Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-23
Florida AGairS


first MOTEL erected at Green Cove, is being de
moiished Upon the site handsome cottage
will be built for Mr.. Lasselle, Of New York,
editor of the Courier des Flats Urais.
For the year ending April Both the number of
registered packages received at the st. Angus
tine post Office were 1870; sent away 94t:
money orders issued 1888 which represented
S7o,se4 81; orders cashed, So. 35S 80; deposited
by the postmaster, S45,C25 II; letters sent away
64,95o; packages, 20 600; postal cards, 1900.
a magnificent water-spout was seen of Pen
sacols Bay last week
The Tampa Tribune wants the glorious
Fourth celebrated in a manner becoming patrf-
otto people.
There is living near the mouth of Bayou
Texar a negro woman who claims to be one
hundred and three years old, and says she has
resided there since long before a house was
built at Warrington. She has for years been
wing at the expense Of the city of Pensacola.
or at least partially so, but receives no help
from that source since the ''dissolving'' law
was passed She is truly an object of pity AM
charity, and has no sustsnance except that
given to her by strangers.
There was a cooking msin In Pensacola last
week Six battles were fought and six birds
were dispatched.
The st. Augustine saw mill has been pur-
chased by Messrs Garfield & Reyes, who are
now having it put in complete order.
The steamer Marion, Of Harris Ocklawaha
Line of Steamers, has been hauled on the
ways, at Harris Point, and will receive thor
ough overhauling.
Franklin county IS going into the cultivation
of blackberries.
PstIatka wants a ship yard.
Mr. John Bradford, OF Leon county, has sent
to the editor of the Fiorididn fifteen early rose
Irish potatoes, weighing seven pounds. Leon
county lands can produce something besides
cotton.
Collections made at the Pensacola custom
house during the month OF April, as Furnished
the Gazette Imports. 1857 81; fines, penalties
and forfeitures. S174 So; Marine Hospital tax,
$751; SO; tonnage dues. S5,Oi1 so; miscellaneous.
$50 IS; official emoluments. S434 Oh; total.
So. s29 IS.
The material for the new paper at Barlow
has arrived.
Eir. S. h. Ellis writes to the Tampa Tribune
from Clear Water Harbor-a place unsur-
passed in the known world for natural scenery
that he recently saw. while attending a
meeting of the Horticultural Society there,
radishes weighing four pounds and not pithy;
turnips weighing eighteen pounds each, and
cabbages weighing twenty eight pounds
Florida Union: ''Messrs. J. S. Smith. Jr &
Co. of this city, have just received raft con
tanning one thousand logs OF red cedar from
Mr. W G. White of Lake Jesnp The cedar is
to be shipped by rail to Cincinnati This is by
far the largest shipment of cedar ever made
from this section OF the State. The raft is said
to be worth several thousand dollars"
Pensacola Advance; sc. Levy. Pensacola's
great junk dealer. reached home on Saturday
from Milton, in Santa Rosa county. Business
engag ments attracted him thither, in proof
of which we will say that he returned with
four hundred and fifty dry hides one thousand
pOul ds OF beeswax, and five thousand corn
SACKS Green hides are common enough, but
| il is something unusual in this section to see
such an accumulation Of dry ones. The 600
pounds of beeswaX is something else deserving
particular mention and these big sales in the
Junk line speak word or two as to Santa
ROsa's resources. The articles were all ship
ped to New Orleans on the schooner Mary
Ellen"
st. Louis Republican,: "The Pensacola and
Atlantic Road sent out few days ago party
ia charge of Chief Engineer Wells to survey
line eastward from Pensacola to point on the
ChattahOOchae river where the line will inter
sect the Florida Central This enterprise Is
backed by the Louisville aud Nashville Rail
road and it is expected that the new line will
I
this road will not be of much benefit to this
civ. but il will serve to develop one of the
most ferti @ portions of Florida, portion
which has hitherto been almost inaccessible
The road will also shorten the distance between
New Orleans and Jacksonville at least three
hundre miles"
Pensacola Adranee: Last Friday night
Sergeant O'RoUrke and companion, who is a
bUgler, left one of the city wharves In small
| boat with the intention of returning TO Barran-
cas-, where they are stationed. About midway
between the city and the Navy \ ard, we are
told, the boat through some cause capslzed-
Unwilling to remain long in such situation,
O'Rnurke struck out for shore. though entreat-
ed by his friend not to undertake the expert
ment He has not been seen SINCE and his
death through drowning is considered lore
gone CONCLUSION. The companion OF ORourke
chung to the boat, where he remained for six
hours, and until rescued by some one the fol-
lowing day. The deceased belonged to COM
pany L, Fifth Artillery, and our informant
tells Us he had large circle OF attsehed
friends"
Bind Nichols who has long been regarded as
an outlaw and a member OF a bold and danger
ous gang OF dssperadoes, was captured at
BIuff springs last saturday morning, and now
occupies cell in the county Jail There are
some four or Ave indictments against Nichols
Tor unlawful conduct, and among some OF his
acts ne il charged with highway robbery and
Interfering with an officer in the discharge OF
mis- duiles
columbus Enoasfrer-Sun: Richard David
son. a South Carolina rice plantation negro
so ,ba champion pedestrian of Florids. is in
the city He has certificates of his Eema i Si-
lie speed and dislkeS for any one 10 oouot ms
t;7itR< - hcaf a steamboat or the average pas
senasr train of the South. The certificate
statss he threw OF the havser Of steamer az
savannah, bound for Jacksonville ana walked tsa
III the latter city in time 70 receive ING IT Io
~ SI ,,aI- the steamer fast He claims he has
freaaently started from station the same sans
rim. as train aud beat it to the next sla'lo TO-.
In answer to questson as 70 Wn Starre;rsd
noIT Going he stated he was not deLerln ~
h h1t theught he would go to Knoxville. Tenn;
G 3Is saws many have advised him TO go
to New York which he will do, as ne saJs;;
T-ben he feels like doing so. He may De 2 goo9s
walker. but does not have the appearance u