Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-01
GATE CITY GOSSIP.
ALL DAY SNOW STORM AND A
DAY OF SUNSHINE.


day overhead, but under foot it is mud, snow
and slush without end, and pedestrians have
hard work to pass along some Of the side
streets.
The press of Atlanta has caught up my
chronic cry against our miserable streets and
sidewalks, but do not look for any serious re-
form to follow. We have City Fathers whose
/ hides are too tough to be penetrated By mere
I newspaper comments.
J Yesterday morning a light rain fell, fol-
lowed Immediately by snow, and all day long
/ we enjoyed a most steady and heavy fall Of
/ snow. The author Of Beautiful SnOw' would
/ have been delighted with the sight. The
| ground was damp, and weather rather mild.
/ so we had but little snow on the ground this
morning. The warm sunshine is fast melting
that.
! No new developments have been made in
regard to the missing record books from the
/ Clerks Office at the City Hal. Ny theory of
the matter is now generally adopted, and no
/ alarm Is felt for the final safety of the books.
/ 1t IS simply an electiOneering dodge, and they
\ VIII be returned all right in ne time. Poll
] tics in Fulton county are always dirtv but
I Just now they are extremely filthy.
The failure of Messrs. Rushing, Keller &
/ CO., one Of our largest fruit and produce COM
mission houses, has created quite a stir in
/ commercial circles, and indicates other simi-
/ lar failures ahead. Atlanta has been over
! run with fruit this season. and the losses OF
/ some dealers have been heavy. There are a
| score of small merchants in the city who will
l be compelled to suspend, as we have had a
dull trade during the winter, and they have
| no reserve means to fall back upon. Reports
from country towns are also to the same effect.
| and give reason to believe that there will be a
large number of failures within the next
| thirty days.
As yet our manufacturing industries show
no signs of dull times. The Exposition Cotton
Mills are getting ready to commence opera
tiOns at once. The Atlanta Steam Cotton
| Factory, under Manager Bullock, is doing a
| lively business, while the Fulton Spinning
| Company are preparing to enlarge their cot
| ton manufacturing machinery, and also erect
new buildings. Messrs. Elsas, May & Co., the
! chief owners, run a large paper and cloth bag
! factory, and the Fulton Mills cannot, without
for cotton goods.
Atlanta has several plow factories, cotton
I gin factories, machine shops, furniture fac
| tories and other similar industries, yet l be-
lleye they are all, apparently, prosperous and
doing good business. With so many diYerg-
| ing lines of railway, and occupying a rather
| central position, Atlanta enjoys a widespread
! wholesale trade, in some branches of which
| she secures to herself handsome profits. Com
| petition, however, has reduced the profits of
| other branches to very low figure. In the
| candy and cracker and paper box line she has
! lively competition.
MINOR TOPICS.
Our cotton receipts are still over three thou
! sand bales ahead of last season to same date.
Mrs. Langtry's promised appearance at De-
! Gives Opera House on the night of the 29th Of
| January does not create much enthusiasm.
! The cOlOred people of Atlanta are to have
! on Monday their usual street parade of mill
! tary and societies and exercises at the capitol
| in honor of Emancipation day"
| General Henry r. jackson, of Savannah. is
the Georgia representative on the Board of
| Trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund,
| and General Alfred IL. COlquitt, of Atlanta,
occupies the same place on the board of the
Although Atlanta is full of church edifces,
| the Senate Chamber, the United States
| Court room, and various halls are frequently
used for religious purposes. Rev. George l..
! CLANCY, Boston Unitarian, is now using the
| court room for his services on Sundays.
The Augusta Nesos says Birmingham, Ala,
| was corn field ten years ago, and now has a
| population of twelve thousand. This is q
great mistake. 1t was a corn field fifteen
| years ago, but ten years ago it was on big
! boom. Then came sudden collapse that
| busted the concern. Her real prosperity has
! come with the iron and coal enterprises of the
| past five years.
| 1t is gratifying to announce that the Young
! Mems Library Association have very prop
| erly rewarded Prof Horace Bradley. who
! superintended their Art Loan Exhibition with
| rare ability, fine gold-headed cane. No sim
| liar gift was ever more wOrthily bestowed, or
! will be more truly appreciated.
Savannah is somewhat interested in the
/ Southern sunday School Assembly, as Mr. r..
! b. Reppard is one of the prime movers in the
| enterprise. Already the plans for drives,
| lawns, avenues, lots to rent, amphitheatres and
! other buildings for meetings have been pre-
! pared. and the trustees will soon have meet
| ing at Mont Eagle, Tenn, to perfect them.
The January number of the Southern World
contains poem on "lSS3," from the pen of
| Lieutenant Bradley, of the Seventh United
! States Infantry. AS this gallant young poet
soldier was killed in an Indian fight in 1877, it
| is safe to presume that the present poem on
| "lSS3" must have come through spiritual
| medium, as that is often done for Northern
We are still struggling with the street cross
ing nuisance, which has become dOubly an
| nOying during the holidays. 1t is now not un-
| common for three or four freight trains to
! block the Whitehall, Lloyd and Pryor street
| crossings at the same time. Vermont has
! passed a law that protects even farm crossings
from being blocked for five minutes, and yet
! poor Atlanta has it all day from three to
| twenty minutes at a time, to allow freight
| trains tobe 'made up on our street crossings.
| During the November session of the Legis-
| lature 4 bill was passed TO incorporate the
! ChattahOOchee Navigation Company of La
| Grange. Already this new enterprise has
| blOssOmed into an active existence. The first
! boat a small one, has just been launched at
| West Point, and made a successful trial trip.
| 1t is safe to predict that the river will be
| greatly improved in the near future and
| larger boats ply between West Point, La
| Grange and the Western and Atlantic Railroad
| bridge near Atlanta. Ithas long been desired
| to have such a line of boats for local travel
| and freight transportation, and no doubt this
| recent movement will ripen into something Of
| large proportions in the way of navigation
| company,
Speaking of steamers, am reminded that
! the new ''City of Jacksonville" >" which Cap
| tain William A. Shaw has just had completed
/ at Wilmington, Del, for the DeBary Mer-
chants Line on the st. Johns river in Florida,
! has sailed for Jacksonville. She is said to be
! the most elegant steamer ever constructed at
the Wilmington yard, and one of the fastest
afiOat Captain Shaw has given his
personal supervision to all of her
/ arrangements, and every modern COM
fort and convenience has been adopt
ed. When he completed the "DeBary"
| several years ago, he prOphetically remarked
| that he would soon be obliged to go back and
superintend the building of still larger and
| finer steamer, Savannah may well be proud
of the success Captain Shaw has SO worthily
| won.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
! 1t is to be hoped that the%'Hard Billed Eggs"
man perished during the late conflicts in Ope-
| lika; as it would be some compensation to trav
| elers who have suffered at his hands.
! Gov. O'Neal, of Alabama, has acted wisely.
| in retaining Col. Robert Mckee as his private
| secretary. A gallant soldier, able editor, and
! accomplished gentleman, he always hOnOrs
! the position.
The smali-po has finally got into white
| family here, and the mastery inactivity of
| our health officials leaves us in doubt as to
| what the results may be. There is plenty of
material for the disease to work upon.
! And this suggests that the failure of W. II.
! II. Phelps, the Whitehall street candy manu-
! facturer is said to be largely due to smallpox
| in his family last summer. And yet | was
| boldly accused of s'lyng'' when | said there
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Young Baldwin RaifOrd, whose father keeps
! a hotel in Columbus, has reached his home.
/ He deserted from the Portsmouth" ON ac-
| count of bad treatment, but after his arrest
| he was allowed his liberty. 1t is probable that
his case will lead to an investigation by the
naval authorities as to the treatment of the
| apprentice boys on this vessel. Savannah is
interested in the result as she has several
| boys IN the same service.
| fhave another naval item of a more cheer
full character. Rear Admiral Edward 7.
Nichols, in his old age, is just enjoying the de-
grandfather. A fine boy has been born to his
son, Edward T. Nichols, Jr.. and the grim old
Admiral has gone to enjoy the holidays with
the happy parents Long life and an hOnOred
career to the new conner, and may he add new
lustre to his family name.
The american JuItiCdtOr, one of the leading
agricultural journals of the country, comes
out strongly against the recent annual con-
vention of the American Agricultural AssO-
citation in Chicdg0 as s'in no way representing
the true interests of the farmer" and saws
I ''its false mask of agriculture is intended TO
deceive the farming classes into its support"
This is rather rough, but when il is known
that Georgia farmers were represented among
the speakers by that ''hOrny handed son of
toll, )" H. /, kimball, and among the delegates
by Sidney Root, another OF the same class
there is ground for suspicion that the editor is
a keen observer.
There is no ground for the rumor that Hon.
W. A. HUFF, of the Markham House, had
failed. The report grew out of the failure of
Messrs. Rushing, Keller & Co., from whom
he was a large buyer of fruits and produce
and who were forced by their necessities to
raise funds instantaneously. Mr.. HUFF is per-
fectly solvent, and all his affairs are in good
condition. For some time past he has been
negotiating for a full or partial change in the
management of the Markham House, and this