Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-15
FLORIDA.


Volusia county tax is eight mills.
The measles have broken out in Levy
| county.
Seven iron safes were ruined in the De-
| Land fire.
Oranges are splitting badly in some of
! t1e groves around DeLand.
Eggs are very scarce in the Palatka
market, and are selling at very high
| prices.
! The railroad down the coast, known as
| the White road, was expected to reach
! Halifax by Saturday mig hit
! last.
| The hotel men of st. Augustine are
! looking for a great rush of visitors this
season, and are'making preparations ac-
| cordingly.
| Z. Higgins, ex-Oollector of Customs,
has been appointed chiefdeputy by Sheriff
| Holland, of Jacksonville, vice II. T. ALI
ing resigned.
Rowland IL Withrow will soon have
saw mill in operation at Apalachicola
With a cutting capacity OF 100000 feet of
lumber daily.
At Key West Tuesday j. W. V. Plum
mer, the labor candidate, was elected
Mayor over the combined opposition by
l22 majority. The ordinary vote was
pOlled.
1t is reported that Capt. jim Fitzgerald,
who has long been Superintendent OF the
Peoples Line of steamers, has resigned
that position. The Captain is at present
in New Hampshire.
Capt. Harry Gable is getting up me-
| nagerie on board the steamer Georgia,
running from Palatka. He has three
coons and cat now, and will soon add
young bear to his collection.
Paw II Il M;tohon Nav XOpl-
been filing the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church at st. Augustine tor the past two
Sabbaths, and will probably be extended
call TO occupy 1t permanently.
One of the heaviest freight trains that
ever passed over the South Florida rail-
road was sent out from Sanford Monday.
1t consisted of twenty eight loaded cars.
Seventeen were from the local depot.
Oscar Barron, proprietor of the Putnam
House, is expected TO arrive in Palatka
IN about two weeks, when he will begin
making his preparations for opening MS
popular hotel some time in December.
A man was drowned in Lake Mary Mon
day afternoon. He, with several others,
had crossed the lake In a small boat to
look after some hogs. On the way back
squall struck the boat and capszed 1t.
All escaped after hard struggle except
one.
The steamboat Pope Catlin, which ar
rived at Fernandina last week, instead OF
going on to the st. Johns river, has taken
the route between Fernandina and Bruins
wick. Steamboat connection between
these two ports has been greatly missed
since the withdrawal of the Thomas
| Collyer, which is now undergoing extern
slve repairs.
The directors of the State Park Asso-
citation hold meeting at the Board of
Trade rooms at Jacksonville TODAY for
the purpose of hearing the report of the
committee appointed to take into con-
sideration the recommendation of the
| stockholders, which was to submit some
! plan for the increase of stock, or re0r-
GanizatiOn of the association.
The Kissimmee Leader Of recent date
| gives a list of buildings erected in that
city from April l to Oct. l, which foots up
| siXty-three. Some were business houses,
and the total cost is estimated at SOC, 400.
1t says: "We know Of enough projected
enterprises TO warrant US in asserting
| that building operations during the en-
suing six months will exceed 500, 000."
Capt. Joe MarZyck is still at work on
| his Florida Railway and Navigation tres
tie at tine Chattahoochee river crossing
| He has been so much delayed with sick
ness among his hands that the work has
| progressed slowly for the past month
All OF the trestle, 4,300 feet, is finished
except 1000 feet, and as the hot weather
! is about over, that Will soon be completed
A report was current at Pensacola
| Tuesday to the effect that the boilers of
J. Nj. Criglar's mill at Point Washington
| had blown up. The explosion WAS con-
| fined to one boiler and the damage slight,
the fireman being the only one injured,
! while he is not seriously hurt. Tue eX-
plosion occurred last Saturday morning
as steam was being raised and before the
hands bad collected.
The Seville Company has awarded 20 a
Palatka builder the contract for building
two large stores at that place, the con-
tract price of each being $4,000. Also an
addition TO the hotel 40x60 feet and two
stories nigh, at a cost OF $4,000. He will,
/ likewise, erect for the county an acade-
mical building 40x60, with two wings,
each thirty feet square, at a cost OF 81, 1000.
A dozen cottages or more are to be erected
| at once.
The union depot at Pensacola had
narrow escape from destruction by fire
Tuesday. About 1890 o'clock o. m.
Ticket Agent Sublett detected a suspi-
cious odor Of ire and started on the hunt
for IL, and in short while discovered
smoke coming up through the floors OF
the platforms on both sides OF the build
ing. Axes and crowbars were freely
handled, and an incipient fire was found
burning under the floor near the ticket
office. This was extiuglished before
spreading, though few minutes more
would have been sufficient 70 have put
the flames beyond control under that
building.
The Post Office Department, in report
Just Issued, In giving the workings of the
/ free delivery system in Jacksonville dur
ing the past year, shows the number Of
\ mail letters delivered to have been SOL
sos, postal cards 1876, $3.50. local letters &c.
| 070, local postal cards 44,474, registered
letters 1908. newspapers 303.071; letters
collected 0S0,627, postal cards collected
/ lll,ol4, newspapers collected t02,S47.
] Inn total mum hnr of ninnna hunaIna D l.al