The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-09
CITY BREvIrIEs.

The Savannah Cadets will have prize
target practice next Thursday afternoon.
There were 135 failures in the United
| States reported to BrddstreefS last week,
against 40 in the preceding week. and 123,
| 40. 159 and 16I in the corresponding weeks
of 1888, 1887, 1886 and 1885 respectively.
The ice cream festival and donkey party
of the Kings Daughters Band No Is, at
Mr. George Mills last night, was very
successful affair. The amount realized will
go long way toward providing ice for the
poor this summer.
Contracts were signed yesterday in Archi-
tect Eichberg's office for the erection of a
handsome frame residence for Mr.. K NJ.
Oppenheimer, and it is TO be built on Bolton
street, between Abercorn and Lincoln
streets. The contract was awarded to Mr..
H. g. Ward
Mr.. II. G. Kent, formerly passenger agent
of the steamer Governor Stafford, has char
tered the steamer for next Wednesday and
Sunday evenings and on Wednesday even
ing Will give moonlight excursion. Sun
day evening a sacred csncert and moonlight
sail viii be given on the river and past
Bonaventure and Thunderbolt.
Tho Catholic Library Association will
give its annual picnic Thursday at the Ocean
View at Tybee. Trains will leave
the city at 2, $40, $50 and
7:45 o'clock for Tybee, andl returning
will leave Tybee at 4; 6:10 and 9:15 o'clock.
The afternoon and evening will be spent on
the islanGL. A band has been engaged to
furnish music The switchbsck railroad
will be EN- gagged for the entire day for the
pleasure OF the picnickers. The tide will suit
for bathing at 8 o'clock. President Glea-
son said We sterday that it is the purpose of
the associe ton to make the affair excel any
previously given.
Inspector Desvergers submitted his regu-
lar reports of daily inspections of food pro-
duce, ETC., to the executive council of the
Citizens Sanitary Association at its last
meeting, and made no further reports,
owing to the fact that his inspections
were limited to market food produce and
minor matters about the city, his horse
having been disabled by a nail picked up
in the street. The inspector says that there
are complaints of frequent accidents of the
kind owing to the careless way in which
boards and shingles with nails sticking in
them have been dropped about the streets
in the vicinity of the burnt district, or
wherever building is going on.
Observer Won Hermann of the signal
station put up the triple self-register, which
he has just received, yesterday. The in
strument registers the wind, direction
giving eight different directions), the
velocity, and the amount of rainfall AS
light a rainfall as .05 of an inch Is recorded.
Only the important stations are provided
with these registers. In addition to the
triple register thermograph has bean pro-
vided, which gives the temperature every
minute during the day. Observer Won
Hermann is going to ask for Paragraph,
which records the variations of atmos-
pheric pressure When this instrument las
been received the Office will be equipped, as
far as STRENGTHENING instruments 20. OBJ
server Won Hermann said that the station
is already one Of the best equipped south of
Washington, excluding New Orleans.