Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-22
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
THE CITY'S FACILITIES FOR
FIGHTING FIRE POOR.
Atlanta's Excuse for the Is Columns
OF Tax Sales-HOn. Robert C.. Win
throp's Tribute to UrieI Crocker-
Four Georgia Soldiers in Virginia

Atlanta's Excuse for the Is Column,
of Tax Sales-HOn. Robert C. Win
thrOp's Tribute to UrieI Crocker-
Four Georgia Soldiers in Virgins
Graves.
Correspondence OF tile MOrRia0 Neaos.
ATLANTA, Oct. 20.-The scattered ruins
OF the kimball House still cover the side
walks and half the streets around the
block.
The temperance leaders are moving in
regard to an early and active campaign
previous to the coming elections i'm the
State. 1t is to be hoped that they will ex-
clude from their counsels and the rostrum
men who make temperance speeches one
day and get drunk the next. There has
been too much of this already, and it has
tended to bring good cause into bad re-
pute.
AS the United States Courts are in full
blast, and many important cases are pend
Ing, find the city full of moonshiners.
ku-kluX and their friends from the noun
tains of North Georgia. On Monday the
thrilling Banks county Ku-Klux cases
will be opened, and during the week it is
expected that District ATTORNEY Speer and
General Gartrell will match each other
with the grandeSt efforts of their lives.
There is move on the part of the insu-
rance agents of Atlanta to secure greater
protection for property from fire. 'and also
from damage and loss during fires. AL
though rates have been raised here to a
very high figure, the losses are too great
TO allow the companies any chance to
conduct a paying business. Our fire de-
rtmpnf IL nj
works too weak to tackle biz fire
promptly, and recent delays have result
ed in great destruction Of property, as in
the case of the Kimball House. A pIenti-
ful supply of water. under full head is
needed the moment the alarm is sounded,
yet we sometimes wait half an hour be-
fore either is secured. Some reform in
the matter is urgently demanded and
must be had.
Atahta's fifteen columns of tax sales
IN the Constitution are somewhat mislead-
ing. 1t is true that we have a small army
of city tax defaulters, but in the present
published list find the names of many of
our best and most prosperous citizens,
not one OF whom is unable to promptly
pay his taxes. Why don't they do it,
rather than have their names thus
paraded in the defaulters' list before the
world! Collector Clayton says it costs
such persons less to use their money in
other ways, and then pay their taxes
when compelled to do so by tax sales.
The penalty is not as large as the amount
of interest on the tax money used for other
purposes, and hence the delay in payment.
HOW TO DIGNITY LABOR.
The chronological education wave has
swept over our city and several worthy
young men are preparing to enter schools
of Technology at the North. Hon. f. p,
Rice, who was member Of the Legisla-
tive Committee to visit such institutions
has placed his son in one of them to be
educated for practical purposes. Quin-
tara Peters, one of our most elegant
young gentlemen, son of Col. Richard Pc
ters, and brother Of Mrs. Col. George r.
Black, of Scriven, has gone to Boston to
be thoroughly educated at her noted
School of Technology. Col. Peters and
Gov. Brown, with all their wealth and So
cial standing, have educated all their sons
to work. They have made useful and
hOnOred citizens out of those already
grown to manhood, and the younger sons
are following in the same path. Would
that Georgia had a thousand such fathers
where she now has only one.
My venerable friend of other years, the
Hon. Robert G. Winthrop, of Boston, the
representative of most aristOcratic fam
lily of New England, has lately paid a
noble tribute to an old and worthy me-
chanic of Boston. In his June address
before the Bunker Hill Association. of
which he is Chairman, find in the auto
graph copy sent me this high and sincere
testimonial to honest labor:
II cannot forget that first, in the order
of seniority, on our roll of living direct
Ors, and at the head of our Vice Presi-
dents, stands the name of venerable
printer, book seller and publisher of our
city, the imprint of whose firm-Crocker
~ Brewster-has been the guaranty of a
good book for more years than | can count,
who has been always held, and is
still held, in the highest regard and
respect by our whole community, and
who, having been elected "a director in
1888, has this day, in the S7th year
of his age, completed a half century
of faithful service. l call upon
you all to rise and unite with me III offer
ing our thanks and congratulations to our
valued associate and excellent fellow citi-
zen and friend, Uriel Crocker. and in eX-
pressing the earnest hope that he may
long be spared in health and strength, not
only to this Association, but to the com
munity in which he has been so conspicu-
GUS an example of that industry, inteeri-
ty, public spirit and patriotism which
have characterized and distinguished the
mechanics of Boston from the days
of their illustriOus leader, Paul Revere"
What a grand tribute to one who had
risen from poor apprentice boy in
printing office 10 the head OF a great pub
fishing house.
MILITARY AND NAVAL GOSSIP.
Gen. John II. Lewis, U. S. A., a colonel
on the retired list, and formerly Secretary
of the Atlanta Exposition, has gone into
business permanently in this city, where
Mrs. Lewis, a most charming lady, has
become a leader in social circles and all
enterprises.
1t is rumored that the batteries of the
Third Artillery, now in camp here for the
summer, VIII soon be ordered to Little
Rock, Ark, and other interior posts. 1t
is hardly probable that any of them will
be seLt back to Fort Barrancas, Fla.
At the recent ''swelP' wedding in Wash
ngtOn, ID. c., of Assistant Surgeon Sam
1el III. Griffith, U. S. N, to Pay Director
Watwough's daughter, Assistant Sur
Fort Valley, Ga, was ''beSt man" to the
groom, and both appeared at the altar in
full naval uniform.
Assistant Engineer Con. NJ. Perkins, of
Georgia, was recently married by Rev.
Father Chappelle, of st. Matthew's Church,
N Washington, ID. c., to Miss Anita o.
Knox, of that city, and is now visiting
relatives in this State. Young Perkins
graduated at the Naval Academy last
year, and stood sufficiently high in his
class to secure a commission in the navy.
A PATRIOTIC APPEAL.
Miss l.. L. King, now of Richmond, Va,
las written to Capt. w. w. Hubert.
agent of the Southern Express Company
N Atlanta, in behalf of the transfer of |
5he remains of some Confederate soldiers
IF the Fourth Georgia Regiment from the
Did King Farm to the cemetery in Rich |
nond, the property having passed out of !
the control of the family.
Miss King appeals to Captain Hubert
lor two reasons; First, she met him DUR
ing his visit to the old battlefield last Au-
gust, there forming his acquaintance, and
he then saw the graves and became
aware OF the fact that the family had ex-
ercised kindly care over them since the
war. Second, he was Orderly Sergeant
Of the'West Point Guards in the skirmish
around the King school house, which was
about the time of the ''Seven Days Fight
before Richmond, and the dead soldiers
were mostly from his regiment,
The Fourth Georgia Regiment was COM
at times, by Colonel George
Doles (deceased) and Colonel Phil Cook,
both of whom became Brigadier Generals.
The fight at Kings school house was be-
tween General Ripley's brigade and the
of General Sickles.
Miss King writes that one OF the graves
is marked IS. Fielder, killed June 1st." II
is probable that this fallen brave was
from Americus, and a member of the
Sumter Light Guards. At all events. he
was gallant Georgia soldier, and fell
with his face to the foe,