Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-04
Florida AHairS

al NUM-, OF the Department Of the
South, is in Tampa
"atermelons are the the latest luxury in
Key West.
Two and half inches of rain fell at Kew
West last week.
The Live Oak and Rowland's Bluff Railroad
is booming.
The Union states that the convict camps,
now situated about six miles north of Jackson
vile, on the Waycross Road, are to be moved
at once to point near Calahan.
The Tampa Guardian says that DR.. Benja-
min, the newly appointed Postmaster at Tam
pa, is the first Republican that has held the
office in ten years.
The Lake View correspondent of the Tampa
Tribune reports that considerable trouble ex-
isis in the minds Of some people there, caused
by the report that D. L. Yulee has a legal
claim on the old homestead sections that have
been homesteaded by many, and on which val
liable orange groves are growing
The Jacksonville Union states that o. j. H.
Summers, Esq. in behalf Of number of the
members of the congregation, presented to the
Very Rev. Father P. Dufau a purse containing
SIl2 Is as a tribute of their esteem.
The new Tampa journal, the Gulf Coat
Progress, reports that the engineers of the
Tampa. Peace Creek and St. Johns Railroad
have started on the line of survey. They
have surveyed IN and around Tampa about
70 y miles, and will speedily complete the
whole line. when the work of construction
will speedily follow. Dispatches advise the
officials here that their Eastern friends and
capitalists will shortly arrive.
The Tallahassee FToridian says that there
has been a remarkable activity in the sale of
public lands at the Land Office since the first
OF January. For the six months preceding
that date there was but one sale of school
la DIS, and very few sales of internal improve
ment lands. Below is a statement showing
sales of all classes of lands since January LIST
to dae: OF internal improvement lands there
were sold during the month Of January 4,374. IS
acres, for which there was received 81, 1l3 %;
February, 27,6l242 acres, $22,9 77 80; March,
Ss95 % acres, S1OS96 50; April, 80 29S 45 acres,
$50, 713 90: May. 14,99737, SI2,4Ss 80. Total
Of acres sold, 9056S.54, value received ST.
159 % The total sales of school aud seminary
lands were $50 acres, value received s.. 957.
Our Chattahoochee correspondent writes:
After a long drought. partial rains have
come, but they are very partial. While our
farm has a good season, the adjoining one is
parched up. yet the farming prospect is hope
full. Cotton is clean and in good health. but
there is not so much of it. Corn is more abun-
dant and very thrifty in some localities, while
the worms are playing havoc with it in others
Farmers are tight pressed for supplies, and
many negroes have gone away to work at
railroads. ST am mills and timber camps"
Says the New York Herald ''MesSrs
Croker q Davidson, of New London, are
building large schooner for Beatley & Young
The dimensions of the vessel are: Length Of
keel 126 feet; breadth of beam. S2lS feet and
depth of hold. u feet The frame work is of
dark and hard pine, and is now ready for the
OaE, hackmetack and chestnut planking. The
vessel is being constructed under the instyuc-
tons of an insurance company, and will be
rated A No. for ten years. She is to be
launched in October"
Key West Key: "a party OF U. s. Surveyors
| under Capt. Duval, of Tallahassee arrived
here on thursday morning last from his work.
| Immediately north Of the Thousand Islands,
and South of the Big Cypress. Capt. Duval
states that his work covered quite a large sec
ton of the best land in Florida, trolling pine
| land and very rich hammocks) and which he
believes has not been heretofore known and
IS enthusiastic on the subject of running rail
road down to Cape Sable Here he states will
| be found ample ports for terminus, and the
road running through one of the best tropical
| regions in the United States"
Tallahassee Florididn steps win soon be
| taken to arrange for the annual fair of the
| Middle Florida Agricultural Association. The
assessments on the capital stock of the associ-
alton have been mostly paid up, and the insti
tuition is clear of debt and in fine financial con-
| ditiOn. 1t is intended that the next fair shall
/ be the best that has ever yet been held, and no
pains or expenditure will be spared to make it
so. The buildings and grounds are all in good
| condition and provide ample accommodation
| for every class OF exhibits. The experience OF
| the officers has served to give them confidence
| and the knowledge requisite to make the future
| exhibitions even more successful than previous
| ones"
| Tallahassee El0TiGidn: Colonel James G.
i Gibbes was in our office Saturday, and gave
/ US the latest news about the Pensacola and At
/ lantic Railroad. He states that he has orders to
/ begin at once the location of the road from this
| end westward; that Col Chipley, whom he met
| last week at the river, was acc Ompanied by Mr..
] T. q. AIcAIichael, Supervising Engineer of the
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad. and both gen.
| tlemen are very confident and enthusiastic.
! They stated that the money was ready, part of
/ the route already under contract. and some fifty
/ or sixty miles at the Pensacola end will be To-
| Gated by June l. and the entire line located by
/ August l. Colonel Gibbes also stated that he
would soon be prepared to go into the field to
locate this end of the road, and that the work,
/ as fast as located, would be put under contract
/ at once, thus giving employment to a very
| large number of labOrsrS at good wages. The
| expectation was that the work would be let in
| small sections to parties residing along the
/ lima