Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-10

The service on star route 1922, from
Saint Lucie to Lake Worth, from March
10, will be increased to twice week.
A great many improvements are being
made in Poppelps addition 70 Seville, east
Of the railroad. Quite little town has
sprung up there.
A newly discovered bar of Anastasia
island is said to afford easy access to St.
Augustine harbor ut low tide, for vessels
drawing not more than II feet Of water.
Capt. Dixon Reed informs the Pensacola
AdUaRce- Gazette that quite a number of
the little codhshes recently turned loose
IN the guilt have been found dead along
the gulf beach on Santa Rosa island.
At the sale OK the lands of the George
| Franklin estate at Tampa on Monday of
last week a piece Of wild land containing
- acres, located on Lake Th0notosassa,
miles northwest Of Plant City, sold for
81, 40, nearly 500 per acre.
A capitalist now at DeLand proposes
to purchase a body OF land between De-
Land, Lake Helen, Orange City, and
Beresford, and to ornament and beautify
it as park; then to make plank roads
leading from each OF the above places TO
it, and to have toll gates at intervals along
the roads.
The work of paving Bay street, Jack
:
and will not be tor day or two, for the
| reason that the contractors are anxious
to get sufficiently large number of blocks
sawed ahead, so that there will be no delay
from this source when the work is COM
menced. Two saws are now running,
and the paving will be started some time
this week if the weather will permit.
Col. j. j. Daniel and the other two
members Of the delegation appointed by
Gov. Perry to examine and report upon
the condition of the work done by the
0keechobee Drainage Company have re-
turned TO Tallahassee ana will doubtless
make their report at once to the Governor.
They say that they went oyer all the lands
reclaimed by the company, but declined
to make any statement as TO their c0nclu-
sions uAtil they are made officially.
At Jacksonville, about 10 o'clock Satur-
day manning, Rev. William K. Tuiiy was
called to the Pennsylvania house Tor the
purpose az uniting in marriage Joseph G.
Bean, OF Worcester, Mass, and Miss
Phoebe Robbins, of Connecticut. At the
time the ceremony took place the groom
was confined to his bed with sickness and
only lived until 6 O'Clock, when he died,
| having been married only 20 hours. His
body was forwarded to his former home
for interment.
Saturday DR.. W. H. Waters, a surgeon
in the United States army, who is stopping
awhile at Ormond, was fishing in the To-
moka. - the evening he discovered near
the ferry the body OF a drowned man.
The body was so discolored that it was
impossible to accurately identify the
drowned man. 1t had on only under
clothing and shoes, as if he had attempted
to swim or wade the river. The clothing
found and other appearances indicate
hn hnH nf
Brown.
The telegraph line from Wildwood TO
Sanford has been discontinued, and all
the business from Kissimmee, the South
Florida railroad and other points on that
section Of the peninsula, now goes direct
to Sanford, thence to Jacksonville via the
line recently put up along the Jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West railway
Heretofore all the business was trans
ferred at Wildwood. The Inter.Ocean
telegraph company is now putting up a
line along the railroad from Wildwood to
Orlando via Leesburg and Tavares; this
will De completed in few weeks.
Palatka Sun: The experiment of
spraying trees and plants with water
during cold nights, when the thermometer
is below the freezing point, and which
was referred to several weeks ago as
having been tested by n. 5. DOrwin, of
this city, has now had time to develop &C
curate, well-defned results. 1t will be
remembered that on the Friday night of
the commencement of the week OF cold
weather MIR. Dorwin neglected to spray his
trees. They suffered considerably that
night, with the exception Of one euca-
lyptus, which ohaneed 70 be under q
spray. The tree has mot dropped leaf.
None of the other plants or trees that
were sprayed suffered any more than the
damage dOne them the first night Of the
freeze, when they were without prOtec-
ton. The roots and stalks of these are
alive, and will soon send out vigorous
foliage, while similar. vegetation all
around is totally dead. Hence the ex-
pertinent was tirst class success, and it
is something for those who have spraying
facilities to remember when another
severe freeze comes.