Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-25
WINTER IN SPRINGTIME.
Some of Its Effects and Other Notes i
Atlanta


Atlanta.
ATLANTA, May 23.-The revival in the
wood and coal trade was most gratify-
ing surprise to our dealers, and clothing
store proprietOrs reOpened their winter
clothing and hung their overcOats on the
outer wall.
Migrants and street corner loafers have
been very scarce during the past few days,
and people on the street walk with
brisk, business-like step.
MINOR TOPICS.
AS predicted would be the case, our
"Chicago Meat Market" has gone to ioin
the exploded Herdic craze, and Atlanta
people are content to eat good Tennessee
beef, killed here by our own butchers.
The many friends of the veteran con-
ductOr, Capt. John Charlton. of the Cen
trail Railroad, are panied to meet him here
under treatment at DIR. Calhoun's for a
severe throat trouble. Our chilling weather
of the past few days has been bad for him.
yet the doctor hopes to give him needed
relief.
A firm at Gaffney City, S. c., is adver-
tising for ten thousand pounds of roots
and herbs, while in other parts of the State
an immense trade is carried on in dried
fruits especially blackberries-for the
Northern market. Why is it that Georgia
cannot build up similar enterprises. and
thus draw here for her poor country popu-
latiOn thousands of dollars annually?
A great deal is being said about public
and private hangings-against the former
and in favor of the latter. l have attend
ed hangings for the past thirty years, and
4 never yet saw a ''priVate' execution
In city it is possible to come pretty near
keeping out a crowd but no country Sher-
if can resist the pressure of officials.
friends and reporters.
A ''private" hanging must be priUdte,
and not witnessed by dozen newspaper
reporters, score of county officials, an
lmprOmptu and useless guard, and "a few
(?) favored friends" My observation has
confirmed me in the belief that beyond
the Sheriff, two assistants and one phySi-
clan, no other person should be present,
unless the condemned criminal desires
representative at his side. Halfway pri-
vate hangings are worse than public exc
cutions.
WHICH IS RIGHTs
AS your correspondent is not given to
sensational writing, the following para
graph from the POst-Appe0l of this MORN
ing will amuse the readers of the MORN
ING NEWS:
''Chatham," the Atlanta correspondent
of the Savannah News, has again COM
menced sending sensational reports to
that journal about the health of the people
in Atlanta heing bad, and sickness being
ON the rapid increase"
"An Old Physician" in the COnstttu-
ton Of to-day, saves me the trouble of re-
plying to the above harmless aing at the
unreliability of my news items. This doc
tor says
"This unprecedented change In the
weather and its continuation for so long
a time induces great deal of sickness
You VIII DO the public a service in calling
attention to the danger of these sudden
changes of the weather, and urge tha peo-
pie to eat lightly and to abstain from
vegetables. and to protect themselves
thoroughly against the cold In this way
a great deal of sickness and possibly
many deaths can be averted, PHYSICIANS
in the city will bear me out in the asser-
tipn shat the present cold snap has been
productive already of an alarming amount
of sickness"
The statements in my former letter were
based upon reports obtained by me from
physieians and druggists, and closed nv
brief paragraph on the subject by stating
that other cities were also having an ua-
usual amount of sickness.
PERSONAL MENTION.
4 recently referred to the names of Con-
t6uefdJe 0enefdlS JnaJ are creeping into
the army and navy lists, and spoke of If
asa sign of returning peace worthy Of
special mention.
Since then the hQaored name of the la
mepted Gen. Ambrose Ransom Wright.
u Augusta, has been added by the en-,
trance of Cadet Ambrose Ransom Wright
Cohen, of that city, into the Naval Acad-
emy az Annapolis: He is a son of GEN.
Wrightis daughter, the widow of the late
Lieut.. Phil. L.. Cohen.
Some OF the newspapers are giving ,Jo-
seph l.. Brown, of the Western and At
lantic Railroad, great credit for its admir-
bic and comprehensive freight schedules,
especially for the prompG transportation.
1t is not yoseph H., but his son Joseph NJ.
who deserves this credit. He is not only
the youngest but the. abless General
Freight Agent in the South of his years.
He is 'sa chip Of the old blockv-a close
thiaker-a hard worker, and a thorough
business man.
The editor of she Rome Courier SAYS
''The Daughter of Mendoza" a poem
credited to George W. Gable, of New Or
leans, was written by the late Gen. Mira
beau b. Lamar, who was then editing the
Columbus Enquirer. AS the editor Of the
Courier errs in suggesting that Mr.. Gable
is not Sontherner, think he is also mis-
taken in regard 70 this poem. 1t does not
appear ~ the volume Of poems published