The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-29
For the Post.
prIrA c,OTrNTV Sill PHITR SPRINGS.

Tennessee, between Tennessee River and
Walden's Ridge. in rich, fertile and beautiful
valley, which is settled by population no'eu
for good morals. quiet, unassuming manners
and generous hospitality. Having PartaAen
of the hospitality Of the citizens and tas'su
the curative properties of the water Of the
Springs, in person, and having seen 'ne
feets produced on others, feel Warranteu ~
spaaking in the highest terms Of both'
careful ANALYSIS shows this water to contain
the following Ingredients Epson SALTS SUI
.La. ,,.rrssi, iron, and small quantity Of
iodyne.
Medical waters, like patent medicines, are
,in,.tenth. Of them humbugs; yet we oeca'
siopally find one Of each that may possess
many curative properties. 1t is worse than
folly to say that the water Of sulphur Springs
will cure any and all diseases to which flesh
i, heir, yet know the truth whereof al
firm when say it will cure and relieyea
great many. ! write not as the ''paid or pen
stoned pufer" Of anOther's interest, but to
tell in simple language to my friends and ac-
uuaintanees what have seen and what
have felt and do know. Large numbers have
experienced great relief from almost every
kind of chronic disease, and have known
many relieved who were suffering from torpid
liver, chronic darrhea, dyspepsia, weak
lungs, bleeding lungs, weakness aud pain IN
the back, and various kidney and stomach dis
eases. Different persons have visited these
Springs, whose stomachs were so weak that 1t
was with great difficulty they could retain
the smallest quantity of the most dgestibe
food Who after drinking this water one or
two weeks, would eat a hearty meal of bacon
and beans without experiencing the least in
convenience. For cleansing the system Of
the bad effects Of mercury and other strong
medicines, and for giving tone and strength
to weak stomachs, consider this water as
being almost without a rival. Almost any
cutaneous disease yields readily to an appl-
cation of this water, and many very obsti-
nate cases of nore eyes have been entirely
cured by it. For costiveness it is an infalli
bic remedy. Many persons with weak lungs
have been much relieved, and one of the
present propretors of the Springs, who, when
he first came there, was well nigh at deaths
door, is now, through the use of this water,
stout, athletic and perfectly healthy man.
have been afflicted myself, for years. with
torpid liver and bleeding lungs and know
that have derived an incalculable benefit
from the use of the water.
Extensive preparations are being made to
large Hotel 30 by 40 feet one way. and so
by 80 another will be completed in few
days together with twenty-five or thirty
cottages The proprietors inform me that
they will open on the 18th of June, and will
be prepared to accommodate one hundred
and fifty to two hundred boarders. l'.,tI
Most watering places in East Tennessee are
difficult of access, and are located in portions
of the country that are but thnly settled,
and consequently afford but scanty supplies
for the table. AT Sulphur Springs it is diff
ferent They are easy of access and the sur
rounding country is thickiy settled by indus
trious and thriving farmers, whose farms afford
abundant supplies to comfort the inner man.
and no class of men have ever met with are
more willing to have you share it with them
than these same Rhea county farmers. But
must caution invalds visiting these Springs
to be careful how they VISIT for, if by chance
or otherwise, you should happen to stop at
one Of these farmers houses, no argument will
get you of until you have eaten with them,
and then il, after having partaken of the for
midable array of nice, finn and sweet butter,
cool spring house milk, and other luxuries
spread before you (Which none but country
tables ever boast.) you can get up without
laboring under the effects of an overloaded
stomach. you have greater powers of self
denial than have shown myself possessed of
on several occasions.
Immediately at the Springs there is an ex
cellent School, under the superintendent of
highly accomplished and intelligent lady
There are excellent carriage roads leading |
out in every direction. and numerous streams
are also close by which abound in all kinds
Of fish. The mountain (Walden's Ridge, is
within three miles aifording deer and wild
turkeys in abundance. Fure limestone water
is there in any quantity, aud, in fact, almost
every natural advantage. Persons visiting
these Springs need have no fears but what
they will be bountifully provided for. as the
proprietors are determined to make their
guests comfortable in every respect possible.
would then say to the votaries of pleasure,
60 to Rhea Sulphur Springs and enjoy your
selves; to those afflicted with liver or kidney
disease, go and drink this water it will cure
you; to those afflicted with either darrhea
or costiveness, you can obtain relief here; to
all mankind, however afflicted, go, drink this
water and be healed
W. T. BLACKWELL
Athens, Tenn, 25th May, 81.
DEATH FROM THE Power OF IMAGINATION.
"A story is told in late number of Neu-
relle Zeitung, OF physician who tried m ex.
pprlupnt IN "A criminal cnnitullv cnndamnpd