Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-25
GATE CITY GOSSIP.
MATTERS LOCAL, GENERAL AND
PERSONAL.

we are plessed with some good luck. Fol
nearly week we had been having steady
light rains by day and fearfully heavy ones by
night. and streams and rivers were at their
highest, and still rising. Dangers were near
at hand, and mills, bridges and railroad tracks
were in peril
But just in the snlck of time~ a sudden
change in the weather averted an immense
loss of property from floods and washes. Sat
urday the weather became very cold, and
that night we had a heavy freeze. 1t is not
probable that this cold wave will retire before
the rivers fall to point of safety.
hear of no important losses by the floods.
although the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad has suffered considerably
from the heavy rains. One land slide in the
city covered up number of freight cars on a
side track and smashed them to some extent.
There were also washouts at various points on
the line.
After prolonged contest the Georgia
Chemical Works, at Kirkwood, have beaten
Governor Colquitt, General Gordon and other
residents OF the neighborhoOd, who sought TO
enJon the works as nuisance. Deacon
Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gdsette, and his associates, had put some 5000,
OOO INTO the enterprise, and an injunction
would nave caused them great loss.
Under the recent decisions of the Georgia
supreme Court in the matter OF such injunc-
tlOnS, IL is notenough to claim that a proposed
building may become a nuisance and there
lore Its construction should be enjOined. 1t
must go on to completion and be occupied, no
matter for what ordinary purpose, and then,
should II prove to be nuisance in fact, the
courts can be appealed to for the desired in
junction.
In the above case the parties were heartily
welcomed here from Cincinnati, and given
every facility to invest their money in q Geor-
gia enterprise. After the works had been
operated little while some of the wealthy
neighhors complained that the air was made
foul BY the chemicals, and that trees and
the defendants denied this, and the injunction
was refused by Judge Hammond.
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER.
We have here in Atlanta another evidence
that genius visits the poor as well as the rich.
Young Harry HuZZa, the brilliant first honor
student of Emory College, is the son of an
humble trunk maker in this city, and we all
cheerfully say, "Hurrah for Huzza."
Another instance is that of Lit. VIM. w. For
syth, who won his appointment at West Point,
by competitive examination, over the sons
of rich men, and graduated last summer. His
father, "Uncle Billy Forsyth" is plain,
hard working blacksmith, and an honest,
good citizen.
There is no boy so poor or so humble that he
may not aspire TO place and power in this free
country. He needs hut to have the capacity
and desire for knowledge, and to press ON
without regard to humble birth and limited
means. God helps those who help themselves,
and 1t is right that any poor boy should cherish
an honorable ambition to rise above his
fathers lowly station.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, wants law
that VIII put man into bankruptcy if he
deals In futures. | was telling prominent
bank President of this city how earnestly and
sincerely the late Colonel Wadley talked to me
against this rash spirit of speculation, especi-
ally on the part of young men, when he re-
marked: Colonel Wadley was right. When
ever hear OF customer of my bank of
limited means dealing in futures, simply tell
him had rather he would carry his deposits
to some other bank, or stop that kind of
gambling" The most of them, however, stop,
Hon. Henry W. HilliaFd and family have
gone to Eufaula, Ala, where his step-sOn,
Hon; $. Warren Mays, is lying at the point of
death, at the residence of his sister, Mrs Major
Geo. E. Ball, 1t 10 indeed sad case. Young
Mays was gifted journalist, an able legisla-
tor, and was rising in the legal profession
But disease has early stricken him in his bril-
liant career, and wide circle of relatives and
friends await with weeping eyes and sorrOw-
ing hearts the untimely end of a short but
useful career. All that love and devotion can
do Will make smooth the pillow of his final
est. God help the sorely stricken ones to
rightly understand his Christening purpose in
this deep affiictiOn.
MINOR TOPICS.
The Southern Rorld Of last week published
''view on the lower st. Johns river, Flor
ida,N between Balatka and Jacksonville
which shows mountain rising up from the
right bank nearly three hundred feet at its
highest point. There is great inquiry Ia know
Just where this wonderful mountain can be
found.
Colonel N. C. Barnett, our venerable and
learned Secretary of State, leaves this week
for visit to friends and relatives in Florida,
one of whom Is Secretary OF State Crawford
Colonel Barnett Is somewhat feeble from old
age and long and faithful public ser nee and
a few weeks in the "Land of Flowers will
invigorate him for the active duties of next
summer.
Judge C. j. Wellborn, of the Northeastern
Circuit, as predicted he would do, has com
menced proceedings to test the right of Judge
j. b. Estes to become his successor. He was
elected for two years, which Hon. Robert Fall
ligant, of Chatham, cOntended was unconsti-
tutiOnal, and should have been four. Hon. T.
r.. Hoge, OF Fulton, argued against this point,
and finally Estes was elected for four years
WellbOrn goes TO the supreme Court after his
lost two Years, if they be lost years,
The parties whom Prof, Jules SOule swlndled
have failed to compromise with him, and ar
rapgements have been made to send an officer
after him at st. Augustine, Fla. 1t is prOba-
Bile, however, that he will make an effort to
pay out in some way and not be brought back
here. The old charges against him were more
serious than the new accusation-that of mis-
appropriating a railroad ticket. II they are
not revived against him he will not find IT
very difficult to make a compromise.
Rome has quarantined against Atlanta's
smallpox, but i'll such a way as to afford her
self no protection from the Importation of the
disease: There Is but one Kind Of e4ectual
course; II is true Thai we have the small -pox
here, and that 1t 10 spreading slowly among
the whites and blacks, yet there is no necessity
for any city or town to quarantine against us
They can secure great security from the fcUl
disease by vaccination and vigilant Watehfiil-
ness at home. Prompt aud efhUient measures
should be taken Dy every town and city in the
State to suppress the spread of this lOathsome
pest.
MILITARY GOSSIP.
Cadet Robert H. Shefiell,, or Early county,
Georgia, having resigned from West Point
Military Academy, the vacancy has been filled
by the appointment of Walter Taylor, of
Thomas county.
Captain Lyman Hail, of Americus who
graduated at West Point in 1881, but did not
enter the army. has resigned his position at
the Kirkwood Military Academy, and accept
ed the appointment OF Commafidant Of Cadets
at the South Carolina Military Institute, To-
Gated at Charleston. " ''''
| hardly think hin there Is any truth in the
newspaper reports that Lieutenant Flipper
has been made General in the Mexican
army. None of his relatives or friends in At
lanta know anything Of the matter, in fact
they don't know what has become of him
since his dismissal from the army, H'F
The nativity of Gen. VIVA. .. Walker of this
city, is similar 70 thai OF Gen. MONTGOMERY
nMelgs, q t,ennsylvania, who was born in
spent about year in Augusta Gen. Walker
was born in Pennsylvania during a visit of
his parents to that State, but he claims To- lie n
Miisssissippi;asn and fun bloodea s6Gthron.
dets at West fclnt Military Academy passed
the January examinations 40. h" Pennsyl-
wanna lost 1--we and New York two. Texas and
mississippi lost one each. Georgia cadets
have also escaped accidents in tie Sriding
schooP' and gymnasium,
Vic, Vice admiral Rqwsn, Y; S. N, has been
Es chosen gharsSan en- of the Lighthouse Board
mander Merrill Miller. U. S. N, at Charleston:
Major O. T.. Babcock, Y. s. A at baltimore
seventh District are Lieut.. Commander John
n. Winn, Y. ). H., at Key West; Capt. W. H.
Hener, Y, ); A.. at New Orleans.
DISTINGUISHED HONOR.
Georgia and South Carolina can Join hands
in the honor just conferred upon First LieUten-
ant Ernest Albert Darlington, Ct tAe famous
Seventh Cavalry, by pNtslng HIM In command
Of the proposed :.ssreely Relief Party" to go
in seareA OF Lieutenant Greely and his
comrades at Lady Franklin Bay
Lieutenant Darlington was born in South
Carolina, but was appointed 70 West Point
Military Academy frSIn Georgia He is SON
of Gen: Albert Gs Darlington, who graduated
from the old Franklin College, not the GeOr-
gia State University, In the class Of Isaa He
removed from Atlanta e Gseenyille. :. G.,
law or editing q newspaneefs in that citv.
Graduating at " est Point in is76 Liauten-
anl harrington was made second lieutenant
in the Seventh Cavalry and at once entered
where his 1ne soldierly qualities procured him
immediate promotion, much to the envy of
some older and less worthy aspirants Later
on he became Adjutant Of his regiment and
great fsvorite with General Sturgis his i'm
mediate commander.
As a reward for his faithful and efi-
cient services, and because Of his superior
soldierly qualities, General Terry has Sc
lected him to command the hazardous ex-
pedltIon now preparing to start. 1t is a
high compliment to Lieutenant CARING
ton that he was selected from 3 lat Of over
an hundred volunteers eein9 under thirty
years OF age, Of ane physical endowmeRts