The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-31
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-Pic kings at
Police Headouarters.
| The quarterly and monthly term of the
| city criminal court will begin to-day.
| The Savannah Rife Association will hold
its annual contest at Greenwich park to-
morrow.
DeKalb lodge No. 0, l. o. o. F., meets
this evening, and will elect officers for the
ensuing term.
Calanthe lodge No. rs, K. p, meets this
evening, when an election for officers for
the ensuing term will be held.
Mary Hamilton, colored woman living
on the West Boundary street commons,
died yesterday morning Of paralysis.
The races at Thunderbolt tomorrow
promise to be closely contested, and great
deal of amusement is anticipated from the
bull race to saddle.
All of the sinking fund commissioners
elected last Saturday have signified their
acceptance, except Mr.. Joseph d. Weed,
who is at the north.
The sisters at st. Josephs Infirmary will
be thankful for any old linens that may be
given them. Christmas week has been an
unusually busy one with them, and they are
OuO VI LOT Juer
There were 334 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's last week,
against 335 in the preceding week and 246
$50, 1S5 snd 40 in the corresponding weeks
of 1887. 1886, 1885 and 1854 respectively.
The Second District Democratic Club
will meet at the Office of Justice Sheftall to-
night to nominate aldermen to represent
the district. 1t is understood that Alder
man Nell will be endorsed for reelection.
An addition has recently been made to the
Cathedral cemetery. The addition is called
the Magnolia division. 1t comprises several
lots, and tomorrow afternoon the Ca no.
lies of Savannah will meet at the cemetery
ard bid for the lots.
Yesterday was quiet Sunday with the
police, and up to midnight there had been
racks since the ad journment of the mayors
court Saturday morning. The offenders
are all ''drunks and disorderlies."
Daniel Smith applied at the drug store of
DIR. f. j. Kieffer yesterday to have a wound
in his left arm dressed. He said that a
colored woman named Mary Glover stabbed
him with a pair of scissors. The wound
was an ugly one and was very painful.
There was a large crowd all of yesterday
on the iron bridge of the Belt Line. The
approaches to the bridge were completed
Saturday and the rails are down on the
greater part of the structure 1t is very
probable that a car will be run over the
bridge to-day, though it will be several
days before the line isopened so that the
road can be operated its entire length.
Michael Beasly, a young farmer from
Liberty county. was carried to st. Joseph's
infirmary yesterday for treatment Of a
cancer in the mouth. DIR. Nichols is at
tending him. Since July the cancer has
given considerable pain, and is eating his
mouth out rapidly. There seems to be no
chance for his recovery, and it is thought
at the infirmary that ne will not live long
j. H Holmes. colored drayman, met
his wife, from whom he has been separated
for some time, last night on Broughton and
Whitaker streets, with another man. He
attempted to make her go home, she re-
fused, and there pro Missed TO be a general
fracas, but friends oe the parties persuaded
Holmes TO leave and not interfere, and his
wife was permitted to go on with the other
man.
Bill Brown, an old, infirm and crippled
negro. was brought to the Office of the city
physician of the western division yesterday
" some colored men who picked him up IL
the public road, where he had been uu
kindly dumped out by unfeeling relatives
He was given permit to enter the Georgia
infirmary, and the city ambulance was
summoned and took the old man to place
of refuge.