The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-31

to get out with great haste to avoid being
drowned. Two feet and ten inches of
water were reported by my well superin-
tendent. who tapped me for another as
sessment and went home to obtain much
needed rest. | thought that two feet
would hardly be sufficient for our family
several members of which use water ex-
ciusively as tonic, SO L got another man
to put in a final blast.
This blast was lll-advised, as it cracked
open the bottom of the we'll and let out the
two feet and ten inches of water which
had been put in there on the night of the
9TH inst. 1t is low enough to salt gold
mine, hut the man who will carry water
from the "branch" all night to salt the
well of kind-hearted Northern invalid
who is willing to let bygones be bygones
and ready to let the dead past do its own
undertaking is not going to encourage
cobwebs on the mouths OF your cannon
the way / feel like doing.
did not murmur when | found that in
charging 81 per foot the weil-digger meant
81 per foot down and 81 up, or 50 for dig
ging and 81 for slowing. Also ! paid Cor
hands, materials. damages. medicine etc.
! never said anything, unless it was that
did not hold myself responsible as late as
this for the damage that General Sherman
did in the heat OF passion, while was too
Young to be held responsible, and that a
little deal over Il well, thought. was n
poor place to work in the entire expenses
ola war.
Even when found that the we'll at the
depth of 100 feet had tapered so fast that it
was merely a little feyerish point in the
thirsty bowels of the earth | did not muir
muir. Even when ] found that | had
li.00 yards of earth piled up at the mouth
of the well on my straw berry bed / did not
speak bitterly or refer with acrimony to
the wooden cannon which were so placed
IA. L.
Arlington hotel in Washington every eve
ming for weeks did not rake up old
personalities even when ! went down once
To see the We'll and the hands at the wind
lass went 10 Asheville to spend a gala
week. leaving me To enjoy the glorious
scenery known a. the Land of the Sky.
But | say that we should not expect to
wreak the vengeance of a century upon or
collect the consequential damages of four
years OF hard fought and calamitous war
from a peaceabe man who has been
already picked on" by the so-called
artists of the United States till he does not
dare to unyeii himself in pubilc till after
twilight.
do not come before the public asking
for 800 Plnkerton men 10 protect me at the
cost OF their lives. My grounds are free TO
those who wish TO come and gambol on
them, and no armed force will be invoked
10 keep the peace on my plantation.
only ask that no one viii refer 10 this well
until am more calm.
In the meantime have large. beauti-
fui, geared windmill for sale. | bought
the windmill feeling certain that here,
where the rain only pauses 10 spit on its
hands snd get better hold. water would
be plenty even if We had to catch il in the
we'll in the shape of rain, hat my well is
now the only dry place in North Carolina.
Before dug the well man came TO me,
claiming 10 be water witch. He claimed
10 have the gift OF discovering the location
OF vein of water by means OF hazel
wand or crotch. For s. he would have