The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-09-10
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Modern Curative Prodigy.
The Medical Testimony,
Testimony Of tho National Rop-
resont1tivo.
Great Run to Gettysburg Springs,
Water euro Miracles.
Water euro Miracles.

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COyery Of its healing virtue to some o! the
COmbatantS. BE that as it may, ii is gen.
orally admitted, that but for this battle
those virtues would never have been gen.
orally known. It's waters are tNstclcss
and 0dorless, in no way distinguishablc
from those found in our domestic springs
and wells, except by their effects on the
diseased human system.
Yet this simple agent has elected and
is CilcCtinS cures OF disease MS wonderful
as the miracles, II We exclude from con,
slderatiOn the period OF time required for
their accomplishment.
The whole story Oi tho Gettysburg
spring and lis cures is us well authcnti
Gated us any tact or event OF our current
history.
John W. Geary, Governor OF Pcnnsyl.
vania, and General Meade, who command
co the Federal forces in the battle fought
here, approved in published Communica-
tluhs the proposal to erect near this
spring an Invalid hotel. \ majority o
the two Houses Of the National Congress,
including the Speaker Of the House o:
Representatives, and the Vice President
OF the United States, soon alter initiated
their example. The following is the
Congressional appeal to capitalists and
others in behalf OF this project:
TO TIE PUBLIC.
The undersigned, deeply impressed with
the wonderful curative prodigy which ap-
pears on the hAttle-grounds of Gcltys-I
burg, and learning that it is the design oil
public spirited citizens 10 utilize it in the
cause OF medicinal science and in the in
terest OF humanity, by erecting in the vi
CInity Il hotel tor the entertainment and
treatment Of the afflicted OF our own and
other countries, who may seek here their
lost health, deem it 10 be our duly tOI
commend the proposed enterprise as en-
incniIy philAnthr0pic and praisewOr,hy:
Ulyses McrCur, W. p. Fcsscnden. E. y. !
Morgan, Roscoe C0nkling, r. 4. Plants,
i. K. ECklcy, John TrimD!e, n. B. Judd, |
H. L. Dawes, VIM. Moore, II. ". Cor-I
bett, l.. f. Rice, ]. a. Garfield, john 4.
Logan, Orange FcrrSs, j. G. blaine, i |
+. Hopkins, &. d. Hubbard, W. t. Wash
burn, b. +. Wade, Schuyler Collar, Orris
5. Ferry, Henry Wilson, l.. NJ. Morrill,, |
John C0vOir, Oakcs Amcs, Godiovc :.
Onh, John CObUrn, john TuiIc, W. G. |
Coffin, L. Il. Butter, ". D. Stokes, j. W.
McC!urg, Charles Epson, VIM. II. Koontz,
Geo. Laurence, +. {. BeamNn, j. +. Ben.
jamin, John Hi, IL. b. Washourn, II. l..
Cake, Alex. klmscy, Geo II. Williams,
Morton G. Hunter, W. Mun-cn, d. A.
Num-, 7. d. Eliot, Daniel j. MDrrcli, W.
II. Hooper, AmNsa Cobb, L Ecglcsson, &.
A. Ncwcomb, W. Williams, ii. ). An.
thony, j. Il. Henderson, J. NJ Howard, NJ.
Wclker, W. Sprague, y. II, Lailin, Ii.
Van ArrnGn, Geo, p. Van Wyck, Vim.
Highly, L. W. Ferry, Luke p. Poland, +.
Il. Irowbridge, VIM. \. Pile, Geo W.
Anderson, VIM. LoughbTidgr. j. !.
G0vely, Rltus Mallory, Il Z. Buckhnd,
james Marvin, +. Stone, Richard Yates,
Horace Maynard, y. Il. Bailey, K W.
Clarke, Geo. W. Julian, Chas. ONcill,
Burt Van Horn, Vim. NJ. Stewart, Geo.
NJ Adams, ". II. Kelsey, L, N, Boyer,
Chas. SitgrCavCs, John Beatty, G.. 7.
Miller, c. I. llubUTd, W. D. Kelley, J
T. Wilson, J. X. MorChcad, Geo y. HAL
sey, I. Van Horn, James W. Nyc, f. T. |
Frcinghuyscn, George N!Ckcrs, W. S.
Lincoln, James VI, Cnvanaugh, Sidney
Clarke, jacob Denton, L. f. Loan.
Some Of the subjects Of the GCltysbrrr
Water cures are among the dis,,urI,ishrI
men OF the counlry. Prominent nmonr
these may be named cX.Attorucy General
SMnbcrry, Hon. John Davis, ui Davis
vilc, Pa. the RI. Rev. p. Z. Moriarty
Provincial Of the AugUs;iumn Order O.
Catholics in the United States, George
Jones, Of the New York IaalA Ec. ToI
these living witnesses 10 the curative Rnd
restorative powers Of the Gcltysburp
EallIysinc Water mus, be added MOI
fewer than a hundred thousand Of lesser
note scattered over the country. md over
the world, for the Gc,tysbgrr Water Inns
become great traveller; confined in bot
Ties or LrmiiyIus il Las iravrrsrl the
Continent, it has crossed the seas md ia
uscd ne a healing balm in every cIinr.
and ny every civilized prnnlc
Nearly oli the lrndinT medical iorrro,s
and medical writer's haze rrr,r,rl tho
Grtiysburr Wafer cures, md haze born
NOR: enthusiastic in their rynrrssinns oil
nI,nira,;nn nj Tho s,rrnrn onI s,or,I;ry
rura,ivr nhcnomrnn which inv rrr.nmi
ih,n oven tho nrwsnourr nr1s. ThcI
tIiT,ccr,h rrvisri cIiI,on n, IEr Tri,nJ
States Di.nrrsn,orv ,hchirhcs, or,Lor t
amonr nLy,iciins 1nJ dr,HtTis's os.i%Gy.
The h,i,I, tirIi smn ,hn ,6rrrnos, 49,, rs2rr
among the celebrated mrdjrrl source. -,
The w3r,J CLssjrr !, with ,hn E~roHr,n
Vichv and pvrnGnt
surely the GC. nrincfnIc hos ,riunnbcdI
nj Gr,ivshurT mos, wnnimf,llv in ihc
Ionr nm M 1vcnis rio Ln,,ig and !,
inCilcn, ,hrdiscnvrrv oi his snrinw b.yt
rrsulirL /, m oJt;,i1, +" r,nrr Ih",,
suh,r,c,ian ,row ihr eun If lrm"n i;,c
But tho rrr,' nroIinr .Mrirg il n", n r',
saving Ind il r. e"yr ,n |2 Hoe , kan
were DESTROYED hy ,hr.,ynrI in ,h. La',i"
a, Gct,ybbirr In, !, ia rcm, ~ rim "', ,hc
rlvagcs Of war and ,ransiorm;n, thr
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