The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-12
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here aud There by the
News Reportera-

The regular schedule will go into operation
on the Tybee railroad on Saturday.
Zerubbabel Lodge, F. and A. NJ, will
hold regular communication tonight.
The Little Baptist Workers will give a
musical and literary entertainment to-mor-
row evening at Yonge's Hall.
The City and Suburban people have their
Bay street track nearly completed as far
west as Whitaker street.
The Savannah Mutual Loan Association
will hold its eighty-sixth regular monthly
meeting at Metropolitan Hall tonight.
John Wallace, a colored boy, was ar
rested yesterday and locked up at the bar
racks for obstructing the sidewalk on Con-
gress street.
The Greene Square Base Ball Club played
return game with the Troup square boys
yesterday afternoon and were defeated by
a score of 12 to 8.
The MORNING NEWS office was serenaded
last night by the Band of Brothers, of
which Henry Miller is the leader and
Richard Monroe manager.
A suspicious character by the name of
Z. G. Summons colored) was arrested by
Officer Love last night near the market.
he had barrel in his possession supposed
tc have been stolen when arrested.
The Republican Blues showed their appre-
citation of their comrade, Lieut.. w. j.
Morrell, by making him a handsome bridal
present Of massive porcela1n-lined silver
lltlng pitcher and gold-lined goblet.
Henry Mathis, known to local fame as
Birds lodger on the night of the Gill muir
der at Butler avenue, will resume his work
on the steamer St. Nicholas this morning,
which was interrupted by his arrest pend
ing further inquiry into the case.
Soma pO1ifical a1r,irpr IF Shariff Roman
sent him a cage of five white rats yester-
day. The snow-white rodents, with their
beseechingly beautiful pink eyes, could not
overcome the recipients aversion to rats,
as he gave them away singly to friends who
appreciate such pets more highly.
The library of the Knights of Labor As
sembly of this city now contains about
fifty volumes, and they renew their request
for donations from friend who have books
which can be spared from over crowded
Libraries thus greatly aiding them in the
collection they are trying to obtain.
A persistent pair of sparrows have for
the past ten days built nest in the electric
light globe, corner of Habersham and Jones
street every day, the light tender throwing
1T out every morning when he cleans the
globe and renws the carbon. In the bright
lexicon of the industrious Eng lish pest there
is no such word as fail.
The statement is made that petition has
been circulated to GUST the assistant teacher
in the Savannah District High School of
GuytOn, but it was not received with gem
eral favor, and the matter was dropped.
The MORNING NEWS informant also says
that thereby hangs narrative which may
be unfolded if the school war should break
out again year hence.
Lizzie Davis and Ellen Golden, colored
deniZens in the vicinity of Walker and
Lumber streets, will soon be up to their
ears in law. Lizzie had Ellen arrested yes
terday for an alleged beating on Sunday
last, and Justice Molina set the case for
hearing Friday. Ellen says she is guIltless,
and gave bond. She proposes to have the
Davis woman arrested for perjury in the
event of her discharge.
Col. George A. Mercer, commanding the
First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, has
issued orders requiring each company in the
regiment to send a detail of twelve men,
two guides and the commissioned officers
in fatigue uniform, to appear at the regi-
mental army Monday evening next at s
o'clock, for the purpose of receiving in
structons in battalion movements. These
battalion drills will be continued every
month.
A colored preacher and his buggy were
overturned about noon yesterday on River
street, near Farm, but the patient animal
stood stock still till the vehicle was righted
The buggy collided with a Stake in the mid
die of the street which marks the sewer. 1t
is an unnecessary obstruction, but if the
eyes of the colored divine had not been
fixed on spiritual things he would no doubt
have seen the stake and preserved his
equilibrium and his dignity.