The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-02
SETTINGS 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.
Landrum lodge, F. and A. NJ, will hold
its regular communication tonight.
The magistrates were not busy Yesterday.
The day was very dull one in the courts.
The russell autumn leaves of the syca-
mores keep the square tenders busy raking
the grass.
The Forsyth Social Club will hold its first
hop of the season at Armory hall next
Monday evening, Nov. D.
Up to midnight there were but two ar
rests by the police, George Singleton and
Matilda Holster, both colored, for fighting
on the street.
The crusher for grinding the granite for
the ashphalt pavements has arrived and is
being put in place at Harris and West
Broad streets.
The Womans Christian Temperance Union
will hold meeting at the residence of its
President, Mrs. Webb, No. 156 South Broad
street, at O'Clock this afternoon.
The return days for the December term
OF the superior court are as follows: Equity
cases. tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 3; com
mon law cases, Tuesday, Nov. -.
During the month Of October Coroner
Dixon held two 1nquests and one investiga-
ton. The inquests were on colored men
and the investigation over white man.
Senator Hampton of South Carolina
will speak at Horizons, S. c., at noon to-day,
and at Hardeeville tonight. Savan-
nahians who desire to go over can leave
here this morning aud return by to-night's
train.
The work of tearing down the old Bolton
building has begun in earnest. The roof
has been taken Off, and the workmen are
working downward floor by floor. 1t was
so well put together that its demolition will
be slow and expensive.
Ladies are taking advantage of the beau
tiful autumnal weather and visit the GENE
teries to decorate the graves of departed
relatives and friends with fall flowers.
Among the flowers the delicate white
wreaths of the Mexican vine and many col
ored 6ahlias predominant.
There were but three cases in the MAYORS
court yesterday morning. Robert Gourdin
colored) was fined SIS or ten days. A. H.
Stephens (colOred) was turned over to the
city court, charged with vagrancy, being
und in the Central railroad cotton yard
about midnight of Wednesday.
The White Cross Society will meet to-
lllB NJ III bllo lctluI6 iOOlil Oh bue lnleDeD-
dent PRESBYTERIAN church. All who are H.
terested, whether members or not, are in
vited to be present. Officers and managers
will be elected, and the organization will be
perfected. The list of charter members
will also be closed.
Work is being pushed rapidly on the
Catholic Library hall. A force of twenty
two carpenters and tinders was at work
yesterday. The contractor says that he is
hurrying up to complete the front and the
hall upstairs in time for the fair, which will
open Dec. 8, but that he cannot hope to
complete tine entire building before the
beginning of the new year.
An election was held last night for COM
missioned officers of the Chatham Light
infantry, with the following result: G. D.
Blake. first lieutenant; Peter Alexander
second lieutenant; j. H. Watson, second
lieutenant. The managers in charge of the
election were; Lieut l.. A. Washington.
Capt. w. H. Royal; and clerks Lieut. L.
B. Toomer and Sergt. Maj. Solomon C.
Johnson.
The water works department has notified
residents on Liberty street that it will be
necessary to shut off the water during the
daytime from portions of that street willie
the work of laying the new water pipe is be-
ing done, and they are requested to keep a
supply on hand for use during that time
The water Will be turned on at night, and
care will be taken to give the least incon-
venience possible to consumers
The curbing on Liberty street has been
laid as far west as Jefferson street, and
gangs of men are employed in putting in
sewer traps on Liberty street and connect
ing those already completed with the Perry
lane sewer. The water works authorities
began making connections with Liberty
~ loo hn
lay main on the south side of that street.
Liberty street is badly torn up, but in
couple of months it will be the favcrite
drive of the city.
George johnson and Eugene Bennett,
both colored newsboys, engaged in a quar-
rel at No. 80 Duffy street yesterday, and
Johnson received a severe cut on the back
Of the head and in the left wrist. DR.. S. c.
Parsons, at the corner of Montgomery and
Liberty streets, dressed the wounds. John
son said that the quarrel grew out of
dispute about customer which the Bennett
boy claimed Johnson's brother had driven
away from his place. Dr. Parsons did not