Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-23
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
weather View Railroads = Hard
Work, Yet slow PrOgreas-This,
That and the Other-Matters OF
General Interest-MInOr Topics
Final Paragraphs General and
Personal Items.

| Personal Items
| ATLANTA, August 2O.-Our weather is rathe
mixed. Warm days and cold nights are fol
lowed by indications of steady rain to-nigh
or in the morning. We have had frequent Ugh
| showers-very light and brief this week.
Capt. G. ]. Foreacre has taken hold Of thu
extension of the Northeastern Railroad to Ra
bun Gap in dead earnest" and is pushing thu
work ahead with his usual success. Tallulal
Falls will soon be a railroad station on tina
line.
A large party of negroes came in On the Air
Line Railway yesterday noon from Virginia
and will go to work on the Georgia Pacific Rail
road on Monday They belong to the force o.
the Richmond and Danville Company, who ar
now the real builders of the road.
The many friends of Eminent Sir knight
Charles T. Watson, of Atlanta, will be sorry tC
learn that he is disabled in one eye for the
present. While looking at the operation or Z
planning machine. a large splinter new on anC
struck him Just under the eye, cutting his race
and narrowly missing the destruction OF M
right eye.
One good thing has been done by the Genera
Assembly this session. 1t has defeated the bill
to change the name Of the old and almost de
funct Reform Medical College to the American
College of Medicine and Surgery. In justice Il
the first-class medical colleges of Augusta
Atlanta and Savannah, this acton was neces
| sary.
Atlanta is Just now having en- epidemic Of
| accidents sensations, burglaries and new enter
| prises Everything is stirring and new life
seems to he infused into the people. Even th'
swarms of tramps that have been turned hithel
| by the Fxpositi n advertisements move about
with a sort of business air, which has infected
| our own street-corner loafers and caused them
| Senator Rroyrn has retired from the Presi
| dency OF the Exposition aud Gov. Colqultt sue
ceeds him. This is an indication that the Fres
ident will have but very little to do with the
/ management Of the affairs OF the EXPOSITION
| which appears to be under the special super
| vt4on of Director General Kimbal With the
| General Assembly in session, and the usua
/ number of bills to examine and sign at III
| close. Gov. Colquitt will have but few spare
hours to devote TO any enterprise OF mucf
magnitude.
The annual exercises of the Young Mems
Library Association were especially interesting
| this year and were presided over by the new
| President elected by the directors recently
| Hoke Smith, Esq The prize speaking oy tnt
young men and the splendid music of the Fifth
Artillery Band added much to the attractive
ness Of the exercises. But the beautiful anC
| eloquent address of Walter B. Hill, Esq, Of
| Macon, was the gem Of the occasion. HIS ap
| peal for pure and lofty Southern literature
was so gracefully and strongly made that his
| listeners were convinced that the South has
| even young men of rare genius.
HARD WORK, YET SLOW PROGRESS.
There have been introduced in the House tc
| date. from November Of last year, over one
| thousand bills, of which some three hundred
have been passed, " or lost or withdrawn
| leaving about seven hundred to be acted upon
| Reconsideration seems TO be growing worse
| every day There appears to be a genera
desire to reconsider every bill 'lost' OF
passed" where there is contest. 1t is g
shame to waste the peoples money in such
foolish manner.
have never seen harder working Legisls-
/ ture in my life, yet it does not accomplish
much that is really substantial. Reoonsidera
| ton, Withdrawing and reintroducing bills and
/ the time wasted over frivolous bills and IN use
less discussions, prevent much real progress
| 1t reminds me Of Rev. DR.. Daniel Curry, a
/ noted Methodist Of New York, formerly Of
| Columbus, Ga, who was not popular with his
| church. One night a brother in the prayer
meeting thanked God that their faces were
| Zionwardv DR.. curry replied, Your faces
/ may be Zionward but you are going to he'll
backwards. The Legislature goes ahead
backwards nearly every day.
THIS, THAT AND TIE OTHER
The longer the present General Assembly re
/ mains in session the greater is the increase oil
/ intemperance among its members. 1t anordS
/ a fine field for temperance lecturers.
Your Florida correspondent is in error as tC
| the Cole Seney charter, as it does not run tC
/ ST. Marks. The Rome Southern Railroad
| charter, recently granted in the House, pro
| vides for line from Rome to St Marks. This
is the one he probably refers to in his letter.
Some Of the largest merchants in Atlanta
have been running mixed establishments, C m
| prising hats and caps, boots and SHOES, cloth
| ing, stationery and fancy goods, etc, in con
nection with dry goods. The City Council
| decides that this is unjust to dealers in one
| branch of goods, and 80 these merchants are
| 10 pay license for each separate branch.
| A great deal has been said about Senator
Browns peculiar way OF pronouncing Judg
nlent / noticed in his recent speech before the
| railroad committees that he said President
| and prece dent and management, which would
seem to indicate habit on his part to thro "
the emphasis on the last syllable of such words.
Bishop Beckwith, for the present, will have
| his headquarters at st. I,uke's Church. which
the Rev. DR.. Williams il earnestly end6avOr-
| ing to put upon more substantial and pros
| porous basis. 1t will be known as st. Luke's
! Cathedral while the Bishop is associated with
its rector in his noble and philanthropic efforts
| to build up this church.
notice that the military Of our sister State
| of Alabama. although it has some assistance
| from the Treasury, are not all prospecting,
some companies having recently disbanded.
\ Col Basinger's bill, which stops the organza-
| tibn of new companies in Georgia, and looks
| TO the Improvement OF old corps is a wise and
much needed measure. and ought TO become
| a law at the earliest possible moment.
Messrs. p rkins & Bruce. our eminent archi-
! tects have just completed the plans for an
elegant and extensive union freight depot at
| Columbus, TO be built by the Central Railroad
Company. The portion intended for the ousi-
ness OfilCeS OF the StNeFal FOdQS IS quite III
posing, and the interior is planned with great
skill When completed this will be the hand
soonest, as ell as one Of the largest-if not the
largest-dep0ts in Georgia
Capt. A z. VIM has been visiting his old
friends and patrons in this section of the State,
| and on all sides he has been heartily and sin
cerely congratul ated on his good fortune in be
somng partner in the old and we'll estab-
| & Co }, with hich he has so long been con-
nected. For years pat have personally wit
messed CAPTAIN Wins Jealous and successful
labors in this part or Georgia TO Increase the
business and promote the prosperity Of Sa-
vannah.
Ian no prophet, yet years ago I was led to
predict thai Mr. Bradford Durham, Of Liberty
| county, would become one OF the leading rail
| road managers of the South He took the
! bankrupt Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad
| and made it great through line. Then he
went to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
| in charge of its Alabama division, and then TO
| the Virginia Midland Railroad in Virginia.
| Now he is General Manager Of the Trans Ohio
| Divisions of the great Baltimore and Ohio Rail
! road, which comprises the Lake Erie, the Cen
| trail Ohio and the Straitsville and Chicago Di-
visions, with his headquarters at Newark,
Ohio. Old Liberty county should be proud of
her honored son, whose aged father still re-
sides there.
MATTERS oRzGEEERAL INTEREST.
The Senate bills to suppress Mormonism and
fertilizers are considered huge 'goalss' here
in Atlanta. They hurt nobody and please
their authors, therefore they continue to
live.
Reports come from Selma, Ala, that quite
an excitement is being created by the newspa-
pers in regard to cotton samples. Who do
they belong to, and where do they go, and
don't the loss fall heavily upon the producer?
am sorry to learn tnat the only Clement
Attachment in Georgia has not proved finan-
cial success, as advised the owner to try the
experiment. he having mill and being gen
tleman of considerable energy. This Attach
ment goes. therefore, from Senoia to Mont
gomery, Ala where it may do better.
Plenty of candidates are already on hand
and awaiting the Senate's action on the con-
Wet lease bill Three managers, should the
bill become law, are to be elected, and posi-
bly, Secretary. should Mr.. helms decline to
be merged into that Office for the balance Of
his present term as principal keeper OF the
Denitentiary. The very best men Of high
character should be chosen.
The MORNING NEWS mentions that the Su-
preme Court has decided that mortgage can
not be secured against the dover and Il years
support of the widow in case of death Of the
mortgagor. Judge Twiggs, of Richmond, has
introduced bill to remedy this evil-if 1t be an
evil-by allowing the widow to waive her
dover AMI years support for herself and
children.
The case Of Rev. W. F. Whitcher, well-to-do
Methodist preacher in Providence, r. l., &C
cused of stealing rare books from libraries and
dealers in old books, is not by any means
rare one All over the country this thing is
being done, and frequently by preachers, in
order to secure valuable or are books that are
hard or impossible to obtain in any other way.
The same class of persons cut valuable en-
cravings out of library books, and otherwise
mutilate them.
Senator Brown delivered his recent great
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