Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-08
THE NEWS IN THE CITY.
GOSSIP FROM THE STREET AND
SIDEWALK.


Dashes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Observation-Disclosures at
Police Headquarters.
Only two arrests were made yesterday
by the police.
New water mains are being laid on
Anderson street from Whitaker street
west.
Accounts amounting TO s10,30S % were
passed for payment by the City Council
last night.
The Georgia Hussars will hold their
regular quarterly meeting at Masonic
hall tonight.
Zerubbabel Lodge No. Is, f. A. NJ, WIN
hold regular communication tonight
and confer degrees.
The Savannah Mutual Loan Associa-
ton will hold its fifty sixth regular
monthly meeting at Metropolitan Hall to-
night.
A negro named Elijah Small was CON-
mitted to jail yesterday by Magistrate
Molina on a warrant charging him with
abandonment Of his children.
An extension Of the sidewalk to 10 feet
in width at the corner of Broughton and
Bull streets is among the improvements
being made in front of the new store Of A.
r. Altmayer Il Co.
People living on the commons Sou n OF
Anderson street and on a line with Mont
gomery street extended, complain of the
promiscuous firing Of pistols and shot
guns in that neighborhood, day and night.
Mr.. e. It. Clark, agent for the Georgia
State Fair, Is in the city in the interest Of
the enterprise. He was in conference
yesterday with members of the Chatham
County Fruit and Vegetable Growers
Association.
The improvements in progress on the
Chatham Artillery armory are being
pushed rapidly to completion, and a
number of hands are engaged ia decorst-
ing the interior portion every night,
in addition to the force employed during
the day.
Messrs. A. Minis & Sons cleared yester-
day the British steamship Elsie for Liver
pool, with 6,779 bales Of upland cotton,
weighing 3,43l ,35l pounds, valued at $685.
S22.67 and l01 bales Of sea island cotton,
weighing 3S,671 pounds, valued at 50, 100.
Total valuation of cargo $342, 92267.
A commission of lunacy win meet at
| the Jail this afternoon at 4 O'Clock for the
purpose OF examining into the cases of
| Nancy Small and Betsy LOngwood both
colOred, and John Frankensten, or Frank
enburg, white, who are held at the Jail
under lunacy warrants. The Ordinary
will preside and receive the verdict of the
commission.
Miss Lenore Gordon Hussey, Of this
| city, is announced to appear at the Madi-
son Square Theatre in New York shortly,
IN a programme Of select recitals and i'm
| presentations consisting of scenes from
macbeth" and Romeo and Juliet" and
the curse scene from ''Leah." Miss
Hussey will be assisted by Mr. G. w,
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Mr.. Frank Tannerhill, Sr., as Macbeth"
A buggy in which J. J. Abrams, ESQ.
and Mr.. l.. B. Endres were riding. was
run into and upset. yesterday afternoon,
by one Of NJ. Ferst g. Co.'s trucks at the
corner Of Broughton and Draytou streets.
The occupants OF the buggy were thrown
out and Mr.. Endres was struck in the
back by one Of the vehicles. The horse
started to run, but was caught before 60
ing far. The buggy was not badly dam
aged.
Mr.. Richard w. Habersham, of this
city, favored the young ladies Of Forsyth
College, on Thursday last, with a lecture
on drawing and painting, The Forsyth
| paper says Of the illustrations, that Cupid
| drawn on the blackboard, as painted by
| the artists Of France several centuries
ago, in loose robe with sword in hand, at
| tracted much attention. Altogether the
address was highly instructive and enter
! tanning.
Two negroes, John Miller and Joe Can
| non, living at Lumber and New streets.
had desperate fight last night in a yard
adjoining their homes. Cannon drew a
razor and slashed Miller on the neck and
| head, inficting serious wounds. Cannon
then ran off and was not seen afterwards.
! Miller was taken into his house and pby-
stefan was summoned. The fight grew
out of quarrel between the wives of the
two men.
The maximum temperature yesterday
at Savannah was 1911 deg, the minimum
was 80, and the mean "a deg. The pre-
vailing direction of the wind was from
the east, the greatest velocity for the day
being miles, reported at the observations
taken at IL O'Clock in the morning and at
8 O'Clock in the afternoon. 1t will be OBJ
served that the maximum temperature
during the day was seven-tenths of de-
gree higher than on the preceding day,
while the minimum and the mean were
the same as on Tuesday.
A blue plush covered work-bex came
into the possession of Constable Wether-
horn at Magistrate Waring RusselPs
| ORR court yesterday. 1t is believed to
have been stolen, as a negro who had it,
doubtless thinking be was about TO be ar
! rested, ran away, leaving the box behind
him. The box contains pair of scissors,
knitting needle, a tape line, a small
breastpin, one odd earring, one pair OF ear
| rings, six inches of embroidery, a glove
button, two bObbins, one being steel, two
silver thimbles, and one or two other
articles OF minor value. The fugitive also
dropped small nickel-plated clock.