Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-16
Matters and Things LaconicaIiy

A decline took place in sugars yesterday.
Yesterday was an exceedingly warm day.
ls9 bales of cotton were sold here yester-
day.
The stock OF spirits of turpentine is
small at present.
Cotton futures advanced one to three
| points yesterday.
The assessment at the Pelice Court yester-
day amounted to S35.
Thomas R. Lyon, of Camilla, is registered
at the Marshall House.
There have been very few good tomatoes
in the market thus far.
Canteleupes are seen on the fruit stands,
and command q big price.
The Savannah Volunteer Guards hold a
very important meeting tonight.
425 barrels of rosin and 440 casks spirits
| turpentine were sold here yesterday.
A large excursion party is expected here
from Jacksonville on the 4th of July.
Five hundred and seveDty-five barrels Of
rice were sold in this market yesterday.
The report of that committee on the new
hotel is anxiously and patiently awaited.
The German bark Betty, Captain Rowehl,
sailed from Reval for Savannah on the 9Th.
The E. VI. p. l. Soeia! Club had a pleas
ant picnic at the Schuetzen Park yesterday.
The fine steamer City Point made the last
trip from Savannah to Charleston In eight
hours.
Green corn is only seen in The market in
small quantities, aud at the present time is
very inferior.
We hear of an excursion party coming
from Augusta Oh the 4th Of July that will
probably take in Tybee.
The supply of eggs In this market is light,
aud the wholesale price has advanced to
twenty cents per dozen.
The barges lockwood and Mary brought
two hundred and seventy-five barrels OF
naval stores from the Satills.
Seventy-three hundred boxes of vege-
tables were shipped to Baltimore yesterday
by the steamship George Appold.
There will be rattle of a gold watch and
ring at Henry Suffers. on West Broad
street, to night, at eight O'Clock.
An important meeting of the Schuetzen
Society will be held tonight, and full
attendance Of the members is desired.
The work on Wilcox & Gibbs guano
warehouse on the Bay, of which mention
mas been made, is progressing rapidly.
Among the freight of the Gate City for
New York yesterday were ia barrels and
1882 boxes Of vegetables and fifteen crates
Of watermelons.
Captain W. W. Gordon and family and
General r. II. Anderson aud family were
among the passengers for New York Yester
day by the Gate City.
The crop of piums seems unusually Ian ge
| this year, and the colOred population are
| happy, scores of young and old being seen
/ daily on the streets selling them.
H. bot hor
of the Schuetzen Society will invite the
members at the meeting tonight to partake
of a collation. in honor of his birthday.
The Chatham Artillery and their friends
/ returned from the excursion to Ty bee about
/ two O'Clock yesterday morning, and found
/ the cars in waiting for them on the Bay.
| They had pleasant time.
The steamer Florida steamed down to the
| Central Railroad wharf about 4 O'Clock
| yesterday afternoon for the purpose OF
| discharging q large shipment of vegetables
which she had for New York.
Messrs. P. II. Ward & Co. yesterday sent
| to the MORNING News Office some very fine
| Irish potatoes, samples Of fifty barrels
/ shipped by them yesterday. They were
raised on the farm Of Capt A. ?. Wetter.
The race announced to take place be-
\ tween maud" and "Charlie DevliDn at
\ ThundeTbolt Park course this afternoon has
been indefinitely postponed, "Maud" hav-
/ ing been withdrawn for cause by her
/ owner.
A little three year old who was taken to
/ Tybee few days since by his father ana
treated to a walk along the beach is rather
| enthusiastic on the subject of our seaside
resort. He says he wants to go to that
place where ''you can bathe on the side
walk"
Estimates are being received for the re-
moval of Kinsey's old lumber mill about
one hundred feet inland in the event the
United States Government may deem
| proper to make the contemplated improve
ments to that portion Of the river this sum-
mer.
Mr.. John IL Griffin, the very efficient and
| iudefatigabie Passenger Agent of the Sa-
vanDah, Florida snd Western Railway, who
has been in Florida for some weeks past,
rea, b ed the city yesterday. He has been
doing some effective service for his COM
panY in the fiowery land.
E. L. Neidlinger, Esq, NJ. w. Grand
| Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance of
Georgia, leaves to day to attend the thirty
seventh annual session of the National
Division of the Sons Of Temperance Of
| North America, to be held at Saratoga
Springs, Thursday, the 23d inst.