Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-13

thought tnat the trestle had been set on fire
by some designing persons.
FLORIDA
Mangoes are ripe on Indian river. and pine
apples are plentiful.
Galveston melons are bringing from 80 to 60
cents in Key West market.
ii is said Leon county is working up large
exhibit for the Louisville Exposition.
surveyor Douglas. Of DaYtOna, has some
good sized pearls obtained from the Turnbull
oysters.
The pineapple growers at Kew Largo have
not netted as much for their fruit this year as
they did last.
The country about Altoona, in Orange
county, Is filling up fast. New houses are
! being erected on the borders of the numerous
lakes in that portion Of the county
The only post Office as yet established on the
new railroad between Jacksonville and St.
Augustine is called ''Register," Duval county.
The negro William Mitchell, who so serious
ly cut his slster-in law, Amanda Williams,
on Tuesday, at Jacksonville, is still at large.
\ $4,000 building, in which will be a thea
tire. Is about TO begin in Ocala by j. L. Har-
RS, owner OF the great orange grove near that
! city.
Hamilton Disston owns 10000 acres of land
in NOlusia county, and pays $425OO in taxes,
/ thus making him the largest tax payer in the
county.
The dredge boat of the Atlantic and Coast
Line Canal has cut its way through the Mala-
compra marshes, between the MatanZas and
Halifax rivers.
The Halifax Fish and Fertilizer Company
/ have closed their factory at Mosquito Inlet
I until new steamer of lighter draught than
the Paulina Wilbur can be secured.
Tampa Is now the most important mail dis
trlbuting centre in South Florida. Twenty
three mails per week are received, and the
same number dispatched from that point.
1t Is claimed that 100 of the 40 miles
through which the st. Johns River Railroad
will pass Is already set out in orange trees,
and that the groves are in the immediate
/ vicinity.
Pink Blocker, the negro fiend of Bradford
county, who tortured to death with fire
brands a little boy. few months ago, and for
l whose arrest the Governor offered a reward,
was captured near Temples Mill on the Sth
inst.
/ u Is said that an association has been form
J ed in Ocala for publishing newspaper and
/ that parties are now engaged in negotiating
/ for material with which 10 commence print
ing t an early date.
The Madison Recorder says: ''The policy of
/ the late ii. NJ. Fearnside in the Knights of
Honor, amounting To $1,000, has been. ordered
/ paid. The policy is in favor of Robert f.
Fearnside. younger brother of the deceased y
The largest sponge ever fished up on the
Florida coast IS now on exhibition in New
York. IL Is fully eight feet in circumference.
/ II was found OF Key West, and il would take
/ long time for any one who used it to squeeze
/ 10 out.
/ For the fiscal year ending June 3Oth. 1888,
/ the Jacksonville water works engine made
2.73S.9S7 strokes, pumping l3j,356,622 gallons
. Of water or an average Of 362.347 gallons Ter
day, requiring for all this work only 3Sl cords
/ of wood.
The patients and cOuvalescents. who have
/ occupied the smallpox hospital at jackson
vile. were removed on Wednesday to the
suspect houses. The hospital viii in a few
/ days be thoroughly fumigated, replastered
and repainted.
+ ON July 9th. near Basin creek. about eish-
of 1 oil
I Reeves killed Columbus Corey. Both were
F Young men. and for a long time citizens OF
. Walton county. Reeves Is at large, but re-
ported as not trying TO escape.
/ Wednesday afternoon as James Meredith,
. of Jacksonville. was running a small Gordon
press his hand accidentally got caught in the
machinery. terribly mashing the four fingers
. of his right hand, His wounds were carefully
dressed. and 1t Is thought that II will not be
necessary To amputate any of the fingers.
At Callahan. last Tuesday afternoon, a fight
occurred between two white men by the
I names OF Joseph Call and Joseph Jones. dur
ing which Call cut an ugly cash in the throat
I Of Jones, grazing ms JuSular vein. The wound
7 whether 1T Will prove fatal or not.
\ sharks tooth was found on the banks of
( the ST. Johns river. in Brooklyn, that meas
ured AT the longest part four and half
inches. and AT the widest part three and a
quarter inches. and had part of the jaw
I al the roots of it with some of the flesh still
attached TO il in petrified condition.
The Tampa Tribune contains the following:
"ln addition to her vast herds of cattle and
her nUmberlcss orange groves and truck
/ farms. south Florida Will soon have developed
and in operation phosphate mines that will
T equal. if not Surpass. the famous beds that
/ have been prOfitably worked in the vicinity
/ of Charleston. several months ago when the
dredge Alabama was at work deepening the
channel at the mouth of the HillsbOro'. Just
below town, the bucket brought up large
quantities of a substance unlike anything
else that had been previously seen in this
country. Mr.. MOsely. an agent of the
. Ashley Phosphate Company. Of Charleston,
I obtained specimens and had them analyzed,
with the following result: Available phOs-
I phatie acid. 1880; phosphate lime 7.95; pot
ash. $40; magnesIa, to 1. The analysis was
made bv Prof. Allard Memminger. of Charles
I ton. and Is perfectly reliable. 1t shows that
{ the Tampa phosphate is superior to the ash
Z element that has been so largely used in this
: vicinity. the analysis of the latter showing
F but 10 20 per cent. of available phOsphOric
acid. This phosphate has been found in sew
era other localities in this vicinity as we'll as at
/ Charlotte HarbOr, Braider Greek and Terra
ceia Bay, and the quantity seems ineXhausti-
bile. The Ashley Phosphate Company has
had fiv5 agents in the field for some time
investigating the various deposits, and has
/ already purchased 5000 acres of land at Char
I lOttc HarbOr, where they propose to establish
works az an early day. This phosphate, we
per ton, and Is pronounced excellent for vines
Of all kinds, fruit trees and garden vegetables.
The Importance of this discovery to this sec
tiOn and to the entire country, can scarcely
be Ovcrestimated. If properly developed.
these phosphate beds will prove a greater
source of wealth than our cattle herds and
orange groves