Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-16
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
THE ACCIDENTS TO MRS. RIDLEY
AND PRIVATE SIMS.


Gov. McDaniePs Haopy Salection .,
the Commissioner to the Amstar,a.u
ExhibitiOn-Judges and Their Pay
Col. ThorntOn's Departure-Othel
Notes of Interest
ATLANTA, June 14.--Following the ter
r1ble tragedy on the Boulevard. which
resulted in the death of Mrs. DR.. Ridley
comes a similar fearful accident tC
private Sims, of the Governors Horse
Guards. Like Mrs. Ridley, his severest
injuries are about the head, and he is now
passing through the same experience that
she had, and think with the same pros.
pect OF speedy release from all earthly
suffering. 1t is sad case, as Mr.. Sims
recently came here from the West. and
established, with his partners, a fine
business on Peachtree street, and had
become quite popular with all.
Gov. Mcdaniel has made a most excel
lent appointment of Commissioner 10 the
great International Fish Exposition. i'm
London, and TO the International Indus
trial Exposition, at Amsterdam, John M
Graham, Esq, is a young gentleman of
unblemlshed character, good habits and
thorough culture, and, although an Irish
man, his sweet smile will commend him
10 the English, while his refined Irish
Drogue will make him all the more well
come to the Dutch. Both i'm his public
and private relations he will repre- sent
Georgia in most creditable manner. as
he combines the lawyer, the journalist
ana the gentleman in graceful harmony.
Commissioner Graham sails from New
York on July 8, which will enable him to
escape the din and smoke of a fourth of
July celebration in big city. A thou
sand warm personal friends in Augusta
and Atlanta will follow him over the
ocean with earnest prayers for his safe
return.
Major Henry II. Shorter, of Eufaula.
Ala, is here in attendance upon the fa-
nous Shorter will case, which Judge John
ID. Stewart. of the Flint Circuit. is hear
ing ON application for new trial. A large
amount OF property is involved. and it is
not improbable that the contest NAV be
carried from court to court for several
years to come. Judge George Hillyer and
and Judge j. w. III. Underwood are also
In attendance. In discussing the low sal
aries of Judges, to which l referred in a
recent letter, Judge Underwood, with the
assent OF Judge Stewart, said it was hard
to get Off the bench after you have dis
covered thatyou couldn't live we'll on the
salary. Prominent citizens come to yOu
and beg of you not to resign, but to hold on
and protect their sons and young men gem
orally by a firm administration of the law.
There is, know, much truth in this state
ment.
Although our "Chicago Beef Market
that opened in great style a few weeks
ago, has vanished, we get slice ofChicagO
beef occasionally. This keeps the Peach
tree dudes in good humor.
Notwithstanding the fact that our
former herdic craze fiZZled out in its in
fancy, another rash attempt is to be made
to Introduce this vehicle into Atlanta So
ciety.
There were thirty-seven burials in Oak
land Cemetery last week, which is not
large number for sickly season in a CITY
OF 4O,OO0 inhabitants. We have had more
fatal sickness this spring than usual.
which is also true of all parts of the
State.
Atlanta is the headquarters of Bishop HI
W. Warren, of the Northern Methodist
Church, who succeeded the late Bishop
Haven. A son-in-law of the latter. Prof.
w. f. Hirkield, is to fill the chair of
Theology at Clark University, one of At
lanta's colored colleges.
L telegraphed that Governor Mcdaniel
declined the use of Representatives Hall
to the colored Odd Fellows for their an
nual convention this year, although they
had been in the habit of meeting there for
the past six years. The cOlored peoDle
SHOULD understand that this was not an
exceptional refusal. The Governor has
declined to allow any organization what
ever, White or cOlOred, to use the capitol for
public gatherings. Democratic and Re-
publican State Conventions are the only
meetings that are recognized as having
the right to use the capitol. Governor
Mcdaniel simply desires to protect the
building from misuse and abuse, and he
declined to allow the Fruit Growers
and the knights of Pythias to use the
building before he refused the colored Odd
Fellows. He has since declined to grant
the same privilege to the Georgia Dental
ASSOCIATION and the Southern Dental AS
s0clatlOn, which will meet, in the United
States Court room across the street.
Governor Mcdaniel is right in this new
departure, and the taxpayers will heartily
sustain him in it.
No Commissioners to the Louisville.
KY, or Boston, Mass, Exposition have
yet been appointed by Governor McDan-
iel. Among the last acts of Governor
Boynton was the appointment of Mark A.
Harden as Commissioner to Boston. and
Sam w. Small as Commissioner to Louis
vile.
The Atlanta real estate boom is still
suffering from the black eye given to it bv
the POSt-AppedI, yet it stands defiantly
above the prOstrate form of that now dead
and defunct paper, with its proprietor ex-
lied to Chicago, and boldly cries out:
"Well, who got the worst of this fight,
anyway? Time" But there is no re-
spOnse.
The term of Judge Richard III. Clark. of
the City Court of Atlanta, is about to ex-
pire, and several talented young LAWYERS
are pressing their claims upon the atten-
tion Of Governor Mcdaniel. Judge Clark
is not a young and vigorous man physi-
callyy, but he has brought to the discharge
of his official duties the highest literary
culture, ripe experience in his profession,
and a thorough knowledge of the law.
Should he fail OF reappOintment, it is
thought that Col. W. l. Hayward stands
the best chance to be his successor. This
gentleman is the author of a law book, is
Professor of Law in MoOre's Commercial
College, and has had considerable prac-
tlce in our courts. just now the City
Court and the Superior Court are rather
mixed in regard to the proper disposition
OF gamblers, the former accepting fines
and the latter claiming that Imprisonment
ought also to be inflicted upon the Offend
ers. This may have some bearing in the
future composition of the City Court, for
which the Governor is to appoint a new
Judge and Solicitor.
The death of the venerable mother of
Rev. A. G. Haygood, ID. D., last night, re-
moves from Atlanta's circles a central
figure, one that for years and years past
has been hOnOred and beloved wherever
known. She came here with her piOus
husband, Green b. Haygood, Esq, when
there was no city to welcome them, and
both gave their earnest hearts and tireless
hands to the work of building up the re-
ligiOuS. moral and intellectual interests of
the town. In the records of Heaven alone
can be found true history of their uni
ted and unselfish labors for the glory of
God and the good of their fellow men.
Years ago her loved companion s'fell in
sleep" by the wayside, and now, after
long and patient waiting, full of useful
labor and mistaken faith, she has gone to
Join him in the better land. They will
need no towering monument to record
their virtues or to keep alive their men,
ory. In noble sons and daughters, bright
examples of maternal influence ard pa
ternal trai ming, they will live in hearts
that shall Outlast the rugged gran
ite, and their children's children
will long bear the impress of their
holy lives and useful labors. Such
grand old mothers are getting to be few
in number, and our peculiar modern
civilization warns us that we shall not
look upon their like again. Mrs. Hay-
good had kept unimpaired to the last, the
stern and purer elements of Christian
character that she imbibed in the days of
Asbury, OF Capers, of Andrews, and other