Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-06
MACON UNDER THE sun.
THE CITY SWELTERING AND
THE CLERKS IDLING.

An Abrupt End to the Political Battle
in the City Council Over the Cemetery
SextOnship-Where Lagergren's Money
Went-The Wesleyan College CompIi-
cations.
MACON, July 4.-With the thermometer
ranging high up in the nineties, Macon
looks quiet and languid. The festive
watermelon vender alone can stand the
rays of the midday sun, and deal out collie
ana cramp with a kind of fiendish delight,
while the doctor, from his shaded window.
looks down with complacency upon the
scene.
BUSINESS has assumed its summer gait,
and the clerks have elOquently appealed
Tor relief from lounging on the counters
after six O'Clock, but employees are un-
relenting in their opinion that exercise
would soil their hands and roughen their
cOuntenances. The boys will have to
stay, and if the young ladies desire their
company they must go to the store and
purchase yard Of ribbon.
The Clay impeachment trial seems to
have ended abruptly. He has created
more noise and confusion than any sexton
i'll the United States. He has a strong fol-
lowing and very determined opposition.
and harmony will be impossible while
these parties confront one another in such
hostile attitude. Our City Council no
matter how constituted, has always "a
thorn in the flesh" to worry them. The
former administration to this was more
peaceful and more united than any city
administration for years. Yet they were
denounced as inefficient and old fogyish.
The seXton's office is 'the great trOubler
OF lsraeP' in the present administration
1t has awakened more bitterness of spirit
and controversy than if there had been
ten thousand dollars at issue. The salary
is only $500 per annum. Yet the Council
have devoted more time and attention to
this matter than to any question looking
to the interests and prosperity of the city.
After all this waste of time and treasure.
on Tuesday night, by a vote of Council.
the whole list of charges were summarily
dismissed.
Our present Council is prolific in ordi-
nances-almOst equal to the Georgia Leg
islature. They have established reputa-
tiOn of being the law making Council
Some OF their enactments are wise and
some are otherwise.
The electric light has been accepted bv
the City Council. 1t is now a fixed fact.
and the taxpayers will realize it in the
near future. 1t is a great improve
ment upon gas, and yet it is one
OF the most Overrated institutions ever
brought before the public. This is due.
more to the eXtravagant representations
of new stock companies, than to anv
claim made by the inventor or those who
understand the system. 1t is not diffusiVe
light, but the rays falling in straight
lines. In the shadow of house. the
darkness is as intense as if there were
not ray of light in hundred yards of it.
We have the ''tOwer system" and it
works admirably ON our hill tops, she'd
ding its rays for miles around, our streets
being wide, it shows off to much better
advantage than your system in Savannah,
1t has awakened great expectations.
From Omaha, Nebraska comes an ey-
PLANTATION of the suicide of Largergren.
which appeared in the NEWS the other
day. He was known there as John
Branch, photographer. He left for St.
Louis with 5000 or 5000. Doubtless the
gambling dens absorbed this money. Then
ashamed and disgraced he drifted South
ward in hope of work, but finding none
he took his own life, a stranger in a
strange land, hoping that his devoted sis
ter who had accompanied him from 'sfath-
erland' would never hear of his untimelv
end. She lives in Omaha, and is anX-
iously looking for tidings from him, while
his body rests in our beautiful crosse
HILL"
While all other business seems at a
standstill, the building boom continues.
New buildings are springing up in every
part OF the city, and the demand for
houses continues. The Academy of
Music grows slowly. The front will be
very handsome indeed, when completed.
The building committee are ham,
pered very much by the non-
payment OF subscriptions of stock.
in ct fh.aTv h,xr -
the law for relief. The Methodists of Null
berry street will worship in their church
building on next Sunday. 1t has been in
the hands of the repairer for over a wear.
1t is not quite complete. yet, but suffici-
emily advanced to hold the commencement
exercises of the Wesleyan College on
Sunday next. The sermon will be preach
ed by pr. W. p. Harrison, of Nashville,
Tenn.
There is considerable anxiety felt among
our Methodist friends as to what the
Board OF Trustees of Wesleyan Female
College will do in reference to the un-
pleasant complications now existing
about the new college building. The build |
ing committee are very much divided and
there is considerable feeling exist |
ing, which, ii is feared, will cause
the exhibition OF bad temper when this
question is reached in the session, ON
account of this state of feeling DIR, James
Il. Evans, President of the Board, has
called the trustees together on Thursday.
the 9TH. The date of the annual meeting
is next Saturday, the 7th. Some members |
think this call for Thursday is improper
and unnecessary in the face of the anniIal
meeting ON Saturday, and some of them
will not attend the Thursday meeting. In
the meantime, the parties at variance ON
the building committee ale prepared with
elaborate reports, and they differ as widely
as day and night. A lively time is antici- |
pated, as all parties are regarded as good
and true men and firm in their co9vio. !
tiOns as TO the right. Newspaper report
ers will not be allowed seats while the
conflict is going on.
1t is lamentable that such a state of
things exist, and it is regretted not Only
by Methodists, but by all classes of citi- |
zens. 1t is to he hoped that some honora-
Dle method OF settlement will prevail, and
this granq old institution NAV come ont
from under the shadows more comelv
than ever. In fact the patronage now is |
IN excess OF any session since the college
has been open, and it wogl5 have been
still greater ii the k1iidng had been com.
pleted and accommodations could have
been secured. compromise was sup-
gested that SO, 600 he raised at once and
finish the building and use the bonds now
issued In liquidating the debts on the in. |
stitution. l still adhere to nv nrons,si-
ton, made in the NEWS a month mr.
more ago, that the 4rQstees. who are
amply able, take up the bonds, and thus
supply the means of finishing the build
ing, and if any over it could be employed
in settling accounts. There are onlv
1000 Of these bonds, bearing : per cent.
interest, and they would be a capital in |
yestment for the trustees, and at the same
time relieve the institution from further
embarrassment and the church iIom anv |
scandal. Something is necessary to be |
done at once, and VIII be done during the !
coming week.
Several members of the Roard OF Trus-
tees and number Of visitors have already |
arrived, ANA more will come by the even |
ing train.
am reminded BY the small boy under
my window that this is the natal dav of |
my c0untry How kind in them to re- |
mind me by their peppers and pistols that
| have country. What would we do if |
1t were not for the small hoys
JACK PLANE.
The State Road Lease.
IN Gao