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THE AMERICUS DAILY T1MES-REC0RDER: FRIDAY. .APRIL 10, 1891.
AMMONIA AND SUICIDES.
A' of the Mott Certain Agent* for Cant
ing Death by glow Poisoning.
Of the number of thoee seeking suicide
by swallowing some form of poison,
probably there are few who have sought
to kill themselves by means of ammonia.
Nevertheless ammonia, although it is
tho active agent in most of the salts
sold to women for their gilt decorated
and perfumed scent bottles, is poisonous
when taken internally in n concentrated
form. To attest this there have been
recently in New York several cases, the
most recent being that of Herman Haro-
witz, of which Deputy Coroner Jenkins
said that death took place in a compara
tively short time after the ammonia was
taken. In another case, tied of a child,
Dr. Jenkins said death resulted in five
minutes after swallowing the ummonin
solution.
There are on record also cases of slow
poisoning from ammonia administered
with intent to commit murder. Further
more, the appearance of workmen in
guano factories, where ammonia is set
free by grinding guano, has been noted,
and in every case there is an unmistaka
ble system of poisoning. This is discol
oration of tho skin of the face, which
assumes a blotched, dirty appearance.
First to tnke on this appearance is the
skin of the nose and forehead. Autop
sies of those who die from ammonia poi
soiling reveal a dark hne on the mucous
membrano lining the stomach and intes
tines.^
As an agent for causing death by slow
poisoning ammonia is ono of the most
certain and most difficult of detection,
owing toits volatile nature. This quality
has led physicians to believe that some
of the mysterious deaths that have taken
place in the history of modern and
modteval crime are due to ammonia.
It is known now that months have
elapsed between the first symptoms of
sickness and the death of a person from
-ammonia poisoning. On the other hand,
death has resulted in four minutes from
ths.timo a large draught of ammonia
has been swallowed. It has lieen found
in coses of gradual absorption of am
monia in the tinman system that there
is a general elimination of healthy oxi
dation of the blood and a consequent
lowering of tbe bodily strength. In the
cases of immediate poisoning death
comes with frightful agony, os In the
case of Horowitz. Blood gushed from
his nose and mouth.
Statistics in England pnt ammonia
thirteenth in frequency in tho, list of
poisons. Alexander Winter Blyth, med
ical officer of health in tho St. Maryle-
bone district, London, cites thirty cases
of poisoning by aqunonia swallowed for
tho purpose of committing'suicide, or ad
ministered with the purpose of commit
ting murder, or absorbed unconsciously
in food. Of the suicidal cases six were
fatal. Of twenty accidental coses twelve
WSie fatal. Of cases of murder with
ammonia Dr. Blyth notes two, both of
them children.—New York Sun.
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Rents or Stores In Hotel tlullUlnto.
“That interesting period has come in
the history of New York real estate,’ -
said an' architect and buihlor, “when
a judiciously planned building, no matter
to what business purpose it is originally
dedicated, may be made to contain on
its street fronts stores enough,-to be de
voted to other and distinct businesses,
to pay by their rentals the interest on
the cost of constructing the entire build
ing. A hotel draws people to its
vicinage, and a great hotel would draw
people enough even to a new looallty to
give good custom to the shops to wl
tho pound floor could be appropriated.
. A single store room under the Fifth
Avenue hotel pays a rental of $15,000
annually. The rentals such a hotel
might receive would enable it to exist
without, any guests at all, just as the
New York Central Ruilroad company is
> if said to own enough real, rent paying
estnto to enable it, ont of its income so
received, to pay actually a dividend on
. its bonds, oven if it never sent out a
train."—New York World.
Faeti About Ammonia*
rho name of tbe chemical agont am
monia dates hock to remote antiquity.
1 Europe the chief Bonrce of the supply
- of ammonia up to the latter part of the
, \ last century was Egypt. It was made
, originally from camel's dnng collected
in the neighborhood of the temple of
Jupiter Ammrm, hence the name am
monia. The droppings were collected in
! . March and April by Arabs, then dried
- and burned and the soot collected. This
4*. 3 was sold to merchants, and ammonia was
| collected from the soot by a chemical
‘t ; process. It is now almost eutirely made
from credo gas liquor in illuminating
gas manufactories. Only half as much
ammonia is made in summer as in win
ter. Hence ammonia is always more
' costly in summer. Furthermore, am-
monia is extensively used in tbe manu
facture of artificial ice.—New York Sou.
bucr In Berlin.
Tho number of lunatics in the asylums
ftOf-the city of Berlin, which was 1,582 in
- • 1882-83, amounted to 2,528 in 1889. This
'“■shows a very large increase in the num-
jmJSrof insane persons relatively to the
growth of the population. In tbe period
referred to the increase in the popala-
j tion was 23.49 per cent, while the in
case in the number of lunatics was
3KJ9 per cent. The number of insane
persons in confinement in the whole
German empire rose between Jsn. 1,
1881, and ihu same dote in 1886, from
84,270 to 42,609, being an increase of
- 24.5 in the five years, as against an in-
creasEof 3.0 per cent, in the general
population in ties same penod,-q-Chicago
Herald. ; -
Tli« French Mother.
A bri, man told me the other night,
aprojms of women all over the world,
that if hn wanted a companion ha would
seek an American! if a wife an iaiglish-
womon, and if a mother a Frenchwoman.
Certainly they are good mothers, and the
love exiting between mother and child
' is invariably strong, while the French-
j’l belief in the rights of a mother is
i in tbe way laws are framed with
1 for parental opinion.—Paris
A BlodUy Blot Recalled. j
“Nineteen years ago today,” said In- j
spcctor Byrnes—“I shall never forgot
that day's duty. I was erdered over to !
the Orangemen's headquarters from my j
precinct at daybreak—I was captain of j
the Twenty-first then—and took every 1
oue of my men along except old Sergt. :
Davenport and a doorman. We expect-
ed trouble, and I had a lot of hand gre
nades . heaped by tho second story win
dows in tbe old station house in Thirty-
fifth street, told the sergeant to lock the
doors and pelt any mob that would try
to enter. Old Dave was as good as an
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nue headquarters of theOraugemento j d.pot In J^kmarinr. ^
the old Haymarket in tho Bowery will; >n d E. T. V. A o. railroads,
be apt to remember it to their dying A. c. KNAPP,
day. I can hear the crowd yell now!
when the militiamen 1 Kigali to shoot'
right and left. From the rear, from the
housetops, it rained brickbats and hot
lead. A hundred must have been killed
before the end of that march of terror
and death.
“It was 3 o’clock tho next morning
before wo got back to our station. It
was as dark and still as tho grave. As
we hammered on the door and yelled a
window in the second Btory was slowly
and cautiously opened and old Dave
said:
“ ‘Who is there:-'
“ ‘Open the door,’ yelled the tired
men. ‘Open it or we’ll hurst it in.’
“Yon will, eh!" came from upstairs in
shrill tones, and in tho window’ appeared
tho old sergeant, fighting mad, with a
hand grenade in each fist and an nrmfnl
in reserve, as a boy carries snowballs.
‘•Stand back there! or there will bemur-
der. Back, I say.”
We bad come all the long and bloody
way, fighting every inch of it, without a
thought of showing the white feather.
Every mother's son of ub would have
been killed twice over rather than turn
tail. But we ran then. Before old Dave,
with his artnfnl of band grenades, the
army that had saved a city from sack
ing scattered and fled. The sergeant
was left to hold the fort alone until we
coaxed him from shelter into compre
hending that we were not the enemy.
Then he came down and let ns in.—New
York Telegram.
An Asylum That Collects Stamps.
There is an asylum for orphan girls in
Locle. Switzerland, which finds a mar
ket tor all the old postage stamps sent to
it. Nearly everybody far and near ac
quainted with the fact sends to tho asy
lum his or her second hand stamps, and
for the information of those who are ig
norant a circular is issued calling for the
contribution of stamps and also setting
forth the uses to which they are ap
plied. Rare stamps of course go to
dealers or collectors, while the common
er sorts ore applied to decorative pur
poses, being used to ornament screens,
shades, etc., and even, so says the circu
lar, to paper rooms. The circular does
not say how the American green stamp
of the past can be used for decoration.
Over a million of stamps were received
by the institution from all over the
world in 1868, and a considerably larger
number in 1889. The stamps are assort
ed by the children and pnt up in pack
ages of 50 or 100 each. Those collected
in 1888 were sold for 1,200 francs, or
$940, and those of 1889 for $260. This
may not seem much to Americans, but
money goes further in Switzerland than
here. Persons, therefore, who want to
put their old postage stamps where they
will do the most good should send them
to M. J. Nongier. directenr do 1‘Asile
dee Billodes, Locle, Switzerland.—Ex
change.
Killed for a Lamb.
Lawyer J. F. Haskell, of Lowell, has a
4-year-old son who is as bright as half a
dozen silver dollars and who has an au
dacious sense of humor that may be
worth money to him when he gets into
polities. One of his latest experiments is
tho talk of the family just uow.
“If I put this tin soldier and horso intc
that bowl of milk mamma'll lick me for
it, you see if she don’t,” ho said recently
to a visitor, and the visitor seeming in
credulous he dumped the toys into the
milk.
Momma as promptly “licked" him for
doing’it
“By gosh," he said delightedly, as he
returned to the visitor from the scene of
castigation, his amusement subordinat
ing the sense of pain, “she licked me for
tho soldier, but they didn’t find the
horse.”—Boston Globe.
i b bound > made In Maeon with trains of Central
L. J. HARRIS,
Ticket A sent.
Union Depot.
Tragic Manager. (l.neral I’us-cngc
HENRY BURNS, C. T. and P. A. No 516 Mulbtrry St.
Macon (la.
C. C, RODE*, Ja„ Soliciting Agent.6 Kimball Block. Atlanta, (Ja.
L.C. CONOVA, C.T. A. R. T. RICH A HI). Agent, Union Depot. W.P.LA WSHE.T.P.A.
Palatka. Kla.
JAMES MEN/IES, Southeastern Agent, ES West Bay St., Jacksonville, Fla.
SCHOFIELD’S IRON WORKS,
FOUNDRY AND MACIIINF SHOP. ’
j; 8. SCHOFIELD’S SONS & CO., Prop’rs,
Manufacturers of Steam Engines, Boilers, Cotton Presses and General
Machinery, Cotton Gins, Gane Mills and Saw Mills. Dealers in Mill and
Machinists’ Supplies. Special Attention to Repair Work.
MACON. GEORGIA.
BLACK BEAUTY.
Probably no book has ever appeared in America which has
received such universal, uniform and unanimous praise from
both the secular and religious press in all parts of the coun
try. At last accounts over 107,000 copies had been sold in
London, England. This book retails at 25c., but
ALLISON & AYOOOK.
The Lamar St. Book Dealers and Stationers have about fifty
copies on hand that they will sell at 15c per copy. Call and
get one before they are all gone.
313—Lamar Street—S13
We invite an inspection of the most select stock of
DRESS GOODS,
DRY GOODS,
Notions, Shoes and Hats
IN AMERICUS.
Crist Mills.
Grist mills occupy a prominent posi
tion in modern farming. By their use
the labor of reducing food to a digestible
condition is transferred from the ani
mals to the steam engine, and the ner
vous energy which would bo used for the
purpose can bo directed to the organs
which assimilate the nourishment and
transform It into flesh and bone. In the
case of horses which are kept busy in the
day it is almost imperative that a pari
of the mechanical work of crashing or
cutting their food should he done tor
them, or else they have not sufficient
time left for rest. One hat only to ex
amine a sample of beans or maixe to re
alize what an expenditure of power it
needed to grind them up in an animal’s
month.—New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
Food for s Lifotlmo.
A curious calculation of the amount
of food consumed in a lifetime of seventy
yean hoe recently been made by M.
Boyer, a French savant, now chef of the
Reform club of London. Among other
things M. Soyer says that the avenge
epicure of three score and ten will have
consumed $0 oxen, 200 sheep, 100 calve*,
290 lambs, 50 pigs, 2,200 fowls, 1,000
fish of different kinds, 80,000 oysten,
5,476 pounds of vegetables, 243 pounds
of butter, 24,000 eggs and 4 tons of
bread, betides several hogsheads of wine,
tea, coffee, etc. This enormous amount
of food will weigh bat little short cf 40
tons.—St. Louis Republic.
W. H. R. SCHROEDER,
(Succensor to Schrader & Strickland,)
, 724 Cotton Avenue, AMERICUS, GA.
Manufacturer of Tin, Copper and Sfieot Iron Van, Galranized Iron Cornice,
Tin and Iron Roofing. Hot Air Heatin; Etc. Iron Smoke Sticks.
Exhaust Piping for Saw Mills a Specialty.
Our stock is replete in novelties. We keep the latest
and most correct styles, in Novelty Suits, Silks, Grenadines,
China Silks, Batiste, Henriettas, Tamise, Embroidered
Flouncings, Black and White all over Embroidery, Lace
Nettings, Lace Flouncings, Tissue 'D Inde, Persian Mull,
Silk Mull, Indian and Egyptian Divinity, etc.
_ We won’t particularalizfe further, but ask the ladies to
come and see. -
Our Goods are New and Fresh!
We Keep the Latest Styles !
We propose to be the the leaders of the Dry Goods business
in Americus.
We propose to keep the latest styles.
We propose to be the leaders of low prices.
We propose to give the best goods for the least money.
We propose to keep no shoddy goods.
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Our motto is .SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES.
We are strictly a Oue Price House.
We will give you prices never seen before in Americus.
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CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Vico Pres’t.
B. n. JOSSEY, Seo’y A Treas.
C. C. STONE, Supt.
The Americus Construction Company,
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
[ would be pleased to pi re you estimates on your Tin, Iron and Cornice work. I guaran
tee all work to be first-class tn every particular. Ridging, Cresting and Finals furnished on abort
notice. I also do Heavy Iron Work from 14 to 27, Roofing, Guttering, Spouting, eto.
MfCALL AND GET MY ESTIMATES AND GIVE ME A TRIAL.—£3
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FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE.
REPRESENTING THE SAFESTAND STRONGEST COMPANIES IN THEJWORLD.
Insurance placed on City and Country Property.
Office on Jackson Street, next door below Mayor’s Office.
dec25-dly.
H. SANFORD,
Contractor and Bniiaer,
AMERICUS, GA.,
ts prepared to take contracts for bnildinga of
all kinds#
With large experience in building he can
guarantee as good work as can t* done any*
where.
Designs Famished,
Inside finishing a acuity, in hard woods
All latest designs. Samples can be had on ap
plication.
Can at J. B. Dunn’s store, on Lamar street,
Americas, Ga. doc!7-3m
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and we can secure patent in less time than those
remote from Washington.
bend model, drawing or photo., with deerrlp*
tlon. We advlee. If patenuble or not, tree nt
riwrgy■ Our fee not due till patent le eeeured.
A Pamphlet. "How to Obtain Palente,” with
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town, sent five. Address,
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SHINGLES, SHINGLES.
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MMunemno mate/sb^tcni cunt
o? h.mKes golden specific
ltcsn bjgiven in coffee. les. or In articles of food,
without the knowledge of patient if necessary*
it Is absolutely harmless and will effect s iierma*
nent and speedy cure, whether tbs patient is •
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Bit FAIL**. It operates so quietly urd with such
certainty that the patient undergoes no lneon-
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affected, it page book free. To be had of
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Americus, Ga.
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H the best known remedy.
■ “H.o.c.” Cures Gonorhasa and
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Is guaranteed abeotutelj harmless.
O prescribed by physicians. Hot Sy
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Sold by drasxlata. Beware of Sub-
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Sold in Americus by Cook’s Pharmacy,
K. J. Eldridge, Fleetwood A Russell, J.
K. Hall and Davenport Drug Company.
Suocissobs to O. M. Whbatlet A Co.
Have tbe largest stock of
Dry T timber
•Both Rough and Dressed, ever held In the city, with unequalled capacity
for the execution of flue work. They will furnish the trado with
Sasb, Doors, Blinds, Mantels, Stairwork, Pulpits, Pevs,
COUNTERS, SHELVING, MOULDINGS, ORNAMENTS, ETO.
Prompt attention given all orders.
Write for Catalogue and prices
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ARCH It R ELDRIDGE, Gen’l Mans’
Tbe Americus Refrigerating Go.
Respectfully state that their uew Ice Factory will start the
manufacture of Ice in a short time and will be prepared to
furnish Pure Crystal Ice in any quantityfrom a pound to a
car load. Their Refrigerating Chambers will also soon be in
readiness for the preservation of all perishable food products
and will be perfect in every particular. For further partic
ulars either telephone, write or call on
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compiled with. They are purely VagataWe, sad wevar
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Manufacturer of Every Variety of Saw* and dealer
BAW MILL SUPPLIES. Special attention given
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Wood Working Machinery.
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^Wholesale aiidptetail’Dealer in
ascoEXRr^s
I Fine Tobacco, Cigars and Whisky a Specialty!
Ho. .103 Forsyth and 1004 Lee Streets,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA