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JLUME
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Fbdebal Union Established In 1820
Southern Recorder “ • < t 8ig> '
Consolidated 1872, Milledgeville Ga., January 4. 1887.
'HE UNION & RECORDER, L Administrator’s Sale.
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Number 26.
ublUhed Weekly In Mllledgevllle,
gY BARNES & MOORE.
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inliars a year if not paid in advance.
he services of Ool.JamksM.Smttue,are en-
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union being in Its Forty-Third Volume and
Kecorderin Its Fifty-Third Volume.
A L D W I N COUNT Y.
N
Baldwiu Sheriff’s Sale.
ILL be sold before the Court
House door, id the city of Mil-
dgeville. during legal sale hours, on
ie first Tuesday in January, 1887,
10 following property, to wit:
One house and lot in the city of Mil-
tdgeville containing one acre, more
r less, and known in the plan of said
ity as being lot No. 8, in square No.
2 and better known as the home
ilace of Win. Wood, and levied on as
iroperty of Win. Wood, deceased, to
atisfv one Superior Court ii fa in fa-
•orofC. H. Wright & Son, vs. Wm.
,Vood. Tenant in possession notified
n person, Dec. the 1st, 1886.
Also at the same time and place, all
hat tract or parcel of land, lying in
;he corporate limits of the city of Mil-
ledgeviile, containing 88 acres, more
or less, the same lying on the south
side of Pishing creek, and known as
the land bought by Willis Pritchard
from Pc. J. B. Duggan. Levied on as
the property of Willis Pritelmrd to
satisfy one County Court ii fa in favor
of Knickerbocker Ice Co., vs. Willis
Pritchard. Defendant notified in per
son, December the 2d, 1886.
Also at the same time and place,
one lot or parcel of land lying in the
115th District, G. M., of said Co., con
taining 88 acres, more or less, and
bounded north by L. N. Callaway
and J. J. Jenkins, east by T. J. Oxford
and L. N. Willis, south by D. I’>. San
ford, west by estute of E. Chandler,
deceased. Levied on as the property
of Mrs. E, ,T. Arnold, to satisfy two
Superior Court li fas, one common
law judgment in favor of F. A. Hull
vb. Mrs. E. J. Arnold, and one mort
gage ii fa in favor of Massey & Ennis
vs. Mrs. E. J. Arnold. Tenant in
possession notified by mail, December
2d, 1886.
Also at the same time and place,
thirty-live acres of land, more or less,
lying in the 322(1 District, (f. M., of
said county, adjoining lands of Wyley
Vinson, Arnold Baltimore, and others
and better known as the ('apt. John
Stevens’ mill place. Levied on as the
property of I. C. Newton, to satisfy
one Justice court fi fa in favor of
Chambers ii (;o., vs. 1. C. Newton.
Defendant notified in person. Levy
made by J K. Patterson and returned
to me Nov. 27th, 1886.
C. W. ENNIS, Sheriff.
Dec. Gth, 1880. 22 tds.
Petition for
Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, December Term, 1886.
W HEREAS, Walter Paine, Clerk of
the Superior Court and Adminis
trator upon the estate of Mrs. Lizzie
C. Sanford, deceased, has filed his pe
tition in said court for leave to sell
the r al estate belonging to said de
ceased :
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all parties interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
January Term next of said court to
he held on the first Monday in Janua
ry, 1887, why leave to sell said prop
erty should hot be granted to said pe
titioner us prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this December the 6th, 1886.
Daniel B. Sanford,
22 lm.] Ordinary.
Petition for
Leave to Sell
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, December Term,
1886.
W HEREAS, W. H. Stembridge, ad
ministrator upon the estate of
Martha F. Robinson, deceased, has
filed his petition in said Court for
leave to sell the real and personal
property of said deceased:
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all parties interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
January term next, of said court, to
he held on the first Monday in Janua
ry 1887, why leave to sell said real
aud personal property should not be
granted to said petitioner as prayed
lor.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture, this December the 6th, 1886.
'2 lui.] D. B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County,
pi order of the Court of' (>rdinnry
1J of Baldwin'county, will be sold
before the Court House door, in the
city of Milledgeville, on the first
Tuesday in January, 1887, between
the legal hours of sale, the following
property belonging to the estate of
J. W. Moran, late of said countv,
deceased, to-wit:
.. £-11 that tract of land, containing
•>00 acres, more or less, lying in the
lOoth District, G, M., of said county,
and known as the Thomas’place, ad
joining lands of S. B. Collins, J. W.
\ inson, G. W. Underwood, E. A.
Butts and others. Sold for the pur
pose of paying debts and division
among the heirs. Terms of sale cash.
„ C. L. MORAN, Adm’r.
Dec. 3, 1886. 22 tds
Notice.
G EOIKIIA, Baldwin (Jounty.
Court of Ordinary, Dec. Term 1880.
W HEREAS, a petition has been filed
in said Court praying an order
making the private or neighborhood
road leading from the premises of B.
W. Jenkins, near the Jones county
line to the old Cobb place in Baldwin
County, where said private way in
tersects with the Milledgeville ' and
Monticello public road a distance of
about two miles a public road, and
tlie Commissioners having reported
in favor of said road being made a
public road: This is to cite and ad
monish all persons interested to show
cause on or by 10 o’clock, a. m.,on
Wednesday the 5th day of January,
1887, at the Court House of said coun
ty, why said road should not lie made
public as prayed for.
Witness uiy hand and official signa
ture this December the 6th, 1886,
DANIEL B. SANFORD,
22 lm.] Ordinary.
For Sale—Land,
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
U NDER and by virtue of Mortgage
Deed made by Mrs. Mattie Wood,
of said county, on the 2Stli day of
January, 1886, to secure a promissory
note of tlie same date and payable on
tin* 28th day of October, 1886, for the
principal sum of seventy 70-100 dol
lars to the undersigned which said
deed has been duly recorded in the
(Jlerk's office of said county, and
which was executed and delivered
under the statutes of the laws of
Georgia in Code of 1882, as to deeds
with powers of sale, &c., and by the
authority therein conveyed and given,
we will sell on the loth day of Janu
ary, 1887, before the Court House
door in said county the following
tract or parcel of land, to-wit: That
tract of land situate, lying and being
in the 319tli District, G. M., of said
county, bounded on north by lands of
W. J. T. Ray, south by lands of Bon
ner, on west by lands of Mrs. Hum
phries, on the east by Webb planta
tion, containing fifty acres, more or
less. Said land will be sold to pay the
principal and interest on said promis
sory note and Attorney's fees, and all
cost of this proceeding aud sale.
W. AJ. CARAKER.
Whitfield A Allen, Attorneys for
complainants.
Dec. 15th, 1886. 24 tds
PETITION FOR HOMESTEAD.
Petition for
Letters of Administration,
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary December Term, 1880.
HERE AS, Mrs. Minnie L. Hall,
VV has filed her petition in said Court
’or letters of Administration upon the
estate of Dr. John H. Hall, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all parties interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
January Term, next of said Court to
oe held on the first Monday in Jan-
uary, 1887, why letters of Adminis
tration upon the estate of said deceas
ed, should not be granted to said peti-
noner as prayed for. *
'V it ness my hand and official signn-
■ ure this December the 6th, 1886,
• DANIEL B. SANFORD, I
*** Ordinary, *
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
W HEREAS, Edward Bueb, has
filed his petition for exemption
of personalty and setting apart and
valuation of homestead, and 1 will
pass upon the same, at 12 o'clock. M.,
on Wednesday, the 12th day of Jan
uary, 1887, at my office.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture. this December the 20th, 1886.
DANIEL B. SANFORD,
24 4t. Ordinary,
For Rent.
6 ROOM HOUSE and kitchen now
occupied by M. R. Bell. Posses
sion given Jan. 1st, 1886.
T. L. MeOOMB A Co.
Milledgeville, Dec. 7th, '86. 22 4t
Liverv Stable For Sale.
*
A N EXCELLENT opportunity for
/l an active young man. I will sell
on ensv terms my stable, stock and
vehicles, or I will sell stock and vehi
cles and lease the stable fora number
of years. G. T. WHILDEN
Milledgeville, Ga,
Nov. 30, '86. [21 0t.]
The Milledgeville Banking Co.
Of Milledgeville, Ga.
A General Unliking Business Transacted.
G. T. WTkdenmax, President.
11. T. Hethune, Cashier.
Directors.—W. T. Conn, D. IL Sanford,
A. E. Ileudrix, G. T. Wiedennmn, L. N.
Callaway, T. L. McCorab, C. M.Wright.
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 21st, ’86. 15 ly
Dentistry.
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Juuiu. Ga. Office 0.V-. Whitehall St.
Dec. 14,1886. 23 Cm
The New Year.
In the cycles of change another
year has been cast upon the shoreless
ocean of time. The past year lie-
longs, now, to eternity, and all the
living are destined to follow those
who have gone before, to its shoreless
end. De-it'.i has dissevered kindred
and friends, and we, who have lived to
see the new born year, will like oth
ers in due course of time, cease to
elicit the sweetest and dearest emo
tions of our hearts. The places, the
scenes and landscapes, so dear to
living vision, will soon vanish, and
those* who loved to look upon them,
will be laid away to dreamless rest.
We are taught that, there is ati in
finity of life, but not on the planet we
inhabit; and we are told how that in
finity may be an endless time of un
speakable bliss. But our readers are
aware of this, and ite is our purpose
briefly to refer to that life, under the
Providence of the Almighty Father,
which is allotted to us on this worldly
sphere. We still live while many a
cheek of rosy hue, and many a heart
that beat in love and friendship, are
pale and still in the cold and silent
dust. Yet those, who still live, have
serious duties to perform and it be
comes them to act well their parts
in this brief section of sempiternal ex
istence. The great, the old, the young,
all are accountable, we are told, for
the deeds done in this life and as we
sow so shall we reap. In looking
back, the lives of the oldest seem but
a span in the sun’s bright pathway.
Still, in that short time, some reach a
deathless monument of fame; but un
happy for them will it he if their
worldly monuments are stained with
blood and crime. But there is a prize
greater than earthly monumental
fame, and it is held out to the lowly
as well as the great. It is the prize of
virtue and honor and a happy immor
tality.
In the few words which flow from
our hearts and pen, we trust that the
pathways, of our respected patrons
and those connected with them, may
be strewn with flowers, and above all
with the sweets of affection and '. he
blessings of the Almighty Father.
We close by saying in the poetic
language of another in which our
readers will join us:
“Again far A well: Off shall I press
Imaginations aid
To call tlice hack to me, and tell ,
Of scenes my heart shall cherish well—
Not leaving thee nejrleetedly
Like things forgotten where they die. - ’
Solicitor-General DuBignon.
It gives us much pleasure to copy
from the Savannah Times, the follow
ing laudatory and graceful tribute to
a former honored citizen of this coun
ty;
SOLICITOR-GENERAL DU BIQNON.
The following from the Savannah
Times is a tribute to Solicitor-General
F. G. DuBignon, which will be read
with pleasure by his many friends in
the state:
On general principlesthe way of the
transgressor is hard, but in the judi
cial district of the superior court it is
pretty tough, to say the least. Since
Solicitor-General DuBignon was select
ed to fill the position, criminals and
law breakers have had a serious time
to disentangle themselves from the
meshes he weaves about them. He
allows no lawyer, no matter how
sharp, or shrewd, or cunning he may
be to quash one of his indictments,
and he leaves no loopholes or tech
idealities open through which the
legal cart can be driven. When lie
has a man indicted by the grand jury
that man has against him an aray of
facts which he will have difficulty to
successfully combat, and his attorney
will have his hands full to defend
him.
Solicitor-General DuBignon has
lost but two cases this term of court,
either in Chatham, Liberty, McIn
tosh, Effingham or Bryan. He has
had remarkable success, and although
some of the young lawyers think,
when their clients get sentences from
five to fifteen years in the peniten
tiary, that his legal positions are
untenable, yet he manages to con
vince the juries that he is right, and
the court usually falls into the same
idea.
A Times reporter was in a gathering
of lawyers a few days ago, in which
the able solicitor general was a mem
ber. A young lawyer named Way,
one of the most promising of Liberty
county's young men, and one of tlie
most eloquent young men of the state,
remarked that the lawyers had no
show in defending criminals against
Mr. DuBignon as solicitor general.
It is certain the state has a brave,
fearless, zealous and eloquent prose
cuting officer. He is impartial, and
when in the performance of what he
considers his duty knows no man and
has no maudlin sentiment in his com
position.
The butcher does have some funny
expressions; he told his assistant the
other day to break the bones in Mr.
Williams' chops, and put Mr. Smith’s
ribs in the basket for him, and tell
Mrs. Black to take Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup for her cold.
Legalcap, foolscap, letter and note paper
—pens, pencils and ink, for saio chcujflat
the Union & Recorder office.
GRADY’S TALK.
THE BRILLIANT YOUNG GEOR
GIAN IN NEW YORK.
His Speech Before the New England
Society of That City.
New York Sun: When Mr. Grady
arose to speak he was received witli
rattling cheers. He was the first out
and-out Southerner to be invited to a
dinner of the New England Society,
anil he spoke for the “New South”
with warmth and frankness. He was
repeatedly interrupted by the cheers
of the New Englanders, and when he
sat down his speech was accepted as
the speech of the evening. Mr. Grady
said he would take for his text the
words of Benjamin II. Hill in Tam
many* Hall, in 1806, “There was a
South of secession and slavery—that
South is dead. There is a South of
union and freedom -that. South is
living, breathing, growing every
hour.'’
“I bespeak the utmost stretch of
your courtesy tonight,” he said: “I
am somewhat indifferent to those
from whom 1 come. You remember
the man whose wife sent Him to a
neighbor with a pitcher of milk, nnd
who, tripping on the top step, foil,
with such casual interruptions ns the
landings afforded, into the basement,
and while picking himself up, had the
pleasure of hearing his wife call out:
‘John, did you break the pitcher?’
‘No, |1 didn't, but 1 be dinged if I
don’t.!' said John.
‘The Cavalier as well as the Puri
tan, said the speaker, was on this
continent in its earlier days, and he
was ‘up and able to be about.’ But
both Puritan and Cavalier were lost
in the storm of their first revolution,
and the American citizen, supplanting
both and stronger than either, took
possession of the republic bought by
tiieir common blood and fashioned to
wisdom, and charged himself with
teaching men government and estab
lishing the voice of the people ns the
voice of God. Great types like valu
able plants, are slow to flower and
fruit. But from the union of these
colonists, from the straightening of
their purposes and the crossing of
their blood, slow perfecting through
a century, came he who stands as the
first typical American, the first who
comprehended within, himself all the
strength and gentleness, all the maj
esty* and grace of this republic—Abra
bam Lincoln. He was the sum of
Puritan and Cavalier, for in his in
dent nature were fused the virtues of
both, and in the depths of his great
soul the faults of both were lost. He
was greater than Puritan, greater
than Cavalier, in that he was Ameri
can, and that in his homely form
were first gathered the vast and thrill
ing forces of this ideal government,
charging it with such tremendous
meaning, and so elevating it above hu
man suffering that martydom, though
infamously aimed, came as a fitting
crown to a life consecrated from tlie
cradle to human liberty.
“In speaking to the toast with
which you have honored mo I accept
the term* ‘The New South' as in no
sense disparaging to the old. Dear to
me, sir, are the home of my childhood
and tlie traditions of my people.
There is a new South, not through
protest aguinst the old, but because
of new conditions, new adjustments,
and, if you please, new ideas and as
pirations. It is to this that I address
myself. I ask you, gentlemen, to
picture, if you can, the footsore sold
ier who, buttoning up in his faded
gray* jacket the parcle which was tak
•n, testimony to his children of
his fidelity and faith turned his
face southward from Appomattox
in April in 1865. Think of him as
ragged, half starved, heavy heart
ed, enfeebled by want and wounds,
having fought to exhaustion, lie
surrenders his gun, wrings the
hands of his comrades, and lifting his
ttarstained and pallid face for the
last time to the graves that dot the
old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap
over lus brow aud begins the slow
and painful journey. What does he
find—let me ask you, who went to
your homes eager to find all the wel
come you lmd justly earned, full pay
ment for 4 y*ears’ sacrifice—what does
he find when he reaches the home ho
left four years before? He finds his
house in ruins, his farm devastated,
his slaves freed, his stock killed, his
barns empty, his trade destroyed,
his money worthless,JliIs social system,
feudal iu its magnificence, swept
away; his people without law or legal
status, his comrades slain, and tin*
burdens of others heavy* on his
shoulder.
Crushed by defeat, his very tradi
tions gone; without money, credit, em
ployment, material, or training -and
besides all this, confronted with the
gravest problem that ever met hu
man intelligence—the establishing of
a status for the vase body of his liber
ated slaves, what does he do, this hero
in gray*, with a heart of gold? Does he
sit down in sullenness, in despair?
Not for a day. Surely* God, who had
scourged him in prosperity, inspired
him in his adversity! As ruin was
never before so overwhelming, never
was restoration swifter. The soldier
stepped from the trenches into the
furrow; horses that had charged Fed
eral guns marched before the plough,
and fields that ran red with human
blood in April were green with the
harvest in June; women reared in lux
ury out up their dresses aud made
breeches for their husbands, and with
a patience nnd heroism that fits wo
man always as a garment gave their
hands to work. There was little bit
terness in all this. Cheerfulness and
frankness prevailed. 'Bill Arp’ struck
the key* when he said: ‘Well, I killed
as many of them as they did of me,
and now I am going to work.’ Or the
soldier returning home after defeat
nnd roasting some corn on the road
side, who made tlie remark to his
comrades: “You may leave the South
if you want to, but lam going to
Handersville, kiss my wife, and raise
a crop, anil if the Yankees fool with
me any more, I will whip’em again.’
1 want to say to Gen. Sherman—who
is considered an able tnan in our
parts, though some people think he
is a kind of careless man about lire— 1
that from the ashes left us in 1864 we
have raised a brave and beautiful
city; that somehow or other we have
caught the sunshine in the bricks and
mortar of our homes and have bnild-
ed therein not one single ignoble prej
udice or memory.
‘IBnt what is the sum of our re
mark? We have found out that in
the general summing up the free no
gro counts more than he did as a
slave. Wo have planted the school
house on the hill top and made it free
to white black. Wo ‘have sowed
towns and cities in the place of theo
ries and put business above politics.
We have challenge*) your spinners in
Massachusetts and your iron maker:!
i*i Pennsylvania. We have learned
that the $400,000,000 annually* receiv
ed from our cotton crop will make us
rich. Then the supplies that make it
are home raised. We have reduced
the commercial rate of interest from
24 to 6 per cent., and are floating 4
per cent, bonds. We have learned
that one Northern immigrant is wort h
fifty foreigners, and have smoothed
the path to the Moutbwnrd, wiped out
the place where Mason ami Dixon’s line
used to be, and hung out our latch to
you and yours. We have reached the
point that marks perfect harmony in
eveny household, when the husband
confesses that the pies liis own wife
cooks are as good as those his mother
used to bake; amt we admit that the
sun shines as brightly and the moon
as softly as it did before the war.”
“We have established thrift in city
anil country. We have fallen in love
with work. We have restored com
fort to homes from which culture and
elegance never departed. We have
let economy take root anil spread
among us as rank as the crab grass
which sprang from Hhermau’s caval
ry* camps, until we are ready to lay
odds on the Georgia Yankee as he
squeezes pure olive oil out of his cot
ton seed against any Downeaster that
ever swapped wooden nutmegs for
flannel sausages in the valleys of Ver
mont. Above all, we know that we
have achieved in these “piping times
of pence” a fuller independence for the
South than that which our fathers
sought to win in the forum by their
eloquence or compel on the field by*
their swords. It is a rare privilege,
sir, to have had part, however hum
ble, in this work. Never was a nobler
duty confided to human hands than
the uplifting and upbuilding of the
prostrate and bleeding Mouth, mis
guided, perhaps, but beautiful in her
suffering, anil honest, brave and gen
erous always. In the record of her
social, industrial and political illus
tration, wo await with confidence the
verdict of the world.
“We understood that when Lin
coln signed the emancipation procla
mation your victory was assured, for
he tlien committed you to the cause
of human liberty, against which the
arms of man cannot prevail, while
those of our statesmen who made
slavery the corner stone of the Con-1 years.
fetleracy doomed us to defeat, com- . In 1876 convicts were leased to perr-
mitting' us to a cause that reason itentiary companies 1, 2 and .( for
could not defend or the sword main- twenty years. A copy of that con
tain iu the sight of advancing civili- tract was transmitted giving the
zation. Hair Mr. Toombs said, which j names of the lessees No subsequent
he did not say, that lie would call tlie | 1'*“'* " r o»»traet <>r transfer of niter-
roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker «►'* appears of record and no author-
IIill lie would have been foolish, for j *ty *'y ttn >’ executive for such transfe
lie might have known that whenever ■ appears of record. J. B. Uonion, one
o the State
fused on the
a hundred farms for every plantation,
fifty homes for every palace, and a
diversified industry that meets the
complex needs of this complex age.”
In closing Wr. Grady said: “This
message, Mr. 1'resident,'comes to you
from consecrated ground. Every foot
of the soil about the city in which I
live is us sacred as a battle ground of
the republic. Every hill that invests
it Is hallowed to you by the blood of
your brothers who died for vour
victory, and doubly hallowed to us by
the blow of those who died hopeless,
but undaunted in defeat-sacred soil
to all of ns—rich with memories that
make us purer and stronger nnd
better—silent but staunch witness in
its rich desolation of the matchless
valor of American hearts, the death
less glory of American arms—speaking
and eloquent witness in its white
peace and prosperity to the indissolu
ble Union of American States and
the imperishable brotherhood of the
American people. Wluit answer has
New England to this message? Will
she permit the prejudico of war to re
main in the hearts of the conquerors
when it has died in the hearts of the
conquered? Will she transmit this pre
judice to the next generation, that in
in hearts which never felt the gener
ous ardorof conflict it may perpetuate
itself? Will she withhold, save in
strained courtesy, tlie baud which,
straight from his soldier's heart, Grant
offered to Lee at Appomattox?
“Will she make the vision of a
restored and happy people which
gathered above the couch of your
dying Captain, filling his heart with
grace, touching his lips with praise,
and glorifying Ids path to the grave
—will she make this vision on which
the last sigh of his expiring soul
breathed a benediction, a cheat and
delusion? If she docs, the South,
never abject iu asking for comrade
ship, must accept with dignity its re
fusal. But if she does not refuse to
accept in frankness and sincerity this
message of good will anil friendship,
then will the i 'oyi’tr ■ ' ' r
delivered to this very .sociuiy iorty'
yeary ago. amid t remeudous applause,
be verified in its fullest and final sense,
when he said: “Standing hand to hand
and clasping hands, we should re
main united, as we have been for
sixty years, citizens of the same coun
try, members of the same Government
—united, all united now and united
forever. There have been difficulties,
contentions and controversies, but 1
tell you that in my judgment
“ ' I'm sc oppose I forces.
Which like t lie met cursor a t r* uh'ort heaven
All of one nature, of one sufis- hiicc fired,
Dirt lately meet In l fie Intestine shook,
Hhall now. to inu‘ >i;il ivcii.fi,*8„Hiiiinir ranks.
March all one way. ’ ”
+ .
The Convict Lease.
Gov. Gordon sent in a message with
the accompanying documents furn
ishing the information asked by the
resolution of Mr. Huff, of Bibb, touch
ing the convict lease. The Governor
states that the convict system seems
to have been inaugurated by Brevet
Brigadier Gen. Thus. II. Roger when
Provisional Governor. In May, 1868,
he leased 1(0 able-bodied negro con
victs to Win. A. Fort. In July fol
lowing he leased 100 to Mr. Fort and
J. A. Print.up. In June next Mr.
Bullock leased all the convicts to
Grunt, Alexander & Co., for two
years. In this lease reference is made
to a former contract of November
1868, but the contract is not on rec
ord in the Executive Department.
The act of 1871 authorised the Gover
nor to farm out the convicts for two
i«l
slav
mu
human
very became entangled in war i, : of the ..rigiiml lessees, endeu
st perish, and that the ehatt’.o in ; lw ‘'’ to return Ins interest to
unman ilesh ended forever in New but the Governor refuse*
England when your fathers—not. to j ground that he had no power to re-
be blamed for parting with what' [ease tne lessees us appears in the let-
didn't pay—sold their slaves to our! ter of the bill in the Executive De
fathers -not to be praised for know pnrtment. Accompanying the ink
ing a paying thing when they saw it. j sage arc copies of tlie reports of the
“When Lee surrendered i don’t prmcipa keeper and^physician of the
say when Johnston surrendered, he-1 penitentiary of the Attorney General
•* .... , -*ludt*s to and other officials. 1 lie reports con-
cause 1 understand he still all
the time when he met General Sher-1
man last as the time when lie deter j
mined to abandon any further prose
cution of the struggle- when Lee sur
rendered, I • say, und Johnston quit,'
the South became, and has been since I
loyal to this Union. We fought hard
enough to know that we were whip
vey in detail the information asked
for bv the resolution.
A Fair Division.
“Joe,
ad and in perfect frankness accepted bachelor quarters. ^
is final the arbitrament of the sword ^ All rigiit, JacK.
to which we hail appealed. The J® 11
South found her jewel in a toad's head, j
The shackles that had held her in mir- j * e8 *. •
row limitations fell forever when the ipaii
[Harper’s Bazar.]
we’ll have to give up our
as final the arbitrament o. ..... .... .
to which we had appealed. The “You bought the stove, didn t yon,
hpii.fl.! Joe?”
Jack.’
paid for having the hole cut in
shackles of the negro slave were the chimney.”
broken. Under the old regime the ’ 'iL „ m,- „
negroes were slaves to the South, the. .'Y'* 11 ' a
South was a slave to the system, division. I’ll take t ie stove and you
Thus was gathered in tie hands of a j take the hole,
splendid and chivalrio oligarchy the:
substance that should have been dif-
Sixcitcmcnt in Texas.
fused among the people, as the rich
blood is gathered at the heart, filling j
that with affluent rapture, but leav
ing the body clinl and colorless Tin*
old South rested everything on slavery 1
and agriculture, unconscious that
these could neither give nor maintain
healthy growth. The new South pre
sents a perfect democracy, u* oli
garchs leading into the popular move
ment—a social system compact, und
and closely knitted, less splendid on
the surface but stronger at the core—
Great excitement lias been caused la the
vicinity of Paris, l ex., by the remarkable
recovery ol Mr. J. E. Corley, who whs so
helpless he could not turn in bed, or raise
ids heart; overybi dy said he was dying of
(;onsuti>piion. A trial bottlo of Dr. King's
Now Discovery was scat him. Finding re-
lior, lie l>ouvfit a large hotMo and a box
of Dr. King's 8ew Life l'ills: by tlio time
h<< had taken two boxes of Fills and two
bottles or Uio Discovery, he was well and
IiikI gained in flesh thirty six poun Is
Trial Uottl' d of tins Groat Discovery
lor Consumption fre< at John M. Litis 0.
