Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-14

h@hlhs inc dWdTuS, ana already the grumb 'ers
are to be found in almost every department
It will be impossible to satisfy ALL and the pub
llc may as well prepare for some lively news
paper comments on the subject Of awards
which is always prolific of contt oversy.
A Again the Southern Medical College comes to
the front ia the matter of a stiff or dead
body sent to it for the operating room. It
came in trunk checked from Washington
Ga and was discovered by the baggage mas
ter here, who turned it over to the Coroner
from whom it was stolen during the night The
cry now is, where is itl" No one seems to
know, and the medical colleges are in a
wraDgle over the matter.
General Longstreet is here and is perfectly
serene, although the correspondents have cut
him into two pieces and made a Secretary OF the
Navy out OF one piece, and Postmaster General
out OF the other The fact is, the General is
hardly able, physically, to assume the burden
some duties of either position, but he is certain
10 be permanent factor in Georgia politics
during the Arthur administration.
PERSONAL MENTION
Mr.. John H. Griffin, the energetic Passenger
Agent of the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway, is at the Markham House and is
busily engaged working up a boom" for
ThomaSviiie and Savannah in connection with
excursion rates to FlOri Ia
Lieutenant Colonel George p Andrews, of
the Fourth Artillery, by recent transfer re-
mains in California, and is in command of the
First Artillery headquarters at Presidio of
San francisco. Major Jacob B. R4wles COM
mar der of Battery D. of the Fifth Artillery, is
Ter. nSar New York city.
It is due Mr.. H. H. Sanford, in charge of the
exhibit OF the Savannsh, Florida and Western
Railway, TO state that he has been most faith
ful and efficient in the discharge of his resDon-
sible duties and has won high commendation
from visitors to that department. Plain and
pfacticaI IN his manners, yet he accomplished
much more than many of the bedecked and
snowy officials in otter departments.
MINOR TOPICS.
Reports come in from country merchants
making loud complaint against the cheap rate
on railroads to Atlanta. They say the people
swarm to this city and spend all their cash with
our merchants and then go home and ask the
merchants there to still further extend their
the loose change afioat
Now that the Kentucky Legislature has de-
cided to come to the Exposition in a body, the
directors are trying to get the South Carolina
Legislature here on the same day 1t is to be
hoped that they will not succeed, even to please
a few spectators in a hotel enterprise. Last
week everybody was jammed and dragged
about by needless rush, and one Legislature
is quite enous TO put on exhibition the same
day.
only two weeks now remain in which to visit
the Exposition, and no person who is able to
do so should miss this opportunity to see a
most magnificent display of Northern and
southern products and manufactures The
more see of the exhibits, the more am i'm
pre- SSed with the display, and the more I am
diSgusted with the management in It's efforts
to mar its beauty and destroy the full power
of It's teachings by claptrap side shows and
toadying receptions. If the Exposition can not
stand upon its real merits, better for it to die
decently than to be kept alive in a questiona-
bic manned. The Art Building is nearly encir-
ced with side shows, and the visitors hear a
clamor of voices reSemb ing that of the hack
men around the depot.
In my next letter, which will be devoted to
Ia / chon rrrnffa H. a
hibits of the various railroads. These alone
are worth journey to Atlanta and no man
can gsZs upon them unmoved. Such grand
displays OF gold, iron, copper, coal. and other
minerals; of cement, paint, fertilizers, and
other products. and woods of all kinds. North
ern manufacturers are amazed at the vast
extent and variety of our wood and mineral
resources. The Cincinnati Southern Railway
has an exhibit OF rare woods, such as cannot
be duplicated with ease in any section of the
country, and close behind are the exhibits of
the Georgia railroads A visit to the railroad
building is worth more than all the receptions
that have been held in the Judges Hall.
EXPLODING A SENSATION.
Considerable excitement has been worked up
in a sensational manner over the suits (O of
clothes made for Hon. Edward Atkinson and
other prominent visitors to the Exposition
from cotton picked in the field early in the
morning of the day the suit is completed 1t
should Oe borne in mind that the cloth made is
mere shoddy and cannot be used for any prac-
teal purpose. But Mr.. Edwin Forbes the
great English war correspondent told me- that
in Australia they have made similar suits in
even quicker time. And row comes the ven
cradle and reliable Rev. Samuel Henderson
D. ID OF Alabama, VITA a practical suit of
clothes for actual hard work made bv the old
Atlanta Exposition Feat OuUdone," " he writes to
the Christian Iader. of this city:
Much has been made of what machinery
accomplished a few weeks ago at the Cotton
EYDOSitiOn in Atlanta in Ti0Eipcp
spinning, weaving, dying and making up two
full suits of clothes in one day. worn on the
evening OF that day by two Governors of States
at the Governors reception. And truly it was
something worth recording. But we propose
relating an incident, which, all things consider
ed, surpasSes even it, which occurred during
our revolutionary war.
ION one of the large farms of Talladega
county, Alabama, there is an old field and the
site of an old house, Inhabited forty years ago
by an old widow of Revolutionary memory
named Ward. That field is yet called The
Ward Field This old lady spent many of her
last years on this place. When the Revolu-
tionary war broke out she and her husband
had been married only few years. and he at
once volunteered to fight for his country
Some time during the war, Mr. Ward
obtained a furlough to visit his home for
one day only. Like many other soldiers
of that war. he was ragged almost to naked
ness. His wife set herself TO the task of getting
him up a suit of clothes during the day that he
ance from neighbor, she carded, spun, wove
cut out, and made him a full suit of Clothes
out of wool before she slept that night SO that
her husband wore them back to the army next
morning. And all this was done with old
fashioned cards, spinning Wheel loom, needle
and thread. Such was the industry and pluck
of our Revolutionary mothers. Now did not
this excel the feat at Atlanta"
FINAL PARAaRAPHs
An attempt was made to light the Union Pas
senger Depot last night with the new a.a~4 10
lights. but the machinery failed To ,i ~
ceSstully, and another attempt will he ToS
10 nisht, Whlch VIII no doubt be successful
and prove great benefit to the traveIin1
public. "'0ii"s
Atlanta like New York, Is running to com.
MISSIONS, Her public schools, her police svs-
tenn and her roads and revenues have the SUI
perVlslon OF Boards Of Commissioners With
the new year we are to have Board of Com
msSloners for streets, sewers and sidewalks
ana they Will nave plenty of work for the next
ten years. No city in Georgia has worse
streets, sidewalks and sewers
The rifle range for the great shooting tour-
nament OF the Exposition has been located at
Goodwyn's station, some ten miles m the Air
Line Railway, which will serve to reduce the
expected crowd or spectators 20 rather small
party only those persons deeply interested
Will care 70 80 that distance to see a contest
that has nothing in it like a circus or a DOG
hight. Gen. Hancock's presence, az the high.
est representative Of the National Rifle Asso-
.1.,'S-.s Wal 40" many pAOthluenl buOObiSLS'+
TO the tournams snt
There was large attendance at the First
Presbyterian Church yesterday morning, at
which time were held the funeral services OF
Gen. Alfred Austell, late President Of the At
lanta National Bank and capitalist OF coIsid-
erable prominence. From a poor boy he had
worked his way up to the high position which
he occupied in the commercial world at the
time OF his sudden death. OF late yeals he
had eone considerable in the way Of improving
property in the city, and his death will prove q
loss to the community
1t is too early in the day to make attacks
upon Secretary j. w. Ryckmen, or any other
OF the Exposition officials After the concern
closes up, and the success of the Exposition
cannot be injured by such disclosures, shall
have something to say about the charges
against the Secretary, and also other officials
DE Is not the only sinner to be held up to pub
1c scorn. There is a ring within ring, and
both rings are as sure TO be exposed in due
time as the sun is to shine after the close of
lhe Exposition At present the matter cannot
be properly discussed; but, when it Is fairly
opened to view, the people of Georgia and
1theF States will discover that the word In
was made to cover a very small
number of men, in a very small part of this
great universe. and for the accomplishment of
very snadtt purpose. CHATHAM.
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