Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-26
THE NEWS IN THE CITY.
GOSSIP FROM THE STREET AND
SIDEWALK.

Dsshes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yssterday's Happenings
/ Told in Brief PEr&grsphs-PiekiRga at
Police Headq uarters.
Live Oak Lodge Of odd Fellows win
meet tonight.
TIE Princeton College Glee Club is
/ expected 10 sing in Savannah next month.
/ Add 70 telephone lists Nos. rs, Hunt d
/ Owen, and l6l, DR.. Samuel a. " mite, den
| fist.
/ The schooner Raymond 7. Maull, from
/ New ork. With a cargo OF guano, went
ashore on Iybee knoll while coming in at
I low water yesterday. She worked on
I With the rise in the tide.
A row Of neatly built houses mas just
E been completed on Vest Boundary street,
near Zubly, the property OF Mr. VIM.
Falconer, who mas also purchased six
| houses OF similar construction on Zubly
and 81. Gaul streets.
The schooner George :. Marts arrived
in port yesterday from Baltimore with
coal. The Captain reports having had
very rough weather on the passage. The
harts was 10 the gale OF March Is and
Is, aud had some OF her head sails
carried away, but sustained no other
damages.
Mr.. +. II. Abrahams, OF the well-known
clothing house Of Abrshams & Birnbaum,
returned yesterday from New York. He
has been absent several weeks selecting
a stock OF spring goods, and will have a
fine lot OF goods covering everything in
his line, OF which due announcement will
be made.
II has been suggested that Council
should have the water tower in Franklin
square painted in time for the approach
ing centennlal, now that the fence around
the square has been painted, and the
square filled in. The old tower looks
rather rusty andis greatly in need OF I'm
prOVement.
The schOOners Douglass Hovey and
Belle Higgins. lying at the ice wharves,
have had their lines cut within the last
night or two by some mlscreants, apDar-
emily with the intention OF sending the
vessels adrift. II will be well for cap
tains Of vessels in port to look out for this
kind OF work, and give the rascals warm
reception.
a number of wOrkmen who were en-
gagged in making an excavation in Con-
gress street in front OF Capt. Chris MUIR
phys shop eXbumed a mum Der OF gold and
silver coins, probably s. gold pieces. The
coins were Of recent date-One piece was
dated 1S53-and had evidently been swept
out with rubbish at no very distant time
ana became buried IN the sandy street.
The money found amounted to $54.
The Ward Line steamship Cienfuegos,
Capt. Fairclotb, arrived yesterday
from st. Jago, Cuba, VIA Mas
sau, y. F., and anchored off
Tybee, where she transferred quite
number Of passengers to the steamer
St. Nicholas, which brought them up to
the city last night. The CienfuegOs re-
sumed her voyage to New York. The pas.
sengers report that she was detained at
Nassau, n. p, on account OF the mails.
The Youths Historical Society at its
meeting last night debated the question:
Resolved that the coinage Of the silver
dollar az at present in use is detrimental
to the business interests of the United
States. The affirmative was led by 5.
Selig and a. l.. Well, and the negative by
U. 6. Goodman and A. S. Kohn. The
chairman declared in favor of the afirma-
tive and the dollar. The programme IN
eluded recitation by NJ. S. Herman, and
reading by j. S. Einstein.