Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-18

There was no profit In the matinee OF the
Police Court yesterday.
Clean up your premises and have all the
| out houses Whitewashed.
The receipts of cotton yesterday were
very light, only 264 bales.
In the Magisterial line everything has
been quiet for some time past.
1904 barrels of rosin and 41S casks Of
| spirits were received here yesterday.
Stockholders of the Planters Rice Mill
| Company meet to-day at ii o'clock.
The activity IN the rosin market continues
| ia barrels were sold here yesterday.
The quotations for wool advanced one
| cent per pound ia this market yesterday.
CITY Court will be convened o-day, and
| the attendance of petit jurors is required.
The number of interments in Charleston
| for the week were 49-whites Is, colored 81.
The annual picnic of private social club
to Augusta yesterday was pleasant affair.
James L. Fort, ESQ, and family, OF
| Townsville, are registered at the Marshall
House.
The cows continue to Craze in the public
squares. and the yellow dog rosms at large
untaxed.
The Lutheran Sunday school will have
their picnic at Tybee Island on Friday
morning.
L. is estimated that about one million
/ pounds of wool are received here during
the season.
The City Of Macon arrived yesterday from
| New York with big freight and number
of passengers.
Gen. Hunt, commander of this depart
ment, is IN the city, and stopping at the
Screyen House.
Associate Justice VIM. B. Woods, of the
| Supreme Court of the United States, arrived
in the city yesterday.
DR.. W. II. Elliott, physician in charge,
left yesterday in the steam yacht GipseY for
Sapelo quarantine station.
The steamer Eliza Hancox will leave here
| for Beaufort this morning to bring over
large colOred excursion party.
The entries for the several classes in the
regatta which takes place at Isle Of Hope
tomorrow closes at II m. to-day.
There is vacancy in the post Office, that
Of AUXILIARY carrier" Applicants should
| apply in person to General McLaws.
The United States Circuit Court will be
| convened to day, and an important eject
meEt case will come up for hearing.
A special schedule will be run on the Sa-
vannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad
tomorrow to the regatta at Isle OF Hope.
The Owen Paper Company, Housatonic,
Mass, have contributed TO the Masonic
q Ear and Fair funds, through j. Il. Estill,
SIS.
There are some horrible places In side
walks on Broughton street, and no prepare
lions seem 10 be making for their improve
ment.
The Guards band will play at Battery
Park this afternoon. and a fast schedule
vi be run on the Barnard and Anderson
street line.
The Grand Lodge, Knights of PYthias,
were treated to q handsome collation. yes
teTday morning at the recess hour BY the
Savannah Lodges.
The schooner II. NJ. Lollis, q new vessel,
saled from Philadelphia for Savannah on
the IIth, with cargo of coal. This will be
her first trip to any port.
There never was a time when the me-
| chanics OF Savannah were buster than they
are at present Men out Of work are so
| from choice, not necessity.
There was g mammoth colored excursion
to Montgomery Yesterday morning under the
auspices of Myrtle Lodge, and the affair
passed off quietly and pleasantly.
The city was remarkably quiet Yesterday
and last night, and up to one o'clock this
morning not candidate had been secured
for the Police Court matinee to-day.
The following additional contributions to
the Masonic fund are acknowledged In
tegrity Lodge No. 1S7, Philadelphia, IS;
ThOs. HaliigaG, $40.
Proposals to furnish $4,000 of Solomen's
Lodge bonds will be received for the next
| five days by Mr.. Samuel 2. Hamilton, Chair
mau of the Finance Committee.
The colored Baptists Of Savannah will be
represented 10 the African Baptist State
Convention a. Townsville by L. j. Petit
grew, who left for that point yesterday.
The South Carolina Volunteers and Ran
dolph Riflemen, colored, of Charleston, will
arrive here this afternoon to participate in
the demonstration tomorrow by the colored
military.
Orders were received at the Norfolk navy
yard, on Saturday, to prepare an estimate
for fitting out the old frigate Savannah, to
take the place Of the New L ampshire as
storeship at Port Royal, s. G.
The County Commissioners in the case Of
the inquest on the Portuguese sailor, de-
cided that the county Of Chatham was not
responsible for the expenses, but did not
express opinion as to the liability of the
vessel.
The steamer Dessoug, which was recently
purchased In New York by the Ocean
steamship Company, will ply between New
York and Savannah. Her name will be
changed, and she will sail under the Ameri-
can flag.
The Lincoln Guards, OF Macon, colored,
| who expected to visit Savannah as the
guests OF the Union Lincoln Guards during
the celebration by the colored military, will
be unable to come, their uniforms notreach-
ing them in time.
New York's latest landy-dsh: "Do you
play the piano:" "Nol l don't play the
| plano. but my sister Hannah, who is in Sa-
varnah, she plays the piano in a most
charming manner = HaVeabanana" Ne0
York Star.
Mr. John Merryman, a prominent and
wealthy citizen Of Baltimore, who has been
spending some time In our city with his
| family at the ScreVen House, leaves this
morning by the steamship Saragossa. His
| health has been greatly improved during his
| soiourn, and regular winter visitor, he Is
more pleased than ever with our city.