The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-18

G. B. Cafero has been appointed consular
agent OF Italy at Pensacola vice d. Piagglo,
resigned.
Receipts of Florida strawberries are large
and the demand fair. If the weather should
remain mild the demand will grow better.
AT several places in Leesburg, during the
past week, there has Teen seen peering in the
windows OF the sleeping apartments OF ladies,
some unknown wretch.
Robbers entered Miss Lizzie Bralthwaites
curio and jewelry store, on Cathedral street.
at St. Augustine, Thursday night. and secured
valuable silverware and other articles
amounting to 81 500.
A. Stein, a sailor on the American schooner
Cactus, was committed to jail by United
States Commissioner Tunison at Pensacola
Friday, in default of 81 900 bail for stabbing
the mate of the vessel with a knife while at
sea, Jan. 10.
John Davis religious man and skilled
worker. homeless and out of work, stranglei
to death with the asthma in the engine room
OF the railroad shops at Fernandina Thurs
day night, where he had been allowed shelter
for the night.
The school board Of Manatee county has or
dered special school tax elections to be held
on Friday March &c. in all the school districts
in the county except Manatee, H5raidentown
and Terra Celia district, those districts having
first voted a special tax last year
In the United States court at Tampa Fri
day, T. j. Taylor OF Barlow, was convicted Of
passing counterfeit money He was sentenced
to the United States prison for eighteen
months and fined 500. Taylor passed most Of
his spurious coin at Inverness, about this
time last year. The other counterfeiters of
De Soto and Polk were held over under heavy
bond till the next term of court.
r. S. Jarvis, acting postmaster at Satsuma
flights, Putnam county, was before United
States Commissioner Wilt at Jacksonville
Friday, charged with embeZZlement, and was
placed under IL 800 bonds for appearance for
trial. For some time there have been com
plants in regard to the Satsuma Nights
postoffice, and Inspector Tate was detailed
| to INVESTIGATE A few days ago he
placed a decoy registered letter in
the mail addressed to Stsco postotfice few
| miles south of Satsuma Nights. The postal
clerk, according to instructions, put the letter
| off al Satsuma Nights as though it was done
| by mistake. The registered letter contained
| S1.5O in cash. Nothing has been seen or heard
of it since, and as the inspector knows that it
was put of at Satsuma Nights he caused the
| arrest of Jarvis.
meeting of the State Press association
will be held in Key West and Havana from
| April I'd TO the 9th inclusive. The members
| will leave Pnnta Gorda by the Morgan steam
| ship on Sunday, April 1, and reach Key West
| early the following day, remain in Key West
| all day and leave by the same steamship at
| p. m that day for Havana, arriving there
| early next morning. Tuesday, Wednesday
| and Thurday until 4 p. m will be spent in
| Havana; at that hour they will embark for
| Key West and Punta Gorda. reaching the
| SATURDAY morning,
! Round trip from Punta Gorda to Havana and
return, including staterooms and berths,
| will cost $40. with 1925 extra for consulate
fees, etc. In order to secure this concession
at least fifty persons must signify lh9ir inten-
| ton to take part in the trip.
A big undertaking is about to be put under
way that will demonstrate the nerve Of the
capitalists who are supplying the money. 1t
| will be q canal eleven miles in length, thirty
| feet wide at the bottom, and sixty at the top
10 a
| known as Meadows, midway between Spar
| and Citra on the line of the Florida Central
and Peninsular railroad. The enterprise was
| conceived year or more ago by j. w. Payne
who is the general manager of the work, and
| who has enlisted capitalists of Baltimore and
| New York in the herculean undertaking
| among them being Mr.. Christian Ak OF New
York city. The object of the canal
| is twofold, one to reclaim thousands
of acres of submerged swamp lands,
| covered with rich muck from five to
| ten feet in depth, with clay bottom. and to
| provide transportation for as fine pine and
| cypress forests as can be found in the state.
The work will begin at the head OF Ratclins s
! prairie, through Cypress slough to Mill creek
! swamp. The canal will extend in u south
| easterly direction and so enter the Ockla-
| waha river. The deepest excavation will be
! through Ratclid prairie to cypress swamp,
| twenty feet. The fall from the head Of the
| canal TO the river will re thirty feet, and
! create 3,O-horse power. The syndicate, who
| are building the big ditch, have purchased
| IS 0JO acres of land along its line. When
! the improvements are completed they expect
to engage largely in the growing Of rice and
sugar cane, and hold out inducements to
! settlers who desire to buy good rich lands
| cheap and emf ark in kindred pursuits. Be-
sides draining the lands, the canal will afford
a cheap mode Of transportation to the output
of the saw mills to be Quilt along its banks for
the reduction of the forests into lumber, as
well as 10 convey to tide water the products
| of the soil. Those conversant with the mag
nitude of the work contemplated and its
effects on the surrounding country, say it is
| the best effort yet made in Marion county to-
ward developing large and profitable in
dustry. The big dredge that is to be used on
the canal has been built at the Meadows. and
will be ready to be launched and chrstened
next Saturday. The capacity Of the dredge
will be 5000 yards OF matter per day.