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MACON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 12. 1881.
VOLUME LY-NO. 32
A ttlVEU Ji*m.
Lucinda, dearest, Meath the bending tree,
Stooping to kiss the stream that lares its
feet
I'll draw the boat, and, thinking but of
thee.
Will luncheon eat
Mark bow the placid tide flows smoothly
by;
Note yonder bank aglow with golden
gorss;
Tis nature's spade bank. What’s in that
pie?
Uh! Steak, of course.
Sip life’s sweet eup of joy, love, in thia
For thee’no after taste, no bitter dregs,
Tis neotar. Bah! I’ve told you I cannot
Eat hard-boiled eggs.
The dappled shade of willow and of ash
Spreads o’er the verdant grass, for thy
sweet sake,
And love—the salad dressings gone to
smash,
And soaked the cake!
What ? Hang it all! Each day I speak in
Tain*
Lucinda, this is eh&znsfal—only look!
Ko mustard on the sandwiches e?ain!
Discharge that cook ?
GEORGIA LEGISLATUBE.
A UK Md Vigorous DiMUMtea eftbo
Coavlet Lease Bill Occupies Alaaeat
llie Whole Day In the House, Md la
Yet wet Concluded.
Spieial Cor. TtUjraph and iletsenqer.
Atlanta, August S.—Senate met at 10
o’clock.
Several reports were made from stand
ing committees.
SEW BILLS.
Senator Maddox, a bill to punish the
otlenseofstealingabaleormore of cot
ton. Judiciary.
Senator , a bill to require the agents
of nurseries located out of the State to pay
a tax in each county in which they propose
to sell. Judiciary.
A number of the House and Senate bills
were road the second time.
The committee on temperance submit
ted a bill. One hundred copies of it or
dered printed for use by the Senate.
This is the bill of which a synopsis was
sent you the other day.
Secretary ifarris being absent, Mr. H.
H. Cabanks, his assistant, was elected
secretary, j»ro tern.
BILLS ON THIRD BEADING.
A bill to pay L Y. Savrtell $50 lor wit
ness fees. Passed.
A bill to revise tbe calendar of the Su
perior Courts for all the counties of the
Brunswick circuit. Passed.
The Senate concurred In the House res
olution to appoint a committee to investi
gate the sale of the Macon and Biunswick
railroad. «*• s '
HOUSE.
The House met at 10 o’clock. Prayer.
Roll call. Reading of the journal.
Mr. Middlebrook moved to reconsider
the action of the House adopting the ad
verse report of the committee on finance
on the bill to repeal the State depository
law. v
Mr. Middlebrook advocated, and Mr.
Miller opposed the motion. The motion
to reconsider prevailed.
CALL OF THE COUNTIES.
Under the call of the counties, the fol
lowing new bills were introduced, and
referred as noted:
By Mr. Kell, of Calhoun, to change the
time of holding the spring and fall terms
of the Superior Courtsof Calhoun county.
By Mr. Post, a joint resolution to raise
a joint committee to investigate the sale
-of the Macon and Brunswick railroad,
with power to send for persons and papers.
Adopted, and sent at once to the Senate.
By Mr. James, of Douglas, a local bill
to amend an act to repeal the act estab
lishing commissioners of roads and rev
enue for Douglas county. Special judi
ciary. Also, a bill to compel inspectors
of fertilizers to report to the com
missioner of agriculture, showing the
amount and descriptions of all fer
tilizers used in each county of the State,
with information as to their adaptation to
partlcularsections. Agriculture.
By Mr. Jackson, of Carroll, to compel
persons having control of county fands to
sell insolvent tax executions. Judiciary.
Also, a bill to authorize all persons un*
sble to do manual labor to peddle with
out license. General judiciary. j
By Mr. Turner, of Floyd, a bill to in
corporate the Rome Canal and Water
Company. Corporations.
By Mr. Lamb, a local bill to define tbs
authority of the commissioners of Glynn
county in regard to the bonds of county
officers. Special judiciary.
By Mr. Hutchins, to confer additional
powers on incorporated towns and villages
of the State. (Gives them power to punish
on the chain-gang.) General judiciary.
By -Mr. May.-!, a local bill for the ap
pointment of police for Richmond county
outside of Augusta. Special judiciary.
Also, a bill to establish a city court in
Augusta, with jurisdiction over the whole
county of Richmond. Special judiciary.
By Mr. Jackson, of Richmond, to
amend section 1,502 of the code, in refer
ence to the inspection of grain. General
judiciary.
By Mr. Adderton, a bill to encourage
and promote emigration to the State.
(Authorises the commissioner of immi
gration to have printed in European lan
guages a pamphlet setting forth the ad
vantages offered by the State of Georgia
to Immigrants. Also gives the commis
sioner a salary of $2,000.) Finance.
Under a suspension of the rules, tha
House took up the Senate resolution rela
tive to the settlement of the boundary
l'ue between the Stales of Georgia and
South Gamlina, and the alleged violation
Of the settlement by citizens of Georgia.
Under a farther suspension of the rules,
the House took up the bill msking an ap
propriation of $20,000 for an official repre
sentation of the State at tbo International
Cotton Exposition to be held in Atlanta.
Tbe committee had amended by substi
tuting ten for twenty thousand dollars.
The bill was read a second time.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
The bill of Mr. Barrow, to extend to
part of Clarke county the provisions of a
local bill prohibiting the sale of liquor.
Passed.
The bill of Mr. Twiggs, to appropriate
money and to provide for the preparation
«f a general history of Georgia, was
taken up in committee of the whole. On
motion of Mr. Twiggs, the cc-nmlttee rose,
reported progress, and obtained leave to
sit again, and the bill was made a special
order for Thursday next.
The resolution authorizing the State
Treasurer to sell $1,000 of the bonds of
the county ot Baldwin, now in the State
treasury. Passed.
The bill of Mr. Basinger, to provide for
the payment of two bonus of the State of
Georgia, issued during the administrations
of Governors McDonald and Cobb, due in
1S72 and 1873, was considered in com
mittee of the whole, and afterwards pass
ed the House by yess 10C, nays 0.
By Mr. Davis, of Habersham, a joint
esolutlon for tbe election of a judge and
olicitor ot the northeastern circuit ou
Monday next at 12 o’clock. Agreed to.
Under a suspension of tbe rules the
House took up the Senate bill to amend
an act to enable purchasers of railroads
to form corporations, and give them
further time to complete the roads, was
read a second time.
The bill of Mr. Davis, of Lumpkin, to
appropriate $20,000 to rebuild tbe Agri
cultural College at Dahlonega, was made
a special order for Wednesday next.
The bill to provide for the levying of a
tax of one-tenth of one per cent, on all
taxable property In tbe State, to be ap
plied to the purposes of education, was
msde a special order for Tuesday of next
week.
The bill to incorporate the Savannah
Fire and Marine Insurance Company.
Passed..
On motion of Mr. Northern, a resolu
tion was adopted, requesting the Gover
nor to return the bill providing for public
schools in Saudersville, so as to allow its
amendment.
A message from the Governor, an
nounced his approval of the bill to or
ganize a new judicial circuit, to be called
the Northeastern circuit.
Adjourned to 0 o’clock to-morrow.
Atlanta, August 9.—Senate met at 10
o’clock.
The House resolution to appoint a com
mittee to investigate the sale of the Ma
con and Brunswick road, which passed
the Senate yesterday, was reconsidered
and laid on the table for the present.
Reports were made from several stand
ing committees.
Most of the day was consumed in dis
cussing the bill to charter the Planters’
Warehouse of Camilla. The bill propos
ed to relieve stockholders of all liability.
The bill was amended so as to make
them liable and in this condition was
passed.
A number of bills were read the first
and second time.
DILLS ON THIRD READING.
A bill to prohibit the sale or liquors in
Laurens county. (The bill leaves it to a
vote.) Passed.
A bill to prohibit the sale of liquor
within three miles of Shiloh and Bethle
hem churches in Polk county. Passed.
A bill to amend section 4109 of the code
in relation to post mortem examinations.
Passed.
A bill to fix the place of sheriff sales in
Baldwin county. Passed.
A bill to amerd an act fixing the
amonnt of license in Wayne, Coffee and
Appling counties so as to include bitters,
etc.
A bill to fix the pay of jurors of Coun
ty Courts. Passed.
HOUSE.
Prayer. Roll call. Reading of the
journal.
SPECIAL OSD EH.
The bill reported from the penitentiary
committee, to piovide for the better in
spection, management and control of the
convicts of this State.
This bill was taken up as the special
order, immediately after the reading of
the journal.
Mr. Milner, of Baitow, chairman of the
special committee that made the late re
port on the condition of the camps and
treatment of the convicts, made a state
ment of the circumstances under which
the committee was appointed, and of their
action. He referred to the charge that
the scheme proposed by the committee
bad been gotten up for political purposes.
This he denied and denounced as a false
hood made out of whole cloth. In 1870
the Legislature passed the lease act.
Three incorporated companies then leased
all the convicts of the State. That act
has no more practical eflect upon the
present system than if thcro wore no such
statute in existence. We have no such
penitentiary system as will stand the test
of civilization and humanity—there is no
other like it. Section 3 of that act re
quires that the goxenior shall stipulate
for the erection of a prison, hospital and
other {hnildings, on some island on the
scacoast, or at some othersuitable locality
—the buildings to be commodious and
erected at the cost of tbe lessees; a physician
to reside on the island or other place se
lected, and to furnish all needed medi
cines, etc., all convicts not put to work in
mines, etc., to be sent to this place, which
was to be known as the penitentiary of
Georgia; the principal keeper to make a
monthly inspection, and the governor
might at any time appoint a suitable per
son to inspect it. He contended that tbe
intention of the Legislature had been
wholly defeated by the mode of adminis
tering the law. There had been no such
penitentiary on the Island or elsewhere,
there bad been no monthly Inspection.
The convicts were scattered throughout
the State from the seaboard to tbe moun
tains. He confessed witb shame and con
fusion that the penitentiary system is a
disgrace to civilization and Christianity.
He made his attack upon the system itself.
The principle upon which the penitentiary
system should exist could not be applied
unless the bill proposed is put into prac
tical operation. There is an eternal war
fare between crime and society. He be
lieved crime to be on tbe increase In Geor
gia. What become of tbe convicts ? Geor
gia now turns them loose. She sends
them one hundred or three hundred miles
to a convict camp, and then surrenders
them, and no representative of the State is
there to enforce the sentence.
Mr. Twiggs asked whether It was true,
as reported, that white convicts were
flogged by negro bosses ?
Mr. Milner said he bad no wish to say
a word that would stir up excited feelings
but he would reach and answer that ques
tion. The convict is left iu the bauds of
the lessees. At one camp there was one
system of government, at another camp
another system; but all have bosses, and
tbe treatment of tbe bosses diflert greatly.
Humane bosses treated tbo convicts hu
manely—others the reverse. Passionate
men—men whe cannot control themselves
—could uot properly till such positions.
The system, being subiect to these evils
and abuses, should be corrected. An
agent of tbe State ought to be placed over
the convicts. It punishment is necessary,
let it bo punishment by tbe State. There
Is no officer cf the State who knows
whether the convicts have had their
breakfast this morning—none who know
whether they are suffering from disease or
inhuman treatment. The whole tbiDg is
a disgrace to Geoigia. The system sub
jects the convicts to any treatment tbe
lessees may bestow or permit. The true
principle is that society should aim at tbe
reformation of tbe convict. Thank God,
that we can say that tbe principle of tbe
barbaric ages should not, ought not, and
cannot exist in Georgia.
The committee had found a convict at
one of the camps who was kept there
without authority of law. He had made
an effort to escape, and was run into a
brash-heap; the boss set lire to tbo brush-
heap and burnt him out, and an unmer
ciful wldppping, witb a leather strap, was
given him. This was one case; but go
any day, take any camp by surprise, and
who can tell what night be foand? Tills
treatment is brutalizing. When turned
loose, the convict Is ready for any crime.
It was the duty of government to treat
these people humanely, to punish them,
but to do it rightly. The committee want
crime punished, but punished by the
estate. The cry that the committee want
ed to board the prisoners—to “rent the
K<raball House for them”—was Intended
to draw away attention from the facts of
the case. The cast of men who hi; a them
selves as guards, as a general rale, are ut
terly unlit to be managers of men. They
are hired at the lowest price. Yet the con
victs are subjects to them. True, the rules
forbid tbe guards to speak to the con
victs, but these rales are disregarded.
The committee had evidence, that they
lai punished the convicts-brutally. Is it
right ? The lessees may be humane, but
they are not always in. the camps; they
know not what is going on when they are
absent. Tbe lessees’ profits are in the
work and savings of tbe system. There
is no man on earth who ought to have
such control over liis fellow-men who Is
swayed by such considerations. The
whole management was tamed over to
men who owed the Stale no obliga
tions. There was more dependence on
dogs and guards thsu on proper buildings.
As long as the present system was main
tained these adjuncts would be mam-
talned. The lessees did not expect to do
the work of reformation, and tneir man
ner of treating the convicts tended to de
grade rather than to reform them. Tbe
State of Georgia had uo right to shirk her
responsibility in this way, Georgia was
in many eespects the foremost State of the
South, but in this respect she was
far behind otherStates. Let her put tbe
control In the bands of three good men
appointed by herself. There must be a
centralized head, with power to manage
and control the system. The $25,000 an
nually derived by tbe State from the pres
ent system is blood money. He wanted
it turned into the proper direction—to be
a blessing to tbe Stale and a blessing to
the convicts. He related a sad case of tbe
despair and desperation of a convict, and
said there was no hope in the system; it
is driven from the breast of the convict by
his treatment. It makes him an enemy
to the State, an enemy to society, and
drives him to despair. He closed with an
eloquent appeal for tbe appointment of
good men, under the control of the State,
as tho managers of tbe system.
Mr. Winslow, of Houston, in a speech
imperfectly heard by the reporter, opposed
the bill and took issue witb Mr. Milner
both as to facts reported and the recom
mendations of the committee.
Mr. Post, of Coweta, forcibly and elo
quently advocated the bill and report.
Mr. Lonon, colored, of Dougherty coun
ty, and Mr. McIntosh, colored, of Liberty,
spoke in support of the bill and in oppo
sition to the penitentiary system. Both
said some good things, and Mr. McIntosh
made a speech of much good sense and
good feeling, pledging his race^to fidelity
to the whites and a commumty of interest
and sentiment with them, if the colored
race were treated fairly and justly. The
time for adjournment was extended fif
teen minutes to allow him to finish bis re
marks.
We have notes of the remarks of three
of these speakers, and will write them out.
The House adjourned at a quarter past
oue, witb the subject still before it.
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Atlanta, August 10.—The Senate me
at 10 o’clock.
A number of House and Senate bills
were read the second time.
The House resolution inviting Dr. Mel],
of the University of Georgia, to address
tbe General Assembly was concurred In.
Tbe repo.t of tbe joint committee to
report whether tbe State treasurer shall
accept United States 3| percent, bonds in
payment for the purchase of tbe Macc j
and Brunswick railroad was made the
special order for to-morrow.
A number of House bills were read the
fiist time.
The Senate adjourned about 11 o’clock.
house.
Prayer. Roll call. Reading of the
journal.
On motion of Mr. Lester, the House
joint resolution for bringing on tbe elec
tion of a judge and solicitor for tha now
northeastern circuit was taken up, with a
view of acting on the Senate’s amend
ment. On motion of Mr. Poihill, the
Senate’s amendment, substituting Thurs
day, :lie 1 111), for Monday, the*.'3th, was
concurred in.
Mr. Norlhen offered a resolution invi
ting Di. Mell, chancellor of the Universi
ty, to address the House in regard to that
institution on Tuesday next at 9 o’clock.
Opposition was manifested. Messrs.
Hammond and Barrow read from the con
stitution that it was the right of the chan
cellor to address the General Assembly
upon the condition and wants of the Uni
versity.
The resolution was then adopted.
Mr. Jemison was added to tbe special
committee on geology.
Mr. Turner, of Floyd, moved to post
pone the consideration of tlie special or
der—the Koine Southern railroad—until
tbe House shall have disposed of the pen
itentiary bill. Agreed to.
Mr. Coffin, of Stewart, offered a resolu
tion for the selection of a special commit
tee of seven, from the standing committee
on tbe penitentiary, to visit tbe several
camps after the adjonrnment ot the pres
ent General Assembly and report to the
next L>-gii’aiurc. He supported bis reso
lution as one instituting an inquiry that
was needed for tbe proper enlightenment
of the General Assembly upon tlie im
portant questions relating to the peniten
tiary system. He was or the opinion that
the evils and abuses of tho present sys
tem were chargeable, not to the Governor,
not to the principal keeper, not to all the
lessees, but to the mistaken action of the
State in placing the convicts outside ofits
protection and care.
THE SPECIAL ORDER.
Mr. Reesu, of Wilkes, offered a substi
tute for the penitentiary bill before the
House. Ills substitute provides for tbe
appointment by tbo Governor of a board
of managers, consisting of three, who are
to have supervisory power over all per
sons having control of tho convicts; one
of the board to visit each camp once a
week, without giving previous notice, and
all tlie board to visit tbo camps together
at least once a year, and report to the
Governor; tho board to select a physician
tor each caiup.
Mr. Reese said that while some things
about tbo convict system did
not meet bis approval, it had
not been shown that the bill
before the House would meet and rem
edy the abuses complained of. All
changes are not for the best. He thought
the bill was overloaded—it had that
which deserved merit and that which de
served demerit. He advocated his sub
stitute as more simple and efficient. Its
main feature was that instead of having
two sets of officers it had but one set. It
was made the duty of one board to make
rules and regulations for tho convict
camp, and that they, the party who made
them, shall see to their execution. He
explained the other features of his substi
tute, and claimed for it a preference over
tbe bill reported.
Mr. Hammond was persuaded that
there were s^me views honestly enter
tained by members which did not coin
cide witb tlie proposed change. Tbe ar
gument bad proceeded strangely. No
feeling that could animate tbe breast of a
humane man had been left untouched.
Harrowing pictures had been presented,
facts and testimony had been produced,
issues of fact had been raised, needlessly
and improperly. His appreUensiors had
been excited by tbe closing argument of
the chairman of tlie committee. It was
an appeal to self-interest. It behooves us
to consider well oar action. A very
small portion of the argument had been
devoted to a discussion of the question on
its merits. It is darkly hinted that
the exigencies of State policy demand
some hasty action on this subject, in order
that it maybe taken out of State polities.
Ah 1 what artful intriguer has been work
ing up this condition of things? The
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committee* had a delicate task before
them—that of investigating alleged abuses
of tbe State administration. They en
countered tbe danger of opposition to per
sons of influence and power. He acquit
ted the committee of all unworthy mo-
lives. He did not believe they would ex
pose tbe supposed deformities of our
State administration eimpiy for the 'ridi
cule of ignorant critics. And yet to that
complexion it had come at last. Al
ready the public prints are teeming witb
accounts of outrages ou unprotected peo
ple in Georgia. It was entering Into na
tional as well as State politics.
There had been one question hinted at
In this discussion which had not received
a definite answer. That was, the power
of the Legislature to act upon this ques
tion notwithstanding the arrangements It
bad made for the control of the convicts.
For himself, be had no such doubt. The
State had not surrendered its police pow
ers. Tbe magnitude of the question was
first to be taken into consideration, then
tbe moans to accomplish what was need
ed, and then tbe question how the pro
posed charges would affect the interests
te bo touched. Conscientious
legislators should not make
any engagements without knowing that
they have the means of carrying them
out.
Was it asking too much of the friends
of the bill to let him put in soma words
for the good old commonwealth of Geor
gia? Georgia, trying to rise from the
ruins of war—Georgia, emerging from a
state ot- confusion and derangement—
Georgia, without resources, bereaved and
widowed—Georgia, with her sons exiled
or ostracized—had to meet and deal with
great questions like this. With a mighty
army of convicts, she had to solve the dif
ficult questions of their best custody and
management. The power that took these
millions of people and invested them with
citizeushlp assumed tbe responsibility for
the act and for their condition.
Tbe House was watching and waiting
for some scheme that promised adequate
reform. Was this the plan? There are
three things that may be laid down as es
tablished rales—three evils admitted to
attend the administration of all systems—
they entail new charges on the public;
they furnish new opportunities for cor
ruption; and they tend to a division of
official responsibility. Is this bill, in any
of these three respects, an improvement
on the method now In force ? In 1874 the
Legislature passed tbe present act, which
contained all the safeguards propoeed by
tho bill before the House. He read that act
and compared its provisions with those of
tlie bill. He contended that tbe system
of 1874, if carried out faithfully
and honestly, was infinitely prefer
able to tbe bill reported. It made ample
provisions for the humane treatment of
the convicts—the men who bad made
themselves enemies ofthe State by viola
tion of its laws, and had incurred its pun
ishment. The objection to the division
ot responsibility applies witb fatal force
to the bill. The act in force had but one
head; the bill provided for at least eigh
teen, and each aud every one of them in
vested with executive, legislative and ju
dicial functions. Tho report made to the
last Legislature by Col. Alston and others
was much more startling and sweeping
than the one lately made, and under the
influence of that report the General As
sembly passed the act of 1878-9 as the
wisest measure of supervision and control
that could be devised. Where i3 the
proper seat of local sell-government? The
Legislature thought that it might bo in
trusted to the grand juries, and made it
the duty of the grand juries to inspect the
camps in their respective counties. The
best authority to which the general super
vision of the system and the execution of
the laws could be left was to that of the
executive of the State. The true remedy
was to hold derelict officials to their re
sponsibility and duty, instead of intrust
ing the work to new Lands. He com
puted the expenses of the system proposed
by the committee at $14,590. Iu the
eighteen years which tbe lease has yet to
run, the extraordinary expense of this
scheme would amount to $200,000. He
said that the cost of keeping convicts, ac
cording to statistics at hand, ranged from
$05 to $240 a year—an expense which
Georgia, iu her impoverished condition,
could illy afford by keeping her convicts
in idleness.
He compared tbe results of the existing
system in Georgia with those of other
Stales, and claimed the superior merit
for Georgia’s in reformatory results, in
sanitation and in economy. In Pennsyl
vania and other States, a much larger pro
portion of the convicts had to be re-com-
mltted. after release, than in Georgia.
Respectable people of New York had ar
raigned the State prison at Sing Sing ior
atrocity aud Inhumanity such as had sel
dom been exhibited.
Mr. Twiggs—If it bo true that there are
instances of extreme cruelty, is it not the
doty of tho State to take measures to pre
vent their repetition ?
Mr. Hammond—If it be true. Aye “if!”
The lessees were not yet condemned.
They were on trial. Ho claimed for them
tbe Anglo-Saxon right of trial by jury.
Mr. Twiggs—Have the committee not
reported that these abuses do exist? Is
there any proof before tho House that
they da not exist ? And until such proof
is made is sot the report of tbe commit
tee presumptive proof that they do?
Mr. Hammond—Thu report does cite
instances of cruelty, but the report, or at
least its alguers in their speeches, acquit
the lessees. The chairman of the com
mittee did not claim absolute credibility
for the facts reported. The lessees had
mado a formal and public denial, corrob
orated by the reports of the principal
keeper and of grand juries, and thus the
issue of fact was raised.
Mr. Twiggs—Does the gentleman deny
the facts asserted by the committee?
Mr. Hammond—If the things alleged
in that report are sustained at all, they
are by tlie testimony of convicted felons.
Was tho direct counter-testimony to be
excluded by such statements ?
Mr. Milner referred to gocuiar e7lder.ee
of the truth of some of the statements of
the convicts. He said that tbe facts stat
ed in the report were true to the best of
his knowledge aud belief, so help him
God!
Mr. Hammond did not question the
gentleman’s purity of purpose. But the
gentleman accompanied liis suggestive
statement with tho accounts of the con
victs themselves. Ho insisted that issues
offset had been raised, and they ought
to be determined in the ordinary mode
and by the ordinary rales.
Mr. Twiggs—If those evils may exist,
is it not the duty of the State to place a
commission between the convicts and
those who have them in their power?
Mr. Hammond said that the question
could not bo definitely answered iuthe
present stage of tho controversy. Let
the lessees be put upon trial first.
Mr, Hammond warmly defended the
civilization and humauity of Georgia, and
made a favorable comparison of our sys
tem with those of other Stales, insisting at
the same time that tbe conditions as re
gards population and material prosperity
were such as gave them a great advantage.
He made an earnest and forcible speech,
which was listened to with Interest by
the House and crowded galleries. He
spoke nearly two hours.
Mr. Hunt, of Spalding, said the apeeech
of Mr. Hammond contained more elo
quence than logic. It was a long time
before he could find out what side the
gentleman was on. He regarded his prop
ositions as Illogical and unreasonable.
His first proposition was that it was dis
creditable to the State of Georgia that
reports should go at large, unless they be
true and just. We have it frongthe report
of gentlemen in whom we have the fullest
confidence, who have evidently done
their work with the utmost fairness. The
gentleman’s argument is that where an
ahuse is alleged to exist, the State must
net investigate it for fear it will bring a
stigma upon her fair name. This means
that you must cover tip the ellegad abuses
for fear of the shame of exposure. It was
a position that would not stand tbe test of
logic. He says that the system has been
adopted .by other Southern State#, and
therefore ought to be continued In Geor
gia. He (Mr. Hunt) could not under
stand that Georgia was bound to fellow
other States, right or wrong, iq this mat
ter. He said it had been suggested that
this was one of the outcroppings of tbe
politics of Georgia. If you would keep
It out of politics, let us settle tbe ques
tion by freeing polities from this unfortu
nate issue; and the only way to do so was
to appoint supervisors who should hare
the government of the system.
Id reply to Mr. Hammond’s argument
that the system was forced upon Georgia
by outside authority, Mr. Hunt said that
there was no logic In the proposition that
the State must continue an evil because it
had been forced upon her, and why not
this? If you wish to perpetuate what
tbe gentleman says was forced upon us,
you hare the opportunity by continuing
the present syhtem.
The gentleman from Thomas had said
that tho whole arraignment of the peni
tentiary system was based upon state
ments of convicts, and therefore the state
ments of the lessees should be believed in
preference. Mr. Hunt was proud to see
tbe gentleman from Bartow arise and
contradict this. The committee had re
ported abuse? of which they had positive
evidence. ‘
Tho fact that the sanitary condition of
the convicts was repotted to be good did
hot disprpve the charges' of cruelty and
abuse that had beeu made. He' saw much
about “morbid sensibility” in the newspa
pers. Discard all this, and still It is the
duty of Legislators to correct any evils
that may exist. The system as it existed
tended to prevent the conviction of some
who have violated the law, because of the
indignities to which white men were sub
jected. In spite of the law, in spite of the
charges of Judges, juries would take these
things into consideration. And even after
conviction, the system as now administer
ed prevented some men from receiving ad
equate punishment. It was the interest
of the lessees to make as much money as
possible out of tbe convicts, and not to ad
minister the law lit its Justice aud impar
tiality, Discriminations were made, and
punishment was not justly meted out.
Why oppose the bill?. Some say be
cause of its expense. The substitute,
which he ihtended' to support, cut off
much of tlie expense by doing away with
the wardens. The division of responsi
bility was a good feature instead of a bad
one. When a question of honor and
Slate reputation was involved, It was
strange that gentlemen would rise up and
say we must continue an evil system be
cause of the expense of a change. He
combatted the argument that a change of
the system would infringe the contract
rights of the lessees. This, he said, was
an extraordinary proposition to be sub
mitted to an intelligent body ot legisla
tors—that tbe State must give up her sov
ereign police rlghu.to cult tbe interests of
lessees. No citizen of tbe Slate could ac
quire auy right which deprived the State
of her power to punish crime in
tbe mode other own choice. Ho asked,
how could an investigation of the peni
tentiary system be made without seeing
and questioning tbe convicts ? There can
be no harm in the change proposed, and
much good may come from it. Let us
take the question out of politics, by giv
ing the supervision to men who can man
age the system properly.
Mr. Barrow explained the provisions of
tbe substitute offered by Mr. Reese. The
difficulty with the bill reported by the
committee was the warden system, with
its expense ot fourteen or fifteen thousand
dollars. He would rather leave the con
victs in the bands of tbe lessees than in
thoee of men who could be picked np for
a thousand dollars a year to act as spies.
And yet the whole system would be
subjected to the management of
such men. The substitute omits
tbe wardens —it strikes these
leeches and vampires from the bill, and
gives the control to a board of three man
agers, with an obligation to visit the
amps once a week. The substitute had
beeni drawn, witb care, te> meet ..every
emergency that might wise.
Mr. Jemison moved to extend to-day’s
session to 2 o’clock, in order to dispose of
the bill before the House, but withdrew
it, and tho House adjourned at the usual
' time until 9 o’clock to-morrow.
Several committees made reports during
the morning. Tbe only ones calling for
special note were those of the joint com
mittee on sanitation aud hygiene in favor
of bills to regulate the practice of medi
cine in the State, and to establish a State
board of pharmaceutical examiners.
A message from the Governor announc
ed bis approval ot a number of local bills,
also of the following of a general charac
ter : *
To appropriate $2,500 for the cue of
colored pupils in the Deaf and Dumb asy
lum, also $2,500 for the erection of build
ings for them.
To allow certain persons to enter the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum as pupils.
THIS LAW MUST BK MXVOUCH »
A Vlzorciis Letter (rMehasM* Wait
—• UsilBptM.
The Baltimore Sun says: “Gen Raum
has received a letter from Senator Wade
Hampton, which shows unmistakably that
he has not only no sympathy with the
class of men in his State who defy the
Federal authorities In the execution of the
revenuo laws, but believes the Slate au
thorities of South Corolina will aid in ar
resting the murderer of Mr. Bray ton. Sen
ator Hampton in his letter, which la writ
ten from Dagger’s Springs, Va., says: “I
have just seen the account of the murder
of Mr. Brayton in South Carolina, aud I
hope that you will use all your authority
to haye the murderer arrested. President
Hayes gave amnesty on my application
to those who bad violated the revenue
laws, aud I have no toleration for any
one who now breaks them. The governor
of the State will co-operate heartily with
you if you ask his aid, and he will of bii
own motion take steps to have the mur
derer arrested.’”
A llnwf* Suicide.
A very respectably dressed woman took
a room at tbe Wall House, Williamsburg,
on Friday morning last, and registered as
Mrs. Wary Kinney, oi Philade lpbia. Sbe
•aid sbe had come to see some friends in
the neighborhood and would 1 im am a day
or two until they returned. She paid for her
room aud meals promptly until yesterday
morning Then a hall boy was sent up
and he quickly returned, saying tliat get
ting no reply to his knock he had opened
the door and found the lady dead ou the
bed. The police were notified and they
discovered that she had taken Paris green.
Tbe paper containing the poison had
broken in her pocket, so that when she
took it she stained her hand and her
clothes. No traces of her friends have
yet been found, and as sbe had no papers
of any description in her possession noth
ing mere is known of her or tbe cause of
her suicide.
from tha Tonkere Statesman.
It was Sunday evening. Angelica had
invited her “best young man” to tbe even
ing meal. Everything had passed off har
moniously until Angelica’s seven-year-old
brother broke the bDaaftil silence by ex-
claiming:
“Oh, mat ysr otighter seen Mr. Lighted
the otter night, when he called to take
Angie to tbe drHL He looked so nice sft-
tin’’laogjtde of her, with his arm—”
“Fred!” screamed tbe maiden, whose
face began to assume (he color of a well-
done crab, quickly placing her hand over
the boy’s month.
H Yer ougfater seen him,” continued the
persistent Informant, after gaining his
breath and the embarrassed girl's hand
was removed, “he had his arm—”
“Freddie 1” shouted the mother, as in
her frantic attempts to reach the boy’s
auricular appendage sbe upset the con.
tents of the teapot In Mr. Llghted’s lap,
making numerous Russian war maps over
bis new lavender pantaloons.
“I was just Min’ to say,” the half-
frightened boy pleaded, between a cry
ana an injured whine, he bad his arm—”
“You boy!” thundered the father,
“away to the woodshed.”
And the boy made for the nearest exit,
exclaiming as he waltzed: “I was goln'
to say Mr. Lighted had his army clothes
on, and I'll leave it to him il he didn’t!”
And the boy was permitted to return,
and the remainder of the meal was spent
in explanations from tbe family in regard
to the num >er of times Freddie bad to be
“talked to” for using his fingers for s la
dle.
AX IXTMHVKKW WITH THU
POPS. ,
Its Bum j^^Ksaa»H»Meiri>«4 by
Trim an Intereieio with W. J. Florence.
We went from Nice to Rome, where we
were very pleasantly received in private
by Pope Leo. Ou the occasion of our re
ception we were first ushered into an
ante-chamber, where we were Introduced
to a number of members of the Papal
household. In this ante-chamber I saw a
Chinese bishop and a Chinese priest.
Tbe former bad been a Frenchman once,
but wore the Chinese pig-tail and looked
Chinese all over. The priest was a true
Griental, who gazed with awe and vener
ation at his surroundings. In the next
ante chamber Mgr. Cataldi, master
of ceremonies, made us known to
other members of the household,
and after a progreti through sev
eral rooms we were ushered into the
presence of the Pope. He was seated on
a raised platform or throne in the centre
of a large room—or ball, rather. Being
an. actor and having an eye for properties,
I noted the dress of the holy father care
fully. He wore stockings of white silk,
with shoes with golden crosses by way of
buckles; a long white cassock of merino,
bound with silk of a pale rose color; a
cape that reached below liis elbows,which
was also bordered by rose colored silk,and
s white silk skull cap with a rose colored
binding and a jewel in front. A heavy
chain, from which depended a large cross
set with diamonds and rabies, hung
around bis neck. Upon his hands he
wore mittens of silk which reached to the
first joint ot his fingers. He wore a white
belt or sash around bis waist. When we
were ushered in we were told to remove
our gloves, and I observed that before the
presentation took place the Pope took off
his left mitten. The presentation was
made by Mgr. Cataldi, each of the party
kneeling in turn and kissing the episcopal
ring which is worn on the Pope’s left
baud. When the ceremony had been
performed the Pope raised his hands as
though to help us to our feet, and then
for the first time I looked up into his face.
It was one or the best and kindliest faces
I ever saw. There was something so
fatherly, so gentle and so good in it that I
shall never forget it while I live.
I« Water mi the Mississippi la INS
From Scribner for July.
Life in the Mississippi swamps is
unique but perhaps never so much so as
during that memorable summer. Tbe
shallowest water for indefinite miles in
any direction wastwo.foet deep, the near
est land tbs “Hills of the Arkanssw,”
thirty miles away. The mules were
quartered on the upper floor of the gin-
lieuse; tbe cattle had been all drowned
long ago; planter, negroes and overseer
were confined in their respective domi
ciles; the grist mill was under water, and
there was no means of preparing com
for culinary purposes except a wooden
hominy mortar. The bog-and-hominy
diet (so highly extolled by some
people who have never lived on it)
was adopted ot necessity, the former
being represented by mere pork, sal
tier than tangue can tel!. There were no
visitors, except now and then a sociable
snake, which, no doubt bored by swim
ming around indefinitely in tbe overflow,
and craving even human companionship,
would glide up on the gallery of some of
the houses. There was no means of loco
motion except tbe skiff and the humble,
but very serviceable, dug-out—nowhere to
go and nobody within a day’s journey
otherwise or more comfortably situated.
The only sense of sympathy from without
was had from remote and Infrequent
glimpses of tbe gallant steamer J. M.
White, which leaping from point to point,
made better time from New Orleans to
St. Louis than was ever made before or
for many yean after.
That year nineteen plantations out of
twenty failed to produce a single pound of
cotton or a single bushel or corn, and
when the flood was over and tbe Noahs
came out of their respective arks, they
were, to say the least, malcontents. They
were not rained, of course, bat they bad
lost a whole year’s gross income. More
over, tbe prestige of the swamp as s cot
ton country was wofully diminished. The
planters on the “Hills,” as tbe uplands
are denominated, began to hold up thsir
heads, no longer overcrowed by the ex
traordinary crops alleged to have been
heretofore produced in the swamp.
The swamp planter set to work to re
deem tbs disaster, and to provide, as far
as possible, against its recurrence. With
the purpose of retrieving their financial
fortunes, they took some unique meas
ures. There is a tradition that, at a
public meeting held in Greenville, Miss.,
in October, 1844, among other more com
monplace resolutions, one in gravely
and unanimously adopted to the effect
that a demand ot payment within twelve
months from that date of any debt, great
or small, upon any planter who had been
overflowed that year, should be consid
ered distinctly “personal”—a dear case
ter pistols and coffee. The code was cer
tainly a curious institution, but probably
this is the only instance In which it was
expected to do duty as a stay-law.
■naff**]
Washington Star.
The block of granite which Nevada eon-
tributes to be placed in the Washington
monument wea yesterday receiving the fia-
ishingtouehes at the hands of the aculptor,
John Barrett. The last of the silver let
ters in the nemo of the State was just be
ing let into tha panel. These letters are of
•olid silver, are about aa thick aa a diver
dollar, some six inches in height and of
proportionate width. They are so neatly
fitted into the solid granite that tbe joint
is almost invisible. Above the word “Ne
vada” is deeply out in the granite the motto
of the State—“All For Our Country”—and
j below, the date 1881. The figures of the
I date will be plated with gold. The granite
composing it is the hardest ever seen.
Ispwtsasi si lea WssiIms ieaiws'
Man Francisco Chronicle.
Charles Beblow, G. M. Robinson, M.
W. Stackbole, F. Urban, Charles Dreeel
and J. A. Bauer left this city on Sunday,
June 26tb, for Boonville, Mendocino
county. They were invited to assist at a
bear hnat with T. E. Rawlas’ pack of
bear hounds. The hounds are about tbe
same breed as Mr. Bauer’s hounds—black
and tan, and some spotted like English
fog bounds, Tbe party of eleven from
San Francisco and five from Boonville
started Monday for Indian Creek, about
six miles from Boonville. On Tuesday
morning at 8 o’clock tbe old bound Bine
was told to look out for a bear track. Ail
the other dogs, sixteen iu number, were
tied together in couples and followed the
hunters, anxiously waiting for a signal of
Blue to join him. Tbe hunters kept along
tbe open ridges and passable gufebes or
open chemiflu in such direction as they
supposed the old leader had gene. About
an hour after starting was beard tire first
melodious “Houu l noun 1” ot Bins, and
the excitement commenced. As quick ss
the dogs could be unfastened they started
in a bee-liae for their leader, anxious to
join him on bruin’s track, well knowing
that Blue makes no mistakes. Such a
yelling, barking and bowling the hunter*
never heard before. Deer ran out of the
woods to save themselves, but there was
no necessity, for the dogs of Mr. Rswles
pay no attention to deer tracks—they are
all for the bear and nothing else.
The party kept as near as possible be
hind the dogs, under fallen trees, through
creeks, over rocks, tumbUng,jumping,
climbing, laughing, swearing. The noise
and excitement kept up until about nine
o’clock—six hours. Sometimes tbe dogs
would be so far away that they could not
be heard; but the chase generally would
come around again towards the
creek, until all at once the clear and dif
ferent barking of the hounds was beard,
and one of Mr. Rawies’ men came dash
ing back to us on horseback, shouting:
“All ready, boys 1 Hurry up; tbe bear is
treed r 1 Crawling, stumbling, climbing
towards tbe music of tbe dogs, tbe bunt
at last arrived at the spot, ana no mistake,
there was the black brum, sitting com
fortably on a branch of the redwood
tree, about fifty feet above the ground,
looking down on the mot
ley crowd of eleven hunters andeeventeen
dogs. The dogs were nearly all mad,
tome trying to climb tha tree, fighting
among themselves and all barking fur -
ously. Old Blue kept th6 post of honor
—tbe low side of the tree. - He knew very
well that if the bear should try to get
away, he would roll down the steep side
below the tree. Alter everybody was
there Mr. Rawies proposed that the doc
tor should shoot the b ar. Down came
bruin on the off side ot the tree, his head
upwards. Tom Rawies shot once at him;
down rolled tbe bear like a big cannon
ball into a rocky canon one hundred feet
below, climbed up the other side like a
cat, and, hard pressed by the dog*, got up
on an inclining oak tree. Of course
shooting at the bear then was out of the
question.
Tbe hnntere stumbled down the canon
aud clambered up above the oak tree,
with its new tenant, aud, as soon as about
level with the tree, down came the rascal
brum again, tbis time the head lowest.
“Now, boys,” Rawies said, “I cannot af
ford this sport any longer, aud jeopardize
maybe my best dogs. This time the bear
will fight. Shoot.” Crack, crack went
tha rifles. Probably the bear was dead
before he fell to the ground among the
dogs. Hunters, don and bear rolled down
the ravine. At last tbe dogs tired of
fighting among themselves and pull
ing the bear. The party pushed,
pulled and carried the 300 pounds
ot bear down into the Indian Creek, cut off
his head, the paws and part of the skin,
fed the. dogs with the meal and weut back
to camp. Two days afterwards the dogs
started another bear, but the hunters had
to give up the chase, returning towards
Boonville, and camped four miles above
on Rancherie creek, where we found a
freshly killed sheep, half eaten by bears.
They sent the same evening to Tom
Rawies, who came next morning with
his dogs at 3 o’clock, having left home
at midnight. The dog Pasha bad run tbe
bear twice oat of the camp that night, where
the prowler tried to steal some ol the ven
ison, Robinson keeping a lively iusilade
after him ih the moonlight. As soon as
the dog Old Blue came into camp he
gave tongue and off he weut on the bear
track, all the others alter him as quickly
as they could be unchained. Tom ex
claimed; “Why, the bear has been all
night among you fellows; he Is a good-
natured chap.” Again the hunters did
the same jumping, sliding, climbing and
falling for six hours, when bruin came
down dead from a madrono tree, pierced
by a half dozen bullets. Besides the
bears the party had killed a dozen fine
bucks, from a spike up to a seven-ender.
A Cattle Drover fwait Bar Mem
■nUa( l«t A lley, tbs Murderer.
Louis it ille Courier Journal.
Robert Verduu, a cattle drover, who
lives in Bullitt county, left his home Sat
urday morning to drive into Lonlaville,
and be arrived here yesterday morning
with the cover of hie buggy riddled with
bullets and shot, and by mere chance a
live man. The announcement of a re
ward of $350 for the apprehension oi
George Alsop, the murderer of Rudd Har
rison at Valley Station, reached that lo
cality some hours before Mr. Verdun
left home, aud had the effect, it seems, of
starting out quite a posse of citizens in
search of the fugitive. The rumors of
Alsop’s whereabouts for several days
have beeu varied enough to bewilder
anybody. Various reliable persons re
port that he sleepa at his brother-in-
law’s, at Valley Station, and is yet
in the vicinity ready to fight to the death
before capture, while others are confident
that he had fled and was long ago out oi
reach of the somewhat weak aud ineffi
cient arm ot the law. It Is certain that
some persons living in the locality where
the deed was committed think Alsop isstill
about his haunts, asjMr.Verdun’s drive for
his life testifies. While be was coming
quietly along the road iu his buggy about
midnight, several miles beyona Valley
Station, he heard tbe noise oi hoofs on
the road behind him. Turning, he leaned
out of the bugtQ- aud aaw ou the road,
some distance behind him, a party of men
on horseback, armed with guns, advancing
in a gallop. Mr. Verdun says be was made
'a fool of by having a good deal of money
In his pockets, ana it at once entered his
head that he was being pursued by
thieves. Heat once whipped his horse
into a fast trot, and then, as the thought
took firmer possession of him, be urged
the horse into a dead gallop up the road.
Tbe men behind increased their pace, and
as they came nearer, shouted to him to
surrender. He still kept on, aud the pur
suers poured a volley of shots into the
buggy, which riddled the cover, and a ri
fle hall plowed along by the aide of Ver
dun’s leg and tore up the cushion ou
which be was seated. Thia was too warm
for him, and be concluded he had better
give up his money than hia life. He pull
ed up and instantly the pursuer? stopped
He oolled out to know what was wanted,
when one of them said:
“Git outen the boggy and put up your
bauds 1”
—A Philadelphia poUoeman has resigned
because negroes have been appointed on
the force. Wonder if this man did not
vote the Republican ticket.
Verdun gave np all for lost now, but
obeyed orders, and under cover of halt a
dozen J guns held up his hands while
one man approached. The stranger no
sooner got near him than he called out:
“Thia ain’t Alsop—who tbe h—1 are
you ? ”
Thia question raised a very heavy load
from Verdun’s heart, though be did not
entirely understand the situation. It was
quickly explained. Alsop is in the
of driving about in a buggy with hia
weapons, and the pursuers thought they
bed trailed the murderer. After con
gratulations that he bad not been wound
ed, Verdun re-entered his buggy and
drove into tbe city. It was a close call
for him, and, as he sajrs. “if he hadn’t
frsld luck,” he" would have beeu a
corpse, '
Alsop is thus far ahead of tbe law, aud
beyona this reported effort at capture, no
attempts are being made to get him.
A iMtiai Cmftdsrsu m Oar Pie.
fait Ihafes Over the Bloody
Chattanooga Timet.
General Joe Wheeler, of Alabama, i<*t
written a tong letter to General W. Y. O.
Humes, ot Memphis, advocating the poli
cy of a Confederate reception in this
city of the Army of the Cumberland. The
letter ia printed in the Memphis Appeal,
of Sunday, and echoing iu sentiments
that leading and able Southern journal
■ays:
“The people of the North knew Gen
eral Wheeler to be a gallant enemy;
they now regard him aa a reliable friend.
It Is a curious and noteworthy circum
stance that those Southern leaders who
fought the hardest while tbe war lasted
have been the most active in efforts to
restore harmony between tbe t wo sections
since the war ended, and that those who
did the least fighting in the Federal army
are now fighting to keep alive sectional
hatreds. The people of tbe South gen
erally entertain the views expressed by
Geu. Wheeler, but they should voice
those opinions by meeting and greeting
the Federal soldiers who are to bold their
annual meeting at Chattanooga on tbe
21st of September. In other days the
Southern people greeted the men that
constitute the army of the Cumberland
witb “bloody bands to hospitable graves;”
but now that tbe war is over they
propose to meet them under the stars
ana stripes and at tbe festive board,
and show to the world that while we
were enemies in war, we are friends in
peace. Every Southern State should send
a delegation of Confederate soldiers to
meet thia society at Chattanooga in Sep
tember. A public meeting should be
held here in Memphis at an early day for
the purpose of making the necessary ar
rangements to send a thousand men to
Chattanooga. Every demonstration of
this kind promotes that peace and nation
al brotherhood which every patriot
craves. If the Southern people possess
any one trait ot character above and be
yond all others, it is unbounded hospi
tality, that kind of hospitality which
breaks bread with the stranger, and never
was there a more appropriate and aus
picious time for manifesting this hospi
tality by a cordial greeting and a genu
ine outflow ofthe soul ana a clasping of
hands in a loving brotherhood. This is a
question of vital importance to tlie South
ern people. A cold, sullen neglect of thia
society, which for the first time meets up
on Southern sot], will be accepted as con
firming the charge of the stalwarts that
we are still disloyal. But by a cordial
demonstration of a desire which Is univer
sally felt in the South for peace and rec
onciliation, oar people will no longer be
misunderstood and misrepresented. The
whole country ia ripe for a national
brotherhood, for that spirit of per
fect restoration which will make
it a crime for the demagogues of other
sections to seek office by inflaming
sectional hatreds. The South will be the
gainer by an obliteration of the mad
passions bora in war, for the peaceful in
dications which Lave developed them
selves since the attempted assassination
of President Garfield nave advanced the
commercial and industrial welfare ot the
South. As long as partisan dominated
all other interests, politics was the bane
of the South. This was conspicuously
the case in the years immediately follow
ing the war To-day economical are
made greater than partisan considera
tions. Political quiet has taken tbe
place of political turmoil, and industrial
activity has followed industrial stagna
tion. Men are coming into public life
who were boys when the rebellion raged,
and were unborn when the fierce politi
cal battles pi seeding it were fought.
They are net anxious to fight out the par
ty feuds of their fathers. They have no
desire to be eternally warring over the
dead issues of the past. They see more
money, more success to tbe country, and
more prosperity in trade and industry
than in wrangling over dead
issues and perpetuating sec
tional animosities. Sensible ana patriotic
meu are more interested in the Industrial
and commercial welfare of the whole
country and tbe social and educational
advancement of the people than in sec
tional strife which can only defeat these
good ends. Let the Federal and Confed
erate soldiers meet together at Chatta
nooga, as advised by General Wheeler,
and show that we still have a country
and a nation in which there is a union of
hearts and a union of hands.”
A Blask Wulmut Mery. *
From the Chicago Tribune.
The smartest Texan, and, in fact, the
smartest farmer I ever met, is old Sam
Graves, who lives on a one hundred acre
farm west of Waxahatchie, in central
Texas. After Mr. Graves had shown me
his cattle and cotton, he took me over to
see bis woods.
“Well, what of it?” I asked, aa he
pointed out a ten acre forest.
“What ot it? Why, them’s black wal
nuts, air. Ten acres of ’em. Planted ’em
myself, ten yean ago. See, they are ten
Inches through. Good trees, eh ?”
And sure enough, there was ten acres of
haud-plauted walnut trees. They stood
about 200 feet apart, 200 to the acre—in
all, 2,000 trees.
“Well, how did you get your money
back?” I asked.
“Black walnuts are worth $2.50 a
bushel, ain’t they ? 1’il get 400 bushels
this year. That’s $1,000. A hundred
dollars a year is good rent for land worth
$15 an acre, aloft it ?”
“Well, what else?” I inquired, grow
ing Interested. ,
“The trees,” continued Mr. Graves,
“are growing an inch a year. When they
are twenty yean old, they will be nine
teen inches through. A black walnut tree
nineteen Inches through is worth $15. My
2,000 trees ten yean from now will be
worth $30,000. If I don’t want to cut
them all I can cut half of them, and then
raise a bushel of walnut to the tree—that
is, get $2,500 a year for the crop. Two
hundred and fitly dollars an acre is a fair
rent for $15 laud, ain’t It?”
The A. 8. T. Co. were the first to maka
a specialty of protecting the toes of chil
dren's shoes from wear, by which millions
are saved annually to parents; and they
now offer their A. S. T. Co. Black Tip in
place of the metal, as they wear aa well,
and are not objectionable on the finest
hoc.
—Mr. John G. Delta ia in Savannah; also
! Mr. C. J. Stroberg.