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m n The True Citizen, A Livu Weekly Paper on Live Issue' Published Every Friday MomiiiK, at Way nesboro, Ga., bv the SULLIVAN BROTHERS. HATES OB SUBSCRIPTION: One Copy One Year, 8*®® “ “ Six months, ' 00 , -« “ “ Ttireo months ,jt * y Ol» A, All subscriptions must be accompanied bv the CASH. ! ( T u ill e (> Citizen. Waynesboro, Ga., April 13, 1883. No. 49. Advertising rates libentl. Transient advert foments payable in .id van* e. All contract advertisements payable quar terly Ail communications for personal benefit will be charged for as advertisements. Advertisements to occupy special places will be charged 25 per cent, above, regular rates. - Notioes in local and business column '5 cts. per line; in local 10 cts per line each insert on. For terms apply at this office. For Tnn Citizen. 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 • \ \ 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. .T. 1^. BOWLES & CO„ i*eptl5,’82.b y. 717 and 839 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA.* W. I. DELPH 831 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, UJ, WHOLESALE ANl) RETAIL DEALER IN Cooking Stoves, heating. Stoves. GRATES, HARDWARE, and TINWaRE. In Stock a Very Full Line of the Celebrated {EXCELSIOR COOK STOVES. 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- The best in the market. Sixteen different sizes aud kinds. Six sizes with enameled reservoirs Adopted i<> ail requirements, and priced to suit lull pur-es. Leading Features:—Double wood door.-, patent wood grate, ! adju-iab'.e damper, interchangeable automatic shelf, broiling door, Swinging 1 hearth-plat-', Swingingflue-.-ton, reversible ^as-huming long cross piece, double short centrrs, heavy ring covers, Illuminated fire doors, nickel knob*, nickel panels, etc. Unequalled in Material, in finish, and operation. mar23 , 83 y. W. I. DELHI, 831 Be ad Street, Augusta, Ga. 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 is aiTs Excelsior Bottling Woiks. e . .sissana, 1025 GREENE STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, trom Pure Soda Water, Sarsaparilla and Ginger Ale manufactured ft Fresh and First-class material. Lager Beer in kegs and bottles always on hand. Orders solicited and promptly filled. N D ice of Go°d Quality sad Just Weight .-hippe » x3.i ,turner* at Maiket Price. to rriv cus* la! 9 83c*i*4 ARRIKGTON & CO. PHOTOGRAPHERS W aynesboro, Gi D. Lv FUUEK Pictures taken in as fair weather. Photographs et