Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-20
Matters and Things LacOnicaIly
Council viii meet this evening.

Noted.
Council will meet this evening.
Magnolia Eucampment, No. 1, I. o. o. f.,
meet tonight.
Capt. J. D. Johnston left yesterday for
reeuperative tour North.
The deaths in Charleston last week num-
bered ALB whites and 81 colored.
The assessment at the Police Court yes
terday amounted to only eight doliars'
There were 1850 watermelons received
here yesterday By the Central hslIrOau'
ST. Patrick's Roman Catholic l; a. q D.
Society have a special meeting 'O-nlsn''
The wharf at the Lower Cotton ffess is
being relaid and put In nrst-eiass oroer.
The work on the new wharf for the Bal
tImore steamships is progressing rapidly.
The breeze yesterday was perfectly de-
lghtful and the weather quite endurable.
The corporation hands are engaged In
paving River street, at the foot OF Bar
nard.
The Chatham Artillery expect to carry
over thirty members to the Yorktown Cen
tennial.
The roof of the new cotton piekery erect
ed by MessTs. Daffin & Dresser is now being
put on.
Capt. J. D. Teu Brock, Harbor Master,
returned from New York yesterday by the
City Of Macon.
There was not an arrest made by the po-
lice yesterday, and the city was remarkably
quiet and orderly.
The City of Macon brought in q large
freight and a number of passengers from
New York yesterday.
General G. ". NJ. Davis was among the
passengers by the steamer City of Bridge
ton from Florida yesterday.
The two new locomotives being built at
the Central Railroad machine shops are
rapidly nearing completion.
Captain H. J. Dickerson will leave in
few days for Niagara Falls, where he ex-
poets to remain about six weeks.
Forest City Light Infantry, colored, will,
this afternoon, attend the funeral OF their
honorary member, Charles De Lyon.
The steamship City Of Macon arrived here
yesterday from New York, having been
completely overhauled and renovated.
We understand that the steamship CITY
of Columbus will lay up shortly for the
purpose Of being overhauled and renovated.
The steamship Juniata, which arrived yes
terday, reports having experienced very
severe squan off Hatteras on Sunday night
last.
The steamship Saragossa was towed from
her wharf early yesterday morning to the
Lower Press to receive one thousand bales
of cotton.
Savannah teachers are represented at the
National Educational Convention, which
assembled in Atlanta yesterday, by Mr.. w.
II. Baker.
The Chatham Artillery are about chang
ing their present hats for helmets, and it is
expected will appear in their new head gear
on their next parade.
Contractors will find a notice of interest
from Mr.. s. s. SolOmons, President Of the
Central Railroad of South Carolina, In our
advertising column to-day.
Davis Freeman, of Savannah, student at
the University Of Georgia, Athens, yester-
day was awarded at the commencement ex-
ercises the first gold medal.
A shed $50 feet long, S feet high and 30
feet wide, is being erected on the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway wharves, for
the storage of spirits of turpentine.
The city is deriving quite a neat revenue
from the reckless and uncleanlY who will
persist in throwing trash and filth in the
street in violation Of the city ordinances.
Among the passengers of the City of
Macon, which arrived yesterday from New
York. was Col. w. B. Johnston, Of Macon,
one of the Directors of the Central Rail
road.
The steamship Saragosss, Captain T. a.
Hooper, carried among other freight TO
Baltimore yesterday, LOG bales cotton,
l ,2G0 WatermelOns and $50 boxes OF vegeta-
bles.
A very handsome aud eommodious
general and private Office has just been
completed at the Lever Cotton Press, and
will be occupied by the employees this
season.
The eolored band of Beaufort, who were
here on a recent excursion, wear In their
kepies metallic torches in the place of POM
pons. At night each musician carries his
own light.
T. B. BIount, ESQ, Sheriff of Mcintosh
county, who has been on visit OF several
days to our city, accompanied by his wife,
returned home yesterday on the steamer
Centennial.
An accident having occurred to the ma
chinery OF the steamship City Of Augusta
on her last trip to New York, she remained
there one trip in order to have the necessary
repairs made.
The steamer Rosa is now up on Jones
ways, where she is being almost entirely re
modelled. Her hull is being thoroughly re-
paired, and a new and spacious cabin will
be built, giving her superior passenger &C
cOmmOdations.
The case of ''The Ladies' Union POrter's
Society,"" cOlored, against Susan Sheftsll,
the defaulting Treasurer pro tem., is Occa-
sioning considerable excitement among the
colored folks, and the trial will doubtless
attract a large crowd.
There was heavy run yesterday on Mr..
VIM. Bren, ticket agent, Bull street, for
those condensed time tables and price lists
TO summer resorts, and If every one who
got q copy intends leaving the city, there
will be quite an exodus in few days.
The Captain of the Norwegian bark Vigor
has purchased the alligator caught at the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
wharves on MOndsy, of which mention was
made in the MORNING News of yesterday,
and proposes taking it to Europe when his