The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-08
SIFTINGS 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 city council will meet tonight.
The Pulaski loan association will hold its
eighty fourth monthly meeting tonight.
John Alleoud and Thomas McEvoy have
been appointed mail carriers under the
eight-hour law.
The greater part of the newsdealers pa
per mail of Sunday, due Monday morning,
did not arrive until yesterday afternoon.
The Offices of Justices Russell and Shelf
tall were closed yesterday afternoon on &C
count of the death of the infant daughter
of Justice SheftalL
The Merchants and Mechanics loan asso-
citation will hold its seventy-fifth monthly
meeting tonight at the secretary's office,
No. 11S Bryan street.
The mayor turned William Green, the
Whitaker street shootist over to the city
court yesterday morning, and fined three
colored women for disorderly conduct, the
aggregate of the fines being S2S or thirty
days.
Charles Montgomery, youth Of 16 years,
was locked up last night, charged with
breaking into the store of Mrs. Clary at
Barnard and CASTOR streets last week.
There are three or four others implicated
who have not yet been apprehended.
Mercury did not climb quite so high yes
terday as it did the day before. II got up
to 96' though, and stood there for several
hours. There were some pretty hot places
in the cotton belt district Live Oak, Jesup
and Millen reported 90 and Eastman 1907.
The average highest temperature for the
ten stations in the district, from which re-
IOrts were received was g6'
The two fires Sunday did very little dam
age. A fire IL building on Broughton street.
near jefferson, occupied by Polish Jews and
Cinnamon, did about $40 images to win
dows, doors and walls, hut was extinguished
by the No. Twos. 1t was caused by the
explosion of a small kerosene cook stove
The slight blaze in the Lyons block was
from defective fiue and no damage was
done.
The Baldwin fertilizer company had sent
them yesterday some magnificent specimens
of tobacco, raised by MeSsrs. Sheppard
Bros. Of Mount Pleasant, Fla. Experts
pronounce this tobacco of a very superior
quality, and 800 pounds per acre will prob
ably be the yield. This Is the first tobacco
grown by Messrs. Sheppard and is revival
of the tobacco interests of their section, and
the results must be very gratifying.
Clara Carter (colored) was IN Magistrate
Patterson's Office yesterday, charged with
assault and battery on Lucy Crawford
(colored. The women occupy different
rooms Of the same house, and have been
friendly until they became rivals over a
young man who visited them. Their dis
Ike for each other grew, and it eliminated
yesterday in fracas. in which the Craw-
ford woman was ousted. Clara Carter
stated that her assailant gave her 1.-TWO
ar'ful good ticks on de head" before she was
aware that fight WINS intanded Whom
the Carter woman discovered blood in the
others eye, she tried to end it at once by
knocking off the head of her foe and the
witnesses say she did not miss her mark very
far. She was sent to Jail to await the action
OF the city court