Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-24

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| One vessel is discharging a cargo of
stone at Mayport for the jetties.
A new line of steamers is to be put on
between Key West and Havana.
! The large building for the new ice fac
! tory in LaVilla is nearly completed.
Hon. r. W. Davis is now the Florida
Southern Railways general attorney.
! Mai. Parsons is having the telegraph
line completed from BrOOksVille to Bay
/ port.
! Arrangements have been made tor the
/ permanent reopening of the saw-mill at
! Tavares.
A carload of stump-pullers has been
received at the Waycross depot at jack
| sonvllle.
A poultry man in Orlando commences
| business with 400 fowls of twenty three
varieties.
Several new houses are in course of
construction in the Hale addition to
BrOOksYille.
Gov. Perry has refused to accept the
resignation of w. p. Trantham, Marion
county collector.
Key Vests cigar shipment to New
York last week was nearly 100000,
valued at $4,000.
The Volusia County Commissioners go
| $4,000 in the treasury.
Frank Lowery. the man who murdered
Vandermark at Seneca about two weeks
since, has not yet been captured.
The question of locating the college has
been decided by the Congregational AS
ISOLATION in favor of Winter Park.
The Potter House at Crescent City has
| closed for the season. The hotel had a
narrow escape from destruction by fire a
day or two ago.
Capt. r. K. Rose is about to erect a
sugar mill at Southport for the purpose
of crushing the cane on the Drainage
COmpany's sugar farm.
The contract for dredging Pensacola bar
has been awarded to q. ". Adams. mas
ter and charterer of dredge c.. w. Bailey.
by the Chief OF Engineers.
Capt. n. O. Burnham is the senior light
house keeper Of the United States. He has
trimmed the light for over forty years at
Cape CanaVeral. He came to Florida in
1897.
The citizens of Rock Ledge and Cocoa
are making a move to raise money to offer
several cash prizes for the regatta May
dav. is the intention to offer three cash
prizes, one of $50, $l5 and $40, open to all
boats.
The school board has appropriated $50
toward the establishments of white school
at Cocoa, and Mr.. McQuaig has donated
a lot in a central location. The board has
also appropriated $40 to the cOlored school
at Cocoa.
Miss Herman. who was shot at Key
West last week, is improving. The ball
was extracted by DR.. Plummer, since
which she has commenced to amend. The
shooting is still involved in mystery, and
no clue on the party who committed the
act has been found.
The department of Florida of the en-
campment of the Grand Army of the Re-
! public held a session at Jacksonville and
elected 7. S. Wilmarth, of Jacksonville,
/ Department commanders; G. Fl. Norton,
| of Eu sits. and G.. b. Loud, of Pensacola
! Vice Commanders; w. Y. r. Plummer,
/ of Key West, Medical Director, and Rev.
5. D. Paine, of Jacksonville, Chaplain.
Pensacola Commercial: DR.. Phelps
! took a Pinch snake from the stomach of
/ a weil-tO-dO citizen OF this city some time
ago. The patient is trying to keep the
matter secret. The snake was spotted
and had a head resembling a ground
puppy. 1t lived some minutes, and
| bounced and squirmed on the floor. The
| symptoms which induced the doctor to
make the treatment which brought it were
| that Of tape worm.
The State Temperance Association will
present a petition to the constitutional
convention, asking that there be engrafted
/ in the new constitution the principle
giving to each county in the State the
right to decide by vote, under the au-
/ thOrity of the law, whether they will or
will not have licensed houses for the sale
! of liquors, running for a reasonable term
/ of time; and thus remove this discussion,
as far as possible, from the domain of
| party politics, either State or National.
Saturday Harry Squires picked up on
the Nassau beach a bottle which con-
tanned two small pieces of paper-por-
tions of an envelope. On the large piece
had been written in pencil, but almost
\ Oblterated by water, IS. b. Hubbard,
| lost with all hands off G. Hen,' and on
| the other was March A." This is all
/ that can be read, though there are evil
| dences of something else having been
/ written on the paper, for at the bottom
| Of the large piece are the figures $50"
| Near the bottle the same person also
| picked up a cabin door. Beyond this no
one knows anything about the loss Of the
| vessel and the general impression is that
| it is all hoax. 1t is supposed that the
schooner 5. b. Hubbard is intended.
Van Rensselaer, Morgan, Of the Life
Saving Service, has been ordered by the
Bureau Of Construction in New York TO
superintend the construction and inspec-
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houses connected Herewith az the follow
ing places on the east coast Of Florida:
One ut Lower Surveyors Well, near the
headwaters Of Smiths creek, about mid
way between Matanzas and Mosquito
inlet; one at Arad Sheldon's trail, upon
the narrow beach east Of Mosquito la
COON; one about eleven and a half
miles north Of Cape CanaYeral light,
nearly abreast Of the Chester shoals;
one on Indian river, nearly opposite
the mouth OF Turkey creek, and about
thirty miles south Of Cape CanaYeral, and
one on the opposite end Of Hutchnson's
island, about half a mile south Of Indian
River inlet The houses are Of the same
character Of i've others Mr.. Morgan re-
paired on that coast two years since. A
liie-saying station is about completed at
Jupiter inlet, and one is now being built
on santa Rosa island, near Pensacola,
those on regular stations having a keeper
and crew Of six men, with all the life
saving apparatus. The refuge houses
merely have keeper and his family. The
contractor who lives in New York, ex-
poets TO have the stations completed by
the last OF July. The frames for the entire |
Eve stations have been gotten out at Ella
vile, on the Florida Central Railroad.
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