Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
Florida Affairs.
Burglars are operating in Jacksonville.

Burglars are operating in Jacksonville.
An English translation will be required in
future of all manifests of vessels entering
Pensacola.
Operations at the Jacksonville Rice Factory
have been suspended for the season, the supply
of rough rice having been exhausted. During
the season about thirty thousand bushels of
rice were cleaned at the factory.
Maj. G. W. wylly offers a special premium
of twenty-five dollars at the Orange County
Fair for the best two hundred pound bale Of
Florida grass hay, and DIR. a. NJ. Thrasher ten
dollars for the best bale Of pea vine hay.
The News is indebted to the management for
an invitation to "Ye Olde Folke's Concerto, :"
at Wilson'S Hail. Quincy.
A negro woman was drowned in Perdido
river, at Mu;cogee. while bathing on Sunday
last
General John N. Dunn, of the Interior De-
partment has been in Pensacola for several
days His visit is for the purpose of adjusting
difficulties with parties who are charged with
trespassing upon government lands.
There is now on exhibition in the Orlando
Reporter office a root of the India rubber tree,
one variety of which is native of South
A.
ards, Esq, from the Lake Okeechobee region.
1t is novelty in appearance, as well as an in
teresting specimen.
Two horses, owned by Captain Tom. Parker,
and driven by A. ]. Braswell, backed over
board from the head of Palafox wharf, Pensa.
cola, a few days ago, and were drowned The
animals were hitched to a two-horse wagon,
were engaged in hauling lumber, and had just
returned for another load when the accident
occurred.
Bishop Young visited Orlando in company
with Rev. C. W. Ward. on Monday last While
there he accepted the liberal offer of ". A..
Patrick, Esq, of choice lot just west of the
railroad track upon which to build a church.
This is the first step toward the erection Of a
house of worship for the Episcopal Church of
Orlando.
Messrs. p Houstoun, r. H. Gamble, A. B.
Hawkins John S. Winthrop. G. g. Pearce. K. a.
Shine and Leroy d Ball have organized, under
the general Incorporation act, for building a
$50, 900 hotel in Tallahassee.
Gainesville sun and Bee, 9Th inst: 'Yester-
day the elegant dwelling on the James place,
owned and occupied by Mr.. Robeson. was con-
sumed by fra The building was of the
finest residences in the county, and situated
about four miles from town We understand
that some of the furniture saved"
The Pensacola Advance says that passen-
ger by the Neptune Wednesday, states that
the eastern corps of the Pensacoia and Atlantic
Road, under w. II. Wells, crossed Yellow
River Monday. j. G. Gibbes, in charge Of the
western corps, has left ChattahoOchee for Ma
rianna. The work moves steadily forward
ST. Augustine Press: 1--WE learn that United
States signal observatory is to be established
in this city, branch of that at st. Johns bar,
from Yhick point all observations will be at
once teiegrapRed here and signals hoisted ac-
cordipgly We are glsd 10 see that the great
big government at last tase some notice of st.
Augustine The people did long ago, Gut then
it always takes the government some years TO
see anything anyhow"
Pensacola gazette: THE Steamtug Mary
Louisa towed a spile driver up the Escambia
BaV yesterday in front of Mr. A. I. YpieStras
place Bellevue The object was to sound the
depth of the water and the mud OF the bay.
and to ascertain the length of spiling that will
be required in building trestiewoFk for the
new railroad. Three posts were driven down.
one OF them to the extraordinary depth or 4S
feat before sufficient solidity was obtained.
The conclusion, as we understand IL, is that
spilinss Of an average length of at least fifty
feet viii be requirea foT the bridge"
Pensacola Adrdnce: Our rsaSeTs will re-
member the publication in a recent issue OF
thiS paper of the SD fate of Sergeant o. Rourke,
vino was drowned in Pensacola Bay. AS stated
in that article. the dec aSed belonged TO an ar
tiliery company. ana HaS great Fayorife VIII VIII
all the members thereof, and his sad fate has
produced such an effect upon the mind of one
romrafe that he is now nightly haunted By the
aDparition OF his dead companion. The un-
f6rtapale, who is thus afflicted, is described as
in a most pitlAbie condition, and our inform
ant tells us that uiS cosrrades in arms nightly
watch him as he fiies from Sn t,,3Gginary spec
ire traversing the beach at BarFaneas and
muttering in q kind OF monotone some Ia
articulate language. We did learn this partys
name but deem it advisable to withhold it
from pFint The body of oiRouke, it will be
remeIn bereo. SaR found on Santa Rosa beach
a few days after the Sad catastrophe