Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-17

Portable house, which cost several years
ago $4,000 alone, was recently sold to an
English gentleman for 50 200.
A Palatka firm is manufacturing excel
lent mattre sses from palmetto and pine
leaves, which are ground up as fine as
moss by cutting machine. The pine
leaf mattress is said to possess medic nal
merits of a high order for kidney troubles.
Among the arrivals at Jacksonville
Friday were: One family from Wiscon-
sin. going to Enterprise; one from Ohio,
going to DeLand one from Kansas, going
to Leesburg; one from Denver, for Jack
sOnville; and one from Paris, Texas. for
Tampa; and three single men for the Lake
Weir section.
There is a colored preacher who lives
near Jasper that rules his horse by butting
him. If the horse is fractions or stubborn,
he takes the kinks out by deliberately
Selling 1t by the ears and hutting it
squarely in the forehead until it falls to its
knees. This it generally does at the
second or third butt, when the old parson
steps behind and drives ahead again.
The Civil Service Examining Board will
meet at Jacksonville June II for the pur-
pose of examining applicants for appoint
ment to positions under the government
Hon. Charles Lyman, the Chief Examiner,
take place at the United States Court
room. Gen. VIM. NJ. Ledwith, Capt. F.
G. Solee and Mr.. II. q. Holloway have
been appointed as the Board of Examin-
ers. There are now fifteen applicants for
admission fntothe service to be examined.
Fort Myers Press: 1t is said there i
one species of cattle which can be safely
brought to this climate, a species that
Will inter-breed freely with the native cat
tie and produce by the cross stock of tine
quality. These are the Bramin cattle of
Asia, species of the OK tribe, known as
the Zebu. They are good breed of cattle,
characterized by a fatty hump on the
shoulders. They have good domestic
qualities and are especially at home in
warm climates. Some of these cattle in
former years have been brought to this
country, and strain of the blood is still
recognizable in this region of South
Florida.
Work on the jetties at the mouth of the
st. Johns river still progresses with I'M
abated zeal. The engineer in charge says
that he expects that the appropriation
Will be exhausted by the middle OF Aug
ust or the first Of September, when opera
tons would have to cease until another
supply of funds is obtained. For some
time past the bulk of the work has been
done on the main or south jetty, but this
has been stopped, and attention turned to
the north ietty. They are building up
the shore end, and after that is complet-
ed the remainder of the appropriation
will be expended in extending this jetty,
unless some unforeseen circumstance
forces them to return to the south jetty
again. During the months Of March and
April II mattresseswere sunk on the south
jetty and 5000 cubic yards of stone placed.
Recent soundings of the new or Gilmore
channel, which is opening north of the
south jetty, and whISh will be the main
outlet of the river when the work is COM
pleted, shows that the channel has secured
out north Of this jetty to width of 400
feet, and has an average depth OF six feet
at low and twelve feet at high tide, maxi
ing a clear, open and perfectly straight
outlet.