Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-04

ATLANTA, June 2-After long dry spell we
are having refreshing showers daily. OF
course farmers and gardeners are happy, and
the merchants rejoice to see the dust well laid.
Itincreases the retail trade of dry goods stores.
The dull season has set in. and despite the
unusual amount of building now going on,
many mechanics are out of employment. Some
OF these men have large families and can i'll
afford to be idle. Cotton factories are about
the only Industries in the South that have no
dull season and give steady work.
Judge John b. Stewart, of Griffin, has been
holding a double barrel court with Judge
George Hillyer which has disposed of large
amount of the accumulated business of Fulton
county Both are excellent workers and allow
no time to be wasted in useless discussions
and dilatory motions. The docket is now pret-
ty well cleared Of old cases and questionable
motions
Business in the criminal courts is Just now
very lively, as Atlanta is infested with grow
ing crop of thieves and burglars. Every night
somebody's house is broken into by colored
thieves, who display rare amount OF bold
ness. During the day they are also busy, and
people have TO keep constant watch over their
premises. Unless there Is an increase Of the
police force and more vigilance displayed in
making arrests, this evil will render life and
property very uncertain IN Atlanta
NEW BUILDINGS
Visitors to Atlanta will be glad to know that
the old shantieS on the corner of Peachtree
and Marietta streets have been torn down, and
that Alderman Charley Beerman is to erect
handsome two-story brick stores on that con-
spicuous corper. 1t is a long needed improve
ment. IN
Moore & Marsh's mammoth dry goods es-
tablishment is nearly completed, and since the
roof has been put on it presents very impos-
ing appearance. There is nothing like it in
Georgia, and when occupied will be worth a
visit as one of the great attractions of the
IfG will ha rlWy hun Il cd
and fifty thousand dollars.
Since my last report of the building boom in
Atlanta several hundred new stores houses
warehouses and shops have been commences.
Small industries are rapidly increasing their
business, and this requires more manufactur-
ing facilities. No city in the South shows so
much building as can be seen in Atlanta, al
though more money is being invested in Au-
gusta cotton factories and houses for opera
tives.
MINOR TOPICS.
Ralph T Armstrong, of Notosulga, Alabama,
has purchased an orange grove in Florida, and
some or his nelghborS are to follow suit Ala
bama and Georgia will send large colonies to
the Land of Flowers" this fall for winter
homes. Look out 70: real boom.
Bishop Matthew Simpson, the most eloquent
divine in the Northern Methodist Church, will
hold their conferences this year, the Georgia
Conference at Gainesville on November II, and
the Savannah Conference at Brunswick on De-
cem6er O. he is now on his way to England's
great conference.
am glad to see Savannah increasing her
facilities for the manufacture of candy and
crackers. for there are millions in this trade
when properly expanded / would also sug-
gest a big, live furniture establishment notice
that Pay ton H Snook our great Atlanta furni
ture man. is shipping large quantities Of fine
furniture to South Georgia and Florida trade
that naturally belongs to Savannah Shook
commenced a small business few years ago,
and now his sales are immense. Savannah
ought to have SnCok at once.
The Richmond and Danville Railroad Com
pany came aS thief in the night and gobbled
up the Atlanta and Alabama Railroad char
ter and organized new company before any
body mistrusted what was going on It threw
the Georgia Western Railroad hackers into a
fever OF excitement, but all to no purpose.
The road will be built at once, and will give the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad direct through
route to birmingham, Ala, and thence to Texas
and California.
Colonel Cole will have his line from Bruins
Wick TO Rome pushed ahead, as he has secured
about twenty miles of the Georgia Western
from Atlanta We are to have, therefore,
three great Southern combinations The Cole,
the Wadley, the Talcott-to individualize them
or the Louisville and Nashville the Rich
mond and Danville, and the East Tennessee.
Virginia and Georgia. They cover all our ter
ritory and will absorb all of our small roads.
THE LATE BISHOP ELLIOTT.
The Rev. w. W. Spear, Of Philadelphia,
contributes the following interesting para
graph to the ChuTChmG7t, and I am sure it
will be read with deep interest in Savannah
where the memory of Bishop Elliott is still
revered: Several years before the date to
which Bishop Stevens refers Q849 1 was in
charge of st. Michaels. Charleston, having
succeeded Bishop Bowen, whose assistant |
had been. Bishop Elliott was then professor
in the South Carolina College at Colu n bia,
and though he was very young in the ministry
having been practising lawyer before enter.
ing on the study of divinity, was very anxious
to have him elected Bishop of the diocese, and
was greatly disappointed at the failure of my
n q fhnf ofNN
| visited Savannah to assist at the conSacra.
ton of Christ Church, at which Bishops Chase
and Ives were present. and Mr.. Elicit, who
preached twice in the services there held
the Diocese Of Georgia was as yet without a
Bishop having been under the jurisdiction
of the Bishop of South Carolina. The question
of the election of diocesan was raised in our
conferences and was asked my opinion as to
the expediency of electing Mr.. Elliott, as Mr..
Neufville waived the claims which he might
have urged as the rector of the most prominent
church in Georgia. To this only replied, with,
| fear, a touch Of bitterness, that South Caro-
lima deserved to lrSe him. At the next meeting
of their convention he was elected, and the
church knows the result of his labors in a
diocese then as wild in every respect as many
of our most Western dioceses are now, in
which his camping tours were full of the most
amusing as well as trying Incidents, which
were reported to me in after years, not only
by the Bishop himself, but by beloved
brother who succeeded Bishop Scott at
Columbus and accompanied the Bishop on
his visitations before he himself became my
near neighbor in Charleston, where. aIasl he
soon ended his useful labors on earth.
PERSONAL MENTION.
General Gordon still fingers in New York,
and newspaper interviewerS are getting tired
of waiting for lis arrival
Captain a. j. Foreacre is just now looming
up as great railroad developer In connection
with the new road to Birmingham, Ala, and
another to Knoxville, Tenn.
Horace Bradley's sketches of the Cowrens
Centennial have been published in the New
York Graphic and Harper's Weekly, and have
been highly praised for their accuracy. He
made several efforts to get picture Of the
Savannah drum, but failed to find it,
Judge Hiram Warner who has been holding
his own for the past few weeks, had a relapse
yesterday and is now quite feeble. He may re-
vive, or his death may occur within twenty
four hours. He has the wonderful vitality of
the late DR.. Pierce and Mr.. Stephens and is
tenacious of life.
John W. Fallansbee who was arrested for
bigamy, will be examined here to-day and re-
manded to Jail. He is a bad man, and the
friends of Miss Hunter threaten to lynch him
if he is carried to Decatur for a preliminary
trial. Hanging is too quick punishment for
the scoundrel, who should suffer slow torture
A. Smith Clayton, well known journalist of
this city, Is just now stirring up the health au-
thorities Of Atlanta with a sharp pointed stick.
While he has the truth on his side he was un-
wise in telegraphing it abroad to the injury of
Atlanta. Still. it is safe to believe that it will
finally result in great good, as the authorities
will now be compelled to give prompt and
thorough attention to cleaning up the filth
which abounds in the city.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
am glad to see the hotel movement agi-
tated in Savannah. Keep it up until the hotel
is opened to the public this fall in first-class
style.
accounts, and will probably remain so for the
present. He has several loose ends lying
around, which he can gather up as soon as a
new sensation is needed.
During the absence of her husband. a
Florida lady made swoop ~ down into her
husbands barrel of fertilizer and used it in
her flower garden. When he came home, she
was told that it was an expensive quality Of
cement
Messrs. A. Pope, G.. ]. Foreaore and w ].
Houston of the Richmond and Danville Rail-
road, are maturing plans for large and
healthy influx of immigration to Georgia,
which win aid greatly in building up the coun-
try on the line of that road.
The sale of a free pass on the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad by J. Troup Taylor, Esq,
the Journaiizing CLERK OF the Georgia Senate.
will have a tendency to secure reform in the
present iDjudicious manner of issuing free
passes to public officials who have no claims
on the railroads and who can make no fair ex-
change for the courteSie extended them.
The talk about new morning daily here has
not yet subsidized. although no movement is
visible to put the talk into tangible shape. The
PoSt.Appedl has discarded patent matter, and
greatly improved all its departments 1t has
evidently settled down to stay, which could
not be said Of any OF its more pretentious sue
cessors-
Telegraph competition is at an end in this
city as was anticipated would be the case
when the American Union opened its rival Of
flee. A similar fate overlook the old Frank
lin, and will probably overtake any future
rival that may enter the field 1t is to be
hoped, however, that the Western Union will
continue its recent accommodations and make
it unnecessary for the public to favor the crea-