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If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound to give notice to tlie publisher at tlie end of their time,if they do not wish to continue taking the paper, otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it on and the subscriber will be responsible until ex¬ press notice with payment of all arrears is sent to the publisher. _ KAIL ROAD SCHEDULE—ARLINGTON EXTENSION. Leaves Arlington on Tuesdays, Tl’ednes- lavs, Fridays and Saturdays at, 8:00 at a. 11:05 in. Arrives »i AiUmy on same days a. m. Leaves Albany on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays Arlington and Fridays,, mtAlays ‘ J|:23 p. at m. 7:10 Ar¬ rives at on > • p. tn. “*_____ _ LODGE DIRECTORY. ARLINGTON LODGE, NO. 249, Meets 1st Tuesdays and 3rd Saturdays each month. Officers: W. T. Murchison, W. M. S. M. Calhoun, S. W. ‘no. W. Button, J. W. H. K. Taylor, 8. D. W. H. Davis, J. D. H. M. Goode. Tyler. E. C. Ellington, Treasurer. Geo. V. Pace, Sec’y. ____ County Directory. SUPERIOR COURT. Hon. W. O. Fleming, Judge; J. W. Wal¬ ters,Solictor General; J. H. Coram, Clerk. Spring term convenes on second Monday ia March; Fall term on first Monday iu Sep¬ tember. COUNTY OFFICERS. A. I. Monroe, Ordinary; W. W. Gladden, Sheriff; John A. Gladden, Tax Collector; Thomas F. Cordray, Tax Receiver; Zack Lang, col., Corouer. COUNTY COURT. L. G. Cartiege, Judge. Quarterly ses- sioners, 4th Mondays in February, May, August and November. Monthly sessions, every 4th Monday. COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. J. J. Becx COUNTY SURVEYOR. Jesse E. Mercer. COMMISSIONERS R. R. John Colley, C. M. Davis, and J. T. B. Fain. Courts held 1st Tuesday in each month. ROAD COMMISSINERS. 574th District— Sol. G. iteckom, A. J. Sanders and Irwin Douglass. H. Rogers, W. J. 1316th District —T. Godwin and Wesley .Kish. Cartledge, M. 1123d District —L. G. IF. -Bell and J. W. Brown. 1283d District —B. M. Hodge, C. J. McDaniel and J. G. Collier. C26th District —P. E. Boyd, B. F. Bray and J. T. P. Daniel. 1305th Distbict —J. A. Cordray, W. H. Hodnett and Morgan Bunch. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NOTARIES PUCLIC. 574th District.— Sol. 6. Beckeom, J. P.; Chas. F. Plocker, N. P. and Ex-officio j. P.. Courts held second Saturday in each pkOntb. 1123d District— J. L. Wilkersou, J. P., John Harty, N, P, Courts held 2nd Thurs¬ day in each mouth. 626th District —J. C. Price, J. P.; N. W. Pace, N. P. Courts held 3rd .Satur¬ day in each month. 1283d'Dibtrict — C. J. McDaniel, J. P. Courts held 1st Saturday in each Bunch, month. J. P.; 1304th District —Morgan J. A. Cordray, N. P. Courts held 1st Saturday 1316th in each month. J. District —D. H. Holloway, f\; Ken non Strickland, N. P. NIGHT. ‘The Evening for bar bath of dew Is partially uudreased, Tlie sun behind a bobtail flush Is sitting in the wist. The Planets light the heavens with The flash of their cigars. The Sky has put its night shirt on And buttoned it with stars! ‘I love the tinrid, shrinking Night, Its shadows and its dew; I love the constellations bright, So old and yet so new! I love Night better thao the Day, For people looking on Can’t see me skining round to meet My own, my darling John! The Artesian Well. Early Friday morning, iu company with Cupt. John P. Fort, a Teeegraph reporter boarded the Southwestern train for a trip into Dougherty county, to examine the artesian well experi¬ ment upon Captain Fort’s ‘Hickory Level’ place. Tlie Telegraph recogniz¬ ed the fact that the effort to secure pure freestone water was one that Would naturally attract the attention of all that section of the State lying within the tertiary formation, and de sired to first lay the news before the people, with full description of the lo¬ cality, the work, the difficulties and the result obtained. From Montezu¬ ma to Docker’s Station the reporter found the people interested iu the w'ork and after the morning's Telegraph, containing a brief account of the ex¬ periments, had been conned, Captain Fort was met at every point with questions. At Americus the party was joined by Captain Harrall, Johnson & Co , and proceeded ot once to Decker’s station, which is situated thirty-seven miles distant, on the Arlington branch of the Southwestern railroud. Disem- barking in a hard rain, the party footed it over red rolling land and through limestone rock and croppings to Hickory Grove, which is located on a gentle acclivity in the midyt of a vast area of corn and cotton, the cosy dwelling sitting back under a fine grove of trees. THE WELL which has caused so much excitement, is beneath two large spreading oaks. The reporter saw in the midst of a wilderness of tools and aparatus an inch and a half tube standing about four feet high, and from it if suing forth, as clear a3 crystal, a stream of water. This inch and a half tube rested in a thr^e-inch tube, from the top of which also gushed forth the cooling waters. A glass was brought and filled. Held up to the light, the sight was a beautiful one. Not a bub¬ ble, tint, particle of sediment or span¬ gle of silica was to be seen; only a lump of utterly, pure water, so clear and so still one might easily have im- magined, but for its weight, the glass empty; water that had rushed up from 530 feet distant to gladden the lip and banish fever from the brow. Pressed to the lips, it was found to be soft and pleasant, with tlie taste of freestone water, and with a faint smell of sal- pher. A thermometer placed beneath the stream rigistered in a few minutes 69 degrees, a temprature smilar to that of well water on College Hill in this city. HOW IT WAS OBTAINED, is easily told. A scaffold tweuty feet high was first erected above the spot stdec'ed aud a wheel rigged at the iop. A rope was run through the wheel to a catch windlass near at hand and a ten-horse power engine connected with the windlass by belting. A three-inch pipe was next placed in position to be run into the ground directly be¬ neath the wheel through which was run the rope and attached to a drill. The drill was fixed upon the end of a piece of one and a half inch tubing or casting, and inserted in the three-inch pipe. A rubber hose connected the upper end of the small pipe with a steam pump sitting by a cistern of water. When the engine was started the smaller pipe with the borer or drill upon the end was worked up and down within the large pipe, while through it was forced a strong stream of water. The process is simple. The drill strikes the ground within the lager pipe, while the stream through the smaller one inside softens the ground at the point of the drill aud forces the loosen ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST ig, 1881. ed earth upward and outward. A drain conveys the water back to the cistern. As the water and drill bore tire hole the two pipes sink together. Joint after joint is fitted in until the right kind of water is reached. When rock is struck the progress is very slow, an iuch or two being accomplished in a day. B it nothing can withstand the peckiug of the steel, and it goes through at last. Sand is very easily bored, but there is no return of the iron pipe outside if the sand be thick? for it closes around it like a vise. It is only a question of time and money if this kind of boring. If water is to had at all, the drill will at last find it. HOW IT CAME TC BE IiOKED . Some time since Oapt. Fort bought “Hickory Level’’from Col. Lee Jordan. It is a beautifully situated plantation of 2,200 acres, we believe, the soil be ¬ ing strong and red. It is propably as good laud as any in southern Georgia, but the health of the place was misea- able. Three years ago, of oue hundred and fifteen persons on it, twenty-eight died, the prevailing malady being mal aria. The next year twenty four died. Seeing these graves, and believing them to have been filled by want of good water, and believing that for every evil nature lias a compensation or remedy, he set about devising means to secure healthy water. That drank upon the place was well water obtained at a depth of thirty-five feet, it was milky and at times muddy. The soil it had filtered through was nothing but a mass oi rotten shells or limestone, and the fluid was almost poison. The water of the wells evident ly connect with the lime-sinks of the neighborhood, rising and falling with them. In the two years during which the terible fatality occurred, water had to be hauled from a creek, and allow ¬ ed to settle. The only chance for wa¬ ter was to go beneath the limestone, an( j an artesian well suggested itself, Then came the difficulty. Such a well . a8t 0 f the Chattahoochee has been %niveisally considered an impossibility, A thorough effort years ago had failed, a ud there being no need for such water in the up couutry, no artesian well ex Ltid in Georgia. But in Alabama and westward to Texas auccesfol efforts had been made. The heal th of Fort Worth, iu Texas, had been changed from bad to perfection by% ;teBian wa¬ ter, and land had appreciated o value. With but a general knowledge c geo¬ logy, Captain Fort became imprw / d with the practicability of the scheffi. in Southwest Georgia, believing the formation to be the same as in equal latitude all through the Gulf States. He was supported in his theory by only one man, Mr. I. C. Plant, of this city. Owning and controlling more than twenty-two thousand acres of land in southern Georgia, and believing that it could be made perfectly healthy, Captain Fort determined to expend 81,000 in his experiment and at once, made a contract with Joseph Jack- son, a well borer of Alabama, and on May the 4th the work was begun. Accidents to the machinery delayed progress so that it was not un¬ til July that at the depth of 360 feet water, or rather artesian wa- ter, was struck, and rose to within thirteen feet of the surface. Sickness at this time set in and delayed tbo contractor for a month. A pump, however, was placed on the pipes and to the delight of all pure cool water was obtained. THE WELL. The following is a sketch of the course of the well an! the formations pierced: Clay, and after a few feet lime¬ stone boulders, continuing to a depth of 65 feet, where lime rock and a strata of silex was struck. Piercing this the drill entered subterranean streams, which contnued until a depth of 150 feet was reached. These streams varied in depth from six inches to two feet, and were running through stratas of eilicious limestone, in which were the layers of Bilex, or perhaps flint rock. Marine shells were found in great nnm bers in this strata. The course contin¬ ued through shells, oyster shells, sand rock, sand and marl to 260 feet, when water rose in the pipes to within 13 or 14 feet of the top. Following came a sand bed 120 feet thick and some of it having a slightly bluish tint. A strata of very fine white sand was pierced at the depth of 370 feet, and in the lower part of it were found shark's teeth of two varieties, also a coarse kind of s iiul and more shells. Following came sand rock and bine marl in alternate layers. nil togethei tliirty feet; then a stratum of marl, w ith a strata of soft sand rock. M the depth cf 490 feet water came to the surface and flowed over at the rate of four gallons a minute. At the depth of 030 feet the driil rested in a very hard rock 1 which \ pierced, and wa- ter, when the repo efl, was flowing from the end of the pipe which was elievated ten or twelve het above the earth’s surface. As before stated, tlie entire country has been awiikeued upon this subject, and, doubtless, within the next year many wells will be bored. THE COST. It is difficult at this time to estimate the cost of such a well. The iron cas¬ ing the one described extends down as yet only 380 feet, but will be run down with one and a half inch pipe to the base. The totalcost will bo about 8900, but in this instance a contractor had to be hired at 85 a day through all of many delays, which might easi¬ ly have been avoided. A more etiii cient and moderate man can be gotten to work by the foot, and the price o f piping call be easily obtained, proba bly seventy-five cents per foot would more than cover the cost. Subterranean streams having been found at a depth of less than a hun¬ dred feet, it is now proposed to drill holes in the centres of the large lime sinks, and drain them off underground, Thus will the air and water both be purified, and South Georgia become as thickly settled and as healthy ns the mountain lands. To Capt. Fort is duo the credit of this promised revolution. The Han who Watched A day or two ago, soon afier tlie hour of noon, an individual who seemed to be laboring under consider¬ able excitement entered a grocery store on Michigan avenue and asked for a private word with the proprietor. When tlie request had been granted he explained: “I believe myself to be an injured husband, and I want to verify my sus¬ picions by watching a house on the other street. This I can be it do from the rear of your store. Have you any objections to my taking a seat back there by the open window ?” Tlie grocer granted tho favor, and 'he agitated stranger walked back and a seat on a box of codfish and be¬ gan (as watch, His presence had nl most been forgotten when he returned to the front of the store, with hasty steps and quivering voice, and said: ‘Great heavens! but I’ll kill her! Fes, I’ll shoot her through the heart!’ ‘Your wife?’ ‘Yes, my idolized Mary! I can no longer doubt her guilt, and I’ll be a murdere in less than ten minutes.’ The grocer tried to detain him, but he broke away and rnshed around the corner. Not hearing anything further of him for half an hour, the grocer be¬ gan to investigate, and lie discovered that fourteen rolls of ;butter, acrock of lard, two hams, and other stuff had left the back end of the store by way of the window at which the watchful husband was stationed .—Detroit Free Press. He Wanted to see Her. The other night when Bickles went home he found his wifo particularly retrospective. She talked cf the past with a tear and looked to tho future with a sigh. ‘Oh, by tho way,’ said Bickles, as he sat on the side of the bed pulling off his boots, ‘I saw a gentleman down town to-day who would give a thousand dollars to see you.’ ‘Who was he? Does he live in Little Rock?’ ‘I don’t know his name.’ ‘I’ll warrant that was Oliver Gregg ’ ‘No.’ ‘Then he must be George Weatlierton.’ ‘Guess again. I might know his name if I were to hear it.’ ‘Oh! I do wish I knew,’ said the lady exhibiting excitement. ‘Was it Oscar Peoples?’ Guess again. I remember his name now.’ ‘Harvey Glenkins? ‘No; his name was Lucis Wentwig.’ ‘I don’t know a man k by that name. Why should he give one thousand dol¬ lars to see me?’ ‘Because he’s blind. ’ Dropped hairpins bring more women to their knees than all the sermons in the world. Sad Experience in the West. He was on his way homo from Lead- v ;u e lie had on a ragged old sum¬ mer suit, ho had been taking his meals about thirty hours apart to make his money carry him through. ‘Yes, I like the country out there, he replied t< the query The climate is good, the scenery lino, and some of the people as honest ns need be. The trouble is to know bow to take the bad ones. ‘I should think that would be easy,’ was the reply. ‘Yes, it looks that way, had I bad a little experience. 1 am the original diskiverer of the richest mine around Lead vi He.’ ‘Is that so?’ ‘Yes sir I am the very man, though y no wouldn’t think it to see my old clohtlies.’ ‘Then you don’t own it now?’ ‘Not a bit of it. I’ll explain: I was poking around on the hills for signs. I collected some specimens for assay, staked out a claim and went to the as- sayers. It was two days before he let me know it was the richest ore ho had ever seen, and then I hurried back to my claim and hang my buttons if it hadn’t been jumped.’ ‘How?’ ‘Why, a gang of sharpers had found the spec uud built a cole shanty and hung out a sign of ‘First Baptist Church’ over the door. Sure as shoot- in’ they had, and the law out there is that no miner can sink a shaft within two hundred feet of a church building They saw me coming, and wlieu I got there they were actually bolding a re¬ vival. There were just s x of them, and they got up one after the other and told how wickod they had been and how sorry they were, and, would yon hi lieve it, they had the cheek to ask me to loud the singing. I went to law but they heat me. Three days’ after, the ‘First Baptist Cnurch’ burned down, and before the ashes were cold the congregation were de¬ veloping a mine worth over a million of dollars. You see, I did’t know how to take them.’ ‘Was there any particular way of taking them? ‘You bet there was. I ought to have onpemd on tho revival with a Winchester rifllo and given the coroner 850 for a verdict that they died of too much religion.’ A Smart Weasel The remarkable sagacity of the weas¬ el Was well illustrated tho other day by an incident which actually occurred in Hie suburbs of Santa Barbara. A gentlemau’s barn was infested with rals, and ho was greatly annoyed by their depredations. They have been gradually disappearing, however, dur¬ ing the ph.-,i fetv weeks. The gentle¬ man finally discovered the cause of their probable disappearance ip a very wide awake weasel, which was eugagod at the time in a vigorous combat with an unusually large.sized rat. The lat¬ ter proved too much for his adversary, and finally chased his weasekhip out of the barn. A few mornings later the gentleman again found tho same ani¬ mals engaged in a similar battle. The weasel at last ran away as before, and tlie rat followed in hot pursuit. This time, however, the weasel ran into a hole it had burrowed through a pile of hardened compost. This hole was quite large at the entrance, but tho outlet was scarcely largo enough to admit the passage of the weasel’s body. The weasel darted into the hole with the rat at bis heels. A momen t later the weasel emerged from the other side, ran quickly around the compost pile and again entered the hole, this time in the enemy’s rear. The gen¬ tleman, interested in the proceedings, watched the place for sometime, and found that only the weasel came out. Digging into the compost he found the rat quite dead, and 'partly eaten. The weasel had arranged his trap so that the rat could enter, but becoming closely wedged in the narrow portion of the hole, could be attacked at a dis¬ advantage and easily kil.ed. A Philadelphia divine was lately cheated out of his fee by a meau fel¬ low, who promised to cull next day, but the reverend man got even with the defaulter by advertising the wed¬ ding, adding to the anoucemeut: “no cards, no cake, no cash, no certificate,’ Vol. II. No. 38 FACTS AND FANCIES. A Denver editor hasn’t kissed any lady except his wife in ten years. He has missed a heap of fun. Times are so hard and payments are so rare that the girls complain that the young men cannot pay their addresses When a physician rbserts his pro¬ fession for the pulpit, the inference is that he can preach better tlmu he can practice. In Texas, when a man wants to com¬ mit suicide, he steals a horse, says his prayers, and camly awaits the inovita*? hie result. ‘And, O Edward,’ said the girl ho was going to leave behind him, ‘at every stopping place be sure and write, then go ahead.’ ‘What is love?’ asks everybody; and somebody replies:—‘It is a feeling that yon don't want another fellow fooling around with her.’ If you would bo pugnent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams, tbo moro they are condensed, tlie deeper they burn. Advice to milkmen: Dont cry over spilt milk, but carefully fill up the can with just enough water so the milk will color it, and continue peddling. There is no great difference between the great devil that frametli scandal ous reports, and tlie little imps that run about anil disperse them — Barrow. Man’s a vapor, Full of woes; Starts n paper — Up he goes! Teacher: ‘A quadruped is an animal having four legs. Now who will give me the name of a quadruped?’ And thirteen shrill voices piped out, ‘A ta¬ ble.’ In making friends consider well first; and when fixed be true, not wavering of reports, nor deserting iu affliction, for that becomes not the good and virtuous. ‘Now, Sammy, have you read the s tory of Joseph? Oh, yea, uncle. ‘Well, then, what wrong did they do when they sold their brother? They sold him too cheap. Never deceive a lawyer by lying to him about your case when he takes it in hand. He can attend to that branch of tho business himself a great deal better than you. Blind musicians from the Perkins Institution, at /South Boston, have kept in tune for five years past all the pianos—130 iu number—in uso in the public schools of Boston. ’Tis well to quote tho census number, To show the greatness of a nation, But better yet’s the green cucumber To double up the population. An old angler says that a fish does not suffer much from being hoooked. Of course not. It is tho thought of how his weight will be lied about which causes him anguish. Newly married husband: ‘This is a friend of mine, my dear—a friend of twenty years’ standing.’ His bride: Good gracious. ‘Then pray give him a seat, for I am sure he must bo tired, ’ Different church sects, warring over their creeds, are like rival fire compa¬ nies called to save a burning city. In¬ stead of doing the work before them they sit down fo quarrel about which has the best engine. ‘How many of you are there? ’ asked a voice from the window of a serenad¬ ing party. ‘Four,’ was tlie response. ‘Then divide tin's among you.’ Aiul a bucket of slop descended, like the dews of heaven, on the heads of those beneath. There wonst was twocatsatKilkanye ; Eacn thought there was one too many; So they quarreled and fit, They scratched and they bit, Till, excepting their nails .And tips of their tails, Instead of two cats there warn’t any. A negro, one night at a meeting, prayed earnestly that he and his breth¬ ren might be preserved from what lie culled their ‘upsettin’ sins.’ ‘Brud- der,’ said one of his friends, ‘you ain’t got de hang ob dat ar word. It’s ‘beaettin,’ not ‘upaettiu’. ‘Brudder, ’ replied lie, ‘if dat’S so, it’s so. But I was prayin’ de Lord to save us from de siu ob ’toxieation, and if dat ain’t ft upsettin’ sin I dunno what am.