Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-26
HatteFs AID Things LaeOnieaIIJ
Noted.

The anniversary of Odd Fellowship.
A special meeting of the Schuetzen Society
will be held tonight.
Special cars will be run to the Cathe-
dral cemetery to-day.
The assessment at the Police Court matt
nee yesterday was S23.
The military are busy perfecting their ar
engagements for their May frolics.
Mr.. A. l.. Mellon, cashier of the Grand
Uaion Hotel, Saratoga, is at the Pulaski
House.
The first train over the Waycross Short
Line will leave the city this morning at ten
O'Clock.
The only arrest made by the police yester-
day was that of a negro too drunk to give
his name.
A business meeting of the members of the
Union Society will be held at Bethesda this
morning.
Seventy-three boys have been under the
charge Of the Union Society during the past
twelve months.
In a game Of base ball between the "Morn-
ing Stars" and sour Boys" the former were
victorious by q score of Is to 6.
Special cars will be run on the Whitaker
ana Abercorn street lines direct to Laurel
Grove Cemetery this afternoon.
The matinee to be given by ''The Pirates"
to morrow afternoon will be a big event and
we expect to see the house crowded.
Extra ears will be run on the Barnard and
Anderson street line this afternoon for the
accommodation Of visitors to the cemetery.
Written proposals for the whole or any
part of the Exhibition Hall will be received
by the Chairman of the Masonic Commit
ties.
The meeting of the P2rnell branch OF the
Irish National Land League to night at
Metropolitan Hall will be rendered interest
ing by several speeches.
We learn that a large party of exclusion
lists will come here on Saturday afternoon,
for the purpose of visiting the Masonic
Fair, and will return Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Columbus Downing, Jr., formerly of
this city as manager Of the branch house Of
Chess, Corley 81 Co., but now head of the
branch of the Baltimore house, is in the
city.
Steamship City of Savannah, from Phila.
delphia Saturday last at l O'Clock p. m,
was moored at her wharf in Savannah Mon
day evening at $50 O'Clock, 52H hours
from wharf to wharf.
The Eutaw Excursion Club will leave Au-
gusta with a large party this evening for
Savannah, whence they tax the steamer St.
Johns to Florida. They are accompanied
by a fine brass band.
The sale of reserved seats for the enter
tainmept on Thursday night of Miss Jose
phine Cameron and Mr.. Barton Hill will
commence at Bren's ticket Office at nine
O'Clock this morning.
The steamship City of Augusta arrived
Yesterday afternoon, and was moored to her
dock by 6 O'Clock, having left New York on
Ca&,,.1ou nravfoue Of 4 nfolo0Iy mcEipr fbo
passage in the quick time of fifty hours.
We are requested by the Ladies' Memorial
Association to ask the merchants and busi-
ness men generally to close their places of
business this afternoon, in order that their
employees may participate In the memorial
ceremonies.
We had a pleasant call yesterday from
Mr.. Reau Campbell, General Northern
Agent of the Cincinnati Southern, formerly
| connected with the Montgomery and Eufau-
la, and who has many friends in Savannah.
John Burus, the enterprising colored in
dividual who attempted to obtain from Mr..
NJ. w. Dixon the wages due Daniel John
| son, colored, on false representation, was
before the Police Court yesterday, and had
his case continued.
George Williams, colored, who was ar
rested on Saturday night for shooting Peter
Hines, colored, near the Market, was Yester-
day turned over to a Magistrate by the po-
| lice authorities, and will be held subject to
the action of the grand jury.
L Is thought that the schooner John
Slusmau, which sailed from Philadelphia
February 2Sth for Savannah, before report
ed overdue, may prove to be the wreck dis
| covered on the north end of Bulls Island
by the pilot boat Dream, from Charleston,
on Sunday, the 18th.
We understand that the members of
Council are pretty nearly unanimous In
favor of utilizing the compressed asphaltum,
of which MIR. John Coburn is the agent, for
the streets which have to be PRAYED. The
matter will come up before Council to-
morrow night for FINAL action.
The schooner James Cakes, Captain Has
kell, which cleared from this port with a
cargo Of lumber for Tottenville, s. l., put
into New York on the 22d, and reports that
on April IA, off Hatteras, took a heavy gale
from NE, backing to NNW., and was
blown across the Gulf Stream.
The schooner M. B. Millen, Captain
Young, at New York, April Dist, from this
port with a cargo of lumber, reports that on
| April 14th, off Hatteras, took a heavy gale
from northwest, in which shipped heavy
seas and unshipped dayitsi broke counter
rail and lost boat; was obliged to scud be-
fore the wind for twelve hours; barometer
twenty-nine.
At a meeting of the Irish Jasper Greens
the following committee was appointed to
make arrangements for the annual picnic,
which will take place in the latter part Of
Nav: Lieutenant j.. McGrath, Corporal w.
]. Walsh, Priv2tes 2. j. O'Connor, L. ID.
Herman and F. NJ. Lamotte The picnic
will be given to Tybee, and will no doubt
be a pleasant affair.