Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-23
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West.
/ A new building for post office is going
/ up at Key " est.
( Quite a number OF the Key West sponge
/ fleet have left for the bay
Work has begun on the new brick
building for the bank at Key West.
Deer hunting has been the order Of
the day at Quincy for the past two weeks.
A new cigar factory is to be built at
Key West for Julius EIlinger Co., of
New y ork.
Last Monday r. B. Nathsns, ofQuincy,
received letter pOstmarked New York,
Sept. 10, 1885.
The amount appropriated for the school
at DeLeOn Springs this year 10 $3.50. This
Will give term Of about six months.
A post Office has been established at
Nocatee, and e. Il. McQuady, OF Fort
Ogden, will take charge OF the office as
postmaster.
The artesian well at Punta Gorda is
now 230 feet deep and throws sixty gal
Ions per minute OF pure, clear water,
slightly sulphurOus.
The Herald ventures the assertion that
Quincy has the oldest and most active
merchant in the State in the person OF
"Uncle Tom" b. NaLhans.
At Sorrento the negro named Jordan,
who was sDot through the head Monday
by Jack knight, colored, is still alive.
There is no hope of his recovery.
Gainesville has nine hotels, some of
! which can furnish accommodation for
four people, while many Of the others are
quite commodious and attractive.
the new ice factory is now turning out
fine looking ice. Cedar key has a stand.
ing order for three carloads each week,
md OF hnr k.Nxr Itn1
A two weeks camp hunt in the hum.
mOcks of South Florida is being planned
for by the spOrtsmen OF Gainesville.
The party will go into camp about Oct. l.
1t is reported that number of persons
in the DeLeon Springs section who have
no visible means Of support are soon to
be waited upon by citizens committee.
1t is reported that all the candidates for
the Legislature nominated by the Repub-
lcans at their first convention have de-
clined, with the exception of j. n. Clin-
ton, oOlOred.
On Sept IA, after continuous service
of seventeen years and ten months, A. w.
Smith resigned his position as agent of
the Southern Express Company at Quincy,
and John Lawrence has been appointed
in his stead.
AS the train came down Wednesday, at
the wood rack near Wauchula, q man en-
tered the train with an old rusty shotgun,
with both barrels cooked, and rushed first
0trOm one coach to another, evidently in
TENDING to kill some one, but not finding
Z lis victim, when the train pulled into
i Rauchula, he got of and walked slowly
a pCk toward the place where he got on
/. (e train. There was no one on the tram
l at knew him well enough to identity
! IN,
kn III nfxvII NE.,t
, IN made during the past week: James
, hpsborn, to be Notary Pablo IN and for
t9State at large; Alden J. Adams, to be
Juice of the Peace IN and for the county
oflanatee; Harvey Woodward, TO be
Juice of the Peace in and for the cOun-
ty Marion; j. IL. Stokes, TO be Justice
OF Peace in aud for the county OF
Alalua; James G. Parks, to be Commits
SION of Deeds for Florida in and tor
Ge0Ha.
A lhg of about forty negroes were at
workh the Apopka and Atlantic rail-
ROAD, the vicinity OF Mr.. COiner's new
resldefe on Spring Lake, about eight
miles NTH OF Orlando, the latter part of
last wk. On Sunday last while several
OF theuWere gambling, two of them got
INTO darrell, when one named Wesley
Bows sot and almost instantly killed
anothenamed Smith. Bows made his
escape, nd at last accounts had not been
appreciated.
ThOseFho ought to Know best claim
mat spng reflex tide OF emigration is
setting 4 from the Northwest toward
Florida. Not every one who settles in
NeDrask Minnesota and Dakota can en-
uure an bnual variation in tenn perature
OF 100 de9ees, accompanied by billiards
and cycRnes, and thousands who feel
obliged tdabandon those States are look
| ing with paging eyes to the State whose
annual VARIATION In temperature seldom
exceeds rs degrees.
4 cODny of twenty-five families will
shGty leave New Haven, Conn, for
HaTthdn. They will settle in this
equity Just east OF Hawthorn, where one
! acrt0f land has been given each family.
AS hey are wealthy people, they will all
erec f1ne winter homes and stay during
the old weather. going North In the sum
mer, The people o; Hawthorn are much
| pleaed AT such a party settling there,
and 70 hope that 1t may he instrumental
IN luhsing new life INTO that already en-
terprsing town.
A pung gentleman from the country
! who hs beea spending several days In the
! CITY, lad the pleasure Of accompanying
/ one o, kisslmmge's fRirest and most at
! uacttn daughters TO church the other
eVenint. On their way home he was so
completely carried away by the fair one
at his s,le, that he walked straddle Of
cow lying on the sidewalk. The conse-
quence gas that she returned home alone
and he3returned from the Kissimmee
pralrlesneXt morning, swearing that a
COW wa the meanest thing he ever rode.
he tooAthe first north bound train.
Referring TO the manner in which mails
are deltered in Manatee county, the
Tampa Ll6une says: An instance of the
peculiar beauties Of the present system,
which wdlld he laughable were IT not 80
serious, occurred the other day. The
buggy IN vhloh the mail had been carried
from Alatit b. Ellenton on the Manatee,
arriving atthe latter place late at night,
was lett blythe driver for a few minutes
wnle he delivered u sack of mail at the
post uihce. When he returned buggy,
horse and mail were ali gone. The horse
was quiet one, and had never been
known torun away before, and the infer
ence was at once drawn that mail robbers
were responsible for The affair. Finally,
however, after long search, the outfit was
recovered without loss, and the only in
jury done was stlll further delay than
mat usually suffered by the unfortunate
people south OF the Msnatee. But the in.
cdeut, though without serious result tnis
time. serycs TO indicate what might hAl-
pea IN case lawless men should choose To
assail the solitary mad driver. II also