, 1860-02-27
POLICE.


DisonpEnLr.-Under this head, "for short"
may he grouped the casss-Frcderck Kibler
fined s. for fight in d snloon.-Two prosti.
tules from q notorious Clark street establish
mcnt, Ellen Curtis and Isabella Forrest fined
$40 each for being drunk and disordcr'y iu the
ssrcet.-capt. Dick, 50, and Peter McCabc and
Horace Foot s. each, all and several for being
riotous in saloons abort town.---1aeob Brother,
,fas bo1h in ,nsn and bfotiier'' get WAS 10
disorderly under the influence Of ''redeye' rs
to merit s3:-Luther X. Tucker and Philo J.
Bacon were held to bail on ] charge Of fiot-
john nourke was fined $40 for beating his wife
john Long WIS fined Is for an assault with
an axe.
DlscnAnGxD-The young man E. l,ein,bo!d
under examination within few days past on 4
charge Of abusing child entrusted to him by
the Iome Of the Fricndless, has been dis
charged.
SENT TO Reform ScnooL.-Wm Carney, 4
lad, was sent to the Reform School for larceny.
A NEW MEDICAL JornSA1.-"TnE MEDICAL
| ISyEsr,oAron."-A new semi.month1y journal,
The Mdieal Lhsfstiyator, has just been establish
ed By Mcssrs. Ha1sey l. King, the well known
proprsctors Of the Homeopathic Pharmacy at
| No. 1G5 South Clark street. The initial num-
her is well filled aud rendered attractive and
valuable By contributions from leading ,nenl-
bers Of that growing school Of medicine in this
city and the Northwest. We judge the uim Of
publishers and contributors will be to secure for
the Inrtstiyator place and herring among
tho homes Of the people, while the discussions
Of various subjects will be entirely worthy Of
and instructive to the profession.
4 captal paper, the first wc take it of i series
Of 81 Familiar Letters, &c." is contributed by
DR.. N.F. Cooke. The following extract will
serve Us Specimen brick" besides possessing
an Independent ralue which all interested
should treasure up. The nurses" may scarce
ly thank DR.. G. but the mothers and their in
fants will not fail to do so.
Let US take the infant in The first moments Of
its breathing existence. Here, unfortunately,
the work OF mischief too often begins. Tie
| mother, eyen if she knows how, is not in d con-
ditiou to attend to it, and her friends ure too
| busy about her to think much of the little
aqualling object tlat has occasioned all this
Meslamcs nurses, but you are mostly IN obs.i-
mute, ignorant rnce) whisks it OF to q corner
and has good time all to herself. in iuaicting
upon it about as much ignorance aud barbarity
She scrubs it will soap and wuter {tbc latter too
hot or too cold, and the former rarely neces
| sary)-she allows blaze Of light to fall upon
; | those first opening cyes-she takes good care
| to fas:en that flannel band alaTmiugly tight
: | and then, oh, horror Of horrors! this little
, nutrinleut in any form-as tender Us your eye
, | which Nature herself fears to supply sudden
i If, with eren the mothers mlk-this sensitive
delicate organ is now ut once invaded by sou,t
ruthless potion-castor oil, molasses and water
| sugar and water, whisky and mousses, or son,t
. other fermentiny mixture, and for what? IL
= cause it hus been decided that the "poor thing
requires puryatiue! Soon the agonizing erie
) md collcky contortions resulting from th'
} working OF this stuil, are Interpreted indic;,
E ting hunger, and as the milk bus not ret "co,ue
(oli, tardy and foolish Nature, whom even th
nurses excel in wisdom! Of course dame nurs
must fed il, and all sorts Of things-lrrow root
fariua, sugar and water, cows milk, &c, DC.
according to the whim Of the executouer, ar
| stuffed aud cratnned down the little throat. an,
, forced upon the delicate lining membrane q
, tie stomach, already made raw and soft by III
! | precedin. purgatlve! Now let me tell Yu
= Something about Natures intentions, and hoy
they are thus frustrated In view Of the fuc
a ! that the child's bowels contain something tia
ought to be evacuated rs Of no further US
there, (termed the meconium,) aud also tia
the Child requires nutriment, but cannot as ye
, digest milk. has provided By these wants b
supplying the mothers breast with certai
D Sc secretion, which is slightly purgativc, and q
: ! the kame time nutritious. This secretion j
> ful nisled Tor the first two or three days, whe
il Is replaced by thr milk {and believe i. wi
! | get lac shawn that this secfeticn is hccomiu
less purgativc uul more nutritious every ,rc
! lneut, 50 that tue Transition from it IL milk i
!. gradually Whit eau be more beautiful an
! Trustworthy than this prescription Of good ol
mother Nature! Why SEEK to initiate that whic
no arti6cial preparation can resenb!ey