The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-24
rHROuaH TIE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News Reporters.

News ReDorters.
The YOUNG Mems democratic club will
meet tonight at Metropolitan hall.
Up to o'clock this morning four arrests
/ for drunkenness were reported at the bar
racks One white and three colored.
Capt W. W Gordon, unsolicited, sent his
check for $50 this week to swell the fund
Tor the rev Union church to be built at
POoler.
The MoRNiNo NEWS received a handsome
bunch Of !ico birds last night from Messrs.
Fried & Hicks restaurant. The birds are
III first OK the season.
The inkstand ra tiicd at Ferunndez's cigar
store last evening, for the benefit Of the st.
Joseph's Cadets was won y Master Buddy
SulliN an, on throw OF II.
Arot Of whisky ,Iu!uberine IS olrrels, from
Bremen in bona from New York via Sa-
vannah for Denver, was put in the bonded
warehouse here yoster lay. Tha tax will
amount TO nearly S3,0OO.
Tie Houdy baseball club will accompany
the Hlberuens on their picnic to Augusta
Saturday night, aud will play match
game OF ball there on Monday following
This is one of the best amateur clubs in the
state, and they are counting heavy on win
ming.
All the military organizations of the city.
except the Oglethorpe Light Infantry aud
the German Volunteers, have decided to
attend the encanpment at the Augusta
exposition in October, and it is thtJIght
the remaining companies Will also decide to
attend.
A surprise dancing party was held on tn {
Pooler platform Wednesday nigh. DaI-
eng was kept up until early morning yes
terday. Tne young men kept the matter Of
music profound .cctet until they had ii5-
sembed all the young ladies of Poolar and
vicinity.
The Savannah Light Infantry, Company
A of the First Georgia battalion, serfna led
its newly elected officers, First Lieuy Ii. \.
Walton and Second Lieut.. CrawfY.d Bry-
ant, last night, and was handsomely enter
tanned. Col. j. II. Deveaux was ALSO sere-
naded, and later on the MoRNH;G NEWS
was compiimented.
A German peddler identified fhe silk yes
terday which Officer McDerm9Et took from
negro and advertised in fne MORNING
NEWS for an owner. There fere originally
thirty six yards in the piofe, but sixteen
yards have not yet beeW recovered. A
clerk at Altmayer's recognized the fabric
as having been purchase1 at their store by
the peddler in question.
Joe Wallace, colorsd man in the en-
ploy of Herman 81 kaWon, while hanging
up meat in their warehouse at Wheaton
street some days ago. fell from soaffold-
il z and was dangerously injured by falling
On a meat hook, which entered his right
side. He was removed to the home of his
mother in York Street lane, near East
Broad street, and Urs Rehd and Cox ut
tended him. He waJ removed to the Geor-
gia intirmary, where he now is. His con-
dltion at last accounts was considered criti-
cal
The frien1s of Chase aud Troup Perry
have been apprehensive f Or their safety for
several days, Messrs. G4aRoche and Nc
LaughliD had the yachtfAr fixed up to
go in search of them when Charles Perry
returned yesterday morEing safe and sound.
They left some two or vlree weeks ago ON a
NARROWING "trip to Warsaw in light bateau,
since which time nothing had been heard of
them until Perry's return. He explained
thflt he and his brother had fallen in with
Slime friends on the south side Of the island
who had prevailed On them to extend their
stay, ard Troup elected to remain behind