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VOL. 6.—NO. 21.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Explosion of a Corn Crib —The Swaim
Court Martial A Murderer Sen
tenced After Many Years—• Cold
Weather in Texas—Mortality
Among Convicts Minor
News Items.
Royston, Ga., Jan. 22. —James Shirley,
of this place, packed his corn tightly in
cribs and left it uncovered. The rain yes
terday caused the corn to swell until it burst
the crib open violently and an ear of corn
struck a negro on the temple, killing him
instantly.
EMORY SPEER.
His Confirmation to be Vigorously Opposed
—The Savannah and Macon Bars Urge
Against It.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Times.
Washington, Jan. 22.—Representative
Nicholls to-day received a telegram from
General A. R. Lawton, Chairman of the
Savannah Bar Association, stating that the
Association had adopted a resolution urging
the Georgia delegation to oppose Speer’s
confirmation as U. S. Judge for the South
ern District of Georgia.
Representative Blount also received a
similar dispatch from from Mr. G. W- Gus
tin, representing the Macon Bar Associa
tion. Mr. Nicholls yesterday had a personal
interview with Senator Brown on the sub
ject, but the latter’s reply was unsatisfactory
and non-commital.
Mr. Blount says Mr. Brown will probably
support Speer’s continuation. Senate' Col
quitt and every Democratic Senator except
Brown will make an urgent effort to defeat
Speer.
A DEATH HOLE.
Mortality Among Tennessee Convicts.
Nashville, Jan. 22. —A sensation has
been caused by the report of the Chairman
of the Committee on Prisons to the State
Board of Health, regarding mortality among
prisoners in the State Penitentiary here.
The report says that out of 1,323 convicls,
205 have died within two years. The
ground on which the prison is situated is
largely composed of night soil and other
filth, having been used as a burial place so;
such matter before the prison was built.
The water which is used in the prison fil
ters through this poisonous soil.
JUSTICE AT LAST.
A Murderer Sentenced After Many Years.
Little Rock, Ark, January 22—In
1879 a band of disguised regulators took
Franklin Hall from his home in Clay county
and whipped him severely for abusing his
family. Five of the band were recognized
by Hall who threated to kill them. Three
nights later Hall was assassinated and Fav
ette Milton was arrested for the crime and
convicted. On the evidence of the lawle s
gang, backed by powerful influence and
money, he got the case appealed, and a stub
born fight for his life has been made in the
courts The Supreme Court has just affirmed
the verdict of the co rt below, and Milton’s
sentence to be hanged will be executed on
the 30 th inst.
COLD WEATHER IN TEXAS.
New State Officials Inaugurated.
Galveston, Tex., Jan. 22.—Telegraphic
communication with Austin has been irn
peded for two days past on account of sleet
and snow. The mail brings information that
Governor Ireland and Lieutenant Governor
Barnett Gibbs were duly inaugurated Tues
day and entered upon the duties of their
offices.
FIGHT WITH KNIVES
lu Which Two Men are Killed.
Augusta, Ga , Jan. 22. - Bud Coffell and
Ed Johnson intruded upon a dancing party
a few nights ago, and a dispute arose between
them and two brothers named Bill and
Warren Lowe. The result was a fight with
knives, in which f'otell aud Johnson were
fatally stabbed. The Lowe brothers have
been arrested.
BUSINESS IMPROVING.
100.000 M“n Gone To Work.
Baltimore, Md, Jan. 22—The Man
ufacturers Record has official reports show
ing that 100, OqO men have gone to work in
manufacturing enterprises since January Ist.
A Village Flooded.
Canajoharie, N. Y., Jan. 22. The wa
ter rose suddenly yesterday and fl-oded this
village. Thirty houses are surrounded, and
in some of them the ground floor is subs
merged The New York Central tracks are
in danger.
Steam Line Transferred.
Galvesmon, Texas, Jan. 22 —An order
has been promulgated discontinuing the
Morgan line of steamers, plying between
this port and New York, and transferring
them to the New Orleans and New York
line.
Schuyler Colfax’s Will.
South Bend, Ind., Jan. 22. —The will of
the late Schuyler Colfax disposes of property
valued at $550,000. It all goes to the family 1
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1885.
THE SWAIM COURT MARTIAL.
Views in Regard to the Probable Verdict
—The Charges Against Morrow, Etc.
Washington, Jan. 22.—The Swaim
court martial is expected to come to an end
soon. The outside opinion is that the court
will find General Swaim guilty of the
charges, not because of the evidence ad
duced substantiates them, but because
of the inside pressure on the part
of the War Department to get him
out of the army and make a place for
some other officer. The talk among army
officers, however, is that the court will
acquit Gen. Swaim, and that the verdict will
be followed by new charges on the part ol
the Secretary of War, necessitating a new
trial. The cost of the trial thus far is esti
mated from twenty to thirty thousand dol
lars. The same court is to try Col. Morrow
for alleged duplication of his pay accounts,
and unless new charges are preferred
against Gen. Swaim it is ex pected the court
will begin taking testimony in the Morrow
case.
The prosecution is likely to find itself by
next Monday embarrassed by the fact that
the duplicated accounts were all destroyed
when Co'onel Morrow gave a new voucher
to cover his pay for a couple of years in ad
vance. The brokers who held the dupli
cated accounts will refuse, it is understood,
to testify against Colonel Morrow, and if
they do this it is going to be difficult to
make out a case against that officer, although
many persons in Washington knew all about
the affair at the time it occurred, and enter
tained no doubt but that the facts were also
known to the War Department a year be
fore charges were preferred.
THE STATE CAPITAL.
Miscellaneous News Items.
Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times.
Atlanta, Jan. 22. —Two freight trains
on the Central Railroad collided near
Jonesboro yesterday afternoon. Both en
gines and several cars were greatly dam
aged, but no one was hurt. The track was
cleared last night, and the midnight trains
went oat as usual.
The East Tennessee Railroad suit is still
in progress.
The Capitol Commissioners are still in
I session. Nothing of interest has beeu done
so far.
The Constitution figures up this morning
that a million and a half dollars worth of
buildings were erected in Atlanta last year.
THE EXPOSITION.
A Handsome Subscription.
New Orleans, Jan. 25.—Major Burke
made a statement of the Exposition finances
yesterday at a meeting of the Cotton Ex
change, and $40,000 was subscribed towards
the £60,000 which he said would tide the
enterprise over its difficulties.
New York Stock Market.
New York, Jan. 22.—At 1:30 p. m. to
day quotations were :
Union Pacific 113%
Missouri Pacific 33%
Western Union Telegraph Co □;%
Pacific Mail
Lake Shore "0%
Louisville and Nashville 23%
Texas Pacific 23%
Denver and Rio Grande .8%
Michigan Central •»
Delaware, Lackawanna A West’n 84>.,
Northwestern 39%
St. Paul ;2*»
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy U<%
Oregon Transco'utinental 13%
Northern Pacific 38
Rock Island
Jersey Central 32%
Memphis and Charleston 25%
East Tennessee, Va. A Ga (coni) 3%
East Tennessee, Va. A Ga. (pfd) a
Philadelphia and Reading l->%
Omaha (com) 24%
Omaha (pfd) .". 8-;%
New York Central M>%
Kansas ami Texas
Now York Produce Market.
New York, Jan. 22. —Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat, No. 2 red winter, Jan
uary 92; common, No. 2 mixed, January
521. Oats, Na. 2 mixed, January 36}. Pork
dull, mess sl3 25a13 50. Molasses moder
ately active; domestic grades 4§.to 52 Tur
pentine steady at 301a31. Rosin dull; re
fined cutloaf fi|; granulated 66}, confec
tioners standard SJaSJ-. Tallow steady;
j prime city 6J.
Chicago ’Change.
: Chicago, Jan. 22. —At the opening wheat
was firm and a trifle higher; February, 80c;
March, 80} c; May, 86jc. Corn steady but
quiet; May, 41}c. Oats firm and higher;
May, 31Jc. Lard steady at $6 85 March
Pork steady at sl2 40 May. Bulk meats
dull at $6 15 March; $630 May.
Adjourned Out of Respect.
Washington, Jan. 22.—The United
States Supreme Court adjourned over to-day
as a mark of respect to Justice Matthews,
whose wist died this morning.
A K 20.00 Biblical Reward.
The publishers of Rutledge’s Monthly
offer twelve valuable rewards in their
Monthly f r February, among which is the
following :
“We will give S2O 00 to the person telling
us the longest verse in the Old Testament
Scriptures by February 10th, 1885. Should
two er more correct answers be received,
the eward will be divided. The money
will be forwarded to the winner Februiry
J sth, 1885. Persons trying for the reward
must send 20 cents in silver (no postage
stamps taken) with their answer, for which
they will receive the Monthly for March,
in which the name and address of the win
ner of the reward and the correct answer
will be published, and in which several
more valuable rewards will be offered. Ad
dress Rutledge Publishing Company, Eas
ton, Penn.”
Probabilities.
Washington, Jan. 22.—For the South
Atlantic States, colder fair weather, north
erly winds and higher barometer.
THE REAGAN BILL.
LITTLE PROSPECT OF ITS BECOM
ING A LAW.
The Senate Opposed to It and Insisting
on a Commission—The Reason for the
Opposition—Easier for a Camel to
go Through a Needle’s Eye Than
for the Present Senate to
Pass this Measure.
Washington, Jan. 22. —It is a general
expression of opinion that the recent vote
on the Slater amendment to the Cullom
inter-State commerce bill is a clear indica
tion that the Senate will not pass any mea
sure on that subject that will be acceptable
to the House. The Slater amendment pro
vided that no greater chargts should be
made for a short haul than a long one and
it was voted down by 32 to 11. This propo
sition is the very essence of the Reagan bill.
The Senate insists on a commission, the very
thing which was rejected by the House
The House committee reported a bill pro
viding for a commission, but the House
would have nothing to do with it and passed
the Reagan bill by a large majority. Now
the Senate proposes to foist upon the House
that provision which is most objectionable
to it and make it swallow that or get noth
ing. The Senate wants a commission and
the greater the number of commissioners the
better. Senator Cullom’s bill proposed three
Senator Allison wanted to amend by making
five the number, and then Senator Harrison
jumped in at the last moment with
his amendment increasing the number to
nine.
Senators explain their vote against the
Slater amendment by saying that it did not
go far enough. They say that “it is as un
just to charge as much for a short haul as a
long one as it is to charge m re for a short
than a long haul.” For the reason, there
fore, that the amendment did not prescribe
rates that freight would be charged for in
accordance with the distance it is trans
i po t?d, which everybody ag ees could not
be done by Congress, these Senators voted
against doing anything at all towards pre
venting unjust discrimination. It is the
general opinion that a commission would
be useless, if not worse than usele-s. Tie
commissioners would have to be of adaman
tine morality to remain honest iu the presence
of the bribes that would be offered for dishon
est conduct. It is thought by those who
have watched their course in this matter
closely that the reason the Senate is so de
termined to have a commission is that the
House will not agree to it, or if it agree that
the commission will prove worthless for the
purpose for which it was created. Fu
ture discussion will probably discover
more clearly the object of the Senate, as the
question will be upon the striking out of all
after the enacting clause in the Reagan bill
and the substitution of the Cullom bill pro
viding for a commission.
Eighty per cent, of the members of the
Senate are lawyers; most of them are cor
poration lawyers The remaining twenty
per cent, are, with one or two exceptions,
capitalists and members of corporations
which act in sympathy with railroad cor
porations. It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for any
adequate measure prohibiting any tar-jus
discrimination in the carrying of freight to
pass the United States is a summary of the
opinion of the supporters of the Reagan
bill.
Mr. Reagan wanders over to the Senate
every afternoon and stands around in a uis
consulate way, with his bands in his pock
ets, with no one to comfort him. There is
a strong suspicion that three or four Sena
tors favor the Reagan bill, but it only a
suspicion.
WAS THIS MAN A TRAITOR?
Jefferson Davis’ Farewell Speech.
Jefferson Davis made a long farewell
speech on Thursday, the 10th of January,
1861, at the commencement of which he
said: “Tears aie now trickling down the
stern face of man, nd those who have bled
for the flag of their country and are will
ing now to die for it stand powerless.” As
he proceeded, he referred to the possession
of Fort Sumter, and slid that he had heard
it said by a gallant gentleman that the great
objection to withdrawing the garrison was
an unwillingness to lower the flag. “Can
there,” said he with dramatic effect, “be a
point of pride against laying upon that
sacred soil the flag for which our fathers
died ? My pride, Senators is different. My
pride is that that flag shall not set between
contending brothers; and that, when it shall
no longer be the common flag of the coun
try, it shall be folded up an ’ laid away, like
a vesture no longer used; that it shall be
kept as a sacied memento of the past, to
which each of us can make a pilgrimage.and
remember the glorious days in which we
were born.” In concluding his remarks, Mr.
Davis invoked the Senators to so act that
“the angel of peace might spread her wings,
though it be over divided States; and the
sons of the sires of the Revolution
might still go on in friendly intercourse
with each other, ever renewing the memo
ries of a common origin; the sections,
by the diversity of their products and hab
its, acting and reacting beneficially, the
commerce of each might swell the prosperity
of both, and the happiness of all be still in
terwoven together. “If there cannot be
peace,” he said, “Mississippi’s gallant sons
will stanl like a wall of fire around their
State, and I go hence, not in hostility to
you, but in love and allegiance to her to
take my place among her sons, be it for good
or for evil.” Ben. Perley Poore.
“ROUGH ON COUGHS.”
Ask for “Rough on Coughs,” for Cough
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troche
15c. Liquid, 25.
The recent cyclones in the B>outh and West
have done terrible damage to life and prop
rty, but there’s one comfort left—the people
lamor for Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.
FROM WASHINGTON
■ Talk Over Speer’s Nomination—General
Opposition Thereto—Chances of Con
firmation Not So Bright
as Might Be.
: Special Correspondence Daily Times.
Washington, Jan. 20.—Mr. Emory Speer
has captured the Presidential nomination
for the office of United States Judge for the
Southern District of Georgia, notwithstand
ing the fact that several more worthy gen
-1 tiemen were applicants for the place. The
- nomination is one thing, but getting con
-1 firmed by the Senate is an entirely different
matter. Should the Georgia delegation in
■ Congress make the determined fight against
> Mr. Speer’s confirmation which they now
- propose, his chances of being the successor
, of Judge Erskine are not so bright as the
. friends of Mr. Speer are trying to paint
them.
Senator Colquitt is quite indignant at
, Mr. Speer’s nomination, and will use all
, honorable means in his power to prove to
his fellow Senators that the confirmation of
Mr. Speer will be a great injustice, if not an
- insult to the people of Georgia, especially
■ those who reside in the Southern Judicial
I District. The Senator says further, that
I President Arthur has made a strange mis
take in making such an appointment after
■ allowing the office to remain vacant over
. twelve months. It is not in accordance with
the principles that he has laid down to jus
. tify certain other appointments in the South
If it was found that a Republican had to he
appointed, there are many men in Georgia
who are for better qualified for the office
than Mr. Speer. He cannot command the
respect of the members of the bar, nor of the
| people to whom he is expected to deal out
justice.
I Ex-Senator Norwood was on the floor of j
the Senate to-day, and held a long consulta- '
tion with Senator Colquitt on the subject of !
Mr. Speer’s confirmation. He says that a
vigorous fight will be made against the con-
I firmation and that it will be almost impossi
' ble for a majority cf the Senate to disregard
such appeals as will be made against it by
I the people of Georgia. Members of the bar
throughout the State will hold meetings, and
i draw up pelitions protesting against Mr
j Speer’s confirmation. The strongest kind of
, pressure will be brought to bear upon the
President, in the hope that he will reeog
! nize the error he has made and withdraw
the obnoxious nomination. Mr. Norwood
, ; says there would be no serious objection to
such a man as Mr. Goodyear, who was
t among the candidates, or in fact any man
. who was popular among the profession and
the people.
, Representatives Blount, Nijholls and
J Crisp are outspoken in their opposition to
; Mr. Speer. Mr. Crisp says such an appoinl
ment is an outrage upon the people who live
r in the Southern district. L.
’ MACON MATTERS
’ Excirem-nt Over the Supposed Discovery
of au Oil Well—Opposition to Speer
—Social and Other Matters.
Special Correspondence Daily Times.
, Macon, Jan. 21. —To-day Mrs. Mary
1 Dean, who occupies rooms over the store of
Messrs. W. C. Turpin & Co., Fourth street,
I sent a servant out to get water for the pur
pose of washing; the girl went to an old
> well iu the rear of the store and drew some
■ water; it had the appearance of oil; she
i called Mrs. Dean to look at it. She sai :
“I believe my soul it is kerosene oil./
: Mr. Turpin was sent for. He was aston
ished, and had several buckets drawn, which
proved to be all alike. He called several
i gentlemen in to examine it. A paper satu-
■ rated with it burned quickly; and lamp was
i secured, and the substance gave a brilliant
light. It was declared that an oil well hed
been discovered. The well is 29 feet deep,
I and has not been used in seven years- It
became dry about sev; n years ago. Consid
erable excitement has resulted from the
; discovery.
1 i The Macon bar held a meeting to-day
protesting against the confirmation of the
’ I nomination of Emory Speer for District
'I Judge. The result was telegraphed the
- j Georgia Senators.
I The students of Mercer University will
begin a monthly paper called the “Clarion”
next Friday.
The officers of the various fire companies
1 I will meet to-morrow night for the purpose
1 1 of nominating a candidate for Chief of the
, department, to conform with the result of
order issued from the City Council last
night ordering a new election.
i j The members of the Southern Cadets
i will fit up a nice gymnasium. An athletic
, association has been formed by them.
. The social world is gay. To-morrow night
, a dance by the Social Thalians.and Friday
1 night a dance by the Purians ’will be the
i two occasions of the week, and both promise
unlimited pleasure. Wynton.
City Court.
' City Court met at 10 o’clock yesterday
i morning, Wm. H. Harden, Judge, presiding:
■ Maggie Spang vs. George Deiter. Breech
, of promise. Case still on trial at close of
. this report.
, The case of William Frazier and wife vs.
: the Charleston and Savannah Railway
i Company. Action of damages for injuries
■ received by the wife, caused from the throw
ing off of an engine tender a large piece of
iwi, is set for trial at 4 o’clock this after
noon.
A Momentous Question.
New York World.
The momentous question which is agitat
ing the California Legislature j ust now
seems to be whether the Pacific rai Iroads or
Claus Spreckles shall own the next alleged
United States Senator from that Sta te. In
any event some great corporation will have
another superserviceable instrument in a
body already packed with representative ! of
special inteiest.
‘ROUGH ON ITCH.’
“Rough on Itch” cures humors,eruptions
ringworms, tetter, salt rheum, frosted feel
hilblains.
Linen collars, latest styles, standing and
tarn-down, reduced from 15 to 10 ce at L
dried’s.
PARKS AND GROUNDS.
THE LUNGS OF OUR AMERICAN
CITIES.
. How Public Taste in This Direction Has
• Grown—Central, Fairmont, Druid Hill
and Other Notable Parks—The Fore
, sight of Oglethorpe—What South
ern Cities are Doing in the
Way of Health, Pleasure
and Beauty.
From the Southern World.
BY SYDNEY ROOT.
In the youth of our American cities no
one could have anticipated their prodigious
growth, few understood the laws of hygiene
■or thought of the beneficial results to the
1 health and morals of their broad, open |
I spaces in or near the centres of population,
[ and few indeed cared for the refining influ-
ences growing out of highly improved and ■
well gept parks.
1 Since the remarkable development <
taste in this direction during the last twen
; ty-five years, the well-meant efforts of iur |
I fathers seem almost ludicrous. But what I
j was done was largely beneficial. Take the
I city with which we are most familiar, New
York, for illustration. What a blessing was
that triangular bit of ground of perhaps
eight or ten acres opposite the Astor House,
i known as “The Park.” What a joy it was to
I the overworked dwellers of the city! and
when the great fountain was put io, which
by the way was one of the finest in
the country, what a delight it
was to us strangers to visit the park and
see the spray thrown 30 feet in the air. Two
miles up Broadway was a nice little place,
which being round, was called Union Square
i and still farther, almost in the country, was
i Madison Square, where 30 years ago, the
I corner stone of a great monument to Wash- |
ington was planted with great pomp and
ceremony. The stone is probably there
yet, it never sprouted, and Madison Square
is quite down town.
Other cities were scarcely as well pro- |
vided. Chicago had two small squares. St
Louis, somewhat better off, had LaFayette
Park of about twenty acres. Boston, it is
true, had ti e “Common,” in which was the
historical frog pond, but the place was little
more than a common. Major I’Eafant, un
der the eye of Washington himself, had laid
I out the capital city on a grand scale, but
the open spaces, which are now so beautiful,
were then without form and void.
I suppose the first impulse towards a ,
wider and more artistic improvement came
from the lamented Downing—one of the
most accomplished landscape gardeners in the
world. The country sustained a great loss ,
when, through his unselfish heroism, he
i lost his life in striving to rescue the passen- ;
! gers from the ill-fated Henry Clay which I
: was burned just below West Point. He
I was just before then engaged in beautifying
the public grounds in Washington, where
LaFayette Square and the Smithsonian
grounds still testify to his wonderful culture
and skill.
Out of the interest Downing excited
sprang the Central Park of New York, the
practical details of which were suggested
by a Virginian. The work on this noble j
pleasure ground of 864 acres has been in
progress over 25 years, at a cost of about j
i $15,000,000. It is claimed that this is the
most elaborate work of the kind in the
I world. In my somewhat extended travels
in this country and Europe I have seen no
! park which, combining nature and art in
high perfection, equals Central Park, and it
is to be observed that the city, which paid
the cost, more than recouped from the in- ,
creased assessments of adjoining lands. To
Frederick Law Olmstead and Richard Vaux
belongs the credit of designing and perfect
ing this exquis.te work of art.
New York setting the example, a gener
ous spirit of emulation spread through the
country. Philadelphia commenced Fair- i
mount Park, a lordly domain of over 2,700
acres (the largest single park in the world)
i lying picturesquely along the nanks of the ;
I Schuylkill. Baltimore fo’lowed with su-.
I perb Druid Hill. Chicago began to encircle i
’ that miracle city with a chain of parks,
beautiful South Park, covering 1,000 acres,
= and St. Louis, not to be outdone, pro
ceeded to lay out a series cf
parks, one of which, Forest Park, em
braces 1,300 acres. As all this requires a
I long time and heavy sums of money, most
i of these great works are still incomplete,
Central Park alone approaching the time
I when the “construction account” can be ,
closed. To give an idea of the thorough
way in which this kind of work is done, it
may be mentioned that the best and most I
durable roadways cost from $15,000 to $lB,- |
000 a mile.
The above refers to new work. Pend
ing its progress old Boston has braced up,
i beautified the historical Common, added on j
i the “Public Gardens,” and projected many j
enterprises away out from the tangled maze
of the streets of New England's hub, while
Washington (with government aid) working
upon the plans of its illustrious founder,
has expended over $20,000,000 on its streets
and parks, so that it is now one of the most
beautiful cities in the whole world, in evi
dence of which it is to be noted that some
300,000 trees have been planted during the
last 12 years.
All of these grounds have been adorned |
with costly statuary, fountains and sculp- j
ture —Washington and Central Park pro- I
fusely—the former furnished by the govern- i
ment, and the latter generally by liberal
and public spirited citizens. This generous i
aid extends to all the parks in the country,
is, for instance, the donation to the South ;
Park of Chicago of a superb fountain, cost- j
ing $25,000, by Mr. A. ,J. Drexel in mem- I
ory of his father.
The limits of this paper forbid me to
1 speak of the great pleasine grounds of Eu
rope, many of them the growth of centu
ries. The liberal scale upon which the
pe< pie have been provided with breathing
: places in the midst of densely peopled
cities, may be shown by the fact that mem
bers of Parliament often drive, in a nearly
direct route through the London parks, to
Westminster Palace, for seven miles, with
out seeing a house.
Looking over our Southern world, as com
pared wi'h the grounds mentioned above,
we see but moderate results from ths recent
S6OO A YE VR
a'ithetic awikening. This comes from two
causes: First, the general devastation anil
’ desolation of the late war, and second, our
cities, in the nature of things, being gener
j ally small and their surroundings affluent
of sylvan beauty, highly kept parks were
I not thought of. Savannah, the city every
s J body loves, has numerous little squares
provided by that wise thinker, Oglethorpe,
j and in late years a broad space of perhaps
I fifty acres, called, for want of a name, “The-
I Park” and the “Park Extension,” in the
former of which, en passant, is a replica of
the famous fountain in the Place de la (lon
cord. Macon has a large and lovely park
on the banks of the Ocmulgee, which is the
! seat of the Georgia State fairs. I think it
j has never been highly improved. Os course
j all our cities have, generally, “squares,”
! but they can hardly be called parks, al
though they are a great boon to the citizens.
' Coming nearer home let us look a moment
|at the “L. P. Grant Park” of Atlanta. This
; came trom the munificence of the public
spirited citizen whose name it bears, who
gave the town 100 acres of valuable land on
, the southeast edge of the town “for park
I purposes forever” Accepting the donation,
the city appointed a commission to take
charge of the proposed improvements.
The ground, which was quite rough, but
i with an agreeable variety of hill and dell.
I watered by numerous springs and covered
with a magnificent flora, was singularly
picturesque and well adapted for park pur
poses. It required peculiar and careful
treatment and an elaborate topographical
survey and map was first secured and the
work begun. Considering the comparatively
small amount expended, the re
sult is most gratifying. About four
miles of avenues have been open
ed and scientifically graded, some
three miles of walks graded, over thirteen
hundred feet of drain pipe of different sizes
laid, and a general transformation effected
which indicates the possibilities of beauty
which the future holds for the good people
lof Atlanta and Georgia. The superb bronze
j sun dial (probably the most unique in the
world) the gift of a former citizen of At
lanta, W. F. Herring, has been worthily
I mounted, a large bronze drinking fountain
! for horses and one for men have been set,
and elegant pavilion completed. As the
I purpose of this paper is not to glorify the
Gate City, I will give no further details of
what has been done or what is proposed,
but without doubt the city fathers will cher
ish this great gift of Mr. Grant’s, keep its
management in intelligent control and out
of politics, appropriating from time to time
such sums as may be required, until the
park shall become a thing of beauty and a
i joy forever”
i Other enterprises similar to the above,
but for private use, are now projected on a
liberal scale in and near Atlanta—as the
Peters Park, on the north side of town,
. which is intended for suburban residences.
and which, under the present able
s ment, will doubtless become a great acces
j sory in stimulating a love of nature in its
cultivated forms.
You a k me how the present spontaneous
( movement in the South will resul ?
I answer unhesitatingly, beneficially.
The more rapidly the South grows and be
| comes more densely populated, the greater
| the necessity of encouraging a love of nature,,
of presi rzing and beautifying some place as
I near the centre as population as possible,
, ample grounds where the overworked peo
; pie with their families may resort for rest ,
i recreation and communion with nature.
Miss Mattie Vickers To-Night.
Concerning the charming young protean;
a’tress, Miss Mattie Vickers, who appears
i at the Savannah Theatre to night, our con
temporary the Nashville Banner, in a.
, lengthy article says :
“A new candidate for public favor in the
I person of Miss Mattie Vickers made her
first appearance at the theatre here last
night, and she has been compared by some
to Lotta and half a dozen others, but comes
nearer being a second edition of the ‘Fairy
’ StaP of thirty years ago than any of those
whose names appear upon the bills as her
prototype. I’his ‘fairy star,’ if she may he
; termed such, is very clever and she is well
. worth seeing by all who would
j enjoy a hearty laugh. She had a
very fair audience last night, and
nearly all became her admirers
early in the play. She can sing fairly well,
dances with grace and a skill which can only
be attained by long practice and careful
study, imitates other actresses so vigorously
that she wins hearty applause by it, anil
she gives a very taking entertainment
throughout. A capable comedian, in the
i person of Mr Chas. Rogers, renders efficient
aid by his humorous exhibits and tragic ca
pacities, and the remainder of her company
play as well as is necessary to make the
piece go off nicely. If approbation is any
, lest of merit, Miss Vickers showed plenty
of it last night, and Mr Rogers was alsc
; awarded a fair mead of praise.’'
A MURDEROUS ASSAULT
The Assailant in Jai l .
On the 20th of this month Henry Roberts
a young negro about 20 years of age, and
bearing a splendid reputation as an expert
thief both in Augusta and this city, without
any provocation whatever threw a rock at
and knocked down a Mr. Samuel Lewis,
living on Bryan, between Jefferson and
Barnard streets. The rock struck Lewis on.
. the head just at the edge of the hair and
immediately over the eye. It seems that
the negro I oy had had some words with him,
or at least had attempted to, when he stepped
j off a few rods, and, picking up a
| stone knocked Lewis down. At first it was
thought Lewis was dead, as he lay like a lop
where he was floored. He however, managed
to get up and was taken to the Savannah
Hospital, wherehis wound was bandaged.
Y esterday he had a warrant issued from
the olli e of Magistrate Thomas J. Sheftall,
for the arrest of the boy, but he had
already been captured by the police
and was then in the barracks. However,
he was turned over to Mr. Sheftall
this morning, aud by him committed to
jail on the charge of assault with intent
to kill.
“ROUGH ON CORNS.”
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4uick comnlete cure. Hard or soft corn,
warts, bunions.