Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-06


Are you keeping Lents
Merchants busy preparing for spring
| trade.
Cotton futures declined four points Sat
urdsY.
CITY Court will meet this afternoon for
/ trial Of criminal cases.
The March term of the Superior Court
will be Convened to-day.
The British brig America. which put back
to TYbee leaking, arrived up Saturday night.
The Police Court matinee Saturday was
| quite success, the whole assessment reach
log $50.
The steamship VIM. Lawrence arrived
| from Baltimore Saturday, with fine freight
aud several passengers.
The steamship City of Savannah left for
| Philadelphia on Saturday with good
cargo and twenty seven cabin passengers.
| George Samms. a eolored sport OF the
/ juvenile order, was fined 81 in the Police
/ Court Saturday for chunking rocks In the
street.
The brig Ellen NJ Rawley, lumber laden,
| from Fernandina, put iDte Tybee Saturday
evening, with her rudder broken, for a
/ harbOT.
The Port Wardens' Office has been white
/ washed, cleaned and thoroughly renovated,
/ and TOW presents 8 neat and attractive ap-
pearsnee.
The steamship City OF Augusta sailed for
/ New York on Saturday with large cargo
and fifty-seven cabin and sixteen Storage
passengers.
The Choral Association will meet at ST..
/ Johns Parish Hall this evening. All
members and those desiring to join are in
vited to attend.
| The steamship Gate City arrived here
/ from New York Saturday with a good
/ freight and tOrly-seven cabin and six steer
age passengers.
The steamer Katie arrived here from Au-
gusta and way landings last evening with a
good freight and twelve cabin and thirty
steerage passengers.
The weather yesterday was exceedingly
balmY, in fact rather too too for those
| who are afraid to make change from thick
underwear in March.
General Henry G. Wayne will read paper
before the Georgia Historical Society this
| evening on ''The Introduction of Camels
into the United States"
Among the freight of the City of Savan-
nah for Philadelphia SATURDAY., were bar
rel aud SOB boxes Of fruit, 80 barrels and
19S boxes of vegetables.
Iverson Beck was Saturday fined in the
! Police Court s. or fifteen days for amusing
himself by throwing rocks at Josephine
| BOurquine, and at her house.
The City OF Augusta carried to New York
| Saturday 1.205 boxes and barrels Of fruit
and vegetables, 50 packages of fish, 6 re-
frigerators of strawberries, and II turtles.
An examination will be held on Wednes-
day morning, before Magistrate Russell, In
the case of the negroes charged with as
saHlting two white men near Montelth
Station.
| Cora Owens, a notorious colored female,
was up before the Police Court Saturday
for outrageous conduct on the street, and
was sentenced to thirty days service on the
chain gang.
John Williams, the negro whose arrest as
| a suspicious character, having in his posses
sion a vest supposed to be stolen, which was
| noted in the MORNING NEWS of Saturday was
| in the Police Court Saturday fined five
dollars or fifteen days.
The shooting house at Battery Park which
was blown down during the storm last sum-
| mer, has been rebuilt and the range put in
| should apply to the superintendent office,
corner Of New Houston and West Broad
| streets.
We learn that the cause of the late acct
dent at the 1872 mile post, near Sandersville,
! n the Central Railroad on Thursday night,
| Of which mention was made iu the MORNING
! NEWS, was due TO the track spreading. The
| ugine, It appears, was completely turned
| over, and neETiy every car on the train was
wrecked.