Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-22
GATE CITY GOSSIP.
AN INSTALLNIENT OF EXECRA-
BILE WEATHER.

and Navy Gossip Sherman Snubs
Hinks-The Washington Monument
GeOrgia's Granite and Marble Blocks.
ATLANTA, Dec. 20.-After reading in the
NEWS that Savannah had ''blizzard.1 y ice and
light snow on Saturday, l determined not to
mention our weather in my next letter. But
last night, just after dark, came along a fierce
sleet storm, with heavy wind, followed bv a
pouring rain all night. This morning the
trees and shrubbery and telegraph wires are
somewhat broken down with their lev bur-
dens. 1t is still raining, but the ice is slowly
| disappearing.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Atlanta is creeping up in her cotton receipts.
| and now stands over two thousand bales ahead
OF last year to date. This is quite en-
| cOuraging.
/ Is furnished by the families whose members
! are alluded to in terms of highest praise. A
| rather does not hesitate to write of his daugh-
ter as 1.-THE handsOmest woman at the ball"
| We have a little handful of Republican Off
| clals IN this city, and yet they have a hard
| time. The ''Outs" are periodically after the
ms and man never knows when he NAV
| lose his office. We are having one of these
family wrangles Just now. but hardly worth
| noticing.
The Atlanta undertaken who buried Senator
| Hill created considerable free advertising by
| stating that the burial case was an exact pat
| tern of that in which President Garfield was
buried, and cost $1,000. Your special from
Washington says he only charged $500 for the
| casket, and Sergeant Arms Bright refused
| to pay even that large sum. The undertaken
| has done Senator Hills family great injustice
! in this matter.
Alderman Lowry has at last made a move
| IN the direction OF suppressing the Whitehall
| street crossing nuisance. He has called for a
| committee to frame an ordinance which shall
! prevent any tram, freight or passenger from
| obstructing any street crossing in the city for
more than three minutes.
| Since my last letter another change has
taken place in the management of the Chris
! ttd19 IndeD, and Rev. q. A. Nunnaly.of Rome,
an experienced editor, eloquent preacher and
| progressive citizen, has become joint pro-
prietor with James p Harrison and Rev, DR..
| M. b. Wharton, and the trio propose to make
South.
1t is rumored here in railroad circles that
| Captain Walter q. Coleman, of Jacksonville.
| Fla, the handsome and popular passenger
| agent of the Transit Railroad. will to-day wed
| the beautiful and accomplished Miss Mary
| Erwin, of Staunton, Va. The affair will take
| place in the Episcopal Church, and be high
| toned in all its features. Jacksonville will
find Mrs. Coleman valuable addition to her
The contest for the Presidency of the Cen
| tral Railroad is a daily topic of conversation
in this city of railroads, and creates consider
| able feeling on the part of the supporters of
| the rival candidates. Capt. RaOuf has a host
| of warm and steadfast friends in this section
| who will stand to his cOlors bravely until the
| the other hand, is not without his earnest
hackers, and so both sides feel confident of
winning the prize as a New Years gift.
MINOR TOPICS.
1t is sad commentary on the honesty of
our negro draymen hauling wood and coal for
| regular dealers that the proprietors are
| compelled to use wire cover, securely locked,
for their wagons. 1t had become a common
practice of many drivers to supply their own
| families and friends with wood and coal from
| the purchases of customers while en- route to
| deliver the same. Nothing but lock and KEY
can stop this sort of stealing. Nor is the evil
| confined to drivers of wood and coal carts So
unreliable has much of our cOlored help be-
| come, both male and female, that stealing is
almost general in cases where it can be car
! ried on without detection.
Montgomery, Ala, is Dragging over her old
| est citizen. Coroner Blue is the oldest native
born resident; but the oldest citizen, as well as
| the most hOnored and beloved, is native GeOr-
| gian-Judge Benajah S. Bibb, who settled in
| Montgomery early as 1921. He was born i'm
| Ebert county, Ca, September 80, 1896, and is
| now over eighty-siX wears old His brother
| William W Bibb was the first Governor of Ala
| bama, both as a Territory and a State, An
! other brother, Thomas Bibb. being President
OF the senate at the same time, became the
| second Governor of the State by the death OF
| William while in Office. Judge Bibb married
| a sister of Gov. George X. Gilmer, of Georgia
| and in all public and private relations of life
| he has kept untarnished the proud family
name he carried from Georgia,
The supreme Court on yesterday rendered
| mercial fertiliZers.s It;was a case from Scriven
| county, in which the judgment of the Superior
| Court was affirmed. Justice Speer rendered
| the decision, which is that ''under the act of
| 1880, amending the act of 1877, it is unlawful
| to sell fertilizers without having branded upon
! the sacks containing the same, or attached
| thereto, guaranteed analysis stating the
| percentage of the following ingredients con-
| tanned in such fertilizers, viz: Moisture at
| 2l2 degrees f., available phOsphoric acid, in
soluble PhosphorlG acid, ammonia, actual and
nOtpntlaI nOt9Gh Il N "a crtff -
sorry note given for fertilizers, the defense be-
| ing that there was no such ANALYSIS, the bur-
| den was on the defendant to prove such fact.
| In this case the absence of such analysis was
| proved, and verdict for the defendant was
| right"
The Sparta LshmGeIjte wants to know why
| the Legislature does not dispose of the impe-
| diments thrown around the performance of its
duties by calling convention to formulate
new constitution. This leads the Eatonton
Messenger to ask if it would not be better for
the Legislature to amend the constitution
rather than incur the expense Of another con-
vention. Now in reply the Legislature has
been trying to amend the constitution ever
| since it was adopted, but so far has failed in
every attempt. The annual expense to GeOr-
gia on account of the ''impediments" referred
to by the Ishmdet'te, is almost sufficient to pay
for a convention.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Judge Bleckley is at work revising the ''New
Code," which he finds much easier job than
he expected: In the main, as all agree, it is
ever had.
My thanks are due Alexander II. stephens
Tlweatt of the union ticket Office in this city,
for two elegant and valuable guide books
''Winter Cities in a Summer Land" and
'SOuth Georgia and Florida" The covers are
very snowy and the illustrations quite attrac-
tive.
In the absence of the Coroner on Sunday
which delayed the inquest, finally held BY
Justice Pitchford, l was unable to telegraph
the name of the man found dead at Pease's
hO1Tfinr hnnaa m tY1rs ctr h,v
Mrs. lizard. He was w. b. jackson, Of
Gainesville, Ca, and, although the verdict
was that he died of heart disease it can hardly
be denied that want and neglect caused his
sudden ''taking off," Without money to pay
his board, sick and infrm from age, and vir-
tually turned out of doors, he sought shelter
at this house, where he went to bed in a room
wholly unfit to protect him from the severe
cold of Saturday night. His death was the
natural result of this exposure.
ARMY AND NAVY GOSSIP.
The Rev. George F. Cooper, NJ. D., who re-
Gently died at Americus, was the father of Ca
Diet Cooper, of the United States Naval Acad-
emy, at Annapolis.
According to the Washington Sunday Herazd.
which is good authority, Admiral Nichols
daughter, who is a singularly attractive and
brilliant brunette, is one of the bellies of Wash
ingtOn society.
Fort Brooke, at Tampa, Fla, is to be aban
doned. Battery l. has been ordered to Mount
Vernon Barracks, Ala. and battery G to St
Augustine, Fla. The War Department pro-
poses 10 ulSpenSe WIN all useless stations.
The "Ofiicial Records of the late war as be-
ing published at Washington, state that Gen
Lee surrendered with 27.97l officers and men,
while Gen. Johnston had 39,072 to be paroled.
This does not include the smaller forces that
surrendered at later date.
Lieut.. Daniel A. Frederick. of the Seventh
Infantry, is Judge Advocate of general court
martial at Fort Laramie, in Wyoming Terri
tory. Lieut.. Frederick, who is one of the most
promising young officers in the army is a son
OF Major j. ID. Frederick, a prominent citizen
Of Marshallville, and State Senator from that
district.
The marriage is announced OF Lieutenant
Edward S. Avis, of the Fifth Infantry, to Miss
Fannie Carter, the accomplished daughter of
Captain Mason Carter, of the same regiment
who is native Georgian, and has many rela-
tiOns in this State. Mrs. Carriers illness pre-
vented anything but quiet wedding at Fort
McKeOgh, n Montana, after which the bridal
party left on pleasure trip to st. Paul The
bride received manybeautiful and costly pres
ents from officers of the garrison and friends |
in Georgia. Lieutenant Avis is from Virginia |
and graduated from West Point in 1880.
Breyet Major General Il. W, Kinks. now a |
Colonel on the retired list OF the army, en- |
tered the service from civil life, and vet Gen
eral Sherman rebukes him in very uncipH !
manner. Kinks was lately out at Tucson in |
Arizona, and didn't like the way some of the |
officers of the army conducted themselves So |
he wrote a private letter to the Secretary of |
War, which that official very properly turned |
over to General Sherman. After investigat- |
ing the matter fully and finding the facts did |
not agree with statements made by General |
signed by General Chauncy McKeever, Acting |
Adjutant General, closing with this stinging |
rebuke: 81 am directed by the General of the |
Army to inform you that he is constrained to |