The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-05

Giles county has ten thousand dollars
IN the County Treasury. and IS cut o.
debt. What has she done for pahlic
schools9 Marshall county IS out Of
debt and has six thousand dollars in
her treasury, but she has done nothing
for public schools, we believe. Maury
county has spent $4,000 for her public
schools, and spent thousands OF dollars
in rebuilding bridges destroyed during
the war, and in ether public enterpris-
es, anu yet she IS nearly OF quite ont Of
debt.--C0iWnlb5 Herdid.
Giles county has had public schools
only one year and Maury has had them
two years. The amount Of meney ex-
pended and on hand for school purpose
Is for the current scholastic year ending
August 3lst, 1874, IS 49,, 12f AS stated
above, Maury has spent $4,000 for
school purposes IN two years, while
Giles has spent S34,l24 net In one year,
which shows that Giles expended near-
~ three times rs much per year for
school purposes rs Marry. Giles conn
ty has spent upwards Of $4,000 alone
since the war, besides q vast amount Of
smaller items for public improvements,
and has butt jail since the war at q
cost Of $22.OO0 Giles levied inat yonr
a tax of 10 cents for school purposes,
while Maury levied only q, Giles paYs
an average per month 10 teachers OF
1897 3D. CitfEeH-
The Pulaski Cfffsen SAYS that Giles
county expended $4,000 more for COM
mon school purposes during the year
1873 than Maury county expended In
1872 and 1873 We learn from the SUI
pcrintcndcnt Of Common Schools for
Giles county that the total amount ex-
pended Ia Giles for common school pur-
poses during the two last scholastic
years was $685. 1913, aud from the SUI
perintendento of schools for Maury conn-
~ we learn that Maury county cNpend-
Ell Turing the Same years for common
siihocl purposes so, 290,7O, 10 viii be
sem Ironi the above figures, which are
Official and reliable, that during the past
TWO years Maury county has spent for
school purposes $7a54,07 more than
6iioss-~C oinDlbia Herald.
We copy the above in order to bring
the whole subject. before the reader
knowing that Marry had maintained
public schools for two years, we sup
posed that S25, GOO was the totalexpend-
itures for tliat time, as expressed b. the
HordI3, and hence drew the conclusions
above expressed. The Herald then re-
plies and compares the last two yearso Of
Maury with the last two years Of GILES,
Ignoring che fact that Giles has not had
a system Of public schools but one year,
and 10 reality comparing firo years Of
Maury with Que OF Giles haury has
spent In two years $7sa5i,97 moro than
Giles has In one year. Weare glad that
Maury makes better showing than we
Thought she condos 1,20O,73 Instead OF
$25,000--and neither DO ina seek 20 graft
ify any local prejudice IN this confro-
versy, but having taken up the eaunt-
let insinuatingiy dung ont by the Her
add, we must not drop this question
until the correct figures tell the correct
tale. Marry spent $4,000 81 1879. and
Giles 3O,isl 30, Maury has I2,sis
children, and Giles 1851. Maury
spent on each child in 1873 5000. and
Giles spont ln 1873 on each chnd Ss.le.
These figures are oilieial and correct,
except the $4,000, Tor which we have
the authority Of the HttaIa. 318c Her-
aid hilcd to answer the questions I'M the
above article, and then garbies that arr
ticle to get a favorable showing for its
county,