The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05
SIFTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

pashes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Observation-Disclosures at
Police Headquarters.
DeKalb Lodge No. o, 1. o. o. F., meets
this evening.
A number of Savannahians will leave to-
day forSth state fair at Macon.
Mr.. w Geus has recovered his boat at
Charleston, and is expected to reach Sa-
vannah to-day.
Joseph Colson who was shot recently and
is an inmate of the city hospital, was not
resting so quietly yesterday.
More than the usual number of drum
mers spent Sunday in the city. There was
good deal of election talk between them,
but no bets were contaminated.
William H. Blake, a drunken and disor-
DERBY negro, conducted himself so badly on
the Ocean steamship wharves yesterday
forenoon that he was lodged in the barracks
A new candidate for county treasurer,
Mr.. j. w. McAlpin, announces himself. 1t
is the talk of the town that there are two
or three other candidates in training who
Will come out soon.
Seaborn Holiday Ccolored) was arrested
at an early hour yesterday morning and
lodged in the barracks for being found in
the cotton yard of the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway.
The Savannah Turnverein will give its
first grand ball Monday evening, Nov. 10
Turner's hall has been thoroughly reno
waited and repaired, and the committee will
spare no pains to make the occasion pleas
ant one.
The police made descent upon a straw
pile on River street yesterday morning at
o'clocd. and Henry Carter, Charles Baker
and Jackson Taylor, three young colored
night owls, were ruu in. Two coiored men
were arrested last night and lodged in the
barracks, They were caught sleeping i'll
shed under the bluff.
The Lutheran Sunday school is practising
for musicale which is to be given at the
Lutheran lecture rooms on the evening of
Nov. 10. The entertainment will consist of
music and recitations. The proceeds will
go to the Sunday school. AT present there
are about 400 members, and the evening of
the entertainment will be one of no little
interest to them.
The mortuary report for the week ending
Nov. z, makes very gratifying showing
compared with the mortality for the cor
responding period one year ago. The deaths
for the latter period we're q, and for the
week ending last Friday, but Is, a decrease
of 33h per cent. This includes deaths of
whites 5, colored - OF the 10 deaths, Is
were under 10 years of age.
The Georgia Historical Society will hold
its November meeting tonight at Hodgson
hall. 1t is understood that at this meeting
Gen. Jackson, the president, will make an
interesting report respecting Mr.. Brandt's
recent visit to Europe, and the pictures pur-
chased there. The nesting will probably be
a large one, as the members are nearly all
back from their summer trips.
William alias Plum" Robinson, a col
ored boy Of II years, was shot yesterday while
engaged in a game OF skin" ia Jones' field,
near the Old Fort. He quarreled with an
other colored boy over the game, and from
getting the best of the fight when his an
tagonist shot him in the region of the
stomach. The physician who examined
Robinson's wound says it is not serious
one, the ball l1dging in the sheath of the
muscles. Robinson's as5ailant escaped and
is yet at large.
A horse attached to buggy in which
were Mr.. Bernard Brady, the tailor, and
his wife, became frightened on East Broad
street, near President street. the wheel of
the vehicle throwing q tin can against the
animals leg. The horse ran off, making a
sharp turn into Broughton street, fitting
the buggy over and throwing the occupants
out. Mrs Brady received several painful
bruises about the neck, shoulders and face,
and was unconscious for half an hour after
the accident. Mr. Brady received bruises
also, but none were serious. They were
takel to the house OF Mr.. Fowler at
Broughton and East Broad streets, and DR..
Stone was summoned. After dressing the
wounds. MIR. Brady and his wife were sent
to their home, No. Macon street. Mr..
and Mrs Brady were on their way to the
funeral of 2. II. O'Brien when the accident
occurred.