Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-08-20

MI. Henry /" iams, grocer, badly bnrht.
WESLEYAN SEMINARY AT ALTOONA friend
has sent us catalogue of the Institution for the
Academic year 1915. Itexhibiis an aggregate
of scholars for the year Of 373. We are gratlfi-
edlo learn that this useful Seminary is in this
hourshing condition. We notice that the Exam
ination takes place on the goth and 26th, and The
Exhibition ON the 81 of Aug. nst.-Adr.
Cure for the Hydrophobia.-M James A.
Hubbard. of Bond county ILL., in letter TO the ST.
Louis Republican says.
Eighteen years ago, my brother and myself
were bitten by mad dog. A sheep also
bitten at the same time. Among the many cures
offered for the lutte boys, Eve were then ten or
twelve years of age,) friend suggested The fol-
lowing. which he said would the bite OF
rattle snake: r. iesH a31 ito
Take the root of the common upland ash. gen.
orally called black ash; peel off the bark, aud boil
il to strong decOc,on of This, drink freely
Whilst my father was preparing The above, the
sheep spoken OF began to be afflicted with hydro
phobia. When il had become so fatigued from its
distracted state, as to be no longer able to stand
my father drenched with PUT of the ash roo.
ooze, hoping 10 ascertain whether he could depend
upon it cure for his Four hours after
the breach had been given, to the establishment OF
them all. the animal got up, and went quietly with
the flock, to grazing. My brother aud myself
continued 10 take the medicine OF eight len
days--one gill three times day. No effects Of
the dreadful po>en discovered OIL either
of Us. 1t has been used very successfully in
snake bites. to my knowledge.
81 WAR PREPARAFIoNs.--Our Government is ac.
lively engaged III making waIIke preparaiIons.--
The troops at 81. Louis, Buffalo. BaIliOore, aud
New York already on their way to Texas.
lie The ship kaatnaZ 10, which just getting
ready to sail for Liverpool, has been Chartered TO
10 take on board 100 men from Go vernor's Island
N. Y. and proceed Immediately TO Florida. al d
convey the forces stationed at Tampa Bay, under
Gen, Worth TO Texas.
~ The troops af Norfolk are also ordered to Tex
3 as, aud are TO be conveyed there by the u S,
steamer, COL Harvey.
the Washington Union states that vague infor-
nation has been received at tine expected advance
OF the Mexican army tiEo Texas.
One hundred aud fifty boxes of nuskets-wilh
orders for l50 more To foow--and 2o0,000 bail
cartridges. have been sent fro;n w tshngGon 10 New
Orleans. As our troops well armed. II Is sup
posed they are for the use of The Texans.
HYDRopnoBIA.-We learn that man named
John Cheyal,er. engineer in PITTS steam mill,
in this city, died yesterday of a complaint pro-
nounced by his physician to be hydrophoba. He
was bitten some seven weeks since by small dog
which exhibited symptoms OF rabidness. A ply
stefan was Consulted at III, time, remedies applied
to the bite and the felt satisfied that all dan
ger had passed. He was sick about two days.
and suffered great agony, with intervals of quiet
and lucid moments. Will not this laDeniabe oc-
currence satisfy every citizen that The precaution-
b,,tl Ilalf 6,
and that they should have been more vigorously
enforced than they were? What are The lives OF
all the dogs in the city to The value of this man
life to bis family and ms friends Ado
"A verdanl son of The Emerald Isle was recently
hired by a farmer in the vicinity O. West Point.
at suuser of his first days service, he astoun-
ded by the customary evdniDg gun at the Fortress.
starting TO his feet ne eagerly enquired, what that
noise was, sure " The shutdown gun replied
the farmer "Och! BY Saint Patrick. So i'd Pa,
.sdoes the sun make sich div of thunder as
that, when he goes down in this counlry?"
feel as if should come TO bits; as the horse
said when he saw boy with bride.
aoa s.Ia advance Of all our cotemporrries as the
Eastern Editor sand, when they were leading him
TO the tar bucket for publishing hoax:
-7ss The rice crop at the Somh.--We have taken
occasion to visit the crops in the neighborhood,
and we are panied to see the effects of the long
continued drought, and The salt water. On all
the plantations below Prospect Hill on the Wac
camaw, Windsor on The Black River. and the
whole of the Sompt river. they are irrecoverably
Injured at least one fourth and on some plantations
one half. Above these points the crops are good.
We regard the crop OF The district aIrerdy short
to the extent Olive or six thousand tlerces. The
corn crop is not promising as usual at,his sea-
son ofihe year. The potatoe aud pea crops are
also Inferior.-G Georgetown Is. co. Observer.
CORY RIGHr.-The publishers ofthe N. York
Evening Mirror have Withdrawn the exemption
from the copy right law. in regard to the Publica-
ton of Mr.. WilIiss leters.and extend the publIca
ton to ALA course which they have a perfect
. right to take. --Erpress. -
And no body is likely to complain Of i.