The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09
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POsTPoNED.-Owing to the unset
tied weather, the lecture by DIR.
Reynolds. which was TO hare been
delivered on the I'd inst, in the Uni
versity Chapel, was postponed until
this CThursday) evening, at half-past
o'clock.
The January number of the South
ern Cuticator, published in Athens,
Georgia, has just come to hand. 1t
is valuable addition to the periodi-
cal collection of any Southern farm
er. The terms are 81 for six months.
A SUDDEN DEATH.-Mrs. M. V.
Hicks, (widow of w. B. Hicks, who
was killed by VIM. D. Morris, several
years ago. died very suddenly Tues
day last, and under peculiar circum-
stances. Coroner Thos. p. Walker
was notified of the matter, and after
obtaining the particulars of the affair,
summoned a jury of inquest. One of
the witnesses testified that on Tues
day morning, the deceased complain
ed of severe pains in the back of the
head, and about the heart and sto-
mach; and partook of some spirits,
in order to relieve this excruciating
pain; as she rapidly grew worse,
physician was called, who prescrib-
ed for her; but death ensued a short
time after. By direction of the jury
OF inquest, q post mortem examination
of the body was made by DR.. w. P.
Geiger, assisted by DR.. John Lynch,
who reported that cher death was
caused from an inordinate collection
of gnll-stones in the gall-bladder,
which produced congestion of the
liver and adjacent parts"
Twenty-Five gall-stones, each about
on inch in circumference, encased in
sort of bag, were taken from the pit
OF the stomach of the unfortunate
woman. DIR. Tweedie, in his ''Dis.
sertations on Diseases of the Diges-
tive, Urinary and Uterine Organs"
speaks rs follows of this matter:
"Biliary calculi may remain in the
gall-bladder, without occasioning
pain, or any other symptom, and
have frequently been found, in that
situation, in dead bodies, when their
existence was unsuspected during
life. Sometimes, however, they oc-
casion a dull pain, which may in
crease on motion or after food, and
in some instances the pain is very
severe. The pain which usually at
tends the passing of a hillary concre-
ton along the gall-ducts, is often in
tense. 1t is generally seated in the
pit OF the stomach, extending to the
right hypochondrium and back, and
recurring in frequent paroxysms like
labor pains. The sufferings of the
patient are of the most acute and
agonizing description. Intervals of
comparative ease succeed these
paroxysms, but there generally re-
mains dull, obtuse pain in the epi-
gastric region, from which those of
more acute character appear to pro-
ceed."
The SOUTHERN GIFT ENTERPRISE.
BY the following extract, from an
article published in the New York
Times, it would appear that num-
ber Of our citizens have been de-
frauded, by the bursting up" of an
enterprise in which they had invest
ed sums varying from two to nine
dollars:
'"Ihe public mind is just now con-
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