Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-23
THE NEWS IN THE CITY.
GOSSIP FROM TUE STREET AND
SIDEW AK.

DRshes Here aud There by the News
Reporters Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief observation-disclosures st
Police headquarters.
Golden Rule Lodge OF Odd Fellows will
elect officers tonight.
Representative Norwood viii spend the
holidays with bis family.
Eight arrests were reported at the po-
lice barracks up to u O'Clock last nlghI'
The Youths Historical Society serena
ded its newly elected President ana wee
President last night.
Mr.. George L. Byrnes was elected
treasurer Of the Marine Engineers Asso-
citation on Tuesday evening.
Hester stephens, colored, was com
mitted 10 jail yesterday by Magistrate NJ.
Naughtin for assault and battery.
Teutonia Lodge, knights OF Pythias,
will hold a regular meeting tonight ana
will nominate officers for the ensuing
year.
John Spencer was arrested yesterday
by Officer O'Hara, OF the Ocean steamship
police for assaulting 7. v. Glenn with a
hatehet.
some boys set fire to the grass or Bar
nard street, between Bolton and Valid
burg streets. yesterday afternoon. They
We're chased by policeman but got
away.
Four prisoners were committed 10 jail
yesterday by the May0r-Minnie Coleman
Tor five days, Mary Lakey for five days,
Flora Owens for ten days, and FRANK
Jenkins for twenty days.
The work OF relaying the track OF the
Whitaker street car line has progressed
as far as Taylor street. and il is expected
that the new rails will be down as far as
Hall street within the next ten DAYS.
The fourth annual ball of the G. o. ?.
will be given at Masonic Hall this even
ing. The committee OF arrangements con-
Tsists OF N. L. Llienthal, 5. ;. Elnstein,
II. N. BOey, b. Z. Appel and A. Barnett.
Elijah D. Walen, of Emanuel county,
has been held for the action Of the United
States Court on a charge OF removing
unguaged liquor from a still. James
SherrOd, boy of Is, was released on the
same charge.
Tax Collector MCGOWAN announces
that the State and county tax digest for
1885 will be closed at , O'Clock to-day,
after which all unpaid taxes for property,
professions and polls will be collected By
executions, with costs.
Messrs. Hoist & Co. cleared yesterday
the British bark Konoma for Liverpool
with 2.s70 bales OF upland cotton, weigh
ing l.050, 4JO pounds, FdiueQ at , lfO, sou ~,
and 200 barrels rosin, weighing S5,ll0
pounds, valued az 1920. Total valuation
Of cargo Sl40.S70 80.
t. Tompkins, mate OF the steamer
Alice Clark, was arrested yesterday by
Constable Jones, and was committed to
jail on a warrant issued by Magistrate
Thomas J. SheftalI, for pointing a pistol
at a colored man named Felix Magee, who
was trucking cotton on board the steamer
near the Lower Cotton Press wharf Ma
gee says that when he asked TOmpkins for
his wages, the latter refused to pay him
and ordered him of the boat He refused
70 20. and T0mpkius chOked him and
pointed pistol at him, and threatened TO
shoot him.
The case Of Peter Walker, who shot at
Policeman John Prindlble on Monday
night, was continued until this morning
in the Mayors Court. Walker, it seems,
created row at the W hite Beaver Clubs
masquerade ball at st. Andrews Hall
about midnight. Because the policeman
put him out. Walker went of and got
gun. When he returned be fired upon the
officer from the opposite side OF Brough-
ton street. The shot struck all around
the policeman, who opened fire on Walker
with his pistol. Walker ran down Mont
gOmerv street, and thence to Yamacraw.
where he was captured early yesterday
morning by policemen Prindlble, Russell,
ard Collins