Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-06
Waters and Things Laconically
Noted,

CITY Council viii meet to night.
The Legislature meets to-day in Atlanta.
-The comet has ceased to excite particular
interest.
The assessment at the Police Court yes
terday amounted to S27.
The Republican Blues have an important
quarterly meeting tomorrow night.
The inferments in Charleston last week
numbered 37-whites 10, colored Is.
Members of the German Volunteers viii
find notice of interest ia our special notice
column.
The banks will hereafter open at 10
O'Clock a. m. and close at p. N. until fur
Their notice.
The recently elected officers of the Mag
uoIia Encampment No. l, l. o. o. F., will
be installed tonight.
Hon. D. C. Bacon, Representative from
Chatham, left for Atlanta last evening, ae-
companied by his wife.
The moonlight excursion Of the Savannah
Volunteer Guards to Tybee this afternoon
will prove pleasant affair.
Members OF Pulaski Council No. 153,
Z. A, will attend the funeral of their late
brother, John j. Chaplin, this morning.
The City of Augusta arrived at her wharf
from New York yesterday morning with
big freight and number Of passengers.
Grand and petit jurors of the City Court
are required TO be in attendance promptly
at the opening OF court at ten O'Clock this
morning.
Those who wish to pass an enjoyable
afternoon should make their arrangements
TO attend the excursion of the Young Mems
Church Guild, on Friday afternoon next.
The Lightfoot Base Ball Club, of Griffin,
has issued a challenge to any club in any
State or South for a match or series OF
matches to be played at place designated
hereafter.
Moses Wright, the colored trooper who
was arrested for disOrderly conduct and OBJ
structing the sidewalk, after being request
ed to move on, was yesterday, In the Police
Court, fined So.
Mr.. Z. c. Olney, formerly of Savannah,
now located in Charleston as agent of the
Charleston and Savannah Railway, was III
the city Yesterday, and had warm greeting
from his friends.
Myron Bangs, Esq, who is to superin-
tend the work of putting in the submerged
dams and jetties in the river, and has been
here for the past ten days, left yester
day. He win return in October.
The steamer H. B. Plant will leave the
city this afternoon at half-past two O'Clock
for Tybee with the Guards Battalion.
Tickets may be obtained from the members.
aud all who go may anticipate a good
time.
An important and interesting meeting Of
the Irish National Land League will be
held on Thursday night, at Mozart Hall,
when formal reception will be rendered
Mr.. Parnell. The programme will appear
tomorrow.
Among the passengers who arrived here
yesterday from New York BY the steamship
City of Augusta were Col. G. D. Owens, J.
L. Taylor and J. NJ. TisOn, officials of the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway,
aud I. A. AskeW.
Ben Cole and Andrew Elliott, the colored
individuals caught bathing IN the canal,
were yesterday each fined 81, which will,
however, be remitted in event their
respective daddies give them a genteel
thrashing as a reminder not to break ordi-
nsnees again.
Charleston NeloS and Courier, 4th: ''The
schooner NapOr was towed from below into
this port Yesterday by the steam tug Re-
public. The vessel was on her passage
from Savannah for Wilmington, Del, with
a cargo OF lumber, and on Thursday last,
during a squsll, was struck by lightning and
lost the upper part of the foremost, foresail,
mainsail, etc. The schooner has put into
this harbOr to reft."