Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-17

Inc purchaser Will reserve twenty acres
for a hotel and divide the balance into
lots.
As the meeting of the Presbytery of st.
Johns held last week in Plant City, there
were 10 clergymen present, representing
as many different churches and eight
elders. The Rev. S. V. McCOrkle, of
Maitland, acted as moderator.
AT st. Augustine, Wednesday morning
at the st. johns railway depot, j.. w.
Farr, a white section master, got into a
quarrel with Owen Swayne, a colored
man. Farr got a rifle and shot Swayne,
i%nficting wounds that may prove fatal.
He Immediately fled.
The proprietorship of Winter Park, a
resort in Orange county, has changed
hands, Messrs, Lyman and Chase having
sold out to f. w. Knowles, of Worcester,
Mass. Col. Fairbanks, the Vermont scale
manufacturer, has been elected President
of the new company. Large improve
ments Will be made this summer.
There is no scarcity of saw logs in the
Jacksonville market now. John COniff,
the surveyor, estimates that an average of
5000 saw logs per month are now brought
into Jacksonville from the camps of j. p.
Taliaferro and Wilson d Huntin9's. Mr..
Taliaterro's logs are cut in Baker county,
and transported on his own railroad for a
distance of ten miles where connection is
made with the western branch of the
Florida, Railway and Navigation system.
At Lake City, Tuesday, there was quite
an excitement over the municipal cleo
ton, some parties claiming that unfair
means were used. The court House" or
''White" ticket was elected. The officers
elected are: Mayor, Lewis Harrison; Mar
shall, r. Bush; Assessor, w. j. Lee; Col
lector, f. l.. Snowden; Treasurer and
Clerk, William Davis. Aldermen: A. b.
Hart, W. S. Cone, W. A. MCKINNEY, W.
j. Edwards. There was a little wild talk
about ''contesting," but it will effect no.
thing.
Capt. Brown, of the United States buoy
tender Westeria, is in Jacksonville for
the purpose of making a trip up the st.
johns river with a view to locating more
beacon lights at points where most need
ed. He is waiting for Capt. Fitzgerald,
who is to accompany him upon a steamer
chartered for the purpose. AS soon as
the points for the beacon stations are
designated piles will be driven. Capt.
Brown SAYS he has concluded to place a
beacon off Drayton Island and another at
Lake Dexter.
Wilson IL Hunting's road extends into
Camden county, Ca, and is about 10
miles in length. The trestle of this road
ONti JuC 0Os W u J . IANCl US uPWdAuo vi
$4,000. These lOgmen have in their en-
plOy some 200 men, and in one way n
another afford a livelihood for many peo-
pie. There are several others in that Sec
UiOn of the State engaged in cutting logs
to be converted into lumber and timber,
and at the present rate of cutting there
will be little timber of value LETT in FlOri-
da a few years hence.
The conviction of Virgins, the colOred
man, for the murder of Porter, at Orange
Point, recalls the fact that it has been
twenty years or so since a similar crime
has occurred in Putnam county, followed
by the hanging Of the criminal. In 1866
a man by the name of Register, white,
was convicted and hanged for the crime
of murder. Thomas Shelley was Sheriff
at that time, and when the day arrived
for executing the murderer he weakened,
and appointed j. NJ. Ramsaur as his dep
uty to enforce the verdict of the court.
News has been received of the destruc-
ton by fire Saturday afternoon Of the new
saw-mill, together with 90, 200 feet of
lumber, at BelmOre, Clay county. The
fire originated from a spark from the
smOke-stack which fell upon the mill.
The machinery was all ruined, and as
there was no insurance the whole is a
total loss. 1t was owned by the BelmOre
Florida Land Company. This is a serious
loss to the new town. Some fifty houses
have been erected there and ground was
cleared for building others. but this loss
of the mill will greatly retard the progress
of building.
A correspondent of the Birmingham
ALA Age was told by a naval officer on
April 9, at Pensacola, that the great deep
water harb0r OF that port will become the
seat of the nations ship yards. "Here,"
he said, ''the Spaniards built the first ship
on this continent, and here with Birming-
ham iron will be built not alone the gov
eminent ships, but the merchant vessels
of the country. The great Warrior coal
fields of Alabama should have a depot
here to coal the whole steam fleet of the
Gulf, and prepare for the great South
American export coal trade which the
Eads ship railway will open up for Ala
bama coal.
Ex-Mayor Greens, ofSt. Augustine, has
transferred his title to the marsh lands in
the rear of the Methodist Episcopal
church to the owner Of the new hotel,
Ponce de Leon. "He receives for the
same $500 in cash." says the Weekly, Of
that city, "and has benefited the city at
large, provided other property owners in
the same locality emulate his timely ex-
ample, to the extent of many thousand
dollars. We understand that Mr.. Flagler
is ready to buy at a fair consideration all
the marsh lands between Bridge and King
streets along the Maria Sanchez creek,
and will engage to transform the same
from a disgusting eess-pOOl into a grand
park with magnificent th~orOughfares on
either side"
The donations thus far received at Key
West for the relief of the sufferers by the
recent c~oniagration are as follows: From
the people of Jacksonville, $1,000; from
the people OF Tampa (%abOut) $1,000; from
the people of Fort Myers, $500; from the
people of Punta Rassa, $13; from Gov. r..
A. Perry, $500; from Senator Jones, 800;
from w. d. Chipley, of Pensacola, $50;
from Zebulon King, OF Manatee coun-
ty, 500; from II. b. Plant, Of
New York, 500; from Joseph
SeIdenberg, of New York, $3.50;
from Thurber, Whyland q CO., Of New
York. 500; from Rice, Born q Co., ofNew
York, 500; from Mr.. Nome and en-
ploves, of New York, $139; from Wicke a.
Co., ofNew York. 500; from Hill Broth
ers, Iof New York, 800; from Morgan
steamship Whitney, $40; from Mrs. Mon
salvatge. of Key West, $50; from Cigar
Makers Union, Of Key West, $49S.
The Old Franklin House Changes
Hands.
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