Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-24
FLORIDA,


The sponge crafts are all arriving at
Key West from the bay.
The factories at Key West have all re-
sumed with large4orces.
Several parties at st. Augustine re-
ceived ice last week from Savannah.
The new opera house at st. Augustine
is lathed and ready for'the plasterers.
About fifteen turtle and eleven head of
beeyes are butchered daily in Key West.
The building at Key West for the new
ice company is rapidly nearing compile
ton.
No arrangementsihave been yet made
for a Fourth of july celebration at st.
Augustine.
The Marshal Of st. Augustine is rigidly
enforcing the Sunday law. No sneaking
in back doors now.
Tallahassee has completed the organi-
cation OF a cOrnet band to be known as
the Leon COrnet Band.
The second scholastic year of the Fort
Meade High School will commence on the
first Monday of September.
The Postmaster General has appointed
j. F. Murphy postmaster at Switzerland,
st. Johns county, vice j. B. Sweetzer.
Some giant tomatoes have been exhib-
tied at Green Cove, two specimens of
which on one twig tipped the scale at 81
ounces.
An election will be held in Fort Mead
on Saturday. July 3, TO elect three Alder
men to fill the places of those who have
resigned.
The Executive Committee of the Demo-
cratic party of Clay county will meet at
Middleburg next Saturday, June 20, at 10
o'clock in the morning.
The Port Orange Yacht Club will hold
regatta on July 5. There will be three
classes of boats and prizes worth con-
testing for in each class.
Rev. William f. Wood, of Key West,
has gone to Alabama, for the purpose of
soliciting contributions towards the cree
ton Of the Baptist church.
Mrs. b. f. Lasseter died at her resi-
dence IN Palatka Sunday, after long
and lingering Illness. She was about 49,
years of age, and she leaves husband,
mother and six children.
A petition has been forwarded to the
Post Office Department at Washington for
a change Of the site of the post Office
at Buffalo Bluff so that the mail can
be mere conveniently delivered there by
rail.
Capt. Ellis, Of the steamship Arbutus,
reports fine progress in the erection of the
lighthouse on Rebecca shoal. The
weather is fine and he thinks that inside
of two months the light will be ready for
service.
The appraised value of the old st. Au-
justine s9Powder House" lot, S1,960 per
acre, is the amount offered the United
States for it by HI. NJ. Flager, who, if he
gets possession, will lay out handsome
boulevards through it and cut it up into
villa sites.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of Putnam county will meet in PafatAa
at u M, in Judge Vary's office, on June
26 ensuing, to name day for holding the
primaries and county convention, and TO
transact such other business as may be
considered advisable.
The pineapples which were in blossom,
or shooting, as it is called, when the cold
SNAP came upon the Calo0sahatchie river
last winter have all suekered nicely and
are not at all the worse, except the loss
of the crop the present season. The
Younger pines are in a very flODrishing
condition, and those $4,000 sugar loafs OF
DR.. Harris are splendid.
The mammoth saw mill or Dexter
Hunter. in East Jacksonville, is now
run day and night TO its utmost capacity.
Prom 75. 900 10 $1,000 feet OF lumber and
timber are turned out there daily. A
norton OF this M aterial is for the Erie
railroad in New York STATE. This mill
only ceases 20 run from II O'Clock Satur-
day night till O'Clock Monday morning.
Palatka News: Mr.. Emile A. GradOt,
recently of savannah, has come 70 Palatka
and taken position with the Florida
Southern railway, in the office OF Maj. y.
W. BromweH. Mr.. Gradot has for some
time been connected with the Savannah,
Florida and Western, and Is well up in
railroad matters, and his coming adds an
other capable man to the efficient corps OF
clerks in the efice of the Florida SOUTH
ern.
IL was reported 10 Constable g.. }. Muir
phy. at Justice Bellisario's office at jack
sonyille Tuesday, that young colOred
woman had given birth TO child last Sat
urday night Ia the HansOntown 6uburb,
and that the infant died soon after birth
ana that IL and the mother we're yet In "A
iiffle sbanty in the same bed together, and
tbat the stencil from the corpse was bOrri.
lie. No one seems 10 have gwen any at
tention 10 the unfortunate woman, and as
uenal. application was made 10 the county
authorities 10 bury the dead'body and care
for the mother.
ON saturday morning last the ware
house on the wharf a. Bridgeport belong
ing 10 Mitonall REM caught IRE from
sparks from the steamer Escort, Of Capt.
lucas line. Funnlng between falatka
anA bridgeport. TIE warehouse wac
entlrelv consumed, together Nifh ne con-
900. conslsflng 81 paints, OILS, sash.
aoora l,ifnda has. fertilizers, etc. Tue
80 a. stool amounted ~ about $500 ana
hi buliflne Gll5. Tnore vas no In9Ir-
acc. Ilo ehari Uaa SAVED DI ne unlfeQ