Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-08


The City Council will meet tomorrow
night.
The Mutual Gas Company will be ready
for business within two weeks.
Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 23l, F.
A. NJ, will hold a regular meeting at
Masonic Temple tonight.
Nine cases were disposed of in the
Mayors Court yesterday, and fines to the
amount of SIS We're imposed.
Tax Receiver Henry L. Davis has
opened his office for receiving returns Of
State and county taxes for 1884.
Jake Small, a negro, was fined $40 by
the Mayor yesterday for creating a dis
turbance in the Market basement on sun
day night.
The twenty-third regular monthly meet
ingOf the Merchants and Mechanics Loan
Association will be held at Metropolitan
Hall at O'Clock tonight.
The trustees of the fund for paying for
the hotel site had meeting yesterday
and determined to make a vigorous effort
10 collect in the unpaid subscriptions.
The Arkwright cotton factory. which
has been standing still for some weeks.
owing TO the breaking of the f1y-wheel of
the engine, VIII start up again on Friday.
Andrew Marshall and Wallace jenkins,
the two negroes arrested on Sunday night
for gambling in an open lot on the canal
bank, were fined $40 or 20 days each in the
Police Court yesterday.
Or. f. I. Lincoln extracted a ball from
a negro living in Smithville, who claimed
70 have been shot on Sunday night by an
other negro named George Lewis. The
ball was imbedded in the flesh near the
collar bone, and was removed without
difficulty. The wound was slight.
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Lewis Williams and Robert Fielding.
charged with the Minis burglary on the
3lst of January, were tried in the
Superior Court yesterday before Judge
Adams, and found guilty, and sentenced
10 10 years in the penitentiary.
Frank Merritt was committed to Jail
Yesterday. charged with burglary, on
warrant issued by Magistrate Waring
Russell. Jr., at the instance OF George At
kinsOn. Merritt is charged with break
ing INTO the compliments house on Sat
urday night and stealing 81 %. He will
be tried in the superior Court.
The Walters Grand Union As
sociation. colored, is having
beautiful silk banner made, to be dedi-
Gated upon the occasion of its anniver-
sary. The banner is on a field of blue
silk handsomely painted, and with the
Inscription. Eve And Our Sick and Bury
Our Dead.n underneath the emblematic
pantry. The reverse is of buff silk. The
work is being done by Mrs Marie KOlb.
Mr.. Jacob Paulsen brought up from
Beaufort Yesterday a collection of petri-
fed bones and teeth of animals, and also
a number of pieces of wood, which had
been dug up from the bottom of the sea by
the dredge TomOchichi. Some specimens
Of petrifed reptiles and fish were shown
in Charleston recently which were taken
out at a depth of fourteen hundred feet
below the surface whilst boring for the
artesian well near that city.
A little cOlored boy about years old
was found crying in the street near the
corner Of Whitaker and Gordon streets
by a couple of young ladies about O'Clock
last night. The little fellow was lost. and
not knowing what to do with him the
young ladies took him to the fruit stand
kept by D. W. Simmons, on Whitaker
street and Gordon street lane, where he
said bis name was Andrew Ingraham, but
could not tell where he lived. Efforts were
made to find his parents, but without sue
cess, and he was taken in charge by Sim
mons and cared for at his home, on In
dian street lane.