Antique 1880 Letter C R Faulk Bullard/Bullards Georgia Twiggs County
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ANTIQUE 1880 LETTER C R FAULK BULLARD/BULLARDS GEORGIA TWIGGS COUNTY. Mr Faulk asked that the bookkeeper send him his work in a way he might understand but has heard nothing from him. It was set one side and the next morningDr. O'Daniel was sent for and he examined it closely. 7x8 faintly lined ecru paper dated March 20, 1880, sent to Carhart & Curd, hardware merchants in Macon, Georgia from C R Faulk in Bullards, Georgia in Twiggs County. Mr Faulk is writing in an effort to settle a matter of his account with the Macon business and has disputed the bookkeeper's amount owed. Mr Faulk asked that the bookkeeper send him his work in a way he might understand but has heard nothing from him. The paper has some staining and a small section along the top edge is separated but present. Bullard is an unincorporated community in Twiggs County and was the first site of a steamboat landing on the Ocmulgee. In trying to research C R Faulk, I ran across this very interesting news item in the January 10, 1880 Georgia Weekly Telegraph newspaper: Attempted Poisoning in Twiggs County. Yesterday we learned of an attempted poisoning of a whole family in Twiggs county. It seems that on Wednesday night, just before retiring, Mrs. C. R. Faulk took a drink of water from the bucket, which was placed as usual on the back verandah of the residence, and nothing peculiar was noticed about it. About an hour after, at half past ten o'clock, Mr. William Faulk, a son of Mrs. C. R. Faulk, returned home and commenced to take a drink of water from the same vessel but was arrested by an intense bitter taste. Thinking that it might have been caused by quinine from the lips of one of the family who had been taking that medicine, he turned the dipper around and found that the bitterness was in the water itself. The water was examined and a whitish sediment was discovered. It was set one side and the next morning Dr. O'Daniel was sent for and he examined it closely. He soon discovered that the bitterness was much more intense than that of quinine in solution. He applied such simple tests as he had at hand, such as applying sulfuric acid to the solution, which dispelled the cloudy appearance in the water, but on the introduction of ammonia in the test vessel no precipitation took place, as would have undoubtedly occurred had the bitterness been caused by quinine. He on further investigation concluded that an attempt at strychnine poisoning had been made.
