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SOUTHERN BANNER: APRIL 9. 1878. A HEX l I K WORD IS NEVER LOST. A Ren lie won! 1* never lost, oh, never then rcfuae one; It ehccrs the heart when tempest-tossed And lulls the cares that hruise one; It scatters sunshine o’er our way, And turns our thorns to roses; It changes weary niabt to day, And hope and love discloses. A ircntle word is never lost, Thy fallen brothers need It; llow easy and how small the cost— With peace and comfort speed it; Then drive the shadow from thy cheelt, A smile can well replace it; Our voice is music when we spesk With gentle words to grace it.” Gas Made of Pure Water. A MARVELLOUS DISCOVERT THAT ENGAGES SOME CAPITALISTS. Artificial Illumination’ Produced at A Very Trifling Cost—A Wonderful Motive Power Incidentally Discovered —Savants Opinions. [New York Sun.] James Winter, who has had charge of the steam engine in the Pnsmopoli tan Hotel says that he has discovered how to make illuminating gas out of water, at a trifling coat. A number of capitalists, of whom Mr. Jordan L Mott is a fair representative as to bu siness sagacity, have become interested in the matter, and sufficient money has been invested to build an experimental machine. Some of the more sanguine believe that the invention is bound revolutionize gas-making, and provide a new motive power. “ Mr. Winter is a practical man,” says one of the gentlemen concerned in the enterprise : “ that is, he knows how to manage levers, gauges, and boiler, without understanding anything about the philosophy of steam power, lie is however, of very quiek perceptions, I on. There, of course, remains suspi- and so, when something very strange ] cian in the minds of those who pro- oncured, as he was experimenting on pose to invest in it, and vet, so fully had been looking into it thought that the gas property might be a compara tively insignificant consideration. At the same time there were suspicions that this might be another Keely mo tor delusion. But Winter apparently concealed nothing, excepting as far as is by the capalists thought necessary to prevent others reaching the Patent Office first. To those whom he trusts he has opened the box and allowed them to aie Ji|it how it woAL' Tbfcj have used Croton water, and are posi tive that no electricity is used. The small machine that is now finished was filled with.R-few pouuds.of water, and in fifteen seconds a power equal to a pressure of 200 pounds to the square inch was generated. A gauge showed this. Among those who have seen the operation are Vice-President Reed of the New York, New Raven and Hart ford Railroad. Mr. Reed gives much attention to applied science, as far as it may be made of use in railroad opera tions. He was intensely interested in the machine. There was no doubt that great power was generated, and he remarked that if it was a genuine thing, and could be applied, it would be worth $5,000,000 to the company that lie represented. He proposes to be present at a coming experiment witli the machine that is to be made in the presence of experts, and where the most searching examination is invited. The project has go far pro grossed that a proposition to place it in a manufactory in Fourteenth street, to lurnish both power and illu mination, will probably soon lie acted corner of the horizon that is bright with # conspicions failure. Let me show you the difficulty of what he undertakes to do. If a jet of oxygen and a jet of hydrogen are united and set fire to, inside of a long tube as large or larger than a kerosene lamp chimney, and open at both ends, the cool inside surface will soou be cov ered with condensed vapor, the pi dnet of the flame. If yon place a cup beneath the lower end of the tube, to catch the drippings, you will he ablet to fill it in time with pure water. Now comes in our Brooklyn inventor, who catches up the cup and says: “ here is what I want. . Here is some water. It is composed of oxygen and per <ent, besides owing property 000,000 on bonds, and with this sum complete all the needful buildings within a year. The $1,000,000 now paid out would then be paid as inter est on these bonds, and a small sink ing fund would extinguish the whole after some and leave the Government in possession as owner of the accom modation it needs. This bill is admirable adapted to ts of the count ry. Tbe annn- i! rental paid by the Government, for e'buildings which it occupies but does not own will average about sev en per cent, on the private capital invested and is a dead loss. By buil ding with the proceeds of five or four an invention, he realized that he had made a discovery. lie thought that if this discovery did not elude him as suddenly as it had revealed itself, he had something that would prove of great value. The experiment that he was making were at once given up, and he bent his whole attention to captur ing his discovery so that he could handlc.it. lie is a Western man an engineer, and possessed of only such chemical knowledge as he has been have they availed themselves of the opportunities to examiue it that they cannot see where there can be any fraud. It was proposed to give an open exhibition weeks ago, but it was decided to first build a large machine, capable of furnishing great power and resistance. Mr. Winter was provided with a secluded place in Brooklyn, xery near Fulton ferry, and lias the targe machine now so neiirly comple ted that the experiments will be very able to pick up- The experiment that , soon made.” he was giving his time to when he j The machine is discribed as consis* made his discovery were on a waHtr ting of two iron boxes, one containin meter, which was to be a great im provement over those now used for measuring the consumption of gas, and it was in the manipulation of the water, and some of the forces brought to bear on it, that he saw what suggested how to turn water into an illuminating gas He worked out the plans which his discovery suggested. His whole time was devoted to it, and he showed all the absorption and energy of an en thusiast. People who saw him weie inclined to smile, especially when they observed that he used an old kitchen kettle, punched full of holes, in his ex periments. But one day he so far pro gressed that when he placed a lighted match at one of the holes in the kettle, a bluish flame fastened itself to the aperture Then those who had watched him smiled no more, but spread the report that he had really converted water into illuminating gas He per fected his machine, carbonated the gas, ami obtained a brilliant jet. Cap italists heard of it, and called on him. One moneyed man was so far satisfied that he was willing to iuvest largely, provided he could be convinced that there was no trick, such as the use of chemicals, lie put to Winter questions relating to the chemistry and philoso phy of the operation. “ I don’t know anything about that. 1 only know that this machine will do it,’’ was the reply, and he freely showed the ma chine. The capitalist took it to pieces, and put it together, took water that be knew could not have been chemically prepared, and then generated a gas of brillant illuminating power. Other capitalists were induced to look at the machine, and so well satisfied were they that they required only the testi-. mony of experts that there was no fraud about it to invest heavily. “ Something important happened while all this was going on. While perfecting a machine, Winter narrow ly escaped being blown to pieces. The littl^iron box exploded. Investigation followed, and he became satisfied that his box was capable of generating an jmmensjpower, and the capitalists who water to be pumped into the other, which is the instrument that releases the oxygen and hydrogen gases. What is inside of this latter box no one knows excepting Mr. Winter and the few capitalists who are interested in it: but the internal machinery is very simple, and makes use of no chemicals or electricity. One thing is said to happen after the conversion of the water into gas that is a nustery—the chemical relations of oxygen ami hy drogen in water, two volumes of oxy gen to one of hydrogen, are disturb ed. The volume oxygen seems to be lessened, and of hydrogen not in creased, what becomes of the missing oxygen ? Prof. R. Ogden Dorcmus, who has twice been in the room where the apparatus is kept, said last evening that be had not yet been shown the “ little ioker,” but that he had been promised an opportunity in a few days lor a thorough examination. He did not feel at liberty to reveal the exact whereabouts of the room, in Brooklyn, near the Fulton ferry, where the new illuminating gas is being made, but he referred the re porter to a capitalist who lias invested in the enterprise for information. When asked whethei the gas that he saw burning had fair illuminating power, the Professor’s reply was that, of course, the burneing of oxygen and hydrogen gave very little illumination but that it could be made serviceably illuminating by blowing it through gasoline. The Capitalist referred to says that the Professor is a disbe liever because lie has not seen the operation A scientific man, who had not seen the apparatus, but to whom the sub ject was mooted last evening, said with impatience: “This is the thous andth time that somebody has come forward with an assurance that he could manufacture illuminating gas from water. I don’t say that our Brooklyn friend hasn’t done it. I say merely if he has he has done a very remarkable thing, and appears in hydrogen, the very things I need to produce a flame. Water is as cheap as dirt, and with it wo can illuminate world.’ Then all those good people the who have never given special atten tion to chemistry say : “ This sounds reasonable. We know that water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen, and that these are the very gases needed to produce a flame. They forget that this very water has itself been produced by lim ning the gases, and that if there had never been any combustion of oxygen and hydrogen, there wouldn’t be any water on tjie globe. If our glass tube had been hot, the water would not have been condensed, but would have escaped in the form of vapor. Now, water bears the same relation to flame that the vapor that escapes up a' kitchen chimney does You eau’i bum wa ter, because it has been burned Oxygen and hydrogen manage to get a firm grip on each other when they unite. The oxygen can be coaxed away from hydrogen by giving it some substance, as zinc, that it likes better. Then under the proper con ditions, in leaves the hydrogen and burns again in connection with the new substance. In this case the dis** engaged hydrogen rises in bubbles. If an electrice current is allowed to pass through water, bubbles of oxy gen will rise at one pole an<J<bubbles of hydrogen at the other. The sep aration of these gasifSJ 1 when once united in combustion, has been tbe subject of investigation for years by the most acute minds that have been engaged in the study of chemistry. No process has ever been discovered that was cheap enough to warrant experiments in the direction of ligh ting or heating rooms. It is lucky for ns that the gases cannot he disu nited easily, for if they could ba we should be in constant danger of ex plosions. It is the peculiar charac teristic of nitrogen that it may be d smgaged by a slight degree of heat from some substances. This quality ol nitrogen gives us gunpowder and a long list of other explosive com pounds. “The very attractive notion that water contains the elements of heat and illumination has been used over and ov»r again in a literary way. The last instance that I remember was about a year ago, when an article was copied very extensively in the Ea-t from a journal on the Pacific coast. The writer pretended that a professor Somerville (I think tlist was the name) had invented a way of causing the combustion of the two gases as they existed (already burned) in tbe oceans and rivers. The idea was ridiculous, because he did not pretend to separate them ; hut the article obtained a wide celebrity.’’ A Wise Measurer.—The ChronU cle tfc Constitutionalist, says: “ Mr. Schleicher, of Texas has intro duced a bill for economizing in the use and construction of public buil dings all over the country’, which should become a law. He finds that the Government has begun a large number of custom houses and other public buildings in the large cities East, West and South, work on many of which has been stopped for lack of appropriations which are passed in tbe annual appropriation bills. Meantime, the Government, while waiting for the completion of these buildings, is paying about $1,000,000 per annum as rent for private buil dings which it needs. His proposition is to capitalize this SI,000,000 at five per cent, raise $20, which would always bring the cost of construction. The present is pecu liarly tl.e time for carrying out sueh a scheme. Real estate is very low, building material is oheap, and an army of skilled and unskilled laborers is starving for want of employment The bill should be supported, because it is on the line of economy, because it is a measure of practicle relief, and because it is in furtherance of the sound policy that Government should own the buildings necessary to the transaction of its business. x^a.'osr xToxicoss. J 8. DOllTCII, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Oarnesvillc, Ga. aplS-1873-tf g E. THRASHER, * attorney at law, \Yutkinsvillc, Gft. Office in former Ordinary’s Office. jan85-187C-ly rtutf son, 4TTPBKEV AT LAW, Office over Post-Office Athens, Ga. feb3-1875-tf JOHN NV. OWEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Tocoiv City, Ga. Will practice in all the counties of the West ern Circuit, Hart md Madison of the Northern Circuit. Will give special attenion to all claims entrusted to his care. oct20-1875-ly. Pope Barrow. irrow Bros. D. C. Barrow, 3■ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office over Tulmodge, Hodgson & Co. jan4'ly M@riwetla.or <& Few, BLACKSMITH’S TWO SHOPS FOR 1877. One ut the old stand in front ot Messrs. GANN & REAVES, The other on the road to the upper bridge and opposite Mr. JOHN Z. COOPER’S, Livery Stable. We have first class workmen HORSE SHOEING , of every description, Plating and Concave Shoes Manufactured to order. WAGONS, BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, And all .kinds of F Machines and Itn pleinenU repaired on short notice. l’au9-tf. Q D. HILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Athens, Ga. Prompt attention given to all business and the same respectfully solicited. jttnll-ly Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb. £ & II. COBB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athens, Ga JOfficc in Dcuprce Building, fcb22-187G-ly Alex S. Erwin. gRWIN & COBB, I Andrew J. Cobb. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, |Athens. Ga Offico on Corner of Broad and Thomas streets, over Childs, Nickerson & Co. feb22-1876-ly ^8U 3 "b . MoCURRY, Attorney tvfc Jhawr, Hartwell, Georgia, Will practice in the Superior Courts of North east Gcoigia and Supreme Court at Atlanta. Aug 8.1876 tf James R. Lyle, Watkinsville. LIVERY AND SALE STABLE, Th.oxn.ao S-fc_, JAfeliano, Ga. J. 2. COOPER, Proprietor. Good aud Gentle Horse.', Carriages, Buggies, (top and no top) lMiaetons, .fee., .to., for hire. Careful Drivers sent with teams when desired. DROVERS Are reminded that l have ample Stable Room, Clean Stalls and Extensive lot for their accom modation. Give me a call. Alkx.S. Erwin, Athens. | YLE & ERWIN, a rroRNErs a t la if. Will practice in partnership in the Superior Court of Oconee County, and attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care., jan9-3m. JACKSON & TOMAS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athens, Ga. Office South West Cornet of College Avenue and Clayton Street, also at the Court House. All parties desiring Criminal Warrants, can get them at any time by applying to the County Solicitor at this office. dec!6-1874-tf II T. NELMS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Harmony Grove, Jackson County, Ga., Will practice in the Superior Courts ot Jack- son, Madison, Banks and Clarke counties. Special attention given to collection of claims. Refers to Judge A. M. Speer, Griffin, Ga., and Hon. J. T. Spcuce, Jonesboro’, Ga., oet9-tf. w. jan292m. J. Z. COOPER. THE WHITE SEWING MACHINE, Said to bo the lightest-running, the most beautiful, cheapest, best, and largest Sewing Machine in the world. Ladies and the public* are invited to call and see, at the Office, next door to Wm. McDowell’s, C liege Avenue. ' J. BANCROFT, Agent. fcb5-ly. PIANO AND ORGAN Litddkx A Bates hold the field and compete with the world. 1,000 Superb Instruments from Reliable Makers at Factory Bates. Every man bis own agent. Bottom prices to all. New Pianos, $135, SI SO, $179. Vn U. tra il., 5 HI. $5(1. $07. Six years guarantee. Fifteen days trial. Maker’s names on all Instruments Square dealing, the honest truth, and best bargains in the U. S. From 850 to $100 actually saved in buying from Luddrn k Kates* Wholesale Piano and Organ llenot. Sa vannah, Gn. febl9-lm. ZMZ-iLIRBXjIEI A. Et. ROBERTSOW, Dealers Monuments A ND TOMBSTONES, CRADLE TOOMBS, 71 Marble aud Granite Box Toouibs. A Great Redaction in Prices. Specimens of Work always on hand and for sale. Prices and designs furnished ou application ut the Marble Yard, adjoining Reaves & Nich olson’s cotton warehouse, Athens, Ga. june20-tf. K. LITTLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Carncsvillc, Ga. upl8-1873-tf BTJSXXTESS CASDa fjl A. II,KB, W a tehaakw & Jowalor, At Michael’store, next door to Reaves & Nich olson’s, Broad street-, Athens, Georgia, All work warranted 12 months. septl‘2-tf. <1I1AS. O. JONES, JR. T. E. EVE. JOHSTJEIS Sc EVE, ATT0ll.\EY8 AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW SIBLEY'S NEW BUILDING, 2 it BKOAI* STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. o6-Gm THE NEW YORK WEEKLY IIEEALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Proprietor.; The Best aud Cheapest Newspaper Published, POSTJAG-E ONI DOLLAB PUR year, 50 CENTS FOR 6 MONTH \ An Extra Copy to every Club of Ten. The N, 7. Daily Herald. Published every day in thejyeai ^Postage Free. $ 10 pays for one year, Sundays included. $8 pays for one year, without Sundays. $r5 pays lor six months, Sundays included-; $4 pays for six months, without Sundays. $2 pays for one year tor any specified day ol tn $1 pays for six moDths for any specified day ot 1 pays for one month, Sundays iuclu ted. NEWSDEALERS SUPPLIED. Postage Free. Pally edition, 2% cents ;.ercopy. Sunday edi tion 4 cents per copy. Weekly edition 2I cents per copy. Address Ms<W \OilK UblULPy fan 23-lid I CLAIM to have the Largest Stove in this market. CLAIM to have the Heaviest Stove lor the price in Athens. I CLAIM to have tbB Finest Ar ranged and moot Elegantly Finished Cook Stove Manu« uioturco ( T) •> mm ftasffi I CLAIM that 1 can Furr ish the Best Tinware in tlu: State as Cheap as inferior Tinware is sow sold at in Athena, i I CAN Substantiate the above claims and would be pleased to do so to any one desiring to purchase. Call and be convinced at the SION OF THE BIG COFFEE POT. Broad Street-, Athens, Georgia. j. c. welkins, aug7-8m Ahead of AH COMPETITION « 0. ROBINSON U AS JSUT RETURNED FROM A VISIT union »the Principal PIANO and ORGAN fictoriesiti Now York, Boston and other citics- iiaving arranged for the Largest and most, com, plete assortment ever offered South, at prices ABSOLUTELY BEYOND COMPETITION! I-,- Prices Quick Sa -r- Musical instruments OF EVERY VARIETY. Shed Music and Music Bools, THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS. Musical Merchandise, , And everything pertaining to a 3 First Class Music House. TUNING AND REPAIRING, PIANOS, Church, Pips and Reed Organs, and all kinds ot Musical Instruments Tuned and Repaired bv Mr. C. II. Taylor, the best skilled and oueef the moat thorough workmen South. M r. Taylor devoted nearly fifteen yeurs in the construction of insti uments in some of the beat factories in this country, and is the onlv authorized Tune.' for the AUGUSTA MUSIC HOUSE. G. O. ROBINSON & CO* 265 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. o2-tf T-JT. — . - OE1STTE.AI. KOTilSI* AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.^] Mrs. W. M. THOMAS. Prop’r. TJiis^lotct, so* well known to tue citizens of Clarke and ailjpjuing couuties, is located in the centre of the business portion of Augusta, con venient to Post Office, Telegraph Offico and Depot, mid otters inducements to the public unequaled bv nuy other Hotel iu the City. dee4-t-£ J OB WORK OF ALL V FSCRIP- tion peatlv done at tb> f office