1 .. ....G.. . f. . ." ; .. . , i JIjie lOrt'd. isflhr r. : iy : .. 4 : :. ...' , I VOL. v. FERNANDINA, BLA., SATUDAY, JUNE 9, 1883. NO. 29. " . STATE NEWS. Middle Florida. The colt arrived a few days Charlotte arbor, and has a depth of 18 feet NEWS NOTES.DOMESTIC. the nature of the liquid was a secret, and .. ....'.... since, consigned to Governor Bloxham. He of water ai low tide. North of the pass is the stuff was imported from France at a cost ; - Crop reports from Madison county are is about one year old. and a splendid speci- .Gasparilla |island, not inhabited only in the of six dollars a bottle. Then a French very favorable. 'nA men. If properly cared for until grown he fishing seaon.There Chicago is to have an elevated railroad. chemist, who gained the knowledge, came lumber-yard and planing-mill will soon will probably make the finest horse that we is SL small pass at the north of the Work on the pedestal to Bartholdi'sstatue to this country, set up a shop, and reducedthe n be put in operation at Madison by :Mr. J. have had in the county. This is a move in island, where small boats can enter, called of Liberty, on Bedloe's Island, is about to price to four dollars. Next an American W. Williams.St. the right direction. The raising of horses, Little GasRarilla. The next pass is Kettle begin. made up his mind that the substance was Mary's Episcopal Church, at Madison, cattle, sheep, etc., and large fields _of grain Harbor, ant there'are a few settlers livingon Eighteen men and boys deserted from the none other than that which had long been was consecrated by Bishop Young on Sunday and early vegetables are destined to super- it. The! principal growth is buttonwood, training ship Portsmouth at Newport, R. I., employed by workers in hair goods bleach t May 27th. sede cotton in this latitude-the sooner the mangrove. Hive oak,'cabbage and saw pal- last week. with, but which had been considered too better. The colt, by the way, is of the metto. Fish, clams and game are plentiful. dangerous to apply to hair that was still The new opera house, now being built at The United States antic has famous Rysdick Hambletonian and Ethan : The outside beach is lined with shells of steamship growing on live heads. This was peroxide'' Orlando, Orange county, will be completedin been ordered to the Allen stock, noted for their great speed as : many varieties. Kettle Harbor is at the accompany Greeley of hydrogen, and so a dangerous poison has about two weeks.A relief . trotters, Ethan Allen, in his day, standing! I head of Charlotte Harbor on the west, and expedition.A been recklessly employed by inexperiencedhands c sash, door and blind factory has recently at the head of the trotting turf and withouta on the northeast empties Mikka river, concerted movement is on foot among at three dollars a bottle. The special been established at Longwood, Or- rival.-Tallahassee Floridian. which is a:; wide, shallow stream, and but the produce dealers in :New York to force peril is not so much that the hair may be . county by Messrs. P. A. Demens & Co. settled, the lands trade dollars out of circulation.The burned off r ange Tallahassee is gradually emerging from sparsely as are mostly as that paralysis of the brain t The pilots at May port report from Hi to the condition in which the late war left her, low and thi l. The next river is Longpea, iron mills in Pittsburgh, Chicago and may be induced. If like 'really cures like, #" 12i feet of water on the St. Johns bar Four and is slowly and steadily advancing in her improperly called Pease Creek, which emp- Cincinnati have resumed work, the manu- of course the contents of a dude's head are , vessels were piloted over during last week. onward march to prosperity. One after an- ties in on The north of Charlotte Har- facturers having signed the scale of wages. safe. i; Water in Lake Jesup is getting very low. other element is developed, bringing moneyto bor. WheVe! Hickory Bluff is situated Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, in a letter to the FOREIGN. .! 1 At the mouth of the canal there is only the projector and contributing to the there is one store, post-office, church and mayor of New Orleans, proposes to com- The French have bombarded two ports ,s three feet of water now. Rain is greatly prosperity of the country. Particularly is twenty families, who are mostly engaged in promise her judgment against that city for on the north west coast of Madagascar, causing :, , needed. this illustrated in the success of Mr. H. G. stock raisi g. All tropical fruits do well $1,317,000.A great destruction of British and other member of the firm of Wilts & except the :jorange. The place is healthy, merchandise.One ; Wilts senior of the United States Court p. Locke tornado struck the of Greenville Judge of town , : and there ijj? plenty game, fish, oysters hundred and forty-three German sol for the Southern District of Florida, has Demitt, tobacco manufacturers. Mr. Wilts and clams. :Fifteen miles up Longpea riveris Texas, Sunday last. One hundred and fifty diers, stationed at Posen have been accidentally had observed that the area of tobacco cul- Fort Ogdcn thriving village of 800 inhabitants , commenced a libel suit for $20,000 damages a houses were either blown down "or movedoff r against the owners of the Key West Demo ture in Cuba was very limited, and becoming a good school, two churches- their foundation.A poisoned. The condition of the Baptist lethodist-three stores, drink- men is dangerous.The . less and less every year. Why, he reas- 1 crat. ing saloon, saw-mill and wheelwright and cyclone swept through Butler county, steamer Langshaw which left Montreal a John Williams,alias John Deans, of Jefferson oned, could not equally as good tobacco be blacksmith.;; Here the orange trees thrive Ala., on Sundaydemolishing houses, plan on May 23 for London, is ashore at .' raised in Florida? Heobservedthe methodof well, and thfre many fine groves. Lands are county, was arrested at Jacksonville cultivation in Cuba, purchased some seed, high-pine mostly-and produce corn, cane, tations, etc. One negro was killed,and sev- Cape Pine, :N. F., and has become a total 4 , Saturday for the murder of his brother, six From this potatoes, rice, peas, vegetables and also all eral persons injured. loss. Her freight consisted chiefly of wheat. ff} and in Gadsden county. years ago. Williams after the murder escaped planted tropical fruits. There are many islands in The National Educational Assembly for Great anxiety is felt in political circles in tobacco he made cigars equal to the the very Charlotte Harbor, largest being Pine to Texas, from whence he recently returned best Havanas. He obtained more seed, distributed Island ; on this island there are only two 1883 will meet at Ocean Grove, N. J., England on account of Queen Victoria's + ,., .. , ; to this State. He was sent back to them offering to purchase all the settlements, |md the oldest orange grove ex- August 9, and continue its session duringthe health. Severe dropsical symptoms have 's Jefferson county in charge of Sheriff John- cept one in this section' and the largest trees, three following days. set in, and the Queen's condition is considered - tobacco raised, and giving the necessary directions ; but they have mostly died and are not bear- t, son. so serious that her doctors all , Aluchua. as to its culture. He located here ing much. t Sast of Pine Island is Mattcha The 34th annual meeting of the American protested v .M about two years ago. At first his means pass, which Abounds with fine oysters. En- Medical Association met in Cleveland, Ohio, against her present journey to Scotland. 4 The Bee reporter met a vegetable growerof and Bokalia settled A :Madrid dated June 1st ' goppa, Monnjungs are dispatch, says last. Over were so limited that he could hire no hands, on Tuesday 1.000 distinguished r 's t Alachua county, who said he had finished and they raise vegetables and engage in fishing that the Cuban budget, which was read in but gradually his business increased, his and'hunting.{ Cararabe, or Garden Bay, physicians were present. j shipping cucumbers, and is now; devoting the Chamber of Deputies of on Wednesday brand became known, and now the firm ad- is where Captain Wm. E. Goselyn the great The Galveston City Council has set asidea himself to his tomato crop of 130 acres. On vertise for one hundred thousand pounds of pirate, lives with his. cats and dogs, and he block of which is to last week, provides for the payment of the quarter ground Monday and Tuesday last he picked 913 has a fine banana grove. There are many upon remainder of the indemnity of $494,800, + Florida tobacco, will soon have in their em- be erected school the of more islands some high, but the insects are a $50,000 public gift crates, the half of which he sold at 55 cents } awarded by the commission to Americanswho ploy twenty hands, and contemplate put- bad during the summer. For hunting and George Hall, the banker. per crate, delivered at the railroad depot suffered losses the Cuban . during revolt.A , in Florida ting up a warehouse in the fall. The great fishing no place can excel Char- clear of all expense, except the cost of seed, difficulty with them is the supply. They lotte Harbor.'-St. Augustine Press. Ah Yang Ming, the Chinese consul, and Dublin dispatch says that Mr. Edward , planting and cultivating, which nets him that they purchase all the tobacco raisedin -+ his secretary have arrived in New York and Harrington, the editor of the Kerry Sentinel , about for the say 4'r. MARYS GA. taken charge of the consulate at Clinton $10,000 season. Any personcan and the printers of that paper, have each their immediate section or most of it. have this verified by inquiring of the To the Editor *f the Mirror : Place, recently fitted up for them. been sentenced to imprisonment for six r ',- But there is not enough raised for their de- . agent at Arredondo depot.-Gainesville Bee. I am glad tb be able to announce that Mr. The earnings of the Vermont State prisonthe months, on account of the publication in t. mand. Mr. Wilts, who is a close observer Columbia. says that Florida is the only State where Robert Mare. :iso long and favorably known past year amounted to $16,845, or $3,522 the office of the Sentinel of a placard inviting . Peen-to Goodbread peaches are selling Cuba tobacco can be raised successfully. Pe- as foreman, mechanic! and machinist in our less than the expense. The State receives' persons who wished to join the Invinci- upon our streets. Both varieties have an culiar grades require peculiar soils, except a community< Has! .succee' ed:in obtaining! _an 50 cents a day. for the labor of each convict., bles to attend meeting.- ;.;.,'. ' exquisite flavor. Shipments of the two limited area in Cuba, adapted to this partic- admirable site for his shfp-buiiding yard a t John Paterson, one of the most noted England with twenty-seven millions of 't. ," this point. Ieantime, and pending the mathematicians in the died last inhabitants, has only one hundred and forty varieties mentioned to the Northern, market ular grade.-Tallahassee Correspondence Savannah country, will soon begin.. One shipper of the Good- News. work necessary for larger operations, Mr. Saturday at Albany, N. Y., aged 82 years. thousand residents of foreign birth; Germany - ; bread netted two seasons ago $54 on eighteen' Manatee. Mare has" overhauled" and improved the He was state superintendent of weights and with forty-five millions, only two hun- former ways, and is now ready to accommodate - I and a half crates. This is a good net profit, DESCRIPTION OF CHAKOLTTE HARBOR THE measures at the time of his death. dred and seventy thousand, while France, aj!>y of our local craft or river million four with thirty-seven hundred : and should induce our farmers generally to ISLANDS AND RIVERS EMPTYING THEREIN.- Timber sold for a higher price at Darien, . steamers requiring repairs, and has already ' orchards of the kinds.- Charlotte Harbor is.40 miles and thousand, has more than a million. In y r have large early long, on topiear Ga., last week than it has brought in fifteen I am glad ; had applications from France there has been an increase of two . has the business of Lake ad- of 15 miles wide. At the Steadily City an average ex- and prices are expected to continue years, steamboat owners on the St. Johns. hundred thousand in the last five years. vanced until now no town in the State of treme southern Sinnabal Pass there is a high. Over 5,500,000 feet of lumber and , Our truck farmers, despite the late spring Lord Roseberry has resigned the office of t" double its population can boast of an equal depth of 12 feet of water, and four miles and too frequeht visits from Jupiter Pluvius timber were shipped from that port last Under Secretary for the Home Department.John i amount. Her merchants are active, and north is Punta Rassa, where the telegraphwire week.A Tomlinson Hibbert, member of Par- , draw trade from a large territory. The exports and cable meet, and the great cattle are shipping same splendid specimens of the liament for Oldham, and Parliamentary Sec- . Early Rose potato, and I hope will receive reduction of $1 per car has been madeon retary to the Local Government Board, has : a of agricultural products, vegetablesand shipping point of Florida, shipping as manyas California been Lord Roseberry's encouraging "ireturns. freight charges on orangesover appointed successor. fruits alone amount to over $600,000. 15,000 head yearly, at an average price of At PointSt. )eter)Iessrs.Talmadge&Sons the Pacific roads. The reduction has The resignation of Lord Roseberry is due to ;i , Lake City has thirty-six houses of general $15 per head. Punta Rassa is situated on recent expressions of feeling in the House of formerly of Mijuni Valley, Ohio, have raised largely stimulated the exportation of fruits. Commons that the Under Secretary for the , merchandise (all doing a fine business and an island surrounded by a mangrove swamp, some of the finest kinds of crops, such as Oranges are going forward by the train-load Home Department should be a member of b most of them carrying heavy stocks), two has only two buildings, one occupied by the time. the House of Commons.LOCO'S l at lemons Irish ijnd sweet tomatoes a livery stables, a number of excellent board- telegraph operators and the other by the potatoes, , etc., while some; of the finer brands of tobacco The steamer Belgravia which left Queens- I ing-houses, one large saw-mill and three owner of the wharf; perfectly healthy, and BAND DEMORALIZED.THE . ginning establishments. Here the J. & P. plenty of game, fish, oysters and clams the have alsi responded to their skill, and town Thursday of last week for New York, I 1, . Coats' Thread Company have a branch year round. Four miles north on the east has afforded gratifying evidence of the suit- took 700 State-aided emigrants, and the INDIANS WHO SURRENDERED KNOW NOTHING F rl . ability of our Section for truck farming in Allan line steamer Phoenician, which sailed OF GENERAL CROOK. ! cotton establishment. The business steadily side of Charlotte Harbor empties the Caloo- all its branches from Glasgow May 30 for Boston took 200 WASHINGTON, June 7.AdjutantGeneralDrum increases each the and sahatchie which rises in Lake , season over past, a river Okee- this morning received the following t 4 bright business future is in store for Lake chobee, and is 75 miles long. Twelve miles Next year irj addition to these promising of the same class of passengers. telegram : } City.--Lake City has shipped up to date from the mouth on the south side is Fort experiments, Messrs. Talmage hope to test North Adams, Mass., is excited over the WHIPPLE BARRACKS, A. T., June 6. ; " 3,500 crates of vegetables, aggregating 175,000 Myers, a prosperous town, contains 300 inhabitants the merits of; both cassava and jute, to discovery that a family of 15 Irish immi- R. C. Drum Adjutant-General: , Lieutenant Davis of the Third { . which latter i the Government is Cavalry, pounds. We can safely estimate these at $2 has 4 stores, a Methodist Church, ihdustry) grants, recently arrived at the town, have after an examination of the Indians recently t per crate net, which gives us an income and a good school of 40 scholars 10 months anxious to calljthe attention of all Southern been slowly starving because of their inabil- surrendered at Don Carlos, reports that the from the shipments of peas and beans this in the year. The inhabitants intelligent farmers, and concerning which I hope to ity to speak English and make known their Chiricahuas surrendered belong to Loco's x furnish family and number two boys and eighteen ; . of net to date. This includes and On some interesting data in my next , the season $7,500 up hospitable people. north side wants. The case has been attended to by women and children. Sixty-six days ago i the light vegetables, peas and beans. opposite Fort Myers is a settlement of 20 communication. ALEX. CURTIS. the authorities. the Mexican troops surprised the hostiles in dj' We reserve the statement of cabbage, pota- families, all engaged in stock raising, orange St. Marys, Ga.. June, 188S.AXALYS1 Discouraging reports of the condition of the southern Sierra Madres. A small partyof .:.A. , and melons until their I Indians were cut off from the main body, < toes is shipment groves, sugar-cane and vegetables. Twelve $ OF TIlE ORANGE.The the crops in Southern Virginia have been and three days after the fight started for the "'. f . through.-The Upper Suwanee Springs, miles up the river empties TwelveMilecreek Boston Journal of Commerce publishesthe received at Petersburg. Cotton is said to be reservation. One of the party went back to, ; .r+, twelve miles from Lake City, is the finest which is thickly settled, and all have following result of the analysis of a me coming up badly. The tobacco plants are bring in Loco, but Loco was too old to sulphur spring in the South, and is owned cane farms, and the syrup that is manufac- dium-sized orange; purchased in .Faneuil small, and the crop will be late. In the pea- travel, and told them to come without 4' has and him. Loco one boy a with by Messrs. Wight & Powell, of Georgia. tured there is superior to any manufacturedin Hall market: nut section farmers have been squaw t r The skin 67.5 which is many com- him. All the Indians were together when These gentlemen are building a new hotel the United States, and is sold in New Or- 23.33 per cent.weighed] grams, pelled to replant. surprised by the troops. Charley McCo- and will have it in operation atm early leans for more than the syrup made in Lou- The seeds weighed 7 grams, which is 2.84 mas was with them and was well treated. ;4., The American ship Northampton, Captain He was kept to aid them in case of sur- , date. These gentlemen should seek to con- isiana. The orange trees in the hammocks per cent. I Graham, from New Orleans to Liverpool, render. The Indians knew nothing of at uectjthe! spring with Lake City by rail, and cannot be excelled in the State, and vegeta- The pulp weighed: 182 grams, which is General Crook when they left, but now the c 83.83 cent. ran ashore on Molasses Reef at 8:20 p. m. per thus insure the success of their fine summer bles. The Caloosahatchie is:: settled on both The skin continued in 100 country was full of troops, and if attacked : . : parts : Thursday, May 24th, and in a few hours she .t resort. By doing this they can also make it sides up to FortThompson, wherethe marsh Water and volatile oil.......................78.00 bilged. The wreckers have been saving the they will fight the until Sierra whipped Madres.and then Most scatter of a desirable winter resort for Northern and prairie commences, which is rich land, Organic matter..................................21.30 throughout '. visitors. The Florida Southern will be and where the dredge is now at work cut- Ash ................4.................................. 64 cargo of cotton and staves, some of the cotton servation.them will attempt Some expect to work no mercy back to, and the will re- The seed contained in 100 being in a damaged condition. The cargo to Lake the middle of canal into Lake Okeechobee parts : the and remain in the mountains completed City by ting a through Water.............;................... ..............90.90 consists of 1,580 bales of cotton, and the keep up fight have - ( autumn, and it would be well for the active Lake Flirt and Lake Hickpochee. The Organic matter..*...............,.................48.64Ash as long as possible, as they no balance staves to Wm. Curry.- other to The mountains in j proprietors to confer with the authorities of dredge is now working finely, but the canalis ......... ........ ................................. 1.36 consigned places place are inaccessible.go. General Crook::! many will ), Key of the Gulf. pi the road with a view to its extension. We not likely to be cut through as easily as The pulp contained in 100 parts : probably not meet of them before reaching , Water...............:................................90.90 We have disgraceful developments from any of the Sierra feel assured that the Florida Southern will was at first anticipated, and the dry season Organic matter!................................. 8.68 the extreme southern number part t assist them if they make them anythinglike has somewhat retarded the work. As to Ash .................L................................. .33 Austin, the capital of Texas. Forty or fifty Madres.known The exact but there between of fighting 100 men and : a is not are It will do there land the Distton The pulp contained in 100 parts : members of the Legislature were indictedfor a reasonable proposition. no being no on purchasethat 150 and more than 306 women and chil Grape sugar.......>.................................. 4.3 gambling; and this shows how great The number of includes harm the effort at rate Lake is suitable to settle is mistake. dren. men boys make a to any upon Cane sugar....... ;.................................. 4.2 must be the demoralization of the Texas to bear The Indians large enough arms. t City Reporter. The lands through this section are equal to In free acid.......;.... ............................. 1.0 think that General Crook will have trouble a, , stolen All the indictments were Leon. the lands now occupied by settlers. The The free acid: consisted of about equal Legislature. to find the hostiles. The latter will run if t , Colonel Henning, the president of the southern island (Sinnabal) on Charlotte Har- parts of malic and citric acid. from the county clerk's office; and this they can. The Chiricahuas and Warm Florida Central & Western Railroad, was bor is 25 miles long, and no persons livingon The ash constituents of the orange were as shows how loosely the business of adminis- Spring, with a few renegade Indians, are the'" " follows : tering the laws is carried on. The honest only Indians on the war-path in Mexico. impressed with the of this it the lands are too and the F capacity portionof ; porous Potash..................................:............. 38.0 people of Texas must make haste to look Dutchy Chiricahua, who surrendered at i , the State for stock-raising during his visit drouth causes all productions to die. At Soda.................................................. 7.6 Fhomas, states the number of fighting men, - here. In order to encourage the rearing of the head of Sinnabal is Capteria Pass, Lime................................................_ 23.0 after their law-makers and law operators.In including boys able to bear arms, at 107, including - fine horses he proposed to send a fine where one of the fisheries is situated. The Magnesia............................................ 6.5 bleaching the hair the chemical used is those just surrendered. The Indians - Ferric phosphate.................. ...........- 1.7 said be of So muchof are commanded by Geronimo, and thoroughbred colt from his stock farm inSew next island is Riocosta, some good land anda Sulphur............................................ 2.9 to peroxide hydrogen. will not fight if they can help it. York to several of our planters if they large cocoanut grove. This island reaches Silica.................;................................ 6.2 it is used that a factory in :New York is (Signed) J. MARTIN, r would agree to rear the colt and keep in I north to Boga Grande, the main entrance to Phosphoric acid.>.................... ........... 14.1 devoted entirely to making it. Formerly "Asst. Adj't. General." i . . .._ . t Ii