Star.
London, England, 1824-08-24 00:00:00

THE MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER SON.

FBOM BLACKWOOD'S NIAGAZIKK.

My child was beautiful ard brave !
An opening llower.of Spring ;
lie moulders in a disrint
.1 cold, forgotten thing—
Forgotten ! yes, by 11 but me,
As e'en the best belov'd must be—
Farewell! farewell, my dearest!
Methinks 't had been a comfort now
To have caught his patting breath,
Had I been near, from his damp brow
To wipe the dews of death—
With one long, lingering kiss, to close
Ili* eyelids for the last repose—
Farewell ! farewell, nvy dearest !
I little thought such wish to prove,
When cradled on my breast,
With all a mother's cautious love, •
His sleeping lids 1 prest—
Alas ! alas ! his dying head
Was pillow'd on a colder bed—
Farewell' farewell, my dearest!
They told me Vicery's laurels wr.,athed
His youthful temples round ;
That "Vicery!" front his lips was breathed

The Last exulting sound—
Cold comfort to a mother's ear
Who long'd his living voice to hear !
Farewell ! tat ewell, my dearest !
F.'en so thy gallant father died,
When thou, pour orphan child !
A helpless prattler at my side,
My widow'd grief beguiled—
But now, bereaved of all in thee,
What earthly voice shall comfort me?—
Farewell ! farewell, my dearest !

ON CAAINE MADNESS.

(Front the Mirror.)

" The prevention of the direful effects of canine mad-
ness seems to have been attempted in the early ages;
to accomplish this, Pliny recommends the worming of
dogs, and from his time to the present it has deservedly
had its advocates. Very strong proofs have been ad-
duced of its utility. The fact, however, is, that taking
out the worm has nothing to do with annihilating the
disorder, although it will most certainly hinder the dog
seized with it from doing any hurt to man or beast.—
A late author asserts, he had three dogs that were
wormed, bit by mad dogs at three several periods, yet,
notwithstanding they•all died mad—they did not bite,
nor do any mischief; that, being determined to make a
full experiment, he shut one of the mad dogs up in a
kennel, and put to him a dog he did not value ; the
mad dog often run at the other to bite him, but his
tongue was so swelled, that he could not make his teeth
meet ; the dog was kept in the kennel until the mad one
died, and was purposely p,reserved for two years after-
wards, to note the effect, but be never ailed anything,
although no remedies were applied to check any infec-
tion that might have been received from the contact of
the mad dog. The writer. has had various opportunities
of proving the usefulness of worming, and inserts three
of the most striking instances, under the hope of in-
ducing its general practice.
A terrier bitch went mad, that was kept in a ken-
nel with forty couple of hounds; not a single hound
was bitten, nor was she seen to offer to bite. The bitch
being of a peculiar sort, every attention was paid Jo
her, and the gradations of the disease (which were ex-
tremely rapid), minutely noted ; the hydrophobia vi.as
fast approaching before she was separated from the
hounds, and she died the second day after; at-first warm
milk was placed before her, which she attempted to
lap, but the throat refused its functions ; from• this
period she never tiled to eat or drink, seldom rose up,
or even moved, the tongue swelled very much, and,
long before het death, the jaws were distended by it.
" A spaniel dog was observed to be seized by a strange
dog, and was bit in the lip; • the servant who ran up to
part then' narrowly escaped, as the dog twice flew at
him ; a few minutes after the dog had quitted the yard,
the people who had pursued gave notice of the dog's
madness, who had made terrible havock in a course of
ten miles from whence he had set off. The spaniel was
a great favourite, had medicine applied, and every pre-
caution taken ; upon the foul teenth day he appeared to
loathe his food, and his eyes looked unusually heavy :
the day followir; he ende.avoured to lap milk, but could
swallow none; from that time the tongue began to
swell : he moved but seldom, and on the third day he
died : for many hours previous to his death, the tongue
was so enlarged, that the fangs or canine teeth could
not meet each other, by upwards of an inch.
" The hounds were some years after parted with, and
were sold in lots ; a madness broke out in the kennel of
the Gentleman who purchased many of them, and al-
though several of these hounds were bitten, and went
mad, only one of them ever attempted to bite, and that
was a hound front the Duke of Portland's, who, in the
operation of worming, had the norm broke by his strug-
gling, and was so troublesome that one•half of it was
suffered to remain; the others all died with symp-
toms similar to the terrier and spaniel, viz, a violent
swelling of the tongue, and a stupor rendering them
nearly motionless, and both which symptoms seemed to
increase with the disease.
" The idea that worming prevents a dog from re-
ceiving the infection when bitten, should be exploded;
but the foregoing facts spew how tar it may be recom-
mended for the restriction of a malady horrid in its ef-
fects, where a human being is concerned, and which to
• the spot tltrnan and farmer is attended with such dan-
.,..'•;gerous and expensive consequences. " T. A. C."

Fore dismissing this subject, I feel called upon to add, that
many years ago I had myselt a dog that had been wormed when a
pup. He got bit by a mad dog, and was quite unable to bite: he
seemed to get stupid, and to have lost the power of his :dins: so
that his efforts to run at anything were quite unavailing. There
could be no mistake in this case, tor several neighbours' dogs were
also bitten, some of which were killed as so. 41 as it was known,
but such as were tied up, instead of being killed, died mad in two
days or !Incr.—Why neglect a precliution is so easy, and
which at ary rate can do no Ilium ?-I;:air.

Wednestla y se'nnigbt Wr. (nos xst.t. was entertained
at a public iauuer, at the Town 11..11, Waterfotd. The company
was highly respectable, and consisted of nearly one hundred and
fifty persons, comprising a large proportion of the principal Catholics
of the county and city of Waterford, with many Gentlemen from
the adjacent counties of Kilkenny itild Wexford. The Chair was
hll rd hi Iticitsse Pow•ak UrSek.e, Esq. of Gardenntorrir, in the
county of Waterlorj.

The Philadelphia Freeman's Journal, in announcing
the arrival .01 Messrs, WoitTt.ta, SrANLEy, and DEN..
1113')14, all Members of the 13iitish Parliament, adds,
We rejniee,at the arrival trlthese Gentlemen, who, from the sta-
tion they ocetipy in their own country, .may be presumed men of
liberal educittent, and divested of thou narrow and contracted
Teas whkiehave influenced the majority of those preesied travel-
lers,*ht, havOtf Litter yeJrs visited our country. • From observa-
tion, they will h.• evahled to judgr"ot the truth and candour of
their bee& tneekin4 equilu y aim"