Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-04
FLORIDA
Bee keeping is becoming quite business in

Bee keeping is becoming quite a business in
Florida.
Forty-one saw mills have been shipped up
the st. Johns river within one year.
1t is rumOred that Mr. J. l.. Lee. the pro-
prietOr Of the Everett Hotel, jacksonville,
will erect a mammoth hotel in st. Augustine
during the summer
The st. Augustine City Council. on Monday
evening, made an appropriation of $3.50 for
the purpose of sinking a new artesian well.
just west of the old meat market.
six new recruits arrived at 1t. Augustine
Monday, accompanied by a Sergeant OF the
Fifteenth Infantry, and were forwarded on
Wednesday TO Mount vernon (Ala.) Barracks.
seven thousand dollars worth of machinery
l. on the way from Pittsburg, Pa, for Messrs.
Brown y Simmons of Magnesia Spring, Fla.
to be used by them IN working up the phos-
phate rock at the spring.
The jacksonville HeraId saws: ..There were
IS pieces Of mail matter taken from the post
boxes Tuesday the first day. OF this number
there were l51 letters, Al postal cards and
20 newspapers The first district, Bay street,
contributed l46 pieces TO the lot above cited"
several negro women were arrested in Au-
gusta Tuesday night. One of them named
Mary Jane Burke mas served three year., IN
the state penitentiary for numbering another
negro woman IN WaynesbOrO about six years
ago. Armed with razor She without warn
ing, cut her throat from ear to ear.
\ refugee from Jacksonville arrived in San
ford the other day, and was denied admit
tance within the gates until he surrendered
his bill of health. lie requested its return, as
his destination was Orlando, but was told this
could not be granted. y duplicate, howe yer.
was given him after paying fifty cents.
The Port Royal and Augusta Railway pro-
poses 10 make an important extension at Port
Roval. Connecting with the ma in line at or
about the workshops the branch road will
cross the upper part of the town to the Beau
fort river, and thence up to the property Of
Walton. Whann X Co., passing the Beaufort
Fertilizer Works and the Sea Island Chemical
Works. The branch line Will be three miles
long.
The 1t. Augustine Press has the following:
seen. BabcOck, Lighthouse Engineer of this
district. has returned to Baltimore on his
steamer. the Jessamine, bringing with him
the skeleton Of a sperm whale found on the
coast of Florida near Jupiter inlet. IL was
secured for Prof. Baird. of the Smithsonian
Institution. The place where the whale went
ashore Is the same place where, two years
ago, the coast was covered with dead fish for
miles. Recently sixteen dead whales were
found along the same coast. One of them was
s. i'll to be at least seventy feet long. The
cause of so many dead fish at that point has
puzzled the scientists. Prof. Baird, hearing
of the whales, authorized Gen. BabcOck to
eNpend 500 to get a skeleton for the institu-
tiOn. The whales were of a new species of
sperm, and the oil in them all was estimated
10 be worth about $1,000
The st. Johns river Is navigable for nearly
$50 miles. and terminates within three miles
Of the Indian river. \ canal Is being cut
from the lake on the st. Johns river to the
Indian river, and when that short cut is COM
pleted the tourist can take a steamer at Jack l
sOnville go up the st. Johns river into the
Indian river, and return to st. Augustine by
water, then take the new railroad to Jackson
Vile. The DisstOn Company and Sir Philip
Clark have purchased the st. Johns and Hall
fax Railroad. The road is 10 run from Rawls
town on the St. Johns. to OrmOnd or Gar
field. on the Halifax river, distance of about
FORTY miles, and is graded some twelve or fif-
teen miles. with the iron down to Deep creek.
a distance of nine miles from RawlstOwn.
rVhieh engine and cars run 0alIV.
Prom Deep Greek a branch is to be run to st.
Aucusti-le a distance Of twenty-One miles,
and from OrmOnd another road is to be run
to Enterprise, distance Of thirty-tOur miles.
This will give a railroad connecting all the
Jyav from Jacksonville to Enterprise, over the
Jacksonville, st. Augustine and Halifax Rail-
road To ST. Augustine, and thence To st. Au-
custine bv the DisstOn Clark roads. and the
entire run from Jacksonville will then be only
one hundred and twenty-one miles, much less
than by the river.