The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-28

ing a few days since several large cannon
balls and bombs in pond two miles east Of
St. George light. These once deadly mis-
siles, it is thought. were fired during the
late ''unpieasantness.n
The appropriation being exhausted, the
/ government dredge at Apalachicola has
ceased operations.
Col. r. s. Goodrich, who is coptesting
/, Gen. Bullock's seat in congress, is at Gaines
vile; He gives out the impression that he
will be seated. He will return to Washing
ton In a few days.
The editor of the Apalachicola Times, now
that be has got the artesian well project
under way, is hustling around for electric
| lights. He is at present in correspondence
1 with wellknown electric light company,
| who, in all probability, will establish q
plant at Apalachicola.
Under a resolution adopted by the Florida
Press Association at fits recent meeting in
Lake City, President Mablon Gore has
made the following appointments for the
adjourned meeting, which is TO convene in
Jacksonville on June 80, 1890: Essayist,
Lucie Vannevar, of the Sanford Journal,
poet, T. w. Harris, of the Ocala NetO Capt.
| toll; orator, G. Il. Pendleton, of. the Key
West Equator Democrat.
The board of commissioners of Key West
held special meetings on Thursday and Fri
day to consider the questions Of bonds and
sewerage. In the contract entered into
with Mr.. Oppenheim, who negotiated the
bonds, IL was agreed that the principal
should be paid at the treasurer's Office at
Key West and the interest Ia New York
city. and that a sample copy Of the bonds
should be forwarded TO the city commission
ers for their approval before they should all
be printed. The copy received by the COM
missioners did not conform with the con-
tract, and so was rejected by them, as it
read principal and interest payable at
New York;
A young lady who is visiting in Jackson
vile had a narrow escape from death Mon
day morning while walking on the Florida
Central and Peninsular track near the
Arctic ice works in LaVilla. Her parasol
obstructed her view and she failed TO see
engine 2S, which was backing up to the
yard. Luckily she was walking on the ties
outside Of the rails, and as the engine struck
her she was thrown into the soft sand be-
side the track. The railroad men In the
vicinity rushed to the spot, but the young
lady picked herself up uninjured from the
collision and resumed her walk to the city.
Her escape was nothing short of marvellous
The wrecking schooners Champion, Lille,
Wild Eagle and Rennell arrived at Key
West Thursday morning with some of the
jettisoned cargo Of the City Of Alexandria,
consigned to William Curry. That brought
on is valued at over $50 900, and consists of
lard in barrels and cans, parrafine oil, -four
in bags, rope, wire and general assorted
merchandise. The wreckers state that
about fifty Seminole Indians were on the
beach and succeeded in securing a good
many bags of -four and great quantity of
lard and other merchandise useful to them
and that notwithstanding their wild, uncul-
tivated nature, they can tell what is valu-
able and useful The Indians did not hear
of the cargo being on the beach until most
ofIit was gone, otherwise they would have
had much more of it.
Prof. 0. NJ. Crosby has just returned
from the phosphate lands OF Polk county
and is full of enthusiasm over the prospect
down there. He says that the three phos-
phate concerns at present operating on the
Peace river are putting out an enormous
amout OF the product daily. The Singleton
company has just put in operation a new
dredger which gives yield OF a ton of
phosphate per minute, or 600 tons in day
of ten hours. All the phosphate kings
are making anywhere from $500 to
$1,000 day each. All that
is needed now is an improved
system OF transportation; and a new rail-
road from Plant City to Fort Meade, and
thence southeasterly across the peninsula to
Jupiter, has been projected and will be
begun in few weeks There is another
Flagler coming to Florida" remarked Prof.
Crosby, I'm the person of an immensely
wealthy Albanian who thinks no more of
putting million dollars into a railroad
than you or / do of buying a new hat. He
is going to put pile of money into South
Florida within a month or two and he will
make his investments pay big dividends,
too. Look out for developments"
A resident of Jacksonville has forwarded
to Chicago design for worlds fair
building. The intention is to have a pyra-
mid !, POO feet square at the base and 200
feet high. 1t is to he divided into sixty
stories. each twenty feet high, or forty
stories each thirty feet high, the lower
stories to be the highest and the others
diminishing in hight upward as desired. 1t
Is to be constructed entirely of steel, glass
and iron- The entire building will cover
an area of thirty-three acres, and with its
numerous stories will furnish $50 TO 200
acres OF floor space, nearly double the
amount used at the Paris xp1sition of
1882 the whole to be lighted with cleo
tricity. The ascent and descent is to be &C
complished by an electric cable incline rail-
way to begin at the grand entrance, and to
ascend, gradually circling around the build
ing three times, making at the third stop
from the top a loop around the building to
return beside the ascending track, and form
another loop at the bottom. A continuous
line OF cars can thus be ascending and de-
scending, the seats to be self-adjusting TO
either incline, and each car to have a self
acting brake. Elevators will also be placed
at various points as required. When the
building is completed IL will embody the
principal emblem on the reverse Of the
great seal of the United States, aud thus
become emblematic Of the great rep ublic.