Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-21
Matters aud Things LasonisaI'y

| Irish National Land League viii meet To-
night.
Pulaski Council No. 15S, R. A, viii meet
| tonight.
Jasper Council No. 10, h. c., have their
regular meeting this evening.
The Lower Steam Rice Mil has ceased
running for the summer.
The steam yacht Tybee is having her bot
tom cleaned and machinery overhauled.
The tug Winpenuy has her new smoke
stack in and is ready for business again.
There was no business Of public interest
| transacted in the United States Courts yes
terdsy.
Yesterday was a delightful dsy, and the
streets were thronged, and the ladies were
out in force shopping.
Letters addressed Miss Minnie Nsthans,
aud Flovd Symms. Savannah. are held for
1 p0stsge in the Augusta office.
| The total assessment at the Police Court
matinee Yesterday amounted to the pitiful
sum OF three dollars Rather poor day.
/ Two deserving seamen from the Nor
wegisu brig Golden Fleece we're sent TO jail
I yesterday by Magistrate Wsring Russell.
! A telegram was received in the city yes
/ terisy announcing the death IN New York
! Of Mr.. Robert Dillon, well known In Ssvan-
\ nah.
! The shsd boat Rozells, OF this place, will
/ be entered IN the third class for the annual
regatta At Beaufort, which will take place
next month.
Two fine yawl boats aud other material for
| the SapelO quarantine station have been re-
| caived here from the North on one OF the
steamships.
A negro boy, caught IN the act of stealing
/ fruit from a store on Whitaker street yester
/ day morning, was pTsnced TO the barracks
/ bY policeman.
The Irish Jasper Greens will parade on
/ the afternoon OF the 1st OF May, and then
proceed to Battery Park, where they will
have target practice.
The steamer City of Bridgeton while
/ backing into tie wharf at 81. Simon's on
/ her last trip struck her Tudder against the
wharf, damaging it slightly.
The Coroner held an inquest yesterday
/ upon the body Of an unknown colored man
/ found floating in the boom west Of the Cen
/ trail Railroad wharf. Verdict Of death by
/ drowning.
The Republican Blues will make parade
/ on the 1st OF Nav. but will have their usual
/ May picnic on the lob at the SchuetZen
/ PsTk, when target shooting for prizes will
/ also take place.
About three O'Clock Yesterday afternoon
/ colored man was arrested by Policeman
| Moore on the charge OF firing pistol on the
/ Central Railroad wharf ard Of carrying con-
cealed weapons.
! James MOsely, the colored individual
| who was arrested for disOrderly conduct
| and interfering with an officer on Wednes-
| day sfterEOou, had his case in the Police
| Court yesterday continued.
It Is stated that a petition Is to he circu-
| lated for signatures requesting and urging
he Governor to give thorough investigation
| 10 all applications for reprleves and psrdons
| Of criminals before taking action.
Mr.. D. A. Spring, Grand Secretary of the
/ Grand Council, r A, leaves to-day by the
| steamship George AppOld for Baltimore, TO
attend the session of the Supreme Council,
which cOnvenes in that city on the 18th
! Inst.
| 4 steer which was being driven from one
/ OF the Florida steamers last evening was
| rather wild, and started up the hill at the
| foot Of Lincoln street on a run, causing pc
/ destTlsns to skip around lively.
! Peter Cooper, the valiant colored warrior
| who was arrested on Wednesday night for
assaulting and beating Priscilla Jackson,
/ col0Ted, In her house, was yesterday IN the
/ Police Court fined three dollars or fifteen
days. Peter got on cheap.
A vicious eolored girl, about sixteen years
! Of age, was arrested by Policeman Dwyer
/ yesterday morning about ten O'Clock, on the
/ chsrge OF disCTder'y conduct on the street
/ and attempting TO strike her mother, Har
/ riet Campbell, with a brick.
Atlanta F6st-A peal: Savannah is now
/ the first cotton and lumber port, the second
/ rice port, and IS rapidly coming into pr0ni-
nence Gs the first naval stores port of the
/ Sluih Atlantic States. II Savannah gets
/ the appropriation OF $3OO, 600 which she
/ asks for the improvement of her river and
/ harbor, her rival port Of Atlanta will sin
| cereiy rejoice over her good fortune.
| Augusta Chr0nfcls: 1.-THE Savannah, Flor
/ ida and Western Railway Company has done
q splendid business during the season. The
/ road is in first Glass condition. Its passen-
| ger accommodations are admirable. Col
I H :. Hsines, The General Manager, is
msinlv entitled TO the credit for the present
/ coHd ton Of the road. The new road from
| Wsyeross to Jacksonville is a regular bo-
/ nsuzs."
R. J. Boyd, ESQ editor and proprietor OF
/ the Louisville Mars aud Farmer, accom-
panied by IFS bride. nee Miss Nora Huff, of
| WayuesbOrO, g near relative OF Colonel JnO.
I D. Munnerlyn, is in the city, registered
a. the Marshall House. They are en- route
| home from their bridal tour, the marriage
| ceremony having taken plScs at Wsynes-
/ boro last Tuesday, Rev. W. s. Fitzpatrick, Of
| the Methodist Church at that place, official
/ ing.