The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-27
SIFTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

oesnes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Paragraphs-Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
A correspondent from River Junction,
fla, saws that no trains are now running
an the Pensacola and Atlantic road west of
here They were taken OFF Monday.
The second of the series of the suits by the
Evergreen Cemetery Company against nom
saving lot-ownerS for the care of their lots,
vhic1 was assigned for trial in Justice Shelf
alls court, has been indefinitely postponed
~ common consent of counsel.
There are sixty-eight prisoners in the Jail.
Chirtv-two of them are held for crimes
which will he heard in the superior court,
hirty for the city court, four for crimes
committed in other counties than Chatham,
nd two for the United States court,
The pine fiber bagging, which has been
N exhibition in this city, weighs two
>ounds to the yard. and sells for II cents a
bound at the factory. The baggiDg is
commended by fire and marine underwrit
rs, and is said TO be of better material than
ute for cotton bales.
Tony Wilson, who was shot at Thunder
to.t two weeks ago by Special Constable
Davidson, was committed to jail yesterday
~ Justice Russell, charged with assault
With intent TO murder Robert Butler,
Garch 20 last, and also with assault with
ntent to murder his wife.
Quite number of letters are received
rom time to time by white and colored peo-
lie from friends and relatives at Jackson
rlle, asking if they can come to Savannah
fter passing ten days at Camp Perry.
Negative replies are sent in each instance,
nd copies of the MORNING NEWS sent
hem with the regulations of local Quaran-
inc
The Knights of Pythias here are sending
contributions weekly to the Knights of
oythias in Jacksonville. An appeal from
t. NJ. Hunnicutt, grand chancellor of Geor-
ia, was recently sent out to all the lodges
the state for funds to aid the sufferers,
md they are responding literally from Sa-
'annah. There are five lodges Of Knights
# PythiaS here.
The roster Of quarantine inspectors has
ieen reduced, Messrs. A. Jones Franklin
nd R. II. Conway having been dropped
rom the roll yesterday. This leaves the
lumber of inspectors at fourteen. Conway
vas stationed the greater part of the time
t Southover, and Franklin had been run
ing on the Charleston and Savannah rail
way from Savannah to Yemassee junction.
The Forest City Gun Club will hold its
asst monthly contest for the season this
fternoOn on its grounds, across the river.
he monthly medal will be contested for,
md the member winning the medal will
year it until the season opens next year
The Chathams and Suburbans are expected
o participate in the outside shooting The
Forest City's will attend the Augusta ex-
iosition, and they will also be in Charleston
n Nov. 10 and participate in the shoot of
yharleston's gala week.
The Second African Baptist church is
considerably elevated. 1t has been raised
a hight of IA feet, twenty piles of blocks
icing used for foundation, besides quite
lumber of braces around the entire struct-
ire and under the vestibule. The heavy
olumns of the front were raised with the
uilding without moving them from their
,lace in the building or swerving them
rom their granite base. The rear addition
If the building has been torn down, and
mder the raised building is to be CON
tructed brick addition. A new addition
viii be built in the rear, and the building
hodernized and improved
Complaints have been made of boys dis
nrbing the religious worship Of the colored
iaope in the little Episcopal church front
hg Troup square, by rude and boisterous
pnduct in the square The mayor, on a
prmer occasion, fined two boys s. each,
hid if the annoyance continues other prose-
utions, it is said, will follow. The mayor
IN the former occasion warned the boys
hat a repetition of the rudeness would
AIRY with it Imprisonment If they came
lefore him again. There is not a more or
erly congregation in the city than that in
he little Episcopal church, which, by indi-
hdual subscriptions among its members,
las recently been repaired and refilished
Inside and a neat fence Dut around it