The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-08-15
Our Chicago Letter,

from the experiences of the "Napolecn ofthe
dissecting roon1'' as the new demonstrates of
anatomy at Rush Medical College has been
Ifatteringly entitled by his appreciative breth-
re1 Of the profession-the story has never been
published and may be interesting, his reveal
ing something ofthe mysteries of the "saw
Dolas factory. Up 20 Aprillast DR.. W. Le-
witt was demonstration of anatomy in the med
zeal department of the Michigan University
at Ann Arbor, post which he had held with
honor and renoun for years. Upon him, by
virtue of his office, devolved the duty of sup
plying 'naaterial' (the professional argot for
dead individuals more pc ntedly spoken of by
the body snatchers as ''stiffS, , for the dissect
ing room and nightly did he do his work
'n,Gteriap' came to him by express, from all
directions but mainly from the South and the
students used ito say that he was one of the
best patrons of the Freedmans Bureau. At
one time he had fifty-two "stiffs'' laid out in
the dissecting room and two hundred students
operating on them. Well, last seasons lee
lures came to an end and the Doctor had left
over, forty bodies, for stock to start in
on the next season these were pickeled, laid
down in two watts in solution of arsenite of
soda and other preventative chemicals About
the last of April DIR. L. accepted the past of
Demonstration in Rush Medical College and
straightway the Regent and Faculty of the
Michigan University arose and declared that
he should not take with him any of his ''mate-
| rial, they would pay him for it but he must
not take it away to dangerous rival. He
however claimed that the "materialn had been
procured with his money, and was his, to ac-
commodate he would sell halfbut that was all.
His offer was refused, then on one dark night
he visited the watts and with his assistants re-
moved forty-one of the "stiffs, - piled them in
| to wagons, awoke the ianitor, and sent his
compliments to the Faculty and then drove
away. All Ann Arbor was at once in an up
roar detectives were stationed at the depot to
Intercept him of his attempts to carry away
his interesting property, legal advice was
sought and great was the excitement, mean
while he quietly drove to retired spot pack
ed his material in boxes and barrels and then
slowed it in freight car half mile from the
town, the next morning that car went east
ward nine miles, was then detached put on a
| westward bound train and came whirling
| through safely to Chicago. The Faculty find
| ing themselves out generated gave in hand
somely and bought the remaining eight "stiffs'
| together with fresh lot of seventeen more
which Just then arrived consigned to DR.. l..
| The forty-one are now in pickle i'll watts here
waiting for the opening of the regular season
at Rush Medical College Just here it may be
remarked that DR.. l.. bears the reputation of
| being one of the most thorough and skilful
ANTAGONISTS in the world and is said to be the
| only one in the country who understands the
art of preserving material in good condi-
ton from season to season. Forty-One 'cold
| corpuses" are good many to be whitfield up
] by students scalpcls in one season at one col
| lege but permit me to assure you that Rush
college always hitherto has used up three
| times that many each season and now expects
with the new and spacious building and the
aid of DR.. L. to require four or five times that
| many. Doy ask me where they all come
from? Well asked that myself, and the
most definite answer got was, they come by
express When winter comes in and the dis
secting room is in full operation shall endeav-
or to give you little sketch of the manner in
which the material is made available. That
may prove quite as interesting and much more
rellable than any statements as to where it is
obtained. DR.. levitt, the hero of ''the great
| driye' the largest "body-snatching' feat on
record, is a small man always genial and smil-
ing, has remarkably steady nerves and a clear
sharp penetrating eye YIELDS q scalpel with
the most bewitching grace and possesses
positive enthusiasm for anatomical research.
| Spe aking from my own experience, / do not
hesitate to say that there is a disgusting tas-
cination in that mans way of handling hearts
and SOULS and tibias and femurs and vertebrate
ana things. But enough of the dissecting
room. The ideas Of picking people "body
snatching" by wholesale and others which
have mentioned seemed novel unto me and
tell you the story. If you have more yalua-
BILE matter for your space-are afraid of spoil
ing your readers appetites, or think there is
any danger of affecting the patronage of your
local graveyards don't publish it.
| The Board ofTrade has had quite lively
| time Saturday and to-day over the asrest of a
lot of its most prominent members on a charge
OF gambling" based on the warehouse law,
passed by the Legislature last winter. Two
sections in that law declared that selling grain
| for future delivery when one had none to sell
should be considered gambling and should
( be punishable by fine of $1,000. The intention
seemed to be to put a stop to the wild specu-
l&tlon which has always to SO great an extent
| influenced prices in this market but the prac-
teal good of the provision has been matter for
serious doubt from its interference with per-
fectly legitimate transactions and it has until
now has been dead letter, except as shield
Ing on one occasion some cowardly "scalpers'
| from the country who refused to "make their
margins goOd'' on a declining market and who
were jocularly said to have taken the benefit
OF the baby act. The prosecutor in these new
cases is one DIR. A. Goodrich He saws that
all he does is from pure principle, but as half
| OF the fine goes to the informer, the chances
are that he has taken the job as a speculation.
Ten leading members were arrested on Satur-
day, but more to-day although the arrest of
nearly hundred is threatened. When | came
from change few minutes since the gam
blers" who were out on bail of So, 600 cash
were buying and selling as usual in defiance of
| the law.
observe that great trade is now being
done from our city out to the mining regions
OF the far west the extension ofthe Union Pa
clhc H. X having put US in direct communica-
ton with them. The old established and ex-
tensive drng-hOuse of j. III. Reed 81 Co. loca-
TED at the corner of Lake street and Wabash
Avenue is for instance sending out constantly
| large stocks of goods to Denver City, Fort
Sedgewick and Central City, to one firm in the
first mentioned place as much as $40, 900 worth
per annum. Messrs. j. FL. Reed Il Co., are by
| the way the oldest drug firm in the west hav-
ing been in operation for twenty-five years
and are at present believe the most extern
siye. Their business extends over the entire
northwest and their huge store, five stories in
height is kept constantly crammed with every
conceivable article which could be of use to
either the druggist or the fancy dealer. For
comprehensiyeness, quality, commercial rec
tltude and the many advantages which enter
prising and liberal merchants can give to pur-
chasers this firm deserves to stand at the head
of its line and in the highest degree merits the
patronage of the retail trade.
Col. II. Gilmore our Post Master q brave of
tcer, generous, noble hearted man, true
friend and a thorough gentleman, went out
boating on Friday night last alone in storm
= AHNS CNSAi
his boat have been picked up and he Is without
doubt drowned.
Commercial news on change to-day are as
follows Flour steady 81. 50@125 so for White
WINTER; S9Oo@10,00 for Spring Extra. Wheat
firm .05 No. Red; 500 No. 2 do, 81. so No.
do; $1;85 No. Spring, 81. 83@1. 8315 No. 2do:
.619d do 68 No; 3, do.aoCorn, quiet, $50 @96c
No. l; 9O@9079c No. 2; S31(@84 rejected -
Oats, 54@55 No. 1; 53@54j%c No 2,wRve
steady, 81. No. L; 96c No. 2-Barley, quiet
75c No. l. Mess Pork, steady, S23. 00@23, as
Sholders 1917 @11c.-Lard, 121@c.-Seeds moth,
ing doing, Flax 1925; Timothy $2.75|Lake
Freights, dull, corn, 21ac to Buffalo, &c to Os-
Yego. ''DON.n
81 General r. A. Gilmore, Postmaster Of
this city, on Friday evening went out Oh
the lake in new row. boat he had recently
purchased, on an experimental trip. He
was alone, and it is presumed that after
getting some distance out in the lake, the