Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-21
Matters and Things LaconicaIIy
Noted.

Matters and Things LaconicaIIy
Noted.
Important meeting of the Y. NJ. C. A. to-
night.
City Court will be convened this afternoon
at o'clock.
Railroad Mutual Loan Association VIII
meet tonight.
The petit jurors of the City Court will
meet at 10 a. m. to-day.
There will be several victims of benzine
whisky to grace the Police Court matinee
to day.
Magistrate VIM. Mathews has located his
office st the old brickyard on the Thunder
bolt road.
Mr.. B. +. McKenna was among the pas
sengers by the City of Augusta to New
York Saturday.
open to-day for those members of the
Guards who desire to practice.
DeKalb Lodge No. 9, 1. o. o. F., will
meet this evening, and the Grand Master
will exemplifY the degree work.
The steamship Gate City arrived Satur-
day from New York with seventy-seVen
passengers and very large freight.
The City Of Augusta left Saturday for
New York with sixty-five cabin and five
steerage passengers, and large freight.
DIR. J. T. Mcfarland, Health Officer, who
has been North on short visit, returned
home Saturday by the steamship Gate
City.
The sale OF reserved seats for Miss Eleanor
Calhoun's engagement will commence at
Bren's ticket Office tomorrow at $50
o'clock.
Mr.. Frank H. Taylor, artist and Journal
list, accompanied by his wife, arrived Sat
urdaY from Florida and Nassau and reg
istered at the Pulaski House.
There was quite freshet In the river
yesterday, though as yet we have heard of
no damage. The water was about two and
half feet higher than usual.
The half circle space over the entrance Of
Chatham Academy has been beautifed by
the following inscription in gilt letters :
Chatham Academy, Incorporated February
LIST, 1888" This has been done by the
Board of Trustees.
John Golding and Charles Cummings,
the negroes charged with the assault on
Charles Brown, on the canal, and shooting
him in the shoulder, were Saturday In the
Police Court fined by the Mayor 500 and
thirty days in Jail each.
We see it stated that our former popular
fellow citizen, w. LeConte Stevens, ESQ. Late
| Professor or Physical Sciences In Chatham
Academy, has taken high position in sci
entifc circles in New York, where he has re-
sided the past several years, and is now
connected with the Cooper Institute College
of Science. This will be gratifying news
to his many friends in Savannah.
H. w. G., in a letter from New York,
says: "a prominent post office official told
me the other day that the Atlanta post
| Office was considered the most efficient and
workmanlike in the South, and is set up as
one of the models of the department
Good for the boys" If we remember
Alright, this credit was awarded officially to
the Savannah Post Office about year ago,
and is deserved now.
The Citizens Bank of Louisiana, at New
Orleans, reporting the result of the annual
meeting OF the shareholders, announces the
election of Mr.. Gilbert Green as Director.
Mr.. Green is the son of our esteemed fellow
citizen, Charles Green, Esq, and this, fol-
lowing his recent appointment as one of the
managers of the New Orleans Cotton Ex-
change ian Influential body, would seem to
indicate that our former townsman is in de-
mand In his adopted home.