Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-14
Matters and Things LacOnicaIIy
Noted.

The sales Of rosin yesterday amounted to
S2S barrels.
The dust is almost unbesrable. A good
rain is sadly needed.
There were 4l3 barrels Of rice sold in
this market yesterday.
Only one arrest at the barracks last night.
| Colored. Assault and battery.
Cotton futures advanced eight points yes
terday on the closing figures OF the day pre-
vious.
Alliance Lodge No. $50, Knights Of
Honor, hold their regular meeting this
evening.
The steamship Rapidan, Captain Daggett,
sailed from New York on the 18th for Sa-
vannsh.
Middling fair, low niddlIng and good or
binary cotton advanced &c. yesterday, and
ordinary &c.
The receipts of naval stores yesterday
were 1874 barrels Of rOsin and l1O casks
spirits turpeutine.
The brig American Union. Captain Boe-
man, sailed from Delaware BreakWater on
the 10th for Savannah.
The exports of naval stores from this port
Yesterday were S4S barrels OF rosin and
80 casks spirits turpentine.
The pavement on the west side Of Whits-
l.
Jones street, needs repairing badly.
The rug j r Staples, from DobOy, went
upOu Jones' ways Yesterday for the purpose
of having her Tudder and hull repaired.
At the last meeting Of the Pulaski Loan
Association three sales were made, as fol
lows: Series GA" $1,000 at %; series ''B, "
50 900 at 50.
-Four evil doors were before His Honor
the Mayor Yesterday morning. Fourteen
dollars or IS days was the aggregate of the
sentences passed.
All the benches in Washington square
were torn up by some parties on Wednesday
night Such vandalism should be ferreted
out and punished.
Capt. B. D. Green, of Charleston, Of the
corps Of engineers in charge OF river i'm
prOvements in South Carolina and Georgia,
is registered at the Marshall.
We desire to call special attention to the
advertisements of Messrs. Kennedy q Blum
in this mornings issue. They offer for sale
a great many desirable articles.
The schooner Thomas J. Lancaster, which
was bound for Savannah with a cargo Of
ice, and went ashore near New Inlet, n. g.,
was going to pieces on the 1lth.
The new steamship Allegheny, Captain
Parker, belonging to the Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company, cleared at
Baltimore on the 18th for Savannah.
Attention is called to the advertisement
of Messrs Davis Bros. & Co., agents for the
clothing house of Jacob Reeds Sons, Phils-
delphia, which appears in another column.
The steamship City of Savannah went up
10 the Central Railroad wharves Yesterday
for the purpose OF discharging 500 tons of
cotton ties which she had on board for the
interior.
Mr.. E. st. J. Fripp, who has been en-
gagged in the naval stores business here for
several years, left yesterday for Mobile,
Alabama, for the purpose OF engaging in
business at that point.
In accordance with the resolution adopted
in Council Wednesday night, Mayor Whes
ton has offered a reward Of $500 for the
arrest, with proof to convict, of the das-
tardly miscreant who shot Sergeant Harvey.
The German bark Julie was cleared yes
terday for Wolgast, Germany, by Messrs-
Gaudry q Walker. with cargo OF lot, l41
feet.of cypress timber, 81, lS5 feet OF pine
timber, and A., 726 feet Of cypress and pine
lumber, valued at s., 500.
We learn that the Central Railroad con
template erecting on both sides Of the
southern end of the slip, which they are
having dug out at the rear of their wharves,
quite a number Of warehouses. This will
be very convenient, as vessels can then lay
on both sides and take on and discharge
their cargoes readily, thus saving the ex-
pense and labor of having the goods
trucked, as well as considerable time.