Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-27
Matters and Things LaeOnieany
Noted.


Noted.
John E. Owens will be here the first week
In October.
Work was generally suspended along the
Wharves Yesterday.
Hands were at work discharging the Balti-
more steamer yesterday.
The assessment at the Police Court yes
terdsy amounted to SIS.
The custom house was closed yesterday
and there were no clearances from this
port.
Hon. George r. Black, Representative to
| Congress from the First district, was in the
city yesterday.
Hon. D. c. Bacon returned from Atlanta
yesterday. The Legislature will probably
adjourn today.
Tickets for the gift entertainment under
the auspices Of the Republican Blues are
going of rapidly.
The receipts Of naval stores Yesterday
were 116 barrels Of rosin and 1S9 casks
spirits turpentine.
There have been received to date a, 1893
bales OF cotton, against IS, 736 bales for the
same time last year.
1t is estimated that the crop Of mosqui-
toes this month is the largest since the close
Of the war. Wherefore!
The streets yesterday afternoon and last
night were disgrsced by very few drunken
and disOrderlY characters.
The tug Mary Shaw, Captain Muir, from
Baltimore and bOund for Mobile, came into
this port yesterday for coal.
Richard Grant, colored, was yesterday
fined in the Police Court $40 for breaking in
the door Of Celia Harris, colored.
The damage to the wood work of the
Norwegian bark Condor which was sustain
ed during the storm has been repaired.
Mr.. J. W. Tynan's new brass foundry,
which Wss blown down during the storm, is
being rebuilt, and is nearly completed.
A complete set of new sailI for the Nor
wegian bark Condor was brought out by
the steamship Juniata from New York.
The walls of the warehouse of the Lower
Hydraulic Cotton Press, which were blown
down during the gale, are about being re-
built.
The repairs 10 the schooner Maid of the
Mist will be completed by the latter part of
the week, when she will engage in the
coasting trade.
Two dredges went down the river yester-
| day to the point where the Boutwell, is ly-
/ ing, and will be employed in the work of
| digging her out.
Paul Grant, the colOred trooper who was
arrested for beating his wife, Linda Grant,
on Saturday night. was yesterday in the
/ Police Court fined s..
The list OF up, cleared and sailed for this
port to date comprises thirty vessels, as fol-
lows: Two ships, twenty one bsrks, four
briggs and three schooners.
The barge lockwood, which sunk st Do
/ boy during the recent hurricane, has been
| raised. The hull is in complete order, but
the pilot house and upper works were
badly damaged.
The brick walls around the new wharf Of
the Baltimore steamships, which were de-
mOlished by the storm on the 9th ult-, have
been rebuilt, and work will commence on
the sheds to-day.
Throughout the entire business part Of
| the city Yesterday were 10 be seen emblems
| Of mourning, and from all public buildings,
offices and military armOries flags were dis
played at half mast.
A white man, too drunk to give his name,
was found lying fiat on the sidewalk, cor
ner Of Montgomery and Bay streets, yester-
day morning at IL o'clock, and was carried
to the barracks in a wagon.
new bridge connecting the main road
/ 10 the Central Railroad wharves with the
road to the western end Of the new cotton
press ude Dccu Gull plcl6us anu VIII NC VI
great convenience in the transportation Of
cotton.
The slip just east Of the Central Railroad
wharves, which belongs to that company,
has been already deepened and widened
sufficiently to admit two vessels. The
steamship Juniata aud bark Lady Dufferin
are both discharging there.
The Baltimore Gazette mentions among
the fair sex present at q recent tournament
at TOwsentown, near Baltimore, by the
Towsontown Guards, who are preparing to
visit Yorktown, Miss Fannie Ridgely, the
accomplished daughter OF our fellow citi-
zen, Capt. Charles L. Ridgely.
An unfortunate white woman named
Prendergast, who is addicted to strong
drink, was discovered lying at the corner
of Lincoln and Congress streets yesterday
afternoon, and had 10 be brought to the po-
lice barracks in q wagon. II is not the first
ride in that wagon the unfortunate woman
has had.