Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-19
FLORIDA,

Jiggers the size of flea are killing off
chickens in Putnam county.
II. R. Shine has been appointed Post
master at Cedar Key, Levy county.
The orange groves at Pomona are look
ing as well as any one could wish, put
ting on vigorous growth.
The reports that the oysters are dying
in Indian river waters are untrue, the
beds being in eXcellentcondition.
The Gulf View is the name of a neatly
printed and we'll edited new paper which
has just appeared at Cedar Keys.
The citizens of Ocala held business
meeting Saturday for the purpose of ar
ranging to build bathing houses and a
park.
DIR. George Smith, of Ridgewood, was
stung on the chest by some small insect
and the effect was to bring on peculiar
fever. that kept him in bed several days.
Mrs. John Falconer, OF Gainesville, has
fallen heir To $4,000. She is now at the
North, and Capt. John Falconer will leave
shortly and join her for the purpose of
bringing his wife and her money back to
Gainesville.
r. Morrison, of Stockton, Marion coun-
ty, had terrific battle with wild cata-
mount in his bedroom one night this
week. After an hours fighting hand and
claw he succeeded in throwing the ami
NAL out of the window.
During heavy thunder shower at Fer
nandina on Wednesday afternoon a brick
chimney on the southern side of the root
of the EgmOnt Hotel was demolished by a
stroke OF lightning. Strange TO say, no
other damage was done to the building.
At 81 Ward street. LaVilla, a suburb
of Jacksonville, is monstrOus sunflower
which is fully twelve feet high and some
gifts leaves measure twenty inches across.
At the root the diameter was twelve
inches. This is the largest suntlower in
the State.
The work of lowering the overflow of
water in Lake Weir by cutting O canal to
the Ocklawaha was to begin Saturday.
j. A. Copper has the contract of the work,
and has secured a sufficient force of men
to push the operation through Without de-
lay. The amount of money required TO
do the work has been secured.
Mrs. Mcclellan, wife of Robert McClel-
Ian, and daughter of Capt. 7. G. Ellis,
was brought home to Cedar Key corpse
Friday morning from Clear " alter Harb0r.
where she had been visiting. No news of
her death had reached the city until few
minutes before the train arrived. She
died OF bilious collie after forty ght hours
Illness.
A portion of the New York steamship
dock at Fernandina, some fifty feet in
length, on which had been stored large
quantity Of lumber and cro>s-ties, fell in
on Tuesday evening with a loud crash,
precipitatng the lumber into the river.
Most of it was recovered, however, so
that the principal damage will DC TO the
dock.
Ed. Morse, one of the crew Of the pilot
boat Agnes Bell, of Fernandina, while
fishing for snappers on the banks last
Tuesday, caught an immense shark, which
had TO be bauled on deck by the ships
tackle. Upon being cut open the stomach
was found to contain four half snappers,
lead sinkers and several rib bones of a
human body.
F.P. Fleming, Captain of the Metropoli-
tan Light Infantry, OF Jacksonville. is out
in IA card saying that the challenge OF his
company to drill any nine or sixteen men
against any squad in the State, is not au-
thorized by any regular meeting or action
OF the company nor by himself. He has,
however, no objection to any squad drill
ing from his company on their own ac-
count.
Gainesville News: Gainesville is at
tracing the attention Of wholesale mer-
chants. The Wholesale business OF this
city IS rapidly developing, and it is not
improbable that In short time the trade
will grow into mammoth proportions.
Another wholesale grocery house Will be
located here in a few weeks, and we learn
that there is reason to believe that one Of
the largest Wholesale houses in the state
will remove to Gainesville within three
months.
Tampa is consoling herself over steam
boat matters. The withdrawal OF the
Morgan boats during the summer months
will not initiate against Tampa in the
least, since the steamship Amite has been
put in service and will continue to make
sem i.menthly trips between the two cities
until the boats a the Morgan liBe resume
| their trips in the fail. The Amite has
plied between New Orleans and the
west coast OF Florida for years, when
there was no competition, and yet the
rates for both ireig lat andpassengers were
at all times the lowest.
Friday, at Baldwin, Brakeman Nc
| Daniel, wh0is employed on the Florida
Railway and Navigation railroad. had a
| narrow escape. flo was uncoupling
! some care on tho south bound train when
| somehow his head got crushed, and he
would have .boen killed had not the con-
ductor, seeing mis- desperate condition,
| Immediately Blgualed the train 20 stop