Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-18

Matters and Things LacOnicaIIv Noted.
The city yesterday was unusually quiet.
Next Thursday will be st Thomas dav.
Colonel J. II. NJ. Clinch has returned
home for the winter.
Incoming trains are crowded every day
with holiday shoppers.
The steamship Gate City, from Boston.
arrived up this morning.
\ quarterly meeting of the Hibernian
Society will be held this evening.
Overcoats and other heavy wrap
pings and warm fires are seasonable.
Tatmall Council No. So. 4. L. H.. will
elect officers at their meeting tonight.
Regular meeting of DeKalb Lodge No
9. l. o. .. F., takes place this evening.
The flying jennie driver continues to
absorb the childrens Christmas nickels.
The criminal docket Of the City Court
viii be called this afternoon at O'Clock.
Religious services were well attended
IN the respective churches of the city yes
terday.
Advices from New York indicate that
the savannah and Tybee Railroad is set
lied fact.
Mr.. Charles c. Gage, of the firm of Hay
wood, Gage q Co., OF this city, is at the
-creven House.
This is the Monday before Christmas
and the Juvenile knows it, and will not
let you forget it.
The srle Of reserved seats for "Esme-
ralda" viii commence at Major Bren's to-
morrow morning.
The proceedings in the United States
Courts Saturday were devoid of any
special public interest.
Wednesday is the last day for paying
state and county taxes. Call at the
Captains office and settle.
The German Opera Company will APP
pear at the savannah Theatre on the 18th
and 10Th Of January next.
Clinton Lodge No. "a, f. \. NJ. hold a
regular meeting this evening" and the an
nual election Of officers will take place.
The members of the Hess Acme Opera
Company arrived in the city yesterday
afternoon from Macon via the Central
Railroad.
The British schooner Sarah L. Douglass
was cleared Saturday by Mr.. J. b. Reedy
for Rum Cay, W. l., with an assorted
+ cargo, valued at S2S6 so.
There was a very light fall Of snow in
this city Saturday morning. 1t was
hardly perceptible, and only good judges
4 of the article knew it when they saw it. q
dividend of So 80 per share has been
declared by the Southwestern Railroad
I Company. and stockholders in Savannah
r viii be paid at the Central Railroad Bank.
The Minnesota blizzard" was followed
hy an unusually cold wave on Saturday
night, and yesterday morning every eX-
posed receptacle Of water was covered by
/ ice.
The quarterly session of the civil side of
the City Court, which adjourned last
/ Thursday evening at O'Clock, will be
continued tomorrow, commencing at 10
a. IN.
Quite number of wild ducks are being
killed within few miles of the city, but
the turkey has caught the first notes Of
the Christmas chimes and would retire
for season.
The sale Of reserved seats for ''Oliyette,'
/ which Is TO be presented by the Hess
. Acme Opera Company At the matinee to-
/ morrow, will commence AT $50 O'Clock
this morning at Bren's.
NIr. George VI. Brown, son Of Senator
/ Brown, of Georgia, who has been on a
( visit TO this city for two or three days past,
I and was stopping at the Screyen House,
LEFT last evening for Florida.
Messrs. W. Arnold, c. T. Gillespie, c.
i. Hathaway. q. I. Holden, Rev Il. G.
+ seymour and DR.. Ferber are expected to
City Of Augusta from New York.
Mr.. VI. j. SolomOns Saturday declined
to qualify as one Of the Board of Registra-
ton and Election Managers for the Sec
ond district, and Mr. VI. A. Cohen, Jr.,
was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Last night about eight o'clock the Sc
reuity of that portion of Bull street near
Chippewa square was disturbed by an
OverdOSed young man, who yelled for
some time like a COmanche Indian.
The French transit of Venus commits
sion-COlonel Perrier, Captain Detforges
and Sergeant Beusine-returned from ST.
Augustine, Fla, Saturday, en- route for
Paris. They are 1T the Screyen House.
The fast mail train on the Central Rail
road Will hereafter arrive in this city at
$40 p. m. instead of 3:l5 p. m. Pullman
sleeping ears from Louisville, Ky, to
Jacksonville. Fla, are run on this train.
Two white men. arrested on Friday
night on account Of drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct, We're saturday each sem
fenced to pay 4 fine Of three dollars and
costs. or in lieu thereof to sojOurn at the
Jail for ten days.
The toy pistol was observed on the street
saturday, and as this little plaything IS
again being introduced to the attention of
the average small boy, there is ikeli-
hood that some of the surgeons will soon
be called upon to explain how the machine
work.
Savannah is not the only Georgia city
. which. this season, Is being visited by
E trampS and would be crackSmen. A
gang of about ten men. suspected as
+ housebreakeIs =, thieves and confidence
men, are in Macon, and perhaps the police
here may meet up with some of them be-
. fore long.
The United states District and Circuit
. Courts will meet this morning at ten
. O'Clock, when His Honor, Judge Nc
Cay. Is expected TO preside. The proceed
inEs in these courts during the coming
week are expected TO be more interesting
than those which have been had thus far
during the term.
Vina Jones, a cOlOred female, was ar
rested on Friday, and Saturday morning
. was arraigned in the Mayors Court upon
/ the charge Of larceny of cotton from the
. wharf of the Ocean Steamship Company.
. The accused was sentenced to pay fine
Of 81, or, in lieu thereof, to be confined in
Jail for five days.
Yesterday afternoon a dense column Of
smoke was seen for some hours rising
from a point some distance south Of the
city limits. Upon inquiry II was learned
that a portion Of the woods between the
White Bluff road and the track of the Sub
urban division Of the City and Suburban
Railroad was burning.
The mercury began to fall Friday night
after eight O'Clock in Charleston, at which
hour il registered II degrees, and at ten
O'Clock a cold northwest wind was blow
ing. Soon after ten it began to sleet, and
continued TO do so until midnight. The
mercury. however, kept above freezing
point and the sleet melted as fast as it
fell