Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-03
GATE CITY GOSSIP.
THE GRATEFUL CHANGE IN
THE WEATHER.
Reducing Sheriffs' Fees-Illness of Gov
ernor Stephens-The States in Con-
gress-GeOrgia's Share of Statesmen
Senatorial COmmissions-The Changes
Wrought in Years.

ernor Stephens-The States in Con-
gress-Georgia's Share of Statesmen
Senatorial Commit ssions-The Changes
! Wrought in Years.
! ATLANTA. March lis there any truth in
/ "old sayingsY" Yes. Well then look ont for
Hoods and storms and freezes at the end of this
month, for March "cOmes in like a lamb" and
will ''gO out like a lion." hope lin.
Tor we have had enough of floods, freezes and
breezes ior one season.
Come gentle spring, with mi"
The rain has ceased, the blizzard gone the
warm sunshine come again, and on all sides
outdoor work is resumed. The mechanic and
laborer is happy and his home cheerful. The
poor of an oyercrowded city like Atlanta feel
t9e stern effects of very few days suspension
of outdoor work.
The bonds just sold in New York by Treas
urer Speer are simply some United States
bonds that came to him in payment for the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad. The State
Is not now selling her own bonds in apy
market. '''
1t is generally conceded that the exercises
OF the medical colleges at De Gives Opera
House last night and night before were fun
nler than the performances of the Barlow q
wilson minstrel troupe. j can speak for last
nlgnt, and affirm that never saw "grave"
matters treated IN such gay manner. There
are dozen solemn aspects overlooked
just take one view OL4t. Last night thirty
nine young doctors were turned loose uDOn An
unSuspeetlng pubic to 'kill or kure, and yet
Atlanta IS full of half-starved old physicians
While hundred more are getting a living
out OF other emplOyments. Two have lust
gone INTO the real estate business. felt more
ike weeping than laughing when saw those
ambitious and misguided young men grab
their diplomas and their M. d. s" and rush
forth into cold and unfeeling world to earn
oreau anu outtef ana Iame. God help them!
MINOR TOPICS.
Backward Dr00resg is not craditabla 70
Georgia. The House of Representatives of 1880
passed pistol tax bill, but the Senate killed
H.; II; Yet Texas, with all its frontier horrors,
has enacted similar law. The present
House OF Representatives passed law to sup
press the Police Nel0s and such like vile papers,
but the Senate defeated it. Yet Tennessee
ana Arkansas are enacting similar law Let
the July session of our Legislature take up
these matters in new form and give the peo-
pie some kind Of protective and restraining
enactments. Georgia cannot afford to he be1
hind Texas and Arkansas in supDressinv the
deadly pistol and the vicious Illustrated police
journal. i--NO
1 since &c, writing my last letter have discov-
cred that the sketch in the Southern Histori-
Gag TdpeTS Tor February and March, is re-
PuDncaIlon OF pamphlet printed by Col. j.
IL. Estlll,of the MORNING NEWS. and presented
to the Georgia Historical Society and its
friends, copy of which found its way into
my military library in 1879. I think this cor
rectlon Is due. alike to Col. G. II. Olmstead,
Its author, the Georgia Historical Society be-
fore whom 1t was delivered, and Col EstiH,
VINO SO generously put it into handsome
pamphlet for free circulation,
The Atlanta fire tiend and burglar are very
cheeky" A few nights ago fire broke out
IN one OF our steam fire engine houses, and
last night the safe of the Chairman of the Po-
nee nee committee was broken open and robbed.
Only a rev hours before he and the Chairman
OF the Police Commission parted company
near the store on Decatur street. Thus the
nre mend and the burglar dare to ''beard the
lion i'll his den" in Atlanta,
Poor old General Toombs his cun of sorroyv
surely runneth over, and he is tottePing in af-
hlction and blindness to the grave. His wife
stricken with sOftening of the brain; his be-
loved granddaughter turned out of doors and
disinherited because she would marry a
worthy young man she loved, but against the
GenersPs wishes: his sOn-in-laW General
Dudley M. DuBose, now stricken With paraiy-
SIS, WAlle ms own condition is the worst of
all. he Is blind in one eve and nearly so in
the other, feeble in health, and childless and
solitary in his old age. Only his wealth left
him to comfort his declining days.
REDUCING sHERIFFs' FEES
The MORNING NEWS of yesterday has failed
TO come to hand, and am not confident i'm re-
gard 10 an error IN my special about Supreme
Court decisions, My notes became mixed. and
| think reported the case of Sapp VS. Roiar
as deed of assignment case. III so. II was
wrong. This case was as to Sheriffs' fees for
taking from Jail and returning prisoners.
ChIef Justice jackson rules that the Sheriff is
to be paid only once Isl go for this service, al
though he may take the same prisoner to and
Sheriff Perkerson, however, saws the Code
does not limit the fee, and that he is entitled
to pay for every time he carried a prisoner to
court Nothing is said in law abouf returnin0
prisoners. This has been his custom, and he
thinks the law justifies him in the charge.
OF course, the Supreme Court decision will
have to be Obeyed, and in that case an the
Sheriffs of the State viii suffer auto a loss in
the matter of fees-that is, if they have charg-
ed as Sheriff Perkerson has and as the Sheriff
OF Dodge county did in the case appealed and
~ DC oh or
ILLNESS OF GOV. STEPHENS.
Despite the various rUmors in regard to his
critical condition, ! do not regard Gov. Ste
phens as helng alarmingly III. He has had
several such attacks, and always ''pulls
through" like ''little hero"
AS compared to other people, his case might
be viewed with alarm by both doctors and
friends, but he possesses the most remarkable
constitution OF any man of ancient or modern
times. He has suffered during past attacks.
as well as at the present time, what would
have killed fine, vigorous, healthy man,
Nor am specializing in regard tQ this mat
'.Liberfy KaiH to see Gov Sten6ens inn in his ie
''dying hour" The last time, in 1876 no one
expected he would survive. The doctors and
the family all gave him up and he himself
''let gO' of everything earthly and gave his
thoughts, desires and aspirations to that
higher, and holieF life ana better land be-
y0nd the grave,
And yet he did not die. L had seen him
very i'll before. and ready to 90, but never so
perfectly resigned and so confident that his
departure was near at hand. Still. with my
journalism, l was not prepared
to announce to the world that his deatk was |
a certainty at that tiMe and here is what | |
wrote 70 thle MoKSING NEWS, under date of |
January Z, 1876, from Liberty Hall:
when Will the end come? / cannot nor |
can any person, answer this solemn question, |
In his case, at least, no man knoweth the day !
nor the hour i'll which the angel OF death shall |
unfold in this mansion his eshadowy' wings
above the couch Of the great statesman. 1t |
may be To- morrow, or next week, or next |
%Sni Sf ReSS yssE 81 Bg IL az human
land his views are shared by some of his near |
kindfed1, the day and the hour are nat far of. |
i'sii Pe tiIey Iaf or ne tAey near the angels that
to It's heavenly home viii find 1t springing for
ward on joyful pinions to meet them in their /
eearthward flight. 1t will be to him blessed |
hour, happy peaceful closing of long, |
honored and useful life-the ending Of an !
earthly pathway along which, on every Side, |
MS many un0stentatiQNa aeeds Of charity and |
kindness To the poor and the oppressed will |
ever keep his great name fragrant with
blessed memories"
This is what wrote seven years ago, and !
to-day Governor Stephens is in tho salfe crifi-
cal condition, and simplY apply the above to I
his case without any Modification whatever. |
No man, doctor or friend can tell lust how |
near TO MN the angel Of death may he, nor
how many months or years may eIapse before
he shall go hence to that bourne from which.
no traveller returns,
Twice or three times since 1876 Governor
stephens has suffered these critical and ex-
tremely painful attacks of neuralgia of the
bowels, and yet survived them all to become
Governor OF his native State and the orator
of its grand Sesqui- Centennial ceiebration.
His life IS mystery agG his death beyond the
reach ofpropheoy.
NATIVE BORN REPRESENTATIVES.
Pot0mac gives some interesting gossip
aP9HI az out United IL states M Senators and members
attractive teature-the nativity of these pub |
lie servants. 1t is a singular fact. and start
ling one too, that few States are raspresented |
by native born citizens
rake FLORIDA, for example, and she has but |
one Florldian by birth in Senate or House the !
Hon. Mr.. Davidson. Messrs. Jones, Can, Fin
ley ana BlsDee were all born outside the State
AS TO Georgia, she is one Of the ''boss'
states IN the matter of representation, She
bana 0ne-zMessrs. Lamar, George and Pugh.
In the House she has Wheeler. of Alabama
King, of Louisiana, and Culberson and Well
born, OF Texas. OF her own Senators and
Representatives, including the elect, only
three are not natiVes-SenatOr Brown horn in !
South Carolina, and Representative T.rogr i5
anan born in Scotland. :. iis.,'S =
No otIser Southern state can show as well in
her own delegation, much less in her sesre-
sentatlon s.L I OF natlYe korrn sous from other
States states Ee9rgia Is the S'Empife state Of the
WITHOUT considering carpet bag influences.
there seems 20 pc 700 much of an affirmative
if we propose to en-
eSurase tSu s vna nome production" Now. in
sprung up, New Englanders have
had ine chance to go to Congress, but of late
years the Middle States have sent out a horde
Oh amhltious politicians, ana that section is