Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-18
ATLANTA GOSSIP.
CAUGHT IN THE MIDST OF A
GENUINE BLIZZARD.

struck us yesterday with full force, anC
snow was hourly expected, but in its place
we had a cold, piercing wind all night.
/ This morning everything is frozen up
! the cold wind continues, and loafers are
| nowhere to be seen on street corners. Ii
! is about as severe weather, without snow.
as we ever have here.
! The departure of the General Assembly
| mas left the city rather dull, although a
! few FlOrida-bOund tourists stop over a
day or two to take a look at the 'EChicago
/ OF the South" We shall soon claim to be
the "Plttsburg of the South, " ON accOunto of
the rapidly increasing manufacturing in
dustrles within the city limits. 1t is no
compliment TO be called the Chicago of
the SOUTH" although in the matter of di
Vorces, scandals and similar evils, we
may to some extent deserve the reproach.
But the title of ''Pittsburg of the SOUTH
carries with it the sound of busy industry
| and honest toll. A dozen new industries
OF large capital are just now preparing to
commence operations.
WIN a i've city government composed
OF men OF high character and thorough
! business experience, and a concert of ac-
ton OF the various departments in regard
TO system of sewers and drains. and
! streets and sidewalks, and markets and
other needed public buildings. our city.
| despite its horrible winter climate. might
well feel fiattered with her present and
future prospects. But Atlanta cannot
anord to longer remain big Over-grown
town. She must be a city in the truest
sense.
MINOR TOPICS.
Judge j. L. Willis, of the Chattahoochee
circuit, is here to preside in the notorious
Citizens Bank cases. Rich DEVELOPMENTS
or compromises are looked for in the mat
ter.
General James LOngstreet has returned
to the city and resumed his duties as
United States Marshal, no crookedness
having been discovered in his accounts at
Washington.
The public forgets that this district does
a very large business in breaking I'D dis
tlllerles and arresting viOlatOrs Of the
law. a great number of deputy marshals
and assistants are employed, and for wears
past 1t has been common thing for their
accounts to get mixed.
Colonel G. W. Adair, one of our new
County Commissioners, has the courage
to say 81 venture to say that there is not
a city and county in the Union. of the
size, wealth and pretensiOns of Atlanta
and Fulton county, which is so inadeQuate-
lly provided in the way of hospitals and
homes for those who are poor and dis
tressed. Christianity, humanity and COM
mon sense demand improvement in this
respect
Satire has opened up a new field. P.J
Smith, of the Kitterell House, at Gadsden.
Ala, says his is the 'EOnly second-class
hotel in the wOrld;" that he is '"the mean
est man in America" and that his guests
will do well to "whet their teeth for a
tough beefsteak." A ''cobbler'' in Court
land, Ala, also advertises to ''dO less
work for more money than any other man
in the business
Captain Edward Cox has not vet ar
rived here, and it is now thought he will
not come. His wife carried his pardon to
him at the Dade coal mines, but his sister
awaited his return in Atlanta. As Sena-
tor Brown has offered him large salary
to remain In charge of the teams at the
mines, | think he will remove his family
there and settle in that vicinity.
The business of the Southern Express
Company in Atlanta, owing to the fast
trains and new railroads, has grown t.
enormous proportions. and Captain w.
w. Hubert, the efficient agent, is puzzled
to secure storage room for his freight
His corps of colOred porters wear military
caps and handsome blue wooden shirts.
across the front of which appears 'ESouth-
ern Express in white letters.
The emigration question must soon be-
come very vital one for Georgia and the
CarOlinas. The tides of emigration from
these States to Texas and Arkansas are
daily increasing in magnitude. and
threaten serious results to the farming in
terests OF the South. Unless we can turn
some OF the tides of immigration into the
southern States on the Atlantic coast. and
thereby keep up our population, serious
results must follow.
PERSONAL MENTION.
My thanks are due Congressman George
II, Rlack for valuable and much needed
public documents. He never sends me
any other kind.
The friends of Gen. Joseph Wheeler will
be glad to know that he will again occuDy
his old seat i'll Congress, until the end of
the present term, as the successor OF Col.
VIM. Lowe, deceased
State Librarian Frank L. Haralson al
ways mas an eye to the public good. and
his assistant, young Logan Bleckley. SON
of Judge Bleckley, is uniformly 6olite
prompt and efficient in the discharge of
Rev, Or, NJ, B. Wharton, a noted Baptist
dlVlne, late United States Consul to Son
HepeTg, IN Germany, has become one OF
tne edltors and prOprietOrs of the Chris
nan Indet, of this city, into whose col
umns and management he proposes to in
1uSe some OF his wonderful energy
L neglected to state in my last letter
that Mr.. Dave W. Appler, the local gen
eral agent in Atlanta of the Central Rail
road. was unremitting and prompt in his
attehllnnS 10 the comfort of the Ohio Press
Convention during their stay in this city.
MI. A. is never remiss in the matter of
business or politeness, and the Ohio visi-
tors found good supply of Savannah
hospitality right here in Atlanta.
Inere is an error in the announcement
OF the death of Col. Columbus c. Coffee.
who recently expired at his home near
Madison, Fla. lie was not graduate of
the West Point Military Academy, nor
dld ne ever serve as a Colonel in the
United States army. He did enter the
academy, as Christopher C, Coffee. from
Georgia, in 1886, bat did not graduate.
His military service thereafter was with
the volunteers, and not in the regular
army.
l am assured by Julius l.. Brown. ESQ.
that his father Senator Joseph f. Brown.
Will make no change whatever in the
I0rn Oh ms proposed donation to the State
University, II will be offered to South
Carolina, his native State, under precisely
similar conditions, and should that State.
Ike Georgia, decline to accept it, then the
senator VIII make a similar tender of the
same to some other State that is willing TO
accept it with all the provisions attached.
L think 1t has now passed beyond the reach
Of Georgia,
Dr. III. II. Cary, of LAGRANGE. the Fish
Commissioner of Georgia, deserves the
hearty thanks of our people for his untir-
ing efforts to stock our rivers. streams and
ponds with desirable and profitable fish.
lie IS now in this city aiding Mr.. George
q. Davenport, Of the United States Fish
Commission, to distribute some Is, 600 Ger
man carp. ROt a few of the orders being
fllled were put in three years ago. nv own
dates back about year, The supply will
hardly be large enough TO meet any new
orders, but an arrangement will be made
to send another lot to Georgia by and by.
as it is no longer an experiment.
SOME HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS.
Speaker Garrard used to get puzzled
over mitchell. of Gwinnett," and
spence. of MITCHELL and also E'McIn-
tOsh, of DOugherty," and Wilson, of Nc
Intosh," which bothered him the most.
AS ''WilsOn, of Mcintosh" is colored
Mcintosh, of DOugherty," set the House
in a roar one day by replying to the
Speaker that "a rose by any other name
may smell as sweet, but he preferred to
be called the gentleman from DOughertv :"
The Hon. Jasper Wilson. of Bulloch. is
a Primitive Baptist preacher, and one of
the most genial and popular members of
the House. The Chaplain was absent buf
once during the recent session. ana
Brother Wilson Officiated. As his Draver
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