Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-08

Gnat ana tne Otner-EtmaI Para
graphs-PersOnal and General.
ATLANTA. August Sour cold spell has
moderated into chilly, damp weather. with
occasional light rain-sunshine and shade in
termingling-which is anything but pleasant
to people engaged in outdoor business.
Quite number of prominent railroad offlci-
ais have been in the city during the past few
days. as important bills affecting railroads
have been introduced or acted upon. There
seems to be purpose on the part of the pres
ent General Assembly to show no mercy to
these corporations
Augusta has two strong delegations here look
ing after her interests one as TO the increase
of her bonded debt, and the other to defeat
Judge Tw1ggS bill making factories, machine
shops, etc. responsible for injuries to their en-
ployeS. There Is considerable opposition to
the bill, both in Augusta and other manufac-
turing cities, yet Judge Twiggs declines to
withdraw, and proposes to press its passage
with all his powers.
Speech-making has commenced in good
earnest, and the prospect Is fair for large
amount OF talk, even on trivial matters now
that bills and resolutions are coming to the
front for final action. The Chatham members
are hard workers in the committee room, and
faithful in their attendance in the House.
than chance to quietly discharge their duties
to the State and their constituents in the best
possible manner.
must, however, refer to the speech OF Col
Basinger, in reply to Representative Wright,
because some of the newspaper reports mis-
repreSent-without intending to do so-hiS
position on several points. The bill was to pre-
vent more than two new trials In a civil case.
Mr.. Wright, although about the Youngest
member, is one OF the most eloquent. forcible
and pleasing speakers in the House. and backed
his arguments with the assertion that ex-
Justice Bleckley drew the bill and Senator Hill
had approved it. Col. Basinger, in replying
for the Judiciary Committee. surprised even
his intimate friends by the soundneSS or his
argument and the fund of historical judicial
data injected into it. He was not to accept the
bill because certain great men endorsed it, but
as a sworn legislator he was to act upon it
under the constitution and in the light OF JUS
tice and common sense. His able argument
defeated the bill.
MINOR TOPICS.
DR.. G. Troup Maxwell, late Of Tallahassee,
Fla has formed partnership with DIR. j. NJ.
johnson of this city, and will practice medi-
cine here. Atlanta is getting in a large supply
of new doctors from sister States
The national cemeteries have recently been
inspected and found in good order. There are
two in Georgia, one at Marietta which is quite
lie buried, and another at AnderSonville, where
there are 1851 soldiers graves.
1t seems strange that q report should go
abroad that Senator Joseph Il. Brown is at the
bottom of the opposition to Coles Cincinnati
and Southern Railroad charter. when his son,
Julius L. Brown, attorney for his own road, is
also attorney for Colonel Cole, and heading q
lobby to secure the charter.
By some mistake the Sister of the Academy
of the Immaculate Conception in this city, in
sending cards of invitation to me to attend
their fourteenth annual commencement, di-
rected them to the MORNING NEWS office in Sa.
uvh nrGUnUtQ6 N
time to attend at the Opera House. 1t is not
too late. however, to acknowledge the cour-
tesy, and tell your readers that the good Sis
ters won high praise for the excellence Of their
exercises.
SUPERIOR COURT CHANGES.
Several changes were made at the November
session in the time of holding the Superior
Courts. Mitchell, Henry, Washington, Schley
and Stewart counties were changed, and
Stewart was transferred from the Chattahoo-
chee to the Southwestern Circuit.
A number of bills are now before the General
Assembly for additional changes in time or
transfers. There is also bill to create q new
(the NoFtheastern) judicial circuit out of
and Habersham counties, as the constitution
does not, as some suppose, prohibit such an
increase in the circuits This bill has passed the
House and gone to the Senate.
The Brunswick Circuit is to have an entirely
new calendar. if the bill passes for that pur-
pose. Dawson, Laurens, Clayton, Troup
Montgomery, Pickens, Fannin, Barlow and
Lumpkin counties are seeking a change In the
time Of holding their courts, and BulIoch
county asks to be transferred from the East
ern to the Middle Circuit. At least, bills for
these purposes have been introduced
Should all the above changes in time of hold
ing Superior Courts be made, the transfers
asked for be granted, and the proposed North
eastern Circuit be formed, quite q revolution
will result to the judicial system of the State
and a new and carefully revised calendar will
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of the sessions of the various courts
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER.
Counterfeit half dollars as well as dollars
are being circulated in this city, and some of
our most expert money handlers have been de-.
ceived by them. l got one myself from q
cashier who does nothing else but take in
and pay out money in public office
Brevet Second Lieutenant Francis j. Herman
of Florida, one of the late graduates at West
Point, has by the resignation of Lieutenant ]. G
Shofner, of Company 9, Twenty first Infantry,
been made Second Lieutenant in that com
mand, and will report for duty at Vancouver
Barracks. in Washington Territory, the last of
September.
Atlanta makes a very small showing as
port of entry, although she has a Surveyor.
for he has nothing to survey but the narrow
limits of his humble Office. The Chattahoo-
chee ship canal being unfinished, and the rail
roads having failed to become bonded carriers
or warehousemen, no imported goods can
come to this port for the present. A bonded
warehouse is a necessity, but who will be puh,
lic-spirited enough to build it is now the vexed
question.
The Atlanta Exposition. which will be ready
to receive articles for exhibition in a very
short time, will force somebody to open up a
bonded warehouse OF some kind, as all foreign
goods Tor the Exposition are to come free of
duty and remain in bond until returned whence
they came, or sold here. If sold, the duty will
have to be paid by the importer If reports
De true there are numerous foreign exhibits
already promised, with prospect of many
the managers of fairs and expositions, / now
propose to wait and see for myself, Just as
President Lincoln preferred to count General
Pope Indian scalps himself.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Miss Eva Prather, the gifted daughter of
Col. j. s. Prather, of the FRANKLIN Printing
House in this city, has become a member OF
the faculty OF the Atlanta Female Institute,
where her fine qualities as an educator will be
fully developed.
Gov. Colquitt. his brother. n. n. Colouitt.
and Messrs. e. G. Grosty, Jr., E. @. Gordon and
Walter s. Gordon, brothers of Gen. Gordon
have organized the National Fertilizer Com
pany OF this city, thus adding another to tie
numerous similar corporations of the State
there being three near Atlanta
Complaint is being made that farm labor is
badly demoralized in some parts of Georgia by
the demand for negroes to work on the several
new railroad enterprises Tust started. IL is
prevail, as the railroad work enlarges and The
crop season advances. Negroes In large num-
bers are focking to the railroad camps.
MThe meeting of the Georgia Horticultural
Society was quite success, despite the rainy
and damp weather. The attendance from ali
parts or the State was good and the exhibits Of
fruits remarkably attractive and full for this
dry season OF weather The presence of the
General Assembly served to spread a know
ledge or the society and its noble work into all
parts or the State and make this meeting
doubly important in good results
The fence or no fence question has created
prolonged and animated debate which will
be renewed in connection with some new bills.
The old fence law amended so as to allow
annual elections for fence or no fence There
are measures pending to secure an application
of the law to militia districts, and to protect
no fence county people from the depredatiops
of fence county peoples cows This seems to
be a most perplexing feature of the no fence
law, and one that can hardly be settled without
lively discussion. One member proposes to
renee IN no fence counties, and another offers
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