The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-08
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.
There are six criminal cases assigned for
trial in the superior court to-day.
The riot cases will be inquired into by the
superior court grand jury when it recon-
venes next Friday.
Julius Jay (colored) was arrested yester-
day for interfering with a longshoreman at
the Ocean Steamship wharves.
Bread is gradually getting heavier. The
price of flour has declined 30 cents on the
barrel within the last month or two.
There were eighty prisoners in the jail
last night, a steady increase for the past
week, and an unusually large number of
prisoners.
Heronimous A. Blake and H. II. Lude-
mann, subjects Of the Emperor Of Germany,
were admitted to citizenship in the superior
court yesterday.
A warrant for James Sullivan, lunatic,
has been issued from the OrdInary's office.
but up to last night the officers could not
find the right party.
Officer McMurray left the st. Josephs In
Urinary yesterday and went to his home.
he is still under the treatment of the physi-
awhile.
The new drum corps of the Savannah
Volunteer Guards was practicing last night
and show a marked improvement the
Guards are very much elated over their
music band"
meeting Of the congregation of the
First Presbyterian church will be held
tomorrow, Immediately after the morning
service, to act upon the resignation of Rev.
J. W. Rogan.
The trial of John White, for assaulting
with intent to murder r. J. Middleton will
be resumed this morning upon the conven-
ing OF the superior court. The testimony
was concluded last night.
Two sailors, giving their names as Joseph
DeCarta and Walter Prington, we're ar
rested yesterday afternoon while engaged
in rough and tumble fight on the street
while under the influence of liquor.
Ben Green, one of the longshoremen in
dicted for stealing goods from the Baltl-
more steamers on Aug. 20 last, pleaded guilty
to simple larceny in the superior court yes
terday. Sentence has not yet been passed
upon him.
A drayman for ]. E. Moran, while smok-
ing pipe, dropped fire on roll of bagging
on which he was sitting, yesterday, and
came very near being seriously burned.
The bagging blazed up suddenly and singed
the mans clothing and hands.
The mixing yard of the Southern Vul-
canite Asphalt Paving Company is now in
operation. The carts hauling the mixture
to the working point on Broughton street
were timed yesterday, and they made the
round trip from the mixing yard in forty
five minutes.
Jesse Williams (colored), who knocked
down Peter Williams, better known as
Capt. Peter the marshal of Thunderbolt,
on June 5 last, and carried Off the officers
pistol at time when the marshal sought to
arrest Jesse, was captured yesterday, and
on the charge Of robbery was committed to
Jail by Justice Molina.
Herman f. Heemsoth, the Yamacraw
grocer who INSTRUCTED legal pro ess when
an officer attempted to make levy ON
Heemsoth's store, was bound over to a
higher court by Justice Warning Russell. Jr.,
yesterday. The evidence showed that
both Heemsoth and his clerk assaulted Off.
Ger Wetherhorn when he went to the assist
ance of the officer having the attachment.
Henry Smith, butcher in the employ of
Charles A. Drayton, while carrying quar-
ter of beef from the market basement yes
terday, made a misstep, resulting i'll a fall
and a compound tacture OF the left leg
above the ankle. DR.. B. F. Sheftall was
called, and reduced the fracture. The doc
tor reports that Noah Jeffries, the boy who
broke bis leg at Bethesda, is getting along
nicely, although the limb is yet in the plas-
ter mould.
Dr. S. d. Brooks, the newly-located
United States marine hospital surgeon, who
succeeded DR.. S. C. Devan here two weeks
ago, is very much pleased with Savannah,
and does not hesitate to say so. He was
asked yesterday how much was expended
in this city by his department for fever
supplies, and hesreplied that not quite all
the bills have been paid. As the acquisitions
were all made upon his predecessor, he
said that it would be impossible to give an
approximate estimate at this time. No re-
port has been called for by the department,
but DIR. Brooks will compile the accounts,
and give them to the public at an early