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Waynesboro, Ga., April 13, 1883.
No. 49.
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SANITARY BENEFITS
WELLS.
OB’ ARTESIAN
Messrs. Editors True Citizen :
—It is only within a few years past,
(within the memory of many living)
that scientists, chemists, physicians have
propctly studied, analyzed and delected
the deleterious influences of certain wa
ters effecting the health of families and
whole communities. For a longtime
this subject was improperly ignored,
many contending that water could not
convey poisons so subtile, yet so po
tent of disease as have been of late
years proven, detected and exhibited by
chemical analysis, and the aid of the
microscope. It was thought that the
stomach, had the living ehoice and pow
er to eliminate poisons from water, and
reject from the blood that which might
ply every day or so, and suffered her
family to drink no other water. Her
theory and practice was right.
How far artesian well water will ef
feet the general health of communities
now being supplied, will be an interest
ing observation, and will be studied,
probably, in connection with otljer
prerequisites to hygiene with greater
care than formerly. One lesson will
lead to others, and one improvement
will induce others.
At great depths be’ow the earth’s
surface- -under great pressure—all .va
proposed artesian wells in rather con
demnatory terms. The truth, however,
stares us in the face—“lie who runs
may read.” The travelling public of
ten laughingly commenting upon our
manner of decent surroundings. Nasti-
ness conveys the meaning better than j Just per some of our
any word in the English language, and
the first impulse that moves the visitor
of many of our R. R. depots, is a holy
wish he could be mayor or marshal of
the town for a few d ivs to do the heal-
thy philsntrophic work. If forcibly em
ploying a legion of dirty, ragged ne
11 Me n A g r e e
That the best is cheapest, and especially is this true in FURNITURE.
nrices
Purler Sets ill Hair Cloth.
The best Raw Silk Set, f>>r
Nice Walnut Chamber Set*
TId* best Walnut Marble T
Walnut Frame from $35 to $90.
5>65 ever offered.
, Marble Top, $55.
>p Set in the market for 44)5.
ters, more or less, must hold in solution groes, and not a few filthy whites in J
minera’ properties, salts of minerals
which are medicinal, in many instances
may 1 not he the best fluids for peculiar
states of health. It may be better to
contaminate and poison it, and thus
drink constantly of these deep spring
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wafers
shillow-aur-
disease the whole system. Your writer
remembers distinguished physicians
who entertained these theories.
The facts have bean clearly proven
to the contrary. The most malignant
diseases of blood poison—dyphtheria,
scarlatenia, that whole tribe what is
called zomotic diseases, are .known to
originate from poisoned water as often
as trom poisoned atmospheric air. The
two together strike terror to wfcole
towns and districts, and produce “an
Eastern plague,” even in this day of ad
vanced medical aid, and enlightenment
of the people as to the means of health,
The analysis of water from old wells,
in the centre of towns and villages,
often reveal a saturated solution of va
rious salts and animal matters, filtered
through soil >ong filled with foreign
substances, vegetable and animal, that
would effect a healthy stomach at one
draught. A constant imbibition of
such fluids will inevitably get up ter
rible consequences to children and
wottker systems, and in the end pros
trate the most robust.
The writer does not intend to bur-
’’nur columns with any length)
disquisition upon this entertaining sub
ject. But merely to call attention to
eertaiu (acts, and encourage a well
aimed effort to improve the health of
uhr ci ip, towns rind even country vi -
lages, dth the exhibition of water fit
to drinl, at least not contaminated with
anrfacfpoisons, and the filth of careless,
indiffieat, people, who *'ps breed dis
the manM^f ttf-.T living.
manner and appearance, with a carload
of li me, carts aud shovels, and purify
the physical and moral atmosphere just
one time. W. B. J.
WE DEFY COMPETITION FROM ANY AND EVERY QUARTER.
WE ACKNOWLEDGE NO SUPERIOR,
AND FEW EQUALS, IN THE SOUTH.
inlle
ran
eaSft ^
he purest iJHer we can find, is
water filtered through sand, well
water, or springs of limpid water, com -
ing through depths of pure sand. Prob
ably the waters of the Sand Hills of
Riohtnond county will present as pure
and perfect analysis as any we know of.
And yet these welts and springs in
dense habitants will lm contaminated
with animal poisons.
How pure rain water, caught and
filtered into cisterns, affords pleasant,
healthful drink to man and animals, iu
all dimes, we know and appreciate
This water, when the cisterns are clean
and purified annually, is undoubtedly
perfect. When ice iu summer can be
bad to odot this water, no drink from
the granite hills of Georgia can he
more palatable or healthy. It is a
wonder that this means of obtaining a
pure drinking fluid has not been more
generally resorted to in the country and
towns also. In places where the
stagnant waters are so very impure
as to he perceptible to the taste, a plan
of boiling the same, and keeping it in
lightly dosed vesuris, has proven ef-
actual. During the terrible scou
yellow fever, on the Mil
than the impure
face drains we have unw.
It ceriainly is a grand advancement
of science and mechanics to have living
springs of vva'er where tlieie is no water
for man or boast. And in a greater
portion of our own State and through
out. the richest productive lands of the
South’ and West, these driven and
bored artesian wells offer a great boon.
It absolutely changes the whole as
pect of that dreary waste of uninhabi
ted areas of fertility, and otherwise our
greatly blessed Sou.hern continent wo
have yet to people. This improvement
in offering good water to animals make
practicable the great need of stock hus
bandry, when before it dare not attempt
the investment.
To realize fully, however, the benefits
of this means of supply to the villages,
stations, and where people mostly do
congregate, there must be other meas
ures adopted to prevent disease, remov
ing local surface-causes—animal and
vegetable, reeking under a semi-tropi
cal Bun. Take a ride on our railroads,
through all our State and South, notice
as you s ow-up to each station, inhabi ed
by one hundred or more seemingly work
ing people, how much' of neatness and
cleanliness is manifested in their sur
roundings. The sght of old bacon
boxes, barrels, hogsheads, the debr’s
of the town never cleaned, the filth of
accumulated careless living, for years
probably, never burnt or removed,
probably kept in an oderous state of
perfeet fermentation aud purification
by the roc ing of a seore of village hogs,
which themselves become sometimes the
victims of cholera from some causes that
drive the inhabitants themselves away
BABIES WEDDED.
Cincinnati, April 6.—One of the
most youthful couples that were ever
married in Kenlon county, Ky., were
joined in wed'oek last, night. The
groom is George F. Kyle, aged 14
years, son of George F Kyle, and
Lizzie May Hollingslicad, aged 13
years. They were married last night
at the residence of the groom’s parents,
near South Covington, in 1 he presence
of a few of their most intimate friends.
The bride is an orphan, and in order to
obtain a license to wed, the groom’s
father qualified as her guardian, and he
then consented to the issuing of the
license an gave his ascent to the mar
riage. The oomhined ages of the
twain is only a few years more than
the lawful msurimonia age in the grand
old Commonwealth. The bride is not
a voluptuous looking girl, and, in fact,
resembled a child that had not passed
the spanking age, and the groom was
not much her superior in this respect.
The bride was m dost y and neatly at
tired, and resembled a little girl that j
was dressing for her first atiendance at
a children’s party. The twain were
evidently quite fond of each other
There was none of ihat style of love
there is generally displayed at a wed
dinjfc and when the minister pfonounccd
them man and wife they faced each
other for a moment, and suddenly the
childish groom bashful'y embraced his
diminutive bride. It. was a rather
strange sight, and looked, more like a
children’s mock marriage than a solemn
rea ity. The couple are not, wealthy,
and their parents are only in ordinary
financial circumstances.
Who ever* heard <>f Cane Seat Chairs for seventy-five cents.
Extension Tables one dollar per loot.
We guarantee satisfaction in every case. Our stock of Mattresses and
Spring Beds is complete. Steam Dressed Feathers always on hand. All
goods packed and shipped free of charge. Upholstering done in all its
branches. Our new Catalogue will be ready about October 1st.
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to other homes or to their early graves.
It has not escaped the observation
of any thinking man. How history is re
peating 'Uelfiu the upheaval and chang
ed habits of our people, now bereft and
often discouraged, they seek the towns
and villages for the ostensible purpose
and laudubl? efforts to educate and im
prove their condition, to hotter educate
the rising generation. The well- to-do
move to town, the poor white goes too,
and the negro follows hard after, for he
must get somewhere in sight, or smell
ing distance, of rations. He must go to
town too, or close by—or all his time
will be spent in hunting for something
to eat, which he is incapable ot provid
ing bimsolf with, isolated in the country.
This mixture of population, with no
promised improvement for the future —
probably intensified in oyil consequen
ces as foreign elements mix up a hetero-
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THE STATE TREASURY.
gooeous mass, with a few “heathen
Chinee” thrown iii, we hav® looming up
iu future qqestiojjjs of sanitary measures.
lly 20 to the
State Treasurer D. N. Spe< r made
his quart'riv report to tlo> Governor
yesterday, <>f which the following is
a faithful synopsis:
The balance in the treasury, Jan
uary, l«t, 1883, was $1,207,108 96. —
The items are all interesting, as for
instance, on side of receipts, the
drummer’s tax last year was only
$306.00 ; insurance fees, $2,935 00 ;
railroad tax for 1883, $75.00 ; pre
miums on sales of United States j
bond*, $20,100.00 ; fees of inspectors j
of fertilizers, 1883, first quarter,!
$38,521-44; the rental of the w . &l
A. R. K., for the quarter. $75,000 ; I
general tax of 1882* $209,944.33: and i
other items which foot up $365,217.-1
54, or with last balance $1,572 326.7)0. J
On the expense side civil disburse
ments were $21,190.92, for the
quarter, we suppose ; public debt,
$115,000 ; the school fund of 1882 is
$215,460.75; for 1883 it is $183,393 ;
Atlanta University for the year, $8,-
000; balance dne on new Code, $9,-
000; Legislative pay-role, $49,892.88,
and a total of all items, $500,916.48.
Balance in the Treasury l*t April,
1883, $1,071,410.0k The jr
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