Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-22
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
LOCAL POLITICS AT THE BOIL.
ING PITCH.
The Stand of Property Owners Against
Assessments for Paving Purposes
Takes New Turn-Prominent Men
who Have Read Their Own Obitu-
aries-Other Notes on Various Subjects.

our municipal offices that the masses have got
used to them.
The refusal OF many large property owners
to pay the assessments made against them for
paving the main streets has taken new turn.
The City Council proposes to stop the public
schools unless these assessments are paid, on
the ground that the authorities have expended
extraordinary sums for street improvements
and did in good faith, then believing that
the assessments would be promptly and fully
paid. The failure to receive the amounts due
from contesting property owners leaves the
treasury III an almost empty condition, and the
only department that can be reduced in ap-
propriations for the coming year to meet this
unexpected deficit is the public school de-
partment. 1t now remains to be seen whether
this threat will have the desired effect or the
contestants conclude to send their children to
private schools until the courts shall have
finally decided the point at issue. The mat
ter is at present one of grave Importance.
There is quite a lively contest going on be-
tween our leading physicians as to which
shall drive the finest double team. Several of
the turnOuts are hard to beat, and vet a few
years ago single carriage was considered
sufficient for our most popular doctors. Moth
ing in Atlanta has had greater increase than
medical practice, and while a host of new
doctors nave come IN every year, the old
physicians of prominence have even more
business than they can well look after without
loss of proper rest.
In nay last letter l referred to the promotion
of Mr.. b. Durham to be General Manager of
the Louisville and Nashville Railway system.
| have since seen it hinted that General Su-
perIntendent a. w. &. Rowland resigned his
position on account of Dunham's appoint
ment. The truth is, l am informed by a per-
sonal friend of Rowland, the resignation was
held back for some weeks in order to allow
Dunham to assume his duties before a change
was made in ROwland's department. After
nearly twenty years of hard service, rising
step by step from one position of trust to
another, and with ever increasing duties and
gfaVer responsibilities. Superintendent Row
need a
and having saved handsome competency from
his liberal salary, he now proposes to spend a
season OF release from official duties in the
bosom of his charming family. Beyond this
nothing Is now definitely known of his future
movements, although several high positions in
railroad circles are already open to him.
a NUMBER OF PROMINENT MEN
have enjoyed reading their own obituary no.
tces in the press, as, for instance. Gov. A. ii.
stephens and Rev. DR.. LOVick Pierce, but it is
a very rare thing for such men to read official
resolutions on their death. Rev. DrJ. b. Nc
Ferrin, of Nashville, has enjoyed the readngof
the official resolutions passed by the Northern
Methodist Church on his reported decease. as
well as a thousand kindly obituary notices
by the religious and secular press of the whole
country. No man, so far as faithfulness, zeal
in good cause, hOpefulness under the most
adverse circumstances, and long continued
service, has better record in the Southern
Methodist Church, than this ''Old wheel
horse" this ''nobest Roman of them all" and
no one has a clearer right to read before his
decease. the good things that Will be sincerely
SAID of his life labor and character when he
shall in truth have passed away.
The new departure on the part of the Sun
DAY MORNING NEWS, in the way of enlarge
ment to eight pages, eXcites the most favor
able comment, not so much on account of the
added four pages as the admirable manner in
which those pages are filled with attractive
and fresh reading matter. paper may
show twelve or sixteen pages. for that matter,
and yet not give six pages of really live, in
terestlng reading. Long and heavy articles
are seldom desired even on Sunday. | have
frequently seen men at the Markham House
news stand purchase sixteen or twenty page
paper and throw half of it away without even
glancng over the rejected pages. They were
familiar with the makeup of the paper and
therefore knew what to keep.
The Albany On. " Argus, in its comments
on the change of army commanders at Wash
ingtOn, suggests that the grade of General and
Lieutenant General are to become extinct by
death or retirement, and that the sold sys-
tenn is to be revived the ''seniOr Major Cen
eral to command the army" 1t is just as
good time as any to explode this bubble.
There is no law that gives the command of
the army to any officer, be he a General, a
Lieutenant General or a Senior Major Gen
eral. That position Is one of appointment by
the President. and is not by any enactment
made part of the rank of any officer. Gen.
Scott once created a lively discussion in re-
gard to his fright as senior Major General
to command the entire army, should the COM
mand. be given to any officer. AT times the
which was independent of the other, and all
under the immediate control of the Secretary
of War. Jealousies sometimes arose among
high officers, and it became necessary to di-
vide the army so as to give each an independ-
ent command. The President still retains
the right to make his own choice of COM
mander of the army.
The new armory of the Gate City Guard is
taking on its third and final story, which is to
be the drill room. In some respects this edi-
fee falls far short Of the elegant and imposing
in glowing and patriotic kilograms to the
North and West, yet Capt. jackson has done
nObly to give the company as fine an armory
as the present reconstructed and enlarged
building promises to be when completed.
WAS AMUSED TO SEE THE PEOPLE
on sunday morning comparing their watches
with the capitol or court house clocks, which
had been set back during the night. 1t took
nearly all day for the city to get regulated
and adapt itself to the change.
1t is believed that the camels now
Arizona, are the remnants Of the herd
of camels brought to this country in 1856 from
Asia by the late Gen. Henry c. Wayne. of
Savannah, then a Quartermaster in the
United states army. After several years
service in transportation on the frontier the
government sold the herd, and later on the
purchasers got tired of them as beasts of bur-
den, and finally turned them loose to roam
over the wilderness regions of Arizona.
where thev still remain.
THE CREDITORS OF THE LATE CONCERT OR
FESTIVAL
are holding meeting this afternoon for the
purpose of arranging some plan Of division
of the funds in the hands of the syndicate,
there not being sufficient money to pay in full
the pending claims.
Lieut.. Oscar j. Brown (Of GeOrgia), of the
First Cavalry, was one of the ushers at the
recent marriage of his cOmrade, Lieut.. A. l..
Mills, to Miss Paddock, daughter of one
Bishop and niece of another. 1t was an i'm
mense affair. Bishop Paddock. the father
Bishop Paddock, the uncle, Bishop Littlejohn
and Rev: Drs. Hall, Snively, Homer and lib
Chaplin David Wills, United States army.
formerly of Macon, Ca, who has been on duty
in Washington Territory for the past two
years, is now on a visit to his old home at
Washington, ID. c., where his wife died dur
ing the past year.
Deep regret is felt here over the death, at
his fathers home in Kentucky, of Capt j. II.
Todd, OF the Eighteenth United States In
fantry. who married some five years ago Miss
Annie BOifeuillet, a charming Young lady of
Macon. Capt. Todd's regiment was stationed
at Mcpherson barracks a few years ago, and
no officer was more respected or gathered
about him more devoted friends. His death
Is great loss to the regiment well as a
sore bereavement to his stricken family.
The recent sudden and severe change IN the
weather run the Supreme Court back up
stat into the old court room, it being found
impossible to make the spacious Senate
Chamber warm enough for the comfort of the
Judges. But just as soon as they were fairly set
tied in their former snug quarters there came
another sudden change of weather, and
light drizZling rain makes il rather comfort
able in doors without fire to-day.
Work on the Kimball House ruins is pro-
crossing rapidly, and in the course of two
weeks hardly any evidence of the fire will be
visible. The projectors Of the new enterprise
already realize that it is no small job to re-
move the rubbish from such an immense
building. Only small portion of the bricks
will be saved for future use, and much of the
iron and zinc work is almost worthless
The opening of the Georgia Pacific Railraad
is accomplished, and yet Capt, G. j. Foreacre.
the efficient General Manager, has carried this
grand enterprise through so quietly that few
people know that he has been concerned in il
at all. He carried the Northeastern Railroad
to Tallulah Falls in the same quiet business
like way, as he prefers to build railroads on
the ground rather than in newspapers. And
now rumor says they want him to tackle the
old Macon and Brunswick Railroad and put
1t in safe and prosperous condition.
CHATHAM.
Shot by Burglar.
RUSHVILLE, IND, Nov. 21.-This morn
Inp Edward PaVnp Cashier Of tho Rms h