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besides held on to sacks sent him for
coru which he promised to ship in
part payment. In tho latter case
Mr.. QUITS says no got $500 duo tho
State by tho Georgia Browning Co.
slncc Commissioner Mixou's time for
empty beer bottles.
lilo then goes on to rccito tho
methods Of Captain Webb, clorll of
the board, who, no says, works five
hours day for $l25 month, takes
Il week of in every month to visit
Charleston and steadily drinks about
tho dispcnsury building in violation
OF tho printed rulo forbiLdng any
drinking thcro posted over his own
signature. Flo adds that Captain
Webb lobbics for shipments by tho
S. G. Il G. II. Il. because it gives him
Il pass
lie next turns his attention to Col.
). W. Vance. Colonel Vance, he
says, has given j. G. Dorm for moth
ing disponsary stable manure for
which w. \. Clark had offered $40,
Dorm having sont tho colonel littIn
presents Of milk, butter, etc. Ho
further ccuscs Colonel Vance of
taking dispcnsary packing boxes and
coal to his own house in dispcnsary
wagons without paying anything and
of later keeping himself supplied
with coal from tn" dispcnsury stock,
paying for it at the price tho State
buys it for in 100 ton lots and hay.
ing it hanlcd in dispcnsary wagons
free Colonel Vance, according to
QUITS, has been frequently guilty of
selling liquor to himself and other
employees ut tho dispcnsary, somo-
times on credit, and has madc
it Il habit to give away quaint,
ties OF dispcnsnry liquor on fcstul oc-
casions
"Nh'lo | was shipping clerk and
Colonel Vance Commissioner, when
dispensers would order goods wo Gid
not have in stock, | would always ask
Colonel Vance what to send thom in
stead. Ho would almost invariably
reply, sond them "lIuntcr" Hunter
was n good substitute for every kind
OF goods wo happened to be out Of.
1t got so common that Blakoly and [
uso to laugh about tho Hunter bust
ness. Some times tho dispensers
would order Hunter and other goods,
tho other goods wo would not have,
l. would ask him what to send and
no not knowing that Hunter was or
dorcd would say "scnd them Hunt
or," and whom | would toll him thoy
had ordered Hunter, ho would say
'just any thing about tho same
grade" All substitutes sent in
place OF what was ordered by dis.
ponscrs we're selected by Colonel
Vance and noto of it mado on the
bottom Of tho ordor by me. lie
would writo to tho dispensers and
tell them, wo woro ont Of the kind
ordered, but had sent them other
goods. remember that Dispenser
>. t.. Whlten, at Pcndlcton, ordered
ono cnso of case goods, and wrote
over tho name caso goods "Iuntcr,"
and Hunter wo shipped him. In
ordering goods ont after tho monthly
, purchases Mossra. Lanahun Il Son
would invariably get theirs ordered
shipped first by Col. Vance, commits
sionor; and when the board would
meet again Lanahan's goods would
have boon received and nearly all bot
tied and tho most Of them shipped
out, and having not much on hand
would be good excuse to get it or
dcrcd again. If Lunuhnn's goods
were not all bottled they would be
in tho tanks, or rs mu.h Of thom as
could be Cotton in there, to be drawn
ont. About tho last dumping Col.
Vance had dono before he went out
OF Office was Hunter rye, whom there,
was plenty in stock already bottled
and enough Of it to last six months;
of course, as it WAS in tho tanks it
had to bottled and stacked up in the
way, taking up space which was
needed for moro saleablo goods, thus
reducing tho floor space for other