Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-30
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Chatham Grinds Out His Grist of
Interesting Paragraphs

Jul NAultI udunEIS.
reports from the country vary as to the
elect of the cold snap upon fruit and
growing crops. Some neighbOrhods have
suffered great deal, others less. while
many sections report little, if anv. seri-
rlous damage. Location seems to have
regulated the-matter.
Atlanta lacks several thousand bales of
her coveted 10000 bales for the present
season, yet we hope to see that figure
reached before September. as cotton comes
IN slowly every day by wagon and rail.
Strawberries are ROW so cheap in this
/ city that the poorest families can indulge
/ IN what was once a rich mans luxury at
| TINS season OF the year. Early vegetables
/ are also unusually cheap now that we
/ nave plenty of truck farms near the city.
Our real estate boom was never in a
/ boomer condition than now. In fact the
business is so large, and the profits so
immense that our real estate firms are
I compelled to dissolve and make two or
/ three offices where only one existed be-
/ lore. 50 long as this continues we need
/ no circus parades nor negro minstrel
| bands, as real estate agents furnish music
and street parades.
DIR. j. B. Roberts, of Sandersvile. is an
/ extremely modest man. He came to the
D Jul ANNIt AluACllN otdAtll Ill the
/ corner.
Col. d. II. Elliott, the energetic repre-
sentative OF the Florida Dispatch Line
/ talked for South Georgia, Mr.. f. Bean
/ looked after FlOrida's interests. and Mr..
/ :. L; jenkins spoke for Southwest Geor-
I gia.
1twas. however, r,discOuraging to learn no
| voice from below Macon, as there are hum
/ dreds of farmers in all that section engag-
ed in truck growing and fruit culture this
/ year, and 1t would have been well for them
TO have conferred with the representatives
| from sister States and other sections of
/ Georgia.
The meeting, despite all drawbacks. was
an Interesting and profitable one, and good
results will flow from it. The railroad
officials and commission merchants were
present IN full force, and have promised
! hearty cooperation in shipping and sell
ing to the best possible advantage.
Governor Conley has had bad luck of
late in the management of the Atlanta
post office. Mr.. Burrill A. Stout is now
the only official left of the old force
Mills, Seldner and Rhodes resigned, and
now Nall comes up with a shortage of
several thousand dollars in his cash ac-
count.
'RichmOnd." in his letter to the Au-
guSta CbrOptcte. says Nall is responsible
for his subordinates, young TuIIer and
D
that they too are short. Such is not the
I understanding. Assistant Postmaster
Nall Is short, but as he has father-in-laW
at Newman who is able to help him out,
it is not probable that there will be any
criminal action in the case. 1t is always
best to live within ones salary. and
thereby avoid such unpleasant exposures.
Talk about cold weather in May, why
we had it colder than the present snap in
1880, when there was frost MAY 26 near
Savannah, and between Atlanta and Ma
con il damaged vegetables and corn and
cotton. Again, in 1882, as late as June
p. il is reported that winter clothes were
worn and fires kept uD all day. The ''Old-
/ est inhabtant' is full of such unpleasant
recOllectiOns of cold snaps.
There are few persons here who agree
with Judge Parish &. Furman that the
growing cotton crop will be 100000 bales
short. Ii is always customary to start
this familiar cry early in the season, but
1t seldom ''pans OUT the anticipated
shortage at the final count. l have seen
cotton fields apparently ruined, and the
owners said the crop was worthless, yet
month or two later pretty good crop was
gathered. Nothing is more deceptive than
/ estimates of a growing crop.
Second Lieut.. Frank B. Mccoy. Of Au-
/ gusta, Ga, has been transferred TO the
I Third Infantry. the headquarters of which
are at Fort Shaw. i'm Montana.
Gen. Joseph L. Johnston and his accom-
plished wife are at Fortress Monroe, where
/ the General is cordially greeted by many
I old comrades of dnte-bell1m days.
The appointment Of Gen. samuel W.
/ Ferguson on the Mississippi Commission
/ is quite long step in the direction of re-
cOnciliatiOn. Gen. Ferguson Is a South
CarOlinian. a West Pointer. and an eX-
/ Confederate, but eminently fitted by edu-
cation and experience for the important
position assigned him.
/ Governor aad Mrs. BOyntOn are in the
/ city to-day preparing to Join the great
I Northwestern excursion. This trip will
/ DE their bridal, and they carry with them
I the hearty good wishes of thousands of
I friends in Georgia, and we are sure that
l thev will come back freighted with good
wishes from new friends at the other end
/ of the line, as they make friends where
/ ever they go.
] cannot indOrse the suggestion that
/ Col. Issac W. Avery would be a good man
/ 10 fill the PrOfessOrShip Of the late Gen.
Wm NJ Browne. We cannot spare a
/ trained journalist like Col. Avery for any
such place. Georgia needs his prolific
and versatile pen back i'm her newspaper
/ circles. from which il ought never to have
been withdrawn even partially. 1t would
I be much better to bring the scholarly and
much fitted Col. Richard Malcolm john
son back 10 Georgia and put him in the
I vacant chair, and thereby restore to our
state a scholar, writer and educator
whose proper place is in Georgia.
The editor of the Macon Telegraph and
Messenger very kindly cOrrects my item
in last letter about 1.-The Daughter of
Mendoza" and says il trdS written by
| Gen. Mirabeau b. Lamar, although not
included in his published poems. l am
sorry to have done my old friend Martin
an injustice in the matter, and therefore
hasten to correct my own incorrect cor
rection. Now the question arises, why
was the poem credited to George w.
Gable. Did his literary anchor drag into
Lamar's bed OF poetry!
\ good deal is being said about Mr..
I Pulitzer, of the New York World, because
he used 20 be Il poor hackman, The fact
is. it is hard TO keep down the industrious
German. Twenty years ago we had a
moor German barber in Atlanta. but he
didn't intend to be kept poor. He attend
ed strictly to his business, soon owned a
barber shop, then a cigar store, then
news depot, then a big share in lager
beer brewery, then building and loan
shares. and so on, until to-day he controls
a half dozen places of business, and
fortune Of a hundred thousand dollars.
Atlanta has no thriftier or more puOlc
spirited citizen than eX-Alderman Charles
Beerman, who is not ashamed to nave 1t
known that he was once poor barber.
Our market is we'll supplied with the
famous early Pien-tO peaches from FlOrI-
da. which resemble a-cOttOn bale after II
comes from the compress. They sell well
and are said to be very profitable to the
grower.
am indebted to Col. Z. C, Jones, Jr.,
the scholarly and patriotic President OF
the Confederate Survivors Association oil
Augusta. for a pamphlet copy of his eX-
cellent address, delivered at the recent
annual meeting. Would that every city
I'm Georgia had such noble association,
ofiicered by such gifted and hDeraI
President. 80
Owing to the illness of Mrs. Gov. smith,
at Columbus, there has been no regular
meeting of the Railroad Commission, but
Commissioners Wallace and Trammell
have carefully attended to several mat
fers in which the truck farmers and fruit
growers were interested. Gov. smith Is
exDected here tomorrow, when the regu-
lar meeting will be held.
Now that Atlanta has aroused herselI
to the importance of haYlng a live and
decent Board of Trade, or Chamber OF
Commerce. a demand is started for Cot
ton Exchange. Our city ought TO be able
to support two such institutions as the
above named, if she proposes to be a COM
mercial centre and a cotton manutactur-
ing CITY. We shall have fine Chamber
of Commerce within a week.
Major J. W. Warren, OF the kXecutlNe
DeDartment, seems to have won warm
nIaae IN the affections of the people OF
GeorOia bv his modest, faithful and long
,a,,+;,,,,o,I Icarvicp undpr Governor smith.