Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-13
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.


ers--General News Ttems-HIInOr
TOpies--Personal and Otherwise
A Swift RetrIbuEEOa--Caps. w. A.
shaw and the D--l--PersOnal Para.
graphs--COmpOaitiOn of Whitaker
Court MarsIal--Final Paragraphs
Census--The Southern Farmers
MOnth-IY-Henry Bergh as a Dram
asIst--Dr. E. A. FleVvelIen.
ATLANTA, January five are still having
wether with the a. that is. tits tough. One day
of sunshine for month can hardly be called
weather-a good spell. Snow, rain. sleet or fog
and drizzle have been and still are our daily
portion, and no signs Of any immediate inn
provement.
My last letter predicteda cold spell with mora
snow, but was mistaken. A warm rain car
ried off the snow, and since then we have had
rain or dampness with chilly atmosphere, every
day. This has put Atlanta streets into a most
horrible condition and aroused general indig-
nation
But the "Gate City" has only commenced
to learn the lessons of misfortune and trouble
and care that are sure to sooner or later over
take rapidly growing city Savannah, Macon,
Augusta, Columbus and Rome have had little
experience in such matters, and now and hence
forth Atlanta must go through the same finan-
ciat troubles before she can fully meet the de-
mands upon her treasury, for good streets,
more school houses, a larger police force, bet
ter water works. and complete system of sew
erage To delay these matters is to invite death
and disease to become prominent residents of
the city.
The late severe snow storms played sad havoc
with the flower pits and summer ID houses and
hot (coldD houses in this vicinity. Some par
ties managed to save their flowers and plants
by the free use OF artificial heat, but many
others suffered great loss. Mrs. p. III. Shook,
one of Atlanta's most devoted lovers of beauti-
full flowers, lost the contents of her fine sum
mer house. For poor man my own loss is
great, but am comforted to think that where
lost one hundred dollars. John Hoey, of New
York, the great express king, lost ten thousand
dollars by the snow on his summer houses.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Mr.. Malcolm Johnston, so long and favorably
known as the efficient Secretary OF the Geor-
gia Agricultural Convention, has retired from
that position. and is now in charge of the ex-
tensive new freight depot of the Atlanta and
Charlotte Airline Railway, an important and
responsible position.
Savannah does not monopolize the deadly
work of the toy pistol. Joseph Atkins, or
Greensboro, Ala, is dead, and Claude Jones is
dying, both boys, victims to the toy pistol. The
city authorities of Montgomery, Ala, have
published an ordinance prohibiting the sale of
toy pistols, and have affixed heavy fine for
allviolators Of the ordinance.
as the General Assembly of Florida proposes
to pass "a bill providing MANNED Confederate
soldiers with artificial limbs, it Is to be hoped
the bill will be so guarded in its provisions as
to prevent the frauds and msapplicationS
that have attended the passage of a similar
BID here in Georgia. The bill should provide
for the supply of limbs, and not their equiva-
lent in money. Or, il money is given, it should
be secured to the soldiers family ia way to
be beneficial to them.
The hanging of Mrs Meierhofer, in New Jer-
sey, for The murder of her husband, has
brought to notice again the hanging of Susan
Eberhart in this State for the murder of her
Mrs. M. had paramour, and they conspired
to kill her husband. Both were hanged.
Susan Eberhart's paramour had sick and
helpless wife, and they censpired to murder
her. Both were also hanged. In cases of or
dinary murder woman ought to expect
clemency, but in cases of this kind there
should be no exception on account OF sex.
Such inhuman conspiretors should know that
their fate will be the same when convicted and
sentenced for murder.
MINOR TOPICS.
1t is No longer ''the Chinese must go, but
Marshal Fizsimons must CO." After a long
and remarkably successful contest with his op-
ponents, this official will probably "step down
and OUT in favor of II. l. KimbaI 1t is an
Office no Democrat can occupy with comfort
or security while the other Federal officials are
Republicans
The Atlanta market is badly overstocked
with mules and hear the traders at the Mark
W. /
a good time for Savannah purchasers to come
up and get some fine bargains in horses and
mules. One stable has a lot of Mexican mules
funny looking little things, sold and frisky and
tough
Augusta has for several years had success
full Chemical and Fertilizer Company, man
aged By some Of her leading business men, and
now Atlanta proposes to try similar enter
prise. The Inman Brothers, wealthy and sue
cessful cotton factors, with few associates,
have applied to the Superior Court for char
ter, and will push the enterprise to as speedy q
completion as possible.
A. Park Woodward, ESQ, formerly Chief
Deputy Marshal to United States Marshal FitZ-
simons was on Wednesday elected on Judge
Strong's ticket as his assistant in the superior
Court Clerkship. Bu if H. /. KimbalI is ap-
pointed United States Marshal as rumored, /
woodward viii probably be reinstated as
Deputy Marshal. He is an experienced busi- |
ness man and popular with all classes.
The famous ~ corner stone of the proposed |
memorial armory' of the Gate City Guards, |
during fair week-in October-has taken to
itself wings like the morning and quietly stolen |
away to some safe and less exposed place, I
where it will probably remain until another
grand military reunion offers an appropriate !
occasion for its being relaid on some other /
chosen spot of earth. Thus ends another I
grand sensational enterprise.
White and colored emigration to Texas and /
the Southwest continues unabated and every /
day the depot here is crowded with families /
leaving for that section of the South. Emil /
two routes, one over the Western and Atlantic |
Railroad and the other over the Atlanta and /
West Point Railroad, via Montgomery Ala. /
Anuding to the Swiss immigrants settled on |
the Airline Railway, the Boston Express well I
says: THE spectacle is rather extraordinary. /
A distant colony among the best and most |
thrifty people on the face of the earth are /
seeking favored spot to cultivate, while those |
born upon the soil are seeking acres and homes
elsewhere" Alas how true and sad is this I
statement.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
The case of Miss Byrd, Of which so much has I
been said in the papers. was simply another |
one OF those cases in which death fails to re-
move all evidences OF life in the body. Such I
cases are frequently recorded one being to-
day telegraphed from Baltimore. Miss Byrd /
was dead from the first, and her body IS been I
buried at Oakland Cemetery.
Our excellent retiring Mayor the Hon. VIM.
Loundes Calhoun, has stepped into the more
desirable office Of Ordinary, although he is no
ordinary man his honored father was Mayor
when Sherman took Atlanta. and wes a citizen !
beloved and respected by sn. His son, with
out being aggressive or energetic, has been .
equally popular with the masses. He is a
gentleman of quiet manners smiable dispos- /
tion and great moral worth, and will make /
good Ordinary" official.
1t is beginning to crop out in several direc-
tions that Mr.. Edward Atkinson has pretty
big axe to grind in getting up his proposed .
great cotton exposition in Atlanta, and that
several other Northern men interested in the
the same grindstone. This has led to the sug-
gestion that these men take all the risk con-
nected with an outlay of hundred or two
thousand do lars needed to put the exposition I
into operation. 1t is too big an experiment for I
Atlanta, and has as little money in it as Sarah /
Bernhardts appearance here would bring to !
her local hackers
A SWIFT RETRIBUTIoN.
Professor Cunning has been delivering /
a very interesting course of scientific lectures /
before the Young Mems Library Association /
and his audiences were especially pleased with I
his humorous, Conversational way of describ-
ing things. Even heavy subjects were made /
attractive in this way by him. One Of his IL /
Illustrations would prove of interest to your 1
Florida readers, although imagine that the 1
events which Professor Cunning makes to oc- /
cur so rapidly may have really happened at |
times widely separated. He probably wished to |
illustrate the Law of speedy retribution in q |
style peculiar to Mark Twain.
He was one day sailing up the st. Johns /
river on the steamer George NJ. Bird, in ON. /
mand of Captain w. A. Shaw, and as he stood 1
looking toward the river bank he saw a large /
fish jump cut of the water and catch smaller /
fish, when fish hawk flying near pounced /
upon the big fish and captured it, but hsrdiy 1
had it done so before an eagle swooped down |
and gathered the hawk in its secure embrace I
and carried him ashore. Just at that moment !
an alligator opened his capacious mouth and |
made a meal of the eagle, hawk and fish vet 4
had scarcely finished the job when q bullet 1
from Captain Shaw's trusty rifle stretched the +
alligator out on the shore in the agoDies of /
death. And. remarked the Professor with a /
peculiar smile, don't know but what the ID !
stood ready to gObble up Captain Shaw next, /