Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-20


The sales Of rice yesterday were 40 barrels
There are six steamships In port at pres
ent.
The fall trade has commenced slreaoy
quite brisk.
The assessment at the Police Court yester-
day amounted 70 so.
The receipts of cotton are unusually
heavy for this season Of the yesr-
The sale At Magistrate Elsinger's Office
to-1av will attract good crowd.
There are now in port six steamships, five
bsrEs two briggs and nine schooners.
Tho schooner Chatham IS at Wilmington
Island being overbsuled and painted.
Col. VIM. NJ Wadley, President OF the
Central Railroad, returned to the city yester-
DAY.
The cotton market is active at present,
aud another advance in prices was noted
yesterday.
Mr. Charles Gssmsn leaves by steamer for
New York to-day, to purchase his fall and
winter goods
The British steamer Cyprus arrived here
ton for Liverpool.
The sales OF naval stores yesterday com
prised .O26 barrels Of rosin and 900 casks
spirits turpentine.
Another advance took place in rosin yes
terliav. and the market closed strong at the
advanced quotations.
The British steamship Glenisla, Captain
Doig. cleared at Boston for Savannah on the
18th, to load cotton for Liverpool.
The bill to incorporate the Mercban
and Planters Steamboat Company OF Sa-
vannah was passed in the Senate yesterday
The material for the building Of a new
house on the tug boat Lynn arrived by the
steamship City of Savannah from Philadel-
pbis.
The indications are that cotton will bring
good prices this wear. Futures are going up
steadily and spot cotton continues TO ad-
vance.
Nessrs. Smith & Kelly have sent down
| lighters 70 ring up some Of the cargo Of
re bark Areola so that she can come up 70
the city.
Among the passengers by the steamship
/ Gate CITY from New York yesterday were
| Capt Jas. H. johnson and Mr.. Gilbert
/ A. wilkins.
There is every evidence at present that
/ the season which has opened so early Will
| he the best ever recorded In the history OF
/ Savannah.
MAYOR Wheaton, who has been North for
|
/ hy the steamship Gate City, looking re-
markably well.
The Warren Base Ball Club have chal-
| Ienged anv club whose members are eighteen
yesrs old or under, to play them match
game for fifty dollars.
Representative Bacon yesterday intro
| duced in the House bill providing Tor q
| bridge or track over the Ogeechee canal foT
| the Central Cotton Press.
The Central Cotton Press got to work
| Yesterday with their new machinery, AND
| turned out 225 bales Of compressed cotton
in two hours and fifteen minutes.
The two youths who were arrested for
| using a slungshot and shooting into the
ward OF a citizen, were yesterday, in the
| Police Court, each fined 81 or five days.
A match game Of base ball is announced
on Sunday next at 2;30 O'Clock, 10 the real
| OF the Savannah, Florida and Western Rail
way shops, between the Mutual Base Bal
Club aud the Warren Base Club, for the
sum Of twenty-five dollars.
About quarter past nine O'Clock last
night, a member Of the Brown family
| Robert by name, who had been INDUCING
| too freely, was captured on the street By
| Policeman Langbell, while cursiDg In s
| boisterOus manner, and was carried to the
barracks.
Samuel Nance, eolored, Of Appling coun
ty, who was committed 10 jail by the United
| States Commissioner on Thursday TO an
swer the charge OF selling LIQUOR without &
/ license, was yesterday released on bail OF
! 500 10 appear for trial at the November
| term OF the United States Court.
Capt. II. Dickerson and wife returned
home yesterday by the steamship Gate CITY
| from New York. Capt. Dickerson look
well and, had q hearty greeting from hi
| many friends The statement in the News
Yesterday that he had gone to Saratoga wa
| based upon a private telegram received
| Thursday night from the proprietor OF TIT
New York Hotel, where he was stopping.
An investigation will be held on Monday
In the case of a policeman charged will
absenting himself from duty without ex
cuse or permission; cursing, abusing, re
sisting and striking his superior officer, Ser
geant Harvey, and defying arrest, and beinI
drunk and disorderly, and resisting III
Sergeant In the discharge OF his duty. Thi
| occurred on Thursday. The case was calle'
in the Police Court yesterday, but wa
continued.