Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-28
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1 news EkGRUEHGEAs
There were five prisoners in the bar
racks at midnight.
George Bartels, native of Germany,
| took the oath Of citizenship before Judge
! Adams yesterday.
William Myers, colored, was caught
gambling on the streets yesterday morn
ing and was locked up.
Charles Love, negro boy, wasarrested
yesterday for writing obscene language
on the walls of a church.
The Health Officers report shows that
there were 81 deaths In the city last week
-6 whites and IS colored.
Judge Adams yesterday excused until
tuesday morning all or the Superior
Court petit jurors except those engaged
IN the Wetter ejectment case.
The schooner May Brown arrived in
port yesterday from Mosquito Inlet, Fla.
she Will load a cargo Of sand, to be used
in building the new lighthouse now in
course Of erection at Mosquito Inlet.
The ejeetment case OF Edward T.
Wetter and others against the United
Cotton Press Com any was not concluded
in the Superior Court yesterday, and will
be taken up again tomorrow morning at
10 O'Clock.
Secretary Mcdonnell, Of the Chatham
Artillery Centennial Committee, received
| letter yesterday from the Captain of the
Louisiana Rifles, OF New Orleans, asking
TO be entered for the prize drill. The
Rifles are coming with full ranks.
Turner Capers, cOlored boy, crawled
under No. 70 Bolton street last mis- ht to
sleep. He was discovered, hauled out,
and taken to the barracks, where he
finished his nap. Tomorrow morning he
will answer the charge Of being a SUSPECT
GUS character.
Messrs. Richardson Il Barnard cleared
yesterday the British steamship West
Cumberland for Bremen, with 3,704 bales
OF upland cotton, weighing I.T39, SS4
pounds, valued at $154,900 She sailed
yesterday. This is probably the last for
eign steamship OF the season carrying
cotton, and is the last of feet in port.
Bishop Beckwith will make his annual
visitation to the Episcopal churches of
Savannah to-day. He will administer the
rite of confirmation at st. Johns at Q
! O'Clock this morning. At IL O'Clock he
will preach at Christ church and admin
lister confirmation and at 4:30 this after
noon he will confirm at st. Stephens
church (c0lored).
A large gospel tent from Jacksonville,
Fla, with seating capacity of from 500
to 500 persons, will be erected in Savannah
this week for the purpose of conducting
feflFdt seIFtcess IHese meetings VIII De
undenominational, and will be in charge
OF j.. b. ShOckley, Phoebe l.. Hall and
Frank J. Hall, eVangelists from different
churches. The meetings Will begin sun
day, April 4, at 3 p. IN, and viii continue
each day and evening at 3 and 1880
O'Clock.
| Arrangements are being made for an
entertainment to be given on April ID,
under the auspices of the teachers in the
! public schools of the city, for the benefit
OF fund TO provide for the entertainment
of the teachers who will visit Savannah
| during the State Teachers Association,
which meets here in May. The pro-
| gramme viii include scenes from Richie
lieu by members of the Ford Dramatic
Association, calisthenics, and tableaux
aud musical selections by some of the
leading talent Of the city.