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NUMBER 31
VOLUME XLiil.J
MILLEDGE VfLLE, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 26, 1873.
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the order that they apply, without
regard to county lines. This is a
rare opportunity for ambitious youths
who are short of funds, and we doubt
not the responses will flow in rapidly.
Mysterious Influences.—Persons
sometimes feel remarkably well—the
appetite is vigorous, eating is a joy,
digestion vigorous, sleep sound, with
an alacrity of body and an exhilara
tion of spirits which altogether throw
a charm over life that makes us pleas
ed with every body and every thing.
Next week, to morrow, in an hour, a
marvelous change comes over the spirit
of the dream : the sunshine has gone,
clouds portend, darkness covers the
face of the great deep, and the whole
man, body and soul wilts away like
a flower without water in mid-sum
mer.
When the weather is cool and clear
and bracing, the atmosphere is full of
electricity ; when it is sultry and moist
and without sunshine, it holds but a
small amount of electricity compara
tively speaking, and we have to give
up what little we have, moisture be
ing a good conductor ; thus, in giving,
up, instead of receiving more, as we
Would from the cool, pure air, the
change is too great, and the whole man
languishes. Many become uneasy un
der these circumstances; ‘"they can’t
account for it,” they imagine that evil
is impending, and resort at once to
tonics and stimulants. The tonics on
ly increase the appetite, without im
parting any additional power to work
up the additional food, thus giving
the system more work to dc instead ot
less. Stimulants seem to give more
strength ; they wake up the circula
tion, but it is only temporary, and un
less a new supply is soon taken, the
Bystem runs farther down than it would
have done without the stimulant;
hence it is a worse condition than if
none had been taken. The better
course would be to rest, take nothing
but cooling fruits and berries and mel-
lons, and some acid drink when thirsty,
adding it desired, some cold bread and
butter; the very next morning will
bring a welcome change.
The School ot Journalism in Yale
College numbers sixty pupils.
Brevity.—Not. that which is much
is well, but that which is well is much.
In New York there is one death
each year to every eighty-two peo
ple.
There are S2.000 postofrices in the
United States. Five hundred are
kept by women.
Boston is the second sugar market
in the United States.
The Rhode Island people mind
their own business. A man can have
four wives in that State and live with
them four years before being found
Out.
ted States against the Bashaw of Tri
poli in 1604. after several vigorous at
tacks, some of which were successful,
had been made upon his flotilla beiorff
the port of his capital, the Tripolitans
became so much intimidated that they
no longer ventured outside the haven.
Commodore Preble therefore conceiv
ed a plan for making an assault upon
their shipping inside the harbor. He
resolved to send a fire-ship, or “infer
nal,” which he had long contemplated,
which was to be exploded among the
Tripolitan vessels, by which Com. Pre
ble not only hoped to destroy the en
emy’s shipping but he trusted would
shatter the Bashaw’s castle, in which
some of the American prisoners were
confined, and otherwise damage the
the capital city of Tripoli.
The ketch Intrepid, which had ren
dered such signal service on the recent
burning of the Philadelphia, was
brought into requisition fur this dan
gerous enterprise. A small apart
ment was planked up in ht^r hold, just
forward ot the mainmast, and in this
receptacle about ©ne hundred barrels
of powJer in bulk, estimated at 15,-
000 pounds, were poured. Commu
nicating with this room was a tube thut
led aft to another apartment, which
was filled with combustible material.
Oh the deck, directly over the mag
azine, were deposited fifty thir-
teen-and-a-half inch and one hundred
nine-inch shells, with a great quantity
of shot and pieces of iron kentledge.
A train wa^ then run through the tube
from the magazine to the after-room,
and fusees, calculated to hum fifteen
minutes, w T ere connected with it in the
proper way. The burning of the light-
wood and splinters in the forward
room, it was supposed, would keep
the Tripolitans from boarding the ves
sel, for fear she was a fire-ship.
Lieut: Richard Somers, of the
schooner Nautilus, volunteered for the
expedition ; and he, with Lieuts. Wads
worth and Israel, was engaged several
days in preparing this floating mine.
It was determined that the Intrepid
should enter the fort the first dark
night, proceed as far as possible into
the galley mole—the inner harbor—
there to start a fire in the splinter-
room, when her people were to retreat
to the American squadron in swift
rowing boats.
The enterprise was indeed danger
ous. The adventurers had to enter
a passage but 200 or 300 yards wide,
on a dark night, in a slow sailing ves
sel, near to and under the guns of sev
eral batteries, which would only be
prevented from firing upon them by
mistaking their vessel for one that was
endeavoring to run the American
blockade. As they advanced they
would be enfiladed by the galleys and
gunboats of the enemy, whilst a can
nonade alone upon a vessel filled with
powder would be dangerous of itself,
us the concussion of a cannon-ball
with a nail or any other piece of iron
might strike fire and ignite the pow
der. Once successful in the main ob
jects of the expedition, the retreat
had its dangers; whilst capping the
whole, Cooper remarks, the enterprise
was “one in which no quarter could be
expected.”
But few were needed to make up
the Intrepid's complement. Several
officers volunteered for this service.
One of them, Lieut. Wadsworth of the
Constitution, was taken as second ia
command. Lieut. Jos. Israel was a
voluuteer, whose services however
were refused, as the Commodore did
not believe his assistance was necessa
ry. Two swift rowing boats, one the
Constitution's, pulling six oars, and the
other the Siren's, pulling four, were
selected to bring the party off after
the train had been fired. The crew of
the Nautilus was informed of the pro
ject, and every man volunteered to go.
Of them the following four were se
lected:—James Simms, Thomas Tomp-
line, James Harris, and Wm. Keith,
all rated as seamen. It is believed the
following six, from the Constitution,
were selected by Lieut. Wadsworth:
Wm Harrison, Robt. Clark, Hugh Mc
Cormick, Jacob Williams, Peter Fen
ner, and Isaac W. Downs. All these
were seamen also.
A number of interviews took place
between Com. Preble and Lieut. Som
ers during the preparation for the en
terprise. On one of these occasions
the Commodore burnt a port-fire to as
certain its time of explosion. When
consumed, he inquired of Lieut. Som
ers if he thought the boats could get
away from the reach of shells during
the brief period it was burning. “I
think we can, sir,” replied Somers.
Com. Preble fixed his eye closely up
on the young officer a moment, and
then asked should he lessen the time
or make the port-fire shorter. “I ask
for no port-fire at all sir,” Somers an
swered quietly, but firmly. After this
interview Somers declared his inten
tion not to be captured. All the cir
cumstances connected with the enter
prise tended to strengthen this deter
mination on the part of the two young
officers who were to take the Intrepid
in. Com. Preble feeling it to be a
duty, pointed out to Lieut. Somers the
importance of not permitting so large
a quantity of powder to lait into the
hands of the Tripolitans, who were
supposed to be in want of ammunition,
whilst an exaggerated idea ot the hor
rors of Tripolitan captivity had gained
credence in the American squadron.
Somers and Wadsworth were both
calm aud quiet persons—men whose
simple declaration to perforin any act
was the guaranty of its execution, if
accomplishment were possible, and the
mere publication of their intentions
seems to have made a profound im
pression upon their comrades.
One or two efforts were made to
get into the harbor, but they tailed,
owing to the light winds. Certain
movements being noticed that made
Lieut. Somers believe the Intrepid was
suspected, he determined to enter the
harbor, on the night of the 4th of
September. The appointed day ar
rived. Before leaving his vessel, the
Nautilus Lient. Somers explained to
the four men he had chosen from it,
the dangerous nature of the expedition
upon which they were bound. He
informed them he desired no man to
go in with him who did not prefer
death to capture; such, he said, was
his own determination, and he wanted
all who accompanied him to be of the
same mind. Three cheers from the
boats’s crew was the reply he received,
and, it is reported, each man separate
ly asked to be the one to apply the
match to fhe train! Such was the
spirit of the infant marine.
Somers took leave of his fellow-offi
cers, the four seamen doing the same,
shaking their hands, and giving vent
to theii feelings in premonitions of ap
proaching doom. This was done iq good
faith, and yet with cheerfulness. No
enterprise, however dangerous, had
been undertaken in the squadron that
started upon its mission with so many
forebodings of impending evil. The
four seamen from the Nautilus disposed
of their effects orally to their associates,
“like those who are about to die with
disease.”
It would appear the Constitution's
boat did not reach the Intrepid until
dusk. When that crew was muster
ed, Lieut. Israel was found among the
party. It is asserted he secreted him
self in the boat to take part in the ex
pedition, while on the other hand it is
affirmed he came with a final order
from Com. Preble to Lieut. Somers.
Lieuts. Stewart and Decatur, with
others of Somers’ friends, visited him
aboard of the Intrepid before he weigh
ed anchor. These three were about
the same age, bad all been insrructed
in seamauship together, and had been
“intimately associated in the service
during the last six years.” Stewart
and Decatur knew the dangers that
attended the expedition, and they felt
i deep concern for the fate of -their
riend. Somers was grave but tran
quil. Conversing lor a while, he took
from his finger a ring, which he broke
i-ito three pieces; to his two friends
to gave each a piece, and retained one
pirt for himself.
As uight closed in, three gunboats
wtre observed just within the western
paisage of the harbor, through which
the Intrepid had to pass. Decatur
waned his friend to take care that
they did not board him. Somers re
plied that the enemy had become so
shy, he thought it more likely'that
they would cut and run rather than
advarce to meet him.
At eight o’clock the night was far
enough advanced to cover the move
ment,when the Intrepid weighed an
chor. The stars shone overhead, but
upon he water there hung a haze that
rendered objects uncertain—favorable
circumstances for the enterprise, for
while i: would prevent the character
of the Intrepid being easily made out,
there was light enough to enable the
ketch tt steer clear of the rocks. The
Argus, Viren, and Nautilus stood in
with tht Intrepid, all sailing with a
light but fair easterly wind.
The li6t man to leave the Intrepid
was Lieut. Washington Heed. It was
near nine o’clock when he did. At
that hour “all was propitious. The
good-byes between the officers were
serious acd affectionate; Somers was
calm but cheerful, while the common
men seemed in high spirits.”
The Vixen and the Argus stopped a
little distaice from the rocks, to at
tack the enmiy’s galleys or gunboats
should they attempt to follow Lieut.
Somers out upou his retreat. The
Nautilus lestened her sail and advanc
ed with the Intrepid as close in as was
thought safe, with the special duty of
bringing off the two boats in the re
treat.
Midshipman Ridgely, of the Nautilus,
directed by Iieut. Reed, fastened his
eye through a night-glass upon the
lntiepid. This young officer was,
probably, the ast person in the Amer-
c in fleet who saw the Intrepid. To
the last, it is (bought, the ketch was
advancing, thoigh distance and dark
ness render the fact uncertain.
Ordered by Com. Preble, the Siren
had followed tht other vessels in to
ward the harbor, keeping, however,
more in the offeg than they. In al
most breathless silence, every eye was
fixed upon the western entrance and
the inner harbor. A brief time pass
ed, when the slowly booming caunon
of the enemy’s learest batteries told
them that the litrepid had been dis
covered. It was tow near ten o’clock.
Capt. Stewart ant Lieut. Carrol were
in the Sireu's gingway, with their
eyes riveted upon the point where the
Intrepid was known to be, when the
Lieutenant exclaimed, “ Look, see the
light!” At that moment a light,
moving and waving as though a lan
tern were carried lurriedly along the
deck of a vessel, wis observed; then
it sank from sight A half minute
inay have passed, when suddenly the
harbor shone with mtridian brilliancy ;
the firmament flamtd with a fiery
glow that paled the o'erhanging stars;
earth, sea, and heavet were shaken in
an awful couvulsion ; a burning mast,
with its sails and a troken hull shot
upward iu the air; a fity rocked, tur
rets trembled ; whilst bursting shells
mingled their shrieks with the cries
of the terrified Tripolitans. Darkness
and silence, as profound as the tomb
itself, succeeded.
The fact that the htrepid bad ex
ploded before she reacted her destina
tion, and before the spltiter room had
been lighted, gave just (rounds to ap
prehend the worst; but it was hard
to believe that they wife whom they
had only a brief while before parted
from in full life and sfirits, had so
suddenly come to so feaful a death.
The explosion and its horrid accom
paniments lasted less thau a minute.
Every eye was now engaged to per
ceive an expected signal, but ia vain.
The Nautilus displayed her lights to
guide the retreating boats to her side,
and throughout the dreary hours of
that mournful uight every ear and
every f eye was painfully strained to
catch some sound or sight of the re
turning adventurers. Officers and
crew bent over the hammock-cloths,
anxiously looking toward the scene of
explosion, whilst others suspended
themselves from the sides of the ship,
with lanterns levelled to the surface
of the water, in the hope that the
glancing beams would the quicker dis
cover the objects of their earnest
search. Iu the silence and darkness
of that dismal night the eager watch
ers were easily deceived, and often
imagined that they beheld the forms
of approaching boats aud glanciug
oars, or heard the distant jar of the
thumping oar in the creaking row-
lock. The deepest sound that broke
the silence of the gloomy hours or
pierced its dismal darkness, was the
Constitution's booming gun, that ineas-
uredly fired,; moaned the requiem of
the heroic braves who were never to
return to their comrades again, or the
fiery flash of the shooting rocket that
fitly emblematised the fate of the un
fortunate Intrepid.
Morning dawned, and hope became
despair. The Argus, Vixen and Nau
tilus had hovered around the entrance
of the harbor until sunrise, when they
had a fair view of the fort. Not a
vestige of the ketch or boats was to
be seen ; but Com. Preble in his offi
cial letter states that one of the ene
my’s largest boats was missing, and
three others were observed very much
shattered and damaged, which the
Tripolitans were hauling on shore;
whilst Capt. Bainbridge, thpn a pris
oner in the Bashaw’s castle in Tripoli,
says in his journal in speaking of this
enterprise, ‘which unfortunate scheme
did no damage whatever to the Tri-
politaus; nor did it even appear to
leave them in confusion.”
The Bashaw of Tripoli, desirous of
finding out how many Americans had
been killed in the explosion, offered a
dollar for every body that was dis
covered. By the 6th, two days after
the disaster,all the bodies were brought
in. In the bottom of the Intrepid,
which had drifted among the rocks,
were found two bodies; in the Con
stitution's boat, which had drifted a-
shore, one body was discovered ; on
the southern shore six corpses had
drifted, and the remaining four were
found afloat in the harbor.
The two bodies found in the bottom
of the ketch, and the four discovered
floating in the harbor, were seen by
Capt. Bainbridge. He says they were
so much disfigured it was impossible
to recognise any feature known to us,
or even to distinguish an officer from
a seaman.
Mr. Cowdery, a surgeon’s mate of
the late frigate Philadelphia, who on
account of his useful professional ser
vices was allowed many privileges in
the city, observed more than Capt.
Bainbridge. He saw all thirteen of
the bodies. He was enabled to select,
by the fragments of clothes found up
on them and by their delicate hands,
the three officers; and he was most
probably right, since the Americans
in Tripoli did not know how many
officers were in the Intrepid.
The ten seamen were buried on the
shore out of the city, near the walls.
The three officers were entombed in
one grave, on a plain a short distance
to the south and east of the Bashaw’s
castle. Small stones were placed at
the four corners of the last grave to
designate its place; but these were
soon after removed by the Turks, who
would not permit what they deemed
a Christian monument “disfigure their
land.” Several of the American of
ficers imprisoned in Tripoli were al
lowed the consolation of paying the
last sad offices to the heroic dead.
A monument to their memory, erec
ted by their brother officers, stands in
the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Mary
land.
To conjecture aloue the historian is
left, regarding the cause of explosion
of the Intrepid. A number of theo
ries have been advanced: one that a
cannon-ball may have passed through
her and struck fire upon a bolt, spike,
or even a nail ; another, that it was
caused by a hot shot; still another,
by an accident on the Intrepid itself;
also, that she grounded and was blown
up to escape capture; lastly, it is sta
ted the Intrepid was surrounded by
two Tripolitan corsairs of a hundred
men each, and to prevent being taken,
the powder in her was ignited.
This last, saving the presence of the
two gunboats, for which we have no
official authority, but which may be
readily believed, since three gunboats
were seen at the western entrance ef
the harbor before the Intreprd went in,
and the Tripolitans’ early discovery of
the ketch, is the mori reasonable hy
pothesis. It is known Somers and all
his men did not intend to be taken.—
Discovered, surrounded, outnumbered,
what would Somers do? Just what
he said he would. The circumstances
bear out the supposition. The hurry
ing, moving, waving light along the
deck of a vessel where it was known
the Intrepid was, then sinking below,
suggests the idea of a swift messenger
to the splinter-room ; darkness for a
half-minute after the disappearance be
low of the light—time enough to ex
ecute the order—then the awful ex
plosion.
The aroused suspicions of the Tri
politans and the early discovery of the
ketch’s approach, fasten upon this en
terprise the thought that probably due
secrecy and precaution were not ob
served in the expedition.
Richard Somers was but twenty-five
years of age when, however much we
may question the morality of an expe
dition that baa in it a provisional sui
cide, he to heroically gave up his life
in the service of his country. He
was possessed of a respectable pro
perty, and one that increased in value
all of which he willed to an only sis
ter.
Somers was nrild, affectionate and
exceedingly chivalrous. So tenacious
was he of this last point, in support
of his ideas of chivalry he fought three
duels in one day, almost all in succes
sion; having been wounded in the two
previous ones, he fought the last seat
ed on the ground, held up by his friend
Stephen Decatur.
The character of Lieutenant Somers
gave promise of a brilliant future.—
Congress passed a resolution of condo
lence with the friends of the officers
who died in the lntiepid. Several small
vessels were named after its comman
der, aud Com. Perry named a schoon
er in honor of him, which was on the
lake oq the 10th of September when
he defeated the British squadron. A
beautiful brig was also called after
Somers. Around the name of Somers,
which became tali3inamc in the Amer
ican navy, there clings, and perhaps
will ever cling, a solemn and interest
ing mystery. E. S. Riley, Jr.
Death of Bon> James A. Visbet.
We are pained to announce the death
of Hon. James A. Nisbet, which took
place iu this city early in the morn
ing of the 18th inst, after protracted
illness from an affection of the lungs,
from which he has suffered more or
less for about a year past, and which
has confined him to his house for a-
bout two months.
Mr. Nisbet was widely known in
Georgia, we may say throughout the
country, as an eminent lawyer in large
practice—a very energetic and public
spirited man—with a remarkably clear
and eminently practical mind—a wri
ter of unusual force—a man whose
word was as good as bis bond—whose
integrity was beyond all suspicion or
questiou—and in all respects one of
the most influential, valuable and ex
emplary citizens of Georgia and of
Macon.
He was born iu Greene county in
this State, on the 6th day of Decem
ber, 1812—the 5th son of Dr. James
Nisbet. He was graduated at the
University of Georgia and read law
with his distinguished brother, Hon.
Eugenius A. Nisbet, and subsequently
completed his professional education
at the Law School of Yale College,
Connecticut. He settled in Macon in
1834 or 1S35, and soon after married
Frances Rebecca, eldest daughter of
Dr. John Wingfield, of Madison, Ga.
For about twenty years he was the
law partner of Hon. Washington Poe,
and more recently was associated with
the law firm of Nisbets and Nisbets &
Jackson. He was one of the officers
of the Macon Volunteers, at the first
organization of that company, and dur
ing his long residence in the city, he
has held the offices of Mayor and post
master, and twice represented the coun
ty iu the General Assembly, overcom
ing by his personal popularity, each
time, an adverse party majority.
He was one of the leading projec
tors of the Central and Southwestern
Railroads, and for some time a director
in the former company. He died in
the communion of the Presbyterian
Church and in peace and charity with
all mankind, leaving behind him an
afflicted widow and four children,
whose heavy bereavement will evoke
the earnest sympathies of all our peo
ple.
So has passed away another of our
men of mark—another controlling
mind—another familiar face—another
ready hand and warm heart. How
fast they disappear, one after another
from the stage of action ! How fre
quently are we reminded of the fleet
ing and transitory nature of all things
earthly. How soon all who were
identified with the early history of
Macon will have disappeared. Mr.
Nisbet has gone in comparatively ear
ly life! but he was never a robust
man. In him was the not uncommon
of great mental and bodffy ac
tivity with a spare and feeble Trame
and a highly nervous organization.
But he has lived an honored aud hon
orable life—he has died universally
lamented and leaving a great void be
hind him.—Telegraph if Messenger.
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by this system.
A few so called family doctors are experimenting
with the Inhaler and their Caustics, l«»diues and other
relics of barbarism peculiar to that practice-the re
sult is, they are destroying the reputation of the only
system that will cure Throat Diseases. Only certain
mild remedies can be taken into the Lungs and they
are not kept by druggists nor known to the general
profession.
DR. J. A. JONES
Letters oa Prevalent Diseases that
Affeot the American Nation#
SYMPTOMS of CHRONIC CATARRH.
BY. DR. J. A. JONES.
1st. Of the head—heavy, dull, aching over the eyes,
sometimes extending back through different parts of
the head, and causing a weight or heat, uf coldness on
top of the head, snapping and cracking noise in the
ears, dullness of hearing—often the secretion collects in
middle ear, closing up the euntachian tubes, produc
ing deafueas—the liuiug membrane being the same
from the head through the whole alimentary canal,
and down into the lungs, it has but to extend itself to
affect the whole Bystem It becomes virulent in the
nose sometimes, causing a tenderness, or producing
offensive breath, discharges of yellowish matter aud
scabs the shape of the nostrils, or if the partition bone
is only affected, then the Isobars are d«t, and when
they discharge, which is generally after exertion, the
nose is open, the patient breathes more easily and the
head feels more clear—the heaviness over the eyes
and across fhe forehead is seldom entirely gone, but it
is aggravated by every fresh cold. The offensive smell
for which the unfortunate chews many kinds of drugs
to neutralize or destroy, and thereby be enabled to go
into society without being a positive nuisance, which
personsof both sexes are, on account of this barbarous
and offeusive disease called OZOENA, which has now
assumed a Tertiary form of caDccr, destroying every
thiug but the outside skin, letting the nose siuk iu, ex
tending to the throat, destroying the voice, etc., when
the disease iscalled Laryngitis, Trachetis, Bronchitis,
etc.
SYMPTOMS OF THE THROAT.
A collection of tenacious slimy secretion failing
down into the throat aud thrown out—tickling, tasp-
iug, hoarseness and scraping to keep open the wind
pipe; difficult breathing, oppression aud soreness un
der the breast bone; tenderness in the left side; rheu
matic pains between the shoulders; stiff neck on
taking cold; palpitation of the heart; torpid liver,
sometimes yellow complexion; general dull and heavy
feeling; extreme shortness of breath; soreness of stom
ach pit; bloated sensation; bolching of wind; yawning,
gaping,keeping mouth open to breathe; distress, sleep-
ess nights; worse when lying down, aud it now termi
nates either in Consumption of the Lungs, or follows
the mucous membrane through the whole alimentary
and urinal canal, causing Dyspepsia, Costiveness
Piles, Infiamation of the Bladder, trouble in the Urina
ry Organs, (ana in women, nearly the whole train of
female diseases,) and general Consumption, emacia
tion, complete prostration, etc; with all ot which, and
many other symtoms, called by twenty^different
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Men's Faces -
Thera is no mistaking the tale a
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names, the sufferer may exist fora while. Dr. Jones
cures this dangerous and insidious disease by the AStieo
System—using specific medicines known only to him
self, applied to the diseased surface, in the form of
spray. He relieves the sufferer in a few urinates, and
supplies the patient with all that is required to finish
the cure at home.
OZO S3XA,
An Offensive Disease in the Nose#
Which eats away the partition bone, destroys tho
sense of smell, produces green or yellowish scabs, the
shape of the nostrils—sometimes flat, often tainted
with blood and matter; causes weight aril dull aching
over the eyes, headache, loss of memory, giddiness,
etc. This disease is often caused by neglected colds,
by suppressed skin diseases, Scrofula, Scarlet Fever,
Psoriasis,Syphilis, and other contagious diseases, and
is itself contagious. It often extends to the thraat,
producing Hoarseness, Bronchitis aud CONSUMP
TION. It is a Tertiary form of Cancer, DESTROY
ING the NOSE and THROAT when too long neglect
ed. DU. JONES is the ONLY Physician in the
United States who thoroughly understands curing this
dangerous and offensive disease. He destroys the
offensive smell in FIVE MINUTES, and relieves the
sufferer in every way AT ONCE, acd CURES the
disease in a short time. For this disease Dr. Jones
has special instruments with which to apply his spe
cific remedies to the spot. Nasal Dorches and oatarrh
remedies generally drive this disease to the lungs more
quickly.
Letter No. 3.
By DR# J. As JONESy of Londoi.
SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.
Prevalent in America and Europe.
1. Or THt Usad.— 1 Tingling, itching, with a sense
of dryness and obstiuctiou of the nose, sneezing run
ning of a watery secretion; as it progresses, the secre
tion becomes mucous, entire obstruction of one or
both nostrils, hawking, tickling of the throat, cough
ing, eto. 2 Catarrh of the Chest prevails as au epi
demic sometimes, and is called influenza: with or with
out fever, and many of the symptoms just mentioned;
there is oppressiou across the breast, rawness and
burning ol the throat, first day, afterward a copious
secretion of mucous, which may become opaque or
frothy, difficulty of breathing, pain in the head, and
dull teeliugs, a sense of soreness, extending under the
breast bone to the stomach pit; the fits of coughing
may occasion vomiting, oppression, prostration; as tne
disease progresses, the sputa becomes ropy and viscid.
This disease is called the Grippe by gome. Catarrhal
Inflammation of the eyes arises from colds, causes ob
struction of tbe ear passages, watery eyes, fistula,
lachryiualis, dimness of visioo, eto.
SUPPRESSED CATARRH may produce inflam
mation of the lungs, brain or eyes, or give rise to
rheumatism, nervous disorders, weeping, moaning,
tremors and convulsions, drowsiness, chilliness, start
ing,twitching, palpatalion of tbe heart, etc. When the
frontal sinuses above the eyes, posterior and anterior
nasal passages, becouie clogged up, and even the an
trum or cavity of the cheek bone becomes filled, or
partly, it often produces a pressure on tbe nerves that
supply these parts, and pains like the most exerntia
ting neuralgia is the result. Tbe disease follows the
mucous membrane through tbe eustachian tubes to all
parts of the same membrane ot the ear, causing hyper
trophy of the drum, interferes with the functions of the
glands of VY barton, which secrete the wax; a dryness
follows, hardness of hearing, roaring, buzz ng, singing,
whistling, cracking, the ringing of tbe bells, and simi
lar noises, which vary, and which are simple effects,
aud when he cause is lemoved, the effects cease: this
harduess of bearing increases with each cold.
Dr. Jenes has made old standing diseas -s of every
name a speciality all his life. He is well prepared,
aud performs all the more difficult and delicate opera
tions in surgery, especially ot the eye, ear and Dose.
He is a graduate of the best medical colleges ia Europe
and America, and his diplomas proving the same are
suspended in his office.
feiP'Lettera containing one dollar will be answered.
Dr. Jones’ fees vary from $40 to $2000. Hit terms
are cash. His fees are considered very low lor the
great amount uf good be does.
I have had Bronchitis aud Catarrh for twenty-fire
years. Dr. Jones cured me.
J. H. MILTON, Macon, Gn.
Astonishing cure of Diabetes by Dr. Jones.
For throe years I was affl.cted with Diabetes. I
was given np to die by the principal Doctors of the
South. Dr Jonee cured me in two weeks.
R.W. WHITE,
I lire on Houston Bond, Macon.
I saw Mr. White before and after Dr. Jonee cured
bins, and see him nearly every day rioce; and certify to
the truth of this wonderful oure by Dr. Jonee.
E.E. BROWN,
Proprietor Brown House, Maeoo, Go.
How Dr, Jonee cares Osoena.
My son has had Osoenn for years, causing misery in
the note and head. We tried everything we could
hear of—including family Doctors—all done no good.
Dr. Jonee, in s few minutee rr lo red nU his misery,
Macon. 1 * Iv'm“ “icnKaor’
Dr.Jooee, bye skillful operation, straightened U
... ^ ^ Xian!' and many others.
SCXEEDVI.E
ON THE GEORGIA AND MACON AND AU
GUSTA RAILROADS.
ON AND AFTER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5th,
1872, the Passenger Train on the Georgia and Mueeu
and Augusta Railroads will run as follows;
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Parrenger Train trill
Leave Augusta at 8 20 A M
Leave Atlanta at 8.15 A M
Arrive la Augusta at 5.3(1 P M
Arrive in Atlanta at 6.40 1’ M
Night Potnnger Tram.
Leave Augusta at 8.15 P M
Leave Atlanta at. 8.00 P M
Arrive ia Augusta at 6.00 A Iff
Arrive in Atlanta at 6.45 A M
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD,
Day Patrenger Train.
Leaving Augusta at 12 15 P M
Arriving at Mflledgeville at 5.24 P Iff
Leaving Macon at 6.30 A Iff
Arriving at Milledgeville at 8.17 AM
“ atAugustaat 1.15 PM
“ at Macon at 7.30 PM
No ohange of cars between Augusta and Macon.
Passengers from Athens. Washington, Atlanta, or
any point on the Georgia Railroad aud Brandies, by
taking the Dey Passenger Train, will make connec
tion at Camak with trains for Macon.
Pullman’s (First-Ciaa*) Palace Sleeping Care on all
Night Passenger Trains on the Georgia Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, Supt.
Superintendent’s Office Georgia and Macon and Au
gusta Railroada, Augusta, June 5, 1872.
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