Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-27
Matters and Things LacOnieaIly
Noaad.


las bales OF cotton we're sold here yester-
day.
There were sold here yesterday go barrels
OF rice.
The temperature yesterday was quite
pleasant for July.
Golden Rule Lodge No. II, 1. o. o. F.'
will meet to night.
German Volunteers have speeial mee'-
ing Of importance to night.
The wholesale dealers are already nSAins
arrangements for their fall STOCKS
The interments 10 Charleston d last week
numbered 45-whites 10, coloreo o.
The nresent indications are that business
viii omen up earlier than usual this IaIl'
The assessment at the Police Court yes
teriay amounted to twenty-five dollars.
The constable sale at Magistrate Elsin-
ger's Office tOiay will attract large croWu'
Editor Byrd. of the Blackshear NeacS, was
registered at the Marshall House yesterday
Among the freight by the steamer Katie
from up the river Yesterday were u barrels
Of honey.
The naval stores sales yesterday amount
ed to 4S7 barrels of rosin and % casks spirits
of turpentine.
There is one consolation about this
drought. Physicians say dry summer Is
always healthy.
Mr.. NJ. A. O'Brien will open summer
school at the Cathedral school building on
the Is. proXimo.
There is a brisk demand for rice at pre-
sent, and quotations for all grades were ad-
vanced Yesterday.
Lard advanced a quarter cent per pound
yesterday, and the market closed firm with
an upward tendency.
The Chatham Artillery will have their
new helmets In time for their Vlslt 70 the
Yorktown Centennial.
1858 barrels Of rosin and 400 casks spirits
Of turpentine comprised the receipts OF
naval stores Yesterday.
The steamer Katie only went as far as
Cohen's Bluff on her last trip, owing to
scarcity Of water in the river.
Messrs. n. Lowell and L. F. Goodsell
were among the passengers by the City OF
Savannah from New York yesterday.
A special meeting of the Republican
Blues will be held tomorrow evening, when
business Of importance will be considered
Mark Gordon and James Phinizee, pair
OF cOlOred arabs, were each fined = or seven
DAYS for the fun Of throwing rocks In the
street.
Nothing will now be done In regard to the
walls around the Old Cemetery until De-
cember, when the matter will come before
the courts.
There was quite a number Of strangers 10
the city yesterday from ValdOsts, Quitman
and Albany, as shown by the register OF the
Marshall House.
The work Of repainting and replastering
the offices Of the Mayor and Clerk OF Coun-
ell was commenced yesterday. They are to
be put In first class order.
The leader Of the Guards Band requests
US to state that they have not been engaged
for the entertainment at ConcOrdia Park
on 18th instant, as announced.
Among the passengers by the steamship
City of Savannah, which arrived yesterday,
was William Hone, Esq, who has been
North on business for some time.
The eolored Odd Fellows had an excur-
sion to Montgomery yesterday, over the
Savannah, Skidawsy and SeabOard Railroad,
and carried about three hundred persons.
Mr.. Edward Mcintyre, the efficient and
gentlemanly general bOOkkeeper at the
Central Railroad, is off on a brief vacation,
which his mauy friends hope Will prove en-
iOyable.
The tickets for the excursion of the
Young Mems Church Guild on the 9th of
August are on sale, and can be obtained
from any OF the committee or at the places
named in the advertisement.
The new pavement ordinance was passed
by Council some time ago, and it was pre-
dicted that dilatory parties would, under
its provisions, be compelled to put their
sidewalks in order promptly.
A horse belonging to Charles Lee, col
Ored, attached to a wagon, broke his back
by running into a car on the Coast Line
Railroad, near the terminus, and died
shortly afterwards from the effects.
That excellent weekly. the BIltimOrean,
published at Baltimore city, by Mr.. A. F.
Crutchfield, contains in this weeks Issue
handsome portrait of Gen. Geo. p. Har-
son, Jr., son of Gen. g. P. Harrison, OF this
CITY, together with a sketch of his life.
Prof. Stone, of the Cincinnati Observa-
tory, says the new comet is approaching,
aud when in periheliOn. about August 19,
will be very near. He thinks this may be
the return OF the great comet observed from
China in 1887, as its orbit is very similar.
The pOrticOs on the handsome residences
of Messrs. A. S. Bacon and Jordan F.
Brooks, recently completed, and which are
such an acquisition to the growing southern
portion of the city, are Of beautiful design,
very elaborate, and are unlike anything
here