Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-08

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Coal is mined in Dade, Walker
and Chattooga counties; supply
estimated to be 920,000,000
tons, which would require 500
years to mine.
Wesleyan Female College, at
Macon, was the first college in
the world to be chartered for the
graduation and granting diplomas
to women.
The wife Of Robert Goulding,
of Georgia, was sewing on her
own machine (1844) two years
before Howe and Thermometer
applied for patents.
The first steamer to cross the
Atlantic ocean was the "Savan-
nah," which sailed from Savan-
nah, Ga, May 26th, 1919, and
landed in Liverpool June Goth
the same year.
The first cotton gin was made
by Eli Whitney at Augusta at
the suggestion of a Mrs. Hill
house. The brush was invented
by Mrs. Nathaniel Green in
1893.
Although Robert Fulton has
become famous as the inventor
of the steamboat (1807) William
Longstreet applied steam to navi-
cation on the Savannah river in
1870, seventeen years before
Fulton.
Alexander Means, professor
at Emory University (Ga.), was
the discoverer of electricity in
1841, lighted a lamp and ran
a small toy car with the power
he generated, which was two
years before Thomas Edison was
born.
The first chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy was or
gained by Mrs. A. S. Erwin, of
Athens, Ca, and suggested
crosses of honor" which were
first bestowed upon Georgia vet
Grams.
pahlonega, Ga, gets its name
from the Indian, meaning "yel-
low money" A government (U.
81 mint was established there in
1888 and continued until 1861.
During the operation there were
coined 1,318,748 pieces of gold,
valued at $6,115, 569.
DR.. Crawford w. Long on
March Both, 1912, at jefferson,
Ga, III using a sulphuric ether
to remove tumor from the neck
of James w. Venable, discover
ed the use of anesthesia-one of
the greatest boons ever bestowed
upon mankind.
A Cherokee (Ga.) Indian bv
the name of Carr, because he
wrote in such a splendid Spen-
cerian style, was called upon to
write the terms of surrender be-
tween General Robert E. Lee and
General u. S. Grant.
The capital sites of Georgia
from first to last were as fol-
lows; Frederick, 1749; Ebenezer
(Augusta), 1779; Heard's Fort,
1880; Savannah, after the sur
render of Lord CORVALLIS in
1881; Augusta (third time),
1886; Louisville, 1898; Milledge-
vile, 18034 Macon, 1865: At
lanta Temporary capital, 1868;
Atlanta permanent capital
1887.
The Battle of Allatoona, fam
Gus in history and song, was
fought October 5th, 1864. The
evening before the battle General
Corse received signal message
sent him by Generals Sherman
from the summit of Kennesaw
Mountain, through the sky"
and over the heads of the Con-
tederate soldiers, instructine hin
to hasten from Rome and take
command of the forts at ALA
toona Heights. After the war,
the evangelist, P. P. Bliss, to
whom the circumstances Of ''the
signal messages through the sky
We're narrated, caught therefrom
the Inspiration for the stirring
song Hold the Fort for / Am
coming" He wrote it the night
after he first heard it and next
day sang it in the Tabernacle"
at Chicago.
The first ice-making machine
was made in Columbus, the in
vention of DR.. John Gerrie, in
1850. His patents were filed in
1914.
The largest Single block of
marble in the world was mined
by the Tate Marble company at
Tate, Ga, and is now in the cap
ltal building at st. Paul, MINI.
Stone Mountain, sixteen miles
from Atlanta, is the largest solid
mountain of granite in the world,
measuring seven miles around the
base.
Georgia has the largest tobac-
co plantation in, the world-25,-
600 acres-in Decatur county,
near cambridge.
Georgia has the largest apiary
IN the world, shipping honey in
carload lots as far away as
Canada.
The first negro to graduate
from the United States Military
Academy at West Point, N. Y,
was a Georgian.
A Rome, Ga, negro was, the
first of his race to be elected to
the mayoralty of a city; that of
Battersea, England, a borough of
London of about 100000 popu-
lation.
John Howard Paine wrote
Home Sweet Home" at Red
Clay in Whitfield county in 1886,
when General Scott made a