The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-01
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here aud There by
the News Reporters.

the News Reporters.
The municipal offices will be closed to-
| day.
The annual election for directors of the
| Southern Bank will be held on Tuesday,
Jan. 8.
Raymond Sims (colored) was arrested
| last night for striking Robert Stevens (col-
ored), with a cotton hook.
The First District Political Club will
| hold a meeting tonight at Heady's hall at
| West Broad and Bryan streets.
Thomas Jones (colored), was arrested last
night as a suspicious character. He was
| found in a house belonging to III. p. Miller
| at West Broad and River street.
Ike German-A American Mutual Loan and
Building Association will hold its twenty
eighth regular monthly meeting tonight at
the secretary's office, No. 1917 Bay street.
The MORNING NEWS received an orange
yesterday from Louis |. Stevens, a dealer
in curiosities in Jacksonville, which has the
| appearance of having another orange in
closed within it. 1t is quite a curiosity.
1t is said that there are about 500 tourists
qu rtered at the Townsville hotels. 1t has
become a popular resort for northern visi-
tors who come south during the winter.
From Townsville they scatter throughout
Florida.
There is sometimes distinction without
| n difference aud Capt. +. G. Strachan says,
in abiding to the handling Of damaged
cotton hV the Liverpool Salvage Corps,
that they charge more to handle cotton and
| dispose Of it than auctioneers, and not
| stevedores, here charge for like service.
Supt. White, of Trinity Sunday school,
requests the MORNING NEWS to state that
| Col. r. ID. Walker was the acceptable chair
man of the building committee for the new
| Sunday school building, and it is to him
that the members of the committee are in
| debted for valuable suggestions in the gen
| eral arrangement of the building.
In the city court yesterday Cyrus CHS
| holm, Gussie Small and Tony Williams,
were convicted of assault and battery, and
! received sentences on the chain-gang of
two, three and six months respectively.
| julia Williams was sentenced to six
| months for larceny from the house. Court
| then adjourned until Thursday next.
The president of the Union Society has
received from Mr.. j. J. Sullivan SO 80.
one-quarter of the gross receipts Of his wine
and billiard rooms on Christmas day. Mr.
Sullivan divides his receipts every Christ
mas among the orphanages of Savannah,
one of which is the old Bethesda Orphan
house, under the charge of the Union
Society.
Alderman George N. Nichols, the veteran
printer and binder, has issued with his
compliments of the now year a meat card
containing Il calendar for 1889, and a list of
the fire alarm stations. The MORNIyG
NEWS acknowledges the receipt Of one, and
hopes that Mr.. Nichols will be here for
many years to continue sending his kind
remembrances.
In the city court last night mistrial was
declared in the case of assault and battery
against r. r. Dancy, the jury, it is said,
standing IL TO l for acquittal. MIR. Dancy
was tried for an assault upon Mr.. z. NJ
Dougan, an account of which trouble over
the sale Of compressed cotton was published
at the time in the MORNING NEWS. The
business transacted was also the subject of
investigation by the cotton exchange, of
which the two gentlemen are members, the
inquiry resulting in a report generating
both OF them.