Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-03
FLORIDA.

lelupI VIII De Hlau9.
FLORIDA.
The building boom continues at st. Au-
gustine.
Sea cows are seen now on the east At
lantic coast.
Daytonais agitating a Fourth of July
celebration.
The crops about st. Augustine are all
/ looking finely.
The light house at Mosquito Inlet is
lover forty feet high.
There are five prisoners in the county
jail at st. Augustine.
-Four new grocery stores were opened
at st. Augustine last week.
Turtle eggs are in season, and are be-
ginning to be quite plentiful.
An alligator with only two feet has been
captured in Bradford county.
A cypress tree 80 feet in circumference
was felied in Nassau county last week.
Timothy and red top clover three feet
high is growing IN HiilsborOugh county.
j. D. Tuten, of Hamilton county, will
make forty bushels Of corn to the acre
this year.
The population of st. Augustine has
been increased by the arrival of three
more Chinese.
Five marriage announcements were
made at the Cathedral at st. Augustine
Sunday morning.
Hon. Charles NJ. Cooper, Attorney Gen.
eral, is spending few days at his home
at st. Augustine.
The church at Rock Ledge is about
finished outside and work for the present
has been suspended.
DIR. Canova, of Green Cove, Spring, had
fine gold watch stolen from him last
week by sneak thief.
Senator Williams and family, Of Cocoa,
expect to leave in short time for several
months in New Jersey.
Ii is said that the new building to be
erected by w. Lyon & Co. at st. Angus
tine WilLcost about $4,000.
T. j. Roberts, of Leon county, has
shipped this season go barrels of Irish
potatoes to Northern markets.
Allen Geiger, a young soN of John A.
Geiger, OF Nassau county, accidentIy shot
and killed himself last Thursday.
The report that there was smallpox
among the Indian captiTeSsat st. Angus
tine was entirely without foundation.
Work on the Episcopal church at Cocoa
is progressing finely. The building is ex-
pected to be completed in few weeks.
One of Paul Mlckler's little children
while playing with a hay cutter at St.
Augustine last week had two fingers out
of.
McCIenny Light Infantry is the name
of a new military company just organ
lied at McCienny, W. A. Drake, Cap
tain.
Maj. A. ]. Russell will conduct a nor
NAL institute at Leesburg during the first
week in August next, commencing on the
I'd day.
Nj. Mills, of Orlando, has six old
coins, one dating back TO A. ID. I4-LS72
years ago, and the others of the same
century.
Mrs. Isaac LanIer, wife Of the cattle
king of Brevart county, Is ~ years old.
and took her first ride last week on d rail-
road car.
A strawberry plant, filing half
bushel measure, was an exhibition in
Ocsla last week. 1t grew in T. T. Mon
roe's patch.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Moore returned to st.
Augustine Thursday, after quite pro-
longed visit 10 Baltimore, Savannah and
other places.
Rev. j. r. Cove, State missionary Of the
Baptist denomina ton, was in Seville on
Friday, and, will soon organize a Sunday
school there.
Thomas McAlLlon had his right hand
badly mutilated by a circular saw
Thursday at Soldier creek shingle mill In
Orange county.
Edmund and shedrick Robinson, COL
ored, have been arrested in Madison
county for placing distractions on the
railroad on May 10.
1t has been estimated by two we'll
known business men Of Eustis that at
least $4,000 will be spent by Eustis peo-
pie this GUNNER travelling IN the North.
A ire coming in from the west OF Capt.
Stewards place at Cocoa last thursday
burned - or so OF his oldest and best or
ange .rees before II could he controlled
An alteration occurred az Dyals sta
tion Friday between L. J.. Jones and
Frank Cooner, in which the former had
an arm broken by stick in the hands Of
the latter.
Fish in large quantities are being taken
from Of the docks az Cocoa. Corp.
Field, OF Rock Ledge, succeeded in max
ing catch one day last week oil a twenty
pound drum Dish IN a east net.
Thieves robbed e. e. Chant and r. q. |
Sulzner in Palatka OF a gold watch and "A
small amount OF money. An old innrm |
colored man, by the name Of Lazarus, was |
also robbed Of $l35 the same day.
The steamer Indian River. that has |
been running from Titusville 20 points on
the Indian river, making connection with /
the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West |
railway and other lines, has been with
drawn for the summer.
Some enterprlsing, as well as far
sighted parties OF Jacksonville, are
contemplating new line Of street rail-
wav 10 run from some point near Bridge
street in LaVilla north 10 Kings road,
and from thence west three miles.
In clearing land on Dis place near Cocoa
one dav laat week, Col. Seize came upon
the carcass OF large chicken snake, and /
mon examination found within the died |
SKIN large china egg, one which he had /
uaed for a long time ~ a nest egg. the /
egr was decorated In water color and /
bad "A house with trees, shrub0ery, and (