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•THE EASTMAN
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1S87.
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L- BURCH, E B. MILNER
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WHAT KILLS AMERICAN!
flat Llrinj—RrcklftM Fatlufi-Hard Drink*
t*B—Poor Sice; iiij—Social Jcftlonny—
PoIUiro! Amhiti e —llolrnt Passion*
’ The lin.cv> fw liiuaey.
The alarming disease of this
country is nervous debility and
prostration. It goes it under
many names hut is essen¬
* Hospitals tially the same complaint.
and private institu¬
tions for ictyous patients are
■crowded. The average of life'
in the United State? is de¬
creasing deaths from every year. Sudden
business, nervous collapse profess¬
among ional and our
frequent public men are so
remark. The as scarcely to excite
cides, committed majority of sui¬
without ap¬
parent reason, or under so-called
“denresdon of spirits,” are
.really prompted by nervous
prostration, which is a fruitful
•source wi.h all or their insanity ar.d crime
These grief and horror.
facts are startling.
They the threaten the very life of
nation. They ess ail the
-r-jT-y'Tk- T/. 1 wreck power manhood’s and pros
<~y- y
strength sud woman’s useful¬
ness and beauty.
Every one should know the
causes. What are they ? The
answer is easy t.nd terribly
plain: la&bMs; Our careless vicious and personal
oar lawless
eating and drinking; the in
tens::; inenf*! sad physical strain
arising frorc our mad race after
mosey, the fears pojlt’on &r,d influence;
IT.d Stnygjflea of pov
fh g tvrj Gi Cwreciies and
stiumtaSti; CCT tr. ’rion of
turning dry d/j; into end, night and
night daspa inb> Uir briefly,
our , ?.■< :■ j v; i rr. ess to
pay any piioa for au hoar‘a
pleasure o*r Bo we
Dura IfcYa midle at both ends
iyl d £.U iko lunatic fcsylum?
slid tks gravey?.rda. from which
The G'jkgbo we
fttifi’er ax.d die is, in plain Eng¬
lish, Nervous Dyspepsia, as it
is seated in tho Nerves and in
tbe organs of Digestion, Assim
ilaiioa and Natritioa. Healthy
digestion being im peded or des¬
troyed, included, the whole body, starved; nerves
is literally is emaci¬
even when there no
ation to tell the sad story.
Nervous pros!ration sends
out its warnings:—headache persistent
ia the morning; a.
dull heaviness or acliir.g at the
base of the bra in; wa kei ulaess;
loss cf appetite and disgust with
food; lofe of mental energy and
interest in ordinary duties and
"business; restlessness and anx¬
iety without eructations; any assignable bad
reason; the
breath; foal mucous on
teeth; occasional giddiness;
palpitation of the heart; sal
lowness of the skin; failure coated of
tongue and gradual ambition.
strength and
The remedy is a total aban¬
donment of the habits and cus
toms whieh cause the disease
in eacli in-uividual case, ami the
•use of Extract of Rosts
(iStfigtl's Byruj>) to cure the
inis-chief already cone. This
great revsoZr, prepared by ^ the
Shaker Couasunity of Mt, Lel>
artoa, N. V., is especially adapt¬
ed to eradicate Nervous Dys
■pcpsia. To do this it acts
directly and cently but power¬
fully upon t he disordered stom¬
ach* liver and kidneys, restor
ing their tone and vigor, pro¬
moting the secretion of bile, ex
pelling waste matters from the
system,sad purifying the blood.
■Upon tie nervous Syrup) system
Slab* Extract^ Scigel’s wholesome
acts as a Bale and
anodyne without the sligntest
narcotic eEect, and then lynxes
the nerve* to regain their nat¬
ural tone ami strength through
its wonderful influence upon
the function of nutrition.
It is safe to say more nerv¬
ous dyspeptics have been re¬
stored by it from the depths
of misery to a fresh enjoyment by
of life and labor than any
or all otLer forms of treatment
aibiued. . - - - - -
?m £
4
v.-.w a- V
VOL. XV.
A SWA51P MI
A STOXY OF TI1E BlRNSlDE D.f
From tbs New York Graphic.
The summer of the year 18(>‘2 was
particularly hot oa the Coast o
Noith Carolina. It even did sorne
thing to eonteraet the more
etiv heat of the civil war.
General Burasidc had esptor^H
lone: reach of the seaboard, and
established his liPadqaWirlors at New¬
born. No battles followed very soon
nor any slot ins to speak of, but the
army and the weather were fast get¬
ting into a l»iwh state preparation For
either kind of event.
There were union troops at Fort
Macon and Morelreml City, not man}
miles up the toast from Nevvbern,
and much pay was due them.
The money came nown from the
north in July, nd a couple of pay¬
masters received orders to go at
once and deal it out to the men.
Before the war a railway had been
constructed from Newborn to More
head City. Its rails were still there,
but all its rolling stock, with the ex¬
ception of one handcar, hud gone in
to the interior of the state. The via'
duct was only just wide enough to
cany its rails, and much of its course
was through a swamp whose dense
bushes were now luxuriantly reach*
ing out as if they meant to capture
the track before the end of the sea*
son.
The quartermaster placed fifs one
handcar at the disposal of the pay
master. lie did so with the pleas
ant information that on the previous
evening the busy Confederates had
made a fade "and had swept away ail
the pickets posted along the line of
the railway. New pickets had been
posted along the line of the railway.
New pickets had been posted he told
thetn, and their proposed trip would
be reasonably safe.
“That is,” sard lie,“I guess you’re
safe from any Con feds, but if you
don’t get through before daik I’d ad
vise you to be pretty prompt about
answering any hail. The hoys will
all be wi ie awake t d- lime. They
won’t be slow about taking care of
themselves in the dark. Not a man
of ’em Wonts to go to Wilmington
just now, nor to Andersonville eit»>
er.”
There were nine men huddled on
that handcar when it went. A ser
guul and four soldiers were its mo
tive power, guard and garrison. The
writer of this story was there alto
gethcr as an adventurer. Two pay
tins ers, wit h the rank of M.tj »i and
one eleik, were in i.-hatye of a black
b< x containg over $80,000 in green¬
backs to be scattered among the vol¬
unteers on the morrow.
The air grew more and more close
nod sultry, and just before night, a
sort of a haze began to rise over the
eastern horizon.
“ Unit’s it major,” said the scr
geanttoone the paymasters, “We
are going to hear from Ca 4 e Hat¬
ters s.”
“Storm coming?”
‘‘Right along. Twon’t take it long
to come.”
lie was correct as to the time re
qHired by Cape Hatteras, or w hat
ever was managing that storm. The
sky rapidly grew black as ink and
darkness came with but in (derate
reference to the departing sun.
Just before entering tde denser
thickets of the swamps a picket was
reached and the officer in charge ve
peated the warning to the quarter¬
master.
“Be ready to answer right away.
It’d be pitch dark, and some of the
hoys are nervous after last night's
work. They’ll shoot quick.”
This was to the sergeant, but it
was a paymaster who replied:
“Well, now captain, we didn't say,
but we thought tbe trip would he
safer by night t’ua.i by day. The
men have got to have the money.”
In ten m nutes more such a storm
had arrived as was a credit to Cape
Hatteras and the whole semoist of
North Carolina. On rolled the hand
ear, its crouching passengers drenebs
ed with rain, that fell in sires* ins
rilher than* drops. The lightning
flished almost inceasanflv, and the
thunder seemed to le rolling around
ali „vrr the swamp. Except where a
streak ot lightning cleft it,the daik
n-ss was like a solid wall, and thcie
was neither headlight nor hand lan
era provided for Uiat handcar.
“Worst storm I ever saw,” rc .
mai'Ked the sergeant, and one of the
r^ce of men who were acting as mo
ive power grunted ba,k at him.
-It's tbe worst kind of a storm, bu.
VuU can't see it.”
It was just a correction of the
statement made by the sergeant,
at that moment a hoarse, ‘•«P*
but sepulchral vo.ee from
the bushes and blackness at
ed tj
eh am
er
U‘q
i
I!
05t' :
1 ua-y^^B.
dead or ali ve. for
but that was apparent)
to say.
Tire s>i r.vnnt Sjdfl
!
MUA 5 :
to go forwaul. ^^1
“"VVe’ie just as likelyl
to, first thing, - ’ remarku
paymaster's clerks,
some of us sure.” M
Both of the payml
with liim, and one box® ex;>^H
l faction that the
greenbacks were water proof.
“That’s more than I am/’
One of the soldiers, ‘'ibis’ere r4fl
has not through my roof. 1 can pec
it trickle down in-ide of me.”
The handcar was not propelled
rapidly after that,'but the lightning
and thunder worked harder than
ever. Perhaps naif a mile had been
gained when •mother voice, on the
It.ft this time, and not so near, but
equally as hoarse and p romp tor >,■
shouted:
“Hull!”
Other words which seemed to f il
low were wwiillowc-l up by a loud
C.ap of thunder, an 1 m> was the Her
gi ant's | rompt response, but in an
instant lie was among the bushes,
Tiie first thing we heard from him
was:
‘Boys it’s tip to toy waist and get
ting deeper!”
-Go on sergeant,” shouted one of
the paymasters. “They’ll be shoots
ing at us if they don't get an na
swer.”
“Hurrah for General Burn-ide!”
squawked the paymaster’s clerk, in
ti. i t v. t tT Tt. to let any supposed
picket know which splc he was on
but a severe sternness from the
fa'thei en I lude him:
“Shut up! Halt ! Come along!”
"I’m coming!” shouted the ser*
geant. ‘ Friend ! paymaster!”
“Shut up! Come along!" re¬
sponded the threatening voice be¬
yond Inin.
For a full quarter of an hour the
sergeant gioopel and floundered
among those bushes. Again he
used strong language, very strong
indeed; but not a soul came to meet
Inin, nor did another word reply to
his repeated requests that the ph k
et should advise liim as to what
course ;o lake.
The party on the handcar cowed
un ler sheets and torrents am 1 wh^i
mdi ponds of failing water,
hoped there might be a cessation^!
the iigf thing fi t lies, so that mu
hidden rifleman woul t be less aide
to shoot straight.
“I give it up,” said the voice ol
the sergeant at last. He was only
three paces from the car, but was iu
visible.
“The boys know who we are,”
said one of the soldiers, “and we can
go on; but it’s an awful mean joke
to play in such a rain as this.”
“There’s something more than that
in it,” said one the paymaster-.
“There’s a trap of some kind. We ll
never get to Moreltead City.”
We’ll go ahead, anyhow,” said the
sergeant. “There’s as much danger
behind as there is before.”
“I am glad 1 hurrahed for Barn
si e. remarked the paymaster’s
el rk.
On went the handcar into the wa
t r-soaked darkness, and an another
mile or more was to.icl -over before
the wayside summons was sonorous
!y re|«»atetl.
-Q .iek now sergeant," replied the
senior paymaster.
“Don’t kao , major,” lie replied,
“That f How’s awav in the swamp,
He s got under cover. I couldu t hnn
uim. I k it! Boj% risk it! 1
her ahead. They can’t Lit us
they do fire.”
“Hah!” rame warningly out of tin
blackness, as the handcar dashed
forward, and with it came thum.er
that sounded like a rattle ot mus
ketry.
“They didn’t work their little
joke on ns this lime, maior,” remark
ll(an that in it. ,*
more
^ m ,. rm lail we
"t*i,i: 1 >n.:.
anybody lure, >M|
inches deep over :lie 1 1 ^|
Itwasn doletnl mvsc.'e v
clinnee of living fil ed np^n gre
Iv enough ns the ear wan duhii^H
urged forward.
1 ic fierceness of the ‘dorm ditntiP
i dled and thus, with a great gust of
wind from Cape llntter »s it ccs-cd.
More wind eamc' and swept away the
clouds. The moon eamc out gl >
non Iv, and at that very moment
the paymastei’sclerk exclaim' 1 l*
‘•Q ii< k, sergeant!” Tliev could »eo
to shoot new f’
‘•Halt!’ Conte along! Got ’em!
Got’em now! Bully! Belter mount!
Better mount !
That was what it sounded like,
but. the sergeant exclaimed:
“Arabam Lincoln! if it doesn’t,
make live times that we {l ive been
iisilted by those Cohfederate frogs!'
In half an lionr more we were til’
safe in Moreltead City, IcMvitu^j^
to at .
■if
«
iffl
-
’ !i r.i- ! 1 "..jK|j|
with the words’
move where rnv pencil rtim
is a town, 1 will pra"tiA|fl
iv I firiyfl
v .
whisky. He tliiiflF
••Af er 1 drank so tmt
■ ami; a inii-a::' 'njm
u ■
d
HuiUKji gJpqH
coflee, our sou,, onr in ilk. our iT^W(
ing water, and tin water we washed
in. AVe went to bed pfter calm :
Veal Staffed with whi iky, and got up
to clean our le til wi h whisky an
water and enj y th : d v on a break
fast soaked in miik and wliihky. Hterate 1| I
«too 1 It foi a mo i ! ■
water is good enough for me.
An eaterprisir ; town 1 one where
you soe the liom-st pioplz patronizing j
home ............... farmers H|>.ni ; _• :
what they make wi'-h home mer
; chants, commercial men an! mer
< Rants supporting home enterp-tscs.
A spirit cf reciprts it.v between husis
ness m n in ail lines of trade and
mdfie will result in nmkit.g a"«n
progressive and prosperous, let ail
give a helping han 1 anl voice t*.
evey movement for the g.nid of then
j recogcize the fact that all Have righ -
and * hums upon e-ich oilier in u.
prosecution of their several lines
business. Enterprise and
will remove all obslaelci and put
business on a firm lias's and boom a
town of lethargy and activity.
1 No man is so strong or so great
itfiat he i« not afraid of
•and very of’en it is a suuuM
Milwaukee Journal.
Gkorgia, Telea
<p (> T ,, E jjOJT ,■
OF Tub" UR c,
Tint at, 1V)7:
I, ns your County N
mi ioner, b
following report: I 1
By Ink eo on ban 1
1 1
Becoivotl from State j
u il: 1 ^ b-om^ tux |
|{ 0 e i V (> ! irot,i s'icriil
solvent poll tax
Aj?
fro*
July 2. “ p-.'l^ n
r-.-om
S.qit a " > -iia
Tiguu poll tax
Cn.
Ap’l 18%. 21. By cash \
pan
county echool com'r
1887.
Uob’y 7. By cash paid
county school com’r
By balance duo cot
school cumJd
To amount paid out
. .. y .l, ‘ j a l rinc0 on band j-iJ S4
” . . at'white . ■» f a ,”dt HchooltH in‘'
/ ir
-
.. .
*
schools, H' u *-‘O- - JJ
making the total namlier
d 1- - a_. J
M , |f t e gross s«
was paid by the Stab
tiou to this there iv J
who atte, led school
counties, who reeaafl
ratta shai
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