Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-31

Ocala has a Chinese laundry.

FLORIDA.
OcaIa has a Chinese laundry.
The ; s., q and G. trains are now run
ming TO Leroy.
The cotton crop is about half gathered
in Marion county.
Ocala VIII soon have a new machine
shop and foundry.
Work on the Presbyterian church at
OcRla has commenced.
A large bear was killed one day last
week by parties living at Whitesvile.
The iron for the Sanford and Lake Eustis
railroad will be laid TO Tavares by Nov.
II.
Steamers are again running on the Ock-
lawaha river between Silver Spring and
! Palatka.
Orlando wants railroad completed be-
TIVE en- Orlando and Oakland, via GOuha
and OcCee.
The orange growers at Paola. Island
Lake and Sylvan Lake have formed an
association.
1t is claimed that a score of tenements
! could be rented at Tavares in a week if
/ they were built.
The jurors for the Niece murder trial
| at TitusyilIe were secured Tuesday night
/ and the trial is In progress.
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his orange crop Will be about one quarter
! in quantity and will be about 80, 900.
/ W. F. Zanders, who has carried on the
/ grocery business at Ellsworth, will re-
| move his stock to Tavares this week.
/ The new Methodist Episcopal church at
/ silver Springs Park, wi ich was built by
! E. ii. Doyle, was dedicated on Sunday.
! The property now occupied by schultz
| Bros. on Orange avenue. Orlando. mas
! neen sold to some Northern party for
$1,000.
Henry Hice has been appointed by Rev.
| T. w. Tompkies presiding elder of the
| TavaTes district, to fill out the uneXpired
| term of Rev. A. Peeler.
The frame OF the Ocala sash and door
| factory is going up rapidly, and steady
! work Will continue on 1t until completed
and ready for business.
w. D. Clifton, of DeLe0n Springs,
| Killed three fine deer within 500 yards Of
! his bOuse one night last week. He saws
/ the high water has driven all the deer out
of the swamps.
! Julius Solomon has sold the two-storv
| building now occupied bv A. H. Birn-
baum, at the corner OF Orange avenue
and Church streets, Orlando, to II. Meyer
N Bro, of Savannah, for $1,000.
Wade Bros. Of Crescent City, have pur-
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| have placed her on the route between Pa
latka and Racy Point, and she Will de
liver the mail to the points down the
I river
\ report gained currency at Tavares
that L. b, Miles, who had been spending
thesummer in Kentucky, bad been foul =
ly dealt with. A postal card received
from him shows this to be an erroneous
report.
Two carloads Of one.inch cypress have
been shipped to Indianapolis, Ind, from
Palatka, where it readily sold for $50 per
1000 feet, netting the shipper about SIS
per 1000. These cars were shipped as an
eXI eriment.
The fun number of voters registered in
the Orlando precinct is 1927. 1t is
claimed, however, that several whose
names are on the list are dead or have
moved out OF the district Giving the
largest latitude to this claim, 1t would
probably leave not less than l,200 legal
voters in the precinct.
Squire Hodge, Of the Fantville district
Of Marion county, united i'm the holy
bonds OF matrimony, on Oct. l., William
+. Tummond, late OF Nebraska, 10 Mrs.
Nancy Chandler, at the BRIDES residence
The couple bad not seen each other Tor
ten years, but kept up a REGULAR CORE
spondence until patience ceased and the
charms OF his admiration brought the
groom 20 Marion county TO settle. On
mis- arrival he claimed his bride and both
will remain in the land OF perpetual sun
| shine.
Great improvements are 60 be made on
the north side of Lake Weir at an early
day. Besides the building Of a hotel, the
contract OF which has already been let,
he citizens contemplate organizing q
company TO erect ~ sanitarium and tab.
ernacle. Correspondence with the great
reviyalists, Sam Jones, Dr. Taimage and
Or. Moody, is now 81 progress, and it is
the intention OF the people OF the lake 20
have big time, commencing ia JANUARY.
should these noted divipes accept the in
Nitatlon. Other improvements will also
be made.
Last week Justice Cordero, Of Ocala,
had call from a colored man who wanted
10 know what right the Florida Railway
and Navigation Company bad IN harVmg
another colored brother on his premises
~ seems that one day last weeA two
brakeman on freight train on the above
rOnd had hght on top OF the train while
IN motion and one Of them was knocked
OF. The railroad bad 10 do the burying,
which they did Just where the unfnrtu-
nate man fell. Tue Omp'aiuant fatltd 10
cstab ish the fact 10 Justice COrdrru
whether the man WAS buried 90 his
premises or on The railroad ught OF Way.
In advance Of he sickly season render
yourself I'm rregnable. malarial atmos-
phore OF sudden change Of Temperature is
lrhught with danger, use Dr.. i. u Mc-
Lean's Strengthening Cordial agd Blood
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