Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-04
DECEMBER.

I. Anniversary supper OF St. Andrews So.
ciety; Marriage of c. Z, Dent and Miss Miriam
9. Cohen; New steam pile-driver for Central
Railroad.
2. Quarantine channel filing up Trial of a
pilots; Savannah's export trade; Arrival of
postal party; The inauguration of fast mail;
Death OF Mrs Carclif from lockiaw: New range
light IN the Exchange; Thomas +. Thomson
and DR.. r. p Myers robbery.
3. Hearts OF Oak" at Theatre; Several rob-
berries; Nelson Morris. colcred, falls dead cor.
ner West Broad and Congress streets
=. me entries Tor the stakes In the spring
road: Great pedestrian feat by John Brennan
q train hand.
6. Arbitration between Colonel Fitzsimons
and Captain Anderson settled; Important de-
csion by The United States Supreme Court in
regard to travelling public: Sunday school mis-
sionary anniversary; DR.. j. d. Martin delegate
to the American Public Health Association at
New Orleans; Capture William Wayne, a
notorious thief.
z. The bill for injunction against the city ap-
piled for; Death of Mrs. Frank Blair; Michael
Feeley's grocery burned out; Savannah Storage
Company incorporated: Savannah's cotton re-
ceipts over half million.
!. Important meeting OF Council to consider
injunction.
8. Excursion on steamship Augusta.
10. Death of Mrs DR.. B. H. Herndon: Death
OF Philip Hartley; Fatal burning OF Sarah
ThomasSon, coiored: Answer of Mayor and
Clerk OF Council to bill OF Injunction concern
Ing registration
II. Affidavits in the Injunction case; Tokens
to Rev. Mr.. Mortimer in Grand Rapids, Michi.
gan; Report on the Savannah river improve
ments
IS. Passage of a meteor across Savannah.
Blessing Of a Catholic Church corner Haber-
sham ard st. Paul; Capsized boat recovered
occupants not found; VIM. Smith, colored bow
burned TO death on Louisville road, four miles
from city; Clara Pray, colored, found dead in
bed.
IS. Cheap travel ordered by the Railroad
Commissions Through sleeper from Cincinnati
arrives on Central Railroad: John Reckhoff
first mate New Orleans ship Zephyr Gies sud.
denly from heart disease; Confagration at Co.
mers warehouse checked; Savannah accepts
New York Bears wager Of $1,000 on cotton
crop exceeding 8 go GOO; Particulars OF the cap
size near Venus Point, six persons, colored,
drowned.
16. VIM. Andrew Jackson, colored boy. killed
on Bull street BY Bobbie Davis with a toy pig
toll; Ebert Lee and Jackson Lee, of Bulloch
county, murderously assaulted and robbed on
Louisville road, ten miles from the city; An
drew Williams, colored boy, shot in thigh by
Daniel Versher with toy pistol
II. Mr.. Ebert Lees body removed to Bull
loch; Grand charity bell at Masonic Temple
for benefit of Hebrew society.
IL. John Jones, colored, shot in the arm by
the accidental discharge of his gun; Fanny
Davenport as AN American Girl
90. Major Lee arrested for the murder of FL
bert Lee on Louisville road: Chatham CASTOR
dangerously shot in the thigh ~ Sam Jeffer-
colored men belonging to the pilot
boat Belle from drowning; Avery Warren, sea-
man Oh the schooner Nellie Treat, lost over
board on voyage from New York to Savannah;
Address by Father Gavazzi on the Free Church
ofItaly; Daniel Ziegler arrested in the market
for the murder Of Charles Counts, at No. So
Central Railroad, DO. b eolored.
81. Arrest of Isaac Minzy, SUSPECTED OF bsiney
concerned in the Lee murder; Attempt to rob
the Southern Express Company's wagon: Sud
den death of Joseph Roberts, colored; Death of
John Joy Cornell General McLaws confirmed
as Postmaster at Savannah.
~. Hazel Kirke" ct the Theatre; Death Of
Aaron Champion Confirmation Of T. j. John.
son as Collector.
ing to incoming Board the right to elect their
own officers; sudden death of Mrs v NJ Ar
cher; Funeral OF aaron Champion.
q. Grand gift entertainment for Jasper
25. Three children burned while firing a
cannon; VIM BELLY cut on the corner of bray
ton aud Broughton streets By Edward Decker;
Frank Smith assaulted, beaten and robbed on
the Augusta road; Bill Ford dangerously cuts
Peter BTuton (coD. with an axe on Newton s
plantation 10 miles from Savannah: Borge
Christensen, Swedish sailor on the bark
Gylfe drowned at the Central Railroad WHAT
Presentation OF cane to John Nugent. foreman,
by Morning News composing force.
q. Henry Snell's house, corner Montgomery
and DpttY streets, burned; Fire at Muller's
on Bryan street; Frances Roberts, mem
Der Of twilight Band shot in the back; JaDsn
ese doll presented to /. NJ. Frank. ~
q. Death Of ]. Y. ConneFatl Linda Spikener,
colored, aged eight years, accidentally killed
bT Gharlss Washing ton; Frances Williams
stabbed fatally by Major Green on the 0gee.
chee road; Miss Minnie Monaghan enters the
order OF Sisters OF Mercy and becomes Sister
Mary Qphcliai Richard Shaney, colored, three
years old, burned to death in q house on the
Savannah river ten miles from ,ity: Suicide OF
Felix Heymenn IN New York; ported as mer-
chant In Savannah; Death ~ A. NJ. Scar
borough in Memphis.
70. Departure of Palestine Commanderv for
Charleston; Death of William Reilly from cut
received from Edward Decker Christmas eve
Coroners inquest; Loss OF the AMERICAN shin
NinousA DorInuo, cotton laden, from Savan-
nah 20 liverpool, OF Bermuda; Macauley az
Uncle Dan'l;' Decision of the Supreme Court
sustaining Ciku ReGiistrv Law 1~ 49,