Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-17
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

GIeaninas Here aud There by the
News" RepOrters-T uesday's Hap
peniDgs Told in Brief Paragraphs
PickIngs at Police HsadG Tarters-
The City Council will hold its regular
meeting tonight.
Magnolia Encampment No. 1, l. 0. O.
r., meets this evening.
The Hibernian Society will hold its
regular quarterly meeting at Catholc
Library Hall tonight.
The Merchants and Mechanics Loan
Association will meet tonight at Metro
pOlitan Hall for the purpose OF electlng
officers.
Col. Charles H. Olmstead will deliver
the annual address at the Georgia Mill
tary Academy commencement on Friday
night.
The steamer 81. Nicholas win make a
family excursion trip TO Tybee Tomorrow
leaving the city at 10 a. IN. and > p. m,
and Tybee wharf at 4 and p. m.
An exhibition will DE given at the First
Bryan Baptist Church. colored, on Bryan
street, Tonight by the pupils OF the
Georgia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
The yacht "Wave," with Messrs. f. r.
and W. ID. Johnston. viii start from Isle OF
Hope this morning for Beaufort ana
Charleston, where 1t will Join the Caro-
lima Yacht Club. Both the ''Waye" and
the "Uncasn will sail in the Beaufort re-
gatta.
In few days the railway postal clerks
on the Atlantic Coast Line will have their
route extended from Wilmington. n. G.,
10 Jacksonville, Fla. Under the old ar
rangement these agents have run from
Wilmington to Charleston, transferring
their mails at the junction above Charles
ton to the Charleston and Jacksonville
clerks.
The tug J. W. Lyman left the city last
night for SapelO. She carried Messrs. f.
NJ. Hull, J. b. West, ). Il. Clarke, G. NJ.
Cunningham, John Flannery, Geo. 5.
Haines, ID. c.. Bacon, o. Butler. 5. =.
ShOtter, J. G. Hayward and J. A. Roberts.
The party expects TO spend a day with
the yacbtmen who went down on Mon
day. The tug and her party will return
tonight or early tomorrow morning.
The City Council will be petitioned to-
night to repeal the ordinance ordering
the removal of bill boards from the street.
A number Of Aldermen expressed them
selves at the last meeting as very en-
phatically opposed 70 allowing bill boards
of any kind in the street and voted tor the
passage Of the prOhibitory ordinance.
The petition has been circulated extern
sively and bears large number Of sigma
lures.
james O'Reilly, who was tried at the
last term of the Superior Court for the
murder OF Emil Pfuger, will be again
tried on Friday, mistrial having been
declared when the case was first tried.
The prisoner is confined in the jail, and,
acting under instructions Of his counsel,
maintains a studied reticence in ref
erence to the crime with which he is
charged. Prison life and fare caused him
to lose some flesh, though he is in good
spirits and hopeful Of an acquittal.
At the regular meeting of Clinton Lodge
No. 81, +. and A. NJ, held on Monday night,
Masters jewel was presented to =. M.
Wakefield The Jewel bears the follow
ing inscription: presented to +. NJ.
Charles E. Wakefield, by Clinton Lodge
No "a. f. and A M, Savannah. Ca, June
IS. 1885, A. L. 1885," The Master presented
the lodge with a picture of its officers
mounted in a heavy gilt frame. After the
lodge was closed banquet was served,
at which several speeches appropriate TO
the occasion were made.
The unwilling Of the Wadley memorial
statue IN Macon will take place tO-mor-
row. A special train will carry up the
employees Of the Central Railroad from
savannah, who will participate in the
ceremonies. The train VIII leave tonight,
Following the regular night express, ar
morning. There is large number of
subscribers TO the memorial fund in Sa-
Vannah, and large number will witness
the unyeiltng Of the monument, to the
erection Of which they contributed. Mr..
Robert Gushing. the sculptor and author
OF the statue. was in the city yesterday.
Early yesterday morning while Mr..
VIM. Smallwood was walking near the
point Of intersection Of the Central
Railroad tracks west Of the Ogee-
chez canal. aud in line directly
west OF New street, he discovered
cigar box partially buried in the dirt
and sawdust at the foot of the railway
bank. He gave the box kick, when the
lid flew of and revealed a negro infant.
The matter was at once reported to COro-
neT Dixon, who made an investigation
and had the remains properly inferred.
1t was supposed that the box had been
concealed at the place where Mr.. Small
wood found it some time during Monday
night.
The erection of the time ball was COM
pleted yesterday. Unless something I'M
1oreseen occursit will be dropped precisely
AZ i O'Clock standard time, Goth meridian.
Jhe preliminary signals were explained
IN the NEWS few days ago. During the
last ten seconds OF the hour from
10 TO II the time ball will be switch
ca on 10 tne W ashlngtOn wire IN the Bull
street office Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company. From the roof of the
custom house the time ball can be seen
long distance. II will prove Of most
Importance TO the captains OF vessels,
who will be enabled to correct their
chron0meters TO within a second OF true
time. Mr.. Gardener will put up the
next ball in Charleston. where he will
20 from here. Those who regulate
their watches and desire 20 recognize
city time will set them at "a minutes of
II when the ball falls. The drop Is made
by an operation IN the Western Union
telegraph Office exactly upon receiving
the hnal time signal from the Naval OBJ
servatOry az Washington.
Death of Mrs. George A. Mercer.