Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-09
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
GOVERNOR BOYNTON ANNOYED
BY A WESTERN CRANK.


ters of a General and Local Charac
ter.
ATLANTA, May THE "Gate City" il
getting ready for an influx OF legislator
and visitors tomorrow, and the prOspec
is that we shall have lively week.
Governor BoyntOn goes out with tn,
burden of several titles clinging TO him
Some papers call him ''SehatOr'N NBoynton
others "Acting' Governor Boynton, an(
still others "GOvernOr' BOynton.
One thing is certain, however, he ha,
made good Governor, and in the midst
OF the most trying circumstances has
carried himself as becomes a dignitied
high-minded, Christian gentleman.
As to the Inauguration, | find two
opinions expressed. Some people want a
| grand display, as that will draw a bic
crowd to Atlanta, and we are never happy
without a crowd to spend money freely.
| Others think quiet, dignited inaueura-
tIon would be more in keeping with the
/ mourning emblemS still hanging ON The
walls of the capitol.
just now the people of Georgia are
hooking away to Texas, taking advantage
of the cheap fare to the Southern Baptist
convention at Waco. Methodists and
Presbyterians, as we'll as all other faiths.
seem to make up the rush that daily
passes out of Atlanta to the Lone Star
State" The citizens of Waco will have
to have homes bigger than their hearts to
accommodate One-thrd of the Baptists
not to speak of the others who have cone.
Nothing like cheap railroad fares to stir
up crowd.
MINOR TOPICS.
An Atlanta genius has invented a fire
escape, and it now hangs suspended from
the top of hotel ready for actual service
in case of fire.
There is fine picture of Congressman
Allen ID. Gambler, of the Ninth Georgia
district, In the IrddeSnldfl, of Chattanooga
Ienn., for May. He is not handsome, but
ne beat an lawfully handsome" man in
the election.
The stephens Memorial" by Colonel
Isaac w. Avery, will be ready for distri-
button on Wednesday, and / can truly
say that have never seen a more beauti-
tul or appropriate testimonial of this
character.
Up this way there is no regret over the
shipping of cattle from Georgia to Texas.
We have no need of such animals. now
that our farmers have concluded that
good cattle are worth more than .'scrub''
stock.
A Western ''crank'' has been writing
to Governor BOyntOn about bad whisky
and poor fertilizers, and it is said the
Governor handed it over to Georgia
crank whose reply is too spicy and ''pe-
culiar" for publication.
Your correspondent is frequently under
obligation to Messrs. r. 5. EgglestOn and
Bulow Campbell, the mail agents on the
Central Railroad from Atlanta to Macon.
for courtesies, and he can safely assert
that no more attentive and reliable Off
cials are i'll the service.
A few.days ago 1 saw Solicitor General
B. I'll. Hill sitting at the same table with
Capt. Ed. Cox and his devoted sister. Mrs.
Hanson, at Henry Durand's dining
saloon. 1t reminded me how ably young
Hill prosecuted Cox, how lovingly the
sister clung to her unfortunate brother
and how nObly Gov. Stephens interposed
in his behalf.
In few days very popular and worthy
young Atlanta journalist will wed a bril-
liant and handsome young lady, who has
made no little reputation in literary
circles. 1t is purely IA union of love and
affection, and all who know them, and
they have hosts Of friends, will give them
a hearty ''GOd bless YOU" as they Join
hands at the altar.
A South Carolina paper contains this
mention of Savannah divine: ''Rev. DIR
W. 5. Bowman. a prominent divine of the
nah, Ga, will deliver the annual Grafton
before the Philophrenian. Society of the
Walhalla Female College"
The editor of the 1WcricdR Field. Of
Chicago, does not like Secretary Plat
shek's proclamation" to the people of
Alabama against shooting live pigeons.
and scores that gentleman quite severely
in his last issue. Yet the shooting Of live
pigeons is doomed by the action of DR..
Carver and other humane marksmen.
EX-COngressman George r. Black.
must be prophet and the son of
prophet, as he has sent Inc several public
documents, and never one that | did not
want at the time he sent it. This, too,
without any intimatiOn from me, although
in two cases | prepared to write him, but
the desired documents came before could
mail the letter. | desire to write it as one
Of the most remarkable cases on record of
lOng-range mind reading.
Old Southern army and navy names are
gradually re-appearing in the registers of
the army and navy, and Confederate Off
GERS are having their sons educated at
West Point and Annapolis. The latest
are the son of Gen. NJ. l.. BOnham, of
South Carolina, to West Point. and the
son of Gen. James LOngstTeet, of Georgia.
to Annapolis, both most excellent and
well deserved appointments.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
The address OfDr. j. G.. Thomas ofSavan-
nah, in defense of the National Board of
Health, in pamphlet form, has been sent
to friends i'll Atlanta, and hear some of .
our most eminent scientists commencing
its mastery arguments in high terms of
praise.
1 am truly glad to learn from vour
gifted correspondent, "COyle Douglas" of
Louisville, Ky, that Miss Selena Fetter
c 70 on no Of
truer woman ever entered the profession,
and because of her repudiation of stage
tricks, claptrap advertising, ETC., her
first tour was a financial failure but in
all else, q complete success. She has real
merit, fine stage presence, and the
perseverance to succeed.
No one in this part of the State would
rob Marshal r. d. Locke of a single leaf
in his crown of praise, but let him stand
wholly on his own merits, and not rise bv
pulling others down. Marshals Fitzsi-
mons and Longstreet have another, larger
and more perpleXing field of operations.
and very different class of business to
attend to, and am prepared TO claim for
them as much honor as has been awarded
my old friend Locke. Both have had a
harder class of officials to employ and
more complicated cases to prosecute.
Judge VIM. w. Habersham, who has
made considerable reputation here as a
fine business manager in newspaper Of |
hces, is winning laurels as a cultured and
discreet journalist. Owing to the illness
of "Old ST." the past week, the Judge has
run both the business and editorial de-
partments of the Georgia Major, and a
heater or hetter number has not been is
sued, a fact that will be gratifying to the
numerous friends of Judge Habersham,
who reside in Savannah.
The great speech or argument of Dis
trict Attorney Emory Speer, in the IA
nous and infam0us) Howard case, has
been issued in pamphlet form, as there
was pressing demand for its publica-
ton. No case for argument in this city
for years has excited such deep interest.
1t was critical period in the history of
the United States courts, and it's verdict
was to settle the continuance of fraud.
corrupt practices, professional Jurors and
witnesses and exemption of criminals
from conviction. Speer won the verdict
that crushed all these evils beneath the
iron heel of exact justice.
a QUESTION OF vERACITY.
In my last letter / referred to Col. Whit
tie, Of Macon, and Col. Fry, of atlanta, in
connection with two cases of damages
against railroads, contrasting the gener
Gus action Of the former and the grasping
conduct of the latter, as to lawyers fees.
Col. Fry has written me two very polite
notes on the snbiect, claiming that lac did
not solicit the privilege of collecting the
claim, but tsaS, an the other hand. him.
sci. S0stolted by a representative Of the
widow. As the said representative. CyCr
his own signature, denies this Ia an At
lanta paper, it is simply question Of We
racity between Col. Fry and DIR. Cofer.
Your correspondent does net pry into
private atiairS nor will ba eyar infentin,,