Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-13
Matters ana Things LaOOniealIy
E0fAd.

Cotton futures declined six points Yester'
day.
A fine charter for gas company is offered
for sale.
jasper Mutual Loan Association will meet
tonight.
The Vokes matinee tomorrow will be a
grand affair.
There was considerable change in the
weather yesterday.
The assessments at the Police Court yes
terdaY amounted to IS.
The recently elected officers Of Alliance
Lodge No. $50, K. Of H, viii be installed
tonight.
The sales Of naval stores yesterday were
300 barrels of rosin and % casas OF spirits
turpentine.
The Spanish bark Jusnits Clsr went up
on Willink's ways Yesterday for the purpose
OF undergoing repairs.
an important meeting of the Savannah
Jockey Club will be held at the Pulaski
House at II N. to day.
The Electric Light Company was organ
ICED Yesterday. It will probably be ready
for business in 8 month.
The schooner Ebenezer was yesterday
cleared for Port Antonio, ia, with cargo
81 merchandise, valued at $40 20, By Mr. D.
B. Reedy.
Only two arrests were recorded by the po-
lice up TO one o'clock this morning, and
sipeace reigned throughout the hamlet
last night.
WIN. Dlers, colored, charged with disor-
Derby riding In the streets, end9ngerlng the
lives Of citizens, was yesterday in the Police
Court fined 81.
Henrietta Green, q colored female of pu-
gilfstic prOclivites, was arrested yesterday
sfterDo0n about two O'Clock, for assaulting
Ann Bradley in her house.
Isaac Houston, a cOlOred sport found
roaming in a drunken condition about the
street Yesterday afternoon, was taken to the
b tracks by Policeman Grogsn.
John Dufour was yesterday in the Police
Court sentenced 70 thirty DAYS imprisOn-
ment for being drunk and disorderly IN a
| house and cursing the occupants.
A handsome orphanage is to be erected
| In the southern part of the city, and build
| ers are invited to send 10 their bids. The
plans and specifications OF the building can
| be seen at the Office OF Mr.. De Witt Bruyn.
TIE Ocean Steamship Company Tronose
| erecting a number Of warehouses on Vale
| ROYAL plantation, and will lease them for
| five years. Information on the subject Will
| be furnished by Mr.. 7. NJ. Cunningham,
| Secretary and Treasurer.
| The carcass OF a mule has been lying in
| Cleary's field, near the street leading to the
| Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
wharves, for several days, and parties whose
| business require them to pass that locality
| complain that the stencil is intOlerable.
The American bark Alumina, at this port
| from Woods Hole, reports that on the . !
| Of December experienced a strong gale,
and was compelled to put vessel under
| two lower topssils, and shipped large guam
tries OF water fore and aft, and had severe
weather till three days before this port was
reached.
The John T. Ford Dramatic Amateurs
have petitiOned to be incorporated. They
| have purchased all the properties Of the de-
fuuct E. NJ. p. /. Social Club, and have
made arrangements for the lease Of Mozart
Hall In fact, the Fords are on q boom, and
their grand gift entertainment in April will
be a rOuser.
Mr.. Charles n. West, formerly Of the
Savannah bar, and who removed TO Balti-
| more some wears since, has become a member
OF the law firm Of Marshall & Fisher, lead
ing attorneys Of the bar Of that city. Mr.
West IS a talented and industrious gentle
man, and we hope that he will reap sub
s,antial reward in the hOnOrsria, which are
generally regarded as the pleasantest part
Of the legal profession.