The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-01
SIFTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

Dssnes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Paragraphs-Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
Pulaski Council No. 15S, r. A, meets this
evening.
Haupt Lodge No. IS, l. o. o. F., meets
this evening.
Landrum Ledge Of Free Masons will
meet tonight
Regular meeting Of Myrtle Lodge No. 6,
K p, this evening
The court Of ordinary will convene next
Monday for the February term.
Twenty rustic seats have been received
for the PARK, and viii be put up within the
next few days
Il. I. Seeman, Of kuckuck s. Seeman, sta
TONERS, has sold out lis interest and gone
into the Insurance business
Clerk Keilbach of the ordinsry's court
issued fiftv-0ne marriage licenses last month
fifteen to white applicants aud thirty-six
to blacks
Magistrate Frank McDermott has thor
oughly renovated bis Office at 2l2 Bryan
street and it is now one of the neatest
Offices in the city.
Harmon Stacy tcoloredl was arrested last
night by the police on the charge Of steal
ing pistol from Bryan Mcdonald and was
lodged in the barracks jail
Live Oak Lodge Of Odd Fellows will
celebrate its FOrty-sixth anniversary to-
night. The other lodges and Canton
Galatians will participate in the celebra-
ton.
Alexander Dill, engineer of the British
steamship Neto was before Justice Endres
on the charge Of assault and battery upon
Fred Partingdon, a sailor AS the assault
was made upon the high seas, the court dis
missed the charge for want Of jurisdiction,
but required the defendant to give bond to
keep the peace while in port.
The Mayor and most Of the Board Of
Aldermen bali dozen city officials and as
many invited guests visited the new quar-
antlne wharves yesterday afternoon to look
over the ground and see what extensions are
needed. The sanitary board recommended
TO the city council at its last meeting the
building of two additional wharves to
facilitate the discharge of ballast, and it
was partly to look into the advisability of
building these wharves that the trip was
made
Freeman Trotty, a colored fruit and con-
lection dealer at York street lane and Dray-
ton street, was closed out yesterday on a dis
train warrant for s42 issued out If Justice
Reynolds court, and lis marble soda water
fountain and other stock seized w H.
w ol4dCo C4hlLlcu Tue SpOuS uuueF u mort
gage given him year ago, bat as he had
slept on his rights by a failure TO record the
mortgage, he is not likely to get anything
from IL, as the stock will be absorbed by the
rent claim and costs.
The Savannah Electrical Company with
Herman Myers. J. J. MELON lugh, Charles
F. Prendergast, William Garrard AMI 2. " .
Neldrim, as incorpOrators, was granted a
twenty year charted in the superior court
yesterday. It's capital stock is $50, 900. of
which 20 per cent. or SO, 600 has been paid in
and it has been granted thu option Of in
creasing its capital stock to S2500O0. The
charter provides for the organization aud
operation of a general burglar alarm and
district telegraph service, local telegraph
lines and wires: with authority to receive
and transmit local telegraph messages; to
have wires and connections, and to operate
a general system of district messenger
telegraph, for delivery Of personal com
munications, notes, messages, parcels and
the like