Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-02
Brevifies.

The Court OF Ordinary will convene this
morning at 10 O'Clock for the July term.
The Sylvan Glen will leave for Tybee
| this evening at O'Clock instead OF b
/ O'Clock.
T. G. Stacy, Esq, editor Of the Bruins
wick AdrertiSeF and appeal, is ON visit
TO our city.
The Timber Gdrette says the Darien
! base ballists are just pining for a game
/ with the Dixies.
The Catholic Library Association will
| hold a regular monthly meeting at
| O'Clock this evening.
| The officers of Forest City Lodge No. l,
! X. of P. recently elected, Will be IN
/ stalled this evening.
There will be a regular meeting of the
/ Oglethorpe Base Ball Club this evening
| at the Pulaski House.
The Georgia Historical Society will
| hold their regular monthly meeting at
/ HOdgson Hall tonight.
4 special meeting of the Savannah
Yacht Club will be held to-day at Il IN.
at No. 100 Bryan street.
The E. b. Social Club will give
| their third annual excursion to Tybee
next Tuesday, the 10th instant.
An election for Cotton Inspector will be
/ held by the Directors of the Cotton IN
l tuanGt Oh cdluIudA- TIT AtLu AuSttNhts
Travel over the Central Railroad to Vir-
ginia and the North Is very heavy. the
| trains leaving every morning heavily
| loaded.
In the West Broad street cOlOred school,
Joseph b. NJ. DOuse held first standing in
| the final examination, and Rosa Brown
| second.
The yachts .'Flirt'' and ''Au Revoir,'
| from Charleston, will leave for this place
/ this morning to enter in the race on We'd
nesday.
| Capt. Henry Blum and family, Col. g. l.
! Taggart and Capt. George II. Whiteside
arrived from New York Saturday on the
/ ChattahOOchee.
| The fifteenth annual picnic for the
benefit Of st. Patrick's Church Will be
| held at the Schuetzen Park on Wednes'
/ day, the 18th instant
/ A dividend of ) per cent. has been de-
\ clared on the capital stock of the South
ern Bank of the State of Georgia, paya-
| bic on and after to-day.
| DeKalb Lodge No. 8, 1. o. o. F., will
/ hold a regular meeting this evening at
/ O'Clock. The officers recently elected for
/ the ensuing term Will be installed.
! The Merchants National Bank has de-
/ clared its twenty-third dividend of 81 per
cent. from the earrings of the past six
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The contemplated prize drill in Savan-
nah next year promises to be something
/ grand. Darien promises TO do what it can
| towards its success.-IiHlbeT Gazette.
Saturday evening Martha ROhn and
I Carrie Mckedes. cOlOred, were arrested
| and brought before Justice Warning Rus
sell. Jr.. and bound over to kept the
peace.
\ colOred lunatic, named Edward
Baker, living on the Ogechee road, was
committed to Jail on Saturday, by the Or
binary, to await his removal to the Luna
tic Asylum.
An electric light has been erected on the
water tower, in Franklin square. The lamp
is about fifty feet above the tower, and
will illuminate a large area OF hitherto
unlighted territory.
Hon. Allen Fort, of Americus, is at the
Pulaski House. Judge Fort VIII pre-
side in the Superior Court to-day, and
during the trial of cases in which Judge
Adams is disqualified.
\ fight took place last evening on East
Broad street, near President, between two
negroes, Vernon Jones and Wayman
Cox. In the atfray Cox was badly cut
about the neck and breast.
Arrangements are being made for an
excursion TO Tybee on Wednesday, for
the benefit of the Wesley Monumental
Church. and an enjoyable time is prom
ised to all who will attend.
Among the passengers on the steamship
City of Augusta, which sailed for New
York Saturday, were Mr.. Carl Eglinger,
Mr.. j. l.. Hardee and wife, and Mrs. l..
Iubbell and children, of this city.
George Wallace, the negro convicted of
murder and confined in the Jail, will prob
ably be sentenced by Judge Fort this
week. Judge Adams being disqualified
in the case. has been unable to declare a
sentence.
Mr. \. L. DesbOuillOns, the jeweler, Sat
urday put in a new burglaT-prOOf safe,
made especially to order TO take the place
Of the one burgariZed some months since.
1t is strange that nothing has ever been
found out about that daring robbery be-
yond what was known the day after il
occurred.
The steamship ChattahOOchee, which
arrived here Saturday from New York,
brought out a number Of pieces of ma
chinery for the Giant Cotton Press. The
steam tug Republic Will tow the Chatta-
ho0chee to the Lower Hydraulic Press
wharf this afternoon, when the machinery
will be transferred to the new press build
ing.
In the report OF the Academy of st.
Vincent de Paul, in Saturdays NEWS,
printed as Miss Nora McAlahon's RE
Spouse, = and Miss Nc MahOn's Response
printed as Miss Tynan's NaledictOry."
of course this mistake was easily rectl-
fed by those who were fortunate enough
To be present.
About O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
two colOred men named Jerry Moore and
Asa Hayes, while driving rapidly between
the Anderson street junction OF the
City and Suburban Railway and
the crossing of the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway, were thrown violently
against a tree by the capslzlng OF
buggy HAYES arm was broken by the
collision. he was brought to the city dis
pensary and was attended to by DIR. Cass.
The Georgia Railroad Commission has
been petitiOned by the naval stores men
along the line of the Savannah, Florida
and Western for Il reduction of the tarlh
on naval stores. The case of one of the
brokers was argued before the Commits
sion at its last meeting. From several
others letters and petitions were read.
After due consideration, the Atlanta Com
stitutiOR says. the Commission declined
to amend the present tariff allowed to be
charged on naval stores.
4 disastrous runaway occurred on
BrOughtOn street, near East Broad, yes
terdav afternoon. mule team standing
bv the walk became fractions and frigh-
tened a horse attached to a light carriage,
being driven past by young gentleman.
The horse became Unmanageable and rear
ing against a tree upset the vehicle,
throwing the occupant to the ground,
He finally broke loose from the harness,
and ran down East Broad street, where he
was finally captured. The buggy was
badly smashed.
st. Patrick's Church Choir.
Prof F. A. Warth last evening took
charge, as OrganIst and leader, of st.