The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-21
TRADE FOR SAVANNAH.
SHE HAS ONLY To REACH OUT AND
GET 1T AT TALBOTTON.

Remarks About the New Woman.
Other Matters of General Interest.
TaIbotton. Ca. Sept. 20.-To get to Tai
bottom you must leave the Southwestern
at Bostick. take the train over the branch
road. and in twenty minutes you are
there Just why your correspon-
dent is here il is needless
to say. but I am here. and find 1t
a very pleasant place for the waytarer'
as well as the man who has business, and
don't suppose that could DO your readers
a better service than 10 tell them some
thing about town that has a history
fun Of interest. 1t has a population Of JO'
several churches, a college, with a hb-
eraI patronage, a creamery, with a ca
pacity to use 800 gallons of milk per day.
a l5-ton oil mill and other industries that
bring trade from the adjacent country
In addition il has two weekly newspapers,
gotten up in good style and edited by
bright young men who are thoroughly up
in their profession. Some years ago as
much as 10000 bales OF cotton were mar
keted here; for this year probably not so
much, as the crop is short. The trade dis
tribution amounts to more than 100000 an
nually consisting of dry goods and gem
eral supplies / beg to suggest that this
trade is easily within the control Of Sa-
vannah, and no city can compete with her
if the railroad authorities give her fair
treatment. All the cotton grown in this
section finds an outlet at Savannah, and
If her merchandise is not made the sub
ject of discrimination, this trade should be
hers.
Having an idle hour to-day, ] went TO
the court house and found the circuit
1Fs4rf
This is the second week or criminal
week. as they call it here The docket
shows that fifteen Standardization
negroes and one white man-are to be
tried for such offenses as highway rob
berry, arson, burglary and larceny, and
crimes of minor grade.
1t will take the week to dispose of these
cases. Putting the running expenses OF
the court at Sl40 per day, we have $50
for the week. For the year IL costs the
tax payers of Talbot county considera-
bly, over 5000 to apprehend and take
care Of and try her negro criminals. The
negro population OF the county Is INV.
These are suggestive figures and worthy
the attention of the thoughtful men of
the country. An estimate for the state
on the basis here given, would show
that the tax payers of Georgia annually
must go down in their pockets for 100000
10 take care Of negro criminals But
this is by the way, as my purpose IN going
to the court house was to make note
OF Other matters. For more than fifty
years the bar has been famous as
nursery from which have come many
of the most celebrated lawyers of the
state This bar has furnished Georgia,
within the recollection of your corre-
spondent, one governor, -FOUR congress-
men. four circuit judges, and furnished
other places with material good enough
for any position Columbus now has
Judge Pou Col. W. A. Little, Col. G. j.
Thornton Judge j. II. Martin, Col. James
Worrill and Judge J. l.. Willis. 1t
would be hard to md 70 such sue n, an an
tants, and yet all these We're born in or
near this old town. Oscar Straus, late
minister to Turkey, was born here and
his brothers, Nathan and Isadore, were
residents here prior to and during the
civil war
heroes who have passed away can recall
Col l.. b. Smith of the Second Georgia,
who fell at Sharpsburg, Judge Worrill,
Judge j. T. Willis and Capt r. nj. Willis,
who died later, and whose remains are
peacefully resting in the little cemetery
on the hill that overlooks the town. But
we turn from the past to the present and,
if reports be true, several of the junior
members of the bar are likely TO be very
prominent in their profession in the next
few years. Among these IS Col. A. =.
Persons, the senator from the Twenty
fifth in the legislature of '92-93. He was
the author of two important bills that
passed both houses with but little or no
opposition. A bill defining contempt of
court, and a bill regulating state deposits
and demanding security for the same, are
the bills referred to. After the bills were
passed, the wonder was why these things
were never done before, and
Col Persons became famous at
he will be a candidate for the seat now
held by Col. Moses Should he be nomi-
mated and elected, then the Fourth district
will have one of the most brilliant. cap
able and popular representatives in the
House. He comes from a distinguished
ancestry. He is a son of Capt Henry
Persons who represented this district dur
ing the last years of the
Hayes administration, and his mother
is a daughter of the late Col Joseph Pou,
who came here from South Carolina more
than a half a century ago. Col. Pou was
patrician, in every sense, and died as
he had lived-abOVe reproach. Few men
have lived for a better purpose and few
have left behind them a better Influence
Although it is court week. and the US
ual crowd of such occasions is present,
the town seems wonderfully quiet. From
my window overlooking the public square
] can see as / pencil these notes, groups
OF men. here and there-now and then a
cotton wagon, and occasionally small par
ties of ladies passing along the streets.
The farmers look ''weIl-to-do" notwith-
standing all the talk about the poor far
mer," and the ladies-wel, they are very
pretty-an I've seen. l have about con-
cluded that l have found the ideal place
and l commend il above all the places I
have yet visited to those gallant knights
of the quill, who are worrying themselves
unnecessarily about the new woman -
This is my third day here and so far she
has not shown up. The Talbotton girls
are not given to skylarking on bicycles
and are still following the pretty modest
ways that distinguished their mothers
and grandmothers. The discussion is al
ready becoming stale and Improbable
and in some respects reminds one of the
pretty warm fight last spring, between
writers on this side, and some on the other
side of the Atlantic, when they We're dis
cussing the Revolutionary societies. -
that were being pretty generally organized
over here. The fight was finally narrowed
down to Mark Twain" and
NJ Bourget Frenchman.
of high literary attachments, and who
was in Savannah-if l mistake not
some time in April last.
The latter gentleman on his return 10
Europe published his criticisms of the
American people in a magazine and said
among other things that when the aver
age American was not absorbed in money
making, he was busily engaged in trying
TO find out who his grandfather was .
Mark Twain resented the affront and
comes back at him and said the average
Frenchman is never concerned about who
his grandfather was, but Is very much
concerned to find out who his father
was" Marks shot hit the bulls-eye-ii
was aimed at the weak spot in French
civilization and went straight to the
mark. The fight went on and waXed bit
ter, Bringing in Max O'Rell and Others
and proved TO be a -'bg to do" among
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