Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-08
CITY ANDSUBURBANNEWS
GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

GIeanines Here and There by the
'News'' Reporterg-Sundsy's Hap
pem;ngs Told in Brief Paragraphs
Pickings at Police Headquarters.
The Superior and City Courts will meet
this morning at 10 O'clock.
DeKalb Lodge of Odd Fellows will hold
regular meeting tonight.
The German Friendly Society viii
meet tonight at st. Andrews Hall.
The Ford Dramatic Association Will
hold a fun rehearsal Of "Chlp Redmond"
tonight.
The Savannah Yacht Club will hold n
special meeting at the office Of Wee Com
modore Johnson at T. O'Clock to-day.
The annual commencement OF the Geor-
gia Military Academy Will take place at
Masonic Temple on Friday evening, June
10.
The Southern Mutual Loan Association
will mold its sixth annual meeting and
seyenty-third monthly meeting at Metro
politan Hall tonight. The treasurer's
report viii be submitted and officers for
the ensuing year will be elected.
Three hundred and fifty excursIonlsts
left on the Savannah, Florida and West
ern Railway yesterday morning for
Brunswick. The most of them returned
at 9 o'clock, but a few remained over.
The Beaufort excursion was also well
patrOnlZed.
The Carolina Volunteers, colored
military company Of Charleston, arrived
in the city last night and were escorted
from the Charleston and savannah Rail-
way depot to Chatham Hall, where they
partook OF a collation. given by the Chat
ham Light Infantry.
Jane Williams, Rebecca Green, Hector
Brightly and Clara brightly, all cOiOred,
started free fight i'm Frogt0wn about
room yesterday. The four were drunk
and created considerable excitement for Il
time until they were interrupted by an
officer who took the quartette TO the bar
racks.
The committees of the st. John the Bap-
fist TOta Abstinence Society, in charge
of the orphans picnic at Isle Of Hope to-
morrow, have everything arranged Cor
the day. Trains will leave the Anderson
street depot at 9 80 and 1925 a. m, II m,
and ,, 3:2j and / p. IN. Incoming trains
will leave Isle OF Hope at q, and 500
p. m.
The Macon Volunteers Base Ball Club
spent Yesterday at Tybee. They returned
just in time TO catch the o'clock train
by the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway for home. A few of the Chat
hams, whose guests the MacOns were, &C
or three OF the nine remained over night,
and will return home to-day.
The Dessoug, of the Ocean Steamship
COmpany's Line, Will be placed in Cramps
shlpyards at Philadelphia after her pres
ent trip. Her old boilers and engines
will be taken out and replaced with new
ones. Other repairs Will also be made.
The alterations are expected to cost near
$4,000. and will put her in first-class Or
der. The City of savannah will be placed
on the DessOug's route until the latter is
again ready for service.
negro, who says that his name is
Henry Williams, was arrested Yesterday
Tor beating Rose James, cOlored, In the
neighborhO0d of Stone and Montgomery
streets. Williams is regarded suspiciOusly
by the police. He is large, wel-builJ
man, aud is said to be "a good penman aud
quite intelligent. He has been in Savan-
nah but a few weeks. HIS c0lOred associ-
ates say that he has never ventured on
the streets during the day, but they pro-
fess TO know nothing of his previous
history.