Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-08


street. and will extend to the visiting
| IegislatOry the most abundant hospitality
Savannah affords. On Monday they will
be rendered a collation. by the city in the
Council Chamber. and on Tuesday BAN
quet will be given in their honor by the
Ocean Steamship Company on board oil
| one Of their magnificent ships. An eXcur-
| sion is contemplated, and the committee
/ will. if possible, sail the SOlOns OF the
/ State to the deep blue sea.
( Matters and Things LacOnicalIy Noted.
Hon. G.. J. HOltOn, the war-hOrse OF
/ Appling county, is in the city.
The Catholic Knights of America,
/ Branch No. SS, hold regular meeting to-
/ night.
There will be a company drill of the
/ German Volunteers at their ArmOry to-
night.
/ The Savannah Cadets held a drill on
/ Bay street last night under the new cleo
I trio light.
Hon, John Erskine returned Monday
afternoon from a short visit TO the Land
/ Of Flowers
There will be a special meeting Of the
/ SchuetZen Geselschatt this evening at
/ Germania Hall.
I \ special meeting OF the Georgia Hus-
{ sars will be held at Masonic Temple to-
| night at ) O'Clock.
/ There will be a regular cOnvOcatiOn Of
| Zerubbabel Lodge No. Is, Fla. NJ, this
/ evening at O'Clock.
( The Gordon monument is rapidly APP
/ preaching completion, and probably Will
be finished by Monday.
( TAe Electric Light Company proposes
ordering two more boilers, so as to make
/ its motive power dOubly secure.
2 d Il. H., 10 tho f.itW
I To stay till the Centennial is over. Busi-
ness is lively and getting livelier.
\ special meeting.Of the Savannah Vol
+ unteer Guards Battalion viii be held at
/ the Arsenal at eight O'Clock this evening.
Prof. Allan Curr will conduct the ser
vice Of the Savannah Baptist Church this
evening, the pastor being still absent from
the city.
The United Circuit and District Courts
convened yesterday, Judge Erskine pre-
siding, and adjourned until 10 O'Clock a.
. m. to-day.
The whaling schooner Emma Jane will
come OFF the ways to-day, After a
thorough Overhauling, she is again ready
I for sea service,
The Savannah Naval Stores Exchange
will be closed for business on Monday.
The room, however, will be open to menu
bers and their friends.
The steamship City of Macon, from
Philadelphia, arrived at Tybee yesterday
morning, but was unable to come up the
/ river on account of the heavy fog.
! Proposals for building a wharf and
tramway at the quarantine station Will be
received by the Clerk of the City Council
until next Wednesday, the 18th inst.
{ Governor Stephens will leave Atlanta
for Savannah on Saturday. lie Will
+ nannnv President RaOul'S nriVQtp coach
: which has been kindly rendered him for
I the trip.
/ The cadets of the Savannah Military
( Academy were out on parade yesterday,
and We're given drill in johnson square.
/ The evOlutiOns were performed in COM
mendable style.
Savannah has no use for tramps. Seven
/ of these specimens of homo genus were
/ arraigngd before the Mayor yesterday
: charged with yagrancy, and ordered to
/ leave the city at once.
+ The services held in the Cathedral and
st. Patrick's Church yesterday, in Obsery-
! ance of Ash Wednesday and the begin
I ing of the Lenten fast, were attended by
/ large crowds of wOIshipers.
! The committee on the pageant and all
gentlemen who are to take part in the
/ OglethOrpe and TOmOchichi pageant are
{ notified that meeting will be held this
/ Thursday evening ut O'Clock at ''The
FOrd's Opera House.
( In order to accommodate the citizens of
/ Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Beaulieu and
7 other settlements along its lines, the City
and Suburban Railway will run a special
train Monday night, leaving the city
/ after the pyTOtechnic display.
The Third Artillery Band, which is
stationed at St. Augustine, will partici-
! pate in the ''Sesqui' at Savannah. They
/ will stop at Green Cove Springs, to fill an
engagement. and will give a grand con-
/ cert at Jacksonville On their route.
The Republican Blues yesterday OBJ
tanned permission to use the steamer
Florida Tor the accommodation of a num-
/ Der of their invited guests during the Cen
tennial. The Florida will furnish very
/ comfortable quarters for a large body Of
men.
\ pleasant party of Augusta people will
20 down to Savannah for the Sesqui Cen
tennial. They will take part in the Sl0,-
/ 900 firemens demonstration, and some of
/ the party may he sent up along with the
/ sky rockets, only TO find a cOngenial rest
! Ing place among the alligatOrs and orange
/ blossoms Ofthe silent st. JOhn's.-AugHstd
/ NelrS.
/ The erection of the OglethOrpe arch,
which is to commemorate the SeSqui-
terday at the corner of BrOughtOn and
Bull streets. The structure will be
double arch of wood and iron, the sup
/ pOTters being at the four corners and the
arms crossing each other vertical in the
centre. 1t will be handsomely decorated
/ with flags and covered with eyergreens
from BOnaYenture.
+ We are glad to see that the street force
is actively pueting our thOrOughfares in
/ order. The long rainy season has pre-
vented much work in this line until the
/ present. We suggest that the green at
+ the east end of Bay street, where the mill
I tary will receive the Sesqui Centennial pa
/ geant next week be cleaned Ofthe remnants
/ Ofdamaged cotton and rubbish which have
B accumulated there, and given as attractive
! an appearance as the squares in other
+ parts OF the city.
In the report of the annual meeting of
/ the Citizens Sanitary Association Col.
/ John ScreVen's nameWaS omitted in the list
Z Ofthe Executive Committee. and that of Mr..
I ID. X. Thomas inserted instead. The latter
gentleman. who is one of the Board Of
Aldermen, thought il best that he should
not continue in the Executive Council,
and eX-MayOr Screyen, a gentleman who
has always taken the warmeSt interest in
the society, as he does in everything else
that promotes the welfare of his native
city. was chosen to I'LL the vacancy.
Superior Court.
Hon. \. =. ADAMS, Judge, presiding.