New-York tribune., 1896-03-29
A reader OF The Tribune writes as follows:


Many OF your readers, will recall the fact that
when Uncle Toms Cabin" appeared and after
ward as long as the aeS0n o for rS,. mis- ns
representation and exaggeratlon, ana IL was saij
Se% nS a IN ana some the
recent Southern novels similar statements the gen
son erer thng that Slavery has been abolished it was
st,ll n very benelcent nstitution-aimost an ideal
capital and labor There has come into my hands
recently interesting manuscript which ti throws
ton in Louisiana; It IS written in a large blank
book. and covers for number Of years in the early
erations OF about one hundred negro slaves Rules ,
for oyersecrs and directions FOR the care 1f the SICK
English literature appears 70 TO-, nave oeeh oo weIi-
During the We los, Della from effects Of
In Ap d n NAY Jane lost from 1a phs @
Charles from dropsy: Tom and Ben Parker I,nd and
d%rowned; % August hanged and Tom beat to death
when too sick 70 work; and since my return s we
some time during the summer. viz; Betsy's child and
count OF negligence and nl-treatment.
This is the authentic record OF one plantation IN IN
simply characterized as ''ill-treatment" from the
same point OF view as II the same number OF mules
punishment or DISCHARGE of the perpetrator. Ben
drowned August and a Tom oea5 nc to em
fate Such record indicates that the real his,
iG5y of pasS sey'tSS San es s' has ever % panc
A Senator's wife. who is an accomplished mu-
slclan gave a dinner party recently. Among the
guests was a certain member OF the Kentucky dele
CATION In Congress. While awaiting announcement
OF dinner, at the urgent request OF some OF the
guests the hostess played and sang She had just
finished a poonaise by Chopin which was greeted
with Il burst OF applause. and as she rose from the
piano In the silence whch followed the sweet
strains. her husband turned 10 the gentleman from
Would you Ike a sonata before dinner, Colonel"
well, don't mind, promptly replied q, the Ken,
on o%cmy y way here but sekon Stand anothe
The Wisconsin Republican State Convention last
week chose old ex-senator Phietus Sawyer as one
OF the delegates a large to the st. Louis Conven-
tion. Though nearly eighty years old he is keenly
alive business yet. and loves to drive sharp
bargain whenever he His enormous fortune
has all been made In lumber. He is a very close
buyer when no gets into the market to purchase
pine lands Usually the man who sells to him does
not know who the buyer is Last summer the old
gentleman In the northern part OF Wisconsin
inspecting pine. When he sounded the owner
as to a sale that individual, old man with grizzly
hair and whskers saned out ssH e9Ha anS
then at the stranger. and said:
You be old Sawyer. Blamed II haven't been
for sale. Pine that sawyer wants is pine. and ri
just keep this here patch to hand down as heir
loom to my children"
No trade was made. and the price OF pine land In
that region rose Immediately thereafter-someth!ng
that does not take place very often IN Wisconsin
until after Sawyer has made his purchase.
They were discussing the announcement that some
of the most prominent OF the Democratic leaders
Brice. Gorman Croker and Watterson among
tho num5er--had decided not to attend the Chicago
Convention. One was n Cuckoo OF full pumase;
tho other an anti-Adminis.ration Democrat OF the
A0ost pronounced type The Cuckoo deplored the