The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-23
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News Reporters.

News Reporters.
/ DeKalb lodge, No. 9, |. o. O. F., meets
this evening
Calanthe lodge. Knights of Pythias, will
! meet tonight
/ William Anderson was locked up at the
! barracks yesterday charged with assaultlng
aud threatening 10 Kill his wife Annie
/ There will be a meeting Of the board Of
directors of the building committee Of the
new hotel at the cotton exchange this
morning ut 10 O'clock.
The Ancient Order Of Hibernians will
/ give an excursion 10 Augusta via the Cen
trail railroad Saturday night, Aug. %, lin-
stead Of next Saturday night.
A physician, who has a large practice,
said the other day that he televed he
would 60 fishing, as the health OF the city Is
so good that he had not had call for four
days.
There were al failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreets last week,
against lj3 in the preceding week, and 1872
1874, lS5 aud Pill in the cor esponding weeks
OF 1887, 1856, 1883 and 1884 respectively.
There were 500 excursionists to Tybee
from Augusta yesterday. Tybee was
thronged with people, and everybody
enjoyed the day. The excursioniats
took in every point Of interest in the city
before they returned.
Policeman Spaun made a descent upon
crowd Of boys who were bathing in the
Savannah river off the foot Of Jefferson
street, and captured two Of them. The
officer run them down with a boat and
took them by surprise.
The MORNING News has received from
its Albany correspondent a sample of
Primus Jones second bale of new cotton
received at Albany Friday night The bale
weighed 402 pounds and was consigned to $
K. West IL Sons Of Albany.
The Knights of Pythias will celebrate
Aug 2s with a street parade Of the uni
form rank The day is the anniversary of
the formation Of the military feature of the
order, and will Ice celebrated by Knights of
the uniform rank all over the country.
John Wallace Was arrested yesterday by
Policeman Neidlinger, charged by Tom
Brown with the larceny Of one of his labor
checks on Wednesday last The wharf
laborers are paid on the checks they re
ceive as receipts for the labor PERFORMED.
The special train which will be run from
Atlanta TO Savannah tomorrow for the
accommodation of the friends of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers viii
leave Atlanta at $50 a. IN. ard arrive here
at $40 p. m. The picnic given under the
auspices Of this order will take place at
Tytee wednesday, July 25, instead of
Aug. %.
The wife Of Elijah B. Hall, mounted
policeman, died at the residence Of her
husband, at No. 177l3 Hall street yesterday
noon. She had been in poor health for the
past two years, and it was thought by the
friends last week that she was improving,
but it proved TO be deceptive, only a slight
reaction that preceded the fatal termina-
ton of her disease.
A mass meeting will be held tomorrow
night at Chatham new hall, corner of
Gwinnett and Montgomery streets, for the
purpose of discussing educational matters
and the necessity of a normal institution in
this city for the benefit Of the colored peo-
pie. Speeches and essays will be delivered
on education by some OF the leading colored
speakers of the state.
Deputy Collector of Customs Marmaduke
Hamilton has a souvenir of the "Tippe-
canoe and Tyler, too,n campaign of 1910.
1t is badge of satin ribbon, about "a
inches wide by inches In length. Printed
on it in black ink is a full length picture of
Gen. William Henry Harrison in military
uniform, and below picture of a typical
log cabin. The badge is almost as good as
it was when it was a badge of the wing
party, Of which Mr. Hamilton's father, like
many thousands of Georgians in those days,
was a member,
A one-armed negro boy, in trying to cross
the Ogeechee canal last night at River
street bridge, was precipitated headlong
into the water by the sudden opening Of
one of the food gates The splashing in the
water attracted the attention of couple of
colored men as they passed, and they hur-
ried to his rescue. When the boy was
'hauled ashore" he gave a vigorous nasal
! snort and the water shot out of his nose as
if forced by steam. When he had suffi-
GENTLY recovered he burst into a Sob and
said: 81 wooden cross dat dadblamed kernal
ergin eff l wuzer dyin'."
Joe Clay King reports the find of turtle
eggs on Green island very fine this season.
He has cabin on the island, and with his
yacht he maroons about the island, and his
friends say that roughing it is improving his
health very much. 1t is said one of the
curiosities Of turtles nest is that no one
having taken the eggs from turtles nest
can get them all back in again. Several
have tried the experiment to find it blank
failure After filling the cavity in the sand
there are are always enough eggs left to fill
a couple more nest just as large. Old Mrs.
Turtle when she deposits an egg paddles It
in tight with her feet, egg by egg the elias
ITCHY Of the egg shell permitting it, but
man cannot compress the eggs as does the
turtla