The morning news., 1888-04-04
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News Reporters.

There were three arrests for drunkenness
! yesterday and last night, one white and
! two colored
| Georgia Chapter of Royal Arch Masons
will hold its regular convocation tonight at
7:24 O'Clock, or o'clock sun time.
A telegraph pole at Henry and Barnard
streets was struck by lightning yesterday
afternoon and completely shattered.
The Floral and Art Association will hold
a special meeting to night TO arrange for
the spring exhibition on April H. IS and 49,
The Equitable Loan and Building AssO-
citation will bold its nineteeath regular
monthly meeting tonight at the Secretary's s
office, No. rs Bryan street.
! C. Hansen, the toll-gate keeper on the
| Thunderbolt road, has rec ived some very
| fine tea plants and grape vines from the
| Agricultural Bureau at Washington.
Passengers arriving on the Augusta train
! yesterday afternoon reported a severe hail
storm in that city early yesterday morning.
The storm was attended with vivid light
ming and heavy winds,
The Superior Court, which adjourned til
Monday. will convene at 9 o'clock Savan-
nah or Central time, which is 10 o'clock
Eastern time. The action of the court in
adopting EASTERN time is very confusing.
Conductor w. L. Griffin, who was in
Jured in the Hurricane Creek accident, was
down town yesterday, but he is yet feeble,
and complained of great pain in his shoul-
ders, which are bent from his severe inju
ries.
A lively little donkey, which was put up
at auction at the court house yesterday,
fired off his heels so rapidly that be cleared
away a large space for his own use, and
bidders had to be very careful how they
handled him.
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special meeting at the Guards Armory at
7:30 O'Clock tonight, to receive the report
of the Board of Stewards relative to the
new improvements, to act on an amend
ment to the bylaws and for election of
members.
THE stagnant pond on the Lawton place
east of the city is beginning to poison the
air which the east wind brings to town,
and the Bilbo canal, uncovered and deadly,
will soon get in its work y said gentleman
yesterday. They ought to be quarantined
in time" he added.
McDonough & Co. are preparing to erect
their mill on and remove their office and
lumber yard to the old Haslam & Hawkins
site, south of Dale, Dixon q Co.'s yard
The move is made to get better facilities for
shipping, and they will then have a side
track in their yards
In digging for the cellar for DIR. Parsons
new building, at the corner of Liberty and
Price streets the roots and stumps of a
number of cypress trees were found, feet
below the surface of the street. The land
in this vicinity was once a swamp, and was
filled In about fifty years ago.
diminutive monkey escaped from its
owner on Bryan street yesterday morning,
and getting on the telegraph wires, made
its way to one of the large laurel trees in
front of the Citizens bank. The entire
street, without regard to race color or pre-
vious condition, turned out to see the
monkey show"
Mr.. Robert Glass, assistant electrician of
the fire department. was presented fine
box of cigars by the members of Engine
Company No. yesterday. Mr.. Richard
Clayburn presented the cigars in the name
of the company with a neat little speech.
Mr.. Glass, in accepting tho gift said that
he was ''too full for utterance," and would
have to show the company his appreciation
OF the gift by Setting 'em up" which he
did