Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-14

S,,inr NAV have lie peculiar diseases. but
ren recu,s,ed de. air and exercise viii BE-
~ ;n,alcuIahly moro service In guarding
sc,inst maladies and keeping the body
healthy than drawing away your hearts
blood er swallowing nausccus nostruns.
Engage in some employment that will be
| useful 10 the world. This will keep the
mind occupied and in calm state.
Eat at regular times plentifully, Of plain,
nutritious food, and take nothing between
meals, except water when thirsty. Espec
iallv, eat nothing after an early tea time
n after these, the bowels seem inoetise,re
ulate them BY small doses Of apseieot ned.
icine-but very sparinelS; fastine, ~ emit
ting a meal for several days, might b. bet>
ter.
Do not take too much sxseciss bsfose
breakfast, bot rather take the breakfast
earlier.
After dinner ~ a0Ails.
Do soe ~ uoea - sppstite Graves no
more. Tee - # esy ssst q food, but
particularly d ueel, pssvsals ~ natural
assssa u De sysls@ an1 isduees disease.
Guard against suddsn changes Of the
weather. That IL, do not remain s!ill in a
Geld wind when the skin 10 moist with per.
spiration. Al such times the pores are
open and there is danger that they may be
suddenly contracted. not 10 be easily opened
again. This is what's called ''takiny cold."
The pores Of the ska arc closed 20 that the
heat and inscnsible Precipitation" cannot
escape, and ''raging fever" is often the
result.
Battle the whole surface Of the body once
A week and rub IL iustily.
RuMer1mg In Nlfmnesota.
From the southwestern part of Minnesota
the cry for food and aid to enable the get
ting in Of crops is emphatic, and should
command active sympathy. From Martin
county il is estimated one>third Of the pop
ulation will be able TO pass through the
season without assistance another third
will need assistance, but can give security ;
another third can give no security, and res
quise donations. All who have means have
shared il literally with those who have not
A correspondent Of the 81 Paul Press,
writing from Tcnhasssn, Martin county,
says: "There are families in this town thst
have lived on nothing but rutabagss for
weeks; others on nothing but little corn
ground in coffee mill : while two-thisds
have not Bit Of meat to eat" They can
NOT got wild fowl, for they have no ammu>
milton. nor money 70 get ID with. These
men lack seed, and unless they are aided to
food end seed, must starvs or suffer serious.
ly. Tho land Is good, and with LITTLE aid
end COED. season, thse may quickly be-
come independent.
a Rlsh Dsne II . Nganss Neck f>r
Twenty Weave.
From The Albany Argus
A few days since . laboring man, whs
works In Woodruff . plaster mill, in this
city, called upon one Of our surgeons for
the purpose Of having tuoss upsn the
neck, Just under the angle Of ths jsw hoss.
removed. The tuner was about tho size oil
large hons "a, and had been there abeut
ten years. After getting = history Of the
case, the surgeon suspected that the tumor
had been occesioned BY some foreiga sub.
stance, such % bone. Before attempting
to remove tie tumor Il was laid open, and .
fish bone, about three. quarters Of an inch
long and an eighth Of an inch in diameter,
Of irregular shape. was discovered and re>
moved. The patient had attempted TO
swallow this bone over twenty years ago,
but It had lodged IN his throat, occasioning
more or lcss trouble ever since. Nature
had attempted 10 remove it. but had failed,
as the bone had Travelled through the neck
about nm inch, in direction outward and
downward, where 1t became encysted and
remained. The tumor has since been re.
moved, and the patient is doing we'll and
attending to his daily labor, 1t seems
strange that u foreign substance could 70
main so long embedded in the flesh without
decaying, but nature prevented this by en-
vcloping il with cystic membrane.
fightful crime is reported to have
come to light 1t Blandvills, Ballard county.
Kentucky. A man named Hudson went 10
that place about eleven years ago, from
South Carolina, leaving his family behind
him. In Blandville he ssducsd q girl
named Belchcr. and on her asking him to
marry her. he told her that be had wife
and family. This enrsged her, and with The
assistance Of her sister anda man named
McNabb she killed hin, BY driving the
spindle Of . spinning wheel into his ear
The body was then hung up in the cabin
which Hudson had inhabited, and when
found it was supposed he had committed
suicide. The girl afterwards married Nc
Nabb. A short time since remorse compel
led her to divulge the fearful secret. and
sac has been arrested, with her accomr!;ces