The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-12
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.
Clinton Lodge F. and A. NJ, will hold a
| regular communication tonight.
The German Friendly Society will hold
its November meeting tonight at Knights
of Pythias' hall
The annual renting of pews in the Savan-
nah Baptist church will take place this
afternoon between and o'clock. See
notice.
The Lutheran Sunday school will give an
interesting musical entertainment and
stereoptlcon exhibition at the church lecture
room Thursday evening.
There were III failures in the United
States reported to BTadstreet's last week,
against 220 in TIE preceding week, and 203,
200, lob, and 225 in the corresponding weeks
OF 1887, 1886, 1885 and 1884.
M. j. Humbert, school teacher of Ora
hamvile, while shooting at a target
with some friends at Ridgeland Saturday,
accidentally shot himself in the left foot.
He was brought to the Savannah Hospital,
and yesterday morning Drs. Charlton and
CoIdlng amputeted three of his toes that
were suspended by small pieces of flesh to
the foot
There seems TO be an inextricable middle
In the new numbering of ths houses on the
south side Of Jones street between East
broad and Price streets, as going west the
following numbers appear on the houses in
the order given: 10, 1874, 15X, 15H, 15%,
l54, 1519. 1t will be observed that first
the numerical system is out of joint. greater
hunters preceding the less, and that there
are two numbers 151S. They are evidently
put up at random, and this necessarily has
led to blunder on some other street.
DIR. Sheftall requests the MORNING News
to correct an error III the interview with
him, in which he was made to say, There
is no inspector at Camp Perry" What he
did say was, "There IS no infection at Camp
Perry" There is thorough system Of in
spection there, every surgeon being an in
spector, and all the quarters are carefully
inspected twice day. The omission of
comma i'll the same interview made the doc
tor say that 10 per cent. to 16 per cent. Of
the cases at Jacksonville reported as yellow
fever are really malarial fevers. The
intention of the interview was t.
state that the percentage of deaths from
yellow fever is about 10 per cent to 16
per cent. greater than the published reports
show, on account of many cases reported as
yellow fever being malarlal fever.
Very few know that Mary Joyce, better
known as "Irish Mary" who was an Oft
time offender in the Mayors court, has
been sent to New York city, but so she was,
and it is said was very offensive passen-
ger on the steamship Tallahassee. 1t is re-
lated of her that when she landed in New
York, she soon managed to get under the
influence of liquor, AID one of the ITALIA
hassee'S crew says that when he last saw
her she was in the market, with hair
disheveled and so boisterous and dis
orderly that lone of the finest" came up
and marched her off to the Tomhs. 1t is
said that the city authorities here hit upon
the happy thought Of exiling her to New
York as the best method Of getting rid of
her, for heavy sentences neither weakened
her appetite for alcoholics nor curbed a
vicious tongue. When drinking she spared
neither age, sex nor condition, but was
voluble in profane and obscene abuse
wherever she met human being in her
wanderings about the city,