Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-23

and has ab0ut-all tOld-fOrtv business honses
including more than twenty dry goods and
general merchandise stores
rallahas>e has received this year {. I25 bales
Of cotton. decrease Of Is per cent. less than
last wear.
The st. Johns bar has twelve feet Of water
III high tide.
An excursion Of quill drivers-sixtv strong
from Alabama, Will visit Florida in Nav.
The Ocklawaha line Of steamers To PsIatla
closed their season Thursday.
Isaiah Winch. an old resident OF Fernan
dlna lied IN New York last Tuesday week.
ii. :. Ming, Superintendent of the Florida
southern Hallway, has resigned his position,
q" take effect the first Of next month
Work ON the Library building at jackson
vile viii begin next Monday. The committee
have already received subscriptions amount
my 10 500.
About 10000 crates of tomatoes have been
shipped from hey West since the lst of
January, and every one Of them have brought
good prices.
gentleman Of Tallahassee. who planted -
worth of English peas this season. has mar
keteo $50 worth Of peas. had all his family
c"ula Use, and expects 10 sell several bushels
more.
Three cases on the civil. and six on the
. criminal docket, IS the report from the last
+ term Of the Circuit Court of Bradford county
rive "i the indicted criminals had gone TO
parts unknown.
boat 10 the Port Royal on the route between
& Green Cove and Jacksonville. 1t is said that
one Of the DeBary Baya boats will be Sc
lected for the service.
The Tribune gives a summary of the orange
trade at Tampa for the season lust closed
winch shows that the shipments there were
';zol,laz- oi lemons, grape fruit, etc. the
shipments foot up about 100000.
The Cedar Key Board Of Health having
established quarantine at the eastern bound-
I airy Inc OF Levy county, Judge King has been
unable 10 hold his usual spring court in Levy
/ county Judge King resides in Gainesville
where no smallpox has existed.
SiN thousand baby alligators are sold in
b Florida every year. and the amOunl of ivory
number oi skins and quantity of oil obtained
+ from the older members of the saurian family
are sufficient to entitle them to a high place
among the products of the State
ilna. II. Bisbee, Jr., gives notice in the
Tunes DiDH that competitive examination
39i afriiGanis Tor appointment 10 the West
Point Military Academy will be held at
r"l2'kI ion ON IGh}nrsday' the third day of May
". handler and Wesley e. Snow constitute
the committee of examination.
ON sunday last. while the steamer Tusca-
villa was nearing her wharf at Silver Spring
she ran INTO small boat. containing several
colored people. upsetting the boat and giving
It's contents gentle ducking. Two of the
party came very near drowning, and. no
doubt. would have met with q WaterV grave
II 70 had not been for Peter McGinniS who
Ia shore.
One Of the most terrific and destructive
cyclones known for some time. visited a nor
ton of santa Rosa county last Monday The
house Of Reuben Hopkins, on the NicDaVid
terrN Road. about eighteen miles from this
place, was blown down. and the family saved
their lives 10y taking refuge in the cellar. The
family are now IN destitute condition. their
household furniture and provisions having
been completely destroyed. The storm came
from the southeast and leNeled timber and
fences wherever It went.
The International Road now has something
more thar 100 men at work in the vicinity of
McGirt'S Greek anG Black Point CAPTAIN
smith. the Well-6nown civil engineer. is now
surveying route between Green Cove and
Palatks, somewhat different from the route
laid out by Mr.. COuper last year for the In
dian River Road, and running more To the
westward. The route between Green Cove
springs and Jacksonville will be that laid ont
10y MT. Couper, and Will run very near To the
river. passing through Ilibernia.
The railroad surveying party for the Il. Il.
y g. Railroad reached Tallahassee Thursday
last. The only line surveyed throughout ills
whole length Is the central, by sunny HILL
The eastern line has been surveyed from
IhumaSVllle TOT MlccOsuEic. distance a little
over eighteen miles. leaving the portion be-
tween Miccosukie and Tallahassee yet to be
run. The western line has been surveyed
from Ihomasvllle 10 Duncanvllle, whence the
survey Is vet TO be made to Tallahassee. The !
distance by the central line Is 36 miles. which
10 l. thought may be reduced two miles. |
There will be no material difference in the !
length of the three routes.
silver spring Is said 10 be the largest spring |
in the world. IL is the source of the Ockla-
waha river, which is sixty feet wide at the /
start, ten feet deep, and with current |
lowing two miles an hour. All this vast I
quantity Of water comes from the spring, !
whose only inlets are at the bottom. 1t Is /
about two acres in size. and its mysterious 1
depths have never been explored. There is /
AN Indian legend about Silver spring. -of /
courset.uaM MGBC"the neighbOrhOod. won the /
love of Chullootah, hostile chief Her |
wrathlul father slew the lover and then |
WeuOna drowned herself in the spring, |
which was then small, but was instantly en- /
Iar-ed 10 its present proportions by the Great 1
spirits abundant tears OF sympathy.
In the Eey Of the Cult, il Is noticed that for /
two wears past the Spanish authorities at Key /
West have been eXtOrting from our shippers |
Of cattle to Cuba an unjust tax Of forty cents |
per head. Jose W. FrOuski. Vice Consul for |
spain at KEY West. states that the orders |
of his government are that charge of ten |
cents per ton on the gross weight of the |
cargo. or say two cents per head, shall be |
eNacted. The excess Of charges OccasiOned |
bv the illegal demand of the former Consul |
aggregates several thousand dollars, one |
party alone having PAID Tor parties he repre- 1
-euted over seven thousand dollars. Doubt |
less demand Will be made upon the Spanish /
Government for a return OF the sum thus |
Illegally eNtOrted from American citizens, |
and wecannot think the demand will be re- !
fused 10 il the duty of this government to /
protect it, citizens from illegal eXactIOns !
anywhere. and especially on Its own territory. |
The Gainesville Bee has the following on a 1
matter which has lately been mentioned in a 4
Washington dispatch to the NEWS: I'm |
March Of last year white tramp entered the /
bedroom of a young lady at Tampa, and fail /
ing i'm his efforts To outrage her person be- /
c:tIlS.. of her cries. in his desperation he !
plunged dirk into her heart, leaving her in /
"A diving condition. The fiend was next day |
hunted down by the proper authorities and |
lodged in Jail. As soon, however, the |
pouulace became advised of the nature of his |
crime he was taken from jail and hanged to !
the limb Of a shade tree. The United states |
Court was at that time in session in Tampa, |
and Judge Locke, on rumOr that Gen. j. B. |
Wall was implicated in the lynchlng, dis
barred him. General W all appealed from the |
ruling Of Judge Locke to the United States
supreme Court. and that tribunal has sus-
tanned the ruling Of the lower court