Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-14

ATLANTA. October 12-For Two days the sky
has been overcast with dark clouds, but beyond
q very slight sprinkle for few moments we
have had no rain yet. We are living in clouds
Of dust, and the earth is hard and dry.
Atlanta, fear, win never lose her unenviable
reputation of being the dirtiest city in dry
weather and the muddiest in wet weather to
| be found on the American continent. And such
mudi The deepest, stickiest and softest in the
world
OF course we shall have our main streets
paved by and by, but it will be quarter of
century before our side streets and common
thoroughfares are rid of mud and dust, if they
be at that far distant period.
Local affairs are beginning to attract the
attention OF some Of our best citizens, and
an effort is on foot to clean out the municipal
offices and put in a better class Of officials
with some few honorable exceptions.
Heretofore anybody could be elected who
run, snd the office OF Councilman, paving a
salary of $500 per year, has been made worth
from S5. 600 to $4,000 to THRIFTY man Toe
EUe7SSIg Herald proposes to show up the way
In which this Is done, and expose other loosa
subject.
The best move is one in favor of NJ. Inman
for Mayor Atlanta has no finer business man
or better citizen than he has proved himself,
City" new start in the right direction We
must have better and ADLER men in our local
offices here, or Atlanta will soon rival New
York during Tweedt palmiest days.
If good men will Only attend primary meet.
ings and go to the eolls and vote, it will not
be long before good men will accept office, and
redeem our cities, counties, States and the
General Government from misrule extraya-
canoe and corruption. think the better class
Of Atlanta voters have just had their ewes
opened to this fact.
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Chain gangs will not be marched to the polls
in Fulton county hereafter and voted ''soIid"
for any official in authority. The Hoyt Fergu.
son campaign has finished this questionable
business
If it be true that Colonel John A. Stephens
is to be the private secretarV of his uncle. the
Governor elect, the public will find that position
filled by an accomplished and digni1ed gentle
man, one who is eminentIy qualified for the
multiplied duties If the office.
Candidates for the President of the Senate
and Speaker OF the House are already putting
in an appearance here, and the canvass viii
open lively for the Speakership As to Presi-
dent Of the Senate, the denomination and elec
tion OF Hon. James S. Boynton was made with
the distinct understanding that he would be
continued as President of the Senate 1t viii
require very strong man indeed to prevent
him from being his own successor
There will be two strong candidates for
United States Senator for both terms Hon
Pope Barrow and Hon. Benjamin H. Hill. Jr.,
I'LL the unexpired term. Gov. A. H. Coluuitt
and Chief Justice James jackson win contest
for the next term, and there is but little doukt
of the formers election. It is useless to talk
of electing man from South Georgia. a. An.
lanta proposes to keep what she has got and
get al she can. l may add however, that
should Senator Joseph E. Brown be Compelled
to resign this winter, on account of IN health.
a distinguished citizen @f Savannah is almost
sure to be appointed his successor.
Here in the Fifth district strong effort is
being made to elect Hon. A E. Buck the Re-
publican candidate for Congress. It is now
conceded that he Is the forlorn hope Of the
considered beyond the reach Of success and
the Washington influence is now Concentrated
on Buck, who has been in Congress ana "a reaI
ly an aole and popular man. But there il no
DANGER think, that Hon. n J. Hammond
cannot hold his own and be his own successor
he has gained rather than lost friends.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
The E. T., V. & q. Railroad has finally got
a roothoid near the union depot. They have
rented the old Exposition Depot under the Ma.
tional Hotel and viii run their passenger trains
from that once familiar platform. eharp
competition is already predicted
During the past week rurnofs have haan
afoat about the Richmond and DanvilIe Rail
road financial troubles and now comes fha 20
port, which is generally accepted here AZ ra.
liable, that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
have Robbled up the whole concern. Georria
Pscinc Railroad and all other branches
Reliable information Is also at hand In 70
gard TO other great Southern connhinatsa
ana ir Is not improbable that the ptblIo wtlt
near something drapn before long n railrnad
circles and certain small speculators IN fa%ncv nov
sEockA WIN ma themselves badly mashed.