Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-06-19

wounds are of a dangerous il not fatal
nature. -Uu6uque Herald.
A Mad stone - Linn County.
% Monday evening, an lrishman.
named Joseph Sheppard, living near
Cliuton. was bitten by mad dog. The
animal first attacked him in the street,
biting him OIL the knee; the man ran
into an open s.ablc-thc dog followed,
corncrcd him and no DOUBT supposed
that he had his victim entirely at his
disposal not so with Mr.. Sheppard, his
lush pluck couldn't stand that; he
seized the dog by the jaws, threw him
down, put his knee on his throat and
held him until assistance arrived. This
certainly, was a feat worthy Of record, as
the dog was OF large size. The battle
however vas not bloodless one, the
victor received severe wound on the
breast, Slight one on the foot and his
hand was d'eadtuIlv manglcd. Fortu-
natcly for him there happened to be a
gentleman there from Paris, in this
county, who was acquainted with the
Virtues OF mad stone, owned by Turn
or Evans, OF that place. Mr.. Sheppard
arrived in this town, on Tuesday eve
ming, en- route for Paris. Tie next dav
we went to see the operation.
The stone is about as large as a small
hickory nut, is OF whitsh color and
is full Of small cells or pores, something
Ike honey comb. The manner of ap.
plying it is as f.llows:
II IS dropped into warm milk and
water until OF tho a,mc temperature
the blood Of the patient. 4 small pune
ture is made with a needle OF lancet
ucar Que Of the wounds; the stone is
then applied and if the dog is mad it
will adhere to the flesh, otherwise it
will drop. la this case it was tried upon
the leg Immediately little streaks Of a
fine red were seen all around the stone,
and pointing toward it. The patient
said he felt kind Of twitching ia his
veins throught ut. the whole system. AS
soon as the stone gets filed with the
venom, it drops of and is put into the
milk aud water, which becomes turb:d,
and 10 some instances separates, the
milk curdliog aud settling to the bottom.
When the blood is completely purified,
the stone refuses to adhere. In this
instance it was applied nine times.
Another peculiarly about the opcr-
alton, is this, around the different
wounds the flesh was nearly black, with
a gIecuish tinge. As soon as the stone
began to draw this disappeared, not only
from the wound near the incision, but
from those OH the breast aud foot at
the same time. M. Evans informs us
that out Of eighty cases, on human
beings, which he hid in two years and
half, not one has been lost besides
these large number of cattle, horses,
&c, have been cured. The remedy is
as effectual in snake bites as it is with
that of dogs.-Marion Herald.
VINO WILL RIDE THE DONKEY -
The greatest question Of the day among
the Back Republican politicians is, who
will ride the party donkey on and after
the 4th OF March, 1861! They have
quite settled the matter that "honest
Old Abe Lincoln " is to be elected, and
the question now is who shall direct his
movements after he has been comtorta-
bly, installed at the White House. Dog
berry says to Nerges that when two
men ride a horse one must 90 behind !;
but the Republican donkey cannot carry
double. Ii Greeley keeps his seat on
Abe Line ms back, Seward and his
hcnchmcu, Webb, Weed and Raymond,
must hang on At the donkcy's tail, where
they will be liable to get more kicks than
coppess. The arrangement will hardly
be pleasant one to any of the parties
concerned except Greeley. As for the
donkey himself, it does not appear that
he has been consulted about the matter
at all; but if either Greeley or Seward
ct once firmly seated on his back they
will ride him through his whole four
years race. We are very curious TO see
how the present. contest will turn out,
and who will tide the donkey. Just
now Greeley seems to be little ahead.
and is confident that he is the chosen
manager of Old Ahe's administration.
We shall see.--N. Y. Herald.
BURTON AND HE LAwYEs-Some
years ago, when Burton, the comedian,
vas in his ''troubles." young LAWYER
'as examining as to how lie made the
money SO fast. Tie got Billy down to
about three thousand dollars; when
the attorney put on q severe ,crutin T.
ing face and exclaimed with much self.
complacency
snow, sir, want you to tell this court
and jury how you used these three thous-
and dollars"
Burton put on one OF his serio comic
faces sand he could make a face
winkcd at the audience, leerel at the
judge, and exclaimed: THE LAWYERS
got that :"
The judge and audience were imme-
diately convulsed with laughter. The
counselor finding that he was meadling
win ''edscd tools" was glad to let the
comedian go of the stand.