Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-07
THROUGH THE CITY.
GIeanings Gathered Here and There by
the News" Reporters.

GIeanIngs Gathered Here and There by
the News" Reporters.
solomon's Lodge, f. A. NJ, will hold
regular communication tonight.
The Irish Union Society will hold its
regular monthly meeting at the Fords'
opera house tonight.
Add to telephone lists: No. 295, G.
Eberwein, soda water manufacturer;
No. 2j3, Ellis, Holt & Co.
The Catholic Knights of America will
give their annual picnic for the benefit of
the st. Mary's Home at Montgomery to-
day.
Bills against the city amounting to
So. 512 43 were reported to the City COun-
ell by the Committee on Accounts last
night.
The passenger trains are discontinued
on the Brunswick and Western for the
present. The mails will be carried by the
night passengers.
The Workman's and Traders Loan and
Building Association Will hold its eigh-
tenth regular meeting at the Office of
Jackson Il Whatley tonight.
A new engine has been purchased for
the Columbus and Rome railway. 1t will
be built by the Baldwin locomotive works
at Philadelphia. This will make four en-
gines for the narrow gauge.
The Washington Social Club will hold a
picnic at Tybee, June "a. The steamer
st. Nicholas will carry the visitors down
and back. A brass band will furnish
music and a pleasant time is anticipated.
Ford's opera house was crowded to its
utmost capacity last night by an audience
of colored persons, who heartily enjoyed
the exercises of Mrs. Matilda NJ. MonrOe's
pupils in celebration Of the sixth May an
niversary of her schools.
IN the notice in the NEWS yesterday Of
the palace ear to be run over the Jesup
short line, and which was on exhibition
at the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway depot on Tuesday, it should have
been called a Pullman instead Of w ood-
ruff car.
The II. r. Social Club celebrated its
first anniversary with an elegant banquet
at ArmOry hall last night. The club has
popular membership, and is composed
of young men who make it wholly social
in its character. After the banquet,
dancing was the order of the evening.
The NEWS was favored with a handsome
lunch from the banquet tables.
The Consulate of Spain has received
Circular Royal Order No. 3, dated March
u, containing list Of the merchandise,
the import duties on which, in Spain, do
not amount to so pesetas ($l0) per 1000
kilOgrammes. Captains of vessels are
free of viseing manfests when cargoes
are composed of any one article on said
list in which cotton, lumber and rosin are
included.
A negro named Warren Harold was
sentenced in Bryan Superior Court last
Tuesday to five years in the penitentiary.
Harold was tried for burglary, having
entered car belonging to the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway company
and stealing theretrOm a number Of Valu-
able articles. His counsel gave notice of
a motion for new trial, when a super
sedeas order was granted, while the pris-
oner was brought to this city and lodged
in Chatham county jail.
Between and6 O'Clock yesterday after
noon the very quiet neghbOrhood of } ones
and AbercOrn streets was startled by the
report of gun. 1t appears that we'll
known drug clerk was cleaning and
greasing up his game piece preparatory
to going on a hunt this morning, when the
charge was exploded, frightening its own
er so that he dropped the weapon and
looked several shades paler. Going
around the block he asked one or two resi-
dents if they heard the report.
The washer Georgia has been completed
and was in full working order yesterday.
The great cone, it is said, will make so
revolutions a minute, and it is expected
that with the dredge at It's full capacity
fully 100 tons of phosphate rock can be
taken from its bed in the stream and pass
ed to the washer to be cleaned in a day.
The dredge Oglethorpe and the washer
will be taken in tow to-day at | O'Clock,
and will be towed to the Oak Point mines
in Bull river, where the Savannah dredg-
ing company has a large contract for
dredging phosphate rock for the above
company. 1t is claimed that there is a
heavy demand for the rock from abroad.