Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-24
Grave apprehension OF further and sc
rious trouble is entertained.
FLORIDA.

Small houses are in great demand at
/ KEY West.
Thirteen prisoners are confined in the
! Alachua county jail.
Some excellent dates have been grown
this season in Sumter county.
Elk Gov. Bethers three-story dwelling
at hey West is nearing completion.
Eustis has organized its fire department
under better conditions than 1t has ever
known.
Sanford dealer has received quite a
curiosity In the shape of a carload OF
Florida raised corn.
The Florida Southern railroad has trans
ported over 10000 boxes of oranges this
season from Sumter county.
Palatka wants her streets extended to
the river front. AS it lie now her entire
river front is private property.
Next year the citizens of Key West
VIII be called upon to vote upon the
question OF license or no license.
Nine conviGts have been sent to the tur-
pentine camps at Live Oak from the Put
nam county COURTS recent term.
While not yet totally recovered from
the fire OF last March, Key West gives
good evidence that it soon will De.
Capt. U. ID. hendrickson has purchased
Capt. Paddison's steam yacht, the Kate
and Sadie. He will run it on lower In
dian river.
The Key West Land and Improvement
Company are having large cigar factory
and number OF cottages erected on their
property on White street.
Rev. J. l.. Thompson has just sold a
small grove at Pencil, Putnam
county, Of 100 trees just coming into bear
ing, to Grs. f. Fl. Hayden, OF Augusta,
Ga, for $4,000.
st. lueie, on Indian river, has just
gotten over big scare on account OF
rumor set afloat there that the Seminoles
were preparing for a descent on that
place from their swamp homes.
Roland Rickley, for attempting to kill
bis wife, goes to the penitentiary for two
years from Volusia county. Nick Fells,
for cutting man with razor, and Simon
Lemons, tor stealing, got one year each.
The City Fire Department Of Key West
held an election last week, and B. II. +.
Bowers WAS reelected Chief, William
Boyle, Foreman OF the Hose Company,
and Allen Curry, Foreman of the Fire
Company.
A petition is being circulated in Or
lando asking tor the CO mmu tation of the
sentence OF Enoch Garter to imprison-
ment tor life. Carter killed Policeman
Beasley on the streets OF Orlando last
Christmas.
Excavations are being made on Main
street, Barlow, for two large business
houses. one to be fitted out and used as a
post office, the other for some other pur-
pose. Messrs. Thompson IL Co. owners
and builders.
George III. Curry, of Key West, has
threatened to prosecute the parties. II he
eau find them out, who started the repor TT
that he would not sit in the State Legis-
lature with negro as his colleague" He
denies the assertion in toto.
tramroad Will soon be built from b.
kersburg to Col. Mann's hammock. A
bill for about $4,000 feet OF lumber has
| been received at the sawmill, to be used
in building the tramroad and for other
! improvements for the Colonel.
Judge Thompson, of Pslatka, has ripe
straw berries, picked from his patch on
| ne Heights. They are OF the Federal
Point variety, and are the first OF the sea-
son. The Judge says that he had ripe
berries for tie past three weeks.
Rev. Mr.. Barnett, pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church at Key West, has
been absent from the city for week or
| ten days. He has been as far as Kew
! Largo, visiting the mem bers of his church,
who reside on the upper keys, and also to
establish new congregation at Largo.
Joseph Watkins is a ship carpenter of
Kew West A large vessel about eighty
| feet keel is being built at the ship yard Of
Ben Kemp. Mr.. Watkins was hewing a
| large timber with a broad ak, when he
made false cut which struck his right
ankle, making severe and dangerous
| wound.
Mr.. Cone, son OF Hon. A. u. Cone, ex-
! Senator from Bradford county, but now a
| resident OF Lacrosse district, committed
/ suicide at taat place on last Friday by
| cutting his throat. He locked himself up
/ in room and when discovered lay dead
on the floor with the knife in his hand. 1t
/ ia thought he was temporarily insane.
| At Key West, while Louis, the younger
! son OF DR.. Harris, Collector of Customs,
1 was loading cartridges on the rear piazza
! Of the custom house, he had AN open box
/ of powder lying near him. Richard Curry,
| one of the inspectors, struck a match to
! light his pipe. A part OF the sulphur
from the match fell into the box of pow
der and caused it to ignite, ana blew Mr..
Curry from the piazza and burned both
he and Louis very badly.
Henry J. Davis, charged with the lar.
ceny OF large sum oil money, the prop
erty of the late Nicolas Smith, was again
taken before Justice DeLOno, at Kew
| West, on Tuesday, when he waived an
examination, and in default OF the re-
/, quired bail was taken to jail to await the
action OF the grand jury. The recent
death OF MIR. Smith may raise a question
| at law, and Davis may escape the penalty
which attaches to such a grave offense
! Worry over the theft killed Mr.. Smith.
AT Orlando, about ighteen months ago,
Capt. Buck Parramore and Nat Poyntz
paid $500 for an acre OF ground upon
| which WAS two.story house, at the cor
ner of Orange and Central avenues, and
the general impression was that these
gentlemen had shouldered burden that
would prove difficult for them to get their
money out Of. In less than six months
they disposed or the property to Nessrs.
Giles, Curtis Il Weber for $l6,0 900, clear
ing 81 800 by the transaction. These gen.
tlemen have sold about One-fourth of the
property for $4,000, and upon the unsold
portion is a large and cOmmOdlOus house
which IL paying a nice renal. About
four years ago Capt. L. W. Shine pur-
chased ten-elevenths OF an acre on Orange
avenue and running through from Pine
street to Central avenue, and for which
he paid $1,000. Since then he has sold less
than one-half the property and realized
Sl3,4
The Election of n Judge for the
Brunswick Circuit.