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CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1887.
THE ELECTRIC WELL.
) AY INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF
GEORGIA’S WONDER.
The Lame are Made to W alk After a Very
Few Days.
The following description of Georgia s
wonderful electric well which has attract
ed so much attention, is given by a cor
respondent of a Florida paper, and will
doubtless prove interesting to many of
our readers:
On the Washington branch of the
Georgia railroad, eight miles from Bar
nett station and eleven from Washington,
the electric pit is located. 1 eonsider it
one of the wonders of this country; for.
as yet, no scientist has explained it. To
prepare an art icle for a daily newspaper,
telling all the facts about and giving an
analysis of the water, would be a tax on
the pa [ter and on the faith of its readers.
Those who wish to be cured of such dis
eases as the well will cure, will make the
experiment; those who read from curi
osity will pass on to something else that,
is new or strange. In point of fact this
well has passed beyond the tricks ol ad
vertisements —its present accommoda
tions arc inadequate to the public pat
ronage. The proprietor wishes guests
would stay awa.v until he can prepare
for them. This lie is now doing. The
great Georgia railroad has already built
a side-track and pavillion, and an avenue
leading to the well (about 700 yards
from the road) will soon be graded.
The history of the discovery is this:
Fifteen years ago a pit. HxlJ feet was
dug at the base of a high wooden hill
fronting a low bottom, on which corn is
planted in May; the digger being told
lie would find alum in crystals there —a
rare thing to find anywhere—this salt as
most people know being prepared by
roasting and lixiviating certain schists
containing pyrites and to the lye adding
potassa. Well the crystal alltim was not
found and so the old pit was abandoned
except by the poor fanner who used the
spring in it while he worked his bottom
land.
About six nionths ago an old negro,
remembering the spring, entered the pit.
lb* was a blacksmith who had been forced
to abandon his trade because of rheu
matism in the arms and legs. He cleaned
out the spring, drank the water and
then fell asleep. On waking he felt an
electric shock that frightened him. He
awaited results and felt another shock.
Meanwhile the water lie had drunk had
produced curious effects. He felt, as he
expressed it, “so bewitched,” he went off
to find a friend. Coming back, they both
felt the electric shocks, and the black
smith felt his whole system relaxed, vivi
fied and somewhat made anew, lie tried
daily the same experiments, until the end
of ten days lie .was entirely cured. This
report spread at first among the com-;
moil people. Finally, u man of character
and influence near by, who had for ten
years been badly crippled with rheumat
ism, tried the electric pit—more from
idle curiosity than from other motives.
In a week he felt himself a changed man
—in two weeks he was wholly cured.
At this juncture, the facts, as hereto
fore stated, were made known to me.
Being an old philosopher of the.tripod, I
am suspicious—say one hundred per
cent, on the doubting Thomas of ancient
fame. I take the trouble to investigate.
Meanwhile other patients with rheumat
ism, affections of the kidneys, bladder
and stomach come here and are cured.
Then I write a short article which our
great dailies publish. It reaches New
York, Canada and at last, England and
France, Reporters rush in as if a great
battle were raging on those old red hills
of Georgia. They are astonished and
bewildered by what they see —the lame
come in on crutches and going away
throw their crutches in the air, rejoicing
as if they had found the [tet ii of great
price.
In a word, it would be impertinent,
perhaps foolish, to tell what this well has
done. It is either the most remarkable
discovery or the greatest of all contem
porary (lelnsions, This well will t+ire
general debility, dyspepsia, rheumatism,
diseases of the kidneys and bladder, and
also other cognate diseases about which
l know nothing. As every one knows,
there is a certain form of rheumatism
wholly incurable; as there is a certain
state of what is known as Bright's dis
ease of the kidneys, as yet pronounced in
curable. But making all allowances, I
have seen both rheumatism and kidney
affections and all the .worst formsof rheu
matism either entirely cured or alleviated
by using the electric currents and drink
ing the waters of this wonderful well. It
gives only about 300 gallons per day
now. It is shipped on order over several
states.
In conclusion it may be proper to state
that we have in my native town a few
wise Solomons —doctors, who, holding
to the connections of the positive and
negative poles, can’t see how the Georgi
a electric well can give a shock!
Very well, I will not dispute—neither can
1 explain. “That I have writ, I have
writ, and I would it were worthier.”
Ita lvoad Construction of the Law.
N. Y. Times.]
Most of tho complaints tlius far made
against the working of the inter-state
commerce law are due almost wholly to
the unnecessary interpretation given by
the railroads themselves to the long and
short haul section. The motives of the
railroad managers are very plain. They
wish to arouse among the business men
of the country an opposition to this sec
tion which will lead-to a demand for its
repeal, and they seem to be ready to do
this at the cost of a serious disturbance
of business and a temporary loss to the
railroads themselves. The excuse given
for adopting a rigid construction of the
section is, that there are severe penalties
for violating the law, and the railroad
companies wish to be on the safe side.
This plea is not valid unless the construc
tion adopted is the only reasonable one,
for the penalties provided are only for
wilful -violations. Not only is the con
struction which the railroad managers
have seen fit to adopt not the only rea
sonable one, but it is not a fair one at
all. It takes no cognizance of the mean
ing and intent of some of the most sig
nificant and important words of the stat
ute.
These managers set to Yvork before the
law went into effec t to revise their through
rates on the assumption that they could
not in any case charge more for a long
distance than they charged for any part
of that distance, unless relieved from the
prohibition by the commission, and their
appeals for relief have been sent in in
such numbers and with such earnestness
as to give the impression that their bus
iness is in danger of ruin. They have as
sumed that the law puts them in the po
sition which they have voluntarily taken
for the purpose of making the law unpop
ular. This device is not likely to deceive
the people very long, and already there
are signs that the weight of complaint
from the public will be directed against
the railroads themselves.
The fourth section of the law does not
prohibit charging less for long than for
, short distances if there is any reason that
justifies it. This discrimination in favor
of the long haul is forbidden only when
the transportation is carried on “under
substantially similar circumstances and
conditions.” This qualification. * which
involves the essence of the provision, has
been completely ignored by the railroad
companies. Take the case of the trans
continental lines which bring oriental im
ports and Pacific coast products to the
Atlantic seaboard. Their managers de
clare that the circumstances ami condi
tions of that traffic are such tliar they
will lose it altogether units* they take it
at lower rates than they are compelled to
■charge on much of their business for
shorter distances. Then why do they not
take it at lower rates? Obviously those
circumstances and conditions do not pre
vent thorn from maintaining their rates
for the shorter distances. In fact, they
do not affect their short-distance traffic
at all according to their own admissions.
Competition by way of the Isthmus or
Cape Horn does not affect the rates that
can be charged from San Francisco to
interior points along the Union and
Southern Pacific lines. Consequently the
circumstances and conditions which af
reet this through transcontinental traffic
are substantially dissimilar to those
under which transportation for shorter
intermediate distances is carried on. li'
it were not so the cause of complaint
would not exist. It is because a substan
tial dissimilarity of circumstances and
conditions exists that it is found neces
sary to make the lower charges for long
distances, and where such a necessity is
produced by a difference of circumstances
ajid conditions the law dot's not prohibit
the lower charges.
The same reasoning applies to nearly
all the cases in which complaints have
been made and applications sent in for
relief. The railroad officers make elabo
rate explanations of the circumstances
and conditions of their long distance t raf
fic which they claim would not only jus
tify them in maintaining low through
rates, but compels them to do so in or
der to retain their business. They are at
great pains to hliow that these circum
stances and conditions do not affect the
local and short distance traffic, and
it is just and right to maintain the high
er rates on that. All this is an argument
that shows that the prohibition does not
apply to the case at all and reduces the
applications of the companies to an ab
surdity. They ask the commission to
relieve them from a prohibition which all
their arguments are intended to show
does not exist. It is created by them
selves and not by the law, and their meth
od of relief is to take the law as it is and
comply with it, and not set up a fantas
tical construction of their own and then
ask the inter-state commission to relieve
them from it.
The railroad corporations appear to
have set to work deliberately to create a
prejudice against the inter-state com
merce act, and especially against the
fourth section, relating to charges for
long and short distances, by enforcing it
themselves under a construction of their
own which ignores the most significant
qualification in its provisions. If this
construction were enforced by the courts
or even by the commission, and it pro
duced disastrous results, a ease would be
made against the law. But it is enforced
only by the railroad companies them
selves without the slightest occasion, and
the case as it stands is against them,
and the public will have no difficulty in
understanding it.
JOHN A. LOGAN’S SON.
Ills Experience t West Point Academy.—
A Change of Name.
Philadelphia Times.]
Do you ever hear of a boy changing his
name? Of course girls and they
marry some other girl's brother—but it.
is usual that boys keep the name they
are given at birth to the end of then
days. Young Logan was an exception,
however. When he was in West Point
Academy he was known as Manning Lo
gan; but when his father, the famous
general and senator, died last wiuter, he
changed his name to that of his father —
John A. Logan. This young man went
into West Point about the time his fath
er was nominated for vice-president, and
exhibited considerable elation at a high
silk hat. He was promptly relieved of
both. A squad of third-class men seized
him one night, perched him upon the
mantelpiece, turned a coal scuttle over
his head, put a water bucket on that,
surmounted by a cavalry helmet, with
the high hat crowning the edifice. Thus
accoutered, he was made to sing, “I’m
getting a Big Boy Now,” until he plead
ed for mercy. This was not wholly ef
fectual, though, and a day or two after
wards a tall and ferocious looking first
class man went up to him and told him
he was wanted to join a theatrical com
pany. Ten minutes afterwards little Lo
gan, completely terrorized, was sitting in
the first-class man’s room sewing the
missing buttons on a dilapidated jacket,
while its owner assured him that he was
bound to make a great hit as the funny
man of the theatre.
Years ago hazing was very common at
West point, but is now pretty uearly
abolished. The officers of the academy
have tried hard to wipe it out entirely,
and have about succeeded. The most
that new cadets have now to do is occa
sionally to stand on their heads in one
of the streets of camp, or some penalty
like that. Of course, if the officer of the
day should see the older cadet eompell
ing the younger one to do this the for
mer would be promptly punished. Some
times they are caught, and then trouble
and demerits follow. Another penalty is
to compel the young cadet, when the ta
ble stewards in the mess-hall are not
looking, to put the butter remaining on
the plate at the close of the meal in their
pocket. The best way in such cast's is
for the young man to submit to the joke
as well as he can, It is the easiest way.
Young Logan did not graduate at the
academy. He was there nearly two years
and was well liked by his companions,
but some of his wild oats were of a rank
variety and had not been sown, and so
gotten rid of, before he entered the acad
emy. West Point is a bad place to sow
wild oats, as Logan and many young
fellows have found to their sorrow. The
senator’s son was dismissed one day.
His mother felt very badly over his dis
grace, but he never seemed to mind it. It
wus very wrong of him to cause his moth
er pain, but he has ample opportunity
to make amends, and as he has not sow
ed his oats and liecome a fine young fel
low, he will no doubt make full amends.
“No Physic, Sir in Mine!”
A good story comes from a boys’
boarding-school in “Jersey.” The diet
wqs monotonous and constipating, and
the learned Principal decided to intro
duce some old-style physic in the apple
sauce, and await the happy results.
One bright lad, the smartest in school,
discovered the secret mine in his sauce,
and pushing back his plate, shouted to
the pedagogue, “No physic, sir, in mine.
My dad told me to use nuthin' but Dr.
Pierce's ‘Pleasant Purgative Pellets,’
and they are a doing their duty like a
charm!” They are anti-bilious, and
purely vegetable.
If you have headache try our ice-cold
soda water with Horsford’s Acid Phos
phate. Perfectly delicious!
Wikle'h Drug Store,
A CRANKY LAWYER.
• JUDGE WILLIS, OF COLUMBUS, IM
PRISONS AND FINES HIM S2OO,
Aftr Which til* Justice li stricken With
l'aral j *in ami Hie*.
Cuthbert Appeal]
Judge J. T. Willis died suddenly at his
home in Columbus, Ga., on Friday last
from a stroke of paralysis. Judge Willis
bad spent part of the week holding court
in Marion county, and while there had
some trouble with a lawyer by the name
of McCorkle, in which it was necessary to
impose a fine of S2OO upon McCorkle,
Itesides ordering his in (prison men t for
twenty days. The sudden taking off
of his distinguished jurist h;is heen
coupled with this adventure. It is claim
ed that the matter preyed upon his sen
native mind until it broke him down.
The Amerieus Recorder gives one stat*--
ment of the affair in these words:
“Judge Willis lat t week produced a
sensation at Buena Vista court by fining
Mr. J. S. McCorkle, a member of the
Amerieus bar, two hundred dollars and
an imprisonment of twenty days in Mar
rion county jail, for contempt of court.
There were many rumors about the af
fair, and it was hard to get the straight
of it for several days. The following are
the particulars of the ease as gathered
from a gentleman who says he was
present:
“Mr. Met 'orkle was on a number of im
portant cases, to be tried at this session
of court, and it was very important that
he should have been present in order that
they be tried, but unfortunately Mr. Mc-
Corkle was sick, or claimed to be, and
made affidavit to that, effect. He sent
the court word that he was unable to at
tend, and asked that his cases be contin
ued. Judge Willis, it is said, refused to
continue the cases but placed them tit
the end of the docket. Mr. McCorkle, be
fore court adjourned, grew better, and
went up to Buena Vista. Hemet Judge
\\ ill its outside of the court room and
made some abusive remarks, which Judge
Willis refused to notice. Mr. McCorkle
afterwards, tit the solicitation of friends,
agreed to pologise in open court for his
manner towards Judge Willis, but in
stead of doing this, he invited his chums
around town to go to the court house
next morning and hear him “cuss Judge
\\ iilis out.” The next morning his
friends gathered according to appoint
ment. Mr. McCorkle walked boldly to
the front of the Judge's stand and said:
“1 want to be heard in this court. 1
want to be sworn.”
“He kissed the Bible, which lay near,
and then made the statement that he
had been unable to attend court because
lie was sick. He then began abusing
J udgw Willis quite heavily He had his
abusive speech written out, and it was
said to have been a most profane one.
Before he finished lie was interrupted by
Judge Willis, who imposed a fine of two
hundred dollars on him and twenty days
imprisonment in the county jail.
“McCorkle was carried from the court
room with the threat that he would have
his revenge. Mr. McCorkle was placed in
jail, and while confined was quite sick.
Rumor has it that the ladies made up the
fine, and that the citizens of Buena Vista
took sledge hammers and undertook to
batter down the jail door, but Mr. Mc-
Corkle begged them to forbear. Wheth
er this is true is not known.
Judge Willis was stricken with paraly
sis in the afternoon, and tiled at 7:45
o'clock. He was unconscious during
that time. He had walked on the streets
during the afternoon. He was 51 years
old, and a native of Talbot county. He
was an able judge and held in high es
teem wherever known. It has l>een de
nied that he was a prey to the abusive
conduct of a cranky lawyer. He did,
upon the solicitation of many friends of
Mr. McCorkle’s wife, release him from
jail and remit the fine, it having been
stated to the Judge that she was a most
estimable lady and deeply grieved at the
circumstances. He hail been subject to
paralysis for several years. Ex-Gov.
James M. Smith has been appointed as
J udge AA’illis' successor.
TO CROSS THE RIO GRANDE.
Mexican* Dream of Invading: the United
States and Wiping out the Defeuto of
the Mexican War.
City ok Mexico, May 9. El Nacionel,
the newspaper with the second largest
circulation in Mexico, in commenting on
the tine display of troops last Thursday,
says in to-day’s issue:
“The day we have 200,000 veterans
like those who marched along the
streets we will laugh at Yankees and we
will go on the other side of the Itio
Grande and give them a lesson. To have
such a force it is only necessary to enforce
compulsory service, and to appropriate
the actual revenue of the nation. Then
we shall be able to get even for the taking
of Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo and the de
feats in the valley of Mexico. Then we
will beat the Yankees.”
The same paj*er of the same date ooje
pies a dispatch giving details of the
transfer of a large tract of land in North
ern Mexico to Americans, and says:
“This peaceable conquest is gaining
ground every day, and while we assume
ourselves with a re-election, with decor
ations, with new hats for our generals,
and with other frivolities, the Yankees
lose no time and march dirrect to the
absorption of our territory. Poor Mex
ico.”
Id Nacionel represents the church, or
Conservative party of Mexico, and is, as
might be supposed, anto-Riuz.
The striking contrast with such ex
pressions as just quoted in the frank
statement made by Dr. Plutarco
Ornelas resj>eeting the frontier policy of
the present administration. I)r. Ornelas
is high in the diplomatic service of Mexico,
and his declarations have official force.
He has been intimately associated with
border regions between Mexico and the
United States, having held the position
of Consul at San Antonio for ten years.
Speaking of the policy of President Diaz,
Dr. Ornelas said:
“He has brought a better f)*eliug
between the citizens of the southern and
northern banks of the Rio Grande in a
business like manner. His first move
ment was to send officers of superior in
telligence to the frontier garrison, whose
friendliness toward ths United States
was well known. The good results was
apparent at once. The ill-disposed and
conflicting elements on both sides of the
river began to appease the reciprocal
animosity and a change was made for an
order of things which from continuous
outrages and wrongs has been converted
into an intelligent contact, in which com
merce and society have been the gainers
on both sides of the line.”
From Sublimity to lUdiculousneag.
On Friday, May (J, a very pleasant en
tertainment was given at the residence of
Mr. Perkins, who lives a few miles in the
country. The night was made more
l*eautiful by the silvery light of the moon
that sparkled through the heavenly blue
jis if composed of innumerable precious
jewels. The particular feature of the
evening was the dancing of a jig by Mr.
Peems, of Elijay, Gu.—Cave Spring cor
respondent Cedurtown Advertiser.
THE OLD FRAUD.
More About the Mysterious Woman \\ ho
Is Ituying up the Earth.
A week ago this paper noticed the ad
vent into this Ktvt ion of an oid woman,
who seemed bent on buying all the laud
in the country. Her identity was found
out, however before she had consummated
many trades, and she left here, going
southward. We next hear of her through
the Bainbridge Democrat, from which
we gather the following from a cor
respondent, dated “Faceville, May 7th.
“A woman, who, from appearance,”
seemed to be about forty years old, well
dressrs 1, wearing a watch chain equal to
that of Yellowstone Kit's and a profusion
of other jewelry, claiming to have hailed
from New York, was in this section iv
eeutly, and said she was hunting land to
purchase. How she came to Faceville no
one knows. She called on the late Win.
Dickenson to buy land from him, and
was told Ift him perhaps she could buy
some from Judge Fain. She went down
' the railroad in the direction of a section
house, occupied by Mr. H. M. Knight,
and then went through the woods to
Henry Screen’s (colored) and there spent
the night—telling Henry that she was of
the negro descent ami wanted to stay
with her color. Henry has missed a
gold shirt button since that night. She
went to see Judge Fain and made ar
rangements to go and look at his lands
on Monday, when she said her son would
be here and go with them. Saturday she
hired Screen's team to go to Bainbridge,
where and when she would pay the bill.
When she got to the court house square
she told Screen's driver to wait until she
got her money changed and she would
return and pay him.
It has been about six weeks since she
was here. She carried a small grip-sack
with her. Some are inclined to think
that she is not a woman, and others
trought that sin* was an esea|ied lunatic.
One gentleman whose suspicion was
aroused interviewed her. She usked him
if he ever saw a nice pistol, and com
menced opening her grip-sack to show it
to him, and he told her that he. had and
that she need not trouble herself to show
it to him, ami anyway he had to go and
see how his hands on tin* railroad were
getting along, and did not have time to
wait.”
The Democrat further says of the
woman:
“A person, evidently of the Irish de
cent, answering the above description,
was seen roaming around the suburbs of
the city five or six weeks ago. She went
to the county poor house near here and
informed the keej>er, Mr. F. J. Johnson,
that she wanted to purchase some land
and a flock of sheep. He had no land or
sheep for sale and told her that he was
sorry he could not accommodate her, and
invited her into the house. She was quite
sociable and conversed with Mr. J., and
family upon various topics. After sin*
hud spent an hour or two there, Mr. J.
attempted to tease her by asking her if
she knew she had gotten into the poor
house, whereupon she became indignant,
displayed a pistol and a large roll of
money and informed him that if she was
in the poor house she was able to pay her
way out- She finally informed Mr. John
son that she hail promised to meet her
son near Bainbridge on the Thomasville
road, and requested him to show her into
it. He went with her to the road, and
when last heard from she was about two
miles from town making good time in
the direction of Thomasville on the ankle
express.
LITTLE BOYS ON A SPREE.
Fifteen Voting Scholar. Tap a Car Load of
Whisky With Serious Result..
At noon to-day, says a Lowell, Mass.,
special to the New York Herald, Benjam
in Clancy, a truant school boy, discover
ed a carload of whisky which had been
sidetracked near the Boston and Lowell
depot, and an idea struck him. For the
first time in weeks Clancy was punctual
at school this afternoon, but, instead of
puzzling over common fractions, liis men
tal powers were devoted to giving the
tip to about fifteen of his companions.
As soon as school was out the boys, in
pursuance of Clancy’s plan, rushed home
and each secured a tin pail on representa
tion to his parents that he bad been in
vited to a sap party in the woods. In
less than half an hour the gang had
gathered at the car, and, securing en
trance by some means, they tipped up
one of the barrels, knocked out flu* bung
with a stone and soon had their pails
tilled with the fiery corn juice.
Then the bacchanalian revelers ad
journed to a secluded place and began
their orgies. Toasts were proposed and
drank with the greatest gusto, speeches
made and songs sung until every one of
the fifteen was beastly drunk. About 6
o’clock at night they came trooping into
the city, shouting, singing and stagger
ing. Several were so far gone as to be
unable to walk without the assistance of
their mates. The police soon got after
them and took Clancy, who is 13 years
old, Patrick O’Brien, aged 12, and Patsy
Corrigan, aged 9, to the station. Clancy
was allowed to go home with his parents.
O’Brien was unable to sit up, and was
put to bed at the station. In the midst
of his hiccoughs he said: “Clancy told us
to drink and we did.” Corrigan was soon
found to be in a critical condition and
his life was saved only by the use of
emetics and careful attention from sever
al physicians.
A Mother's Blessing:
is an infant food which can be relied on
to agree with her little one, and to pre
vent those dangerous bowel disorders so
often prevalent. Lactated Food is such
an article, and where once used is always
relied on. Sold in three sizes.
What Builds a Community.
No community, says the Brunswick
Breeze, was ever known to prosper w hen
a majority or even a large minority of
its citizens were dissatisfied with their
surroundings. It is far better for any
community for those becoming restless
and discontented with their position to
move away and make themselves beau
tifully conspicuous by their absence.
The first thought of one devoted to the
interest of his town or city ought to lie
“how shall I help my neighbor? As in
helping him I give aid to others who
assist others to help me, hence he gives
all home enterprises the preference. He
does not send his money off, as he will
not hear from it again* but is willing to
pay a better per cent at home. He be
lieves in patronizing home industry ami
keeps his tongue still when he eonnot
speak in complimentary terms of his
neighbor or in matters concerning his
city. M ith a majority of such citizens
the complaining minority, is whipped
into line and prosperity is inaugurated.
“Hello!” we heard one man sav to
another, the other day. “I didn't know
you at first, why! you look ten years
younger than you did when I saw you
last. “I feel ten years younger,” was
the reply. “You know I used to be un
der the weather all the time and gave up
exjiectiug to be any better. The doctor
said I had consumption. I was terribly
weak, had night-sweats, cough, no appe
tite, and lost fiesh. 1 saw Dr. Pierce s
‘Golden Medical Discovery' advertised,
and thought it would do no harm if it
did no good. It has cured me. lam a>
new man because I am a well one."
ADVERTISEMENTS.
The Courant-American is tiie only
Pafer Published in one of the Best
Counties in North Georgia. Its Cir
culation IS SECOND TO NONE OF ITS CLASS
Reasonable Rates on Application.
$ 1.50 Per Annum—sc. a Copy.
A STRANGE STORY.
A MIRACULOUS STORY FROM AT
LANTA
Of a Gt-orgiH Man’ll Recovery. After Ten
Years of Pain He is Suddenly Cured
by a Shot Gun.
A sjsvial from Atlanta says that the
people around Warsaw, in Miltoncounty,
are exercised over tin* strange recovery
of John Hendricks from a chronic rheu
matic affliction. About ten years ago
Hendricks, who was a strong and robust
man, n type of manly vigor, was limit
ed for illicit distillation. The punishment
inflicted at that time was so severe tlmt
prisoners would dare almost anything to
get away. When the party of revenue
men reached Duluth they became loss
watchful of their prisoner, when he broke
loose and ran under a shower of lead. As
it was nearly dark, and the country was
nigged and full of moonshiners, the offi
cers did not pursue until next day. The
night was bitter cold and Hendricks had
but one way to cross the Chattahoochee,
which was by swimming. He plunged in
and became chilled to tin* bone before he
reached the other side. He was hidden
out by his friends who feared to bring in
a doctor, as that might reveal the where
abouts of the fugitive. When he recov
ered from bis long illness he was a eon
firmed rheumatic. Disarms were doubled
and his legs were drawn ns if in a sifting
position. He fell into a settled melan
cholia from which nothing seemed to
rouse him.
Near his home was a large live oak
tree. It was Hendricks’ daily habit to
crawl towards this tm* and lean against
it, not returning to his home until night.
For ten years he has kept this up until
the plaee was designated its Hendricks’
tree. On last Saturday a mad dog ap
peared in tin* neighborhood which wan
pursued by two young brothers numed
Rogers who, armed with shot guns, cross
ed forests and fields in pursuit of their
prey.
At last sighting the animal they fired
two shots which were answered by a
scream from a human being. It was
Hendricks whom they had disturbed ami
who jumped to his feet danced around
with an agility which displayed but little
of his old time affliction. His legs uud
arms straightened out and though still
stiff evidenced an almost miraculous
change. It seems that the shots had en
tered the tree against which Hendricks
was sitting and that the shock so affect
ed him that he forgot his ailing and
jumjied to his f<*et. News received from
that point yesterday indicates tjmt the
improvements continues and that there
is now every prospect of his recovering
his former health.
THE MEANEST MAN ON RECORD.
-I Man Sued for a Gun lie Hroke in Sav
ing the Owner’. Life.
Editor Dawson Journal: The mean
est man on record lives in Clinch county,
Georgia.
A number of years ago two boys,
about ten years old each, were in the
Okefeuoke swamp when a panther sprang
upon one of them, Johnnie Steward by
name. The other boy ran for his life
and left Johnnie alone with the panther.
Johnnie did not lose his presence of
mind, however, and thought of what he
had often heard old people say—that to
lie still, as though dead, a panther or
bear would leave you. He t urned on his
face and lay perfectly still, and tin* pan
ther covered him with leaves and left in
pursuit of the other boy. When the
panther was out of sight Johnnie ran
for home, reaching there suffering from
wounds that were made when tie* beast
sprang upon him. The story was re
lated to the neighbors and several men
went in pursuit of the panther well
armed.
One whom I shall call V.,- that being
the first letter in his sir name, was anx
to join the party of searchers, but had
no gun. (J., a member of the party,
having two guns, let> V. have one of
them. When the swamp was reached
the crowd separated and a short time
thereafter there arose from the dense
swamp a terrible cry for life. V. was the
first man to appear on the scene and he
found G. and the enraged panther in
deadly combat. To shoot the animal
without killing (1. was inqiossihlc, und
A’, reversed his gun and dealt the beast
a blow at every opportunity. The heavy
blows soon broke the gun, and at that
juncture another of the party reached
the scene and quickly cut the panther’s
throat. They then had to draw the pan
ther s jaws apart and release a vice-like
grip on the man’s shoulder. G. was una
ble to get about for several weeks, dur
ing which time V. tenderly nursed him,
he lieing a near neighbor. When G. re
covered he showed his ingratitude by
sueing V. in justice court for the gun he
had broken in saving his (G.’s) life.
Judgment was obtained and V. paid
$9.00 for the gun.
V. is an honorable, high-toned man,
and is now a prominent citizen of Berrien
county. On lieing asked he told your
correspondent’s informant that * the
above is true in every particular.
Johnnie Steward was afterward bitten
by a rattlesnake, struck by lightning,
had an arm ground off in a cane mill,
served a term in the penitentiary and at
last accounts was still living in Clinch
county. \y
Berrien county, (la., Mav 3, ’B7.
I’ook Jenn'e Bowman, the Louisville
house maid, who gave up her life for her
virtue, expired last week, after two
weeks intense suffering. It will le re
membered that Jennie was left alone in
her employer's house, when she was at
tacked by two burly negroes, who were
subsequently arrested, one of them,
turner, confessing tin* crime and impli
cating another darkey by the name of
Patterson. The miscreants could hardly
be saved from one of the largest and
maddest mobs that ever congregated in
the south. It is, in this day of judicial
lethargy, refreshing to see how quickly
justice is meted out in this affair. On
Friday last at 12:30 o'clock an indict
ment was found against Turner, the cul
prit was hustled oft' to trial at 1 o’clock,
and precisely a half hour afterwards a
verdict of guilty was rendered, and five
minutes later the demon had been sen
tenced to be hung July Ist. The time
occupied was only one hour and a half.
Now, if Patterson's affairs can be ar
ranged "as nicely as Turner's outraged
law will preside at a double wedding on
the Ist of July.
Ilovv Women Would Vote.
Were women allowed to vote, every
one in the land who has used Dr. Pierce's
“Faforite Prescription” would vote it to
be an unfailing remedy for the diseases
peculiar to her sex. By druggists.
My Books.
Those owing me for furniture will find
their accounts in the hands of Mr. Ed. L‘
Peacock, who is authorized to settle and
receipt for all moneys paid him.
S. L, Yandivere,