Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-02
Matters and Things LacOnicany


August opened cool and pleasant.
Savannah Lodge No. 1l53, E. Of H., meet
| tonight.
St. Patriek's T. a. q B. Society will meet
tonight.
Excelsior Lodge No. S. K. of P, meet this
evening.
168 barrels of rice were sold in this market
yesterday.
The street sprinklers yesterday found tneir
occupation gone.
Shirts OF turpentfne advanced &c. per
| gallon yesterday.
To-5sv is the regular monthly sales day
| AZ the court house.
The Iosin market is stiffening and prices
are tending upwards.
| The assessment al the Police Court yester-
| day amounted to SIS.
There are twenty two vessels up, cleared
and sailed for this port.
The receipts OF cotton yesterday were ~
bales, and the sales 119 bales.
There viii be music at Battery Park by
the Guards Band this afternoon.
The odd Fellows are making preparations
| for the entertainment Of the Grand Louge
The naval stores sales yesterday were ,26O
barrels Of rosin and 90 casks spirits OF tur-
pentine.
The receipts of naval stores yesterday
COMPRISED ,04l barrels OF rosin ana zoo
casks spirits Of turDentine.
L. Vaunucke. Esq, Chief Of the Macon
Fire Department, is in the city ana Is regis
tered at the Marshall House.
The United States revenue cutter Bout
well arrived here Yesterday from cruise,
and is anchored in the river.
Hon. G. S. Greno, Mayor OF st. Angus
tine, arrived last night from New York by
the steamship City Of Augusta.
The City Of Augusta arrived at her wharf
last night at half past one o'clock, having
come up the river with the aid OF the elec-
trio light.
Mr.. 7. P. Rayenel, who has been up the
| country rusticating, returned yesterda az,
| looking reiuvenated and in excellent health
and spirits.
The Central Railroad Companyis building
| a large addition to the warehouse at NJ. o.
This IS one OF the most important freight
depOts on the road.
The heavy ard continuous rain Of Sunday
night aud a portion of yesterday was very
| beneficial 10 the parched crops. We learn
/ that the rain was general.
Prof. Alfred Seliger will give a grand dis
/ play Of fireworks at COncOrdia Park on the
/ 4th instant. We acknowledge the receipt
| Of an invitation to be present.
A notice Of great interest to the deposit
/ tors and creditors of the Freedmen's Saw
| tngs and TrCst Company appears in another
| column, to which attention is directed.
In the Legislature yesterday bill chang
| ing the control Of the jail from the city to
| the County Commissioners and Sheriff was
introduced and referred to the Finance
/ Committee.
! Harry Crisp, the handsome young actor,
/ who is q brother Of Judge Charles +. Crisp,
| Of Americas. is 10 play Sir Clement Hunt
/ ingford In THE World" under the manage
ment OF Messrs. Brooks x Dickson.
The schooner VI. K. Rowley, from Bruins
| wick. Ga, with a cargo OF hard pine lumber
/ for Providence, Il. /, which was previously
| ashore on Bonnet Pci in, near Narragansett
/ Pier, arrived at Providence on Thursday
| evening. the 2Sth, In to~ Of steam tug Reli-
1 auce She is full of water, but what ma
! terial damage she has sustained cannot be
/ determined until she has been discharged.
Athens B,tlletiu: "Mr Geo. r. Alexander,
\ a graduate Of the class of 1871, aud now
! one OF Slvannah's most fOurishing mer-
! chants, after delighting the hearts Of his
/ friends for the past two weeks by his agree
/ able Dresence, has gone home. The fair
/ seq in general, and probably some in par
! ricular, will greatly regret his departure
while we hear that some of our timid young
/ men are glad Of their own account that he
/ mas gone. We DO not yOuch for the truth
I Of this, however,