Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-03

4 regular meeting of the City Council
viii be held tomorrow evening.
Judge Adams will preside at the session
of the Superior COurtin Macon this week.
Elan Ford was committed to Jail yes
terday evening on charge OF petty
| larceny.
The Forest City Base Ball Club will
hold regular meeting this evening at
| $3.50 O'Clock.
| The regular meeting of Savannah Lodge
| No. .153, X. of H., Will be held tonight
at o'clock.
The Builders Protective Association
will meet this evening at 5 O'Clock IN
/ Metropolitan Hall.
Hon. P. W. Meldrim is announced TO
I deliver an address before the schools at
Svlvania tomorrow.
There will be a regular meeting OF
| OgIethOrpe Lodge No. l, /. o. q. F., TO-
night at O'Clock.
Excelsior Lodge No. s, Knights OF
/ Pvthias, will hold a regular meeting this
| evening at O'Clock.
George Wallace, the negro murderer,
VIII be sentenced by Judge Fort in the
Superior Court this morning.
The grand jury Of the Superior Court
! for the June term will report on Friday
at 10 o'clock a. m, instead of to-day.
John T. Graves, Esq, editor of the
/ jacksonville Duly Herald, was among
| the visitors at the MORNING NEWS Office
/ yesterday.
4 meeting of the Board of Health was
/ held Yesterday for the discussion of sani-
| tary affairs. Nothing of Importance
/ transpired.
Until further notice the monthly ses-
/ sions Of the City Court will be held at 10
/ O'Clock a. IN. each Monday, instead of
l 80 n m
| Among the arrivals yesterday from
/ New York on the steamship NacOOchee
were MpssrS ". w Gordon, Jr., i.
/ Lippman and I. y. AskeT
/ Travel over the Central Railroad to the
/ North and Northwest was very heavy yes
/ terdav. The Ball street ticket office was
/ a lively place during the day.
/ J. NageI and d. HOlendOrf, the two
/ sailors who deserted from the bark Hattie
! H.. were committed to Jail by Justice
/ Warning Russell, Jr., yesterday.
There will be festival at the Trinity
! Methodist Church lecture room on Friday
I evening. given by the Sunday school
/ classes of Mrs. Branch and Miss Muslin.
! shortly after u O'Clock this morning
1 Policeman Roach discovered the ware
! house Of Z. Z. Bond, on Bay street, open.
/ Policeman Clancy took charge Of the
/ premises.
! The Ladies' Benevolent Society Of Ogee-
! chez will give a picnic at the Ogeechee
pond on the 18th inst Boats will leave
/ Savannah from the foot of Railroad street
| at a. IN. on the day of the picnic.
The July term of the Court of Ordinary
/ convened yesterday before Hon. y. y.
/ Ferrill. Several letters of administration
were granted, but no business of i'm
I pOrtance was transacted.
George Taylor, colored, was arrested
yesterday morning on the White Blum
/ road near the city on charge OF assault
! ing his wife, and was committed to jail
/ by Justice Waring Russell, Jr.
/ The picnic of the st. Phillips and st.
/ James Sunday schools (cOlored) took
place at Happy Retreat yesterday, and
/ was attended by over six hundred people.
| The affair was we'll managed and was
under the direction of Rev. NJ. b. Salter.
/ By notice elsewhere it will be seen
| that the firm of l. Dasher X Co. has been
/ dissolved by mutual consent, the remain
l ing members purchasing the interest OF
/ Mr.. J. =. Germaine, who reiires from the
| house. The firm hereafter will consist Of
/ Messrs. Israel and Frank W. Dasher.
\ coIOred boy, fourteen years old,
named William Whitley, was committed
/ to Jail yesterday afternoon by Justice
I Warning Russell, Jr., on a charge of ma
/ licIOus mischief. Whitley was arrested
\ for throwing rocks through the window
/ of Mrs. Bridget Reaches house on An
/ dersOn street.
I The polls We're opened for the election
| Of Captain and First Lieutenant of Com
+ panv Il. Savannah Volunteer Guards, last
night and will be held open to-day be-
Y tween and O'Clock at Magistrate MOli-
mas office for the accommodation OF MEM
/ bers who failed to vote. There is no OPP
/ position to the nominations made at the
/ preliminary election.
/ The early closing movement among the
/ dry goods merchants has been inaugurated
| BY Messrs. G. Eckstein IL Co., who will
/ hereafter close their store at $50 O'Clock,
I independent of other parties. The lady
I customers of the house will be interested
/ in this announcement. Messrs. Eckstein
/ * Co. deserve the thanks of their clerks
I and statesmen, which they VIII assuredly
receive.
An excursion of the cOlOred people of
/ Darien will be given to Savannah on the
/ 9th prOX. The party will leave that city
/ on the steamer David Clark at : O'Clock
a. ~. arriving in Savannah at 5 p. m, on
/ Monday. the 9th. They will be taken in
/ charge by reception committee, and the
! day will be spent at Happy Retreat. EX-
( cUrsiOnists are also expected from Au-
/ gusta and Charleston.
According To the annual report of the
/ Chief Signal Officer the following are the
/ rain and dry winds for the month Of July
/ in the South Atlantic States: During
/ the month of July, winds blowing from
/ the southwest or southeast, or from direc-
/ tions between those points. are found TO
/ be the winds most likely to be fOllOwedby
T rain. Winds blowing from the north or
west. or from directions between those
/ points. are found to be the winds least
/ likely to be followed by ram"