Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-13
FLORIDA.


down.
A big Methodist revival is In progress
at Sanford.
Sanford is considering the fire limit
ordinances.
The Gainesville ice factory is about
ready to begin operations.
Water in Lake Monroe is higher than
for years and is still rising.
T.. G. Hewitt has been re-appointed
Deputy Sheriff for the coast.
Steamboat men report the river above
Apalachicola as being quite low.
Winter Park will soon have a money
order department in the post office.
The Quincy Artillery Company fired
salutes In honor of Davdson's nomination.
Live shippers at Punta Rassa are send
ing beef via the Alice Vane to Key West.
A business man mas in view the open
ing of a wholesale fruit store at Apalachi-
cola.
The real estate market at Apalachicola
has been unusually quiet the present
week.
Twenty-three coIored people in one
party emigrateG from Quincy last week
to East Florida.
Something over 1900 crates OF vege-
tables were shipped from Palmetto during
the past season.
The Oak Hall Base Ball Club, Of Gaines
Vile, wants an answer from the Jackson
vile club to play for $50.
Apalachicola needs a line of sailing
vessels to Eastern points to connect with
line of river steamers.
V0lusia county has no paupers within
her limits at present, the only one sup
ported by the county having wandered off
few days since and died in an old out
building.
The contract for arranging the index
for the land records of Jefferson county
was, on last Wednesday, awarded to Mr..
Bellinger, of Waukeeuah, his bid-$l25-
being the lowest made.
Jefferson Larramore, shot last Friday
by Thomas Shelby on the Three Brothers,
&C Ap8lachicola, is resting easy, and
seems to be but little Inconvenience, and
then only when speaking.
At ApaIachicola a force OF men has
been employed on the dredge boat for
several days past. 1t is proposed TO dig
out the barkentine ashore at Timber
Island with the dredge when she gets
ready to go to work.
Mai. Rocks, of Fruitland Park, SAYS
that at the next meeting OF Congress an
appropriation of 100000 will be asked for
the Improvement of the Ocklawaha river,
so that steamers can run at all seasons OF
the year into Lakes Griffin, Eustis and
Harris.
Some days ago, 1t is reported, the wife
of Eli Taylor, colored, was riding through
the woods near East river, near Apa-
lachicola, when she espied young bear.
Being valorsus woman, she procured a
long pole, and, getting near his bearship,
belabored him 80 sOundly with the pole
that he was soon dispatched. He weighed
about eighty pounds.
Pile driving for the Tomoka bridge
was completed on Thursday, and
the contractor, L. III. Brown, hopes to
finish the structure next week, though he
says the men cannot half work on ac-
count of mosquitoes, and that IN an ex-
perlence OF forty years on all the waters
from Baltimore to Panama, he never saw
the insects so bad. Other work is well
along, and the rails should reach Day
tona by Sept. 10.
Thursday afternoon as the Naiad landed
at Coombs & Co.'s wharf at Apalachicola
Master Solomon Brash, young son of II.
Brash, while attempting to step from the
dock to the steamers deck, fell short in
his jump and his legs went into the water.
Fortunately his hands caught the guard
and he hung on until relieved from his
perilous position by +. F. Labatute. Ii
he had not caught and hung to the steam
er's guards so tenaciously he might have
drowned before aid could have reached
him.
The steamer Manatee, one of the incest
of river boats, has met with several I'M
fortunate mishaps since she began run
nIng to Green Cove Springs. Tuesday
morning shortly after leaving Green Cove
Springs for Jacksonville, and while pass
ing Remington Park, she broke her cross
head ana came to a sudden halt and was
anchored in mid-stream. The passengers
and freight were soon afterwards trans
ferred to the steamer Chattahoochee,
which hove to on passing, and we're
brought down to the city. The steamer
Anita has been chartered by Capt. Gar
ner to run on the route until the Manitee
is repaired.
Apalachicola Times: The merchants of
ApalachicOla send off for all the Goldfish
they dispose OF to their customers. This
is one way Of doing it, but the better way
would he 10 prepare the snapper and
grOuper fish that abound on our COAST
and place them upon the market in dry
state. Some may say this Will not pay.
That is mistake. A few years ago the
same objection was raised against mullet
as placed In competition against mack
erel. A long coOtinued trial of mullct
packing has developed the fact that in
cities where heretofore the mackerel was
the main and only salt fish used. mullet
can now only be found. When the grouper
aud snapper are dried and cooked with
potatoes the same as goldfish, IL will take
an expert to tell the difference in taste.
This experiment has been tried aud found
to be exactly as represented.
According TO the census furnished the
State by the County Assessor, Franklin
county shows only population Of 2,276;
100 white males, 100 white females; 46i
c0ored males, 324 colored females: 459
whites between the age Of o and 81, 274
colored between the age of 6 ana q. THIS
estimate is not by any manner OF means
a full report. Apalachicola alone will
furnish population equal, If not greater,
than 1875. In 1884 there were 49l votes
cast in the county, which should give us
2, ass populat IL can DO safely estima-
ted that there were 100 voters who failed
TO vote IN 1884. This SHOULD make the fig
ures read 3,435 population. In addition
there has been considerable increase
since 1884. II must be remem bered that
there are great many people living in
isolated portions OF the county who can
not be reached by the census.
Last week, A. b. Mason, Vice Presi-
dent and attorney OF tie Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West, met a committee
appointed by II. Il. Osteen, President of
the Stock Growers Association, In Enter