Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-12
FLORIDA.

T tudThSl.
Lamp posts have been ordered for
Apopka.
Barlow wants a 1OO-room hotel built
out OF brick.
/ A telephone is talked Of between San
/ ford and Orlando.
! The winter business in Orange City
/ promises TO be splendid.
! Gabe Long killed a bear weighing 800
I pounds in the vicinity Of Chuluota on
/ Oct. /.
"Appu Slider" is the way a Sanford
colored merchant advertised favorite
drink he has on sale.
The Florida House at Plant City has
changed hands, having been purchased
from l.. d. Greene by Z. T.. Ransom.
A camp meeting will be held on Lake
| Howell, four miles northeast OF Winter
PARK. beginning Nov. 10 and lasting until
Nov I6.
The fourth quarterly conference on the
Lake Butler circuit, convenes on Satur-
day before the fourth Sunday in this
! month.
Nothing has as yet been heard OF c. W.
Campbell, who lett Ocala for Plant City
some Eve weeks ago, aud his friends are
feeling great uneasiness ABOUT him.
FL Ysra, a paper printed in Spanish,
tormerly published at Key West, has been
moved TO Ioor City. near Tampa. 1t is
published and edited by j. D. Pogo.
Judge Peoples, of Naldosta, represent
ing the Macon and Florida road, will
meet the people of Bradford county to-
morrow and Lake Butler Thursday.
Plant City is to have bank. The firm
will be composed of George +. Miller. of
New York, and DR.. c. W. Andrews, of
Plant City, under the firm name Of miller
& Andrews.
A STAKE entered the house OF Burt G.
Smith, at Kissimmee, entered the bird
cage through the wires, and after swal-
lowing the canary cOiled up in the bot
tom OF the cage to take a nap.
Nty-four passengers left Tampa
on the steamer Whitney on Monday
night for Havana. They were prin-
cipally Havana tourists who have been
spending the summer North and il Eu.
rope.
j. &. Lehman, prominent banker OF
Amsterdam, Holland, representing the
Dutch Interests In various railroads in
the United States, was in TAMPA last
Friday, the guest of the Tampa Real
Estate and Loan Association.
Capt. V. L. Hopson. or Leesburg, has
just disposed OF twenty-four car loads ot
oranges to fruit dealers al 81 80 per box
delivered at the railroad. The fruit was
grown on the islaGd and the money is
now on deposit to pay for it as fast as
picked.
1t is now rumored, and the rumor comes
from an unusually authoritative source.
that the Morgan line Of steamers win
soon resume their line to Cedar Keys and
thence TO Key West and Havana. They
used to ply this route but discontinued
il to touch at Tampa.
Charges have been preferred against
President w. Fl. Hutchinson and John
Burns, members OF the Board of Commits
sioners for the provisional municipality
OK Pensacola, alleging that they encour-
aged disorderly interruption of public
political meeting in thas city recently.
Orlando is to have a complete system
Of water works. The contract for their
erection between A. A. Parker, OF Penn.
sylvsnia, and the city has beeu signed by
his Honor Mayor Reed and the City Clerk,
and within eight months from the date OF
the contract Mr.. Parker is to have the
works completed.
The saw mill Of j. w. Bowling & Co.
at Lake ogden, seven miles west OF Lake
City, on the Florida Railway and NaVi
cation, was destroyed by fire at 2 O'CLOCK
Friday morning. There is said TO be M
Insurance. The loss will be severely fell
not only by the proprietors, but a large
number of employees thrown out of work
After finishing her work on the Lake
Cypress canal. dredge No. 2 was takeI
down to the Kissimee river to work, anC
soon had the misfortune to break hel
crane. She has been towed to the ship
ward at Kisslmmee, and while her crane
ia being repaired will undergo thorough
OyerhauinV, which will make her as goo(
as new again.
The schooner Lone Star, which loaded
at New Orleans for Fort Myers, was abOu
thirty days out. Capt. White, of tht
Alice Howard, spoke her in Charlotte Har
Dor, Tuesday, and she came TO Fort Myer
Thursday evening. Some considerable
anxiety had been maniiested as to hel
whereabouts. She had heavy head wind
} most OF the distance, about 200 miles.
Capt Straford, OF Kissmmee, has near
~ completed the transformation of hi
/ sail boat to "A side wheel steamer. He ha
. heightened her to thirty-ive feet. and vii
fit her up In good shape and with all tn
: cOnvenences needed for her work OF run
ming between Kissimmee aud Narcooset
@ She will be propelled with a tive-hors
E power engine. and will be ready To con-
e mence her labors in less than two weeks
Bishop j. J. Moore, d. D.. of YORK, Pa
the senior OF the five bishops OF Oh
= African Methodist Episcopal Zion churo
< In America, will preach at the Pabl
}. camp meeting. He has been preachin
: tiitv-one years. The Bishop has travele
d extensively during his ministry, recent
7 spent eight months in travelling in En-,
Il land, nearly one wear in British Americ,
e has been among the Indians considerably
). and also on the Pacific coast.
81 The insane negro woman who war
: dered Off from Eustis, and for whose r,
;. cOvery reward was offered wRs fOun
- last Thursday by citizens Of Orange Ben
= drowned on the shore Of Lake Griffin nes
e Col. Lanier's place. The body was eI
= tlrely Invested of clothing, and the lowe
:, part OF ore leg had been eaten off by all
:, gators. The body being very much d
~ composed could not be removed and WA
= buried on the shore OF the lake.
n On Friday last the Florida Souther
% passenger train killed the last and be,
is mich COW owned by F. $. W oodw ward, o
,s Corley island. This is the seventh valu;
il BILE mich cow that has been killed on N
If island Dy this road within the past ie,
10 months. Taese we're not common stOei
a. tney cost their owners on AN average
500 each. Besides these the road ha
- killed at least ten yearlin2s and beef ca
~ tie within tue same length OF time on tn
AZ same island.
"a Gen. Jonathan Is. Gordon, OF GeOrgi;
y and the Hon. Charles Douxherty. spOk