The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-05
CITY BREVITIEs.

Landrum Lodge F. and A NJ. will meet
tonight. The NJ. NJ. degree will be con-
ferred
Christ church Sunday school will hold
The steamer Alpha has been chartered
for the day, and will leave the wharf, al
the foot of Lincoln street at a. m, and
Thunderbolt at 10 a. m. and 8 p. m.
St. Paurs Episcopal Sunday school will
hold its annual picnic at Warsaw next
Tuesday. The steamer Alpha has been
chartered for the day, and win leave
Thunderbolt at $3.50 q, m. The picnickers
will go out to Thunderbolt in cars.
There will be a special meeting of La
fayette McLawS Camp United Confeder-
ate Veterans tonight at $50 o'clock at
the regimental armory. Matters incident
to the Richmond meeting will be pre-
sented. 1t is understood that there are
quite a large number of applications for
admission TO the camp.
Mr. Edmund R. Middleton, who owns
a loft of about $50 homing pigeons on
Wilmington Island, will fly about seventy
five birds from the top of the board of
trade building to-day at II O'clock Mr.
Middleton has flown his birds from Mil
len to Savannah, and he expects TO fly
them from Atlanta this year. The sight
of liberating the birds will be well worth
seeing.
The game of indoor base ball recently
introduced at the Young Mems Christian
Association has found great favor with
the young men. many pronouncing it more
attractive than the outdoor game Next
Tuesday night there will be another game
between the Blacks and the whites"
It viii be remembered that the Whites
beat the last game. Ladies. as well as
young men, are invited to watch the game
Seats will be provided in the galleries.
The Georgia Hussars are building a new
store under their armOry at Bull and Lib
erty streets This store will be next to
that now occupied as ticket office by the
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad
The contract has been given to Mr.. w
Z. Chaplin, and work on it was begun
yesterday. The place will be occupied by
MesSrs. r. ID. and VIM. baltimore, who
will keep there a bicycle store and repair
shop, as well as general line of sporting
goods.
The annual picnic of Teutona division.
No. 3, of the uniform rank KNIGHTS of
Pythias. VIII take place at the Chatham
club house at Tybee, Friday. June - A
large attendance of the friends of the di-
vision is expected. Music, both brass and
string, will be furnished. There will be
! dancing, of course. and refres hments will
| be served by the committee The commit
tee in charge of the affair is as follows.
| Calls, vice chairman; +. Schwarz. H.
TOehl, H. Lange, c. Cracker. H SteU-
| les, J. Stahmer, j. d. Stem, II. Monerng.
/ H. F. Dreeson.
Chairman Grayson of the fire commits
] sion requests the Morning News Ia stofa
/ that the prices on which the feed con-
tract of the fire department for the nres-
ent month were awarded TO James III
I Dixon q Co., were not 30 cents per bushnl
for oats and % cents per hundred for
! hay, as stated in yesterdays Mornine-
News, but % cents per buShel for OATS
and 80 cents per hundred for hay There
/ were three bidders and Dixon & Co made
| the lowest bid. The figures published bv
! the Morning News were obtained from
| Chief Mcguire, who, however gave fher,
! from memory only.