Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-11


an The Other.-PersOnaI Mention
.-mInOr TOpics--ReIIgIOus Gossip
Final Paragraphs -- Personal and
General NeWs--ExpOsitiOn Items.
ATLANTA, November S-The wet season
seems to have set in pretty much as it did last
fall, but hope it has not come to stay, as it
then did, for three months We must have
pleasant weather to make the Exposition a
success. For the past three days it has been
damp and drizzly, making outdoor business
anything but delightful.
kilograms from various parts of the State
report bad weather as generally prevailing,
which will no doubt result in breaking up the
excursions planned from other cities for the
first part of this week. think the Exposition
will have to depend more upon steady flow
of visitors, the most of whom will come de-
spite the bad weather.
The unsettled and changing character of the
weather has served to increase the spread OF
typhoid fever in our city and vicinity, and also
to make it more fatal in its operations. At
lanta always has great deal of light sickness
but have never before known so many deaths
to occur at this season Of the year. No part of
the State appears to have escaped the fatal in
roads of typhoid and 1nalarial fevers during
the present season, and the Science Assc cla,
ton soon to meet in Savannah would do well
to investigate the matter and suggest some
cause for this epidemic.
Our colored people are rejoicing. over the
visit of Hon. Edward Atkinson and his assO-
ciate New England philanthropists, who have
scattered their money around quite literally
for the benefit of the colored colleges. libraries,
churches and newspapers. Atlanta, more than
any city in Georgia, is the head centre for the
educational institutions of the negro race.
There are two universities now in operation
and another projected. and large school sup
ported by Northern missionary societies NJ.
Atkinson and his friends have always been
deeply interested in the education and eleva-
tion of the colored people.
SOME LOCAL GOSSIP.
Colonel E. F. Hoge has returned from New
York, and will soon have his new morning
paper ready for the public Colonel B F. Saw
yer is also about ready to issue his new even
ing paper. OF the other reported new paper
know nothing.
Visitors are daily increasing in numbers, de-
spite bad weather, and our city hotels are
doing good business. There is no rush. but
steady increase Of visitors.
THIS THAT AND THE OTHER.
The two companies of the Third Artillery,
that were ordered to Key West Florida, to re-
lieve the Fifth Artillery have been instructed to
delay their departure until the yellow fever
disappears from that vicinity. This is a wise
precaution at the presen time.
1t is rumored that Paymaster Nathan w.
Brown, u S A., is to be retired within few
weeks, and that Colonel VIM. B. Rochester,
one of the oldest and most efficient Paymasters
in the army. will be his successor Colonel
Rochester, who is relative of the family of
the late General Wm Henry Talbot Walker is
well known in Georgia, and his promotion will
be heartily approved.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Bishop Foster is announced to preside over
the Florida Conference on January 5, and the
South Carolina Conference on January 12, of
the Northern Methodist. He is an able preacher
and learned divine.
Judge O. A Lochrane is not connected with
the new morning paper to be started here by
Col. E. +. Hoge. This report was set ahoat for
the purpose of injurirg the enterprise. The
paper will appear in due time and in good
style.
Through the intervention of mutual friends,
the difficulty between Col. A. l.. Hunt Of
Richmond, Va, ard Mr. Ed. Galloway, of the
Kimball House. has been settled. 1t will be re-
membered that in controversy some months
ago Col. HUNT shot Galloway in the mouth,
and Galloway shot HHntt. Both parties pleaded
guilty to carrying concealed weapons and paid
fine.
DIR. J. P Logan and DIR. " H. Taliaferro,
two of Atlanta's most distin gSished physicians,
will attend the Health and Science Convention
in Savannah. Few men in Georgia have given
more thought and study to the subject of sew
erage, drainage, and proper sanitary regula-
tions. and their views will no doubt prove both
interesting and profitable.
Mr. Edward Atkinson was cheered when he
announced in his address at the Exposition
that his son, now student at Harvard, was a
practical blacksmith and carpenter. This is
nothing new here in the South. l know a
score of talented boys who have come from
college and gone to work at trades, and who
deserve even more applause than Mr. Atkin-
sons son, who t0ert from the work bench to
college. One graduate of the Georgia Univer-
sity, whose father is contractor, went home
and laid brick with his own hands on the build
ings under contract, The young men of the
nea1 South are, as general thing, workers.
MINOR TOPICS.
Atlanta is fast becoming as noted as Macon
in the matter OF suicides on account of intem-
perance and its sad results We had two with
liz less than week-McPherson and Magill-
and should not be surprised to hear of others
in the immediate future, as the mania gener-
ally spreads where there is plenty Of material
to work upon.
One Of the largest and most elegant business
cards that have ever seen is the one issued nv
Messrs. Emerson, Talcott & Co., Of Rockford
ILL.,. manufacturers of the celebrated ''Stand-
arc" corn and cotton planters, reapers mowers
and aulCtvators. 1t is elegantly engraved, and
contains fine view of Oglethorpe Park and
the Exposition buildings. This firm has spent
over five thousand dollars in making their at
tractiVe exhibit in the annex to the main build
ing.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has completed
the important literary work which has occr-
pied his summer vacation, and his corps of
assistants has been disbanded. The "Great
CommOner" will leave in few days for Wash
ington, d. c., and resume his old quarters at
the National Hotel. Liberty Hall. which has
been full Of visitors during the summer, will
again become almost deserted, and its bounti-
ful hospitality be sadly missed by visitors to
CTawfordville.
Messrs. j. P. Harrison & Co, of the Franklin
Steam Printing House, are soon to remove
into large and handsome building especially
adapted to their growing business! Just now
they are making a specially of law books and
in this department are without rival in the
South. Jackson's Georgia Reports have be-
come famous for their superb finish On this
account Messrs. HarTieon & Co have been
awarded the contrart 20 20 publish the new Code
OF ''-,,..Ia ~c. la and also Slman and Thompsons
Legal Form Book With these works IN hand
this enterprising firm will stand forth as the
successful rivals of the great Northern and
Western law publishers. Thus the new South
wins her way to the front in another depart
ment OF business.
RELIGIOUS GOSSIP.
1t is now considered certain that Rev. (Gen.)
Clement A Evans, the beloved pastor of the
First Methodist Church, will be made a Doctor
of Divinity in the spring. an honor which he
richly merits, and one that he will at all times
modestly wear.
While there is no such thing as a candidate
for Bishop in the Methodist Church, it is com
mon to speak Of certain persons as available for
that Office The names of Rev DR. Alpheus
W. Wilson, Of Nashville, of Rev. DR.. Linus Par
ker, of New Orleans, and Rev. DR.. ]. o. A.
Clark, of Savannah, are named as most likely
to be elected in May next.
"pious fraud" is just now being made a
subject of serious talk In religious circles
Certain preachers attend lectures at medical
colleges and secure the title of NJ. D. They
then call themselves Dr. Jones or DR. Smith,
and next they are heard of as Rev. DR.. Jones or
Smith In this way they allow themselves-or
cause themseves-not unfrequently the latter
to be called Doctors of Divinity. 1t is cheap
dodge to secure questionable reputation
The South Georgia Conference, which is to
meet in Columbus on December 9TH, was to
have been presided over by Bishop Wightman,
but he is again prostrated by sickness, and
Bishop Pierce or McTyeire will probably pre-
side. Bishop McTyeire is expected to preside
over the North Georgia Conference, which
meets in Athens on the Both of this month
The Bishops of the Southern Methodist Church
are having hard year, and will. no doubt,
gladly Yelcome a few new Bishops to their
ranks aethe General Conference in May next
at Nashville.
1t is doubtful if any Southern State has two
better religious journals than the Wesleyan
Christian AdvcCdke of Macon, edited with
such vigorous ability by Rev. DR.. A. G Hay
good. and published in excellent style by
Messrs. ). W. Burke & Co, and the Christian
IndeC, of Atlanta edited with marked success