Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-14

The Superior Court Will meet this morn
ing at 9:2j O'Clock.
Call on Tax Collector McGowan and
pay your specific taxes tor 1884.
The monthly criminal session of the
Citv Court viii meet this morning at 10
O'Clock.
The United States District and Circuit
Courts will meet this morning at 10
o'clock.
Three arrests for drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct were reported at the pO-
lice barracks last night.
The tifty-sixth regular monthly meeting
of the Southern Mutual Loan Association
will be held at Metropolitan Hall tonight.
The arrivals and clearances of vessels
at Savannah during the past three days
has created quite an activity in shipping
circles.
The sale Of seats for Joseph JetIersOn's
engagement at the Theatre this week Will
begin ut Davis Bros this morning at 5
O'Clock
The Liquor Dealers Association will
hold q special meeting at Turner's Hall
tonight for the consideration of important
business.
St. John the Baptist T.. A. b. Society
will attend the lecture on temperance by
Rev. l.. Cook at the Cathedral tomorrow
evening in regalia.
A meeting Of the stockholders of the Sa-
vannah and Ogeechee Canal Company will
be held at the cOmpany's Office, on Bryan
street. at - N. to-day.
The annual meeting of the Savannah,
Florida and Western and Charleston and
Savannah Railway Employees Mutual Re
lief Association will be held at the FOrds'
Opera House tonight.
The County Commissioners advertise
for proposals to furnish the jail with
bread. meat and vegetables Tor three
months. Bids must be handed to the
Commissioners Clerk within ten days.
The meetings at the Cathedral, con
Quoted by the Missionary Fathers, are
largely attended and are full OF interest.
They will he continued for some time yet.
Tomorrow an address will be delivered
on temperance.
The pleasant weather yesterday, after
the inclemency of the earlier part of last
week, was taken advantage of, and the
walks and drives OF the city were patron
lied by hundreds glad to get out after the
confinement by cold and storms.
The forty-seventh anniversary meeting
Of the German Friendly Society will be
held at st. Andrews Hall tonight at $50
o'clock. An election of officers for the en-
suing year will be held, and other i'm
portant business will be transacted.
The steamer City of BridgetOn will here
after leave Savannah for Fernandina
every Tuesday at 10 a. N. and Saturday
at p. IN. The steamer will also make a
special trip to Darien, Brunswick and
way landings on Thursday at 4 p. m.
The up, cleared and sailed list of vessels
bound tor this port shows quite a large
number for this season of the year, par
ticulaTly of cOastwise crafts. The total
number is 50, of which l is a steamship,
ship. 30 banks, brig and 80 schOOners.
The Savannah Hospital grounds are
being improved and beautiled. A hand
some rustic arbOr is being erected i'll the
southwest corner, on Huntingdon and
Drayton streets, and, when completed,
will add much To the attractiveness of the
place.
The Savannah Turn Nerein will give a
grand masquerade ball at st. Andrews
Hall on Thursday evening, the 9Th prOX.
Two prizes will be given to the best char
acters represented-One prize to be given
10 a lady, the other TO gentleman. The
committee having the arrangements in
charge consists of John WOhanka, chair
man. and Messrs. c. Cullman, f. B Bar
tells. Oh. Hetterich, L .Sternberg, >. HOlz-
hauser.
A Macon reporter has evidently been
inc is a memorandum from his note book
"Pe0ple from almost every section of
Georgia visited Savannah last week, and
the ladies of that beautiful city, who are
famous for their beauty, culture and
stvle. had an opportunity of comparing
the different fashions in vogue among the
fair sex of the interior. Even FlOwery
Branch. a village on the Air Line, was
represented. and sent three as pretty girls
as could be mustered in North Georgia.
The change Of the hour of service in
MANY of the churches from IL O'Clock to
10.S0 for morning services, and from Z: 80
10 o'clock for evening services, has
nroved. in a measure. unsatisfactory.
me change was made upon the adoption
NJ fine new standard Of time, with the con-
sideration that the new arrangement
vyonId be but retaining the old hour prac-
fieaIIv Some of the churches have al
ready returned to the former arrangement,
and Yesterday the rector Of st. Johns
Church announced that hereafter morn
inc service there would begin at II a. m,
and evening service at 1870 D. N.