Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-05
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
A COMPANY NAMED IN HONOR
OF GOV. MCDANIEL.
Fulton COunty's Divorce Crop-The
City's Street Railway System-The
Fight at the Fire-Gen. TOOmbs' Fee
BILE Health-Efects of the Cold Snap
on Health.
Correspondence Of tie Morning Ne,os.

~ -EHecls OF the Cold snap
on Health.
Correspondence Of tile Norniug Neles.
ATLANTA, Nov. .3.-POstmaster Stith, OF
Maitland, Fla, who has been quite sick
with pneumonia at DR.. V. H. Taliaferro's.
IN thls city, is now improving, and will
be able to leave for home in a few davs.
The sudden cold snap has caused con-
siderable sickness of this character. and
sent many of our feeble population off TO
their winter quarters in Florida. Atlanta
VIII this season furnish the hotels of
Florida a good many visitors, and not a
few permanent settlers
AdJutant General John A. Stephens has
been granted leave of absence for few
weeks, in order that he may settle up the
estate of his distinguished uncle. the late
Gov. A. IL. Stephens, and Gov. Mcdaniel
has appointed Lieut.. Col. w. |. Howard.
OF the Atlanta Battalion, as Adjutant
General pro tenn.
1t has been customary for some wears
past to name volunteer military organi-
cations IN Georgia after the Governor who
happens to be in office. So we had the
Smith Guards, the COlquitt Guards and
the Stephens Guards. Walton county
now comes to the front with the McDan-
lei Guards, of Social Circle. This is
graceful tribute to one of GeOrgia's most
gallant Confederate heroes.
1t Will not be necessary to allude to
Chicago or New York divorce LAWYERS
hereafter, in the discussion of free and
easy divorces. The docket of the Fulton
superior Court for the past year shows
ample evidence that Chicago has lively
rival in this business. Hasty marriages
of youthful couples and iIl-assorted peo-
pie have filled our court with all kinds of
divorce cases.
OUR STREET CAR SYSTEM
is being rapidly brought to focus on Ma
rietta street, corner of Peachtree, bv Su.
perintendent Edward G. Peters, much to
the delight of its patrons. The Whitehall
street railroad crossing nuisance will not
soon be abated, and passengers for street
cars on either side are often DELAYED by
freight trains until the street car has gone,
and they are compelled to wait for an
other. BY crossing the Broad street
bridge and running down Marietta street
to the corner of Peachtree, the four lines
are brought to close connection and all
delays avoided. 1t was hoped that the
switching of freight cars would be stop
ped in the heart of the city, but the Cen
tral Railroad has laid several new tracks
up to the Broad street bridge, and during
the busy season the connecting lines are
constantly running cars to and from the
various freight depOts.
No case in the Recorders Court for
years past has attracted so much atten-
tion from our best citizens as the Whit
lOck-NOlan case, reported in my specials.
The public seem to feel that theY have a
right to crowd up to burning building
without regard to the protests of the fire.
men or the orders of the police. And
when Officer Nolan requested Whitlock
to go outside the lines, he replied that he
would go when the crowd went Nolan,
unfortunately, entered into a personal
controversy, which resulted in a fight
Two young men, simply spectators, took
sides with Whitlock, and their friends
backed them. This made things lively
for time, but Capt. Couch put in a sud-
den appearance with half dozen police
men and restored order. Recorder An
dersOn, in tining Whitlock $40 and costs
for not obeying the officers first order,
condemned the course adopted by Nolan
to enforce it. Spectators must obey the
police at fires promptly or be arrested,
but force is to be used only in self-defense
A gentleman who is extensively ac-
quainted with hotels as summer and Win
ter resorts, and who has just returned
from tour of Florida, via Savannah,
tells me that be has seen no place where
he believes tirst-class winter hotel would
pay as well as in Savannah. This, of
course, is nothing new, but it adds force
to what has been so often and so we'll said
on this subject by the MORNING News.
A hotel such as is proposed ON the Ogle-
thorpe barracks lot would draw to your
city every year many of the wealthiest
and best families of the North and West
who are compelled to seek a milder
climate during the winter. For several
years past l have given this matter spe-
cial attention. and with few exceptions |
have found the mass of visitors to Florida
anxious to patrOnize such a hotel in Sa-
Vannah.
GEN. TOOMBS
has been in the city for several days, but
left this morning. He is rather feeble,
yet appears to be somewhat improved in
appearance since joining the church. His
friends are much gratified that he has,
even at this late day, yielded to the plead
ings and prayers of his lamented Chris
tian wife, and will follow her to the grave