The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-07-03
,EIGHTR voLUME---SUMBER 4ls.
CoLIC IN HORSES.
sM1rHF1EID, N. C, April 8, 1860.

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DIR. Lee-Dear Sir: see in your paper (the
Southern Field and Fireside) Of March 81, a COM
muncation from Mr. Howell of Warsaw, Milton
county, Ga upon the sub ject of 'Colic in Horses
/ am ready to testify to the fact that can give
| remedy that will cure a horse in ten minutes and
will not cost you cent, (only the treube,) fol-
lows: You put your knee against the horses fore
head and pull his ears few times, and in less
than fifteen minutes he will be up eating. I can
get witnesses to testify to the fact l have never
known horse to die to which the above remedy
was given -=,ess A, @. BALLARD.
THE WAsHoE MAssAcRE.-A correspondent
of the Alta Californian thus describes the killing
of Major Ormsby, at the Indian battle and massa-
ere of the whites, near Pyramid Lake:
Poor Meredith, God never made better man,
and young Joe Baldwin, both fought as brave as
ever did any man, and to think that Baldwin, who
was only about fifteen years of age. should act so
cody and so bravely. He fought like tiger. And
then there was my warm friend Major Ornlsby;
poor fellow, he shot in the upper part of the
mouth with an arrow IN the beginning Of the fight
but he did not mind it at ALL till the poison did its
work. have it from one of the men that held
his head, while another pulled the arrow that they
got the arrow out, but the barb remained. s
Then he was shot in the arm and again through
the shoulders, from one side to the other, still
he remained on his horse till it was shot from un-
der him, and then he took young Baldwin's mule,
and remained on it until he could stand it no lon
ger, and then Baldwin helped to take him of his
mule and placed his saddle-bags under his head,
when Ornlsby says ''go on boys, You can do no
more for mel" and in a few minutes he was no
more One Indian was killed in the act of scalp
ing him, ard Baldwin killed another Indian very
near him that was in the act ofscalpng another Of
the party.
CHARACTER AND POPULARITY OF SALT LAKE.
Every reader has heard of Salt Lake, but very
few persons know anything of its extent and pc
culiar nature. A writer speaks thus: s s,4s.5f
That this lake should be all salt is no anomaly.
All large bodies of water into which streams dis
charge themselves while they have severally no
outlet, are or should be salt If one such s fresh,
that is an anomaly indeed Lake Utah, probably,
receives as much saline mattsr as Salt Lake, but
she discharges it through the Jordan and remains
herself fresh; while Salt Lake, having no issue,
save by evaporation, is, probably the satiest body
of water on earth. The ocean is comparatively
fresh; even the Mediterranean. at Leghorn is not
half so salt / am told that three barrels Of this
water yields barrel of salt; that seems rather
strong, yet its intense satness, who has not
had it in his eyes, his mouth, his nostrils, can re-
aze. You can no more sink in it than int clay
bank; but very little of it in your lungs would
suffice to strangle you. You make way in from
hot, rocky beach, over chaos of volcanic basalt
that is trying to the feet, but at the depth of
yard or more you have fine sand bottoms and
here the bathing is delightful The water is of
light green color for about ten or twenty rods
then ''deeply, darkly, beautifully blue" No fish
live in it; no frogs abide in it; few birds are
ever seen dipping in it. ~ e@*
How THE BITE OF Doc SHOULD BE TREAT
ED.-Dr Stephen Ware, of Boston, in his test-
mony in recent case which grew out of Injuries
from the bite Of dog, furnished the following val
liable advice: #
In the case of the bite of dog where the teeth
of the animal penetrated the flesh, whether the
dog was known to be mad or not, he should use
the same precautions. He would wash the wound
with warm water, extract all the virus possible by
sucking the wound with his lips, and then cauter-
ze it deeply withthe caustic most readily obtained
but should use potash ifit could be procured at
once The time in which the effects of the bite
of rabid dog would be seen, varied from two or
days to many years, but if no effects we're felt
after two or three months as general thing the
patient might feel himself safe. Bites made
through clothing are seldom productive of much
harm as even if the dog is mad, the clothing alb
serbs the virus before the teeth reach the flesh.
Most of the fatal cases occurred where the person
was bitten some naked part. Concerning the
possibility of cure ina real of hydrophobia,
nothing was said
SERVED RIGHT.-Lettersl from Saratoga. and
other fashionable watering places at the North,
give doleful accounts of the trbuations of the adj
vance guard visitors of these watering places.
They complain of the baths, of the rooms, and eve
rything connected with the hotels. They
neither decently fed comfortably lodged Still
we hear every day around us .'are you going to
Saratoga this summer" ''Oh, certainly" asE
p An EASY WAY TO MEND A BROKEN HART
We find the following among the personal ad-
vertisements in late number Of the New York
Herald: ~ ~.
False one, you have broken my heart; but take
me TO the great National Concert Saloon to night
and all shall be forgotten-all forgiven. 80
JULIET.