Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-30
n. rp,4sI.n 81 The ccsses Gin,

No invensita has played larger issri
IN our lissoy{ than the Gotten GIN. waish
vas the warl Of Eli Whitney. Whitney
was tile son af poor Massachusetts
farmer and 'verkes his way ihvessssa
college withsat assistance SNon after
the reyolasis3 be settled in Georgia saa
became !. tcdher to the ciiidreaos Mis-
Nathaniel Gtsne. widow of The famous
General fsrsaie Tine day when q cosn-
pany os planners were assembled at Mrs,
l;.eere7s huiee near Savannah the de-
pressed condtion Of the southern states
rari,a IN for discussion, and i WIS en
,rallv agreed that tee chief cause g. 'ii''
existing copaision Of affairs was the III
fe,,lty of raising coston with lFn,it, ow-
ms to the grs,as labor of separating N.
tbers Of ,hsroitan from tie seed, 0n'.
Of the planners suggested that l'erhaIs
this work c5iid be done vita il machine
and this pcmpted Mrs. Greene 10 rs
mark: ..Genlemen, apply 10 nay yours
friend. Mr.. Whitney, Tie can make AM
thing"
Whitney s~s sent for and the sitna-
ton explained to him. He told tbs
planters he Ind never seen u pol Of coi-
ton in his life, but he would try what he
could do. Nsft day lie procured soine
unclea,, cottd shut himself IN in his
room and sci b work to invent the ma
chine rs.>.df4 Prom early boyhaod he
mad !. ,xhibitt wonderful skill in me
char scs. mleslis aptitude WIS of tae
rres.t /, st assnnce 10 him. iii his PR sent
tasl8 IL. M compelled To make til
tnoH ml y wire with which hs
wc, III i. buttore winter had ended he
ha j % anplet his machine. Then he
seS A m in fed and invited a number
of a anters tome and see il work. The
del a aa of III isitors at what they sasF
| was IN bomb. Whitney 5 engine coala
clealk !, As muroton in one day as aman
colsld clcad whole winter. Mex
York fieralf
Tae Iyl,;clS,ie of Middle aIountain.
i. Up k1itil2uut tho middle Of April,
1890, III enk hole of Middle noun
| tIi.l III. u . # the best known of VIZ
| sinias Iiat,; culioSitios. the natural
| bridge b cta always excepted. Tn
! Black la Ns.ls a natural well ahog.
| twenty f. i .liarie;er, siiWtcd nj tie
| f,,,: OF u Il mya4iain ou the farm ct
| A. II. sslulilM on, Iii Pocahoutas couatt
| Il Wac Of unl own dcpthan locally ia
iioved to lie II sonoEs from the fact tha'
| cattle. horses BAD other animals in Co.'s
mon refused drink of the water al
| though alnld famishing from thirs
| Black hole I'D been known since at le0s
| 100 years befd,e the opening Of the Rove
lutionary was and was given the lail'
| it bore because its waters looked =,
| black rs ink, even though the eyes a..
| feet distant from its surface. Whei
| dipped out BY the cup, pail or barreltl
| it appeared as clear as crystal, the orig
| inal coal black appearance being a pho
nomenon never satisfactorily acconn,es
| for.
Black hole, which had stood with it.
waters at uniform level for two Cen
turies of white mans history tdurin;
! which time the water line had never il
the least been affected by food q
drought, suddenly disappeared. Or
Warner, who lives on the Slitlingtol
farm, was the first to discover and ali
nounce what was considered a neighbor
hood calamity. He had gone to salt tii'
cattle which usually congregated in thu
shade around the brink of the pool, ant
| was amazingly astonished to find tina
the old 1bottomless well' had suddenly
become a thing Of the past. Its water
had been ,nysTeriously drained. and it
sides had fallen inst, Louis Republic