The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-10
THROUGH The CITY.
Items Gathered Here and Thsre by the
News Reporters

Georgia lodge of Kersher Shell Barsel will
be held tonight. Officers will be elected.
Registrar Conway says that the list of
registered voters will be ready for the
printer by June Is
complimentary benefit TO Miss Ida
Florida Sollee will be given at the theater
on June 20, under the auspices of the Ford
dramatic association.
MeSsrs Strachan & Co cleared yesterday
the British bark Kintore, Granton, Scot
land, with 1000 barrels OF rosin weighing
500, 800 pounds, valued at STA Cargo
by MeSsrs. S. p. Shooter Il Co.
At AGO p m. Yesterday an alarm of fire
from box 5, at Broughton and Abercorn
streets, brought out part of the fire de-
partment. Ii was only a chimney burning
out in the Burroughs building on Congress
street, two doors west OF Abercorn street.
The excursions to the African Baptist
centennial brought crowds of colored people
to the city last week. Yesterdays trains
on the Central and Savannah, Florida and
Western railways were crowded. A big ex-
cursion will go to Button and Beaufort,
s. c., to-day.
Willie Cole and Edie Osborne, two small
colored boys were caught yesterday morn
ing stealing the MORNING NEWS from the
residences along South Broad street Car
being too young for other treatment, they
were we'll whipped and discharged.
The wife of Levi Brown, the carpenter,
who died at Guyton Of puerperal fever last
Friday, was taken TO her old home in Bull
loch county, yesterday, for burial In the
family burying ground. She is spoken of
as q most offectionate mother and estimable
woman. She left three children, the
youngest being but weeks old
The ratification Of the fifteenth amend
ment will be celebrated by the colored
people tomorrow. May 10 is usually OBJ.
served, but this year the observance was
African Baptist centennial, when there
would be large numbers of visitors in the
city. The colored troops will parade to-
morrow forenoon.
There were five arrests up to midnight
last night, all colored, and one too much in
toxicated to remember his name. One of
the offenders, Frank Harris, was the occa-
sion of quite an excitement, his wife Rosa
joining the crowd crying, Catch himr"
She lodged the charge against him Of strik-
ing her. Marital infelicity led to their
separation and the alteration which en-
sued.
Mrs. Mary c. w. Joyce, wife of Michael
F. Joyce, died very suddenly of heart
disease yesterday morning at her residence,
corner of New Houston and Abercorn
streets. Shortly before the fatal attack
came on Mrs. Joyce complained of feeling
ill, and it was not thought her sickness was
at all serious. She soon began to sink, and
medical aid was summoned, but unavail-
ingly. The deceased was in her SD year.
The Savannah cadets will hold their an
nual basket picnic at Warsaw, on Wednes-
day. The steamer ST. Nicholas has been
chartered for the day and will leave the
city at Z o'clock in the morning, touching
at Thunderbolt for those who leave the
Bolton street junction, via the Coast line
railroad, at 500 o'clock. The committee in
charge of the arrangements consists of
Lieut.. r. S. Nell, Sergt. A. G. Bacon, Corp.
j. c. TisOn, and Privates G. F. Rutzler and
j. S. Talley.
The Dayton, o., Journal, in its report of
the opening theatrical performance at the
soldiers home in Dayton, says of Lawrenc
Hanley, who played the leading part in the
drama "Clouds:" "Mr. Hanley, in the role
of the honest impulsive artist, the lover
and the true friend Of the oppressed, was
beyond criticism. There Is a spirit and
energy to his acting that is quite delectable,
and his efforts naturally met with general
favor. He is destined to become one of the
prime favorites Of the company"
The satisfactory figures brought at the
sale of the real estate of the late postmaster
of Guyton, John Harrison, is cited as indi-
eating the way in which lots are appre-
ciating in value there. The vacant lot be-
tween the Lanier house and the postoffice
brought 500 aud was purchased by B. ].
Cubbedge. The lot contains about one
quarter of an acre. The Harrison residence
was bought in by the family at Sl,6l0, but
it is said it would have brought over 81, 900,
but citizens we're unwilling to bid against
the estate