Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-12-10

Whatever answer she made vas made
upon Fred bosom, smothered by tears and
j sobs Of joy and blessing. TIE noble, true
hearted girl was not ashamed to own her
love on the spot. and 10 declare that she
would gave been very miserable if sac had
never ssen her loveragirin, for that he was
her lover, She knew But that he had mis-
taken her for her brother wife she had not
mistrusted until be came to bid hera final
adieu. Then the truth burst upon her, but
she could not then correct him without
seeming to ayoB her own love. She forgot
that Bella had been persuaded to accompa-
ny her husband at the last moment, and
that she was filing place which the guest
had expected to fDd filed by another.
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THE MAGNETIC WELL OF MlCHI
GAN
The Detroit and Milwaukee Rsilway
crosses the State of Michigan in straight
line east and west. St. Johns is village
station on this road midway between Lake
Huron and Lake Michigan. Thirty miles
north of St. Johns-thcrefore almost in the
| centre Of the Peninsula, is the village of St.
Louis, in Gratiot county In this out Of
the way spot, inaccessible except BY bad
wagon-roads through the forest, wonder
has lately appeared. a well 81 inches in
diameter, bored for salt and oil, began, al
the debth of 200 feet, to spout magnetic
water, at the rate Of 800 gallons per min
ute, which amounts to 400, 600 gallons every
day-and to a height Of "a feet above the
surface. There is nothing indeed astonish-
ing in this quantity, or force for the cen
tral area Of Michigan is, as to its geological
structure, closed basin, properly arranged
for supplying artesian wells with both abun-
dance and head of water; aud, in this spe
clal case, the anger after going down
through 40 feet Of drift clay and gravel with
occasional houlders, and then 30 feet Of sand
gravel, and the IS feet Of blue shale, found
a deposit of coarse sand and gravel IS feet
thick, and under that a deposit of small
stones feet thick, and then solid rock.
These sands and gravels are surcharged with
water, which is kept down by the covering
of blue shsle, and would spout to the sur
face through any hole
But the water itself constitutes the mar
vel Three hundred aud sixty sick people
arrived from all parts Of the state and from
the neighboring States, were in the village
last week, living as best they could, in pr.
Vate houses, outhouses, barns and stables,
for the purpose of drinking and bathing in
the water Of the we'll Its properties seem
to have magical power over rheumatism
and paralysis. A reliable friend, physi-
clan practising at Newcastle, in Delaware,
just returned from St Louis, told us that
be saw a patient brought to the place on
litter, unable to move joint in ali bis body
save his neck, and that but slightly, and
having had no good continuous sleep for
months In two days he slept soundly, and
could move bis hip and knee joints comfort
ably. He saw another, who had come TO
the well FIVE weeks before, with his hands
crippled into bird S talons and wasted away;
his hands had become strait and flexible,
and we're pink and soft and plump With new
flesh ike child's. He chopped wood and
did what other work he pleased.
That the water is diuretic. affecting the
kidneys, everybody perceives; and that its
medical power lies in its ability to rectify
the over secretion and poisonous distribution
Of uric acid or its salts throughout the hu-
man system, is probable. Its composition
has been determined by Prot Samuel P.
Dufield, well known chemist of Detroit
confirmed by an analysis made in Chicago
In every wine gallon temperature 50',
specific gravity 10ll) were $3.50 grains
sulphate of lime, G. - silicate of lime, I06. 40
bicarbonate of soda, 69.40 bicarbonate Of
lime, 1850 bicarbonare magnesia, l20 bi
carbonate iron, 282 free silica, 200 organic
matter and loss in analysis, 6.2l free carbo-
mic acid gas, with traces Of chlorine and
sulphuretted hydrogen. We take it for
granted that neither iodine nor bromine were
present and that Prof Dufheld did not for
get to test for lthium.
Such pool of Bethesda is a god send to
the State of Michigan. Its population
know too well what are the sequillae Of
rheumatism not to appreciate it-poverty
cold, hunger, the shipwreck Of life. Two
plaak roads into ST. Louis have been com
menced, one running north from ST. Johns,
and one running 80 niles west from Sagi-
nav. at the head Of Saginaw bay Stages
now leave St. Johns at p A. NJ. via Ithica,
the county seat aad reach St Louis at p
NJ One half the road is good the rest de-
cidedly bad.
Patients in infammatory rheumatism
eases must have great faith to face that ride
To return, the traveller starts at ~ A. NJ.
to catch the noon train at St. Johns, and
reach Detrois to tea From Saginaw the
planks are laid II miles the remaining l3
will be laid next spring; but at the first frost
three lines of stages win begin to run. There
is still a third way in to the well, VIZ BY
Midland City, from the northwest, 26 miles,
stages leaving Midland City every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday Passengers from
Ohio and the West come BY the jackson,
Lansing and Saginaw Railroad to 0wosso,
where they take the cars, 20 miles west, to
St Johns.
Thus far the utile; now for tue dalcc
Strange stories are told Of this well weird
legends Of magic and magnetism. The sur
veyor' s needle points to the stand pipe, as
be walks around il. Penkniyes dipped into
the water becomes permanently charged and
their points invariably attract the south pole
of the needle. A blacksmith in the village
is kept well occupied ID making horseshoes
Of steel, highly tempered, which becomes
magnets WHEN they have been susnended in