The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-16
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News Reporters.

The City and Suburban and the Coast
Line railroads and the horse car lines did
good business yesterday.
This is the season when Spanish mack
erel, which ranks with the pompano as
game fish, is plentiful along this coast.
Pilots report that the freshets in the rivers
/ have forced the fresh water eight miles out
side of Tybee, something that seldom oc-
ours
Thomas Williams and Flora Fields (col-
ored) were arrested yesterday by Officer
Rogers for highly disorderly conduct in a
house on Reynolds street.
Officer H. NJ. Morgan arrested four white
boys and one colored yesterday afternoon
for swimming in the Savannah river, opo-
site the city, at the foot Of West Broad
street.
There were 1862 failures in the United
States reported to BrddstreetS last week,
against l47 in the preceding week, and 1876,
l59, ia and 1876 in the corresponding weeks
of 1887, 1886, 1885 and 1884 respectively.
Thomas Tubbs (colored) hadn't any
clothes to speak off when he was arrested
| for vagrancy last night in Market square.
He was just i'll from the turpentine farms,
| and was coatless, hatless and shoeless. He
said that he was looking around to see what
the Market looked like.
Yesterday morning, as the steamship
Nacoochee was on her way down the river
to sea, she struck on the garden banks OPP
posite the foot of East Broad street. She
was pulled off by the tug Cambria, but in
attempting to continue her voyage she
again went ashore near the same place,
where she remained. The Cambria assisted
her off again on last nights tide.
Officer Stegin IN attempting to arrest a
band Of negro boys that were gambling in
Bay street lane near West Broad street yes
terday, was knocked down by the boys in
their effort to escape. He picked himself
up quickly but not before the negroes were
too far in advance for the officer to over
take them. Fortunately, however, he ran
them up Bay street lane and into the arms
of Officer Morgan, who captured two of
them and run them in.
If yesterdays business was an evidence
of what the summer travel to Tybee will be
the railroad company will have to increase
the number Of trains. Every car was
packed with people, and on the last trip to
the city even the aisles were crowded. There
was quite number of explorers who were
trying to locate lots for themselves or talk
ing about buying one. Piles of lumber are
lying along the track waiting for the car
penters to begin work ON new houses
A Jefferson street housekeeper was in a
good deal of trouble yesterday. She is
endeavoring to raise brood of little
chickens and devotes much care and time
to their comfort. With the advent of warm
weather she had recourse to fly paper to
catch the flies that swarm in her kitchen,
and accidentally she left an open sheet on
the ground in the yard. A little infant
spring rooster, in his peregrinations, hap
pened to walk on it, and, in slang parlance,
''got stuck" His brother came along to
investigate the trouble and he got stuck;
the old hen came to the rescue, but she
could do nothing. 1t was ludicrous sight
to see the antics of the little chicks stuck
on their backs feet up in the air, the woes
of the perplexed housekeeper and the
efforts of the entire household to rescue the
chickens.