Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-28
One of Georcia,s GIories.


We have received from the Principal oil
the Georgia Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb, at Cave Spring, Mr.. Wesley OCon-
ner, the twentv-second report of that
institution-an institution that the State
has wisely and humanely fostered for the
benefit of that unfortunate class Of our
people who have been doubly afflicted by
the hand of Providence.
The report embraces the operations of
the Institution from July l, 1880, to Sep
TENDER 80, 1882, and gives an interesting
and succinct history of its work for the
time indicated The Board of Trustees,
of which the humanitarian and philan-
thropist, Hon. John H. Dent, is Chairman,
in their report to the Legislature through
the Governor, says: ''That the manage
ment of this great trust for the time speci-
fed, in all its departments, has been emf
nently successful" From small be-
ginning it has grown to be a grand elee-
mosynary State charity, and since its
foundation has received not only the
kindly aid of successive Legislatures, but
the sympathy and moral support of the
true citizen, who has never regretted the
appropriations made to sustain it.
The unfortunate boys and girls of the
State, who are the recipients of its chart
ties, number 60 whites, 80 males and %
females: and 20 colored, u males and s
females, representing nearly every county
in the State. Five of these are from
Chatham county, and, strange to say, all
are from Savannah. There are one white
and four cOlOred, all both deaf and dumb.
The expenditures for the institution from
the LIST day of July, 1880, to the Both day
of September, has been $33, 592 40, which
includes 81, 444 AZ for the colored depart
ment, which was organized during the
past year. Since April 1, 1881, there has
been but one death, that of a frail girl,
who succumbed to a violent attack of
castro eRteritiS, on the 10Th of January,
1892.
The farm and garden in which the pupils
experiment in practical husbandry has
been very profitable, and has yielded dur
ing the time named products of the value
of $685. IS. During the same period the
girls have made 1,151 pieces of clothing
and household articles of various kinds,
comprising articles of dress, bed fiXings,
etc. In the shoe shop the boys employed
have made showing represented on the
! credit and debit side as follows: Credit,
81, $50 %; debit, 81, 400 "a, showing a bal
| ance in favor of the shop of $491 Al.
The terms of admission are: ''All deaf
mutes in the State who are over eight and
under twenty-seven years of age, men
tally and physically able to receive in
| structiOn properly, and free from any i'm
moral conduct or contagious disease, are
! entitled to all the benefits of the institu-
ton, free of charge, for a term of seven
! years." Every pupil in the institution is
| taught some useful employment, hence all
are required to labor some portion of the
/ time.
The applications for admission ofpupils,
| business communications and letters of
inquiry respecting pupils of the institu-
ton, should be addressed to ''W. O'COn-
ner, Principal of the Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb, Cave Springs, Ga"
The trustees in their report ask the
Legislature to appropriate the sum of $780,
| 500 for the institution for the next two
years, $4,000 for support fund for two
years, 81, 900 for repair fund, $4,000 for a
school building, So, 900 for the erection of a
laundry, and $500 for water works, and
we hope the Legislature will readily grant
the appropriation.
In closing this notice of the interesting
report, we would add that anything in the
way of books, newspapers, magazines,
etc, specimens of the animal, vegetable
or mineral kingdom, curiOsities, in fact
anything that will help to build up the
Library Museum will be of inestimable
value in the work of educating the deaf
and dumb, and will be very thankfully
| receiXed.