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B.RAY. BACKS IT FELTON.
A STONG PHILLIPIC AGAINST THE
LEASE SYSTEM.
The speaker Bids Defiance to the In
fluence of Gold-No Possibility of
Reforming the Criminal Classes
Under the Present Conditions-But
Little Done in tho Senate.
Atlanta, Ga., A us. s.—ln the Senate
to-day a large portion of the morning was
consumed in reading bills the second t ime.
Mr. Davidson, of the Eighteenth district,
introduced a bill to regulate the term of
office of members of the City Council of
Augusta.
The following bills passed:
To incorporate tho Planters’ Bank, of
Preston.
To amend the act incorporating Clayton,
in Rabun county.
To require itinerant venders of stock to
pay a license of SIOO for each county in
which they do business.
For the relief of A. Harris, Tax Collector
of Talbot county.
The Senate then adjourned to Monday.
In the House
In the House the Senate amendment to
the section for a joint committee to investi
gate the affairs of the Western and Atlantic
railroad and the State's property in Tennes
see was concurred in.
The hours of the session were again
Changed, and mill be hereafter from 9to 13
o’clock.
The House went into Committee of tho
Whole on the reformatory prison hill. Mr.
Simmons, of Sumter, concluded liis argu
ment of yesterday. He said that the hill
was impracticable. 110 contended that
reformation seldom if ever followed the ,
commission of a groat crime. lie road
from reports that at least nine-tenths of tho
convicts sentenced for such crimes had no
disposition to reform, punishment being of
no avail to produce it. lioaskisl would the
House take tills highest human authority or
that of the gentleman from liartow, that of
Hr. Mundav, or that of I)r. Felton. The
gentleman from Bartow was very consistent
lie never preverted facts. He quoted Dr.
Felton’s opening declaration that lie hud no
attack to make on tho convict lease and
said his speech was a most ferocious attack
on the convict lease system, but lie sug
gested no remedy in decrying the evils of
the system. Referring to the doctor’s
charge of undue intimacy between the male
and female convicts, he asked if his bill
made any provision to prevent it. The
Same keepers would overlook tho school of
reformation as the camps of tho lessees, and
have tho enforcement of’ the laws and
regulations.
PROVISION FOR KIND TREATMENT.
He read from the rules governing the
management of the convicts to show the
provision made for their humane treatment
and protested against I)r. Felton’s charges,
founded upon newspaper statements. He
asked if the Governor and the keeper could
not enforce these rules how could they lie
enforced under l)r. Felton's system I The
rules required two bods in each cell. A ne
gro with two bedsteads would he so puzzled
to choose between them that he would sit
up all night. No man was a 1 letter friend
to the colored peonlo than ho was, am 1 ho
believed that If it was left to
the colorod people of this coun
try he could lie elected President
of the United States. lint that, did not
prevent him from alluding to their vices.
He said that with a few exceptions they had
no regard for the marriage tie. lhey
thought it could bo dissolved at will. They
had no feeling of detestation of crime, but
were l ather inclined to make heroes of
criminals. The hill would tax virtue to sus
tain vice. The Bible establishes pains and
penalties for crime, and the llrst
sentence was pronounced in tho gar
den of Eden. Solomon said
“Spare the rod and spoil the child." Pains
and penalties for crime were thundered
from Mount Sinai and repeated from Oeth
semaii". Stand by virtue iii Georgia and
opposition to vice. Let the criminal suiter
for his crime. He pronounced “She" the
most dialKilieal lunik that was ever written.
If he should die,as warned bv Dr. Felton, ho
woulddio game and proud in the knowledge
that he was killed by the political chief of
Georgia.
MR. BRAY FAVORS IT.
Sir. Bray, of Fulton, followed jn favor
of a reformatory in what is pronounced the
ablest speech of the session. lie. said that
either extreme modesty or an incorrigible
hereditary laziness prevented him from
much speaking. Tho discussion had taken
u wido range and included tho convict lease
system of Georgia, He took occasion to say
that now and hereafter he was opposed to it.
If ho had the power he would rive it ns the
lightnings of the Almighty rives the forest,
lie would support the bill because it was
opposes! to the present system und would re
store to Georgia tho custody and control of
its own convicts. Wo have heard the lease
system extolled. The only difference lie
tween it and the State’s direct control was
that there was money in it for somebody.
There was a job’ in it. It puts
money and power in the
hands of a few' men. It is n monopoly.
Why does Nihilism and Communism gain'u
foot hold! It iAecauso we are establishing
monopolies everywhere. Here in Georgia
wc have established u monopoly of convicts
to compete with the honest lalior of the
people. The lessees wore enabled to run out
free labor and put money in their own
pockets. See what the brick industry now
is and what it u.-nvl to lie.
COVERED WITH MILDEW.
That camp on the Chattahoochee has
thrown its mildew over it, The lease
system builds n low at the expense of the
ninny. The gentleman from Dougherty had
pronounced it the grandest system the
world ever saw Mr. Hrav rcu'd from a
sermon delivered in Atlanta by Dr. Hav
go.! declaring that no government had the
right to transfer to anyone the power to
punish its convicts. If it did so to avoid
responsibility or expense it was weak and
Cowardly. The convict lease sytem <-ould
never have been devised but for a money
consideration. There could Is- no good and
wise legislation where a money con
sideration xvas paramount. These
views were os wide ns the
poles from those of Dr. Tucker quoted by
Mr. Amheiin. He Asked: “Has any ante
cedpnt Ilegislature the (icwer to restrict the
police power of this legislature! Has not
the legislature repr sentTng the sovereignty
of the State the right to deal with this
question:" He insisted that the Htate had
Me right to take charge of its
convicts without regard to the lease con
tract. He road trom authorities to sustain
this proposition. The lease system was horn
in the nineteenth century ‘and hail been
forced upon Georgia by a liastard govern
ment. Among the authorities remi was a
decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia
denying the right of the State to surrender
the police (lower over its convicts.
cocld be niviDEn.
He insisted that there eonld be a division
•f this (lower. Hoix-ferreii to the ease of a
hoy convicted after eight years eon line
ment of oonunitting murder in the vicinity
of Atlanta--a murder in the Penitentiary
and the State supposed to be present—
was that the exercise of its
police power? Would the crime
have born committed if the State had
maintained its police (lower over its con
vict®. (ie was afraid to speak of the man
agement of any of the cunuis. He believisl
that the system was simply infernal. Ho
believed that wo have tho authority to
pass this bill and ho Ijclieved
in Its principles. Referring to the
argument of the gentleman from Sumter
tliut there could b" no reformation, he said,
that was contiudietory to tho assurance
given to tho thief on t.ho cross, and to the
whole plan of salvation. Without it Christ
died in vain, and our religion is a cheat and
aauarc. He would lead u little reformu-
tory literature showing that seventy-four
reformatory schools in this country w ere
established or aided by the State, and that
7:1 per cent, of those discharged were re
formed. He had nothiug but admiration
for Dr. Felton, that grand intellectual white
headed old man. Time would sing his
praises and the angels of God would prolong
the applause.
THE I’OWE 11 OK GOLD.
He knew the power of gold and the power
of the men who jingle it in their pockets,
but ho cured not for it. Though he believed
the State had power to resume control of its
convicts, the bill before the House does not
interfere with the rights of the lessees. The
Supreme Court of Georgia had dis
tinctly said that the State could change
its system of convict punishment but even
if the court had not said it it was an indis
putable sovereign power if we have the
right to exercise it. Why not do it? Ah,
money again. We wore told beware liow
you levy taxes on the people. It was a
slander on the people to say that they wero
not in favor of honest government. You
stop jobs by which men make money, and
make labor content, and you will never bavo
cause to complain that the peo
ple will not stand it. To show
that he was not afraid of this
power he would say that the Western and
Atlantic railroad lea.se was an infamous
contract. Ho did not belipvo that the State's
sovereign power could 1* limited by a con
tract. He was not well acquainted with the
provisions of the ponding bill but ho wanted
to break up the convict Tense system.
GROWING DANOEROUS.
He would break it up if he could, or break
somelmdy’s nock. Replying to the charge
that Dr. Felton’s bill di<J not provide sulll
cieat regulations for the comfort of the
convicts, he said that it took
ten years to evolve the
present regulations of the State and
that the requirement was not a proper sub
ject for the bill, but for the superintendent.
Tlic last thought of a dying man was how
much good had he done, how much evil had
he avoided. All the arguments used by the
opposition to tho reformatory bill applied
to the lease system so all those arguments
full to the ground. Society at large, as well
ns tile State, has an interest in this question.
\\ ns not society us well protected by the di
rect power of the Stub: ns by the delegation
of that power to a few men. The
argument of these gentlemen resolved
itself to this—tlmt the State could not work
tb fi convicts profitably, but, the lessees could.
If that is the case, why not surrender the
courts and other departments of tho State
government to the lessees? The convict
lease system is an educator of crime, 1 localise
it denies the theory of reformation. But
treat the convicts humanely; teacli them
properly, and the instruction and ex|>erionee
of the prison will be as sacred to them as
the teachings of a sainted mother. Tho
("cmnitlee reported progress and the House
adjourned.
HALCYOND ALE’S FRESHET.
The Ogeechee Hi her Than it Was
Ever Known Before.
llalyaoniialk, Ga., Aug. s.—No rain
lias fallen here to-day. Tim weather was
very hot. The water in the Ogeechee river
is much higher than has been known for
years. The two bridges adjacent to this
place are washed away. Ilagin’s bridge is
totally lost. Some pilings are washed off.
Crops in tho river swamps are flooded.
The swamp fields of P. C. Elkins are
totally covered with water, in many places
six feet deep. Nothing is visible but a per
fect sea of water for several hundred acres.
The crops were fine. The water is clear ami
lias the appearance of not having come from
a great distance. AH the crops in this
vicinity are badly damaged. Cotton is
shedding its forms bud.
Arrest of a Murderer.
DarieEl, Ga., Aug. !i. —Officer Guyton
arrested Emmitt Fonder (colored), a Wilcox
county murderer, to-day. Fonder killed
Tucker Huger (colored) in September last
and escaped. The Governor's reward is
$lO9 and the county of Wilcox offered a
reward of $l5O, all of which Guyton will
get. Fbnder came hero on a raft and was
informed upon by several colored men who
were present at the murder. Fonder ac
knowledges the killing and claims self
defense.
Ready to Lynch Him.
Jonesboro, Ga., Aug. A—Yestesdoy
morning, about nine nfilos north of this
place. Mack Estes, a negro 10 years old, at
tempted to commit a rape on William
Odum’s 7-year-ohl daughter. The negro
has been arrested and is in jail at this place.
Tlio liailiff lind trouble in getting tho negro
here, as a crowd was after him, and hud
they succeedi* 1 in catching him they would
certainly have lynched him. From appear
;uh‘gs it is doubtful as to whether tho negro
will see the sun rise again.
A Terrific Thunder Storm.
Waycross, (la., Aug. 5,-rOno of tho
most terrific thunder storms ever seen in
this section visited Waycross last night.
The lightning was one incessant glare, and
Die reports like minute guns ut sea. Several
trees were struck and a cow in front of the
residence of Capt. Reynolds was killed. The
scene was one of grand magnificence.
A Gumo Goes by Default.
Surrency, Ga., Aug. 5. — Surrency and
Graham were to play agnmeof hall here to
day but the Graham club did not make its
apjienranoe, The umpire gave the game to
Surrency by a score of 9 to 0.
Two More Smacks Safe.
Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 5. — The Ashing
smacks Ado and Sarah L. Harding, two of
the smacks that have been absent since the
recent gules, and ns to whose safety some
anxiety has been expressed, arrived in port
last night. They both experienced extraor
dinarily heavy weather, but rode through
it without serious damage. The Ada suf
fered the worse of the two. There are two
more of the smacks unaccounted for.
Seven New Fever Cases.
Key M ust. Fla., Aug. s. —Seven new
eases of fever have been reported by the
Hoard of Health since yest erday and no
deaths.
Injured by a Fall
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 6.—D. J.
Crowley, Manager of the Western Union
Telegraph office here, had n severe full to
day and seriouly injured himself.
Start of tlio Sprite.
Charleston, S. Aug. s.—The pilot
boat “Sprite,"of Savannah, which has been
hero for ten days, with Capt. Marmelstein
mala party of ladles and gentlemen, sailed
for Savannah to night. The party have
hem the recipients of many social atten
tions and promise to come again. They
will go outride. .
Alabama’s First Bale.
Selma. Ala., Aug. s.—Alabama’s first
bAle of cotton was received here to-day by
Hooper ii Cos., cotton commission mer
chant-, from 11, S. Allen, of Newborn, and
was s. Id to P .rtridge & Cos. for 13 V- per
pound, n weighed 440 pounds and clawed
us strict low middling.
Evictions to bo Tested.
PITTHRL'RQ, Aug. s.—Tho officials of the
Knights of labor are perfecting their plans
for bringing a suit to test the legality of the
evictions of the salt works strikers ut
Nutronu, Pu.
Two Hotels Burned.
Dunkirk, N. Y., Aug. 5.*-The St. James
and Eastern hotels wore destroyed by fire at
13 o’clock last night.
There lire 2,400 unmarried women in the
foreign missionary field. A hateful liac.he
lor suggests that they go into the fluid lie
cause '.hoy are determined to boss some
body, if only a hoatheu male.— i'hiladrl-
Call.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1887.
CAPITAL CITY CRAYONS.
The Proposed Sale of the state Road-
Hardships of Convicts.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 5. —Thesul>-Finance
Committee of tlio House, charged with con
sidering bills for the sale and lease of the
State road, has agrood to report a resolution
authorizing the Governor to advertise for
bids for the sale or lease of the road, the
bids to lie published before the next Legis
lature convenes, and the final disposal if
the whole matter to be left to that body.
Tlio resolution w ill require a forfeit with all
bids for lease or sale as a guarantee of good
faith. The committee wid also recommend
a commission to make an inventory of the
property of the rood and have a conference
with President Brown to find out just what
Ids olaim is.
The Marietta and North Georgia Railroad
Investigating Committee held its first session
to-day since last winter. The committee
decided to meet next Monday and prepare a
report on tho charges against Messrs. Rankin
& Fain, anil decide upon the procedure on
the second branch of the investigation per
taining to the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad.
the penitentiary investigation.
The Penitentiary Investigating Commit
tee had before them this afternoon Supt.
Nelms, who desired to make a statement in
regard to the assertion Wednesday by VS'.
D. Grant that when his convicts were turned
over to the purchasers in 1884 Mr. Nelms,
then principal keeper, was present and acted
for Mr. Brown iii selecting and dividing his
convicts. Mr. Nelms says Mr. Grant made
this statement ignorantly or he wilfully
lied, one or the other. Ho was before the
committee simply to set himself right. He
did not intend tor Mr. Grant or any other
man to misrepresent him or place him in a
false position.
PRESENT ONLY AS AN OFFICIAL.
He was present on the occasion referred
to simply as n State officer in the discharge
of his duty. Mr. Towel's was put on the
stand in regard to the charges that convicts
had been worked on Sunday. He said be
fore tlic investigation began that he had
only heard of that being done at Oxlartown.
Since the investigation began he has learned
that it has been done at Rising Fawn.
Capt. English stated touching his
camps that at tho brick yards,
in burning brick the work lias
to go on and certain of the convicts who
are skilled work on Sunday under wind ion
of Gov. McDwiel and are paid for it, but
none of this work is compulsory. The only
other work on Sunduy is cooking, cleaning
up the barracks and inside yard and look
ing after tho stock.
Tlio Governor to-day granted tho order
pardoning Henry Redding Houston, a negro
who has been in the penitentiary nineteen
years for arson, of which he was illegally
convicted.
The Adjutant General lias received from
Washington the muster roils of the Fourth
and Fittli regiments of Georgia volunteers.
An Executive reward of S3OO has been
offered for the unknown murderer of W. li.
Clemmons, tho negro preacher killed here
on the night of July 30
J. J. Brener was to-day commissioned
Captain of the Seriven Troop.
CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD.
Clifford Anderson, son of Hon. Clifford
Anderson, the Attorney General of Georgia,
was unanimously eleeted Captain of the
Gate City Guard to-night.
Mary Commer, a working girl, swore out
n warrant for seduction to-day against Eg
bert Kirby. Kirby is a clerk in the Buck
ley spice mills, office on South Pryor
street. The girl eamo from South
Carolina several months ago anil applies!
for u position in the office. She was friend
less, moneyless and an orphan. For this
reason she was given a place. Buckley’s
suspicions wore aroused that all was not
right bv a note written some time ago by
Mary Cominer to Egbert Kirby which
note he picked up by accident on the floor,
lie charged them w ith tho crime They de
nied it, but when the note was produced
both confessed. The girl was sent to her
brother in South Carolina, who sent her
back to Atlanta. She asked Kirby to repair
the wrong. Ho declined and then she swore
out the warrant. Kirby is about 3b years
old.
J. 11. Strand, of Die Markham House wine
room, Sid J. Holland, of th > Bonanza wine
room, and Johh T. Conally, of the New Era
wine rooms, were all arrested to-day by de
tectives lor selling spirituous, malt and in
toxicatingyliquor. Violations of the prohi
bition law have become more frequent since
the wine room men have found out that the
throats to send them to jail are only u blutt'.
HIGH LICENSE.
Chicago’s Testimony to its Great
Power.
From the Inter-Ocean.
Perhaps uo city lias given high license a
more thorough tost than Chicago. Under
the operation of the high license law the
revenue derived from saloon licenses has in
creased from $300,000 per annjim to nearly
$3,000,000. The former rate was $53 {ier
annum. It is now SSOO. Under the old
rate there were m 1883 nearly 4.000 saloons
in tne city. There are now :>,!KH), not a very
signal diminution in number apparently,
but it is to Is* remarked in explanation that
the city has grown enormously in population
and in business since 1883, and, moreover, a
considerable urea of territory lias since been
a<l<led. Hod the former low license pre
vailed ut> to the present there would have
been fullv 0,000 saloons in Chicago.
An additional significant fact is that the
brewers, who largely control and influence
the saloon traffic, actually tiay the licenses
for, 1 should say, one-half the snloous. This
is done by wav of advances, or accommoda
tion. Were the brewers to refuse their aid,
and decline to advance the money, to pay
saloon licenses, I am satisfied the result
would be 1,000 fewer saloons in the city.
Flirting' in the Corridors.
Do in the IViiht’li'lphin Lcdjer.
Some time ago the chief clerk of the
Treasury I lepnrtnicut issue 1 an order pro
hibiting clerks from visiting and promenad
ing the corridors during business hours.
Prior to this regulation Die Treasury girls
spent considerable time in visiting each
other and in walking leisurely around the
i-orridors with favorite masculine clerks.
For a time tho new order effectually sup
pressed tho abuse aimed at, ns all persons
found visiting and walking about idly were
reported to the chief clerk The order still
produces good results, yet many male and
female clerks, with a disposition for flirta
tion, luivo devised a (dan liy which they may
enjoy o promenade of a mile without Doing
detected by tile minions of the chief clerk.
The Treasury building is ulxmt :&>n by *Xk
foot in dimensions. It is quadrangular in
form, with u central wing stretching from
east to west, thus converting the building
into a double quadrangle. Two elevators
located in distant i-orners of the building
carry nil vomers from floor to floor. The
length of the corridors of each story ex
tended in a straight line is a full quarter
mile, and as there arc four stories, we have
a full mile of corridors, forming, with their
tiled floors, frescoed walls, and vaulted
ceilings, a most charming promenade. To
be found loitering on any particular fl ier
is to insure a report and reprimand, and
repetition of the offence brings admonition
of suspension or discharge. Some of the
girls of the Treasury are smart, as well us
pretty, and have devised a plan by which
they may join each other and their beaux
without ‘ ar of the Chief Clerk and bis
sentinels Meeting at an appointed hour
and pliioo, these couples will promenade th >
entire length of the corridors of one floor,
and then, taking separate elevators so as to
avoid detection, will proceed to tho next
floor, and lsisuroly continue their “s;*oo.i
ing” while they make the circuit ef its' cor
ridors. This is repeated until they havetrii- ;
veined the coiTidora of the four floors, when 1
each will repair to his or her proper divis -
ion, using both elevators tor the purpose, i
having walked a mile, kille Ia half hour's i
time, “knocked out the eye of tli- Cnief
Clerk,’’ und had a “lovely time” while so i
engaged. i
GEN. BUTLER AND MRS. MUMFORD.
A Piece of War History by the Chief
Actor in It.
From the New Orlea me Picayune.
The Staunton (Va.) Vindicator recently
published an article stating that “it is said
Gen. Butler has tor years been able to re
tain in office in Washington the widow of
Muniford, whom he had hanged in New
Orleans.” Upon the publication of this
statement Mr. Lanier Dunn, of Warm
Springs, Va., who married a ward and
meeo of Gen. Butler, addressed a note to
the General requesting him to state the facts
in regard to Sirs. Mumford, and received
tlio folio wing answer:
Washington, June 34, 1887.
My Dear Mr. Dunn:
You ask me to state the facts to vou in
regard to the late Mrs. Mumford. 1 have
not made any public statement alxmt the
matter, because I didn’t care to bring her
name into prominence nnd expose her to
vulgar curiosity during her life. Her
husband, a man of some prominence among
his class, incited a mob and tore down the
United .States flag from the mint of the
United States after the surrender of the city
of New Orleans. The flag was torn into
shreds, and portions of it wore worn at tho
buttonhole ns a trophy by himself and his
associates. The fuels being made known to
me, ho was arrested, brought before
a military commission for trial, and
that commission found him guilty and re
jiorted him and his action to me, as com
manding general. After much thought
upon the subject I deemed it was for the
best interests of the people of the United
States, and especially of Louisiana, that an
example should be made of him specially,
because his act caine very near bringing a
bombardment upon the city by the fleet,
because tearing down the flag was a signal
that the city had assumed to consider itself
unsurrenderod and desired to open hostili
ties. I therefore ordered his execution on the
mint, at the place where he had torn down
the flag, which was done.
Shortly before his execution Mrs. Mum
ford called upon me to intercode for his
life. I told her that mv decision was irre
vocable. Sho was a Northern lady by
birth. I told her further that I regretted
the effect of my action upon herself and
family, and that if in the hereafter I could
do anything to alleviate her great misfor
tunes she might call upon me as a friend.
The best thing she could do for her husband
t hen was to go to her husband anil assure
him that his son ten re was irrevocable, and I
would give her an order to be admitted to his
presence, to stay with him as long as she liked
up to the time of his execution, and directed
my orderly to take her and her children in
ray carriage to tlio place of his confinement.
This was in the summer of ’62. Long af
terwards (I should say in ’6B) I received a
letter from a lady acquaintance of mine in
the north saying that she knew Mrs. Mum
ford, who was in distress, and sho told her
I had promised to befriend her when I could,
and asked me if I would allow Mrs. Mum
ford to see me at Washington. I answered
that I would be glad to see Mrs. Mumford
if she desired.
A few days afte r Mrs. Muniford called on
me, nnd in answer to my question how she
was getting on she gave me the following
narration: That soon after her husband’s
death n subscription had been made in the
South for her and her children’s benefit of
considerable sums of money, 1 nit. as it was
Confederate money it had not been much
benefit. That a considerable portion of all
of it hod been placed in the hands of a trus
tee, a clergyman, I think, who had bought
for her some land in Wvtheville, Va., and had
built a house thereon, but which hadn’t been
quite finished. There was a carpenter’s lien
on her house, and it was about to bo closed
upon that carpenter’s lien and she would
los" it unless sho could get money enough to
pay the carpenter. I told her I would look
into the matter, and if she would call a
couple of days afterward I would tell her
what. I could do> for tier. 1 telegraphed to a
gentleman in Virginia, who hod charge of
some property of mine, and asked him to go
and investigate Mrs. Mumford’s matters
at Wytheville, and to pay whatever was
necessary to save her house. Ho went and
immediately telegraphed me how matters
stood, and that the carpenter’s lien was
something like SBO, which lie adjusted and
charged to rnv account. Mrs. Mumford
called and I told her what had been done,
and she was very grateful. •
1 then said to her: “How are you to live!”
She said all she had to live upon was what
she and her children could earn or raise
from the land, of which there was a very
few acres. “But,” I raid, “how are your
children to lie educated, then?” She said
she didn’t know. “Well,” 1 said, “you
never can get on in that way. I will see if
anything else can be done for you, and if
you will call on me in two or three days I
will seo what can be done." I further said:
“Madam, you have been very profuse in
your thanks to me; will you do me
the favor to put what you say
to me in writing in the form of n
little note? lain going out now, nnd you
can write it here at my table and leave it
for me, and ns you snv you are stopping at
Alexandria with a friend, if you will call
to-morrow or next day I will tell yon
whether I can do anything more for you.”
On my return I found her note, very well
written and well composed, showing that
she was a lady of education. What I
wonted of the note was that it should lie a
sort of civil service examination to ascer
tain if I could recommend her for a ole^k.
1 was satisfied and went to my friend,
Mr. Commissioner Douglass, of the in
ternal revenue bureau, and told lum
that 1 imio have a clerkship for a lady if
possible. He told mo that it was hardly
possible, he thought, but lie would see if
there was a vacancy. I told him the story.
I said: “I don’t want to give any recom
mendation to be put on fUo, because it
would call attention to the Indy’s nArno,
and might lie unpleasant to her.” Like a
true gentleman, he said, ‘ 1 Very well; smd
tho lady in with your card and I’ll sre that
she lias work in my burealn” The next
day Mrs. Mumford called. I gave her my
card ami told her where to go and j
present it. and she got a clerkship,
which she filled very creditably unti' the I
coming in of Hayes’administration.
Vpo'i that event, as was usual, I suppose,
the lists of clerks were looked over to find
places for Die friends of the new adminii
tration, and as Mi'S. Mumford appeared on j
the list without any influential men lie-
Idnd her, she was, of course, discharged.
Meanwhile, as she had told me, (as I saw
her perhaps once a year), she had disposed
of her property in Wytheville, brought her
children to Washington, and sent them to
school and supported them by her earnings.
I learned of tlto fact of her discharge from
her, and she was in groat, sorrow. Where
upon i went to the Treasury
Department and asked ' the ap
pointing officer to restore her. 1 met
with a decided rebuifl. 1 was no more pop
ular with Hayes’ administration than it was
with the people. 1 went to the Secretary of
the Interior, with no better success. ( then
went to Postmaster Genera I Keyes, n “Con
federate Brigadier,” and I laid down on him,
told him the whole story, and said that she
wa; one of his friends. He nppoiub-d her to
a place in his department, which she filled
very acceptably, 1 believe, through the ad
ministration mid afterward*. At least she
never coiiuilulned to me of any trouble, and
1 have known nothing of her affairs since
until 1 heard of her denth.
1 saw in the Southern newspapers not, un
freqnently Unit sbo was bringing up her
children and just rii -ting them in a vendetta
against me. indeed, it went so far that
when I was at the Chicago convention in
’SI it was published in Chicago that there
" a* n sou ot .Muiiiford's en route from some
Western territory to kill me in revenge for
his father's ihnth, and I was advised by my
friends to lake great care to let no strange
man get near me. I told them that. If 1
hvisl until someone of Mrs. Mutubird's
children lolled me I should reach a ripe old
age, an I laughed ut that foolishness, as I
have o-.-as:o i to laugh at. much other newa
("ijs-r 1). (IISCIIV-
I iiriv i is iin tted to miv further that
th -re is a :;vv eheti • ■ ef feeling apparently I
eo.uo m •. ; op'.o hi ragoid to I
I my being justified in the execution of Mum
-1 ford for hauling down the American ting,
! because I saw a letter of Gov. Fitzlmgh Lee,
when speaking of the return of the Confed
erate flags proposed by the President, in
which he winds up by saying: ‘‘lf any man
hauls down the American flag let him bo
shot on the spot.’"
I hope I have fully answered your inquiry.
I am, my dear Mr. Dunn, very truly yours.
Benjamin P. BuTlkr.
THE GREAT TUMBLE WEED.
The Terror of the Prairies in Times
Gone By—A Wichita Production.
From the Wichita Journal.
Mr. W. F. Neiderlander, the prominent
real estate man, lias on exhibition in the
window of his office a fine specimen of the
curious plant known as the “tumble weed.”
This specimen was taken from the old fair
grounds last year after tho grounds tyero
abandoned. The plant is a mass of branches,
spherical in form, and so tightly interwoven
as to form almost n compact mass. Like
the earth this globular mass of branches is
flattened at the poles—only more so. The
present specimen is about five feet at its
greatest diameter. Mr. Neidnrlander says
he has seen specimens fully twice this size.
This weed once grew plentifully through
this country and Colorado. IV hen green
they present a very pretty appearance, and
look more like a dwarf tree than a weed.
They are very dangerous in case of a prairie
lire, and often dangerous in plain wind
storms where there is no fire. In case of
fire, tho flames seem to strip the plant of its
leaves, and it at once goes rolling before the
flaming hurricane, a perfect wheel of fire.
These revolving wheels of fire will jump any
ordinary furrow or lire break, and carry
fire into the timber or grass, as the case may
be. Nothing can stop their progress but a
river. Into those they jump, leaping out
into the stream forty, fifty or sixty feet and
go down with a hiss, throwing up a column
of steam where they sink.
“I have seen hundreds of these plants in
Hurle r county and tho Siqnashie Valiev,”
said Mr. Neiderlander this morning. “When
started to rolling in a fire no ordinary horse
cau run before them. Once, in the Si
quashie Valley, I only saved myself by
driving my team into the river, which I
fortunately reached just in time.”
In Colorado wind-storms these weeds are
also a source of much danger. In Middle
Dark a few years ago a party of travelers
were suddenly overtaken by a storm. See
ing what they supposed te be a mass of huge
bowlders in the distance thev made for
them, thinking they would afford at least
partial shelter. To their surprise as they
approached, the bowlders suddenly broke
loose and commenced rolling toward
them at a furious rate, cut
ting all sorts of curious capers and
gyrating menacingly as they came. At
times they would strike un obstruction and
bound high in the air, and again striking
tho ground, resume their rapid circular
motion. The travelers put spurs to their
horses, and it was only by the greatest
effort that they managed to escape from
the track of these monsters. On examina
tion. they found their supposed bowlders
were really immense weeds, which had
been torn up by the roots by the wind
storm.
These weeds are so solid that t hey are a
great menace to man and beast under such
circumstances. Impelled bv a heavy wind,
they go with force enough to kill a horse,
and a human being is in great danger if he
cannot get out of tile track of these mon
sters when they are running before a hur
ricane or in caso of a prairie fire.
Weather Indications.
Special indications for Georgia:
1 RAIN ■cal rains in the southern portion,
| fair weather in the northern por
tion, winds shifting to northerly,
nearly stationary temperature.
Comparison of mean teaineraturo at Savan
nah, Aug. 5. 1887, and the mean of same day for
fifteen years.
Departure j Total
Mean Temperature Irom the Departure
Mean Since
for 15 years Aug. 5, ’£7. -J-or Jan. 1,1887.
-j 1 7 122.8
Comparative rainfall statement;
sass SFH*
WTB.
.28 .AO 1-1- 28 I— 1 88!
Maximum, temperature 90.5. minimum tem
perature 75.4.
Tho taught of the river at Augusta at
1 :33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 23 0 feet—a fall of 8.2 during the past
twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin for 34 hours end
ing Op. in., Aug. 5 1687. 75th Meridian
time.
Districts. j Average.
Nvme l N Max - Min - Rain
lions. Tenq. Temp fall.
1. Wilmington ; 10 i 90 72 i .31
2. Charleston....... 8 94 72 .00
8. Augusta I !2 94 72 j .21
4. Savannah I 13 I 92 72 .03
5. Atlanta I 10 j 90 72 10
8. Montgomery | 9 ; 92 72 ,10
7. Mobile j 9 I US 72 .38
8. New Orleans 11 j 50 74 .19
9. Galveston 20 j 98 70 .00
10. Vicksburg 4 91 74 .34
11. Little Rock I 15 | 96 I 74 16
12. Memphis | 10 ! 94 > 74 I 28
Averages... I | .... | |
Observations taken at the 6mo moment
of time at all stations.
Savannah, Aug. 5, 9:30 r. city time.
Tampers turn.
Direction. | i?
Itainfu.ll.
Name
or
Stations.
Portland .18 S 1 Cloudy.
Boston 7.P S ... Cloudy.
black Island 74:.... .. Fair.
Now York city 78 8 Cloudy.
Philadelphia t 78 8 K ... Fair.
lH‘tpoit ' 70 N ... Cloudy.
Fort Buford j 70 SIC i (. Fair.
St. Vincent I 58 8 ! ...(Clear.
Washington city.. | 80S E. Clear.
Norfolk i 78 s K: 0|.... Fair.
Charlotte j 74 MV .. Cloudy.
Unit crus I
Titusville j Hv 8 K in ('lenr.
Wilmington K; W t. ...(Clear.
Charleston ftl'SW s ''tear.
Augusta j HOIS E 1 .. Cloudy.
Savannah | 78 8 , , ('lenr.
Jacksonville ! 818 E o ! Cloudy.
Cedar Keys 84 W 0 01 Cloudy.
Kev West 84 N K s < leir
Atlanta .. 7H W tl Cloudy.
Pensacola tS IV . Clear.
Mobile. 7t)(NW[..i i Clear.
Montgomery .... 70 N E :.... Fair.
Vicksburg 7i W 58 Raining.
New Orleans 74 W ,I.UBCloudy.
Shreveport 80' N |. I Fair.
Fort Smith. % 78 S ! Cloudy.
Galveston 84 S !C Cloudy.
Corpus Christ!... 84 8 F 10 CNir.
I‘ulestine 80 NEIO . Fair.
Brownesvl'lo. 8(8 E,.. j . (Clear.
Itio Grande 84 8 8 : t'lcar.
Knoxville 70 8 W Cloudy.
Mem phis 70 BWI .. .Tldtaining.
Nashville 711 W I | 54 Raining.
Indianapolis.. .. 74 KW 1 .j 04 :cloudy.
Cincinnati NdNWi | Cloudy
Pittsburg 84 8 ....(Fair.
Buffalo 78 W (( loudy.
Cleveland 70 8 F.|.. 18 Clear.
ManpieUc oo NU ! (Clear.
Chicago i 74 NW Clear.
Duluth i| 04 NW . (Clear.
St. l'uul 08 NW (Clear.
Daveti|>ort. | 74 N'Vj Clear.
Cairo 84 N , Cloudy.
bt. Louis .... 84 NW. t’lcar.
lA-uvenwortb .. .1 74 NW .. 'clear.
Omaha 74 NW ICI-ar
Yuukton G#NW|.. clear.
Bisinarel; 04i K. | Clear.
Dead wood o!bW Clear!
Oheyonue 04 b (Jiear.
N'orih Platte 00 8 E Clear.
lKslge City 74 N 17 Clear.
Santa Fe |
GN. sliest Corns. T T .K. Army.
Books are w AOiAaay iMjw Ltuat ums poorest peo-
Cle can buy and own thorn, and the richest can
um>w uad kAMiu lhaatr— Aew OrioatiaiVougutre.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
GILI.ROY.—The friends and relatives of Mr.
Thomas Gillroy are respectfully invited to at
tend bis funeral from the resilience of Mr. Wil
liam H. Devlin, No. 7 Gordon street, at 10
o'clock THIS MORNING.
MEETINGS.
STOCK HOLDER S’ ATTENTION.
The seventh regular’ monthly installment of
the Metropolitan Savings and Loan Company
will lie due on or before TUESDAY the #th day
of August, 1887. H. C. DAVIS, Treasurer.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
, NOTICE TO WATER TAKER*.
Office Water Works, I
Savannah, Aug. Ctb, 1887. (
In consequence of the incontpletion of the re
pairs to the broken sewer on Day street, the
water will be shut off TO-DAY (Saturday) at 10
o’clock a. m. in the district included from
Broughton to Bryan street, and from West
Broad to Abercorn street, and also on Bay
street from East Broad to West Broad street,
and will remain off several hours.
A. X. MILLED. Superintendent.
METROPOLITAN SAVINGS AND LOAN
COMPANY.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
A dividend of 2W. per centum from the first
six months’ earnings of this company has been
declared, and will be payable in cash at the of
fice of the company on and after AUGUST
20TH, 1887. H. C. DAVIS. Treasurer.
NOTICE.
The public is hereby notified that I will not be
responsible for any debts contracted by any one
in my name,
GEORGE W. MATT AIR.
TIIE MORNING NEWS
STEAM PRINTING HOUSE,
3 Whitaker Street.
The Job Department of the Morning News,
embracing
JOB AND BOOK PRINTING,
LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING,
BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK
MANUFACTURING,
isthe mostcomplete in the South. It is thorough
ly equipped with the most improved machinery,
employs a large force of competent workmen,
mid carries a full stock of papers of all
descriptions.
These facilities enable the establishment to
execute orders for anything in the above lines
at the shortest notice and the lowest prices con
sistent with good work. Corporations, mer
chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business
men generally, societies and committees, are
requested to get estimates from the MORNING
NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE before send
ing their orders abroad. J. H. ESTILL.
RECEIVER’S NOTICE.
Bahberville. Fla., July 27th, 1887.
All parties holding claims against the firm of
BROWN & ODUM, of Barberville, Florida, are
hereby notified to send in same at once to me.
By order of the court.
JOSEPH LICHTENSTINE, Receiver.
DU. lIENUY b COLDSNU,
DENTIST,
Office comer Jones and Drayton streets.
ILMEH’s LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to tho sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other
ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be
excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, SI. D.,
Pharmacist. Savannah, Ga.
PROPOSALS WANTED.
Proposals for Paving.
City of Savannah. Ga., )
Office of the City Surveyor, >
July 89th, 1887. )
I PROPOSALS will he received until WEDNES
I DAY, August 24th, at .S o'clock p. m ,
directed to Mr. F. E. Re barer. Clerk of Council
of the city of Savannah, Ga., for the paving of
that portion of Congress street in said eity lying
between the east property lino of West lirotid
street and the west projierty lino of Drayton
street; also, that |*>rtion of hull street in said
city lying between the south line of Congress
street and the north lino of State street, being
a total area of about eight thousand square
yards.
The proposals may be for granite, grawacke
or asphalt blocks or for sheet asphalt, the speci
fications nf which will l>e the same as given by
the Engineer department of the District of Co
lumbia in their report for lSSfi.
Any person desiring to hid upon the above
work, but use different specifications from those
enuixiorutcd above, may do so provided that a
copy of the sj)ecifieations upon which they bid
is enclosed with their hid.
All bids for grawacke, granite or asphalt
blocks must l>e accompanied by a specimen of
tin* blocks intended to lie used.
Separate bids will also be received for the fur
nishing and laying of about thirty-five hundred
running feet of curbstone, of either blue stone
or granite of the following dimensions; four
inches broad, sixteen inches.dm*p, and in lengths
of not less than live feet. Tha curbing to be
dre .sued on the too ten inches from the top on
the front face ana four inches from the top on
the rear face; to be perfectly straight and
square on the ends.
The right to reject anj r or all bids is reserved.
For further information address
J. naIiRUYN K< )PS. Jr.. C. K.,
Acting City Surveyor.
State
or
Weather.
WINKS AM) LIQUORS.
FO H s aTI e!
H Select Whisky §4 CO
1 laker Whisky # 4 no
Imperial Whisky ,3 00
l*iuoapnle Whisky 00
North 1 'arolina Corn Whisky mi
OM Kyo Whisky 1 50
Hum Ww Kurland aiul Jamaica.. sl 50 to <*o
Rv* *i*i<i iioiiuM'l 4. .h .. 4 1 ro to a 00
lirandy—Domestic anJ Comae ] 50 to 0 uu
w j n ks.
Catawba Wine .$1 onto 31 iso'
Blackberry Wine l Onto 1 50
Madeira, Forts and Sherry* l no to 3 (X)
PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL.
A. H. CHAMPION,
151 CONGRESS STREET.
HARDWARE.
EDWARD LOVELL 4 SUNS.
HARDWARE,
In and Turpentine Tools.
Office: Cor. State and Whitaker streets.
Warehouse: 138 and 140 State street.
PRINTER ANl> JIOOKHINDER.
~lß3i- FIFTY-THREE YEARS—ISB7
~|.£'|"'7 SSSHTSt 7,7.7 W. M .
GEO. N. NK’MOLS,
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o.n
nooKy.
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AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATRE?
MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 8.
GRAND BENEFIT
FOR THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
A RARE TREAT IN STORE.
More Comedy! Fun Again!
•THE FORDS,
IN BRONSON HOWARD’S
SARATOGA,
OR, PISTOLS FOR SEVEN.
Twenty funny characters requiring every
member of the Association for its production
Read the great cast on the bills. New and ele
gant dresses. Staffing bv entire company.
Tickets §l, SOe. am! 35c. Reserv'd seats on
sale at Davis Bros.’ without extra charge. Box
sheet opens Saturday at 8:30 a. in.
VACHT' RACE H?
AT
MONTGOMERY
Under the auspices of the
ISLE OF HOPE YACHT CLU
IT will be over the best course on the coast to
i)e finessed by tho spectators on shore, us
it will lx: a repeating race, and the boats pass in
full view of ail of the popular resorts on tho
Vernon river. There are a largo number of en
tries, and a very exciting race may be expected.
Trains leave the city at 10:25 and 12 o'clock.
The latter is a special train, and will wait at
Montgomery until the race is over to carry par
ties to the Isle of Hope and bring them to tho
city.
The following are the entries:
First Class—Etta, T. L. Kinsey; Irene, L. A.
Falligant; Fdith, Clifford King; Vivien, O. E.
Brown; Blonde, R. M. Demere; Madonna, D. W.
Mayer.
Second Class—Zinga, J. H. Dews; Jennie S.,
R. M. Demere.
Third Class- Idler. A. L. Hartridge; Marie, U,
E. Bee; Sprite, Fred Lillie.
Fourth Class—Siren. F. 11. Thompson; Undine,
F. 11. Ferguson; Agile. S W. Mayer.
Fifth Class—Nina, Geo. W. AVylly; Curlew, R.
M. Demere; Anna C.. Julian Schley; Katrina, F.
M. Beviile; Krminie, F. E. McArthur.
—- ■■■ '■ jo
DOORS, SASH, ETC.
ANDREW HANLEY^
DEALER IN
Doors. Sashes, Blinds,
Mouldings, Etc. *
AU of the above are Best Kiln-Dried White Pine.
ALSO DEALER IN
Builders’ Hardware, Slate, Iron and
Wooden Mantels, Grates, Stair
work, Terracotta, Sewer
Pipe, Etc., Etc.
Paints, Oils, Railroad, Steamboat and
Mill Supplies, Glass, Putty, Etc.
Lime, Plaster, Cement and Hair.
Plain an<l Decorative Wall Paper, Fret-coeing,
House and Sign Painting given jiersonal atten
tion and finished in the best manner.
AN I > HEW HANLEY.
PUBLICATIONS.
THE WILMINGTON STAR?
REDUCTION IN PRICE.
Attention is called to the following reduced rate*
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One Year $0 00
Six Months 3 CM
Three Months 1 50
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Six Months til
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Puzzle given as a Supplement with tho MID
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"Christmas Puck.'' as that was to all nteytaus
publications in tho same line. Mailed oh re
ceipt of price. Address all orders to
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