Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-03
Florida AHairs.

Fifteen car loads Of freight arrived at Jack
sonville via the Fernandina and Jacksonville
Road Tuesday night-only four days from New
York
The SllldRd Tribune reports that Mr. Dan.
McMulleD, OF Bayview, of the old Tampa side,
brought in on Tuesday several hundred fine
cabbages Zone of which weighed nineteen
pOunds), for which he found ready market
on of One-fourth of an acre he has sold eight
hundred. besides what was used at home and
given to neighbors. The land on which these
cabbages were raised IS point of land running
out into the bay which had long been used by
the birds for a rookery.
The Palatka Herald states that the schooner
VIM. H. VanBrunt, Captain Howard. arrived
there on Sunday. oath ult.. from New York,
with 800 tons of iron for the Florida South
ern Railway The Captain stated that he was
driven sixty miles off Charleston in heavy
gale, and had to put in there and discharge the
cargo in order to repair, as the schooner was
leaking badly. She will go on the ways at
Jacksonville when she leaves Palatka.
Fifty-fve thousand feet of lumber was
burned at the saw mill OF Messrs. Giiffith &
Sinclair, at Pine Level, recently. The lumber
was piled up near the mill and took fire from
the burning saw dust.
Messrs. James P. Taliaferro Daniel G. Am.
bier, Gilbert Hunter and George c. Wilson
have formed a company to construct, maintain
and operate for public use in the conveyance
OF persons and property, railroad, with one
or more tracks, from or near Lancaster's Point,
in Duval county, State of Florida, to the St.
johns river, and along or near the northern
IL,
OF the city of Jacksonville, to a point near the
grounds of the State Park Association. the
whole line of said proposed railroad lying in
said Duval county, distance Of three miles,
more or less
The cotton taken off the Inflated steamship
City of Austin, at Fernandina, was on board a
Swedish bark that was wrecked at Nassau
about eighteen months ago. The cotton was
taken from the wrecked bark and transferred
10 the City of Austin.
A convict by the name of Louis Contrellas,
from Key West, has escaped from the prison
camps of the East Florida Railway Company.
Contrellas is five feet seven inches high, hair
black, color black, occupation laborer; nous
tache and chin beard when he left. He speaks
Spanish, and can hardly make himself under
stood in English.
The Florida Union speaking of the close of
the late prosperous season, remarks: by the
middle OF next week about all of the winter
hotels In Jacksonville will be closed for the
summer, after. perhaps, the most lucrative
season ever known in this State The capacity
Of the hotels was insufficient to accommodate
the large crowds of visitors that thronged the
city during the winter, and for month it was
Il. no vie m nd
thing ike comfortable accommodations here.
In order to guard against another emergency
of this kind next season, one or two of the
hotels will be enlarged during the summer to
almost double their present capacity"
The steam dredge from Cedar Keys is daily
looked for to commence the work of dredging
out the harbor Of Tampa.
I'VE regret to learn says the Townsville
Times, that the residence of Mr.. B. G. Rush
ing was destroyed by fire at Miccosukie, Fla,
on last Monday night. The fire originated in
the kitchen, which was several feet from the
residence. starting about II o'clock Every
thing in the kitchen was lost. The contents Of
the dwelling were saved. There was no in
surance. 1t is supposed that the premises
were fired.
Saws the Palatka Herald: "If ever there was
a fair election, we had it in November last
and vet General jenkins, as commissioner in
behalf of Bisbee, is taking testimony. 1t is
ridiculous farce, and the expenses incurred
will have to be met by the government. The
pay of witnesses is seventy tve cents. wonder
how the pay roll viii be at WaShlngtonE
So far the examination has been confined prln-
cipaly to foreigners. The question flrSt asked
is: Are you citizen of the United states!
Yes; naturalized.' who did you vote fory
L decline 10 answer the question. And here
the examination stops with the foreign eie-
ment. Gen. Finley has no attorney mere. Tor
the reason that IL is unnecessary. as the teStl-
mony is being given in under protest, the time
allowed for the examination having expired
The Florida Union of Saturday relates the
following singular escape from what might
have proved q serious If not fatal accident:
About 2:30 yesterday afternoon little col
ored girl about thirteen years OF age narrowly
escaped being killed by a runaway horse at the
Hogan street crossing over Bay. The little
girl, in company with three others. was walk
ing leisurely across and just as they reached
the middle of Bay street horse attached to
an unoccupied buggy came dashing up. appar-
emily from the st. Johns wharf. and turned
down Bay street. The girl saw the animal
coming and attempted TO get out OF his way,
but the little one, instead OF turning round,
attempted to run across, ana ran Immediately
in front of the horse. She was struck by the
animals head and knocked down, and the
horse and buggy passed on over her without
injuring her at all, save slight bruise on the
head, where the inside OF the buggy wheel
scraped in passing over.
According to the Cedar Keys Journal, the
vegetable crops are booming. Eight hundred
crates of vegetables were left at Milliard's,
near Gainesville. on Tuesday, to take the
freight train at night, the express being
too loaded to take them. The vegetable trade
at Arredondo is so immense that the railroad
company Is forced to build vegetable ware
house Fx6O feet which is to be built at once;
also a warehouse 20x40 at Milliard's. up to
Yesterday, says theJouJ7sdl, I'VE were informed
BY Captain Chandler Martin that over o,OOO
crates of vegetables have been shipped across
LocklOosa Lake, to take the Peninsula tram Tor
shipment North"
The Jacksonville Union says Of the PENN
sula Railroad: 'srhis new road will reach
Ocala and Silver Springs in few days The
road is well built, the rails OF the latest I'M
proved fish Joint connections, and Of the South
ern standard gauge-f1ve feet-thus enar
bling through cars from any point south
of the Ohio and Potomac rivers to be
run over the road without transfer OF
freight This road opens up TO set
tlers some OF the best lands in the State We
are Informed that the road will be extended
southward down the Peninsula as fast as men
and money can construct the line. Since the
advent Of the road into Marion county, lands
nave advanced fully 80 per cent. in value:
through trains will run from Jacksonville and
rr--raIdfua in a few DAYS. We congratulate