The morning news., 1888-12-20
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here aud There by
the News Reporters.

| The Chatham Democratic Club will meet
tonight.
The st. Andrews Society will hold its
December meeting tonight
Solomon's Lodge, F. and A. NJ, will hold
| its I53d annual communication tonight,
and will elect officers for next year.
The board of managers of the city cleo
ton will meet tonight at O'Clock at the
court house for the purpose of organization.
Hope Carter, the colored man whose arm
! was crushed at the mixing yard OF the
| Southern Vulcanite Paving Company, ne
! ceSsitatiBg it's amputation, is doing as well
as could be expected, the physicians say.
James Nolan lcolored) an enploye at the
| Central railroad wharf, while unloading
car yesterday morning, fell, catching his
| foot between the rail and pair OF trucks,
! and dislocating his foot. DR.. Robert +,
Myers was summoned and reduced the
| fracture.
| The Workingmen's Benevolent Associa-
| citation fled petition IN the Office OF the
clerk of the superior court last light for a
| renewal of their charter. The association
is one composed of longshoremen with
| Patrick Walsh, NJ. NJ. Sullivan and others
| charter members.
NJ Rovelsky. who kept the New York
Cheap Clothing Store on st. Julian street,
| near the market. has been closed up by the
sheriff ON a caattel mortgage for debt Of
| E., OPT II, given last Saturday to Hirsch-
| fed & Bro, an eastern firm. The pre-
ferred creditors did not permit the mort
gage to get cold until they forecIosed it.
In the mayors court yesterday morning
Sarah and Catharine Demere (coloreil were
fiued s. or five DAYS each for brlckbattlng
the house of ia nes Ryan. Andrew Demere
(colorei) was fined So or ten days. for refus-
ing Officer Anghn admittance to arrest the
brickbattors. George Barlow (colored) was
fined SIS or thirty days for fighting on the
street.
T. NJ. Bryan, who kept general store at
Union Point, Greene county, Ca, has sus-
pended, and yesterday a receiver was asked
for The amount of assets and Liabilities
has not been learned. The merchants Of
Savannah do not appear to have lost by the
failure, Atlanta and Augusta being the
cities where the failing firm made the bulk
of its purchases.
The British schooner Hattie H Roberts
was cleared yesterday for Port Antonio,
ia naica, via Green Turtle Key, Abaco,
with q 900 feet of pitch pine lumber
valued at $500, and 500 pickets, valued at
SO 25, and 20 barrels of flour, valued at
$l20 Total valuatioI of cargo .$423 25.
Cargo and vessel cleared by Messrs. Kavan-
naugh q Brennan.
The ten-cent show, which pitched its tent
on the old jail lots on Tuesday, was COM
pelled to mo 20 further south on account Of
the opposition of people in that neighbor-
hood who represented to the mayor tnat the
show was q nuisance there. The proprietor
became involved in a dispute with tnree
gentlemen living in the vicinity and was
fined SIS by the mayor.
An invitation hop will be given at Ar
mJry hall tonight. The floor managers
are Messrs. Leon Phillips and Glover Fergu-
son, and ON the invitation committee are
the names of II. w. Readick, George w.
Williams, w. w. Ferguson and j. R. Phil
lips The gentlemen composing the other
committees ara Messrs L. d. Miller, c. ID.
Lee, w. d. Wilson. John VI. Conner, j. w.
Evans, Jr, and Walter p. Lee.
Bill Smith and his son (colored), while
engaged in oyatering. were drowned off
Green island, below Montgomery, on Mon
day. The party was on its return home
and was overtaken by the storm, and the
| heavy waves swamped the bateau. Smith
| was one of the party who rescued a woman
at the time of the upsetting of the Skidaway
| island ferryboat some years ago, when
| quite a number of colored people were
| drowned.
w. S.Woods the well-known house builder
| and contractor of Jesup was in the city
| Yesterday purchasing builders material.
| Mr.. Woods says that since the village of
| Jesup has had its charter amended pro-
viding for an cd UdIorenl tax, the price of
| real estate has i creased 80 per cent. to
| 500 per cent, and Jesup as experienced Il
big boom. He says that building IS active.
| a d Jesup expects to largely increase her
population during the coming year.
| Two shots fired in quick succession on
| Broughton street, between Bull and Whit
eker, about o'clock yesterday morning, at
| tracted some attention. They were fl ed
| from the street, and one of the shots went
| through a window over Z. j. GOlden'S mil
linery store, and glancing against the
ceiling and wall, dropped to the floor
Mr.. Golden was sleeping in the next room
| and heard the shot, but was unable to dis
| cover by whom it was fired. A drunken
man was seen on the street in the vicinity,
| and it is thought that without any partic-
ular object except to 'turn himself loose"
he had pulled his pistol and fired right and
left
handsome team of horses belonging to
Mr.. Edward Mcintyre, comptroller of the
| Central railroad, became frightened
Yesterday noon on Broughton street be-
tween Bull and Whitaker, and ran toward
Bull street. As they crossed Bull street
the near rein broke and the driver pulled
the horses up in front of Altmayers. Then
| a general smashing and clashing followed
There were about fifty little expires,
wagons on the sidewalk in front
of the building and the vehicle ran
along through the entire lot, smashing
a dozen of them. The driver managed the
frightened horses the best he could but
with one rein sundered he could do very
little. The horses made ON effort to cross
the sidewalk, and would have gone dashing
into the show windows had not Mr.. Juliu
Kaufman ran across the street in time t.
seize the reins and stop them. The buggy
was not injured with the exception Of few
scratches on the wheelss 1t was a lively
episode. he streets were tbronged with
people, and little boys gathering up the
fragments Of the little red wagons
The Late Simon e. Byck.