Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-19
SIGNAL SERVICE OBSERVATIONS AT 1874 p. H.
(sAvASEAH MEAN TIMEg MAY IS. 1881.
Matters and Things LacOnicaily
Noted.


Lard declined Il cent yesterday.
Oranges are very scarce and high.
st. Andrew Society viii meet to night.
365 bales OF cotton was sold here yester-
day.
Some 1 PSF barrels Of rosin were sold yes
terday.
The assessment at the Police Court yes
terday amounted to only So.
The steamer Florida VIII not be with
drawn from the Florida route.
Yesterday 600 barrels Of rosin and 14S
casks Of spirits were received.
The Baptist Sunday school had pleasant
picnic yesterday at Montgomery.
An important meeting Of the Z. NJ. 2. /
Social Club will be held tonight.
A great many orders from the West for
rice are being received in Savannah.
The mania for specializing in stocks is In
creasing, and somebody will be hurt yet.
The weather yesterday would have been
seasonable in October, but was rather cool
for May.
The market is well stocked with eggs at
present, and they are quoted at II cents per
dozen.
The Weruers anticipate that their ap-
preaching excursion will be the best ever
given By the company.
The steamer Eliza HaBcox brought q
large crowd OF cOlOred excursionists from
Beaufort yesterday afternoon.
The bark Mamie T. Bell yesterday started
for Brunswick in tow OF the tug COnstitu-
ton, which will 90 all the way with her.
The Hunkidor is now engaged in hunt
ing uD fats and barges on the river in ac-
cordance with the orders Of the Collector.
The steamship Saragossa, Capt. I. A
Hooper, LETT for Baltimore Yesterday, with
a large freight and number of passengers.
A party OF ten ladies and gentlemen
from Ocala, Florida, arrived here yesterday
morning and left on the steamer for New
York.
The only arrests recorded at the police
barracks last night were OF two belligerent
parties for fighting in yard on Bryan
street.
Frank ]. Hassler and J. Goldman Ford, L.
s. n, stationed at Beaufort, arrived in the
city Yesterday and registered at the screVen
House.
An excursion train on the Charleston and
Savannah Railway yesterday afternoon
brought over eight hundred colored excur-
siOnists.
The Union Brass Band, colored, Of Jack
sonyille, gave an open air concert In Forsyth
Park Yesterday afternoon aud diseOursed
some excellent music.
We tender our Acknowledgements to the
committee for an invitation TO attend the
picnic OF the OglethoTpe Light Infantry at
TYbee on the 18th inst.
p The ivory handled knives and the orguin-
cite on which chances were taken at the
Masonic Fair Will be rsfh d at Hamilton's
jeHelry store to-day at Il O'Clock.
We return our Acknowledgements to the
committee for an invitation to attend the
annual picnic OF the 0glethOrpe Light In
fantry at TYbee on the 18th inst.
In const ouence Of unavoidable circum-
stances, the institution Of Landrum Lodge.
+. A. NJ, did not take place last night, and
Was postponed until some future time.
Mr.. J. s. Bailey, who has just returned
from the North where he is having vessel
buiIt for the lumber trade on the Satilla
river, is registered az the Marshall House.
The steamer Florida met the steamship
Gate City for New York, down the river
Yesterday, and transferred l,015 boxes of
vegetables and tWenty-One passengers in
fiffiy-ive minutes
Everybody seems interested In the pro-
iect of a new hotel, and hope is expressed
that it won't end all in talk. Let some OF
our capitalists come to the front and the
hotel viii be built.
We understand that German Catholic
paper, to be called the Savannah POiks6Ldtt,
is shortly to be started in this city by
New York publisher. IL will be an eight
page weekly, seven columns to the page.
The train from Augusta via Port Royal
arrived here at midnight, with three passen-
ger coaches packed with cOlOred excursion
istS, including one military company. The
train was delay ed about an hour at 1emas-
see.
The only candidate before the Police
Court Yesterday was q well known charac-
ter, who has long abstained from the in
toxieatiDg cup, but who unfortunately slip
ped up again, but it is hoped will turn the
new leaf once more, and keep straight.