Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1881 — A Kissing Spring. [ARTICLE]

A Kissing Spring.

Little Rock Gazette. A trusted correspondent at Witherspoon writes: We are cordially informed that fifteen miles northeast of" here on Greasy creek, one of the greatest and most miraculous springs, has re. eently been discovered, on record. We have not been to see them, but our informant, a good citizen aud a Baptist preacher of celebrity, tells us what he saw. Parson John R. Yeatts was at the spring last week, and he says ihe spring flows from a mountain about 400 feet high, comes out of the ground about 100 feet from the top of the mountain, on the north side aud flows at the rate of about forty gallons per minute, and the color of apple cider and tastes just like apple brandy and has tne same affect. Those under the influence of the water are perfectly ecstatic and hugging and loving everything they meet He says: “I never saw the like; children and boys and girls hugging and kissing everyone they meet. Old men and old women, young men and young ladles, embHtcmg each other by hugging and kissing. I met an old white-headed man and woman—l suppose about eighty—mid they were hopping and skipping like lambs. I saw hundreds lying round the spring so drunk.that they could not stand up apd they were lyin and laughing and trying to slap their hands.” The people call them mlliennium springs.?’