The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-19


FLORIDA.
Gainesville is complaining about the
| abominable mail service inflicted on her.
A new portable steam saw-mill will soon
be brought to Bo lifay, and set up some
where in the neighborhoo1.
A telephone line to Amelia City will con-
meet Fernandina with that place as soon as
the apparatus can be obtained.
There have been only fifty-six deaths at
Apalachcola in the last twelve months, all
told. The population is nearly 900 people.
The j. II. Cross Lumber Company of
Caryville Is now putting In a single sa W at
that place, and will be ready to saw by
Jan. /.
The Jessie May came in Monday from the
reefs with 375 punches of sponge They
were purchased by F. MeSSlna for something
over $500.
The Olivette brought In ninety bales of
| tobacco for Tampa cigar manufacturers
Monday evening; also fifty passengers, ten
Of them foreign.
II is now thought that the saw-miu at
| Bombay will again begin saving before
long, and that an iron track will be put in
! to reach valuable timber lands
Charles Brown, brakeman on a con-
struction train, who was seriously injured
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| at the residence of his wife's mother Sunday
morning.
T. j. Sreety has finished the tin roofing
| for the main building of the Loomis fac
tory at Fernandina, and is now putting on
that of the engine and boiler rooms,
amounting to about 1900 feet.
An effort is being made for daily mail
| to Apalachicola-thre by the river and one
by way of Carrabelle-the Apalachicola
mails being tansferred from River
junction to Tallahassee, and from ITALIA
hassee they will be sent overland to Cara
belle, and thence by vessel.
j. H. Ahern, ma pager of the Tampa and
Central American Fruit Company, passed
through Jacksonville Friday, returning
from tour of the Central American repub-
| lies in the interest of his company. In the
| course of tel days steamers will leave
| Tampa for Puerto Cortez, Spanish Hon
| duras, to which port regular trips will be
| made.
Arthur Williams of Jacksonville has
| closed sale with Jacob GUNNER & Son of
| Cadillac. Mich, of about II 900 acres in the
western part of Levy county, at prices sat
| isfactory to owners This transaction has
been pending for some time, and embraces
the 5000 acres known as the Yulee iron ore
land, the re nainder being scattered sections
owned by Messrs. Williams & Swami.
Lieut.. H T. Smith-Dorien has removed
bis large shingle mill from McLeansburg to
Ehren, in Pasco county, on Pemberton
Ferry branch of the Florida Southern rail-
road. He has two large boilers and en-
| gines, one thirty and the other twenty horse
| power, with a capacity of 10000 shingles
| per day. BY the time he was ready to
begin saving, he had orders for nearly
100000 shingles. He has a narrow gauge
railroad for hauling i'll logs to the mill. He
n Inst n iva
cutting at this rate.
The work of filing in the marsh from the
railroad bridge to the public bridge at
| Tampa, on the east side of HillSborough
river, is nearly finished. The work is being
done by the South Florida Railroad Com
pany, and 1t will reclaim several acres of
| very valuable land in the very heart of the
city. A sea wall extends along the entire
edge of the marsh so filed in. A handsome
brick depot will be built little northwest
| of the present freight depot. The site selected
| overlooks the Hillsborough river, and is
directly opposite the Tampa Bay hotel
Pensacola NelcS: Regarding the fight
for the collectorship of customs at Pensa-
| cola, it is learned that letter has been fled
| at the department setting forth that Henry
! Horsler had once refused to run for treas
urer on the county republican ticket When
| the paper was filed, it is said, Mr.. Wells
withdrew his withdrawal. which he had
formerly made in Mr.. Horslers interest
The battle is now being waged by those two
and Col. Tarbla The latter is said to have
the best of the fight, with Mr.. Horsler a
good second, your Uncle George by no
means out Of the race.
A gentleman of Pensacola has received a
letter from the Jones Nutlock and Switch
lock Company Of Syracuse, N. Y, inquir-
| ing what inducements were offered for the
location and operation at Pensacola of
steel plant turning out more THAI a million
nuts per annum. The parties were appar-
entity DESTROYS of coming to Pensacola, their
queries showing much particularly as to
character of climate, etc. They stated
that the greater portion of their trade was
with southern people, and, if good oppor-
tunity offered, they would doubtless move
| TO some point nearer their patrons The
gentleman to whom they addressed the
letter replied at length, detailing the ad-
vantages for the successful operation of
such business
At st. Augustine, Saturday, a mulatto
woman, known to the police as a notorious
character kicked up distur bance on Char.
Ll9tts Street. and az attempt was uaade to