The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-12
UNCLE SANS BARRACKS.
WORK AT ATLANTA DELAYED BY
LACK OF MONEY.

A Meeting OF Citizens Held to Urge
Congress to Take Action-The Aban-
donment of Work on the Artesian
Well at the State Lunatic Asylum
A Central Railroad Suit.
ATLANTA, GA, Jan. 11.-Work on the
United States barracks near this city is
suffering for want of an appropriation, no
provision having been made for it last year.
A largely ATTENDED meeting Of citizens was
held at the chamber Of commerce to-day
to take some action about it. Mr.. Grady
introduced resolutions which were after
wards adopted, requesting Georgia's sena-
tors and representatives in Congress to urge
the passage of an Appropriation to complete
the work. and recommending that COM
nittee of citizens he appointed by the
mayor to go to Washington and present the
resolutions to Georgia. representatives and
urge them TO activity. Mr.. Grady
said that he had already commun Gated
with Mr.. Randall on the subject. Hugh
Colquitt asked MIR. Grady if he had COM
inun1cated with any Of the repre- sentatives
of his own state on the subject He thought
the resolutions seemed TO indicate that
somebody in Washington was begecting
this matter. Georgias senators, he thought,
were luliJ dDlt 10 Ldht care VI AAblduJd.
Mr.. Grady replied he had not intended re-
Elections on any one by the resolutions, and
had written Mr. Randall because he was
chairman of the appropriations committee.
Capt. Jacobs. the army officer in charge Of
the construction a the barracks, was pres
ent at the meeting and gave an estimate of
the cost Of finishing tee work at S33O,OOO
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM WELL.
The work on the artesian well at the state
lunatc asylum has been abandoned, the
legislature having failed to make any APP
preparation for il. II. c. Humber, the
steward of the asylum, was in the city to-
day to see the governor as to his authority
to divert sufficient money from the asylum
appropriation for the work, bat the gov
ernor decided that it could not be done and
the work stops The well has reached a
depth of $50 feet at a cost Of 5000. This
will he a total loss unless the legislature
does something in the summer
The case of the Central railroad VS.. the
minority stockholde of the Savannah
Griffin and North Alabama was argued IN
the Supreme Court to-day but the argu-
ment was not concluded The leading ar
gument for the Central road is made by
MIR. Cunningham of ave nah. Pat Cal
houn was present it, I'm in the case
The counsel on tn Other side present were
Judges Hall of Cr.a&u ipear Of Madison,
and Lyon Of ME-
Appointed TRUSTEES.
The governor has appointed Joseph A.
Blanc Of Cedartown, and Felix Corrupt of
Rome trustees Of the Institute for the Deaf
and Dumb TO fill vacancies caused by the
resignation of Seaborn Jones and w. F.
Aver.
Mr.. Carter, the managing editor of the
Journal, Is recovering from last nights as
saul, but was not able to be out to-day. He
thinks now that both of his assallants were
white men. There are no developments in
the case.
Collector Crenshaw reports a large in
crease in the manufacture, and sale of
whisky in Georgia. During the last month
AZ, 1856 gallons wore manufactured in the
state, and tax was paid on &c, 100 gallons, in
dicating an excess of sales over the months
product. In the same month in 1887 81, 2ll
gallons were manufactured and tax was
paid on A. 4O2-