The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-23
SIFTINGS 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.
The German Friendly Society will meet
tonight
Calanthe Lodge No. 2S, X. of p, meets
tonight.
DeKalb Lodge No. Q, l. q. o. F., holds a
regular meeting this evening.
There are number under arrest for dis
orderly conduct, and no less than fifteen
cases will be up for hearing.
The Mayor will have full docket this
morning embracing various offences from
a common drunk up to larceny.
Annie Moore, colored employee at the
Georgia Infrmary, was so disorderly yes
terday that it was necessary to call in an
officer and have her taken to the barracks
There were 1sl failures in the United
States reported in Bradstreet's last week.
against l62 in the preceding week and 157,
175, 1876 and l55 in the corresponding weeks
of 1887, 1886, 1885 and 1884 respectively.
Tobias Williams, (colored) was locked up
yesterday charged with an assault with a
knife upon mis- wife Maria. She was ar
rested by Hattie Baker, about whom the
fuss started. The Baker woman charges
brick.
1t is said that the Richmond Terminal
Opposition Committee will shortly an
nounce its candidates for the new board,
which will include none of the present
members, but that Emanuel Lehman, who
resigned from the board, will be an oppo-
sition candidate.
The Health Officers mortuary report for
the week ending April 81 shows % deaths,
of which IL were white and IA colored.
Sixty per cent. of the deaths were children
under 10 years of age, and so per cent. Of
them were colored. Is it the contaminated
public wells that is poisoning the children
Joe Golden colored), driver OF a scav-
enger cart, applied at the drug store Of DR..
E. Kieffer yesterday evening for treatment.
His head and face were considerably bruised
up. When he was asked what caused it, he
said that a crowd of white boys at the cor
ner of Guerard and Walker streets attacked
him and beat him numerically. He said
that he knew the leader of the party and
would swear out a warrant for him to-day.
The City and Suburban Railway is now
running its trains into its new car shed in
the rear of the Second avenue depot This
improvement will be appreciated by the
patrons of the road. The suburban lines of
the company have been relaid with steel
rails with cross ties, and the roadway is
now in splendid condition. With the new
locomotive, the IA L. Hartridge,n good
rolling stock, and the improved track,
President johnson is giving the public the
best service it has ever had over the COM
pany's lines.
B. d. Southcott, warehouseman for NJ
Maclean g. Co., in company with his wife,
narrowly escaped a serious accident yester-
day while returning in their buggy from
Thunderbolt Mrs. Southcott was driving
As they were crossing the New-street car
track, at the corner OF Liberty and Whea-
ton streets, the car came along. Mrs.
Southcott became frightened and pulled the
wrong rein, turning the horse and throwing
the buggy up against the car The buggy
careened and would have been turned com
pletely over had not parties on the car pre-
vented it.
Two sailors had a rough and tumble fight
in Washington square last night, the result
Of financial dispute. which required blood
TO settle. It appears that a number of the
crew of the British bark Kate Saucton were
up town, and one of them, August Theege,
did not do his share of the treating accord
ing to the views Of his shipmate, John Nc
Cullough, and fight ensued between them
to the intense delight of the hoodlums at
tracted by the disturbance Theege was
badly bruised about the face, aud when
policeman came upon the scene the two
sailors were down and engaged in a regular
rough and tumble fight. When taken to
the barracks Mccullough had no money on
his person, and the sum of Theege's posses
sions was but silver quarter of a dollar.