The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23

around private lots, burning aud discolor
Ing tOmbstones. and wiping out the marks
designating the resting place Of many q
loved one, and giving the lot a very desc
late and uninviting appearance.
Fort Myers Press: DR.. Washburn saws
he has an orange tree, in full bloom, that
he "a ised from a seed be planted four wears
ago. He has twice transplanted the tree,
but has given it the best Of care, and fer
tilted freely. He also has mangOes in
bloom, 3 years and 5 months old from seed,
and pineapples one year from the slip are
blooming. A banana tree 2 years old bore
a bunch Of bananas that he sold for 81.
The doctor has as much on one acre of land
as most people would put on two, and
| everything grows prolihcally, not because
| his land is good, but because Of the care and
labor bestowed upon it
At the intersection of Palafox with
Intendenca street, at Pensacola, Tuesday, a
I little enid, one of the numerous masquer-
/ aders, was knocked down and run over by
| passing hack, TO which were hitched two
horses. The occurrence was witnessed by
many people, some Of whom turned their
/ heads away 70 avoid witnessing the mang-
/ ling of the little form which they felt sure
would follow. The little one had been
struck CHANGING blow on the head by the
shaft and fell directly under the hoofs of
the horses. The boy, for it was a boy, lay
still, and when the hack had passed, reached
for his hat, which had fallen to one side,
picked it up, arose and went his way, not
| hurt in the slightest.
Pensacola NeWs: Russell Harrison,
only son Of the President of the United
States, while in this city the other day. saw
a cake OF ice, which, he was told, was of
artificial make. He happened then to be
with Gen. ). A. Moreno, collector of the
port, to whom he expressed desire to learn
something of the process of artificial ice
manufacture. The pair at the time were
but block from the factory, and Gen.
Moreno invited his companion t. step down
to the place where he might see practical
demonstration of that which he sought a
knowledge Of. Mr. Harrison agreed. Ar
irving at the fac ory, the engineer was in
troduced, aud Gen. Moreno's COMPANION
listened with marked attention for quite a
while to the explanation.
Pensacola Neios: The outlaw Rube Bur-
rows crossed the Escambia river at john
sons Ferry, one mile from McDavid, late
Saturday afternoon. He was recognized by
the ferryman, Levi Brewton, who had de-
scriptions of him from the detectives who
have been in that vicinity for some time.
de says that Burrows seemed to be in
great hurry, and did not wait for the boat
TO touch the shore before he jumped off and
disappeared up the road going west. When
he approached the ferryman's house and
saw the latter's wife he left the road and
disappeared in the woods. He has
not been seen since, but Mr..
Baldwin county. On the morning of Sat
urday, after crossing Yellow river, he was
met by Messrs. David and William
McDavid, two well-known citizens Of this
section He was then about ten miles from
Johnson's ferry on the Escambia, where he
crossed In the afternoon. Both of these
gentlemen are positive that it was Burrows
they saw, Judging from the description
given of him. He left the road when he
saw them, and disappeared 10 the woods.
The detectives are still in the vicinity Of
McDavid, and every avenue of escape is
said to be closely watched, but the willy
Rube seems to come and go as he pleases.
Pensacola NelUs: The schooner barge
Marcello, owned and operated by the Ex-
port Coal Company Of Pensacola in the
shipment Of coal to Cuba, was formerly an
Italian bark under the name of Marcello.
In that rig and of that nationality she
cleared the port of Pensacola Feb, Is of
last year with a cargo Of sawn titnber and
lumber She was bound for Montevideo
and when few days out encountered a
storm, sprang a leak and put in in dis
| tress to the mouth of the Mississippi
river She was sold under a process
| verbal by a United States marsha,
and purchased by her present owners, who
brought her to this port. Here, the COM
pany owning her applied for an American
reg ister, which was refused by theltreasury
| department on the ground that she had not
| teen wrecked in American waters. All
other requirements mad been met, even to
| an expenditure of three times the amount
| OF the purchase price on her repairs Fail
ing to secure an American register, she
was considered an alien, and as such was
made TO pay the alien ton
mage tax when entering an Ameri-
can port. Being of no flag her
dues were 81 in excess of those demanded
of other vessels, and in her case, coming
from West Indian port, the dues were
| Sl.O3 per ton, which necesstated an outlay
every time she returned to her home port
| of just $Sl5.76, a not insignificant item in
her expense account. These facts led her
owners to apply to congress for relief and
a special act, passed by that body and ap-
proved on Feb. Is, makes of the craft the
American schooner barge Mexico"