The Penn's Grove record., 1888-06-30
A VIRGINIA SENSATION.
The Extraordinary Experience Of .
Prominent Richmonder.
Richmond [ Va State.

Richmond Va.) State.
A. A. Arnold, OF. the "Valley Vir
g%inian," Staunton, Va, writes the fol.
lowing remarkable letter, ths truth OF
which is attested by many prominent
StauDton citizens.
Mr.. Crawford. however, is SO well
known in Richmond that no affidavits
are necessary In his case. His remark
able experience is well worth perusal to
the end:
II was teaching school at Sherandoi
on the morning of the early part OF
February, 1879, as l passed the village
tavern the hired boy informed me that
there was a gentleman at the house
dying and that he had sent for me sew
eral times.
He said that his physician had told
him he had Bright's Disease. Shortly
after midnight his commissions were so
severe and In such rapid succession the
nurse had expected him to die every
hour, and he was at this moment sink
ing rapidly.
How any being could suffer as he
did and live Is and always will be a
mystery to me. His groans could be
heard at a great distance. Thanks to a
>ynd Providence q change came, and
ter a few days he was able to be re.
loved to his home at Summerdean.
for many months he was looked upon
as no better than q dead a
Imagine my surprise then when a
few months ago 1 met him in Staunton
looking In better health than ever. l
imagined that he was "patched up"
but I was mistaken, for you might
meet 400 healthy men and not find one
In the lot who presents more the ap-
p~earance of . perfectly healthy man
than he. He gives me the following
additional particulars:
"After reaching my home I took my
bed and the outlook was that when l
left it it would be for a march to the
tomb.
"Convulsion followed convulsion; in
my agony my clencbed hands drove the
nails of my fingers into the flesh of my
palms.
"Every physician Of note in the
neighborhood and several from Staun-
ton were summoned. but for Bright's
disease they could give no relief. much
less a cur
"Two eminent physicians were called
from Philadelphia; after examining
me n asked. Il wonder why he sent
for usl Why, he's q dead mar now ZIP
"Thus / lay suffering. All was
gloom. At last some kind angel sug-
gested that l use Warmers safe cure.
at was administered to me and the
fourth bottle had not been exhausted
before some good effects showed Them
selves. While / thus lay between two
worlds l CHANGED to read IN n Of
Warmers advertisements: ''Some con
situations are liable to constipation.
When this Is the a take Warmers
safe pills" My wife sent for some and
l took a dose, and SOON thereafter I
seemed u new creature in a new world.
| felt and knew l was cured, and SO 1t
was, for not after a lapse of many years
l am sound as q dollar with no symp-
tons Of my old trouble, and AVE only.
Warmers safe cure and Warmers safe
pills to thank for my health. which,
under Gods providence, l have re-
gained, and 1 take great pleasure in adj
ding my testimony to that of others as
to its efficacy. l owe my life to the
use of those most excellent medicines"
dec. 9th, 1871 w. T. CRAWFORD.
Mr.. Crawford, senior partner OF
Crawford & LslIey, Of the st. Charles
Hot,l, is u man whose word Is pre-.
eminent for probity all over the South.
When the above thrilling story was
sent us by Messrs. Warner & Co. they
authorized us to offer 5000 to any
person who will prove that any testl-
monial used by them is not strictly
true so far as they know. They also
say that wonderful as is the above,
they can produce many thousands Of
oimilarly striking proofs Of permanent
cure when all other agencies failed.
The latest advance In photography Is
that of photOgraphing sound, or rather
sound vibrations. The sound-vibra-
lions are communicated to a thin plati-
mum plate, and the movements of the
plate, after being magniied by a solar
microscope, are reflected on a screen,
and photographed by rapidly drawing a
sensitive plate across the image, Every
letter when pronounced gives q sepa-
rate and distinct impression, the yowels
showing regular undulatory vibrations.
while the consonants give curves and
lines of very varied forms. The uses
to which this invention when perfected
can be turned are almost innumerable.
A small instrument placed in a room
will take down every word of the con-
versation. If the instrument comes
into general use shorthand writer's viii
lind their occupation gone.
Wood Is being employed scienti1cal-
Iy in surgery in a different foIm from
ordinary splints. A foreigner has ill
troducded wood wool as a cheap and
useful dressing for wounds; and 1t is
prepared extensively as q commercial
staple for surgical dressings, 1t is fine
ly ground wood, as is extensively used
IN the manufacture OF paper. 1t is a
clean looking, delicate-fbred, soft, yell
lowish-white substance. having an
odor of fresh wood, and absorbs an i'm
mense quantity OF liquid. The best
wood-wool was found to be that which
was obtained from pitch pine.
The railroad from Llege to Macs
tricht, says a Belgian paper, has obtain
ed permission to put upon its track be-
tween Llege and Wise small trains
made up Of Jars of the ordinary horse
car pattern. These trains stop between
stations, and they are found to be a
great convenience for the small villa
zes along the route. The object OF the
company in inaugurating this system
Of conveyance was to prevent the es-
tablishment of a competing street car
line.
A ns,D kind Of vertical steam boiler
has been invented by Mr.. Armer. The
object of the design Is to obtain the
greatest possible efficiency in the steam
heating surfaces. In order to effect
this, tile tubes have a hellcal twist
given them, which does no. interfere
with the ease with which they may be
cleansed, but which causes greater i'm
pingement of the gases against the
tube walls, and gives more freedom for
expansion than straight tubes.