Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-16
FLORIDA.

4s Ogden has organized a gun club.
DeLand precinct has 290 registered vo.
| tiers.
Pecan nuts in West Florida are gettine
ripe.
A good rice crop has been made In
Columbia county.
st. Augustine will soon have one of the
best public school houses in the State.
Polk county has increased in wealth
nearly million dollars within the past
year.
The material for the Sanford gas works
! is beginning to arrive and work will be-
gin shortly.
Rev. J. F. Eden has been invited TO
accept the pastorate of the Gainesville
Baptist church.
At Gainesville the collection for the
benefit of the Charleston sufferers now
| amounts to $311.
| A female base hall club will he organ
lied in Gainesville. They will be called
the Red Stockings.
Charles q. Ellis, of Como, says that
Como was visited by tdree distinct earth
quake shocks on Sunday night.
J. B. Simmons, who expired suddenly
at Kissimmee on Sept. 8, had his life in
! sured few weeks previous for $1,000.
Last Friday young Biokman, of Mann
| vile, Putnam county, was bitten by a
rattlesnake, which proved fatal the fol
| lowing night.
A pear, cross between the Bartlett
and LaCOnte varieties, has been found
| IN Columbia county, and is said to he
delicious in taste.
A hose tower thirty-1ve feet high Is
now being put up ia jackson square Kew
West, in rear OF the engine house, to be
used for drying the hose after being used
at fires or otherwise.
George Van Horn, of ApalaohicoIa .
killed brown bear at his apiary Oh Lake
Wimnlco that weighed $40 pounds. some
time before his lease on life had expired,
his bearship managed to get into the
apiary over the barb wire fencing and de-
strOyed about thirty hives OF bees.
Judge Mcdonnell, Collector Of Customs
at Cedar Key, informs the Cedar Kew
View that in the Shell Pond neigh borhood,
near where he formerly lived, the recent
earthquake mas left marked changes in
the earth's surface. A number of holes
or cavities have been formed in places
where no such previously existed, which
are now filled with water, some of them
as much as six feet deep.
During the past week the TitusvIIIe
section has been visited by the most dis
nal and gloomy weather it has had In "A
long time. The wind blew furtously from
the east and northeast, and sudden s1nalIs
with rain would come down without
warning. Sometimes the clouds would
clear away and fair weather no promised
for q few minutes, but In less than an
hour squalls OF wind and rain would
come on.
At Palatka Monday noon a negro man
by the name of Riddell approached Mar
shall Manucy and stated that he had been
robbed over in East Palatka by three men
who made him throw up bis hands while
they rlhed his pockets. The Marshal and
Special Policeman W oodriug, on learn
ing that the robbers had come over to this
side Of the river, began searching for
them, and found two OF the crowd IN
Reid's swamp and gave chase. The rob-
bers were feet OF foot, however, and got
into the swamp and escaped, although
several shots were fired at them. Later
they found the other one, aud he ran
through Reid's garden, closely pursued
by Manucy, who shot at him just as be
entered the swamp. and thinks that no
probably wounded him.
At Palatka a strange picture was
noticed in the western skies Monday
night, Just before O'Clock, while the
heavy clouds were rolling by and threat
ening q storm. A clearly dehn' rim OF
almost milky whIteness. with rays radIat-
ing from a centre low down on the hori-
zon. and giving 1t the appearance OF
lady's fan spread open. attracted great
deal OF attention. IL was a lunar rainbow,
!''the sailors delight" and was different in
appearance from any OF the ralnbows
seen recently at night. The weather, too