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THE
GEORGIA CRACKER, SATURDAY, JULY
20. 1901.
jhe Georgia tracker,
Official Organ City of Gainesville
Gainesville
Ga„ July, 20, 1901
STORYETTES.
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Mr. E. P. Chambers is the own
er of a very curious war-time* re
lic in the shape of a detail, which
he received in the year 1865, signed
by Gen. Robert E. ‘Lee. In re
gard to this relic, IJtr. Chambers
says: I was in the cavalry ser
vice in the Second North Carolina
cavalry, Bat ringer’s brigade, W.
H. F. Lee’s division. W. H. F.
Lee was a son of Robt. E. L(
he was a major general and to
ward the close of the war it was
customary for the men to mount
themselves if they were able.
When my horse wo/e out I was
able to remount myself, and got
a detail to go home to do so. My
application went through the reg
ular channel up to Gen. Robt. E.
Lee, by whom it was signed. This
protected me while away from
camp and at home. When I was
ready to go back to camp with my
horse, J left that paper at home
through mistake. My. mother,
kept it. I should haye returned it
to the. authorities, but I got back
all right without it. My mother
kept this paper until her death
a few years ago, and I have it now
and keep it as a relic.” .Relics of
the civil war are getting to be
quite rare and valuable. There
are perhaps very few of this kind
in existence, as most of'them were
m all probability returned 'to
head-quarters.
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What seemed to be a very lazy
boll created quite a sensation in
front of the State Bank Monday
afternoon. Lathem & Son had
purchased this bull and started*
him to the slaughter house bat he
took a notion not to go, ahd lay
down. The driver began to coax
and then to whip, but still the
bull lay unmoved. ; Quite a crowd
began to collect about the mad
dened driver and the resting* (?)
bull. All sorts of things were
suggested as being appropriate
starters opSfedi' an occasion.
Lifting by.the tail, waving a red
handkerchief at a safe distance,
tickliDg with a rod, etc. Still the
'bull lay there seemingly uncon-
cious of his tormentors except for
an occasional angry bellow. Then
the'veteran bovine manager, Page
Lathem, came upon the scene and
faking in the whole thing at a
glance, procured a roll of paper
and a match. The paper being
lighted, it was placed in scorch
ing proximity to the bulls nose.
With an angry look and an angrier
bellow, the bovine sprang to his
feet and made a desperate lunge
tit Mr. Lathem, who jumped be
hind a telegraph post and stood
laughing at the crowd of men and
bovs who were running over each
•>ther in their attempt to get out
reach of the angry animal. No
ne was hurt and the conquered
Taurus went peacably to the pen.
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Carolina. The pavements got so
hot that it charred the soles of
your shoes if you walked on them
for a block during the middle of
the day. One of these old-fash
ioned blue-headed sulphur matches
would ignite instantly if you
touched it to a brick or a piece of
iron that had been exposed to the
rays of the .sun. A lady # friend of
mine tried'an interesting experi
ment. She exposed a bright pan
to the sun for two o^ three hours
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during the middle of the day, and
succeeded in frying a mess of eggs
and cooking a corn pone on it, with
the sole aid of the solar heat it
had absorbed.” . -
A silence followed, which was
broken at length by an Irish ped
dler.
“Faith!” said he “we don’t have
thaymometers in the pahrt av
Oireland I hail from, but wanst,
whin I was a broth av a boy, it
was that hot for a matther av two
wakes in the county Donegal that
the praties were baked in the
gr-o-o-nd, an’ an old inn that we
had setting on a litther av eggs
hatched out a nist full .of fried
chickens. All the turf bogs caught
fire frim snontanyous combush-
tion, an’ the poor pigs ran squar
ing about lavin’ a big wake av
iniltid 1-a-r-rd whereivor they
wint. I—”
“Speaking seriously my friends,”
broke in a bronzed and bearded
man who haB just been discharged
from the regular army, “but I’ve
gone through summer’s of heat at
old Fort Yuma that makes the
flood bake in your veins to even
think about. The army cooks
never kindled fires there to pre
pare our rations m the summer—
a bucket of water will boil there
in five minutes if exposed to the
sun’s rays, and as for roasting and
frying, why I’ve seen a whole beef
carcass laid out on the sand in
front of our old barracks and bar
becued by old Sol, in the most de
licious mai ner, in an hour’s time.
I remember—”
“Speaking of boiling water,’’ in
terjected a man born in Union
county, who ran away from ’home
when he was a small lad to become
a deep-sea sailor, and, having just
They were talking about the
veather the other night at the
Erwin house and one of the guests,.,
vho was reading an* Atlanta even
ing paper, remarked that .the
hermometer had. reached the phe
nomenal altitude of $07 degrees
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he man from the Tar Heel state,
but during the month of July,
1895, the thermometer was as high
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“but I had an experience m
that was piping hot. I was third
mate on a Danish five-master out
from Liverpool for the Bermu
das, with a miscellaneous cargo.
We had nasty weather frotfi the
day we cleared the Downs, and in
mid-ocean met one of the worst
storms the oldest sailor, aboard
had ever seen. We lost our bear
ings and for two weeks couldn t
take an observation. One night
when we were being tossed about
hither and. thither the old hooker
suddenly came to a standstill and
it being my watch on deck I tum
bled out all hands and awoke the
skipper, for I thought we had
struck upon a reef. It was dark
as pitch, but the old man said we
were on an even keel and ordered
me to take soundings. I heaved
over the lead, and heard it strike
what should have been the water
with a dull thud. That puzzled
me, and I reported to the skipper.
The lead was heaved fifty times
from stem to stern and on both
the port and starboard sides, but
no where could we find water.
The crew, which was a mixture of
nationalities, begun to get pan
icky, and it was much as the skip
per and mates could do to keep
them from launching the boats
and deserting ship. At last day
light came, and. the mystery was
explained. We were surrounded
on pll sides by dense masses of
seaweed so thick and solid that it
would bear the weight of a man,
and realized that the storm had
blown us into the centre of that
mysterious ocean lake, theSargas-
so Sea, and had so begirt us with
the seaweed that covers the surface
that the vessel was as immovable
as though it were on dry land.
“Pipe all hands!” ordered the
skipper, and when this had been
done and the crew got together in
the waist, he explained the situa
tion, and declared that it wa^his
purpose to launch all four of the
boats andcut a channel through the
weeds into clear water. After
breakfast • we fell to. There
wasn’t a breath of air and the sun
was like a ball of fire. Why it
fried the pitch out of the seams,
the planks shrank, and we were
in danger of foundering, so much
w ater did the old craft take into
the hold. The realization of our
danger made us work all the har-
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stand it for more than ten minutes
at a time. It was no cooler'at
night tor the moon and stars had
absorbed so much of the sun’s
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heat that it blinded your eyes to
look at them. We cut a channel
through the seaweed for ten days
and warped the vessel slowly along
a foot at a time. It was killing
work, tor’ the water underneath
that layer of weeds was hot too
and when we cleared away the
weeds and exposed it to the sun’s
glare it began to boil, apd the
steam from below and the heat
from above was almost intolerable.
Two of the crew were overcome
and fell into the open channel.
Wtfen we fished their bodies out
the flesh dropped from their bones
—it had been actually boiled off
them. Twenty times a day we
were piped aboard ship to put out
fires started by that blinding sun,
and the skin was not only burned
or roasted off our hands and faces
but our hair and beards were
burned to a crisp. Every hour it
grew worse, and—” . - . : #
But just here the landlord’s dog
“Tige” who had been stretched out
on a f pil& of wet sand trying to
keep cool, sprang to his feet and
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council Chamber, Jnne 27, 1901.
The council met in regular ses
sion, Mayor R. D. Mitchell pre
siding. Aldermen J. M. Hubbard,
P. N. Parker, T. Y. Eberhart,
J. H. Martin* and L. D. Puckett
present. Minutes ot preceding
meeting read.and approved.
The following report was read
and v on motion, accepted: We,
the.undersigned, named as a com
mittee by ygur hororable body at
a regular meeting held on the 13th
day ot June, 1901, to investigate
and report back a matter of con
tention between Messrs. Dean and
Hobbs and Mr. C. W. Thomas, as
to what is termed Evans street^
running parallel with Athens
street, in the city of Gainesville,
beg to submit the following re
port, after investigating the same:
We find that this so-called street
has neverbeen tendered or accept
ed by the city, and the same * be
ing so close to Athens street that
it will be of no public utility to
the city or the citizens thereof, we
therefore recommend that yourj
honorable body disclaim any
and refuse to accept the same a; *
street. We deem this is a pefso-*
al matter between these parti*
and entirely beyond oar jurjfe*
tion. (Signed.)
L, D. Puckett,
B. B. Landers,
Committee.
The following accounts, ap
proved by finance committ^jr^
read a second time and o
paid: E. E. Dixon & Com?*?;
$2.80: S. W. Davidson & w, -•
05* G. P. Estps, $6.54; Bag*l
& Gower Mfg. Co
H. Fuller.Drug Co., *1.
Kimbrough, $50; Jno.
Mfg. Co., $22.05; V.
Canning *
$925; W 1
E. £■
A. 8a# 1 1
M.
50e.; W. R. «
$183.62; Palmour Hardwa
$4.9o. I
The following accounts were^
first time and referred to
committee: Stovall
Long? lumber,
lief, 60c.; Q n8en o . n
Mills, lumber, i 18 - 28 i
lumber, $15.80,
Soule, blacksmith accoon
partment, $2.90.
The mayor was, "“ f* ^
thorized to borrow and
city’s note for * br ® e iB ,
(§8,000) dollars, »P ^
coupons due on J Y 1 motion
No further business, on ffl
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