Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-22
EAtAeFs and Things LacOnicaIly

NAtsers and Things LacOnicaIly
Noted.
Inc Superior Court will adjourn for the
term to-day.
The value of the foreign exports yester-
day was $l05, 149 40.
Not a cent was realized by the Police
court matinee yesterday.
A meeting OF Alliance Lodge, K. of H.,
Will be held this evening.
The hotels were crowded with guests yes
terday, and the streets had almost a holiday
aspect.
The examination of the Savannah Female
Asylum will take place this afternoon at 4
O'Clock.
Several of the visiting Knights of Honor
were compelled 10 leave for home by last
evenings rains
T. F. Walsh, Esq, a rising young mer-
chant of Beaufort, was in the city yesterday
purchasing goods.
An important meeting of the Stewards of
the Savannah Yacht Gu will be held at IL
O'Clock to day at No. 81 Bull street.
Jim Williams, colored, was arrested yes
terdsy on the charge of having assaulted
and cut Charles Erwin with a knife on the
I'd inst.
Messrs. Richardson & Barnard cleared
yesterday for COrunna, the bark G. B. Hazel
tine, with 282, COS feet Of lumber, valued at
$4,085 46.
The Charleston Sportsmen Club have a
tournament on the 9Th and 9th of MAY, and
will invite teams from Savannah and else
where to participate.
Hampton Williams, colored, was arrested
Yesterday afternoon by Policeman Monk,
charged with disorderly conduct around the
corner of Bull and Broughton streets.
We are glad to learn that instructions
have been given the police to break up the
loaing gangs of negroes that every after
noon block up the street corners on Bull
and Broughton streets.
A prominent merchant of South Carolina
informed US yesterday that he had bought
rice this week in Savannah at from u to u
cent per pound cheaper than he could have
purchased 1t In Charleston.
The schooner General F. E. Spinner,
Captain Scott, which cleared from this port
for Philadelphia on the 18th, arrived at the
latter place on the 18th, having lost her
foretopmast and sustained other damage.
The hat of P. D.. C. j. Stroberg, OF the
Grand Lodge Knights of Honor, has served
as a ballot box on the occasion of the cleo
tion of the Grand officers every year since
the establishment of the Order in Georgia.
VIM. Street was arrested yesterday morn
ing about II O'Clock, charged with stealing
iron from Mr.. John Rourke, and was lodged
In the barracks. but was subsequently, turned
over, on q warrant, to a magistrate, and
will have to appear before a higher court to
answer the charge.
The schooner John Slusman, Captain Call,
sailed from Philadelphia for Savannah on
the 28th of February last, with a cargo of
p~hosphates, since which time nothing has
been heard from her. Her owners and
others interested fear that she has gone
down with all on board.
The schooner Annie L. McKeen, Capt.
Patterson, which cleared from this port on
the I'd for Noank, Conn, with a cargo of
timber and lumber, arrived at that place on
the 18th. She reported having experienced
very heavy weather, and lost part of her
deck load of lumber
The Chicago Ideal Company will produce
at the Savannah Theatre this evening the
drama "Uncle Toms Cabin" The Augusta
Chronicle states that "there was nothing OBJ
i%ectionsble in the play, and nc distasteful
manifestation" on the occasion of its presen-
tations at the Opera House in that city.
The British bark Anna, which arrived at
Baltimore on the 10th instant, reports that
on February 2Sth, while q severe gale was
blowing, she was struck by a whale on the
port side Of the bow, doing considerable
damage but not causing the vessel to leak.
The whale left a track of blood behind him.