Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-12
Matters and Things Laconic.ly

Spirits turpentine declined 1c. per gallon
yesterday.
The sales of rice yesterday amounted to
265 barrels.
The ship Favorita Is expected up from
Tybee to-day.
Not single arrest reported at the bar
racks last night.
The value Of foreign exports yesterday
amounted to 1911, 521.
Workmen will commence repairing the
tug Souder in few days.
Good middling and middling cotton de-
clined re. in this market yesterday.
The Pulaski Loan Association hold their
regular monthly meeting this evening.
Fig Island was almost completely COW
cred with water at high tide yesterday.
The pilot boat John stoddsrd has been
taken to Charleston, where she was pur-
chased.
The schooner Mary Novel;, Captain Fur
man. cleared at Philsdelphis on the ftn LOT
Savannah.
There were 6,412 bales Of cotton received,
,030 bales exported and 1881 bales sold
here Yesterday.
The receipts Of naval stores Yesterday
were l $50 barrels Of rOsin and az casks OF
spirits turDentine.
The sales Of naval stores yesterday com
prised .1O9 barrels OF rosin and 20 casks OF
spirits turpentiue.
The Chatham Artillery on yesterday
shipped their two guns aud a ful supply
Of provisions 10 Yorktown.
The steamer City Point did not reach
here Yesterday on account Of the bad
weather, but will arrive to-day.
will hold their eighth regular monthly meet
ing this evening at Metropolitan Hall.
C}esr rib sides. shoulders, dry sailed clear
rib sides, long clears aud shoulders declined
1 re. per pound in this market yesterday.
The poles for the Tybee telephone
lice are now ready, and will be taken
down in few days by the schooner Matte
Golden Rule Lodge No. II, 1. o o F.,
meets tonight to confer degrees. Members
are requested 10 come prepared to pay dues.
At the meeting of the Southern Mutual
| Loan Association, held Monday night last,
| &. 900 were sold at 49, and $1,000 at Az
The Central Railroad shops are crowded
with work. Mr.. Arden, the Master Ma
chiRist, has two more freight engines under
construction.
The wreck Of the tug Amos Wade, which
has been lying in the dock at the foot OF
East Broad street, was yesterday taken
across the river.
The barge lockwood, which sunk at Do
boy during the storm, arrived here yester-
dav not materially injured, aud viii 60 on
the ways shortly for repairs.
The tug Archibald Getty, which was stove
in on the port side during the storm by
coming in contact with some vessel, had a
new plank put In yesterday.
Cotton futures for the early months ad-
vanced from two to four points yesterday.
For February and beyond they advanced
from seven to twelve points.
The energetic proprietor Of the screven
House is still busilY engaged In making i'm
provements, which will greatly add to the
comfort and convenince OF his guests.
Twenty-Five barrels of rock and rye were
brought here Yesterday from Hswkinsville
by the steamer Cumberland. Evidently
there is great demand for this medicine. :"
Messrs. A. Minis & Sons on yesterday
cleared for Reval the British steamship Mo,
with a cargo OF 4 O3O bales Of upland cotton,
weighing ], s97, 0O7 pounds, valued at S2l7,-
Among the freight by the steamship City
Of Savannah, from Philadelphia, is a large
quantity of car wheels, car springs and
other railroad material for the Georgia
Railroad.
The British steamship Propitious arrived
at Tybee yesterday from Philadelphia, and
will not come up, having been ordered TO
New Orleans by her consignees, Messrs. A.
Minis & Sons.
His Honor had an easy time of It at the
Police Court yesterday morning. Only two
cases demanded his attentiOn-both for
drunkenness. Three dollars or ten days in
each instance.
The steamer Katie arrived here at half
past IL O'Clock on Monday night, dis
charged all her freight and left for Mat
theWs' Bluff at z O'Clock yesterday morn
ing. Pretty quick work.
Messrs. B. W. & II. F. Morse made a con-
tract here on Saturday for 100000 feet OF
lumber. This firm has purchased and ship
ped from here already this year over z, 0O0,-
600 feet.
The schooner Lucy Wheatly arrived here
Yesterday for the purpose Of going on the
ways to be repaired. There is considerable
wafer in her hold, and her masts and rig
ging are all gone. The damage to the hull
cannot be fully ascertained until she is
placed upon the ways.
Macon Telegraph: January Both, 1888,
now but little more than a year distant,
will be the one hundred aud fftieth ami
versary Of the colony OF Georgia. 1t will
afford the people OF Macon and the entire
Empire State an appropriate occasion for
celebrating the sesQui centennial. We hop
elaborate preparations will be made for a
brilliant observance OF the event"