Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-09

small sums to the amount of $4,000
were deposited in the Ocala bank the rrst
week after opening.
turtle, after laying 1873 eggs, was cap
tured near DaytOna last week, and it was
found to weigh go pounds.
c. E. Bradley, New Yorker, has re-
Gently planted $500 English walnuts at
ms plantation in Leon county.
An ordinance granting the right of
way LOT a street railway has been adopted
py the City Council at Palatka.
A movement is on foot by the ladies' of
the Methodist Episcopal church at Starke
10 oulld parsonage for their church.
Land valued at S26, 900 has been donated
10 the W bite railroad by the citizens of
Daytona TO secure its completion to that
place.
A petition to Congress to prohibit the
building OF bridge across the st. Johns
river south of Palatka is being circulated
for signatures.
The TitusyIlle Star declares there will
be from one-half to tWo-thirds of the usual
crop OF oranges made this coming season
on Indian river.
In case the dredge boat cannot cut
through the Haulover for the new canal
dynamite will be used in blasting the
coqulna rock out of the course.
Two negro prisoners made their escape
last week from the Lake City jail. One
was considered lunatic and the other
had been recently shot while attempting
to escape.
Julius King, of Cocoa, was painfully
injured last week by the premature eX-
piosion of a cartridge be was driving into
his gun. His face is badly burned and
one eye out.
Samuel NJ. Moray, of Columbia county,
who killed Lewis Grant, Jan. II, 1876,
came into Lake City last week and sur
rendered himself and was allowed to give
bail in the sum of $500.
In changing the gauge on the Florida
and Waldo. Tuesday several colored men
were. overcome by the heat and one of
them died from the effects.
James McCracken, of Palmer, Alachua
Scounty, is 90 years oftage. Hecame from
Chicago five years ago in feeble health,
butts now strong and hearty, and one Of
the thrifty truckers of Florida.
The stockholders of the Columbia
County Agricultural Fair Association
held their annual meeting at Lake City
on May.25, and elected board of directors
The time for opening the next county fair
is Nov. %.
Alex Shepherd, of Columbia county.
realized this year $50 from vegetables
; grown on three-quarters OF an acre of
land, and now he has the same land
planted in corn, from which he expects
ito gather25 barrels.
j. l.. Lynch met with serious and, it
is feared, mortal accident last Monday
morning. He was repairing the roof Of
the meat market in DeLand. when he
made misstep and fell backward to the
ground, striking on his right nip,
wrenching his spine and bruising his
right arm.
Mrs. James NJ. Grim died,Sunday night
at her home in Mason, from an accidental
overdose Of morphine. She been all
ing several days, and took the medicine
while her husband was absent. As soon
as her condition was discovered by her
children they sent for MIR. Grim, who
called in physician, buttoO late to coun-
teract the effects of the drug.
Prof. Il. n. Felkel, of Tallahassee, has
invented a tellusion. The FlOridian says
that Prof. FelkeI does not claim to pos
sess any special meehanical,skill, but he
is a progressive educator, a believer in
illustrative teaching, and his,invention is
simply an Outgrowth Of what he felt to be
, necessity in order to present to his class
? the subject of astronomy ina manner sat
isfactory to his own mind.
Suspicion was so strong that Henry
Brewton has been arrested as the MUIR
derer of his companion, N. e. Graham, in
Sumter county. Graham was a native OF
Lake City, S.-C.,,and was straightfor-
ward, Industrious young man, aged "a
years, and had won the esteem and conf
dence OF all who knew him. The accused
is a native of Alabama and about 81 years
of age. While he has lived in Sumter
county for year or more, still he is very
known.