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I I ' i 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. ng 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 PASSENGER SCHEDULE SCWANEE E1VEE ROUTE TO FLORIDA, Tultlnj; Effect March *2, JSOI. Standard Time, OOth Meridian. 01)1 NO SOUTH. 2 15 pmj 7 1" a 6 15 p m to 45 a m 0 3') p m II no a in 9 cm p nil I 55 p m army when it came to sticking. He just J? os a mi 3 54 p m sat on that pile of hand greuadea and 4 15 am! 6 «i um waited. “He had Lv Macon, *r... Cordei*. \r Tlfton-. Vr eVHl«Io«ta.. .Lake City. w Arch* uu r Macon... .....Lv 0 10 pm * ,Ari 5 55 p in Av|l9 01 p r 9l5pm/4r .... ... Jacksonville.. tu lo p niiAr 777 Palatka.. good long wait, if we j Jj j** u didn’t. Those who walked in that j bloody piXN.'ession from the Eighth ave-; Trains arrive and depart from anion depots in Macon and Palatka and P. C. A P. Ar ..... Hi. August! lUoUam 6 ft) a m 8 :•» a m 4 07 am 2 45 am 14 23|a m on pm d&w-4-7-6mos 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. We propose to give good goods for good money. 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. Come and See ! Send for Samples! Fine Dress Goods a Specialty. BEALL & OAKLEY. C. M. WHEATLEY, Pres’t. 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 M*em R. T. BYEE, 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 Csvesu. ud Trade-Mark, obtained, and all Pat- •St bnalneja conducted tor tteStrat* feet. Osr Mn It Opposite U. 9. Potest Mrs. 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 names of actual clients in vottr State, county, or town, sent five. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. Opposite Patent Office. Washington, 0. C. SHINGLES, SHINGLES. PKW® 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 • moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. IT XEV Bit FAIL**. It operates so quietly urd with such certainty that the patient undergoes no lneon- renience, and soon bis complete reformation Is affected, it page book free. To be had of For nal. by Dr. K. J. EMrldR. Americus, Ga. C OR Ee d I LV ^ ^UNIONS WlTHOill ^NC .WARTS PAIN. M iSSiSfS-YX'SAVAJi-iAif’CA' For sale by the DAVENPORT DRUG COMPANY, Americus, Ga. H the best known remedy. ■ “H.o.c.” Cures Gonorhasa and Cures Gonorhasa anil Cent In ItoSDayo, without Pain. Pro .'rat* Stricture. Contains no ■ acrid or poisonous substances, and Is guaranteed abeotutelj harmless. O prescribed by physicians. Hot Sy rian frwo with each bottle. Pries it Sold by drasxlata. Beware of Sub- atltntaajAcmeChemjCowUdjiNjfMj 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 Office and Factory, COR. BAY * JACKSON STS. Telephoue No. 78. Uptown Office, No. JACKSON ST. Telephone 110. CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Prat. 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 THE AMERICUS REFRIGERATING CO., Office & Factory Cor. Jackson & Bay Sts., on Central R. B. $500 Reward ! WE will pay the abora reward for any case of Um Compiahit, Writ TTstiiacha, ladlgw*loM.Qoto. •tipaiion or OmUvmmm wa rsnoot $nn wl& Writ's Vcgvtabl* Liver IT. Is,when the direction# nreetrletly compiled with. They are purely VagataWe, sad wevar fail to give »At!"f.*cs.<rii. Be gar Ceated- Large boxes, centristo* » PU1^» rent*. Beware of connUrfette niE josjr a wb.' oompj U. BevTAre of reonterfst table BUumfartRrrd only l [PAIIT, CHICAGO- ILL- J» P« MoVEYr propretort Manufacturer of Every Variety of Saw* and dealer BAW MILL SUPPLIES. Special attention given to Repairing. Agent for W. L. Power & Co.’» Celebrated. Wood Working Machinery. Urgttnd Wall Belaoted Mock ready for shipment Price* low. Liners! terms. Write for catalogns. ATLANTA, -GEORGIA nayf-d&wlyear It. D. WATTS ^Wholesale aiidptetail’Dealer in ascoEXRr^s I Fine Tobacco, Cigars and Whisky a Specialty! Ho. .103 Forsyth and 1004 Lee Streets, AMERICUS, GEORGIA