The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-19
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News Reporters.

News ReDOrIeTS'
The flags of the Austrian and German
! empire were displayed yesterday in honor
of the birthday of the emperor OF austria
Up to1 o'clock this morning there were
five cases of drunkenness aud disorderly CON
duct reported at the barracks. william
McGee ami Sam Stewart (coloredD were ar
rested aud run i'll for fighting. McGee
received a severe blow in the eye.
The Forsyth social club will hold picnic
at Tybee Thursday afternoon. The affair
is in the hands of a good COMMITTEES, which
will look to the co Mort and enjoyment OF
the club and their guests Those attending
will wear the badge furnished by the club.
Weidner is still in jail. Justice Patter-
son consented yesterday to reduce the bond
from 5000 to $4,000, but Justices Russell
and Elsinger were memorable and refused.
Mrs. Weidner and her counsel and friends
are trying hard TO raise the bond. No &C
ton was taken in the court Of ordinary
yesterday.
A little 5-year-old boy named Israel
Hirely, living with his parents on Coopers
place, ON the White Bluff road. fell from a
wagon yesterday evening while it was in
monon, and the wheels passed over the
boys right leg. He sustained compound
fracture DR.. K. G. Norton was called to
attend the little sufferer, and set the injured
member and bound it up.
The First battalion Of Georgia Volunteers
tcoloredl will give an excursion to Charles
ton tomorrow for the benefit of their
armory fund. The fare for the round trip
is 81 p. The train will leave Savannah at
q o'clock a. M, and returning will leave
Charleston at 10 o'clock p. m, giving the
entire day in Charleston. Col. John H.
Deveaux has been working up the excur-
sion, and the battalion is counting on big
crOwCiG
A pic ic will be given Wednesday by the
Savannah Turnverein at Mumm'5 garden
The admission fee will be 50 cents, ladies
free. Tickets will be on sale at the places
of business of any of tine committee Tee
following is the committee: Chairman,
John Wohanka, NJ. L. Byck, N. Mumm,
George Bartels, Conrad Scnwarz. F. Mum
dorR and Henry T. Seemann. Street cars
will run as late as l. o'clock for the accom-
of those who wish to attend.
Policeman Slogan dubbed an uuruly
negro in front of Odd Fellows ball last
night and created quite an excitement
among the colored people, who were con-
sregating on the street corners in that
Chief Green came up when
the excitement WAS at its highest, and a
burly cOlored man stormed out in an almost
deafening tone that the negroes were not
worth a -, TO let the policeman do that
man that way. Tue cuiet grabbed the man
by the collar, and. after shaking him well,
dropped him and asked him to repeat it If
he dared. The man had nothing more to
say.
Rice and Levea are two peddIers of tin
ware in the market. Their stalls are imme-
diately opposite. Business was duh yester-
day and they began the cutting-in- price
process. 1t did not last long before words
passed between them. The quarrel ended
in grand fisticuff, in which Rice was used
in rough manner. He received a singing
blow on his month and nose, that made the
Blood flow freely. He fell to the floor and
burst out crying. He was picked up and
put on wagon, and sent home. Levea
said that Rice cursed him and struck him
in the mouth first, and that he got even
with Rics by striking him back in the
mouth. The officers missed it, and neither
of the men were arrested.
Caroline Solomon tcoiored) was in Magis-
trate Patterson's Office yesterday on a
charge of breach of the peace. She sat in a
corner holding her babe and sobbing as she
related her experience for the past six
months. Her husband, she said, had grown
dissatisfied With her, because he has found
another woman that he likes better. She
has been unable to find out who it was that
had won her husband until Friday, when
she was passing the house of her next door
neighbor and saw him sitting beside young
girl, making love to her. She ''pouncedn
upon the two lovers and a lively scuffle en-
sued. The man managed to make his
Escape. aud left the two women to fight it
out. Yesterday a warrant was issued against
the Solomon woman. After an examination,
she was released on bond.