Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-19
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Weather-SOme Local POints-The
Railroad Debates-mInOr Topics
Three HOnOred Survivors - some
Side NOtes-FInal Paragraphs.

US last week with full force and sleepless
nights and sweltering days were the result. But
this heated term was of short duration, and
we are now having nights as cool, nearly, as
those In Greenland s icy mountains.
Ven'or how the next change will come, can
not predict, as the Atlanta weather is more
chsngeable and uncertain than the most ca
PRECIOUS woman's variable temper. We an
ticipate, however, a recurrence of the hot
wave is looked for with considerable distrust
by believers in Vennor and Gather.
Sunday afternoon we had heavy wind storm
which did some damage in and around the
city, although 1t was of short duration. and
followed by a light thunder storm Farmers
in Fulton county have had several showers
since my last letter, and their crops are much
improved in every respect. Adjoining coun-
ties also report an Improvement in crop pros
pect by reason of recent showers.
OF course these improvements in crops have
| given our merchants more hopeful feelings for
the approaching business season. New cotton
warehouses and congresses are awaiting the
| coming in of an increased cotton crop. while
new factories are arising to turn the feecy
| staple into bageing, sheetiugs and other goods.
| Additional business houses are being opened
| Ia various parts or the city, which indicates
that lively and profitable trade is anticipated.
SOME LOCAL POINTS.
The Masonic lodges of Atlanta have done a
| good thing in having Masonic Directory" Of
| the city lodges, their time and place Of meet
| ing, printed, framed and hung up in the post
office, hotels and other public places, for the
| guidance OF Masonic strar gers in the city.
Congressman George R. Black, OF Scriven.
| is visiting his father-in-law, Colonel Richard
| Peters, and has his family with him. The re-
| port that he is to make his home here in sum
| mer does him an injustice. He has purchased
place near his father-in-law's residence, but
| only as good investment. He proposes to
| keep his home in Scriven.
| There Is a marked similarity between Col
| George w. Carter, who gees to Brazil as Minis
| ter. in place OF Hon. Henry W. Hilliard
| who is on his way home. Both were Metho-
| dist preachers years ago both are lawy ers
| and have been in public life, both were Colo
gentlemen Of fine culture and scholarly attain
| mentS They differ. however, somewhat in
their political views and experiences.
| Augusta has just reclaimed from Atlanta one
| of her most respected and enterprising citi-
| gems, Dr. d. B Plumb, who came here last year
| and opened a f1rstclass drug store on White
| hall street. He has now returned to Augusta
| TO assume the more important and lucrative
| position of President of the Georgia Paint Com
| pany of that city, corporation that promises
| to add to the wealth of the State end help to
| increase her manufacturing interests. Dr.
! Plumb made many friends here, ali of whom
| regret his departure.
Senator Brown. in his great speech before
the Railroad Committees OF the House and
| Senate said two hundred and twenty acres of
| land in the heart of Atlanta sold about the
| time railro sds were invented for horse, sad
| die and bride. Now this land and its surround
| ings are worth over S2000O,000. Railroads
made this thing possible, for without them that
| piece of land would to-day be worth but little
more than what it then sold for. And yet the
| Commission says railroads are very dangerous
and must be put under keepers.
THE RAILROAD DEBATES.
For the past week or more the Railroad Com
| mittees of the House and Senate have been
holding extraordinary joint session in the Sen
ate chamber, and that has hardly been large
h.olA ICfc
| some days the galleries and lobbies being filled
/ to overlooking.
Senator Brown and Gov. Smith have been
/ the chief debaters. but Commissioner Barnett,
Judge Chisholm and Col. Haines have not been
| far behind in giving the committees some pretty
/ able and forcible arguments. Gov. Smith and
| Commissioner Barnett defend the wisdom Of
| the law creating the Commission, and ask the
| Legislature to increase its powers.
| On the other side Messrs Brown, Chisholm
| and Haines argue with equal power and logic
/ that the law faulty, in that it gave the
| Commission too much arbitrary power. To in
| crease this already unwise and oppressive
| power will be to crush not few weak rail-
roads and cripple the finances Of others. Sena-
| tor Brown is most emphatic in his belief that
| TO give the Commission control Of joint and
! through freights will bankrupt the great lines
that are almost wholly sustained by such bust
| ness.
There was time. before Judge Woods rem
| Gered his decision (Which Senator Brown
| thinks will not be sustained by the United
1 OtdJoS supreme OOuIbJs WuCu lLC OOluulAsSiOh
| was willing to accept of less power and con-
| stitute itself a board or court of arbitration.
| Now, however, embOldened by Judge Woods
decision, they not only ask but demand more
power, and threaten to resign If any of their
present powers are cuttaied Deluded by the
| idea that they have brought about the wonder
| full railroad boom, these Commissioners now
| ask an obedient Legislature to clothe them
with new powers that they may go forward to
| still other victories. But Senator Brown boldly
warns them that the bottom Is liable to drop
| out Of this inflated boom.
MINOR TOPICS.
| great deal is said about the forwardness or
/ backwardnesS OF the various crops and de-
| sire to say a word about the mosquito crop. 1
| have never seen this crop so backward before,
| only two new crop mosquitoes having come to
| my notice, and my mosquito netting being still
/ furled and not yet called into use.
| General Manager Cecil Gabbett, of the West
| ern Railroad Of Alabama, who hrs recently
| been made General Manager of the Atlanta and
West Point Railroad, has removed his head
| quarters to Atlanta and is now putting the
| whole line from this city to Montgomery, Ais,
| under his immediate supervision. This con-
solidation is both economical and beneficial, as
Mr.. Gabbett Che is no Colonel is of the
most thorough and successful managers in the
| State.
great deal Of activity is being shown in re-
| gard to hotels and boarding houses for the Ex-
| position visitors. New rooms are being added
to the Markham House and the Kimball, and
| the new Exposition Hotel, which Director Gen
| eral Kimball is having erected, will accommo-
| date several hundred guests 1t is to be fitted
| up IN fine style. and be lighted by electric
| lie hts. Captain Phil. f. Brown, who retired
| from the Markham House some two weeks
| ago. has signed a contract to furnish and
this hotel, the rates Of which will be three dol
| lars per day.
The passage of the bill In the house charter
| ing the Rome and Carrollton Railroad will give
Savannah quick and direct route to Rome,
one Of the bet interior cotton markets in the
State. President Wadley has his Savannah,
Griffin and North Georgia Railroad, from Grit
IN to Garrollton, il splendid order. and when
ever the extension to Rome is completed, he
will have a line that can successfully defy com
petition by any rival lines An airline route
between Carrollton and Rome will give advan-
tages that must be enjoyed to be fully appre-
ciated.
THREE EoNoRED SURVIVORS.
Ofthe original Professors of the Wesleyan
Female College, Of Macon, then June,
1897 known as the Georgia Female
College. three are still alive. but only
one in active service. The latter is Bish-
op George f. Pierce, at that time
young and vigorous and gifted, who was its
honored President. and who has ever remain
ed its warm friend and supporter in the Board
Of Trustees, over which he still presides with
marked ability.
The other two are old and feeble. and in re-
tirement are patiently waiting the summons
that win soon call them up to an eternal re-
ward of perfect peace and Joy. l refer to Rev.
DR.. w. II. Ellison, distinguished Methodist
divine, now living with his daughter, Mrs. DR..
Floyd OF Clayton. Ala, and Rev. Il. Il. Slade
good old Father Slade), a venerable and be-
loved Baptist preacher, who is living with his
son, Capt. Jere Slade. in Columbus How
these three hearts will be gladdened, as their
long and eminently useful and honored livel
draw slowly to a close. to see the old Wesleyan
Female College of their early manhood put on
new robes of beauty and again become en-
dowed with vgor and strength for a long
career of usefulness.
SOME SIDE NOTES.
'Boycotted" has become familiar phrase
in ireland the past year During the revolu-
tionary war "Burgoyned" was also a familiar
term The South Carolina Gazette, published
at Charleston, S. c., in its issue of March 3,
f779, says Col Campbell's expedition from Sa-
vannah to Augusta was unfortunate, and to
escape a "Burgoynade" he had to make sud
den retreat down the country, otherwise he
would have been "BurgoYned" by that Gener-
ais forces.
It will be remembered that the inscription
for the Middle States on the Morgan monu-
ment unveiled at the Cowpens Centennial was
as follows: '1761. One People No North,
No South. No East, No West. A Common In
terest. One Country One Destiny. 1881. As
It was, so Ever Let 1t Be-" now the editor Of
the american Magazine of History rises to re-
mark that this is an odd inscription, as nothing
was more evident than the i'll feeling enter
tanned during that exciting period between |
army officers from the South and East. There |
was not at that time any West to be united.
The editor of the Magazine of american |
History seems to be quite ignorant Of the con- |