Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-22

There are five tWo-story houses In Clear
Water Harbor nearing completion.
The establishment of a large wholesale
grocery house in SumterYille Is rumored.
Owing to the continuous rains, farmers
in Alachua county are at least month
late In planting corn.
Orange trees will soon be in full bloom
at SumterYille. Never were prospects
more promising for large crop.
AT Clear Water Harbor this promises
t be a better crop year than usual. A
considerable area will be devoted to corn
this season.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented
cold spring, the pear trees in Suwannee
county of sufficient age, are in full bloom,
and promises a large crop.
No trace of MIR. p. E. Wager, of Titus
Vile, missing since last week, has been
discovered. a reward of $3.50 has been
offered for information as to his where
abouts.
Rocks are now being hauled by the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western railway for
the matchmaking of West Nam street
IN Gainesville from the square TO the
Union depot.
The proposition of the Escambia Rifles
to hold the annual encampment OF the
Florida State militia in the vicinity of
Pensacola meets with the cordial support
OF the people.
Thomas Ferguson, living near Madison,
was fooling with an old pistol some time
since, when it went off. The ball entered
the left knee and ranged downward, caus-
ing painful wound.
About four mile of piping for the water
works at Pensacola has been laid, but the
recent orders tor more extensive service
will necessitate the laying of twelve miles
in all. The work will be finished about
May l.
The terra Gotta tiling for the roof OF the
new custom house has been received and
will be at once put on the iron frame work
The tiling will be laid in cement and fast
ened with rivets or bolts to the iron
rafters, and the slate, which is yet to come,
will be laid on this.
1t is rumOred that Hamilton Disston
when in Jacksonville recently ne
gotiated for the purchase of
which is located the rich phosphate beds
recently discovered in that county, and
that he proposes the construction of a
railroad down through his purchase to
the Gulf coast.
Thomas G.. Eaton has asked the city Of
Sanford Tor the privilege of erecting his
works and laying his main pipes, en.,
and the franchise for % years for gas and
electricity. In return he will invest in
his plant, etc, about $4,000, and agrees
to furnish first-class article of gas, 49,
candle power, at maximum price of 10
mills per hour for each burner.
Cedar Key journal: A manatee or sea
cow, about six or seven feet long, was
discovered a short time since on st. Mar
tins Reef by a Mr.. Brakely, of New Jer-
sey. 1t had been dead some time and
was in a state of partial decomposition,
but the form was perfect. The SUPPOSE
ton is that it fell victim to the unusual
cold which destroyed so MANY fish on this
coast in January last.
f. J. Davis, OF Boston, who construc-
ted the Palatka Gas Works, was in
Gainesville Saturday to confer with the
people, and inquire if such an improve
ment could not be made there. His esti-
mate is that $50, 900 would erect the works
and arrange the pipes and fixtures. He
proposes that if the city will form a Joint
stock company With $4,000 or $50 900
stock. he individually VIII take the bal
ance of the stock.
p. j. Stephens, of Pensacola, has some
fragments of old fashioned spherical
b3mb-shells, which he has picked up at
different places in that vicinity, one piece
being dug up near the DunwoOdie house,
on "the hill )" and another found in the
woods near the residence of Christian
Corner. Those shells have been exploded
and as there was no fighting in those To-
calities during the late war, they are evil
IDENTIFY relics of "Jackson's War;" or poss-
IDLY Of the earlier struggles around PEN
saCOla,