The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-12-23

'iN ' fAf'N'NNf NNAi ~
would ig oughi 3, damage, or bss.
iil'o 10 d1 dl within hs power to
promote. ths interest OF biz own
grand child, the daughter. ADD only
child, Of his dodd ON. | cannot
therefore attach mnch iuporiancs
10 this point raised by counsel
In addition 20 this, regard II rs
the policy " the county and OF the
State to attach the rising gcucrution
to their native soil. aud foster,
strengthen aud prpetnate that at
taehneut as far as practicable,
through all the mutations Of time aud
circumstances. Let us look into the
future and zee this little girl, after
the lapse of fifteen years, Just merg-
ing into the bloom and beauty OF wo-
manhood. Who can doubt that she
would look, with sorrow and pain
upon her homestead in the possession
ot stranger, feeling herself an alien
even upon the place Other birth, or,
on the the other hand, that her bos-
ON would swell with emotions of
gladness as she turned to that spot
which is first and fingers last in the
affections.
THE tot her athrr the dsiry house nigh II
And 'un the rude bucket which bung In the
we'll
She would feel that not link in
affections chain was severed, that
the home of her infancy was the
home Of her maturity, and that amid
all the fluctuations OF trade and for
tune, this home secured to her by
the wise iorethought Of loving
father, could not be taken ftom her.
| can well imagine that she would
reverence the laws OF her State and
be content to live under them.
Complainant's briet snggests the
question US 10 who shall coutrol the
land, it having been formally declar~
ed incapable OF division in, kind,
This is strong pviut and one ditf-
eult,ot solution. But, as the inter-
est OF the minor are under the special
care OF Chancery, doubt not they
will receive adequate protection in
case Of q disagreement and the
col tenant being the mother OF the
child i am very unwilling
to anticipate such action on her part
as will be detrimental to the inter
ests Other offspring. II will be time
caough to consider. this when Il
arises.
As to the wisdom Of changing
| the character ofthc Investment from
land to money, regard the for
mer as the safer of the two. There
are before me at the present time, in
this and otner counties Of my Dis.
trict, divers petitions OF Guardians,
praying leave to invest surplus funds
vf tleir wards il Railroad Bonds
aud each alledging the uncertainty
of individual security. II the pray
ers ofthe petitioners are refused
can do 10 more than dircct them TO
loan out the money to individuals at
ten per cent. that being the highest
rate Of interest sanctioned by law
Against this they earnestly protest,
and they are, in every instance, ncal
relations uncles and in one case tht
mother Of tie wards, and persons tor
in whose probiiy ! have the -utIpos
confidence. | know OF no power il
a Chancery court to authorize spec
,llaiion in the money Of a minor 4
orphan under its tutelage and an,
investment over and above the lega
rate Of interest amounts toa speeu
lation. Individual paper that nigh
be good to-day or twelve month
hence, might, in the rapid and re
markable changes which are no
, common ii the financial history
: the county, be nearly, II bot utler'.
/. worthless long before the maturity
) this tender child. Money may "tak
unto itself wings and Fly away
I however vigilently guarded, but Ian
owing its permaDanacy TO a pow
! high above either the motives or II
. uncertainties d human action or
r human judgement, will rsmaii
d land / regard it-as the best inves
! ment Of the two, and especially as
, sproductive Of au income more ths
c sufficient to support the minor.
i cannot infer from tire will Of Il
|: ttstatof.tlat be either Designed
I. desired that the Iipd sfodld be sol
L Else he mdght'lave expressed hIt
e self In two or three words y II
u effect. These words are not'in !
Y. will and I secnothing n that lhsti
a. mont up0l, which 10 base a sifflpo