Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — Poisonous Waters of the Sea. [ARTICLE]

Poisonous Waters of the Sea.

•j Savannah News. The Tampa (Florida) Tribune says that “the high tides on the new moon last week brought up to town the poisoned waters which has been killing the fish in Tampa bay for several weeks past. Down at the wharves and along the river hanks last Saturday fish could be seen dying in considerable numbers. The nigh tides also brought up a good many already dead, so that it was quite disagreeable near the river or bay shore on account of the stench from dead fish.” The Tribune further reports on the same subject that “the dead fish left on the shore by the high tides had become such a nuisance by Monday morning that the authorities had to have them gathered up and buried. Major Rawles had to have the same thing done in the garrison. We hardly think that we exaggerate in stating that fully one hundred barrels of dead fish lined the shore within the corporate limits and the garrison grounds.”