Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-25
Florida Affairs.

A huge rock uSh, weighing one nuhuFeu anu
fifty pounds, caught near Tampa, was recently
canned at Pensacola.
Captain Tonnesen, of the Norwegian ship
Vanse. recently brought to Pensacola buoy,
seven feet long by five and one-half feet
wide. marked u. S. L. II E. p which he pick
ed up at sea in latitude ~ deg. g min. North,
aud longitude % deg. IS min. West, about
northeast of the western Islands Of Azores,
November 1lth, 1880.
Cedar Key has voted to issue bonds to the
amount of s. GOO for dirt road to the main
land. on the completion Of which she proposes
TO get up boom.
Apaachicola expects to realize $4,000 from
shipments of fish and oysters this year.
Seven Italian sailors are held in Pensacola,
charged with deseItion from vessels in that
port.
The dredge for the Okeechobee Canal Com
pauy was obliged to put back into Manatee
river on account Of bad weather outside, but
will proceed with al possible expedition TO
the place where work is to be commenced.
Ths estimated value Of exports from Key
West for the week eLdet January 10th is
Sol. 500. principally cigars, sponge and turtle.
The big cl ok for the Everett House, Jack
s0l Vile, has arrived.
-Four thousand dollars have been expended
on the new Episcopal Church a. Fernandina.
and it is thought that s2C0O more will be re-
quired 10 complete it.
A letter from an attorney in Pensacola to
parties in Glasgow. Scotland, passed through
the DO & office Lass Thursday, on which, owing
TO its extraordinary size and weight, the small
amount for postage Of Sl1 even money was ex-
acted
The Florida Southern Railway build their
| own fat and box cars in their car shops, at
Palatka The box csrs are well ventilated for
fruit aud vegetables, and are as large as broad
| gauge cars. The steamer Eliza Hancox car
ried up a number Of car wheels for the com
/ pany few days ago.
Maurice O'Brien, a well known stevedOre of
Pensacola. was found dead in one of the cells
Of the city prison Friday morning last. He was
/ incarcerated Thursday morning, ana was be-
| fore the Mayor that day, and was known to be
alive Friday morning at o'clock, but when
the door or the cell was opened, at 9 O'Clock,
he was found to be dead The cause assigned
was excessive drinking.
The steamer John Sylvester came in coils
ion with the schooner Belle Russell at De-
/ bArK s WudFAs J&Gksp4fAlAUs a lev heA9 a.
/ in a fog, iuiicting damages to the schooner
and wharf 10 the extent Of about $1,000
| Farmers around Live Oak have not yet finish
ed picking, and the ginning establishments are
/ crowded with cotton.
Capt. Lodes. of the yacht Mischief, saved g
| little girl from a watery grave in Jacksonville
a few days ago.
The Starks Telegraph claims that that sec
tion was never more prosperous, and that more
cotton was made there this season than ever
before
The old historical NIurat mansion. built in
| 1872. and Io~g occupied by the widow Of Prince
| Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat, son Of
the first Napoleon's favorite, the King of Ma
/ plss. was burned to the ground Monday even
| ing. Is stood on hill about one mile west of
/ Tallahassee on a large estate adj dj1ining the
/ plantation of Governor BlOxham, who, after
the death OF the Princess. became its owner.
A prominent New York commission mer.
| chant recently wrote to a Federal Point orange
| grower follows: Don't let any one ship
/ either TaDgaTine or Mandarin oranges 10 me,
| Have some here nov that will rot down for tre
| want Of an offer. Don't want them. vii not
have them. Never expect to sell any more"
Pensacola Advance Gazette. 22d inst: "a
| coIcred man, Ezek HcDOugall, was brought to
I FhIS CeItV Yesterday morning IN a very Danger
| Gus condition. owing to he painful crushing
/ az his right arm that he had suffered the cay
/ before. He came from some point on the
/ C1necuh river, and was employed 10 work on
| the same as raftsman- lie wss at the tim
| of the accident guild ng a raft in advance of
| some others and happening to drop his oar
| blade he bent for Nard and reached for IL, but
| was not fortunate enough TO reach it IN time
| and recover before the raft in the rear was
| propelled by the current against the raft that
| McDougall was on, cafchlng the unfortunate
/ mans arm between the two, which completely
| crushed it Just above the elbow" The arm
/ was amputaf ed. but the unfortunate man died
shortly afterwards.
! A correspondent Of the Jacksonville Times
noting the election Of officers and directors OF
the Seville and Halifax River Railroad. says
The object of this road is to open the HallfaX
! river country TO communication with the ST
| Johns river steamers. and also should the lat
ter road be buiIt) to a connection with the road
known as the Palatka and Indian River Il all
road. The road is about thirtv-five miles long,
| section Of VOlusia county; has alresdy land
grant of I3S,t01 acres Of State land
Consisting of every even section of land
between Seville and its proposed eastern
termintls-Da Davtona. The preliminary Survf y
has been made and the map thereof filed. The
road will be of the standard gauge, four feet
eight and one-halr inches, and be built IN al
approved manner throughout. IL IS expected
to be a paying and thoroughly i've rallroad
Offering. as it WILL short transit for the Hall
fax river region, and. through the Palatka and
Indian River Railroad, connections with al
points of the country by the same gauge.