The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-21
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.
Haupt Lodge of Odd Fellows will hold a
regular meeting tonight.
Solomon's Lodge, F. A. NJ, viii hold q
regular communication tonight.
The tug Cynthia will leave Saturday
night for a days fishing at the Blacklist
| banks.
The case assigned in the city court yester-
day was passed, and the court adjourned
until this morning.
The last Of the excursionists from Au-
gusta returned last night. They report a
most enjoyable time at Tybee.
The superior court grand jury has ap-
pointed a subcommittee to examine the
dockets of the different justices Of the peace.
Messrs. Solomon and LaRoche, of the
county board of assessors, were in session
yesterday afternoon going over the returns
| with Tax Receiver Dillon.
| Belle Torrent, white woman, was sent
to Jail yesterday by Justice Patterson for
| stealing a tablecloth. The woman is
kleptomaniac, and has beea In the courts
frequently for stealing.
The Knights of Labor will hold their an
nual picnicat Tyb9e on July 4. They have
| chartered the Tybee trains for the day, and
they propose to have the biggest picnic that
| has ever been held on the island.
Contrary to the general expectation, the
grand jury Of the superior court did not go
into the election Of justices yesterday.
There were quite a number of applications
sent in from the country districts.
Up to IL O'Clock last night there were
of l1a hor lie
One was white man and the other negro
woman. They were booked for being
drunk and disorderly on the streets.
If the writer of the communication signed
'Housekeeper" will send her name, the ad-
visibility of publishing her communication
will be considered. The name of the writer
OF communication must accompany it,
not for publication, but as an indication
that the article is written in good faith
Messrs. M. S. Cosulich & Co. cleared yes
terday the Swedish bark Gevaia for Hull
with 1880 casks of spirits turpentine,
measuring Ia, 722 gallons, valued at
S3S, $50, and 1,657 barrels Of rosln, weigh
Ing 757, Ais pounds, valued at S5,450 Total
valuation of cargo roo, Cargo by
Messrs. H. t. Moore & Co.
The two principals in the Broughton
street shotgun episode of Tuesday were fined
| $40 or five days each yesterday morning in
| the mayors court. Jennie johnson (colored)
| vas fined SIS or ten days for disorderly con-
| duct, and Charles Small, the Smithville
negro who threatened to assault d lot of
negroes with an ak on the Thunderbolt
road, was fined So or fifteen days
A plant, exceedingly rare in this section,
| is now in bloom and can be seen this morn
Ling at the residence Of Mr.. J. f. LaFar, on
| Gwinnett street. 1t is the "Elumbium
| Speciosum," or Egyptian Lotus. 1t opened
| yesterday morning for the first time. The
| flowers are deep pink and about inches
across. The leaves are about feet long,
and are the shape of an inverted dish.
Charles Dunn, an Office boy at la Bryan
street, was, with another lad of his size,
playing about an ice wagon yesterday, when
suddenly colliding with the other bow in
attempting to get out of the way of the
| moving vehicle the ice he had in his hand
was brought in violent contact with his
head, knocking him senseless He was
picked up and carried into the Office of Mr..
Miltier, his employer and it was some time
| before consciousness was restored.
The jury in the Verdery case went out at
| 4:30 O'Clock, p. M, yesterday, and the case
of William w. Hurst VS.. the Central rail-
| road and banking company was taken up,
and was in progress when the court took a
recess at the usual hour until this morning
The latter is q suit to recover $40, 900 dam
| ages, and is the second trial, the plaintiff on
the former trial obtaining verdict for
| So $50, and q new trial was granted on the
| ground that the amount found for was ex-
cessive. The case will be resumed this
morning.
A petition is being circulated among the
clerks and business firms asking that the
schedule Of the Tvbee railway be changed
SO that the train now leaving the city at
| $40 o'clock p m, standard time, will leave
| at 8 o'clock, standard time. The object of
| the change is to allow the clerks and bust
| ness men who are engaged until O'Clock,
city time. to take the early evening train
| returning time from the island. The petit
| ton was quite largely circulated yesterday,
and it will be presented to President Purse
to-day.