The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-05
PROPERTY AT GOOD PRICES.
The March Court House Sales Active.
The Stock Sale Nuisance.

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The Stock Sale Nuisance.
The court house sales were active yester.
day. More than the usual amount of rea
estate was sold. The principal sale wa.
made by C. n. Dorsett, and was 1872 subur-
ban lots, IS feet front by s. feet deep OF
Montgomery street extended, for $32 so pei
lot.
Mr.. Dorset also sold lot No. GO, Screver
| ward, on New Houston near Cemetery street
for $500; a lot on corner OF Duffy and
East Broad streets for $705,
two tHO-story houses and the
lot on Bryan street between Farm and
Lumber streets for 81 ,230; lot on Bur.
roughs street extended south of Anderson
street for 1896; ten houses and four lots al
the corner Of Gwinnett and Cemetery
streets for IS, 500.
LaRoche and Mclaughlin sold the lot
and the two story frame house on the
southwest corner Of Jefferson aud Loroh
streets, belonging to the estate OF j. Buckiy,
TO III. A. O'Byrne for 200.
A residence on Perry street, between
Drayton and Bull streets, was sold condi-
tionally for 1880.
Eleven lots Of land in Tropic City, Fla
were sold to Mark Goliniski for So per lot.
Two lots on Eleventh street, between
Burroughs and West Broad streets, were
sold to Lester Hubbell for $3.50 each.
j. Mclaughlin and Son sold the ons-half
of lot No. ca, Choctaw ward, on Guerard
street, with improvements, to NJ. A.
O'Byrne for $500.
The stock sales, principally Of old horses
and mules, drew big crowd Of buyers of
that class OF property. President street, on
the east side of Telfalr place, was blockaded
from II o'clock until afternoon with mules
OF all degree, color and age, horses, COWS,
old wagons, buggies and hacks, and
all sorts Of travelling trumpery.
The streets and sidewalks were blocked
while the sales were in progress, and pedes-
trians and vehicles, to avoid the crowd, had
to 60 around on other streets
The custom Of holding court house sales
dates from when Savannsh was little
more than a village. IL is large
enough now, many people think, TO
lay aside some of its rural ways, and
the court house sales are one Of taem that
ought to be dispensed with. OF course
there are certain sales that by law are re-
quired to be made in front of the court
house, but the turning of the streets into
a stock yard every salesday was not con-
templated by the law.
When the new court house'is completed,
If some other place for holding the sales is
not provided, or some restriction is not
placed upon the auctioneers, the sales viii
be transferred back to Bull street, and will
be as much Of nuisance as they were be-
fore the old court house was torn down, or
as they are now around the Whitfield build
ing. It has been suggested that some con-
veniently located place other than the court
house be set apart for an auction market,
where all auction sales shall take place, and
where accommodations for auctioneers and
buyers, which are now lacking, may De
provided.
A gentleman who was present at yester-
days sales said that unless something is
done he win call upon the county authorities
60 remove the nuisance, and if that will not
do it ne will appeal to the city council to en-
force the ordinance against obstructing the
streets