Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-01
FLORIDA.

The peach crop at Bagdad Is failure.
Homeland has formed q temperance So
ciety.
Rumor says Barlow is to have an ice
factory.
The Ocala Rifles are still drilling regu-
| larly once week.
Ocala storeKeepers are anticipating a
harvest convention time.
Peace creek is still on the rampage and
seems to subsIde very slowly.
Twenty-six men are at work upon st.
| CIair-ADrams' theatre at Tavares.
| Abraham Simon, of Jefferson county, Is
raising magnificent Concord grapes.
The lakes around Leesburg are rising
rapidly, owing to the heavy rainfall.
A new weekly newspaper is to be started
at Bridgeport. 1t will be named Florida.
At Madison it is feared the wet weather
will cause much OF the bottom crop of
cotton to rot.
The capslzing OF boat near Lane Park,
a day or two ago, resulted in the drown
| ing of negro.
The farmers and truckers about Pensa-
cola are planting LeConte pear trees in
large numbers.
The railroad mon consider Chipley the
| boss town on the Pensacola and Atlantic
| for watermelons.
The indications denote the biggest kind
OF boom for the Chipley section in the
very near future.
One of the necessities Of the town OF
| Barlow is large, commodious and sub
stantial school house..
There will be lively match Aug. 2, at
Pensacola, between the Dixie Gun Club
and Pensacola Gun Club teams.
The Methodist quarterly conference
| for the Chipley district was to convene at
the new church at Chipley yesterday.
At Jacksonville new three-stoFy brick
! building is to be erected on the east side
of Cedar street between Bay and Forsyth.
! A cooperative boarding club has been
formed in Tampa and the Bourquardez
| building diagonally opposite the st. James
! rented.
| The Florida Cycling Club, OF Tallahas-
| see, will participate in the sports of the
! grand tournament at Pablo Beach the last
| week in August.
Within the past week there have been
in Barlow between fifteen and twenty
prOspectors who went there for the pur-
| pose of looking around with view of To-
eating.
S. A. Jones has been appointed admin
! istratOr of the estate OF the late Benja-
min F. f. Murray, Of Hillsborough
county. 1t is valued at some $4,000 or
| $4,000.
The South Publishing Company has dis
| posed of az interest to several of the Stan
| dard Oh folks in their 10000 acre posses
sions in Manatee county for big round
sum of spot cash.
! The peach crop in Sumter county this
| year is larger than any previous year. The
| fruit sis fine and commands good prices.
| The large yield is attributed by many to
the late cold winter.
| Mr.. Mccoy, who lives about eight miles
| from Barlow, on the other side of Peace
creek, killed two tiger cats last week, the
| large est measuring six feet four inches
from the nose to the tip Of the tail.
Near Lane Park, last week, while Mingo
| johnson was rowing across the lake, he
came upon fine deer swimming for
shore. He overlook 1t and killed it with
boat chain, which was his only available
weapon.
Burglars continue to enter houses at
Leesburg. Several houses were entered
last week, but the burglars seem to be OF
the hungry kind, and, judging from their
WORK, are more in quest of rations than
anything else.
The engine, hose and hose carriage for
the Independent Fire Company of Tampa
has been received. On Monday afternoon
1t was satisfactorily demonstrated that a
stream could be easily thrown over the
flag pole Of the bank.
Before Judge Vary, at Palatka, Thurs
day, Is. l.. Lilienthal got verdict OF 800
against the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West railroad for a fine COW Of the Jersey
breed, which cow was Killed some weeks
ago by train OF that road.
The young gentlemen OF the Leesburg
Rifles, instead Of wearing the rOsette for
the best shot In their club, now shoot for
their fayorite among the young Indies,
who wear the badge until some other fair
one relieves her of the token OF honor. the
prize being won, in turn, by her champion.
At Jacksonville, Friday, gentleman
driving rapidly through Ashley street
dropped from his buggy a well-flled pock.
etbook. A small boy picked it up and toll
lowed as fast his little legs could carry
him, oyertaking him on Bay street, and
received as a reward for his honesty Just
10 cents.
just as soon as the weather permits
Maj. j. X. Swingley will commence max
ing a survey and profile Of the country
from Bellows lake TO Tampa, through
which the supply pipeage Of the proposed
water works Will ruu--hXing the eleva.
tion at every 100 yards station between
the pipe at the ice house and the surface
level at Bellows lake.
Wednesday when Mrs. W. G. DeGraf-
fenrled OF Jasper, went to feed her canary
bird, she found IL was missing, but found |
in its place In the cage house snake, |
which had swallowed the bird and was
unable to get out. The cage was in the |
parlor and the snake had to come in there |
before 1t could get In the cage. 1t was |