Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-01
Matters and Things LacOnicany

Magnolia Encampment No. l, 1. o. o. f.,
meet tonight.
The -four market is very firm, with an up
ward tendency.
The theatrical season win open about the
first Of September.
The assessment st the Police Court yes
terday amounted to $16.
The price Of wool advanced one-half cent
in this market yesterday.
The First Presbyterian Sunday school have
picnic at Montgomery to-day.
The interments in Charleston last week
numbered ACTIVITIES IL, blacks 20.
The grand jury of the City Court viii
meet this afternoon at four O'Clock.
Tomatoes are very scarce In this market
at present, and there is good demand for
them.
The sale Of tickets to the grand concert
at the Cathedral on the 9TH inst. continues
brisk.
Members of the Washington Fire Compa-
ny will meet tonight to try on their new
uniforms.
The report Of that committee appointed
in the interests of new hotel is snxiously
looked for.
1t was again reported from Augusta yes
ferday that Col. Wadley had leased the Port
Royal Railroad.
Anderson Street Presbyterian Sunday
school will have an excursion to-day to
Daufuski Island.
Mr.. r. NJ. Demere's handsome new yacht
will arrive here on Saturday by the steamer
from New York.
Mr.. Henry j. Rieser was among the pas
sengers by the steamship City of Macon
from New York yesterday.
The steamship City Of Macon brought
from New York yesterday thirteen cabin
and seven Storage passengers.
Ma;rimony Is popular with the colored
fraternity, judging from the number OF
marriage licenses monthly Issued.
The meeting of the Directors of the Gen.
trail Railroad takes place to-day, and the
uncertainty in regard to the dividend Will
soon be over.
The tickets for the Republican Blues pic
mic include the trip on the tramway. The
steamer will return from Tybee between
and 9 O'Clock.
In a game of ball played between the
Morning Star Base Ball Club and the Rtns
Club, the Morning Stars were victorious by
score of 81 to IL.
w. Fl. Lsstinger, Esq, Of Alapahs, pro-
prietor and editor of the BeTTisra County
AeacS, was in the city yesterday registered
at the Marshall House.
There will be trotting race between two
fast nags, owned by private citizens, at
Thunderbolt course on the 9Th inst. The
match is for $3.50 side.
Schreiner's Music House shipped yester-
day a magnificent $1,000 square grand
piano made by Knabe & Co., Baltimore, to
the sand hills near Augusta.
Miss Agnes Herndon, so faYorably known
here as an accomplished actress, was COM
PEELED to disband her company In Nashville
lately on account of financial troubles.
The Captains of a number of vessels In
port have made arrangements to have their
crews sleep on shore, as is customary at this
season of the year, for prudential reasons.
We learn that Messrs. B. w. s. II. T.
Morse, of Bath, Me-, recently made q con-
tract with q firm here for the delivery of
500, 900 feet Of lumber, to be CARED East.
The capital prize of 5000 in the Little
Habsna Lottery, the drawing of which
took place on Monday, was sold In Savan-
nah The lucky ticket was lie, 714. and was
purchased by two parties.
During the month of May, just closed,
there were ffty-nine marriage licenses
issued from the Office Of the Ordinary, of
which sixteen were to whites and forty
three to colored.
The Spanish bark AntOn1eta was yester-
day cleared for Barcelona by Messrs. Chas.
Green & Co. with a cargo of 1,211 bales of
upland cotton, weighing 568, 0l0 pounds,
valued at SCI, 740 SO.
The Sunday School Aid Society of the In
dependent Presbyterian Church have an ex-
cursion to Tybee on the 9TH. Tickets may
be obtained from the parties named In the
advertisement elsewhere to be found.
The Norwegian bark Saga was, on yester-
day, cleared for London, with 1000 barrels
! spirits turpentine, measuring So, 3SS gallons,
valued at $50, $50, and l, 722 barrels of rosin,
weighing 701 $50 pounds, valued at So, 1S5.
| Cargo by Messrs. Alex. Sprunt s. Son.
Mr.. j. L. Adams, for the past three years
purser of the steamers City of Bridgeton
and David Clark, left by rail yesterday for
Cansda to accept position as purser on
one of the steamers of Leve & Alden, on
the St. Lawrence river. Mr.. A. was very
favorably known on the Florida line, and
will return to it in the fall.