. Gen.
Sheridan is understood to concur in this
suggestion.
Leesburg will have a new jail, which
will Oe 10 by 20 feet in size. 1t will be
small, but then the town has very few if
be ample space for them. The Mayor Is
now ready TO receive bids for putting up
the building.
The management OF the Orlando Daily
Record mas undergone change. The Or
lando Printing Company and the Record
establishments have been consolidated.
X. 5. Walker has retired. D0lph Edwards
is the editor, @. A. Winner city editor and
Charles Causen business manager.
Akin Stivender, of Leesburg, will pack
his oranges In hay and hold them for good
prices. For this purpose he mas an amply
large packing house, In which he will
place his oranges enveIoped in straw
eighteen inches to two feet deep. He has
experimental on this line and feels con-
tident of success.
Mrs. II. Z. Bowman. who lives some
fifteen miles above Muscogee, died on
ednesday, Sept. 20, having on the Sun
day morning previous given birth to trip
lets. She left husband and ten small
children, three OF whom were only four
days old at her death. At last accounts
the tripiets were all living.
The sewer question, on which so much
of the future OF Palatka now rests, is
about TO take shape through the efforts of
Alderman VIM. f. Forward, VINO at the
last meeting of the City Council had
committee appointed to arrange the pre-
l1minaries so that the question could come
definitely before the people for action.
Two New Orleans parties contracted
last eek with Capt. HOpson, of Lees burg,
for the purchase of 10000 boxes of
oranges grown on Esmeralda island, on
Lake Griffin. The price paid was 81 80
per box, the purchaser to do the picking
and packing. The contract was accepted
aud closed by the parties depositiug $10,-
oct tn Of
burg banks.
In coming out of Cedar Keys Thursday
passenger train ran into and seriously
injured an old man named Elkton. He
was walking over trestle No. and failed
TO hear the approach of the train, being
very old and somewhat hard of hearing.
He was picked up, taken aboard, and the
train backed into Cedar Keys. There are
hopes OF his recovery, though it is feared
his spine is seriously Injured.
Capt. r. b. Paddison, OF the Indian river
steamer Rockledge, says that another
steamer will, In few weeks, be placed on
the lower river to connect with his
steamer at Melbourne. This new arrival
will probably run az far down as st.
Lucie or Waveland. Ii Is highly proba-
bic also that the government will order bea-
con lights placed In the river within a
few weeks, to facilitate the travel of
steamers by night.
Leesburg Commercials: Col. f. A. Pro-
tots, who has been in Europe since last
spring, started on his return a short
while ago, but on reaching New York
was summoned by cable last Saturday
back to England, He sends US word from
New York, however, that he succeeded in
securing IN London all the capital neces.
sary for the building of the Titusville and
Turtle HarbOr railroad, and that that en-
terprIse will be pushed to completion at
an early day.
Plans have been perfected, the papers
all drawn up, only awaiting transfer,
whereby 800 acres OF land owned by
Messrs. Dunn and Marcott, ct al. on
Blue Springs Run, in Marion county,
will be transferred to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, on which they will
establish veneering factory to manufac-
ture such material for finishing the inside
of their cars, as the land is rich in various
timbers, namely: yellow pine, curled
pine, cypress, magnolia, beech, palmetto,
etc. The consideration is $4,000.
A horrible murder was committed at
PacettPs camp, on the st. Johns railway,
about nine miles from St. Augustine
Thursday, by coIOred man named Joe
Grant, William Martin, also cOl0red, be-
ing the victim. They are both choppers,
ana dEduJ ndu cut Tree nall DOWN, leaN-
ing il TO finish in the morning. Upon CO.
log out to finish the tree he found Martin
chOpping at it, and going up to him COM
menced some abuse about cutting on his
log, and without moments warning
raised his AK and struck Martin with the
blade Immediately over the heart, killing
him instantly, the sharp blade going clear
up 10 the helve. Grant Immediately
escaped to the woods, but is supposed
atterward To have reached che camp aud
there taken Winchester rifle belonging
TO one of the men. Sheriff Hernandez
was notified, and Deputy Sheriff Quigley
and posse was immediately started in
pursuit OF the murderer.
The construction OF the Tavares, Anon
ka and Gulf railroad, commencing at
Tavares and ending at Marco, on the
Gulf, seventy miles nearer Key West than
any other railroad terminus, is making
rapid progress. Track laying has begun,
and the cutters are getting out nearly a
mile OF ties per day. The road will be
completed, at this rate, TO Kissimmee by
Jan. l. The ronte then is down the Kis-
simmee valley, past multitude Of lakes,
touching Lake Okeechobee at Fort Center,
thence along the CalloOsahatchee river to
Fort Myers-the head OF navigation for
sea-going vessels, and then turning south.
ward, stretches along the Gulf coast 100
or 100 miles to Marco. The enterprise is
backed by powerful railway syndicate,
and viii in time be cOnsummated. The