The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-17

them, however. have very little to dress
and these number about twenty-six. Five
Of them will never wear their hair a la
pompadour, while eleven can catch a few
hairs and plas.er them down on the bald
spots. The other ten have lost the better
part Of whatever hirsute sdornment they
possessed
ToDD's QUART BILL.
II signs can be rightly read the first de-
bate In the general assembly promises to
come up over Senator Todd's siouart bill. ~
which was Friday pronounced by a
minority report of the temperance commit
tee Of the Senate, ''undemocratlc and IN
constitutional" The bill is being pushed
here in Atlanta by a lawyer in the
Lowrey Bank building, who drew
it up and turned it over to Senator Todd to
introduce. Copies of the bill will be on
| each senator's desk Monday. Senator
Cobaniss has been listening atteutively
whenever the bill was in transit, aud he
Will doubtless have something to say on the
subject when it comes up. Senators
Walker and Vincent of the temperance
committee say that the bill will be dead
letter" for any Law to be successful in its
aim must have the support of
the community in which the evil turks for
which remedy is desired. They say the
present law is effective, and anything more
stringent would be resented as a curtail-
ment OF the rights of citizens in free
country. Just how far the Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union convention will
tend to crystalline prohibition sentiment is
an open question, but the invitation TO Mrs.
Hunt, a temperance lecturer, to address the
general assembly Tuesday evening, does not
lind appreciation with some of the older
members.
THE SWAMP SALE.
The Oke6nokee swamp ssle promises to
figure in some shape or other before the
present legislature, aud those at the inside
of matters say that an investigating COM
mlttee may be the result of any airing the
subject may receive. This is another of
those subjects which have been left in the
background until the senatorship question
is settled.
A delegation of locomotive engineers are
here to go before the legislature, aud ask
the enactment of laws which will regulate
what they claim to be not only grievances
against their order, but requirements on
the part of the railroads which endanger
lives OF passengers and the property of the
roads. This delegation will ask the abolish
ment OF what they term the mileage"
system, l. e, paying engineers for the ground
covered They have had a conference with
Mr. Clifton, and will ask him to take in
hand whatever bill they draw I'D.
The voters of Fulton county have been
slow in action on the senatorial subject, but
when Speaker Howell urges the name of
Mr.. Patrick Calhoun and explains that in
so doing he believes he acts in compliance
with the wishes of his constituency Atlanta
voters get mad. A petition is to be circu-
lated, it is said, demanding that on Tuesday
Representative Howell cast bis vote for
General Gordon.
prominent Georgian, and one who has
for many years been identified with politics,
In speaking Of the yelled intimations con-
tanned in the speeches of Mr.. T. M. Nor
wood and Mr.. Gazaway Hartridge that
things had not been of late conducted
as they sLould be. says the end is not yet,
and that there may be further develop
ments which will afford interesting reading