Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-15
FLORIDA.
QUINCY is to have a public library.

W atermelons were on the market at
Bronson last week.
The Baptist State Convention convenes
at Gainesville this week.
/ DeLand will soon have Geographic COM
munlcatOn with the outside world.
( An effort is being made to organize
ladies' sewing society in Green Cove
I Spring.
/ Tie School Board met at Quincy last
| Wednesday and issued scrip to the amount
/ OF 1863.
/ Rev. y. A. Bailey, of Micanopy, has
been elected pastor OF the Orlando Bap-
! list church.
PaIatka boasts of the only frst-class
! skating rink for the use OF colored people
in the State OF Florida,
The tax roll in Levy county was 81, 269,-
/ 430 IN 1885 and 81 $40 OIL fer the present
! J ear, an increase of $40 ,59l.
Francis Trueblood, of Archer, thinks OF
staining an apiary at Bronson this season.
lie has made 1t pay him at Archer.
/ The machinery for the boring of the ex-
/ perimental we'll at Fernandina has ar
/ rived and is being placed in position at the
/ park.
/ A ton 0? palmetto ia to be sent North
! from Sanford to be manufactured into pa
/ per, as a test OF that material tor printing
/ paper.
A revival has been going on at the Bap-
/ tlst church in lleyVYiile for the past week
! -Four new members were baptized Monday
/ evening. e.l-
Jack Frost swooped down upon CLAY
| county on Monday and Tuesday nights
Bananas aud other tender vegetation look
scOrched. = ta
The steamer Manatee has been hauled
up for repairs at Green Cove Spring, her
MIA bn
piled by the Anita
7. L. Ward & Co. have decided to put
another story upon their new building at
Quincy and make a 40x50 town hall, to be
used for theatrical purposes.
Thursday the Florida Southern railway
| foundry made the largest output ever
made IN Palatka IN one day. the total
weight ofthe castings being s, 400 pounds.
Mr.. William Mayctmber, who arrived
at Green Cove Spring from New YORK
| during the week, intends starting poul-
try yard OF the best fancy breeds, having
brought with him some 300 head OF
chickens.
Eng neer Colwen took train of cars
over the Florida Southern a few DAYS
! since from Palatka to Rochelle, q distance
OF forty miles, In forty-hve minutes, max
ing live stops on the route, equal to mile
"A minute straight running.
A convention of postmasters through
| out the State is being talked of, and per-
| manent steps are being taken 10 carry
such measures out. The meeting has
been proposed to take place at Palatka
some time shortly, and postmasters VIII
be notified.
A crate of cucumbers was shipped per
express from Cork station. five miles west
OF Plant City, on Tuesday of this week
They were raised by Mr.. Bledsoe, who
resides in the BloOmingdale neiehbor-
hood. This is the fret shipment of vege-
tables for this season from that section.
Engine No, Q Of the Savannah. Florida
aud Western railway has been sent to the
Tampa yards to be used ms a swllcher
This engine Is No. a46 of the Baldwin Lo.
comotive Works, and has been in constant
use for fOrty-one years. With some little
repairing 1t will be in good condition yet,
Levy county farmers are placed IN an
unfortunate position N regard TO a meat
crop. A large majority of them have
made heavy crops of corn and other crops,
but the cholera has very nearly wiped out
the hogs in the county, ana it is almost
impossible to utilize the surplus corn 10
advantage.
A United States patent conveying 40
acres Gf land 10 Jesse Crawford was filed
at Tampa tor record Nov. 4 1t WAS dated
Washington. d. c., Oct. ,. 1854 and
signed Franklin Pierce, President, by II .
Il. Baldwin, Assistant Secretary. and
attested by }. n. CANCER, Recorder OF the
General Land Office, making 1t a little
over % years old.
During the week the following prison.
ers have been tried and convicted in Pa
latka and sentenced: William Warren,
five years in the State prison: John Sher-
I low. two wears; Gibbs Robertson, William
Kelly and William Mncy were impris-
0ned in the county jail from two to six
months for minor oflenses.
For the past few weeks u party Of engi-
neers have been at work running the pre-
lminary lines for the Jacksonville, Man
atee and Gulf railroad. Lines have been
run 10 point on the Manatee river from
Plant City, Lakeland and Barlow, and it
is said that one Of the three lines, the one
Offering the greatest Inducements, would
get the road.
The registered voters OF North Tampa
met pursuant to call at the Cungrega-
uonal church on Monday. Nov. s. DR..
Bruce was elected permanent chairman,
and +. Ferman clark, The metes and
bounds OF the CORPORATION were indOrsed
ana other necessary steps taken 10 estab-
lsh the town limits. The following obi
GERS were elected: G. h. Harrison, Mayor;
A. A. kelso, Clerk; 5. Il. Cosby, Marshal,
and \. j. knight, +. 4. Salomonson, j.
Z i-s htbGI'il anu W. ID. 4NACldflan0 AIuof-
men. There are iOrty.fye REGISTERED
voters In the corporate limits, or whom
tnrty-n lne we're present
G. Wilbur futile. i. g. Mooney ana b..
u. Mexican, OF Palatka, have formed
themselves into q land company with a
capital stoos of $32. 600. in shares OF 800
each. The property % this company is
situated in Putnam county. seven miles
to 10 nearest line southwest OF Palatka,
hn old spanish grant, long known as the
Hr1man grant, which contains about ld.
unJ acres % land. some Of 30 as good a.
can Doe found in the county, hDst ~ the
grant ih heavily timbcred. Alltnis vast
tract Uf land 10 90 be- cut up aud plated,
~ That purchasers can have ms much or
$50 little 49, tbeY may won't
Gfeen Cove SPRING ~ 10 generally
bhDHn thHt ". tOnu, Wbp hrDu.ht u
llmi0H a. ruiOuB 0f lfaUau Immigrants
about bfHf u.D, abandoned iJem lHst
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