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VOLUME XLIV.]
THE
nton ^ ^Lecorber,
19 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE. GA.,
Boughton, Barnes & Moore,
At $2 >a Advance, or $3 at end of tko year
S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor.
the “FEDERAL UNION ” mid the “SOUTH
EKX RECORDER ” were consolidated August 1st,
187-, the Uniou being iu its Forty -Third Volume and
I lie Recorder in it's Fifty-Third Volume.
SPEECH
BOW. ROBERT TOOMBS,
In the Hall of Representatives.
Wednesday Evening, 1
Atlanta, Ga., January 19, 1874. j
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lleli.'UTiilinc
Now tilliii
Nnw aeiulii'K
From l!i<?
shade.
resounding, fruin rocks on cadi aide,
with music tin* long, narrow glaile,
its voice or the breeze far and wide,
■ivi n waving corn to tlie forest’s dark
Reheating, retreating, retreating and meeting.
And ever repeating each sweet, mellow sound;
While slowly and sottly the daylight is fleeting,
And evening lets fall her dim curtain aiuuiiJ;
As catching the mu-ieal silvery chime
Of bells from the tower of the chinch in the dale,
While weary cues sit in t lie shade of the lime.
And the cow-boy returns with his herd from the
vale,
[Conclusion.]
But I just tell you. you never profited
by their capital. They make their living
off of you. They are money changers.
Why, the only instance of assault and
battery by Christ was upon money chang
ers, when he whipped the thieves out of
the temple. [Laughter. J "Where are we
now ? I say up to the end of the war
there was healthy development, and upon
every single road that was built we put
limitations. The Central Road, the Co
lumbus Road, the Macon Road, the Geor
gia Road, and Savannah and Macon—all
were bnilt by the money of the people.—
Every one of them was profitable; every
one paid, every one had a plenty to do,
transacting the business of the country.
Rut when you went to developing ivitli
State bonds you went down here to Bruns
wick and Albany, and Tliomasville ; and
they actually went out here and built a
railroad to a slate quarry, and named
It folk on Hie car of a beautiful child,
'flipping liglilly along on tier path thro’ the dells,
W ith a sudden delight the fair creature is wild.
And mingles her voie’e with the sound ut the bells-
As hat pets, with delicate touch and rare skill.
Bring forth sweet accords from the nicely tuned
strings,
It plays on her heart and awakens a thrill,
Ann calls forth the song that she joyously slugs.
Thus canolling merrily, laughing with glee
And clapping lier small bauds in boundless delight,
She seems, with her movements so airy and free,
A frolicsome fay that comes forth iu the night.
BURMESE MAltRLYGES.
It is now generally believed that the
Burmese, and indeed all the various races
and nations of Indo China migrated at a
remote period from the plateaus of Cen
tral Asia, and that they are of mixed
origin, possessing some of the character
istics of the Hindoo (tlie Caucasian), and
some also of the Chinaman (the Mongol).
Thus in person they arc short and stout,
with the small, oblique eyes, high and
prominent cheekbones, and flat, short,
and broad nose of the Tartar, Chinese,
and Japanese races, and the “raven black"
hair, pearly teeth, and olive-brown skin
of the Hindoos and the Malays; and
though of nearly the same stature as the
latter, they generally possess the stouter
frames of the former. The Burmese are
a simple-minded, indolent people, frank
and courteous, found of amusement and
gay-colored apparel, friendly among
themselves, and hospitable to strangers.
They appreciate a quiet life, smoking
and gossiping and sleeping throughout
the day, and listening to wild music and
singing through half of the night: “stern
ambition is among them indeed, a very
rare trait of character. Marriage among
the Burmese is a most peculiar intitution,
and the “marraige kuot” is very easily
undone. If two persons are tired of each
other's society, they dissolve partnership
in the following simple and touching but
conclusive manner: They respectively
light two candles, and wait quietly until
they are burned up. The one whose can
die burns out first gets up at once and
leaves the house (and forever), taking
nothing but tlie clothes he or slio may
have on at the time; all else then becomes
the property of the other party.—Harper s
Magazine.
There is a sort of delirious joy in look
ing over a family album, especially if it is a
very old album with a sprained back,
which occasionally and imexpectedly
drops through your fingers, leaving
couple of cousins in one hand, and three
aunts in the other, and the balance of the
family under the chair. Tlie first picture
is of *au old gentlemen with an expression
of wary cautiousness in his face as if he
was engaged in dodging a wild bull, and
was somewhat doubtful of the result.
Opposite him is the grandmother,
patient-looking lady in a black dress,
with a book in one hand and a pair of
spectacles in the other. There is a feeble
hut well meaning effort to look safe in
her face. On the next leaf is a middle
aged man looking as if he had been sud
denly shot through the x’oof of a starch
factory, and had landed in tlie middle of
a strange country. Opposite is the picture
of his wife, who, having heard a rumor
of the catastrophe has made up her mind
to be prepared for the worst. Then
follow the children—little girls looking
so prim as to make you squirm, and lit
tie boys with their eyes turned on their
noses, and with an expression on their
faces of unearthly /joleifi®5ty. Then fol
low uncles, taken in their overcoats, with
a spreading inclination in their clothes,
hair and face, as if they were bound to
get their money’s worth; and aunts with
warts on their noses, and varnish in their
hair, and preposterous lace collars. about
their necks. There are also tlie pictures
of Cousin Aleck and his young wife, who
stopped here when on their tour.
Besides these is the picture of the man
who lived next door for eight years, at
the end of which time his wife died, and
he moved to Illinois with the children,
and is now worth fifty thousand dollars.
He has been photographed in his hat,
which is one size too large for him, and
which gives him an appearance of having
mnrdured his aunt and concealed the
body. Then there are two or three fine
looking corsairs of no particular identity
end several broken -spirited women with
babies in their arms —directly or indirectly
rebind to the owners of the album and
the erhihifrion closes.—Dunbuiy News.
can t tell what. And all the necessary
transportation I could supply them with
an ox cart. [Laughter.] Now you
have the Brunswick and Albany upon
your hands Governor Smith says lie
does not know what to do with it. He
asked my advice about it and I didn’t
know what to do with it. You have got
$000,000 in it and there is $1,900,000 stolen
money in it. I have read the Governor’s
message andliegives you very good advice.
He says “repudiate” these bonds. They
have made that a very honorable term.
It is no longer infamous. Why the Jews
put Christ upon the cross—because lie
was infamous. But look back through
the vista of 1,800 years, and around that
cross beam the glories of Heaven. Bad
men have made the word no longer infa
I like the word. I would have it
put on my tombstone that I repudiated
-very rascally dollar these Legislatures
put upon my children. I accept the term.
I am proud of the appellation, that when
forged amd fraudulent bonds were at
tempted to corrupt tlie people, I repudia
ted them. I glory in the name of “‘re
pndiator.” [Applause.] I won’t pay a
shilling of them unless you work it out of
me by the tax collector. I have paid some
government taxes But I never have paid
them one I could help. I have resorted
to all sorts of shifts sometimes to get rid
of them. I took every means I could,
and I have prayed to God to forgive me
for some of the means I have used, for I
am not sure they are exactly right. I knew
the end was good, but I was doubtful
about the means. [Laughter.]
From the days of the Roman Empire
down, until this Constitution was passed,
until, in this new era, a man could not
run a ferry and charge for it, even on his
own land, where you might cross jumping
from stone to stone across the stream,
without a limitation on his franchise by
law. Why, twenty ages ago they had seen
that limitations were necessary, Why,
Bums, the Scotch poet, the burning,
breathing child of genius told the sto
ry;
“ When solf the balance shakes
It rarely right adjusts.”
But I have observed all my life—ob
served it even in the churches—that when
you give a body of men a society, or or
ganization, the average morality of the
lot is the morality of the meanest man in
the congregation. I remember when my
friends'the Methodist had a split up. My
wife is a member and I am half brother
to the concern. [Laughter.] Well, my
friends, the Methodists—at that time
forming but one body North and South—
they got up a fund for the preachers.
The Northern ring were keeping it. But
they smell nigger now! A division is
asked, and they say, “ To keep you from
temptation I will take it from you and
steal it every bit myself.” That's tlie
truth ! My Methodist friends said they
were not ready for it. We liad no courts
then his Strongs and Bradleys—
had given bonds of $100,000,-
000, payable in gold, and they let them
off with greenbacks. Pretty handsome
sum, $40,000,000 profit.
I would want the people of Georgia, if
I were there, if the people of Georgia were
fools enough to send me to their Legisla
ture—and there is no telling what a man
may do when he gets old. Many a man
has done something at 70 ho was too wise
to do at 17, especially an old widower.—
Let the people say to their legislators
“Come back to us every year. Go and vote
and let us see how you vote, then come
back to us, and if you have not done
right we will turn you out.” That’s the
reason these people do not like the ex
pense of a Convention. I like it. Fellow
citizens, away with the idea, away with
this talk of expense. If this government
is worth anything it is obliged to cost
money. If it is not, take monarchy, take
anything, and if worth anything it cost
something. If the people govern them
selves it takes- time and money both. And
tlie price of liberty is vigilance—“ eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty.” There
fore you should watch them. You should
put this line in your Constitution: “You
shall not touch a dollar of the people’s
money but for public defense." “And
then come back to me eveiy year, and let
me see if you have done everything well.
Ah! you cry expense. The last Legisla
ture thought they knew everything in
the world. But not so the people.
I looked over the list and there are but
fifteen of the old Legislature come back
to this one. That is all I think. [Laugh
ter.] It was not “ well done, good and
faithful servants!” They had sold the
people to foreigners, niggers, villains, and
to day Georgia does not own a single post
of public soil, not even enough to bury
her illustrious dead. Sold eveiy foot she
had, every foot, except, I suppose they
kept the capitol at Milledgeville for a
nigger “ Bkeul” and the schoohnanu
jay bird I saw your Mayor
the other day—Mayor Hammock. He did
not call my name, but he put down the
men trying to get up a Convention among
the “mischief makers." Ah 1 Mr. Ham
mock, you can put me down among the
mischief makers if you choose. [Laugh
ter.] I’m for a Convention, even though
I may be called a mischief maker by a
two-penny Mayor of a one-horse town!
[Great laughter.] That’s what you want
in your Constitution—a prohibition so
that they cannot defraud you. I advise
you, freemen of Georgia, to take the ad
vice of the Athenian. They had a long
war in his country with their neighbors.
At length, he come, when they asked him
what terms he would accept their surren
der. The reply of the patriotic Athenian
was, “But one, that you shall not hurt
!” Learn a lesson from this. Put it
Hie prettiest new face, some say
thenrettiest woman, in Washington
tld* year is the wife of the New
Arkansas Senator, Dorsey. She is
Speniajb-lpokiog beauty, with very
long, black fashes, dark eye#, and
rather smalt, tidy figure.
in your fundamental law. “You shan’t have
the power to do me wrong if you want
to!” Take no security but that. A good
pun will not Stop long to consider mana
cles and chains. They will be silken
„v.»iri« r bridal ornaments upon the arms
of the patriots.
Fear not, hold yonr Convention and
put in your Constitution; Now, as
to a great many other questions; you can
discuss tlxwn whether you will put them
then or not One man says, “If you meet
ben yon will want to break up things.”
God Almighty knows I wish I could break
up things. The country is in debt and
taxes about to be increased. The people
in siglis and tears in the South, in the
South-west, all over this country. I wish
I could break up such things. This coun
tiy once blest far beyond any country in
the world; beyond the promised land—
land unsurpassed—nowin siglis and tears.
That is my country now. and they wish
to use the people’s misfortune to make
them slaves. They say, “you can’t afford
it. You are too poor”—too poor to be
free ? Cursed be the man with such a sen
timent. Why men would come here: pa
triots in their shirt sleeves; camp here
with their frying pans and make your
Constitution without a dollar from you.
A thousand men would come here to put
their foot on fj this tiling of shame. You
are free to pass your own organic law,
provided you make it subservient to the
higherlaw—the Constitution of the United
States. They are mistaken. They can
raise by subscription from patriots the
means to pay their own expenses. I
know there is not a man in fifty' miles of
me but would pay his own expenses to do
this great and glorious thing, that liis
children might say, “There is a man who
put liis foot upon that thing that niggers
and scalawags put on the people.”
Are you afraid to meet the people t—
Are yon afraid for them to assemble ?—
You have many other tilings to do. You
have shown im example of patience to the
men of the North. “Men!” did I say!—
My God! not men, thieves! demons!
After seven years from our capitulation—
after our flag was pulled down by the
brave—you have submitted to’debt, to de
privation of property—and then to the
13th amendment. That is tlie last tiling
they say. Then tlie 14tli and tlie last.—
Then they said submit to the 15th. We
bowed to that. Well, they said submit to
reconstruction, and they would not let
the Supreme Court decide upon that.—
They put their Frskincs here to do that
and would not let it go to the Supreme-
Court of the United States. Well, we
lowed again. Some kicked and would
not go to tlie Convention. And they had
Hulbert. this “right man in the right
place.” as somebody said the Constitution
called him. Then reconstruction again.
Some did not bow. I did not bow at all.
was a rebel—it is a glorious term. It
means “patriot.” After awhile they came
again. We have turned the negro free—
and they are the best people I ever saw in
their place, and a little better than the
Yankees are in any place. [Laughter.]
I always liked them. They had civil rights
bill number one. We groaned but took
it— S aid, “It’s a glorious thing.” Then
men would have thought some sentiment
of pity would have arisen in seven years.
But it grows moie and more. And then
Grant himself, that ignoble villain,
advised them to pass it; and then, after
seven years, you have tlie seventh vial of
wrath poured out upon your head. Time
cannot assaage their animosity. It is
natural. The devil hates the good. When
we had done everything we could—dis
honored our ancestors, crawled on our
knees, sang peans, and said “ let ns have
peace,” they are like the Frenchman. I
never was much at French, so I will give
you a translation; he said: “ Let us be
brethren, or I will cut your throat.” But
this is the devil twice refined over again.
am speaking the truth—every man
knows it. And what is that ? To put
your niggers in yonr theatres, in these
halls, into your churches—stick the nig
ger even into your own bed chamber.—
[Laughter, applause and cries of “never,
never!”
Fellow-citizens, you have nature.—
There is a time when free men must say,
Thus far shalt tliou come and no fur
ther !” [Applause ] The time comes
when freemen must seize their arms and
live free or not live at all. In that strug
gle for public liberty, if these oppressions
continue, I will show yon, young men,
that an old man can die. Old men per
haps can die easily, because we have but
little to sacrifice, while the young men
liave before them life and its varied lines
of pleasure, with light and happiness all
before. It is possible that for that rea-
I feel more than you, because my
few sands are fast running out, and it is
but a small sacrifice that I should die in
behalf of the liberties of our country.
Go on then. Make your Constitution
yourselves. Allow them to appropriate
not a single dollar for “ husbanding your
resources. ’ The Greeks, the greatest
people in the world, laid down before tlie
Turks. They are the shame, the scorn of
the world—the slaves of the heathen. The
Italians lay far 500 years in shame and
infamy, but that vital spark that God A1
mighty has put in the breast of all lovers
of justice, kindled into life—they struck,
and to day are free. May He reserve that
for you. "in the meantime, if you let any
body govern you, base corporations, base
laws—thieves—you will go mad. Oppo
sition makes mad. There can be no so
cial order without justice. Order your
Constitution to give justice. There are
discontents, and I thank Almighty God
for it. There can he no jieace without
justice in this world. Give them that.—
They love peace. But if there is to be no
justice, then, as Chatham said, “ Let dis
cord reign.” [Applause.]
Then, fellow-citizens, I must mention
some of the objections to the Convention,
and very briefly, because I liave consumed
a longer time than I expected. “ Well,
don’t say much about it,” some people
say, “because they might move the capi
tal.” Why, I expect if the people want
to move the capital they will do it. This
is not the only place in the world. This
is a very convenient place, and this is an
honest people. The capital won t make
Atlanta, nor will it make Milledgeville.—
They call Milledgeville a city—it is on
paper. But as my friend Judge Harris
said to me once, when bilking of the bill
to make Milledgeville a city, “ I will vote
for your bill, but you might call a thrip a
dollar, but it won’t answer.” [Laugh
ter.] Do yon think these great questions,
born with creation, when all the stars
sang together, these great principles of
human happiness, depend on location —
Do you suppose that the men who are
struggling for these great principles, care
where*you locate your little machinery »
See the atrocity of tlie objection! Yo
shan’t meet because you nmy hin t some
corner or square. This comer is worth
more than your freedom ! It will not do.
gentlemen, you cannot stop it. You can
not calm this great spirit that is roaming
over this land. It’s eternal, and came
from God. You may as well try to stop
the forked lightning as it roams through
the clouds, and bring it do.wn to your
houses, and say this shall be your light,
your taper; you cannot do it.
To the first objection I would say, it
will cost about ten or fifteen thousand
dollars. We had one Convention that cost
$19,000—done the work in 17 days. But
an Atlanta paper says “ It will cost mill
ions! millions!! m-i-l-l-i-on-s!!! Well,
that it won't 1 do unless they steal it—
[Laughter.]
When the niggers, thieves and paupers
met, and hung on forever, and they kept
the accounts themselves—I don’t know
how much it cost I never looked at that
It’s like my bad debts—I don’t like to
look at them. That Convention of nig
gers, thieves, carpetbaggers—of all the
vilest' rogues that the world ever saw,
never cost that Bnt if that isto the mod
el of the next convention, the Lord forbid
that there should be any more conven
tions. 1 would rather go back to the old
times—“Let him take who has the power,
let him keep who can.” Oppression makes
mad. This people are not going to stand
all these gray backs. They do not under
stand their philosophy—take all the cot
ton you make, all the peas you make, all
the corn you make, and go into the old
woman’s soap gourd, and steal all her
grease! When you come to that the old
woman gets mad, and then the old man
gets mad. [Laughter ]
How simple, great, and glorious are
the ways of Almighty God, the Father of
us all. It excites more and more, my ad
miration of my Heavenly Father, that
there is not a conflicting element on this
earth! There may be abuse, but He did
not make it so. The stars are harmonious.
The earth is harmonious. All work with
out discord or destruction. Do you think
that He was cursing His favorite child of
creation, man, when He made him ? No,
no. Do justice—man to man—and you
will have harmony. No man ever had an
honest interest that ever hurt any other.
Tlie manufacturing interest will help man
kind. Tlie railroad will help mankind.—
The lawyer, if honest, will help mankind :
if dishonest, though, he will curse him.—-
Tlie doctors—all positions among men—
null help him. If lie will look to that
great principle of right, do justice, act
upon the square, he will more and more
admire that Great Creator, and find that
there is harmony in all God’s works, and
man included. [Applause.]
From the New Yolk Sun.
A. BRIDE TURNED TO STOTTS.
Y Fatal Draught from a Stone in a Geol
ogist’s Cabinet.
Sin—There have been so many com
ments in the papers, and I receive so
many letters which it is impossible for
iue to answer, in reference to the curious
case of petrifaction which recently came
under my notice, that I am constrained
to write an account of the whole affair,
giving at the same time my hypothesis
as explanatory of the rationale.
Mr. Fredrick Haller is by profession a
lawyer. He early acquired, however,
quite a fondness for tlie natural science,
especially geology. He has perhaps, tlie
largest and most complete geological
cabinet in Louisiana. Whenever he
wishes to relieve himself from the dry
details of law, he withdraws into liis, “Rock
Study,” as he calls the apartment where
he keeps his cabinet and books relating
to science, and there passes many hours
in experiment, in reading, and in manipu
lating tlie geological and paleontogical
collections which, through a period of
nearly thirty years, he has drawn to-
ether.
Having married early in life, some five
years ago he lost his wife and gave up
liis household affairs to an elderly maid
en sister. Something over a month ago
lie married again, taking as his bride a
beautiful and charming young girl of six
teen. As physician to her father’s fami
ly and an intimate friend I was an honor
ed guest at the wedding ceremony. Iam
sure I never saw a more beautiful and
happy bride. No one could have dream
ed of the strange fate which awaited her.
On the moiTow after the wedding Mr.
Haller took his young bride to his resi
dence, a splendid mansion in the suburbs
of the village. She was accompanied by
a number of her female friends, who
were to spend the day with her, while he,
having business of importance at his office
in town, promised to return as speedily
as he could dispose of the business. The
bride, being installed in her new home,
cared to take little notice of household
matters, for the first day of matrimonial
life, preferring to amuse herself with the
friends who had come over with her,
knowing that the domestic affairs were in
good hands.
At about one o’clock she and some
three or four of her most intimate friends
went into Mr. Haller’s “Rock Study,” al
ready mentioned, to look over the cabinet
of curiosities, where they amused them
selves in frivolous gayety, such as young
girls would indulge in, harmless and in
nocent to all appearances. Among the
curiosities which Mi-. Haller had gathered
several round boulders brought
THE BEAUTIFUL BRIDGE.
IN THE GEOLOGISTS CABINET.
I pass over the grief and consternation
of the husband and the family as some
thing too sacred for remark, confining
myself exclusively to the scientific facts.
It was plain that something akin to ossi
fication had taken place. On more min
ute examination and inquiry I found IM
the dissolved silica she had taken into
her stomach had been absorbed and
transmitted by the chylopoletic apparatus
and blood vessels throughout her whole
system, and that her whole body was
PETB1FACTION.
The case being so singular and so sad
den the husband and the . bride Y family
consented to a partial post mortem ex
amination, other medical men coming to
my assistance. We found it impossible
to cut through any portion with our
scalpels. Dr. Ferguson broke his scalpel
in the first attempt We were able only
to break through the chest with s hatchet,
finding extreme difficulty in -entering the
thoracic cavity, the contents being all
solidified. The heart we found as firm
and solid as stone, resembling a piece of
cornelian as to both color and consisten
cy. Entering the abdominal cavity only
by means of repeated blows of the hatch
et, we found the contents of the stomach,
the food, the hi e, the liver and other
neighboring orgai snolidified It is need
less to say that we found it impossible
to remove anything except in fractured
pieces. The arteries and veins were per
fectly rigid, the blood itself being
CHANGED TO StfONE.
Having satisfied ourselves of the stony
character, of tlie entire body and its con
tents, it was delivered to the family and
interred. Some suspicions having been
aroused that there might have been pois
on in the pitcher which held the silica
solution, all the witnesses have been
sworn and testified under oath.
My first object was to secure the re
mains of the solution of silica left in the
pitcher, there being about an ounce,
which I carefully put into a vial, corking
closely. Portions of this have been va
riously tested, the result each time show
ing simply a very strong solution of
silica in pure water. The few drops
which had been left in the tumbler, ex
posed to evaporation, became in a short
time a hard, clear concrete, resembling
flint, or rather transparent quartz, yield
ing sparks on being struck against steel.
THE CAUSE OF THE PETRIFACTION.
The pathology in this case, while it is
very striking, it is very plain, although
I differ with my confreres in regard to
the final or ultimate cause. It is well
known as a geological fact that petrifac
tions are due to the infiltration of silice
ous earth or lime into the interstitial
spaces of the substance undergoing the
process. It is well known also, as a phys-
ological fact, that various substances,
usually medical agents, when taken into
the stomach are rapidly conveyed into
every portion of the human body, in some
instances in the space of two minutes.
In this instance the flint of quar tz (calca
reous earth) was held in solution and be
ing swallowed was rapidly conveyed
everywhere throughout the body, filling
the interstitial spaces, and the necessary
result was almost instantaneous petrifac
tion, solidifying the tissues and ending in
death, the process being that of infiltra
tion.
This is the geological view and while it
is in the main correct, it wholly fails to
explain why so small an amount of the
solution should petrify so large a body
and should do so in such a brief time. I
do not believe that on the hypothesis of
infiltration alone petrification would take
place so rapidly. There is no doubt of
the absorption of the dissolved silica and
of its rapid conveyance to every part of
the body, but that the petrification is
owing to the infiltration I cannot admit.
It must be explained upon
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A DIFFERENT HYPOTHESIS.
from Arkansas. These boulders, on be
ing broken, present in the central space a
crystalline formation, and are usually not
much larger than the double fists. One
of these, however, was unusually large,
measuring twenty-one inches in circum
ference. Frequently the internal surface,
always hollow, contains water, or rather
a concentrated solution of silica in water.
This fact was known to one of the young
ladies, who mentioned it. At once they
all began to wonder whether there was
water in the large boulder. Two of the
smaller ones had been broken, showing
in tlie center large crystals, and bad con
tained water, according to the assertion
of the young lady who had gained her
information at some other time in a pre
vious visit.
THE FATAL DRAUGHT.
At once it was proposed to break the
large one, and several ineffectual attempts
were made by them with a geologi
cal hammer always present. They called
to their aid, a colored man, a servant on
the place, who was requested to open the
rock, as they called it. Ho readily as
sented, being willing to thus render his
first service to the new mistress. A
pitcher being placed underneath the
boulder, as the man held it, one sturdy
blow of his stalwart arm cracked it, and
fluid within ran out and was collected in
the pitcher, scarcely losing a drop, there
being half a pint of it. A few additional
blows opened the boulder, presenting
large, fine transparent crystals of quartz.
These were much admired, and other
friends were called from the parlor to
look at the novelty.
The bride, without ever giving it a
thought, conceived the notion of drinking
the water from the boulder. She poured
most of it into a glass tumbler, nearly
filling it, and lifting it to her lips she
drank first to the health of her husband,
then to that of the unmarried friends in
the room, wishing them shortly to be
happy brides like herself, and drained the
glass, all being done so quickly that no
one had time to interfere or to think that
any consequences might follow.
RIGID IN DEATH.
At first it was thought that no harm
was done, and it was considered a fine
joke and much merriment was made. But
in a few minutes the youthful bride com
plained of excessive pain in the stomach,
and she began to realize the rashness of
her action. A messenger was sent in
haste for her husband and myself. Mr.
Haller’s office being near my own, we re
ceived the message almost simultaneous
ly, and we rapidly drove together in a
buggy to his house. When we arrived
she was dead, a period of fifteen minutes
having elapsed from the time of taking
the fatal draught to the time of extinc
tion of life. They were jnst laying her
out on our arrival - To my surprise I
found she had grown in that short period
so rigid as to render it difficult to
straighten her limbs. In the course of
three fourths of an hour her entire body
became as hard and as inflexible as bone.
It is well known by physiologist that
those proteine compounds—album ea,
fribrin, casein and gluten—are the proxi
mate of organic elements, which consti
tute the components of the human body.
The proteine compounds are formed by
carbon, hydrogen nitrogen and oxygen in
definite proportions, according to my
distinguished countryman, Prof. Kolli-
ker, thus : C 40 H 31 N 5 O 12, each
having a different amount of phosphorus
and sulphur; this combination forming so
many molecules.
Now silica is a compound of oxygen and
silicon. In a very small amount of silica
the number of atoms of silicon is immense.
The very moment the silica enters the
circulation and is distributed throughout
the capiliaries it parts with its oxygen,
and each atom of silicon being set free,
combines with a proteine molecule. The
proteine molecule which form respective
ly the albumen, the fribein, the casein and
the gluten, at once change these organic
elements into what might be termed pet-
rifactive elements, destroying, as it were,
the vital genus, and substituting inorgan
protemaceous principles. I submit
this as the most philosophical rationale,
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REMOV A L
Macon, Georgi
a
TO ALT, INQUIRERS.
In conclusion, I would say that I have
invariably answered all correspondents
who have sought information from me in
regard to this case who have written in a
candid manner searching after the truth,
and who did not seem to write out of
mere curiosity. One correspondent went
so far as to ask whether the body could
be obtainod for exhibition, offering alarge
sum of money. Such unfeeling wretches
are not worthy of being npltyd to. Z I
will add that I may still be addressed at
Marksville, La., but that after the 1st of
March I shall be for the greater part of
next year at Pareliim, in the province of
Mecklcmburg-Schwerin.
S. -GHYWR JORDSDHK, M. D.
P. S.—That this case is not altogether
anomalous, I will cite a passage from Dr.
Austin Flint’s recent “Treatise upon the
Practice of Medicine,” page 52:
A change in composition, due to the
deposit of earthly salts, in more or less
abundance, constitutes what is call calca
reous degeneration, calcification or creter-
action. As just stated, this is apt to su
pervenc upon the atheromatous deposit
in the large arteries and within the heart,
leading in the latter situation to various
deformation of the valves. The term
ossification is in general incorrectly ap
plied to this change. Yirchow prefers
the name petrifaction.
Farther down on tlie same page he
adds:
I have met with an old case of pleuri
tis in which the plura had become hard
ened by calcareous deposit to such an ex
tent that it was removed entire, with sev
eral quarts of liquid which it contained,
and when opened and the Hquid removed
it did not collapse, bnt retained the form
of a solid box.
This was evidently a ease of partial pe
(refaction, not extending throughout the
entire system, and not to any vital parts
so as to produce immediate death.
a a j.
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