The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-17
SETTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

Dashes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Paragraphs-Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
The Savannah Cadets will meet to NOR
row afternoon for instruction in rifle prac-
! tice.
The young juvenile colored zouaves
drilled last night before large audience at
FOrds' opera house.
The Chatham mutual loan association will
| hold its seventy-eighth regular monthly
! meeting tonight at the Guards armory
Mary Gadsden, the coored woman who
was shot at the Telfair hospital few days
ago, is considerably better, and there IS
every prospect of her recovery.
Efingham county's dinner viii be given
at Springfield tomorrow. Beside the din
ner there will be speeches by Hons. George
II. Morgan, Morgan Rawls and Others.
A party in this city who is a democrat in
| local matters, but republican on national
questions, was Offering TO bet that Cleve-
land would not carry New York. 1t was
discovered, however. that he didn't want to
bet even, but asked heavy odds.
Charlotte Clark and Annie Sidney, two
colored women, were in Magistrate Patter-
| sons court yesterday for a breach Of the
peace, The women keep a hair dressing
saloon on Lincoln street, and were indig-
| nant during the examination, because they
were taken from their work. They were
released on bond
The steamer Pilot Boy brought 400
| colOred excursionists over from Beaufort
| yesterday noon. The excursionists spent
several hours in the city and at Tybee.
| From 2;30 to o'clock the retail stores were
crowded with buyers Among the excur
| Gil laar pf ba pD1Orp1 Ii
tary and a colorod policeman from Beaufort.
Detective Wetherhorn arrested George
North alias Henry Williams yesterday
| morning. North is a young negro, and is
| supposed to be an escaped convict from
| South Carolina. He ha, been in Savannah
several days. He was convicted in South
Carolina of burglary and was sentenced to
the pc litentiary. He escaped about four
months ago and until yesterday he eluded
capture.
The crowds to be seen on Tybee beach on
holiday and excursion days cannot be seen
at any similar resort this side of the seaside
resorts near New York. The mass of hui
manity moving up and down the broad
beach in a restless stream is a sight worth
seeing. The facilities for getting where
old ocean rolls at ones feet, and the unsur-
| passed bathing will attract people from all
parts of the southeast
Two young lady guests at the Marshall
house narrowly escaped being asphyxiated
yesterday morning. When they retired
Sunday night they left the gas burning low,
and during the night the wind blew it out.
The gas escaping, filled the room, and the
| occupants suffered from the effects of 1t
until aroused by the chambermaid yester-
day morning. The result would no doubt
have been serious had the window been
closed As it was. no serious harm resulted,
and the young ladies are entirely recovered.
Magistrate Russell had a busy court
| yesterday. Esse Green (colored) charged
with assault and battery, was discharged.
Jordan Green tcolored) charged with mis-
demeanor in abandoning his child, was sent
to Jail to await the action Of the city court.
| Sarah Morrell (colored) charged with assault
and battery, was discharged. j. w. Muir
ray, engineer for Lowell 81 Son, was ar
raigned for a breach of the peace Mrs.
Josephine Strickland was the prosecutor
| She swore that Murray abused her and that
she was afraid of him. Murray in an
arrogant manner, replied that the woman's
child disturbed him at night by singing and
he was going to have it stopped. He did
not bring any other charge against Mrs
| Strickland. He was disturbed in no other
way than by the singing of the child Muir
ray waived an examination, gave bond
| and was released.