Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-15


Atlantic Railroad Leaae-UAnteI
webster for President senator
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ATLANTA, March 13.-We have had another
week of fine summer weather. with only an
occasional shower. and everybody and every
thing put on a smiling face. Business revived
and outdoor work fourished.
But yesterday was rainy Sunday. All day
the steady rain seemed to declare its purpose
to injure or destroy in part the work of the
eek that had ended so auspiciously.
This morning, however, we have sunshine
and a stiff breeze to dry up the water and mud
and cheer the outdoor workers with the pros
pect of still another week of good weather.
The new boilers for the Atlanta water works
are unfortunate in getting from the depot to
the reservoir. Before the streets get dry
enough to haul them we have a rainy day, and
another week Of delay follows
A strong pressure is being made upon Gov
ernor Coquitt in favor of calling an extra ses-
sion of the General Assembly in May next to
redistrict TIE State and create the new Tenth
district. provided for by the recent act of Con-
gress. He has the matter under consideration,
and both the friends and opponents of the
measure are hopeful, as no intimation has yet
been given as to his purpose.
notice that Hon. ]. r. Randall, OF PennsyI-
vania, has introduced bill in Congress to pro-
vide that all public buildings shall be CON
structed OF material found in the State where
the said buildings are to be erected Looking
from my window down the Georgia Railroad,
to my right. behold Stone Mountain towering
in view, and am told it is a solid granite hill.
But looking from my window to the left see
The lJnitQd hF1f he
granite of which was brought here from the
far-off Maine quarries Mr.. Randall proposes
to stop this kind of business
The return of Miss Frances Willard to the
South calls public attention to the noble women
who were inspired by her former visit to in
crease their earnest labors in behalf Of the
temperance. cause. All over the State the
mothers, wives, daughters and sisters have
been jealous in their efforts to reclaim the
fallen or to remove temptation from the rising
generation. Womans work in this direction
has made solid platform upon which future
operations can be carried on and new victories
won. Much credit is due Miss NJ H. Stokes,
the efficient and jealous Secretary of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union of At
Ianta, for untIring and unselfish labors.
NEW MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES.
Atlanta, like Savannah, rejoices in the pros
pect or new gas company, and the general
introduction of the electric light which will
give our city three great illuminating com
panies.
are projected for the present season, some of
which will no doubt go into operation and pe
come profitable to our city. There Ia plenty
of room here for all kinds of enterprises, as
there is in other Georgia cities
But wilt they be properly patronized and
made profitablef The credit system makes
this ques tion pertinent one. Northern
manufacturers generally have plenty of capi-
tai ana sell on time, which few Southern es-
adjustments can 10.
For example: I have a little box heating
stove in my office which I purchased in Co.
iumbus, Georgia, where large foundry manu-
factureS just such stoves as well as iron hol-
low ware. Yet this stove came all the way
from Philadelphia to Columbus stove dealer,
VINO sold IL TO me for q less price than he could
sell the same stove made in his own city
What we need here is more capital with
which to operate manufacturing enterprises.
and more general desire on the part of our
merchants to patronize and build up such in
dustrles. Hon. N. L. Trammell proposes to es-
tablish his sons in the manufacture of axe
helves. But will they be able to compete with
outside manufacturers hope so.
Small manufacturers at the North find very
little trouble in selling their wares hut orr
hard work to get good start. Atlanta has
seen a thousand small enterprises fail here
since the war, because they were not properly
patronized.
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Rumor says an effort is being made in certain
quarters in Georgia to start again the Field
boom"-if so thin a performance can be called
boom-in the interests of Judge Stephen j.
Field for President. 1t is probable that Cyrus
w. Field will increase his already large ne VS.
paper interests before the campaign fairly
opens.
Gen. L. J. Gartrell appears to be a sort of
Lone Fisherman" candidate for Governor.
The Liberal leaders rave given him the slim.
and the POSt-Appedl goes in for Hon. A. H.
Stephens. OF course the Democratic party
cannot now take him up, SO that he will have
to be sort OF Independent Liberal candidate
on his own hook. His candidacy threatens to
ripen long before the election takes place
Hon. ID. T. Farrow is just now the champion
heavy weight OF the Liberal movement and
whenever DR.. FELTON, gets foored he SHES his
castor into the ring and goes for ''the
other man" without gloves. The fact is
and is to be for some time to come-there is a
great lack of harmony among the Independent
Stephens for Governor, another prefers Gar
tre, and still another insists that FELTON, is the
man, while others cry out for a young candi-
date like Hon. A. H. Cox.
STRICTLY LOCAL ITEMS.
The Atlanta Board OF Health has been reor
gan lied of late, and is now much more eff
cient. Inspectors Veal and King have been de-
tached from the police force and are hereafter
to be under the control of the Board of Health
Both are efficient and faithful officers, In
spector Tim Veal being one of the best sani
tary officials in the South. Under this new ar
rangement Atlanta will present an improved
sanitary condition and cleaner streets this
summer.
In a recent letter referred to the sale of the
Mcpherson Barracks property, and that the
place would probably be called jamestown. in
honor OF Hon. John II. James, the BANKER who
managed the affairs or the estate so as to keep
the property undivided. A formal announce
ment has been made that jamestown will here
after be the name of the little village formerly
comprising the officers residences and the bar
racks. A school has been opened in the new
nniI0I0U 0nt and rxIo
greatly improved in all respects
MARRIED WOMEN AS TEACHERS
Atlanta will hardly adopt the movement
sought to be inaugurated in New York where
the Board of Education are considering the
proprfety of excluding married women from
their corps OF teachers. Some of the Oldest
and most accomplished teachers in our public
schools are married women, and to exclude
them from our corps of teachers would weaken
rather than strengthen it's efficiency. One of
j. 3. Prather. of the Franklin Printing House
and a sister of the gifted Mrs Emily Y. Battey
of the New York Sun, is not only an expe-
rienced and successful educator, but has
given to our private female seminaries two Of
their most highly cultured teachers in her twin
daughters-Eya and Emily-one of whom
carried of the Peabody medal at the State
Normal School in Tennessee, and the other has
won equal honors ia literary efforts and as a
teacher. A married woman who can raise
and prepare for eminent usefulness as teach
STS III Tie BiEucsb I6LBdlt Eeml0aF1oS IN cur
State her own daughters, is certainly the
woman to be intrusted with the education and
training in our public schools of the children
of less favored parents. II should not be
question of age, beauty or celibacy, but one of
real fitness for the work OF teaching. A single
woman is quite as likely to be inefficient and
inattentfve as married woman. speak from
official investigation, as well as personal obser-
vation.
THE WESTERN AND ATLANTIC LEASE
There seems to be just now sort Of tempest
in teapot about the bond of the lessees of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad, because
the Attorney General has decided against its
validity.
This is an old story, and was cussed and dis
cussed fully during the last session Of the Gen.
eral Assembly, when special joint committee
investigated the sChole subject
Attorney General Anderson simply conflrms
what was known even before the long and per-
picking investigation was commenced-that
the bond was deficient. and that the real spirit
of the lease had been violated.
Neither the report of the committee, the de-
cision of Attorney General Anderson nor the
action Of the Governor, whatever that may be.
will seriously interfere with the lease Presi.
dent Brown is master Of the situation, and win
hold the fort until the fight is over and the bat
tie won.
SO long as he and his associates promptlv nav
over the stipulated monthly rental, and con
form to the main requirements of the lease
act, as has been done up to date the public
can rest assured that this new tempest in a tea.
pot will prove as harmless as the breath of a
seraph.
OF course all kinds of startling rumors have
grown out OF the sudden announcement to the
general public of this decision although It was
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