Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-02
Letter from the Red Sulphur.

still moving on 10 our we'll beaten routine,
liulc ar soothing Of interest occurring to write
about. Drinking being our prlncipal business
here, W. ali endeavor to do as much OF
that AS possible. Those whoa are using the water
to the best advantage, or are improved most 0y
r. rise about an hour aud half before break
fast and take from two to four glasses IN about
half an hour then walk till breakfast gong
sounds; if they haven't an appetite then there
! is no use trying to get up one; they had better
send t. Paris for another stomach, or give up
| the Job OF getting we'll. We drink from two 10
four glasses between eleven and one o'clock,
the same between four and SIX, and two or
three between pine o. click and bed time Drink
ing rrpu,.ry with az least FIVE minutes exer.
cisc after each glass will insure Il sound nights
slccn t, the most nervous and wak,ul, IN fact
yun can sleep most any lime. All the lazlness
here is charged up to the water, right or
wrong.
We amuso ourselves by ten pins, crcquet,
checkers. marbles, &c You may be surprised
at the meuliou OF marbles but II You had seen
! the interest akcr 10 the game, III which our
| Kiclmou! divine and our Connecticut doctor
| w.re eng gsd, you would say should be named
! frs, ia or Ter INSTEAD OF last. There is no music,
so no dancing. Shooting at a mark With the rid IS
Of mountaiuecrs, who are often at the Springs to
sell their game, is iniulged in by some, Tut
getting our letters and papers, and reading them,
IS the cvent of the day lookei forward to OF
oil others. Those Of US who get the Gazette
find that when we are through reading lt,whlle
We may not have as full particulars as the read
ers of New York papers, still, owing to the
boiling down proc, IS that you put the news
through, we are as well posted as they.
We promised TO give you more OF the par.
ticulars of law suit pending here Tor mere
nominal value, the costs OF which are cnor-
acu. 4 woman pawned a silver watch with q
ncishborirg store keeper whom W. will call Mr..
A., for Sc, 90 young man, whom We will call
Dir. Is, GAINED it, stating that he had lost It,
and not given it TO the woman, as she asserted.
There being some family fcud existing between
Nr and the family Of Mr.. B. he resisted
the ATTEMPT TO take The watch, and Mr.. b sued
=! for it, retaining four lawyers. MIR. a appeared
before the magistrate 10 Answer, with three
LAWYERS. Filty.slX witnesses were examined be
fore the court, which give the watch to Mr..
b. ho!diug tnat he had lost it. Mr.. Bs counsel
took al appeal, sw airing that the watch Was
worth over ten dollars, the amount of value
nee ssa:y to an appeal to the County Court ID
this State : here the witnesses had Increased
to sorgc seventy five. This court Affirmed the
decision of the lower Que. The defendants have
ever since been trying 10 get it 10 the Court OF
AupcaIs TIE costs, as we said before, are now
81 900 without lawyers f'es, and no telling
what III, will be before they get through, and
all for Sc. yU--a big sD1kc for very little fire.
We are not without the celebrated Lover $
lap either par!! along very steep cuff has
the romantic tradition Connected with ii OF a
rel cted lover having thrown himself from it..
Tie less romantic have it that u druaken man
going home late one night missed his footing
AMI went over the praclplcc, losing his life,
! which SQUADS much the more probable OF the
100. The aforesaid path, whether lover has
thrown himself off or MOI. has Oeen walked by
many a lover, for a more romantic or plclur'
esquc path would be hard 10 fiud.
Never ha+ The water proved It efficacy more
| fully than his season, not single visitor, so
far as we can learn but what has been greatly
Dcn flied py its use For pulmonary diseases
We believe ;he,e is 10 water in the wrld that
ats So promptly or pleasantly. Many persons
! come here without hopa, and after few weeks
Icay. 20 :. uch improve thar their friends would
! hardly rec guz them De gentleman has
only missed .wo seasons in thirty. one years.
The table is god, but being 20 lar away
from the railroad AID everything here burnt
up by the drought, we have DOT much OF q
variety Of Vegetables. The old head cook, Ned,
has besn here 10 that capacity Tor thirty three
years, and understands his business; better pas
try, meats, &c, arc not to be found at any OF
the Springs.
l. has been found very hard to bottle the
watcr on account cf the gasses in it, and the
only way is to Fl tie bottle by putting ii under
the water cork as soon as taken OUT, seal at
once ad keep it Inverted till the cork swclls;
then before it is ucorked reduce the tempera-
ture to wat it is in he spring and drink as soon
as opened. Out Of snuc seven dozen that we
rut up for our own U.s., over Que dozen were
burst by he gasscs in few hours; good, sub
stsntial bottles are therefore necessary. Having
plenty OF leisure TO write IN we are tempted to
IN Ike our letter tiresome in length, which we
hope will be excused. GUY.
2. S. Since writing the above gloom has
been thrown over u by the sudden death Of
one Of our company, Mr.. J. H. Binford, Of
Richmond, SUPERINTENDENT of Public Schools,
WHO died on Sunday morning a; 2:3O u. NJ, of
heart disease. Al tea the evening before he
was in bis usual good spirits, laughing and jest
lug with his friends more than usual. He re-
tired abou | | o'clock complaining OF pain 10
his side and feeling restless, but DO danger was
unprecedented about a half an hour later he
remarked that his head hurt, when Mr.. Il CHI
Walker OF Rock fridge county, who occupied
the Mex room Was called in. and In few mo-
mcntS he became unconscious and remained so
till lie died. Mr.. B. had been here about four
weeks and while BE- has been gaining 10 flesh,
he did not feel that the water was acting as
favorabiy as it did last year. lie will be much
missed, as he had made friends Of all by his
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