Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-16
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
GOSSIP GATHERED BY THE
NEWS" REPORTERS.
Events of the Dav Told in Paragraph
Wednesdays Happenings in the City
and Subupbs-Entertainm To night
-GIaanines at Police Headnnarters.

Events oil ne llhf AOlat
Wednesdays Happenings in the city
and Entertainments To night
-GIeaDings at Police Headquarters.
Solomon's Lodge, F. A. NJ, will hold a
regular communication at Masonic lem
pie tonight.
J. Z. Fem, electrician of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, is stopping at
the Pulaski House.
The Savannah Rifle Association will
celebrate its tenth anniversary at the
Schuetzen Park to-day.
The dockets Of both United States
Courts will be peremptorily called to-day
and cases assigned for trial.
On and after to-day the Atlantic Coast
Line express between Savannah and
Jacksonville, leaving Savannah at 6:42
a. IN. and arriving in Jacksonville at p.
m, will be discontinued.
The first shipment of peas from Savan-
nah to New York was made yesterday by
the steamship City of Augusta. The peas
were grown by q cOlored man about four
miles fro the city on the Louisville road,
and were received yesterday by W, Nj.
Lanler.
A negro woman named Georgia Stiles
was committed to jail yesterday 10y
Magistrate FOlliard on q warrant issued
at the instance Of jim Austin, charging
her with assault and battery. According
to Austin's affidavit the woman kicked a
son Of Austin's on the street.
The young negro woman, Matilda Hol-
linsworth, who was seriously burned on
Monday night while sleeping before ire
al house at East Savannah, was in a
precarious condition yesterday at the
home Of her mother, on Bryan street, be-
tween Ann and Farm streets,
The team selected by the Liberty hide
pendent Troop to compete in the cavalry
tournament here on April 80, consists of
Messrs. Joe Norman, Lewis Rain, w.
Julian Way, John Winn and Fleming
VIM. The HmesVlle Gdzctte saws they
will make things lively for the Hussars.
The statue of the late Col. VIM. NJ.
Wadley, which is to be erected in Macon,
viii arrive here early next month. IN or
der TO give the people OF Savannah an op-
p0TtHnity to see this representation OF the
iliuStriOUs Georgian il will be temporarily
placed in position on the foundation
built for the Jasper monument IN Madi-
son square.
Magistrate Pollard yesterday received
a telegram from Lieut.. c. II. Wood, Chief
OF Police at Macon, informing him that
he had arrested the negro Dan Arlington,
charged vita having stolen two gold
watches and number Of articles OF
clothing one week ago last Monday from
the residence of Grandson McElyy, a
worthy cOlOred man on Bryan street, west
of Ann. A reply was telegraphed to hold
the negro, and an officer WAS sent to
Macon for him last night.
The Cadets exhibition drill. announced
to take place on April %, VIII be post
poned until April %, the day before the
cavalry tournament. This viii give the
visiting troopers an opportunity Of seeing
what Savannah's crack infantry company
is made of and is capable Of dong. A
special wire win be run from the electric
light works for the purpose of lighting
the barracks drill ground. The company
VIII appear with its new equipments, as it
will appear in the Mobile drill.
The uninitiated are inquiriug at the
true inwardness of the word ''horning"
which has lately been freely used in con-
necti0n with alleged frauds in the naval
stores trade. The origin Of the word
comes from adding a mark, which is in
he shape of a horn, or several horns. as
the case may require, to the grade marks.
For instance, the mark ! can, by the
slight change with the marking brush be
made an n, NJ, L, or even W w (window
CLASSY, Any grade can be changed with
the utmost ease, and so as to almost defy
detection.
A new slOop yacht, to be christened the
.'Kate Curtis" will be launched at Thorn
son, above Augusta. on April n. She is
owned and built bY Mr., JOnn n. Curtis,
who, with a party 81 seven, viii make an
initial cruise 10 Savannah, arriving here
early in May. The yacht VIII be entered
in the sailing races of the Savannah
Yacht Club, and afterwards the party
viii take tine inside or coast route and
sail down to FLORIDA and as far up the St.
Johns river as Palatka. The ''hate Cur
tis' is described as a perfect beauty,
measuring p feet keel, 26 feet over all, and
8 feet beam. She IS irregular yacht, slOop
rugged, and viii carry three sails.
The steamship CienfuegCs, from St.
jagO and Havana, Cuba, via Nassau, n H..
r., arrived of Tybee yesterday about u
O'Clock. The tug Republic proceeded out
side to the steamship and took on board a
number of tourists whose names are pub
lished in the marine column of the NEWS
The party were brought up TO the city,
together with their baggage, after the
usual examination by the customs off
GERS, and landed at the wharf shortly
after O'Clock. The Cienfuegos immedi-
ately resumed her voyage to New York
Some of the party viii remain in the city
a few days before returning North, while
others will take in Florida and the expo
siti0n.