Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-09-09
.:FYom the Eagslfell Aapsrtiser.
PoRTER SPRINGS, Lumkin Co., c

for which have long been hunting, viz: A
medicine, or medical appliance, that might
cure, or alleviate the ills, in A,o way of dis
eases, whether real or imaginary, with which
am afflicted. And as / hayo many friends
in Edgeticld, (and SO have you,) diseased be-
yond tho power of Drugs and Doctors to cure,
| hope you will publish the statement make
below, which | assert to bo true of many of
the parties, having seen them and heard their
own statements by themselves, aud these
statements corroboratcd by witnesses whose
testimony cannot be doubted
| | shall let thom speak for themselves, in
most cases. Mr.. YIN. Tate, Baptist minister,
says
was taken about nine years ago with
acute Rheumatism sudden and
acute pain in the back of tho neck, producing
inscnsibility in short time, followed soon af.
tor, by the same sort ofpain i'll each anklo and
wrist successively, and finally in almost all tho
joints Of tho body 1 was relieved in the
usual way, by Blisters &c., by tho aid of a
| Physician, but was not cured, all the joints
boing left in moro or less stiffened state,
with the head drawn back and to the left side.
The hands were turned nearly up side down
tho feet twisted in opposite directions
could only walk by use of orutches, and was
unable to DO any kind of work I remained
in this condition, with tendons and muscles
permanently contracted, for six years I com.
menced the use of these waters, both by drink
ing and bathing, about the 1st ofJune 1869,
and was permanently cured in six weeks
Mr.. Tate is now Fifty niue years old.
Mr.. Tatc's wife also was cured by the use
of tho waters, after being an invalid for
thirty years. Her disease was Indigestion
accompanied by faiuting fits and vertigo,
similating Epilepsy. She has had no.spcl
since she commenced the use Of this water.
Mr.. Mulinax, who had, it appears, Gene
raj Dropsy, aud an accumulation of fatty mat
r, arrived at the Spring in August of last
year, weighing upwards of four hundred
pounds, and was unable to walk a step, with.
out the assistance of two men. He remained
about six weeks, and returned home cured +;
he is now we'll, weighs less than two hundred
| pounds, and can walk as well as he ever could.
Mr. Leadford, who was affected with Ozena,
considered incurablc, with loss of general
health so much so as to be unable to do any
work whatever, was cured in about six weeks,
but is here now with some sign of his mulady
returning, he having blown scab from his
nose some two weeks ago. He is otherwise
in fine health.
Mr.. Fowler, of Dawsenvilc, Ga, having
been indisposcd for something like ten years,
with Indigestion and diseased kidneys, spent
a few weeks hcre last summer, returned home
cured, and has felt no signs of disease since
lie is here now for tho benefit of his wfe's
health, being able himself to climb Cedar
Mountain with the greatest ease, and roll
rocks down it's sides for amusement, while
others, who accompany him, sit exhausted
Mr. Fowler left for home, July Goth, his
wife's health being much improved.
Mr. McKoy, from S. c., visited this place
this season, with an old sore, liberation
of the leg. He had not been able to walk
without assistance in three years. lie re-
maincd some five or six weeks, and returned
to his home, sound and we'll
l have selected the above cases from many
others, not because the persons mentioned are
the only ones benefited, or cured by these
| Springs (for could add hundred more fully
as extraordinary but because have either
seen the persons myself, or have had testimony
enough to convince me of their truth
| These waters cure, or more or less relieve,
the following diseases, viz: Rheumatism,
Ozcna, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, in all its forms,
all forms of caronic Skin disease Old Ulcers
of whatever nature, or wherever situated,
all forms of diseased Kidneys, elect,
Chronic Diarroa, &c., &c. And intact,
if wo are to believe only the onehalf VIC
are told, they cure, or very greatly benefit,
every chronic disease with which man, or
woman, is, or may hereafter be afflicted.
An educated and well informed Irshman
discovered these Springs less than three years
ago. They arc in Lumpkin County, in full
view Of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 90 miles
from Atlanta, 80 miles from Athens, 27 miles
from Clarksvillc, Il miles from Dahloncga,
6S miles from Walhalla, S. G., and about
100 miles from Abbeville G. H., s. G.. They
are full 70 miles from any Railroad. They