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Sh* l^rmd and gttertiser,
^ Newnan, Ga., Friday. September 23,1887.
SPEED ON THE RAIL.
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An Engineer Tells Why It Is Sometimes
Safer to Travel Fast.'
“Of course an accident on a railroad
is an event that can occur any time, no
matter how great the precautions are,”
said an old "West Shore engineer to a
New York Star man, who found him
sitting on a box in the depot yard, while
a “hostler” was grooming his “iron
ed,” just in from a day’s run.
“I have railroaded many years—at
least twenty—and my experience lias
been varied and at times exciting. I
have faced death more than once, and
have averted many possible disasters
by keeping a cool brain and a iirm hand
upon the throttle.
“I have run directly through the jaws
of death to save the lives of the passen
gers, whereas had 1 endeavored to have
shunned the danger ahead many lives
would have been lost.
“On general principles there is less
danger in running a train swiftly than
" ‘ xx. is The reason is obvious. I have
five-^ - ra tn—when behind time—at as
^ a speed as 65 and 70 miles an hour,
and have passed safely over loose rails
that would have thrown my engine and
cars from the track had I been running
niore slowly. The momentum carried
me over safely.
“An engineer seldom, if ever, thinks
of his personal safety at the expense of
those whose lives are entrusted to his
cafe, but I have driven ahead at great
velocity over dangers that, had I pre
viously know'n of their existence, I
would have slowed up; and, as I before
said, I have speeded where I knew
there was danger, and that very spurt
of speed has saved my train.
“Engines wall jump the track quicker
over light places at moderate speed
than at express time, and we are as .safe
in running around curves at a high rate
of speed as when at twenty miles an
hour; in fact, safer. You see, the in
cline of a track—or the rails on one side
of a curve being higher than those op
posite—is decidedly necessary for fast
running, and there is no danger in the
elevation. A train carries itself around
a curve with the momentum it has gain
ed before reaching the point. If an en
gineer made a spurt just before or as
he reached the curve, his engine could
hardly fail to jump. Again, if brakes
are put on hard and the wdieels are thus
clogged instead of allowing,the coaches
to swing readily and easily as they reach
and round the curve, the bumping of
one car agains* the other might send all
off the track J
“The sec., f. lot' the rapid running
around curves lies in the fact of the
rail elevation on one side, and that the
lianges on the wdieels hug the rails with
a death grip, thus making the pressure
so great that it is almost impossible to
leave the track unceremoniously.
“An eugine in good order is as tract
able as a. lamb, and apparently endow
ed with human intelligence. I can tell
you of a circumstance that makes me
believe an engine lias human intelli
gence, locomotiyely speaking. In 1878
I Avas running on a Western road, and
left Chicago on one of the stormiest
nights I ever saw. I had orders to
speed, as I had a theatrical party on
board, and I was thirty minutes late,
OAving to some connections Avith anoth
er and inbound Western train. I pulled
out of the depot in good style and Avas
oon speeding through the siioav flakes
aV- the-rate of forty-fh’"e miles an hour.
I Continued at this rate for about three
hours, Avhen suddenly, and Avithout any
apparent reason, my engine jerked. I
at once thought Ave had struck some
thing on the track and either had
throAvn it. aside or had passed over it.
In three minutes more the engine jerk
ed again and seemed inclined to stop.
I AA*as nonplussed. I had carefully ex
amined the machinery In every part
during the afternoon and I kneiv every
thing Avas all right Avlien Ave started. A
minute later there Avas another jerk,
and about a couple of minutes after
that another and A'ery A’iolent one. I
slOAved up, and after riding very slowly
a mile further the moon came out
brightly. An eighth of a mile ahead of
me Avas a curve, and I intended to again
let out after passing that point. Just
as AA T e turned the curve my fireman
yelled out: ‘Let. her up; something
ahead!’ I at once pulled doAvn hard,
and, Avliat do you think. We stopped
about thirty feet from where a tree had
been blown across the track. The train
hands, with the assistance of the male
‘ passengers and axes Ave had on board,
cut the tree so that we’ could sAving it
across the track, and after nearly tAvo
hours’ delay Ave started again. Talk
about speed ! 1 made that train almost
• fly through the air, and my loss of two
and a half hours’ time in all from Chi
cago to Detroit, Mich., was reduced to
53 minutes. Railroading is not the easi
est life in the world, especially for en
gineers.”
The Coral Keys.
/New York Mail and Express.
Perhaps there is no place in the I ni-
ted States so much talked about in New
E"ork and so little known as Key West.
A is generally associated with cigars.
H is the largest of a series of coral is-
nds, called keys, which dot the ocean
, the southern end of the peninsula of
lorida. It is entirely away from the
lainland, which is only to be reached
*>y steamer. But on this coral reef is a
/ • nnn inhjihitanta. con-
Avith a few Americans. Perhaps the
island has a bright future before it, for
it has had no past and Aery little pres
ent. While other cities in the Union
haA'e been up and doing, this coral key
has been asleep in the Gulf. It is the
most southerly part of the Union—in
fact, the very end of the United States.
The city is the only one in the country
where neither snow nor frost has eA'er
been seen; the temperature is about 75
or 80 degrees in the day, and 65 at night.
Communication is kept up Avitli the rest
of the AA'orld by means of a line of
steamers from New York and another j
from New Orleans, and a mail steamer ■
tAvo or three times a week by way of
Tampa, Fla. By the last Ave get New
York papers three days old. The island
is as fl.it as a pancake, the highest point
being 12 feet above the level of the sea.
The city proper is densely populated,
but is as unlike an American city as
possible. All the houses avk made oi
Avood and built quite plainly. Once in
a.while you may detect something that
looks like lattice work, but it is plain,
and not intended to display anything.
Many of the stores haA'e no signs upon
or about them, and- the store-keepers
look as if they did not care whether
they sold anything or not. There are
no hotels, and those who desire a tem
porary residence haA'e to hunt about
for a boarding-house.
The streets are wide and dusty, for
there are no sprinklers. In fact, Avater
is such a luxury in the dry season that
it cannot be Avasted in sprinkling the
streets. It is rain Avater caught in cis
terns when the heavens furnish a sup
ply, and is often carried from place to
place in pails supported by a. yoke from
the shoulders. An attempt was once
made to drive an artesian Avell, but the
water Avhen reached was so brackish
that it could only be used for the extin
guishing of fires. There is no surface
soil. What passes for soil is nothing
more than rock ground up. As before
stated, .the population consists mainly
of Cubans, Conchs and negroes. The
Conehs are really natives of the Baha
ma Island, but eA'erybody in Key West
calls them by that name. Cigar mak
ing is the principal employment of the
Cubans, and there is plenty of Avork for
them, as Key West contains 125 cigar
factories. It is said on good authority
that 90,000,000 cigars are shipped aAvay
from the island eA’ery year.
The Cuban is not very strong looking.
Ilis sports are gambling and rooster-
figliting. The women are fairly .good
looking, giA'en to Avearing high heels,
lace shawls and face poAvder. Both
men and Avomen smoke, and chatter
like magpies. Their food is principally
oil 1 , pork, banannas and coffee. Their
coffee is good, but made so strong that
it Avill stain the cup from Avliich it is
drunk. When in a restaurant the Cu
bans appear to talk all at once, each
trying, as it were, to drown the other’s
A'oice, and gesticulating as if about to
strike each other in the face. The
Conchs are the fishermen of the island
and the gatherers of sponges. They
are a large, rough class of men and ap
parently A'ery ignorant. One marked
feature is their accent, which is consid
ered the characteristic of the Londoner
—the dropping of the aspirate where
needed and using it excessi vely where
not wanted. They use their fists when
fighting, while the Cubans are reat^.f
Avith the revolver or stilletto.
one which our fanners will do well to
investigate.”
Spanish Groundpeas.
Americus (Ga.) Recorder.
“Do you want to see the salvation of
the South?” asked an amateur farmer
of us yesterday morning, as he march
ed into our sanctum, with a couple of
bundles of dark green foliage.
We confessed our desire to see such,
and he laid upon our table the bundles
of foliage, Avith the remark:
“There it is—Spanish groundpeas.”
He then informed us that it was the
cheapest and best feed for stock that
could be raised, combining both forage
and corn. The stalks, from tAA'o to
three feet in height, are heavily leaved
and succulent. On the roots are grown
the peas, which are larger than the or
dinary groundpea, and are more pro
lific. The stalks groAv up straight and
branching, instead of Hailing upon the
ground, as do those of the ordinary
groundpea. When the peas are ma
tured the stalks are pulled up, the peas
clinging to the roh.ts, and are thrown
into small piles, where they soon cure
in the sun, making a most excellent
fodder, Avhile the peas have all the fat
tening qualities of corn. As a food for
cattle it cannot be excelled, and is es
pecially fine for milk cattle. These
peas can be grown upon the poorest
ground, and indeed seem to do as AA'ell
as when richly fertilized. Where they
are groAvn in large quantities the prac
tice is to mow off the A'ines, cure them
into liay, and then turn the hogs into
the field to fatten upon the peas. If
desired the peas can be easily stripped
off the vines after they are cured and
can be readily sold in the market at $1
per bushel.
Our enthusiastic friend made the fol-
loAving comparison betAveen raising
corn and Spanish peas upon poor
ground: “On ground that will raise
ten bushels of corn to the acre forty
bushels of peas and two tons of forage
can be raised. • Estimating the corn at
75 cents per bushel, we have $7.50,
while the fodder is probably worth
$2.50, making a total of $10. Estimating
the peas at 50 cents per bushel, we
have $20, and the forage at 50 cents per
.hundred we have $20, making a total of
$40. And in this I have really estima-!
tfed the peas at only half their market J
value. I fell you it is a big thing, and l
A Quaint Race.
Easter Island is in the eastern part
of the Pacific ocean, 2,300 miles from
the coast of South America. It has
about a thousand inhabitants of the
Polynesian race, and is seldom visited
by navigators. Since 1865, when some
French missionaries landed among
them, they haA'e become Christians.
The island contains several hundred gi
gantic stone statues, the largest of
which is forty feet high and measures
nine.feet across the shoulders. ' They
are scattered about the island, which
is about eleven miles long and six wide,
generally prostrate.* 1 They were Carved'
out of the common rock of the island
and some are tolerably well cherished.
Nothing is known is to the origin of
these rude Avorks of art and worship.
As the present race has neither tools
for such sculpture nor means of moving
such huge masses, it seems certain that
they Avere cut in some former age. Na-"'
tive traditions give them a supernatur
al origin. It has recently been conject
ured that the island is the remnant of
a submerged continent, and that these
statues were made for idols by an ex
tinct race. •
R. D. COLE MANUFACTURING CO.,
NEWNAN, GEORGIA.
Reunion of the 1st Regiment Georgia
Volunteers and 12th Battalion
Georgia Volunteers.
The following circular letter has been
issued to the surviving members of the
above named commands, the object be
ing to secure a full attendance of the
survivors at the approaching reunion,
Avliich will take place at the Exposition
Grounds in Atlanta on the 18th day of
October, As that will .be one of the
most attractive days of the Fair we
suppose there will be little difficulty in
securing a full attendance. The circu
lar is as follows: .
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 1st, 1887.
Dear Sir: You are expected to at
tend a meeting, or reunion, of the sur
viving members of the 1st Regiment
and 12th Battalion Georgia Volunteers,
at Atlanta, Ga., October lStli, 1887.
You Avill please Avear your Company
badge, anti upon your arrival, will re
port at my office, Avhen I will give you
place and hour of meeting.
Respectfully,
Harry Krouse,
Sec’y Sure. Ass’n 1st Regt. Ga. Vols.,
No. 2 Kimball. House, Wall street.
In pursuance of the above notice a
call is issued for a meeting of the sur
vivors of the “NeAvnan Guards,” to
take such action as may be deemed nec
essary in preparing for the reunion.
The official notice appears beloAv:
CALL SLEETING.
Let every member of the “Newnan
Guards” that expects to attend the re
union of the 1st Georgia Regiment and
12th Georgia Battalion in Atlanta on
the 18th of October, meet in the Court
house at NeAvnan on the 23d of Septem
ber, at 10 o’clock A. si., to make suitable
arrangements for the 18th of October.
J. W. Anderson, Pres’t.
Y. H. Thompson,
Sec’v “Newnan Guards.”
In Brief, ancl to the Point.
Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disordered
liver is misery. Indigestion is a foe to
good nature.
The human digestive apparatus is one
of the most complicated and wonderful
things in existence. It is easily put out
of order.
Greasy food, tough food, sloppy food,
bad cookery, mental worry, late hours,
irregular habits, and many other things
which ought not to be, have made the
American people A nation of dyspeptics.
But Green’s August Flower has done
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business and making the American peo
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meals and be happy.
Remember:—No* happiness Avithout
health. But Green’s August FloAver
brings health and happiness to the dys
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Seventy-five cents.
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HAY FEVER
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TO COUNTRY PRINTERS!
Complete Newspaper Outfit
For Sale!
We have for sale a quantity of first-class
printingmaterial, comprising the entire out
fit formerly used in printing the Newnan
Herald, as well as type, stones, chases, and
numerous other appurtenances belonging to
the old Herald Job office. Most of the mate
rial is in excellent condition and will be sold
from 50 to 75 per cent, below foundry prices.
The following list contains the leading ar
ticles:
i Campbell Press, in good
repair.
250 lbs. Brevier.
150 lbs. Minion,
50 lbs. Pica.
50 lbs. English.
50 fonts Newspaper Display
Type.
25 select fonts Job Type.
8 fonts Combination Border,
Flourishes, etc.'
Imposing Stones, Chases,
Type Stands and Racks.
The Campbell Press here offered is the same
upon which Tiib Herald and Advertis
er is now printed and has been recently over
hauled and put in good repair. It is sold sim
ply to make room for a larger and faster press.
Address NEWNAN PUBLISHING CO.
Newnan, Ga.
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ATLANTA & WEST POINT R. R.
Sept. 4th, 18S7.
Up Day Passenger Train—
East.
Leave Selma
.5 20 a m
Leave Montgomery
7 52 a m
“ Grantville
11 45 a m
“ Newnan
12 08 pm
“ Palmetto
12 32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta
. 1 25 pm
•Down Day Passenger Train
-West.
Leave Atlanta
1 29 pm
“ Palmetto
2 17 p m
“ Newnan
2 15 pm
*• Puckett’s
3 00 p m
“ Grantville
8 12 pm
Arrive at Montgomerv
7 lo p m
Arrive Selma
.10 CO p m
Up Night Passenger Train
—East..
Leave Selma
. 3 30 p m
Leave Montgomery
8 15 pm
“ Grantvilie
3 13 a m
“ Puckett’s
3 37 am
“ Newnan
3 58 a m
“ Palmetto
4 45 a m
Arrive at Atlanta
6 10 am
Down Night Passenger Train—West.
Leave Atlanta
10 00 p m
“ Palmetto
11 26 p in
“ Newnan
12 OS a m
“ Puckett’s .
12 32 a m
“ Grantville
12 50 a in
Arrive at Montgomery
. 6 50 a m
Arrive at Selma
.11 47 am
Accommodation Train (daily
—East.
Arrive Grantville
. .7 02 a m
“ Puckett’s
..7 20am
“ Newnan
..7 33a m
“ Powell’s
..7 52 a m
“ Palmetto.-.
. . 8 10 a in
“ Atlanta
.. 9 15 a m
Accommodation Train (daily)-
-West.
Leave Atlanta
. 4 55 p m
Arrive Palmetto
. 6 09 p ill
“ Powell’s
. 6 27 p m
“ Newnan
. 6 42 p m
Puckett’s
. 7 00pm
“ Grantville
. 7 13 p m
,J LaGrange
. .8 00 p m
Columbus and Atlanta Express, (daily)
GOING SOUTH.
Leave Atlanta
6 50 a m
Arrive at Newnan
s 00 a m
“ LaGrange
8 55 a m
“ Opelika
9 58 a m
“ Columbus-
11 07 a m
“ Montgomery
12 10 a m
“ Selma.
4 08 pm
GOING NORTH.
Leave Selma
10 14 a m
“ Montgomery
12 30 p m
“ Columbus
1 25 p m
“ LaGrange
3 34 p m
“ Newnan
4 30 p m
Arrive at Atlanta.
5 45 p m
CHAS. H. CROMWELL,
Cecil Gabbett, II Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Gen’l Manager.
CARRIAGE AND WAGON
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• We are prepared to do any kind of woik in
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Newnan. February 11. 1R87.
S., G. & N. A. R. R.
No. I—
Leave Carrollton 5 45 a m
ArriveAtkinson,T.O 3 00 am
“ Banning 6 15 a m
■ “ Wbitesbnrg 6 20 am
“ Sargent’s 6 50 a m
“ Newnan 7 14 am
“ Sharpsbnrg 8 05 am
“ Turin 8 12 am
“ Senoia 8 32 am
“ Brooks 9 05 am
“ Vaughns 9 27 am
“ Griffin 9 50 am
No. 2—
Leave Griffin 12 01 pm
Arrive at Vaughns 12 18 pm
“ Brooks 12 36 pm
“ Senoia 110 pm
“ Turin 1 35 p m
“ Sharpsburg 150 pm
“ Newnan ... 2 28 pm
“ Sargent’s 3 25 p m
“ White.sburg 3 48 p m
“ Banning 4 00 pm
“ Atkinson, T. 0 423pm
“ Carrollton....’. 4 50pm
M. S. Belknap, Gen’l Manager.
JERSEY BULLS!
I will sell cheap or trade for
beef cattle 6 or 8 fine Jersey
Bull Calves, from registered
stock. Call on undersigned
or Maj. W. A Turner.
J. T. REESE.
Newnan/Oa., Sept. 1/1887.
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LUMBER.
I HAVE A LARGE LOT Ot
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BUT PRICES ALL LOW.
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Newnan, Ga., March 4th, 1887.
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name on a package of COFFEE Is r.
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COFFEE is kept in all flrst-clasr
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Next!
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