The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-20
SIFTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEW ak.

Dasnes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief aragraphs-Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
Two trains will run to Tybee tomorrow
at $50 o'clock a. m. and 2;3O O'Clock p. m.
The seventh installment of the Title
Guarantee and Loan Company Of Savannah
must be paid to-day to avoid the fine.
The firm of Byrnes & jacobson has been
dissolved, Mr.. G. F. Byrnes continuing the
business Of pile driving and wharf building.
Four arrests were reported at the bar
racks up to ~ o'clock last night. One
was charged with lighting, one with being
drunk and carrying concealed wea pons and
two with vagrancy
John McGrath, street laborer while
working on Bay street yesterday, left his
coat and dinner bucket on the step Of a
closed door at Mendel & Deitsch's, and
some sly thief carried them off, getting a
coat and Mr.. McGrath'S dinner at the same
time.
A week or so ago the people Of Augusta
petitioned the Secretary of War to send a
number of army engineers to Augusta and
decide whether that city could be protected
from overfows by dixie or levee. The
Secretary Of War has referred the matter
TO Lieut. o. NJ. Carter for investigation and
report.
Yesterday was q warm and pretty day
throughout the cotton region. A very
slight rainfall-02 inches-fel at Savan-
nah, but at no other station in the district
is rain reported The mercury went up to
sos here yesterday. and the minimum was
but 26' lower. The indications for today
are: Light rains and fair weather
I,r,t five in ha
court yesterday morning. Charles Justice
was turned over to the city court on a
charge of vagrancy. For fighting, Mary
Lewis and Jane Warirg, colored women,
were assessed IS or five days each. Ben
Robinson was fined $40 or thirty days for
throwing rocks and striking little boy.
John McSorley's plain drunk cost him Va
Mr.. S. Sternberg recovered the gold
watch yesterday morning which had been
stolen from him by a negro boy the day be-
fore. Mr.. Jacob Gardner came into posses
sion of the watch Thursday night, and adj
vertised it in yesterdays MORNING NEWS.
Mr.. Sternberg readily identified it. Mr.
Gardner was approached by a woman who
said that her daughter had received the
watch from a negro boy, and she turned it
over to Mr. Gardner.
Officer Morgan came up on some half
grown negro boys gambling on Bryan
street yesterday, but they ran up stairs in
the Southern bank building and came out
ON the st. Julian street side and escaped
the officer. Later on Morgan discovered one
of the boys in front of the Times building,
and gave him a chase. The boy ran up
stairs, got on the roof of the building
adjoining and made good his escape by
coming down in Bay street lane IL is hard
TO catch the street gamblers, who can run
like deer and climb like squirrels.
Mary Days, Hattie Dixon and Fannie
Aston, all colored, were in Justice Sheftall's
court yesterday, charged with assault and
battery. TIE parties live on East Broad
street and Bay street lane Tuesday night
they were arrested by the police for being
in a general row and disturbing the quiet
of the neighborhood. They we're lodged in
the barracks and were fined $40 each
Wednesday morning by the mayor. They
paid their fines, and each one OF them went
TO Magistrate Sheftalps office and swore out
warrants Of assault and battery against
each other Each was a witness against the
other, and they were bound over to answer
for their offensss in the city court.
Now that it has been discovered that rice
is an excellent substitute for pop corn,
the demand for pop corn must fall Off as
the rice in the hull when heated in pepper,
like pop corn, bursts open just like the
latter, and not only has the flavor of the
real pop corn, but is crisper and Auch more
delicious to the taste. The discovery was
made by a little son of Capt d. G. Purse,
but rice planters say they have often no.
ticed in burning stubble that the rice popped
open flaky and white like pop corn. A
sample of the popped rice, which has been
sent to this office, shows it to be superior to
the pop corn. The experiment of trying to
pop hulled rice was made yesterday, but it
was a failure. 1t must be heated in the
husk.
No action was taken by the sanitary
board yesterday in reference to allowing J.
S. Hollingsworth and wife, two yellow
fever refugees, who were sent out to Guy
ton on Thursday night. to come back into
the city. Inspector General Sheldon said
yesterday that the board will meet today
and the matter will be discussed. He could
not say what the board will do, but the
general impression is that Mr. Holdings
worth and his wife will be allowed to come
into the city. Mr.. Sheldon said that while
he would not state officially his opinion in
the matter, his mind was already made up
about what he would do toward allowing
them to come back. He said that after ex-
aiming the certificates which Mr.. Hollings-
worth carried IL was clear in his mind that
no danger could possibly result from their
being permitted to come in. Mr.. Sheldon
wrote Mr.. Hollingsworth last night the
state of affairs, and informed him that the
board will meet to-day and decide whether
1t will let him in.