The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-03

canes and about 100 bushels of tomatoes,
also egg plants and clans.
Parties are seining the st. Johns river
and catching hundreds of small shad and
other fish that are by no means marketable,
yet they ship them abroad and sell them tor
a song. This mode of fishing is in strict
violation of the laws.
+. w, johnson, of Key West, has the
credit of shipping the first thousand crates
OF tomatoes tins season. They were raised
on Windlas Key and are the finest get ship
ped Mr.. johnson has a large area planted
out in plneapples, and he expects to reap
creditable harvest the coming season
Capt Robert Sneedley, of Georgia, form
eriy of the Mississippi river, has visited the
Indian river within the past few weeks, and
has returned TO Georgia to arrange for the
building of an extensive set of boatways
or dry docks near Titusville large enough
to take out a steamer the size of the Rock
ledge.
The establishment of a light at st. 10
sephs Bay is a most urgent necessity. There
are fully forty fishing smacks, with crews
aggregating nearly 400 men, employed in
the snapper catching off the West Coast Of
Florida, ami they are absolutely without
guidance in making a harbor of refuge on
a dark and stormy night.
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Hotel, at st. Augustine, is Mrs Westing
house, wife of the inventor of the air brake,
whose income is $1,000 per day. She pays
al the Ponce de Leon 800 a day board and
keeps pair Of horses hired at the livery
stable for which she pays $26 a day, whether
she uses them or not. This lady's entire ex-
penSes at st. Augustine are said to be 81 600
per day.
At St Augustine workmen were engaged
IvaVs .l,,r I'LL -.
OF the Methodist church for the purpose of
ceiling overhead, and while four men we're
upon it part gave way and brought one of
them down, the other three catching on to
the braces of the building and saving them
selves. The height was eighteen feet, yet
the man who fell did not receive any injury
beyond jar.
At St Andrews Bay-At Apalachicola
the guides to navigation are of a very in
ferior order. At East Pass, where vessels
OF the deepest draught must go, there are
no aids but a couple of buoys. About four
teen or fifteen years ago a light house that
stood on Dog Island, at that point, was
blown down in a storm, and the Board has
never since seen fit to rebuild it. There is
now bill before Congress for the estab-
lishment of a light on the mainlaud at East
Pass Three new day beacons have been
ordered established
The outlook for the Jacksonville public
building bill is now rather discouraging. A
member of the Public Buildings Committee
of the House said Thursday: II don't see
that we are likely to reach the jacksonville
building for n long time In fact it is diff
cult to see how we can reach it at all at this
session unless we get another special day or
two for this special subject. We had our
morning hour to-day and will have one
more tomorrow, but that will not take us
near the jacksonville bill, and unless we get
a day or two set aside for this special sub
ject | don't see when we are likely to get
to it,
A colony, consisting of twelve families of
German cigarmakers, are coming from Iowa
to be employed on making up the home
grown tobacco at Fort Meade forty acres
of which is now in cultivation, while ar
rangements are being made for largely in
creased acreage next year. The present
crop is looking very fine, and there is no
longer any doubt that South Florida will
become great tobacco country. 1t isl quite
possible, from the present outlook, that the
famous Vuelta Abaio of Cuba may find its
peer in Polk county. A large brick cigar
factory is to be built as soon as the brick
yards of May, Maude q Co. can turn out
the material.
Seven hundred men are at work on the
Alcazar at st. Augustine pushing it to COM
pletion. The building will contain under
the red tiling of its roof nearly everything
needed to keep the average man going
Stores, containing anything from a needle
to white elephant, will be ranged along
the four sides of the inner court, extending
through to the outer streets. There
will be various offices, including
telegraph, telephone, Southern FIX
press Company, newspaper CORE
spondentS, and many Others In addition
to these, there will be booths of every kind
known; cafe will serve anything the
imagination of an epicure can picture his
appetite Graves. There will be several hun
dred sleeping rooms, SO that, taken alto
gether, it is a small world i'll itself One
might spend months in the building with
out passing from within its portals. o. d.
Seavey, the manager of the Ponce de Leon
and of the Alcazar expects to have accom-
mOdations for 100 guests in the AlcaZar
within the next few days. By the begin
ming of ANOTHER season the entire structure
will be ready to throw open to the expect
ant guests.