Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-27
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McDaniePs Inspections and Improve
ments-Georgia's Representative OF
the International Rifle Team.
ATLANTA, June 25.-If Oliver Wendell
Holmes had been in Atlanta yesterday he
would have added a p. S. verse to his
famous poem on the awful effects of hot
weather. have seen it as hot, perhaps
but was never so utterly Frustrated by the
| intense heat. But lively thunder storm
in the afternoon cooled off the air, laid the
dust and revived many dropping bodies as
well as spirits. The ice cream saloons
were crowded as early as 10 o'clock in
the morning, and soda water fountains
could barely supply the demand for cool
ing beverages.
| The real estate boom has about eX-
hausted itself on ''gilt edged" suburban
lots, and bands of music and long lines
of free carriages are not now daily seen
on our street. We still have, however,
the music of half a dozen auction bells
tolling people to the street cars TO attend
sales of city property.
Governor Mcdaniel may not be able TO
give the penitentiary department the
cleaning out that the people demand, but
of one thing they may rest assured, he
will greatly improve the condition OF
things in the Atlanta office and in all the
convict camps that need regulating.
Already he has commenced a personal in
Spection of the camps, but with present
telegraphic facilities it is impossible for
him to slip in Unexpectedly and find the
camps in their usual condition. Some
note of warning heralds his approach in
time to prepare for his inspection. How
ever, / think Governor Mcdaniel has a
practical, searching way of looking into
matters that Will enable him to get a
pretty clear idea of what is needed in the
matter of reform. The whole convict
system ought to be considered and in
veStigated in calm, unprejudiced man.
ner, with no other object than to rid the
system of its abuses, place the best men
in charge of it, and remove it from future
political contests.
1t is to be presumed that no official no.
tice of the death of Governor Stephens
has yet reached the Executive Depart
ment of the great State of Ohio, as let
ter has just been received here addressed
to Hon. Alex. III. Stephens, Governor of
Georgia, and signed by Charles Foster,
Governor of Ohio. Now, when it is re-
membered that Georgia has had two Chief
Magistrates since Governor Stephens died,
"
he is familiarly called, in suggesting that
he is badly posted in public affairs for a
Governor of State so closely connected
by railroads and business interests as is
Ohio with Georgia.
Batteries B, E and X, of Third U. S.
Artillery, now stationed at Fort Barran-
cas-, near Pensacola, Fla, are under
orders to go into camp for the summer
near Atlanta, and Col. Reynolds has Sc
fox 41Nr4~ lon
near the railroad, and with good spring
water and plenty of shade trees.
The statement that Judge Foraker has
changed his name from Foreacre is I'M
founded. Captain FOreacre, of this city,
tells me that the old family name is Fora
ker, but his branch of it has adopted a
little different way of spelling it. This
practice is quite common even among
| distinguished families. Bishop Coke uses
the terminal @, but his father and
brother stuck to plain Cox.
Sergeant William l.. Cash, of the Wash
ington D. c.. Light Infantry, who in one
sense represents Georgia in the American
Rifle Team, stood fourteen in rank on his
last score and six ON a previous score.
The latter score was as follows; At 200
yards %, at 500 yards 80, at 600 yards 30,
at 800 yards 26, at 900 yards 80; total,
III. The highest total score of any mem
Cash was 172, and the next below 10, a
rather singular circumstance. Another
Cash score the former) stood: %, "a, 27,
30. 20, II; total, 154. The highest total
was 176, the next one to Cash was 154,
and the next below, being the last, was
146. This was poor shooting on the part
of the entire team, and should be viewed
with great allowance. The British team
last year averaged only 165, the highest
a nna low q Gnnn6nannP
Our team this year has averaged 179.
look to Cash to win honor for Georgia
at Wimbledon.
/ see frequent mention of late of a pIow
invented by Daniel Webster, who took a
practical interest in farming operations.
Peter Harvey, of Boston, once exhibited
this plow to me, and while it would hardly
pass muster alongside of our lighter and
haNdsomer plOWs, 1t did good work In it's
day (1S37), and is now treasured as a
valuable memorial of the great statesman.
Writing to the now venerable Major Mark
A. Cooper, of Gainesville, who had in
vited him to visit our State Fair at Macon
IN 1851, Mr.. Webster thus alludes to his
interest in agricultural matters, 81 am a
farmer ON small scale ON the sea coast
of New England very different occupa-
tion from that of him who possesses a rich
cotton or rice plantation in Georgia. At
tentiOn to agriculture has been enc of my
ruling propensities from my earliest years;
and like to see it and to study it, in what
ever form it is presented, Your rice
meadows and cotton fields it has afforded
me great pleasure to VISIT"
The Board of Visitors to the State Uni
versity have brought again before the
public the very unique and star off" do
nation of Prof. McCay to this institution.
AS all the present inhabitants of Georgia
will probably be dead before the Univer-
sity gets a cent of this donation, it seems
very foolish to even mention it during the
nineteenth century.
Judge Brown appears to have given the
Macon gamblers "ftsv during his occu.
pancy of Judge Simmons seat. We have
had little of this vigorous work here in
Atlanta, but the gamblers still hold the
fort. 1t is true that many of the t.small
fry'' have skipped, but we have rich, in
fluential gamblers who find no trouble TO
get agents to run their now more private
establishments. Their own money and
political influence keeps them out of the
clutches of the law, 1t is a matter of
congratulation, however, that their gilded
hells have been driven from conspicuous
notice on our main streets.
The telegraphers' ball at COncordia
Hall, last Thursday night, was quite an
enjoyable affair, and was taken advantage
of to pay high complement to Mr., Sam
Wall and his charming young bride, who
were the centre of attraction. This young
gentleman, formerly of Savannah, has
worked his way by faithful service to an
important clerical position in the Atlanta
office, and now takes to himself a wife,
in doing which he has the hearty good
wishes of a wide circle of friends,
Atlanta, having "boomed" her subur-
ban lots to declining point, Is now work
ing up Oxanna and other new towns IN
Alabama, on the Georgia Pacific Rail
road. Every purchaser gets a chrome,
and the promise of fortune in the gIo-
riously expanding future,
Your correspondent is not in any sense
opposed to pr )gress or improvement, but
a wild spirit of speculation and a mush-
room growth are neither wise nor healthy.
Following in the wake of Atlanta's real
estate boom and booming of new towns on
the Georgia Pacific Railroad, has come a
species of extravaganza that threatens to
work untold evils in the near future.
Young men who are enabled to Join IN
these booms become reckless under pros
perity, and enter upon a style of living
that they cannot keep up when the spirit
of speculation subsidies. This may be
sold f0gy' talk, and from san enemy of
Atlanta" yet it will bear the test of time.
CHATHAM.