Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-15
N stteFs and Things LacOniezIIs
Noted.


St. Andrews Society will meet tonight.
Cotton futures advanced one pOint here
yesterday.
The sales Of rice yesterday amounted TO
10 barrels.
The Chatham Artillery give another hop
on the 9th.
The weather continues as mild and
balmy as early spring.
The assessment at the Police Court yester-
day amounted to fortY-eight dollars.
There will be a grand trotting race at
ThunderbOlt Park course on the 26th.
The tax digest will be closed on the 22d.
See that prCp erty and poll tax is paid.
Drsyton street, beyond the Park, is in bad
coalition, and greatly needs repairing.
There were sold here yesterday 957 barrels
OF rOsin and $50 casks spirits Of turpentine.
The small boy IS industriously engage55in
hooking barrels for the Christmas boz
fire.
An important meeting of the bondholde
Of the Schuetzen Society will be held this
evening.
Tie steamship Juniata will take the place
OF the Saxon on the Philadelphia line after
this trip.
Th4 receipts Of naval stores yesterday
were S33 barrels TOsin and II casks spirits
jurpeatine.
Thomas R Lyon, ESQ of the Camilla bar.
is ia the city, and is stopping at the Mar
shall House.
The British steamship Naples, Captain
White, sailed from New York on the 18th
for Savannah.
We had q call last evening from Mr.. Henry
WolfsOhu, Business Manager for the
JOseffg concerts
The machinery Of the tug E. A. souder is
being thoroughly OveThauled and repaired
by Mr.. j. w. lyman.
Jones street lane between Abercorn and
Urayton streets is in filthy condition and
needs cleaning badly.
The steamer Alice Clark arrived here from
Augusta aud way landings last night with
good freight and passenger list.
Messrs. W. W. Gordon 81 Co. are now
using the new warehouse erected by the
Central Railroad to store cotton.
& a notice in reference to the vaccination
Of public school children is published else
where by Superintendent Baker.
The steamship Gate City sailed for New
York Yesterday with q good freight and
II cabin and Storage passengers.
The redue.ion:in the price of reserved
seats to the JoseffV concerts will be cor
daily approved by our musical people.
The Central Railroad Company intend
erecting on the canal two more cotton war,
houses similar to the one recently finished.
The schooner Clara E. Bergen, which
arrived here yesterday from New York,
brought out a cargo Of stone for the jetties.
Judge o. A. Lochrane, Of Atlanta, and
Jos Gaushl, ESQ, Of Macon, were in attend
ance upon the United States Court yester-
day.
Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. A. NJ, will
have their 14Sth anniversary meeting to-
night, and will elect officers for the ensuing
year.
Charles Flowers, q notorious negro sneak
thief, who was caught at one of his old
tricks, was yesterday in the Police Court
fined ten dollars or thirty days.
Annie Brown, a cOlored termagsnt who
was arrested for using obscene aud profane
language on the streets, was, In the Police
Court Yesterday, fined $25 and thirty days
The writer of the communication "Busi
ness, Pleasure" etc, is requested to call at
this office and enlighten US as to the extract
from the NEWS upon which he comments.
The committee appointed some time
since to suggest action in regard to the pro-
posed new hotel are requested by the Chair
man to meet this afternoon az O'Clock, at
the Exchange.
The Spanish steamship Asturiano was yes
terdsy cleared for Barcelona by Messrs. Jas.
T. West q Co. with a cargo of $3.50 bales OF
upland cotton, Weighing 2,4Sl, 19l pounds,
valued at $273. coo.
The case against Simon Hesser, murder,
will be called for trial at the opening Of
the Superior Court this morning, and cOun-
sci request that all witnesses be prompt in
attendance so there need be no delay.
10 Philadelphia they have an Ugly Girls
Club. The members are great theatre-gOers.
They may be known by the big hats they
wear. Branches of the organization are
being established in all the principal cities
Of the United States.
The suit Of Mrs. Wilson d. Clark, OF
Selma, Ala, vs. Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company, for $50, 600 damages for acct
dent whereby her leg was broken, which
has been on trial in the United States Court
at Montgomery, has been Concluded, and
the Jury awarded 81, SEQ Her husband, who
was injured st the same time, has suit for
the same amOunt-S5O,0O