Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-13
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1856

sick and very anxious to be relieved OF
/ his responsibilities.
+ The new steamship line between Key
( West, Tampa and Nassau has a good
/ chance for success. Tine first trip has
! been made and gave general satisfaction.
I 1t is thought that the passenger tratli C
/ will be good this winter.
All the public schools in st. Johns
| county opened Monday, Oct 4, with the
exception OF the public school in st. Au-
gustine. 1t is expected, however, to have
( this new school building completed in
time 10 open the same on Monday, Oct. Is.
The following tickle. was nominated at
meeting held at Key West on Monday
evening last: For Mayor. j. W. V. +.
| Plummer; Clerk, William A. Gwynn:
| Marshal, Joseph Pagan; Tax Assessor,
! Frank Adams; Tax Collector, William n.
Watson. The above is headed City Ticket.
The proprietor of Macedonia City, r. j.
/ Duffy, mas set apart the following lots on
/ his town plat at Charlotte Harbor: Four
/ lots to Episcopal church, four lots to
! Catholic church, four lots to Methodist
! church, four lots to Baptist church, four
| lots for public schools, ten lots for public
! square.
The Republican cat In Alachua is not
! going to be so docile in the presence Of the
new constitution as was at first sup
| posed. Its leaders have 1t in training
! and IL will be expected to jump at and
| scratch the new measure badly on Nov.
| ). Col Barnes says taat the surest way
I TO divide the Democracy and break it's
/ hold on the State government is TO defeat
| the new constitution.
| The cigar manufacturing business con-
| tlnues undated in Florida, as will be
| seen from the reports made to the Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue. During the
! month of September there we're manutac-
! lured in this State S,9l6,3I5 cigars, and
the receipts at the revenue office were
| $26, 149 l2H. The large volume of bust
ness keeps Collector Thompson and Dep
uty Collector Smith busy day and night.
At Jacksonville Monday, in front of the
door of the United States court room, d.
L. Fletcher, special master, sold, under
decree of foreclosure. Huot's saw mill
and lots =. 3, 4, and 6, in block of the
town OF Fernandina, TO George W. Miles,
| OF Philadelphia, tor $500. This pur-
chase includes all the saws, machinery,
| docks, ETC., OF the mill. The foreclosure
was in favor of the purchaser and against
| q. H. Huot.
The ground upon which the new Metho-
| dist Episcopal church is to be built at St.
! Augustine, and donated by II. Nj. Flagler
in lieu OF the one on King street, is just
north Of the avenue to be opened as a con-
| tinuance OF Hypolita street, and to be the
! mann avenue opening through the Ball
! grove running west to the new union de-
/ pot. Mr.. Fiagier will erect the church
on the order of his Ponce de Leon Hotel,
at a cost of 900.
Capt. Leo VOgel last week sent in his
resignation as commander of the fine
steamship City of PaIatka. He has ac-
cepted similar position with w. Z.
Clyde d Co. on one of their steam ships,
and will in all probability in future run
between New York and Charleston. Capt.
Vogel has been running on the line be-
tween jacksonville and Charleston for a
great many years, and IS very popular
with the travelling public.
The building which is being put up by
William Curry, corner Duval and Wall
streets, at Key West, to be occupied and
used as cigar mandatory by Julius
Ellinger ~ Co., will afford ample room for
the various departments, it being 125 feet
long by SO feet IN width, two and a halt
stories high. Carpenters are at work on
the frame, and in short time will be
ready Tor raising the building; the foun-
datiOn and sills are already in place.
| The factory building of the new fertii-
! ger company at Gainesville is about COM
| peted. The company has recently Sc
| cured an ordinance from the Common
| Council authorizing and permitting il to
| carry on the business of manufacturing
| chemical fertilizers within the city limits
and in the vicinity of the Florida Railway
| and Navigation depot, and as a matter of
| TACT the factory is located just across the
track from the depot building adjacent to
| the ice factory.
| Many of the Knights of Labor of Key
West are very much dissatisfied with the
nomination of Plummer. Gwynn, Pagan
and the cOlored man Adams. They say
it was done by the Knights who do not
belong to Key West; that they do not be-
| lieve in making the order a political
! party; that very few, if any, white
Knights VIII vote for negro; and that it
! was only done to catch the cOlored vote.
! They intend to vote for better men who
are in the field; shey are tree men, and
will vote rs they please. That certain
| parties only Joined the Knights to use
them.
At DeLand the insurance adius'ers
| have finished their work and gone. The
| total losses paid amount to $25, 593 9j. and
! are divided among the companies as flo =
! lows: Springfield, S6,304 A.: Phoenix.
! 81 go Al; Hope, $3,207 10; Continental,
| $2,966 80; Monarch, 81, 1856 50; Liverpool,
| London and Globe; 81, 439 So; Providence
| Washington, 81, 900. followed by the South
ern, Citizens, Rome, Pelican, Birming-
nam, Enterprise, Hartford and Alabama,
in smaller amounts. A careful revision
of the losses over and above this amount
ioots up S3l ,SlS 10, or a total OF So Alp 49,
There are, OF course, many small losses by
tenants OF rooms, the amounts of watch
Will never be known.