The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-18
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News Reporters.

st. Josephs infirmary received three
patients Yesterday. They We're all light
fever cases.
A proposition has been made to the Tybee
| beach company in regard TO the sale OF the
! Ocean house.
The Savannah gas light company has de-
! clared a . per cent dividend, payable on
and after July 20.
William Hall, the prisoner who escaDed
| Monday from the city court room while
under sentence to the gang Is still at large.
Scales, Scott and Crosby, the participa is
in the Anderson street ARRAY two weeks
! ago, are to be tried in the superior court
| next Tuesday.
| The Georgia fertilizer company, John L.
| Hammond ard Jos Hull, incorporatorS,
| with a capital of 100000 has been granted
a charter by the superior court
In the case of Capt Henry Blum VS. Lileu-
! thai & Soas as makers, AID \. ). Miller ~
| Co., indorser, a jury in the city court yes
terday gave Capt. Blum verdict for $1,000,
principal and interest from Jan p, last.
! between $50 and 500 color,d people, who
went to Jacksonville on Sunday excursion
over the savannah, Florida and We,tert
! railway, return q Yesterday morning at 4
| O'Clock The txcursionists had two hours
to take in the sights at jacksonville
Tn finest fruit that has been shipped to
the Savannah market this season was re
ceived yesterday. The peaches were large
yellow freestOHes. They were shipped from
points on t g Central railroad between
Savannah and Macon and retailed rapidly
at from - - b 81 per bus o..
No decision has Yet been rendered in the
NaughtIn Endre, contest case 1t is said
that n leading member of the bar will claim
that Mr.. Naug tin waived his right in go'n
| before the era I'll jury at the June term and
asking for rc-cle ton, and that decision
in the supreme court has passed on that
point in a parallel case.
The Tybee beach company received n
letter yesterday from the Savannah Volun-
teerGuard> in regard 10 securing a lot or
lots GA the island. The purpose Is to blild
a club house In the front and establish q
shooting range somewhere near hy. The
application wa, referred to the committee
on lots, VINO will go to the island this after
noon and examine into the matter.
The record RS fee in the mortgage of the
Atlanta. Atlantic and Great Western rail
road and navigation company 10 the Mer-
camille Trust company Of New York, filed
with Clerk Carr Yesterday, amounted to
twelve dollars which was pad by PrcSi-
dent Fry. The cost of recording, alone. in
the fourteen counties, amounted t. Sl6S, be
sides the expenditure of a personal visit to
each county seat
A 10-year-oid colored boy applied at the
Office Of Dr. r. f. Sheftall yesterday with
his right hand badly lGcerated by a bullet
His mother, who accompanied him, stated
that her son was shot by another negro boy
about his own age becaue the former re
fused to give over 10 cents which the other
boy claimed. The boy that did the shooting
SAID that it was an accident. The parties
live on jefferson street.
An interesting trial is assigned for today
in the superior court. Richard Kirkland
viii BE- tried on an Indictment charging
him with buying aud receiving stolen
goods, knowing the same to have been
stolen. On June 3, 1887, two boxes of
chewing tobacco were stolen from the store
of Ellis, Young d Co. by one George GUM,
as alleged in the Indictment. The thief fed
the state when the officers got on his trail.
The annual statement of the Chatham
real estate and Improvement company will
be found in another column, and it will
doubtless be read with pleasure by the 800
stockholders whose savings have resulted in
such n handsome showing As already an
nOunced, the directors have declared dlvi-
dend of s. share Tor about per cent?
payable on July 20. There will be special
meeting of the stockholders on Aug, ! for
the purpose Of amending the constitution
of the company and give its operations n
wider scope.