Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-17
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The German Fire COmApy will meet
this evening at O'Clock.
The City Court will meet this morning
at 10 O'Clock. The petit jury is expected
20 be in attendance.
The Green GrOcers. Producers and
Market Dealers Association viii meet to-
night at Germania Hall.
The members OF the German American
Citizens Association will meet this
evening in Germania Hall.
The fifty-hour walking match at St.
Andrews Hall viii start at S O'Clock to-
night. There are eight entries.
The members Of the Uniform Degree Of
the Independent Order Of Odd Fellows
will meet at their hall this evening at
7:45 O'Clock, for the purpose Of visiting
Haupt Lodge.
The grand distribution Of Guards Fair
property will take place at the Theatre to-
night. The distribution Will be preceded
by a concert by the Ludden & Bates sill
yer Tone Band.
A regular weekly meeting Of Haupt
Lodge No. IS. /. o. .. F., will be held to
night at S O'Clock. when the Chatham
Uniform Degree Camp, in full uniform,
Will attend the meeting in body.
The Chatham Artillery viii give a grand
excursion TO Warsaw and Tybee on Tues
day afternoon, the 22d instant. The
steamer SylEen Glen has been chartered
for the occasion. and music and refresh
meuts have been engaged for the benefit
OF those who may participate in the trip.
While the Ludden & Bates Band was
rehearsing in the arsenal last night some
malicious parties buried rocks through
the windows. smashing the glass and en-
daugering the lives OF the members OF the
band An effort was made to apprehend
the rascals, but they escaped without de-
lection.
Three arrests were reported at the pO-
lice barracks last night. One a cOlored
man charged with larceny Of money from
Charlotte Washington; another a white
man charged with being drunk in the
street and with carrying concealed weap-
ems: and the third. negro charged with
drunkenness and disOrderly conduct.
There will be a missionary prayer meet
ing at Trinity Methodist Church tonight
at S:15 O'Clock. The friends Of missions,
those who oppose missions, aud those
who would have Information. are invited
10 attend. The ladies Of the WOman's
Missionary Society and the Young Ladies'
Missionary Society have been invited 10
take front seats and assist in the singing.
Mail Agent Smith, who runs between
Charleston and Jacksonville, says he
has been in the service nine years and
has had q remarkable experience. He
his been i'm thirty-tWO "run-Offs" and
eleven collisions. and has been badly hurt
three times. He expresses himself as
uiaased at the increase Of speed In
the fast mail trains, and says that the
faster 4 train runs the safer he cOnsid-
ers il.
Yesterday a mule that was being
worked to a cart containing a load OF
sand. dropped from the effect Of heat
AMI exhaustion near the corner OF Henry
and Barnard streets. The animal was
bled and his head bathed with water,
when the driver, seeing that the beast
was still unable to regain his feet, pro-
ceeded to whip him numerically. Dur
ing the whipping the animal died. This
was a case worthy the attention Of the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty tC
Animals.
Frank NJ. Williams, the cOlOred porter
in the employ Of Messrs. Meinhard Bros.
& CO.. who was arrested on July IL on
warrants issued upon the athdaVlts OF
T. 4. We'll ana Isaac Nj. Frank, charging
him with "larceny from the house." was
discharged from custody yesterday by
Justice Waring Russell, Jr. The infOr-
nation relative TO the arrest Of Williams
and 10 the examination Of the accused
before Justice Russell last Friday was
obtained in Justice Russelfs Office from
party supposed to know the partcu-
lars. 1t seems the examination was not
held on that day, although Williams re-
quested one, for the reason that the case
was not fully worked up.