The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-18
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News REPORTERS.

The vestibule train will make its last trip
for the season to-day.
A festival ani brass band concert was
given last night at the Ford's Opera House
by the First African Baptist church.
The Mayor had but one case on his docket
yesterday morning, Sarah Joyse, an old
offender, VINO was given thirty days.
w. S. Fountain, an umbrella tinker,
mercurial and noisy from too frequent
libations was lodged in the barracks yes
terday.
A delegate from Yamacraw dropped in
the City Court Clerks Office yesterday and
reported TO Clerk Russell that Yamacraw
was solid for him for state Senator
The music at the Independent Presby-
terrain church during the services of the
Knight Templars tonight will be, it is
said, the best ever rendered in this city.
The magnolia trees are in bloom and
their fragrance mingling with that Of the
honeysucBles, which are blooming pro-
fusely, make the air redolent with perfume
The eastern garden wall in the rear of the
Cathedral is being demolished, preparatory
TO the work Of breaking ground for the
Bishops residence on Lincoln and Harris
streets
The iron fence which enclosed johnson
square has been purchased by the Cathedral
congregation and will be used to replace
the present wooden fence west and south of
the Cathedral.
j. j. Dale, Esq, is having petition cir
culated asking the City Council to return
TO sun time. The petition had in the neigh
borhood of Z, 600 names on it yesterday.
Most any one will sign petition, hut there
are much larger number who will not.
The script of the Title Guarantee and
nan (ornDapy il raa6y for isc1la and h
scribers are requested to call on Mr.. NJ. j.
Solomons, Treasurer and pay the first in
stallment. Stock remaining unpaid on
April 81 will be issued to new applicants for
shares.
The steamer John Sylvester Capt. Pest
will arrive here on next Tuesday from
Jacksonville. She comes for the purpose
of giving excursions until June l, when she
goes North to go on her regular excursion
route between New York city and Coney
Island.
A truck gardener on the road to Bona
venture has discounted the more tropical
air of the orange State by cultivating
cucumbers under a mulching Of hay, or
dried grass, and as a result he has been
shipping cucumbers to New York in adj
vance of the Florida market and getting
SIS per 100 for the early fruit.
Freeman G. Shelman and Arthur John
son, two bootblacks, were arrested yester-
day for obstructing the sidewalk in front
OF the Screven house. The police say that
if the bootblacks will not obstruct the side
walk they can pursue their avocatIon, but
the cause of the frequent arrests is that
group of boys congregate around and in
dulge in prOfane and indecent language TO
! the scandal Of polite ears.
The much-talked of prize fight between
Myers, the Florida light weight, with Frank
Murphy, the Canada pugilist, has been
dropped. The programme was to fight TO a
finish with bare knuckles on a barge off the
South Carolina shore, but the friends of
pugilism along the Bay failed to put up the
money to make the mill financial success,
and the pusilists went their several ways
homeward
An experienced hotel clerk of this city
says great mistake will be made in the
building of the new hotel if ample halls for
social receptions, hops, etc, are not pro-
vided for in the building. He says there is
is plenty of room to include roomy recep-
ton parlors and dining halls, something
very much needed, and if the new hotel
provides these it will concentrate the
recherche society gatherings there, such as
wedding receptions, society hops and so
ciety banquets. None Of the hotels now
can accommodate such society demands
without seriously incommoding guests.