Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-03
FLORIDA.

order OF the day in Sumter county.
A new steam cotton gin is to be erected
at Changers Landing, in Jackson county.
John HI. Wright has just been appointed
Postmaster at AstOr vice Bryan resigned.
A citizen OF fernando county has g.
year-old daughter who weighs 1l5 pounds.
E. W. Perry, son of Gov. Perry, has
accepted position in the National bank
of Palatka.
Land sales in fernando county are re-
ported good. Several tracts have changed
hands recently.
From 800 to 800 acres of vegetables have
been planted in the vicinity OF Sumter
vile and Panasoffkee.
Tallahasseeans will not build a new
opera house Just yet, as only $50 could be
raised toward the progress.
There Will be more vegetables raised in
fernando county this spring than in any
year in her previous history.
An enemy, in the shape of small spi-
der that eats the terminal buds, has been
discovered on the LeConte pear tree at
McClenny.
The body Of drowned man, supposed
to be that of negro named Charles
Brown, was found near Ormond, in the
Tomoka river, on Feb. 81.
The Leesburg Real Estate Association
have chosen the peninsula lying between
Lakes Harris and Griffin as the location
for new English colony.
All the country public schools in Duval
county will close next Friday for the term.
The city and suburban schools will remain
open for several months yet.
Building is going on very actively
around Maitland. A dozen or more houses
are In couse OF erection, and many more
to be completed during the summer.
At Fort Mason, Monday, Ed. Fischer, a
German, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor in his room. He had
been discharged by his employer, which
caused him to be very respondent.
The cost of the bridge over the Suwan-
nee at BranfOrd. is to be $40, 700, of which
the town pays $1,000 and Suwannee and
Lafayette counties the balance. Three
years are allowed to pay the money.
MIR. Harris, of Wildwood, has purchased
the property now occupied by Mr.. Kim
ball, east of court house. at Sumterville,
and will erect good building for the pur-
pose Of engaging in the mercantile bust
ness.
Forest fires are raging in every direc-
ton around Sumterville. Some damage
is reported in the destruction of fences,
and it is feared that the grass is being
burned off 80 closely as to cause stock to
suffer.
SumtervIlle Times: A fortune awaits
the man who succeeds in the manufacture
of brick in this part of Florida. 1t is
generally conceded that good clay for
that purpose may be found in the vicinity
OF Sumterville.
The schooner City of Jacksonville,
Capt. Stillwell, is loading 100000 bricks
at Baltimore for the lighthouse at Mos
quito inlet. The bricks will be discharged
at Jacksonville and sent to their destina-
ton by small vessels.
James Scott, of Wildwood, and until re-
Gently the proprietor of the Wildwood ho-
tel, has purchased of Mr.. Warren the lot
on which stands the second house north
of the Baptist church, in Sumterville,
with the intention of erecting hotel
building.
The brick walls for the new passenger
depot of the Florida Railway and Navi-
cation Company at Jacksonville are COM
pleted and the roof is now being put on
the building. The foundations for the
sheds are also being built, and the tracks
extended to the depot,
A petition, signed by prominent citi-
zens of SumtervilIe, Wildwood and Lees
burg, Will be presented to the County
Commissioners at their next meeting,
asking that an appropriation of $4,000 be
made to aid in securing the location of
the Methodist College in Sumter county.
A letter was received at Jacksonville
Monday announcing the death OF Mrs.
Rev. Mathew Swain, at Newark. N. j.,
on Thursday last. Feb. %. in the S5th
year OF her age. She was the widow of
Rev. Mathew SWAIN. the first pastor of
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, OF
Jacksonville.
The county bridge across the river az
Robnson's cottage, near Mayport, is COM
pleted. There are foot bridges on each
end OF apron for footmen to cross in high
tides. The piling of the bridge Is pal
mettO, the main span Is 80 feet across the
river, II feet wide and aprons on each
end 10 to 20 feet.
Sumterville Times: The DOUGLASS
brothers have refused $3.50 per acre for
their twelve acres OF cabbage aud onions
TO be taken standing in the field. When
we state that the boys came here IRON
Tennessee in last December, and that all
they have done in their truck patch has
been accomplished since that time, an
idea OF the prOhtableness OF gardening in
this part Of Florida may be had.
A new steamer, the North State, the
ldA kGSb AuU HauOSOnSob DONb bhAb was
ever run on the lakes, has been purchased
by Capt. S, W. Wallace and Mr.. NJ. NJ.
Haines. of Leesburg. she will be run on
lakes Harris and Eustis in connection
with the Florida railway and Navigation
railway, which company is now making
arrangements TO build a number of fine
wharves on lakes Harris and Eustis for
the landing Of the steamer.
Jared Smith, superintendent of the
drowned near Port Orange last week.
This makes the seventh case Of drowning
in connection with this work, viz: June
2, 1884, Gen. .. Il. BabcOck, Levi p. Luck
ey, b. p. Suter aud Charles A. McCor-
mick, in attempting TO land from the
schooner PharOs. Jan. 10, this year. two
seamen of the schooner Fannie r. john
son, and Mr.. Smith, as above.
The material to be used in paving Bay
street, Jacksonville, is being delivered as
rapidly as possible at the yards OF the
Florida Railway and Navigation Com
pany, aud II is expected that ground will
be broken next Monday. The contractors
are now running two circular saws for
cutting the blocks the proper length.
They say that this is the first cypress
ever used In their pavement and think
that IL is superior to cedar, as IL cuts
smoother ana will last just as long.
The following is a brief statement Of
the work done by the engines at the Jack
eouville water works for the month Of
February: The old engine made 549,Sll
80. Al A..