Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-13

Matters and Things LaconicaIly Noted.
The assessment in the Police Court yes
terday amounted TO 81.
Golden Rule Lodge No. Il, l. o. o. F.,
has regular meeting this evening.
There will be a beef and turkey shoot
ing at the SchuetZen Park on Thursday
next.
General Henry {. Wayne left by steamer
for Baltimore yesterday in the interest Of
the Sesqui-Centennial.
The regular meeting of the Pulaski Loan
Association will be held this evening in
Battersby's building.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
Schuetzen Gesellschaft will be held this
evening at eight O'Clock.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
Of the Central Railroad will take place in
this city tomorrow at 10 O'Clock a. IN.
\ notice from the Clerk of Council in
another column, invites bids for furnish
/ ing the city with badges for vehicles for
I ISS3.
/ The tWenty-sec0nd regular meeting of
Z the Savannah Mutual Loan Association
viii be held at Metropolitan Hall this
/ evening.
There will be a meeting Of the Citizens
/ Democratic Club this evening at O'Clock
( at FoTd's Opera House, corner Whitaker
/ and st. Julian streets.
! The New York, Boston and Philadelphia
/ steamers which arrived here yesterday
/ brought large passenger lists and were
I chOck-a-blOck with freight.
Henry c. Cunningham, Esq, was yes
terday elected Secretary and Solicitor of
the Savannah Mutual Loan Association
| 10y the Board of Directors.
/ Henry Grant was before the Police
( Court yesterday charged with stealing a
coat, vest, hat and $40 from l.. d. Davis,
. cOlOred, and was turned over to the City
/ Court for trial.
The German bark Oilers was cleared
. yesterday for Bremen with 2,120 bales Of
| upland cotton, weighing 1903, $50 pounds,
valued at $l32, APO. The cargo and vessel
were cleared by ;. Fatman, Esq.
The Ohio editors and their lady friends
l arrived safe in jacksonville on Monday
night, and at O'Clock yesterday morning
left that city on the steamer sylvan Glen
on a visit 10 the famous orange groves OF
the upper st. Johns.
Weisbein's pretty dry goods ship sailing
over the ocean Of green calico, was the
sensation on BrOughtOn street yesterday.
The motion OF the vessel is ingeniOusly
impaired 10y machinery hidden under the
moving pillows of calico.
At the meeting of the Merchants and
Mechanics Loan Association, held last
night. the following sums of money were
sold: $1,000 at 493f. $4,000 at 49,. The
President made Il statement showing the
association TO be in most promising con-
ditOn.
Rev. j. o. Branch, Rev. George G. y.
MacDOnell and Rev. G.. W. Matthews left
yesterday on the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway for Albany, to take part
in the session Of the South Georgia Con-
ference Of the VI. +. Church South, which
assemblies in that city to-day.
The annual election of officers of the
Charleston Exchange took place on Mon
day, and the following were elected for
the ensuing year: President-Capt. Frank
L. Taylor. DirectOrs-Messrs. F. ). ROdg-
ers, A. NOrden. j. Adger Smyth, Thaddeus
street, \. W. Taft, q. c. Williams.
We learn that negro, name unknown,
was shot and killed in Grahamville, :. c.,
/ by another negro named Charles Porter,
on sunday night or Monday morning. The
shooting was the result of a previous
/ quarrel. We were unable to learn any
further particulars,
The wide awake merchants of Congress
and Whitaker streets are preparing for a
! grand Chinese lantern and electric light
| illumination. with fireworks adj libitum.
on Christmas Eve, Saturday, December
33d. The streets and buildings Will be
Z decorated with thousands OF thlheSe anu
Japanese lanterns, OIvariegated and beau
| tiful patterns.
1 The steamships ChattahOOchee, from
! New York. tine City Of Macon, from Phila-
delphia, both of the Ocean steamship Com
/ panv. and the City of Columbus, of the
/ NickersOn line. from Boston. arrived up to
their wharves early yesterday morning.
THE City Of Columbus experienced heavy
weather after leaving Boston, which con-
tinued during the entire passage. some
what delaying her arrival here.