The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-08
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News Reporters.


Zerubbabel Lodge, F. A. NJ. will hold a
| regular communication tonight.
Tho Savannah Mutual Loan Association
will hold its eighty-ffth regular monthly
meeting tonight at the Guards ArmOry
The funeral Of the late j. Guerard Hey
ward will take place from the family resi-
! dence, No. l0l Whitaker street, at lOo'clock
| this morning.
| The City Council last night ordered paid
| bills against the city amounting 10 ST.
! 4Sl 06. OF this amount 81 500 IA was for
street Improvements.
Sapelo quarantine station has been placed
| in charge of an assistant surgeon of the
marine hospital service. This is in accord
ance with the policy recently adopted ~
the Treasury Department in such cases
| The new street railway is nearly COM
pleted. The contractor has finished his
work on the Habersham street line and is
now pushing to completion the Montgomery
street line, which will reach its terminus on
Anderson street in a few days
Officer Baughn had desperate struggle
with two roughs last night in which his
pistol holster was ripped in pieces and the
weapon was lost for a time. The parties
made their escape, and it was some time
before the officer could find his pistol.
The city water supply will be shut off at
9 o'clock tomorrow morning in the district
bounded north by Charlton street, south by
iwinnett street, east by East Broad street
md west by Abercorn street, for the pur-
ioie of connecting new mains on Price
street, and will be shut off nearly all day.
The Coast Line railway has relaid its
tracks on Broughton street, from Abercorn
to HsberSham streets, in anticipation of
that street being paved The work was all
done in one day by Mr.. I. William Harris,
the contractor who is building the new
street railroad. The track on Habersham
street is also being relaid part of the way.
Yesterday afternoon about dozen young
negroes were engaged for an hour in brick
batting a middle aged negro laborer en-
gagged removing the debris at the old Jail
The bricks flew about lively, and the man
had lively time in keeping from being
knocked down by his tormentors. 1t was a
case for police interference, but there were
no blue coats in sight
An unknown man fell from a fat moored
to the Lower Rice Mill wharf about 8
o'clock last night and was drowned. The
Waterman saw the accident and FASTENED to
his relief, but the man rose but once, with
his hand extended as if reaching for help,
and then sank from sight before the watch
man could determine whether he was a
white man or colored Officer Spann, who
was on duty near by, hastened to the rescue,
but was unable to recover the drowning
man.
-Four or five negro boys fastened a wire
from the stoop of house, near the corner
of Price and CASTOR streets, to the pump
handle in the street last night so that the
wire over the sidewalk was only about a
foot from the walk AS result there were
several severe falls, and one porter carry
ing a heavy trunk on his shoulder was
thrown down, and the trunk went sweep
ing through the air like it was thrown from
a catapult One of the boys who gave his
name as Willie Coe was caught by "a vic
tim of the wire trick, and turned over to a
policeman, and he gave tho names of his
companions who will be locked up to-day
for obstructing sidewalk.