Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-26
GATE CITY GOSSIP.
ANOTHER INsTALsIENT OF WIND
AND RAIN.

! Virgins great storm reached here last night
aud has not yet "passed on" but fingers,
much to our regret. Steady rain and heavy
winds have prevailed, and again, after a week
of rather pleasant weather, our streets are
! flooded, and a chilly wind prevails.
Outdoor work had started of with remarka-
BILE activity, and hundreds of new houses and
buildings were started. Every branch of
trade and all industries seemed to be revived
for the season, but the present rain promises
to stay just long enough to give serious back
set to all outdoor enterprises and the indoor
work connected with them.
Some few weeks ago l wrote that the hOme-
made figure of Justice on our elegant court
house had an arm that looked like the hind
leg of q half starved mule And now the At
lanta National remarks that "the figure Of
Justice on the new court house looks like a
negro girl with an Alabama sling" / cheer.
fully accept the timely and appropriate
amendment. and suggest that we have another
art loan exhibition in the interesto of this miaeh
ABUSED hgure Of Justice
Although all the Governors of Georgia since
Coy. Herschel V. johnson are living, death
has left but few eX-United States Senators
John z. King, Robert TOOmbs, Joshua Hill. ri
Y. NJ. Miller, Thongs NJ. Norwood. John II
Gordon, Joseph f. Brown and Pope Barrow
are the sole survivors. Governor Stephens
was elected in 1865 with Governor H. V
johnson, but they were not allowed to take
their seats, and subsequent election seated
Joshua Hill and Dr. Miller, the latter after a
long, contest with the late Captain Foster
BlOdgett, who claimed his seat.
To-day we are to have two bran new even
ing papers, the Star and the Journal. 1t is
most assuredly ''wet day" and perhaps one
or both of them may ''get left" In my pre-
vious notice a comma was overlooked bv the
printer. l said ''lOts of fun, and not much
money for the under dog in the fight If
there is no money there will be no fun for the
''under dog" At all events, for a while we
shall have two spicy, web printed and ably
edited evening papers, Both have brains.
MINOR TOPICS.
As the Bishop of Ohio makes an appeal for
aid in behalf of the unfortunate sufferers by
the Hoods would it not be kindly remem-
brancer of Rev. DR.. Samuel Benedict, former
ly of Savannah, but now of Cincinnati. to
send him q portion of Savannah's generous
donation. 1t would not necessarily be a sec
tartan act.
It was not an error in the gentleman who
called the meeting to order at Cooper Insti-
tute, in New 1ork, to call on his s'frfend VIM
+. Dodge to preside" The late VIM. E
Dodge left son of the same name who is
quite as prominent and Jealous in all ''good
works" Again. the younger son left his
fathers deathbed in New York to stand Inv his
wife's fathers deathbed in Conuecticuf
similar case IS that of Capt. RObt. f. Park of
Macon. While at the deathbed of his most
excellent mother at Greenville, Ga a teIe-
gram announced the death of his Wife's
father, General VIM. 5. Holt, in Vermont.
On Tuesday next the Supreme Court will
render decisions in several very imDortant m
Junction suits. The most important will be
that of WellbOm VS., Estes INVOLVING the
Juqgeshlp OF the newly created Northeastern
Judicial Circuit. Then comes the noted
Markham House case, in which HUFF. the land
lord, claims that Markham, the owner. cannot
break his lease without refunding amount
PAID by HUH for improvements. All hotel
men are interested in this contest Newt W
4. Moore, wealthy citizen, is testing the
right or the city to inj jure his residence lot nv
cutting down the street and sidewalk in front
Governor StRnhnnG NOT l.
attack OF sickness in Savannah, but caupht
cold the morning of his return home This
brought on his old and painful trouble neu-
ralRla of the bowels, from which he ALWAYS
suffers severely, and can only find relief i'm q
free use of morphine injections He is how
ever, improving and the public business will
not sutier either from his absence or his subse-
quent illness. Governor stephens is a thor
oughly qualified Official and is generally pre-
pared to transact, in measure, public busi-
ness anywhere. Much of his best work during
the past ten years has been done on q sick bed
In noticing the death of Col. Richard Jones
at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Gen
Joseph Wheeler, at Wheeler, Ala, | did not
give the more important points in his life
He graduated from the old Franklin College
at Athens in 1872, in a class of only four MEM
bers, ana was young man of tine talents
He adopted the profession of law, and mar
ried a daughter of Gov. Peter Early Re
moving from Georgia long before the war.
his old friends had lost sight of him. and the
announcement of his death in my late letter
oldest citizens.
THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL PAPERS.
The February and March numbers of the
Southern Historical Papers, of Richmond. Va.
are consolidated this month, which gives a
most interesting and valuable amount Of read
ing matter.
There is much of Importance to Georgians
IN Gen. r. p. AleXander's artillery sketch
and Col Charles ii. Olmstead's article on on
erations IN Charleston Harbor. Major N. NJ.
Hol-i Of aIcn 4.sl.. ~
artillery sketch, while the naval article of the
late Capt. Catesby Ap. II. Jones refers some
as what to the m l9mented Commodore TAFT
a brief mention in the editorial notes
Rev. j. Lansing Burrows, ID. d.. has a
sketch of Libby Prison life, in which several
errors Occlr. He alludes to Col. f. Raymond
Lee, of Boston, as classmate of Gen. Ninder
at West Point, an institution in which Col
Lee was never a cadet. Speaking of Col.
Michael Corcoran, of the SiXty-ninth Regi-
ment Of New York, the Reverend Doctor Bur-
rows says: He aided in enlisting a regi-
ment of New York roughs, of which he was
elected Colonel" Col. G. was commander be-
fore the war of this regiment, which was a
fine Irish command of the National Guard.
Reverend Doctor j. William Jones also errs
in making the late Gen. w. n. Pendleton a
classmate at West Point with Gen. Lee. 1t
was Gen. Lee and Gen. Johnston who were
classmates. Gen. PendletOn graduated later. |
THIS. THAT AND THE OTHER.
triple plated hrm names are somewhat |
but Columbus goes one better with |
the eminent law firm of Peabody Brannon
Little X Willis.
The newly discovered DeFoor murderer will |
hardly hang for the crime that Asa Gum was |
of committing. There seems to be |
no effort to ferret out the real murderers who |
are not even limited at.
There Is no occasion for the colored people |
to kick up row with the proprietor of De |
Gives Opera House, as he ALWAYS provides |
good accommodations for them in the gale. |
ries. The case last night was foolish display /
OF stubbOrnness on their part
Judge j. i. Hopkins, who was elected at |
Macon President of the Jersey Cattle Breed
ers' Association, although not as experienced |
as Col. Richard Peters, has more time to
devote to the enterprise, and is thoroughly
Identified with the Jersey ''boom." His herd |
is not large, but is superior in all respects.
Hon. John II: James, the well known At
anta banker and broker is the VIM. E. Dodge |
Of Georgia. His active labors in the temneT
lnce cause, the Sunday school enterprises and
religious movements generally would surprise
even ms ieIlow citizens If written up for pub
ication. For years past his donations have |
been liberal and frequent, and made SO quietly
as to attract no outside applause Ills last /
gItt, however, cannot be kept so quiet, as it is
too generous to be overlooked. He donates to
the Fifth Baptist Church the lot and building |
now occupied by them, and which he erected |
FOR THEN use several years ago.
DOUBLE AND SINGLE NAMES.
In the list of new Congressmen see the
name of Thomas II. Hardeman, of Georgia.
There There Is no III" in his name, and never was.
There used to be John" but he dropped |
i long, ago. senator Pope Barrow also |
dropped an ''M." from his name, and Gen.
Toombs an "a "a" from his, just as Lieutenant
dropped the ~" from his pame. 1t is becom
ng fashionable to use but one given name
and hundreds of public men, all over !
-he he country country are droPping, or have dropped,
Charles Jones? John Jones or Charles Jones
Will answer every purpose. So Pope Barrow |
sounds much better than NJ. Pope Barrow. |
ana Robert a. TOOmbs would CRATE upon the
ears OF Georglans, who have so long been
lsed to calling him Robert Toombs. There
are cases in which double names sound we'll
rs David Paul Brown, Henry Ward Beecher' |
sver written David p. Brown, Henry w.
Beecher and James F. Clarke. Charles
Dickens and Bayard Taylor improved their |
names by dropping a 81" from them.
MISTAKEN VIEW OF PRAYER.
The Augusta Ecening Ne,cs informs its read
RS that twenty-five years ago preacher in
IN Alabama town Troy, one Sunday praved
he Lord to send a wind storm and blow down
he ten pin alley. Three days after a wind
I'd blow IT down, and in consequence of this
visitation of Divine wrath there has
leyer been ten pin alley in the town since.
! Is true that preacher offered the PRAYER
llluded to above, and that the alley was
blown down; but there was no con-
'lley was on a hillside, exposed to a /
weeping wind that passed through the |
'ulley back of the town and was blown down
Without any visitation of Divine displeasure
1870 saw basement ten-pin alley in
'peration on nearly the same spot, but il soon
lOsed up for want of patronage, and not be-
ause any preacher prayed for its closing or its
destruction.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Atlanta is now over thirteen thousand
'ales OF cotton ahead in her receipts over last
easOn.