Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-04

Thomas G. Davis. Real estate: Thomas G.
Watson. Livery and transfer: W. A. Rob
erts. Confectionery and baker: j. b.
Shotz. Meat market: r, NJ. Nc
David. Hardware: johnson & Davis,
Marble work: G. Ii. La Coste. Wood
work and doors, sash and carriage fac
tory: Harvey and billiard. Tin and cop
per shop: |. b. Hnlson. Banks; First
National, M. FL. Sullivan President, w.
A. S. Wheeler cashier, and f. G. Brent
private banker. Hotels; The Continent
tai, already mentioned, Merchants, con-
Quoted on the European plan, and very
popular, City Hotel and Commercial
Hotel. Besides these, there are various
boarding houses. Foundry and machine
shop: j. COsgrove.
All of the above mentioned concerns
are subscribers TO the MORNING NEWS.
OF course there are many others whose
names are not upon our lists
On Saturday afternoon when the steve
dores, mill men and ships crews were
paid of the crowd on Palafox street made
it look like Broadway, New York. OF
course the merchants reaped a golden
harvest.
THE NAVY YARD.
Accepting the invitation Of Capt San
ders, OF the iron tug boat Echo, to make
a trip across the bay to the United States
handsome little craft, which cost $50, 900,
and passing through the closely grouped
fleet of ships lying at anchor, was soon
landed at his destination, six miles dis
tant from the city.
The piers OF the Navy Yard are con-
structed OF m assIve stone and will endure
for ages,6a The grounds, too, are pictn'-
esque and beautiful, and admirably
adapted TO the purposes for which they
intpnflsadllf HlaaU nnrnnasiuA NJ
closure OF eighty acres neatly laid of,
and ornanehted with shade trees and
shrubbery. Az short intervals, piles of
cannon balls artistcally placed may be
seen. and a parkQf twenty-0ne pieces OF
artillery used fdf satutes, faces the bay.
Seven large warehouses and work shops
are eligibly located, and ten neat editices
have been erected for the accommodation
OF the officers. But not the stroke of
hammer is heard, and all work has been
uspended-albeit, machine shops per-
fectly equipped, and all the DRraphernalia
and material needed in the construction
of the most formidable man-of-war are
upon the spot and in readiness. More
over, at no point in the Union can the
iron, coal, live oak and yellow pine lum-
Der needed for ship building be obtained
more conveniently, and at so little cost
Why, then, has the Pensacola navy yard
lapsing into ruinf We trust the present
Democratic administration will take the
matter in hand without delay. At pres
ent guard of forty marines, recently
arrived, is the only available force mere,
while the garrison of Fort Barrancas is
limited to four companies, and historical
"Pickens" is a solitude in charge Of an
ordnance officer only.
The resumption of work at the navy
I'D 81
We threaded our way back to the city
after nightfall in dense fog, AS gloomy
and Opaque as ever OvershadOwea the
denizens of London; but, thanks to the
vigilance and skill OF Capt. Sanders, the
Echo passed safely through the labyrinth
of vessels as deity as though guided by
the tabled thread of Ariadne.
PENsACoLA's WATER SUPPLY.
This city is abundantiy provided with
the best and purest water, obtained from
driven wells, which, when forced to the
depth of about 100 feet, prove 10 be, IN
fact, so many miniature artesian fOun-
tains. The sparkling fluid, perfectly in
OdOrOus, tasteless and free from any min
eral faint, rises in the tube from six TO
eight feet above the surface and runs out
IN perpetual limpid stream. Curious to
relate, near the wharves these wells are
SUNK in the bay, where the salt water is
from Is to 20 feet deep, with the same re-
suits, furnishing a neyer-failing supply of
cool and delicious fresh water for the ship
ping.
NEWSPAPERS.
There are three journals published here /:
the Adrdnce Gazette, PenS0cOiidn, and
Commercial. The latter is printed semi
weekly, and to its able editor, j. Dennis
Wolfe, who is doing YeomaD's service to
his town and section, the writer is under
many and special obligations for cOurte-
sizes rendered. H. II. j.