The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-25
HISTORY IF WAR VETERANS READY First Volume of CandIer's Beck
 Is Announced TO SELL ALMOST AT COST Sheriffs and Deputies of State Want Privilege of Riding Free on
 Railroads, at Least on
 official Business.
TO SELL ALMOST AT COST

| OHiclal Business.
 Atlanta September 24-(Special. 1.-The 1 first volume of Georgias S Confederate records now in course of preparation by former Governor Allen D. Candler, Is in the hands of the printer. and should be ready for sale and distribution within 1 two or three weeks. There will be seven of these volumes when this part of the 1 work is completed, the first volume con- taining Gov. Joseph E. Browns message to the general assembly following the election of President Lincoln the speeches of Cobb and Stephens for and against secession. the bill calling the conventions and the proceedings of the secession con- vention. Subsequent volumes will carry the Confederate history of the state on through reconstruction ending with 1872.
 This is but comparatively small part | of Governor Candlers work. He has com pleted 20 volumes of Georgia's colonial records which are now in print, and three volumes of the states revolutionary records. There are still 20 volumes of colonial records to be printed. These are
 
 printer whenever there are funds to pay for the work When the work Is com pleted there will be of the states CO., lonial, revolutionary and Confederate records total of 5 volumes.
 No provision is made in the work which Governor Candler is doing for the publica- ton and preservation of the states rec ords between the close of the revolu- tionary period, about 17S5, and the be- ginning of the Civil War in 1860, about three-quarters of a century during which Georgia made splendid progress in the arts of peace. It may be, later on that the legislature will make provision for the publication of these records also, but the present work is confined to the pe- riods named. There are about 100 regular subscribers to the present work, which the state sells at $l50 per volume, approximately the cost of publication. Several Georgians have read and studied each of the vol umes so far issued and one well-known lawyer and former judge of the supreme court has read them through twice. They l are of special interest to many old Geor | gia families, not a few of whom trace l their ancestry back to the colonial days. |
 Free Passes Wanted. One hundred and forty-six Georgia sher- l ifs and their deputies want the privilege | of riding free of charge on the railroads of the state, at least when travelling on | official business. and the Georgia railroad commission will look into their request l at a hearing to be held Thursday of this week.
 At their last convention the sheriffs passed a resolution urging the commis- sion to so modify its order prohibiting the use of free transportation as to permit sherifs travelling on official business to i use free passes provided, of course, that | the railroads will give it to them.
 The sheriffs seem to think 1t will be i all right with the railroads, as it was in the olden days, and that the only thing | necessary is the modification of the pres- ent anti-pass rule of the commission. They have employed Attorneys Ellis & Glawson of Macon to represent them, and | argument in behalf of the sheriffs' peti- l ton will be presented this week.
 There is no indication that it will be l opposed by anyone and the only question 1 seems to be with the commission as to just how it thinks proper to let down the bars. It will be recalled that the commission refused to modify its order to the eX- tent of letting policemen and f1remen ride free on the street cars, and that the privilege was only restored to those mu- nicipal employees by an act of the legis- lature.
 Renumbering Houses. A renumbering of Atlantas houses on the century plan will probably take place within a short time. The present anti quated system of street numbering has produced no end of confusion, but Tor some reason or other former suggestions as to change in the system have either not clr ar overshadowed by other matters On some of Atlanta's streets there are now three or four numbers just alike distinguished only by letters, as 23A, 23B and 23C. In other places are found Al, All. AS and so on. Council has taken hold of the matter this time with apparent determination to put an end to this sort of confusion. An ordinance providing for the century sys- tenn of 100 numbers to each block was in- troduced yesterday and favorably re- ceived It is said there is practically no doubt of it's passage at the next meet ing.
 What Jury Must Believe.
 That jury must believe all or none of a defendants own statement in his be- half is the principle laid down by Judge A. E. Calhoun in the city court this week. In other words. even though the pris oner's statement may indicate that he was guilty of the crime charged, If he puts forward any reasonable hypothesis or statement to show the act was not one of a criminal nature, and there is no fur ther evidence to substantiate the position of the state, then the defendant must be acquitted.
 negro named Graham was charged with stealing box of shirts by the firm that employed him. He claimed that he | had found the box in the trash in the | cellar and had merely set them upon a | box to preserve them. That was all the evidence in Graham's own statement, and though appearances were against him the court ordered his discharge on the ground | stated.
 Hudson Is Ambitious.
 Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hud- son, his friends now confidently state, has practically decided not to get into the race for Congress from the Third district, race which he has had under consid- eration for some months. but to run again next year for commissioner of agriculture and then try for Congress in 1912
 MT Hudson has made no definite state
 nent regarding his plans, but those close