The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-03-23


! caused from the lead while in his stomach, being
The greatest difficulty to contend with at present
appearances. Wapeila tloical lnteligeqeer.
STRYcHNIA AND IT'S ANTIDoTe-In The last
number of The Medical and Surgical Journal,
published in Richmond, we notice an article in
If on the above powerful and sudden poison 5y
Dr. Tewkesbury, of Maine. He says:
The frequency with which strychnIa IS
used Tor poisoning purposes has attracted the
serious attention not only Of medical men but
the public generally. The deadly certainty
with which It acts, the ease OF administration,
and the difficulties which surround every at
tempt 10 prove with positive certainty lis pre-
sence in the stomach, all unite TO give this drug
a dreadful notoripty.
''Dr I. then proceeds to mention inaancps
Of his beng called TO persons who had taken
wiliuiy and by mistake doses of strychnia, and
that he had given them about two teaspoonfuls
OF saturated solution of camphor with manifest
effect and prompt relief. He also tried it by
way ofeXperiment on dogs and found that when
ever be could administer the camphor speedily
enough he was successful in preventing the poi
son from causing DEATH
A SrccEssFuL SCOTSMAN. Powers, of
Fayette county, Iowa, lately drove into Dubh-
que with load of game. consisting of ] 900
quails, 1000 prarie chickens, 100 rabbits, eight
deer, five wolf skins, and two bear skins.
FRIGRTFUL AcclDEAT AT MEREDITH, n. n.
"A ffightful accident occurred at Meredith,
~ H., on Tuesday last. Whist the people
were balotng 10 the Town Hall, the floor sud-
denly gave way, precpitating some three hun
drpd persons into tht stores beneath, distance
OF Is feet. Forty persons were taken out with
their limbs broken and otherwise injured, four
of whom not expected to recover. The ai-
fair produced most intense excitement.
GIANTEss IN A FIx.-They have giant
ess in Maine. She is seven feet six inches in
height. The Portland Argus tells the follow
ing anpcdote of her: "Whie she was passing
through the Kitchen of 4 farm house one day,
With large pan OF milk in each hand, her hair
canght upon hook which projected two or
three inches from the ceiling, and held her
fast. She could neither stoop to set the pans
down nor raise her hands TO disengage her hair,
and was compelled thus to remain until her
cries brought others to her assistance"
u correspondent of The Boston Post
travelling in the west, tells this story;
Railway travelling would be far more weari-
some than it is, but for the little scenes that oc-
Casionally occur IN the cars, TO relieve the mo-
notonv Of the day. These are often very ANU
sing, and sometimes quite dramatic. One of
these | VIII endeavor 10 rehearse, though with
small hope of giving you correct idea of the
affair. 1t happened that on the route between
Albany and Buffalo, last week, all the seats in
the car in which | was seated, were occupied
by two persons, save two or three which Were
tenanted by one passenger each, and one ofihese
was a blooming, well dressed maiden of eigh-
teen or twenty years. AT a way station, in
came woman, g fair, fat and toriv," hand
somely dressed, but with bold, vulgar ex-
preston of countenance, and bearing in ber arms
g bouncing big baby" As she pushed along,
looking for an eligible seat. her eye fell upon
the one occupied by the damSe aforesaid, and
she immediately went up to the spot and pre-
pared to sit down but the occupant, with pref
~ toss OF her head, told the matron she would
Efnd seat further on" She started accordingly,
and. seating herself in a remote part of the car,
locked back TO the arstocraiic lady, and exclaim-
ed loud enough for everybody to hear, sc Ac-
commodation, certainly I hope, my nice
young woman, you'll have DOZEN young 'uns
vet, and every one Of 'em as heavy to hold as
this ~ 1t was terrible anathema: the maiden
blushed TO the very ears al the mere mention of
such thing lin public,l and the Unsurpassed
laughter fthe audience was Itself too cruel
punishment 10 allow its object any idea OF sev-
erer retribution.
SINGULAR RAILROAD AccIDENT.--Last Sat-
urday morning, as the express passenger train
on the New Albany and Salem Railroad was
going south, and when about seven miles from
Michigan City, met with singular accident
The train was descending grade at a velocity
of thirty miles per hour. when the baggage car
suddenly jumped from the track, and went down
an embankment, while the rest Of the train ran
on nearly half mile before it could BE- stopped.
The baggage car contained about twenty per-
sons, who all escaped serious injury except one
man, NAMED Roberts, employed on the telegraph
line he received internal injuries OF such ma
ture, thathis recovery is regarded as impossible.
1t is difficult to assign cause for the car leaV
ing the track stick of wood from the tender
NAV have fallen under the forward truck. Those
in the passenger cars felt only slight shock as
the baggage car broke away from the train.--
Chicago Dem.
TESTIMONIAL TO BRAVE WoMAN.-1t will
be remembered that Margaret Baker rescued
the crew ofa vessel from death by drowning,
during storm Oh lake Erie, in the month of
November, the particulars of " hich we publish
ed al the time. Captain Dorr, who furnished
us with the particulars OF the rescue at the
time, has now been instrumental in donating
handsome family Bible, on The covers of which
appears an inscription embodying the facts on
which the gift is made The story will thus be