Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-17


T82 infida ChriStiaR Advocate will be
publI6Ned about March l.
The groves IN the vicinity Of Archer are
repoiSpd Is beng in fine condition.
s(FnnUA trees have been sold at Ocala
sinf tAe Freeze as high as SIT so per tree.
Ahanasome boat house is being built
by the seville company ON the south end
oIlake louise.
The young men of Macclenny have or
ganized q hook and ladder company
KIN wn ae No. l.
The frozen oranges at St. Augustine
have been utilized by some parties who
have manufactured wine and marmalade.
The FeFnandina fire department have
adopted u uniform consisting of a red
shirt, black trousers, white belt and derby
hat.
The City Council OF Cedar Key. at its
last meeting, passed an ordinance pro-
hibitiDg the running at large of all man.
ner OF stock.
The buds ON the orange trees at ST.
Augustine are beginning to put forth,
and in a lew weeks all will be green aud
fresh where now 1t is uEged and leafless.
Starke never presented more progress
i've spirit of improvement than now. The
town is now booming in all directions.
New buildings are rapidly going up in ali
sections.
The County Commissioners of Leon
county are having a stairway erected in
the interior of the new court house tower
so that persons may ascend to the top and
enjoy fine view OF the hill city and hill
country.
Landlord Hall of Hotel Seville has Or
dered from Boston a steam launch, which
is daily expected TO arrive. The boat will
b. y feet Tong with feet beam, and will
be propelled by a twO-horse power Ship
man kerosene engine.
A company called the Green Cove
Springs Water Company has been formed
To supply the town with water. They pro-
pose to sink a well 800 feet, which they
claim will give sufficient pressure to force
the water to height OF 80 feet.
Most of the st. Augustine orange
growers are taking advantage of the bare
condition of the trees to apply an insecti-
ctle and scrub the trunks with mixture
of whale oil soap, saLsOda and tobacco,
with few ounces Of carb0lic acid added.
Cedar Key Journal: George 0. Murray
showed US recently an old almanac put-
lished IN the year 1873, making 1t 10S years
old. On the front page was the following:
The New England Almanac, or Ladies'
and Gents Diary. for the year of our Lord
Christ IT'S. By Benjamin West, A. NJ.
The magnificent Mann bOudoir special
car Ade!ina Patti arrived at Jacksonville
yesterday with p. LOrillard and party,
who are en- route to st. Augustine. This
elegant car was on exhibition at the
Worlds Fair at New Orleans last year,
and Is q marvel Of elegance in all it's ap-
pOintments.
The business of shipping fish to the
Northern naapkafa ia in a 6nu aiabfFU nm
ditiOn on the st. Johns liver, and some
remarkably big catches have been made
during the soasOu. W. h. Cross, whose
ishiDg camp is located at Buffalo Sluf,
during the last week in January shipped
more than $500 shGd.
A Madison nimrod claims to have
caught five partrIdges on the ground re-
Gently which had been pointed by mis- dog
but had not been shot at. AS a point was
made he urged the dog on the birds in the
grass, which was so thick as to impede
their movements. and one was caught IN
this manner by the dog from i've selaf ate
cOveys.
At Washington Monday Mr. DOugherty
introduced Dill in tue House authorizing
The survey and estimate OF The cost tor 4
railway from the mainland to Key West:
also canal connecting the same with the
st. Johns river; also bill for a militar,
telegraph line from Sanford to Point
Jupiter, and the establishmen Mt of signal
station at the latter place. Mr.. Davidson
introduced bill 10 construct a macad-
amized road from Pensacola 60 the Ma
ti0Ual cemetery; also till TO give bounty
land warrants to all soldiers engaged in
tue Indian wars between 1885 and 1865.
A petition from citizens OF Lake City,
Fla. asking that no further patents be
5ranted to the Florida Railway and Navi-
cation Company was presented in the
House.
One Of the most interesting Floridian
discoveries of late years is the unearthIng
of a number Of skeletons at Fort George.
A few days ago several gentlemen visit
Ing the islaud, together with some Of the
residents, determined 70 dig into a mound
which had awakened their curiosity.
They had dug but "A short distance when
they uncovered skull, and future work
brought to light numerous bones forming
parts of the human body, AID one of the
party, physician, after separating
them, declared them to represent eleven
bodies. Besides these bones there
were found several polished pieces Of
stone, which bad been fashioned into the
shape of a tomahawk and battle ak heads
and a quantity OF beads with holes bored
through them, which doubtless formed
part of what had once been the necklace
adOrning the person of some dusky Indian
maiden. This mound is but one OF many,
aud further search will in all probability
disclose many more skeletons and Indian
relics, and may, after scientific lnvestiga-
tioD, settle many questions concerning
the early Indian inhabitants OF this beau
titul and picturesque sea island.