The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-14
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by tho
NeWS RoDOrcora.

HSW5 fheOCrLorS.
The Pulaski Loan Association will hold
its eighty-seventh monthly meeting tonight
at the Office of Garrard & Meldrim.
johnson Assembly, Knights of Labor,
Will give its second anniversary hop al
Turner's hall Monday evening. Nov. 25.
The Merchants aud Mechanics Loan
Association will hold it's seventy-eightt
monthly meeting tonight at the secretary Is
! office, No. lis Bryan street.
The Liberty street cars transferred al
HaberSham street last night and will do the
same to-day, until the track repairs are
| flashed. The track is being raised to con-
form to the proposed crown Of the street.
There is no end to queer names. Jack
Slappy Was arrested yesterday for drunk
enness. Dickens, felicitous as he was il
coming queer names, had none queerer
than JACK Slappy. They slapped Siappy
| into the barracks.
Officer II. N. Morgan run in George
Williams (colOred) for gambling on the
street yesterday, and officer McMurray
captured Charles Campbell and George
Reynolds (ooth colored) for gambling in Il
yard on Harris street.
As the weather grows colder the applica-
lions for lodging at the barracks are re-
newed. Two applied last night, one of
whom was lad of Is years, veritable
tramp, with tne fourth and fifth fingers of
his right hand amputated midway. The
lad said that he hailed from Baltimore and
his fingers were frozen opening oysters.
Car No. l on the Coast Line was de-
rallied last night and sunk down for foot
or more in an excavation on the Haber
sham street switch near Liberty street.
spreading rail caused the accident
Transfers were made until force could b Z
got together, the car raised and the track
repaired.
In the mayors court yesterday morning
Fred Dixon colored), and Joe Ryan were
fined s., or two days each for into xication,
and two colored girls. Lizzie Pooler ana
Jane Anderson, %, or ten days each for
fighting Taylor White and sam Black
man, both black men, were turned over to
the city court on the charge of stealing
turkeys from w. B. Brown.
A group of colored men was discussing
the proba bilities of what is to become ol
them i'll the event that Harrison ignores
them when he moves into the white house.
One OF them argued that "Mr. Harris
would no doubt give them a state to them
selves, and thus solve the race problem. TO
this an aged colored man vigorously de-
INJURED. and said: "Our fathers turned de
fust soil i'll de good ole state of Georgy,
immejitly afUah de diskumovry OBJ Amerlky
by George Washington, and dis niggah Is
gwlne to stay right heah. You heahs me. u
There was some complaint last night by
people living between HUH and Jones street
that water was not turned Oh after being
cut off from 8 o'clock yesterday morning.
The supply was cut off for the purpose OF
connecting the new main on Liberty street,
and was expected to have been turned OH
at o'clock IN the afternoon. Supt. Miller,
of the water works, informed the MORNING
NEWS last night that the supply was still
cut off on account of making the connec-
ton, he supposed. He was unable to give
any further Information, as he had not seen
any of the workmen about the matter.