Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-19

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Financial Failure.
Correspondence of the Korniu0 Nsscs.
ATLANTA, Nov. 17.-1here will be NO
week this winter better fitted than the
present for "hog killing time.'' The only
difficulty will be in getting the water hot
enough TO scald the hogs. Many farmers.
as well as butchers, are taking full ad-
vantage of the ''cold snap" to put their
pork into market or the smoke house.
Complaint is made that the long season
of dry weather has prevented many far
mers from sowing small. grain, and unless
we have good rain and milder weather
soon it will work great hardship upon this
class of worthy agriculturists.
The failure of j. w. Brunner & Co.,
commission merchants, was a small
affair, as the business was mostly confined
to consignment of eggs, butter, poultry,
etc. The son ran the. store here while
the father has a similar establishment in
Augusta. They formerly kept two hat
and gents furnishing stores in Atlanta,
removing here from Savannah.
1t is reported that money is being sent
here by liquor dealers associations out
| side the State to be used for election
purposes, owing to the temperance move
ment. 1t is now clear that the whisky
| ticket will be elected in this city, as
nearly the solid negro vote is secured for
its candidates.
Our wood and coal dealers were COM
planning last week of a duh trade, but
this week they are hardly able to supply
| the rush for fuel. A stiff breeze has
added much to the severity of the present
| cold snap, and hot fires are required to
| make rooms any way comfortable. The
| sudden change from mild weather also
makes the cold appear more severe than it
| really is.
saw few days ago at the jewelers.
to be mounted, magnificent cameo por-
| trait of Senator Joseph e. Brown, intend
ed for member of his family. 1t per-
feet copy of the Senator's familiar face.
Atlanta is to match Savannah in the
matter Of lighting the city. We have an
old gas company. The new gas company is
now laying its mains, and a charter is
asked for the Georgia Electric Light Com
pany. Hon. w. A. Huff and NJ. F. Amor
| rous are among the cOrpOratOrs.
! But bigger enterprise is the proposed
"Atlanta Real Estate Company of which
| such prominent railroad kings and able
capitalists as Ii. b. Plant, +. W. Cole and
| r. T. Wilson are the leading corporators
/ Whatever these gentlemen take hold of
| generally moves ahead.
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! land and the citizens subscribed several
thousand dollars for that purpose, the
! East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
! Railroad has located its main shops at
| Knoxville, Tenn, giving Atlanta only the
| ordinary repair shops for her generous do
| nations.
THERE SEEMS TO BE PROSPECT
for live and progressive battalion
at Macon. If the Hancock Vanguard,
of Sparta, and Quitman Guard, of For
| syth, join the Second Battalion, as in
timated they may do, that excellent or
| ganlZatlon will become worthy rival of
the First Volunteer Regiment of Savan-
nah, the Macon Volunteers and Floyd
Rifles being among the oldest companies
| in the State, as well as the best.
| If the Griffin, Barnesville, LAGRANGE
| and West Point companies could be at
tached to an Atlanta battalion, we might
! perfect. an excellent organization here.
| In Augusta similar improvement might
be made by taking in the companies from
| adjoining towns. The same plan IN Co
| lumbus would give the State live and
effective battalions in Savannah, Augusta,
| Macon, Columbus and Atlanta. Small
and feeble battaliOns in the country can
not be kept up to proper standard. The
State ought to take the matter in hand.
The name of the late Senator Benjamin
Il. Hill bids fair to be kept in remem-
| brance i'll this community. A new and
elegant locomotive on the Western and
| Atlantic Railroad bears his hOnOred name
in full, while West End street car has
been called "Ben Hill" Then we have
the ''Ben Hip cigar, and the ''Ben Hip
flour. After great man dies, | think
| his memory ought to be sufficiently sacred
| to protect his name from advertising
| schemes.
There is something, | think, reprehen-
| sible in naming stallion ''Gen. X. e.
| Lee" or a bull "StOnewall Jackson" or
| a boar ''Abe Lincoln Living men can
! protect themselves from such uses of their
names, and it seems to me that living
| friends ought to do tho same for the
! honOred dead. | remember that when a
| noted race horse was named after the
! gallant and lamented Frank Hampton,
| his relatives asked that the name be
| withdrawn, and the request was granted.
| Gen. Lee and other dead heroes deserve
to have their names perpetuated in some
| nobler way.
GEN. TOOMBs' WIFE.
| / have several times alluded in my cor
| respondence to the beautiful Christian
character of Mrs. Julia A. ToOmbs and
| the tender devotion of Gen. Robert TOombs
| to this noble wife up to the hour of her
recent death, and that soon after he
| joined the church of which she had so
| long been member. Bishop George +.
| Pierce, who Offciated at her funeral and
at the latter baptismal service of the
General, has paid a most deserving and
| appropriate tribute to her memory and
| the faithful devotion of her distinguished
husband. ''Sister TOOmbs,' writes Bishop
| Pierce, twas very remarkable woman.
| Natural endowments and gracious acqui-
| sItiOnS combined and harmOniZed. making
one of the most beautiful, lovely char
acters l have ever known. Mentally,
she was of strong mind-had the best
culture of her day, and was eminently
| practical in all the relations of life.
Sound in Judgment, she was a wise cOun-
sellor. Her perceptions of truth, her COM
| prehension OF facts, was quick and COM
| prehenSlve. Her lntultiOns apprOXimated
infallibility, and her tact in management
| was unsurpassed, In mind and heart
there was the rarest combination of quail
tiles, qualities seemingly antagonistic,
| yet so adjusted and balanced as to form
rounded character-without the prepon-
derance of any one, but an equilibrium Of
all, Economical, but generous; decided,
but tolerant; firm but tender; close OBJ
! server of men and things, and having a
high standard of the right and the proper.
she was yet full of sympathy, affection
and charity for all. Her religion had the
tint of her personal character-simple
without ostentation; earnest, without pre-
tension, uniform, consistent, no CLAWS
unsightly," living sentiment and a con-
scious reality. 1t governed her life,
sanctitied her sickness and pillOwed her
dying head. She was the guardian angel
OF her distinguished husband. hap-s
pier pair never trod life's weary way
together. They, twain, were one IN will
and taste and sentiment-in mutual
love ard trust. United in heart
and hand for more than fifty
years, they lived in welded fellowship,
endeared by Joy and sorrow, made closer
by death and bereavement of children
uninterrupted by all the eXcitements of
public life and the vicissitudes of the
country and down TO old age, without
breach or jar-blessing and blest, to the
last the parting kiss as fragrant as the
nuptial salutation. One has gone to the
bosom of Coda just spirit made perfect.
The other fingers lonely and sOrrOwful.
May our Father in Heaven re-unite Them
where parting and death come no more.'
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Considerable surprise is felt here at the
demand made upon JEFF Long, the we'll
known colored politician of Macon, to
make good, as bondsman, the sum of
1892 72, which eX-COnsul John +. Quarles.
colOred, is short in his accounts at Wash
lngton. The father Of Quarles was tho
late Rev. Frank Quarles, Of Atlanta, the
| best known colored Baptist preacher in
the State, and nothing was heard of his
shortage here after young Quarles re-
turned home from his Consulate some two
years ago.
The glowing reports of diamonds and
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