Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-02
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ATLANTA, October 3l.-Our weather Just
now. to use familiar society expression,
is ''just too lovely" to last long. Cool nights
and delightful days are the rule.
or course Oakland Cemetery and Ponce
de Leon Springs had a crowd Yesterday.
! and locker on was reminded OF summer
Sundays. Whole families were out.
A fine mare died at Frank Redd's stable
yesterday morning, and before noon the re-
port spread that the Mayor was dead. 1t is
needless to say that he was more surprised
than the surprised visitors to his residence.
Another excitement followed later in the
day. A drunken man reported the killing
of citizen in cold blood on Decatur street,
and that the man who did the cutting had
fled. l followed up the report to police
headquarters only to find it canard.
There is considerable kicking against the
large increase in fire insurance rates for At
lauts, but don't think it will secure their
modification, as the companies doing busi-
ness here have found It losing matter, and
the fire alarm telegraph and paid fire depart
ment hardly give assurance Of more profit
able future.
The first elegant Pullman hotel car, for
the Savannah ana Jacksonville fast line,
missed connection yesterday morning, and
left Atlanta on the slow train at noon for
Macon, whence it returns on the fast liue
tonight. It is "daisy," and am indebted
some depot ticket agent, for one OF the ele
giant bills of fare used on this car.
think the Young Mems Library Associa
tton have made a great mistake in their
plans for the Art Loan Exhibition. They
are taking out the aTcoge shelving and other
fixtures in the library rooms, and propose to
hold the exhibition there. The place is both
too small and lily fitted for an art display,
not to speak of the bad effects OF disar-
ranging the books of the library and dis
commodtng Its patrons for some time.
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER.
Lieut.. F. J. Herman (of Florida), of the
TwentY-first Infantry, has been ordered to
duty at Fort Klamath, in Oregon, for the
present.
The annual report of Rear Admiral E. T.
Nichols, the efficient Chief of the Bureau of
Yards and Docks, is spoken OF as a very
important and carefully prepared paper.
Bishop Cyrus D. FOss will hold the Sa-
vannah Conference of the Northern Meth
odist Church in Atlanta on December 18Th,
and the Georgia Conference at Resaca on
November %.
The Northern Methodist book store in this
city has been sod to private parties, and
strong appeals are being made TO save the
Methodist Ad OcGts from similar fate. And
yet Atlanta is headquarters for the eoIored
race In religious and educational matters,
largely under Northern patronage.
My thanks are due the enterprising Trav-
elers' Insurance Company Of Hartford,
Conn.,, for their elegant picture of leading
journals and journalists. 1t is all right as
far IS 1t goes, but Georgia has a few jour-
nalists who are handsomer than Childs or
Dana, and whose fine faces would greatly
improve the picture.
It is semi-officially announced that the
Richmond and Danviile Railroad propose to
take off the night passenger train between
here and Charlotte, and run but one train
daily train hereafter. This is the result of |
the fast line via the Georgia Railroad to
Charleston and Charlotte. Competition |
promises to be lively all around In railroad |
circles.
Upson county is preparing to adopt the |
''no fence" law, and in view OF this fact the |
people are selling off their scrub stock to |
the butcher, and will be the gamers by tax |
ing better care of good breeds. The farm |
ers In other counties will soon see the bene- |
fits Of this system and also adopt It with |
increased unanimity.
The many friends here OF the lamented |
Col. T. j. Smith, of Washington county,
Who died soon after his removal to Florida, |
have been delighted TO enjoy visit during |
the past week from his widow, now residing |
at Leesburg, Fla. Col. Smith, as Master of |
the State Grange, was widely known and |
greatly beloved, and his excellent wife was |
always the centre of attraction at the State |
fairs and other agricultural gatherings. Her
noble domestic virtues and cheerful labors
have done much to encourage the farmers /
wives of Georgia, and she will always be
kindly remembered, though absent in an
other State.
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