The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-18
SETTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

Dashes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief ragraphs-Pickiugs at
| Police Headquarters.
| James Brown (colored), was arrested yes
terday for street gambling.
| d. c. Carson was appointed commercial
notary IN the superior court yesterday
Guyton is to have a retail fruit store. A
colored caterer laid IN his stock yesterday
for the new enterprise.
George Washington (colored), was locked
up in the barracks last night, charged with
the larceny Of shovel from the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway yards.
"Cautionary southwest signals were
hosted at the signal station yesterday and
were kept up all day. A storm was reported
passing eastward off the Carolina coast.
There was a small outbreak of fire at the
lnglesby cotton warehouse last night.
telephone message was sent to fremen's
headquarters, and hose cart No. 3 was sent
out
The Royal Society of Good Fellows will
treat themselves 20 supper at Chatham
Artillery hall tomorrow night, and royal
good time is ANTICIPATED. The society Is in
fourishing condition and is growing III
favor.
Tho Savannah Branch Order of the Iron
Hall will hold its annual meeting tonight
at knights of Pythias hall, and will elect
officers for next year. A communication
will be read from the Quitman branch,
which received $50 600 last week under the
orders contract. The order is becoming
very popular one in the south, as it is in the
north and west.
Nina Edwards, colored, prosecuted Sarah
Hunter, colored, in Justice Sheftall's court
for beating her 9-year-old sister. 1t devel-
oped i'll the trial of the case that the fracas
grew out of q quarrel as to who should keep
+he child. Justice Sheftall dismissed the
case as there had been nosgrievous crime
committed, advising the women to go
before the ordinary and adjust their differ
ences.
There is falling off in the number of
Germans applying for citizens papers. while
those who, to quote "Richlieu Robinson
| are ready to g the queenn are increas-
| ing. James Sullivan, a subject of Queen
| Victoria, was admitted to citizenship in the
superior court yesterday, and six apDlica-
| lions went over until this morning, five of
which are made by subjects Of Great Britain
| and Ireland.
Esop Mitchell, 3-year-old colored boy,
was badly burned about the face at No. 5
| Little Jones Street lane last night. There
was another child in the room when his
clothing caught on fire, and the child Sc
cured bucket of water, and with it extin-
| guished the flames. The boy was taken to
| the drug store of DR.. S. c. Parsons, at the
| corner of Liberty and Montgomery, and
the wounds were dressed.
| Mr.. H. II. King, clerk of the United
| States circuit court, received yesterday
the report of Hon. Alexander Proudfit,
| special master in the celebrated case of
| Jones VS.. Lamar a cause celebre which has
| figured in the state and federal courts for
may years, and is now nearly at the end of
its travels The report, which is not only
| voluminous, but technical, was with ac-
companying dispositions, entered of file
and is now undergoing an examination by
| interested counsel.
They tell good joke ON one of the at
| taches of the custom house whose name TIE
| boys do not want to sec break into print for
fear of vengeance dire. The person in ques-
ton is devotee of the pipe, and thereby
hangs tale He was coming down Bull
street the other evening debating, no doubt,
in his mind how long the hero of grand
fathers hat will let the present force look
after Uncle SANS property about the
custom house, when his coat burst into a
blaze, and a bystander rushed up and
assisted in extinguishing the flames, but not
until the right coat tail had disappeared
along with the pipe and a red bandana.
There was no insurance, and the boys say
that the victim of the incipient fire made
| them promise not to turn in an alarm or
give the facts to the ubiquitous reporters.