The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-25
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR


rented one hundred and two furnished
cottages for the season, leaving only
some twenty more to let. So great a
demand for cottages was never known
as this season.
Some months ago the Commissioner
Of Agriculture, Colonel Capron, received
from Ecuador, South America, a pack
age OF roots and bark Of a shrub or tree
called "Cunderango," found growing in
abundance in that region, and repre-
scented as specific for cancer. The
4 Commissioner distributed the plant
among leading medical professors and
physicians Of Washington, and one of
them it seems has employed it with ex-
traordinary and unlocked for success, in
twenty day almost curing the mother
of Vice President Colfax and other
patients afflicted with cancer. A Bos-
ton physician of eminence has sent for
the Cunderango, and orders from medi
cal men in New York have been re-
ceived, but it has been exhausted ex-
cept what is necessary for the patients
now using it. A physician sailed last
week for South America to obtain an
invoice ofCunderango Immediately and
forward it to Washington city, and to
make himself acquainted with the his
tory and peculiarities Of the plant.
A family in Morristown, New Jersey,
recently narrowly escaped death by
poisoning from wall paper. Shortly
after dinner they were taken with all the
symptoms ofsevere poisoning, the effects
of which were traced to the meat pro-
cured that morning from the butcher.
A piece of the veal was given TO the cat,
which died in ten or fifteen minutes
after eating it. Investigation proved
that the poisson was conveyed to the
meat from the hands of the lady who
received it from the butcher, she having
been engaged in laying wall paper-the
poisonous dye from the paper having no
doubt conveyed itself to her hands.
There was a great baby show, or fair,
at St. Louis, on Friday last. Ninety
seven specimens Of infantile humanity
were on exhibition, including seven
pairs OF twins and one set Of triplets.
They were divided into classes-under
six months, over six months and under
one year, under two years and over one
year, twins, triplets-and prizes awarded
accordingly, silver cup being given
to the babies of the first three classes, a
pair Of goblets to the twins, and a set of
silver knives and forks to each Of the
triplets. The first prize baby was one
of four months of age, weighing thirty
seven pounds; the second prize was
given to seven months twenty-six
FOUNDER, and the third prize to two
year old specimen with "the look Of a
sage and the eyes Of poet The dis
tribution of the prizes was supplemented
by an original poem, in which Mr..
Darwin's philosophy of human origin
was severely denounced.
The sensational story Of the seizure
and enslavement in Brazil Of two
daughters of a prominent citizen Of
Memphis, Tennessee, to satisfy the
claims of hard hearted Brazilian to
whom the father had become pecuniarly
indebted for large amount, is authori-
tatiyely contradicted. The Consul Gen
eral OF Brazil states that even had the
debtor become a naturalized citizen OF
the Empire, as was asserted as the rea-
son for the detention Of his daughters,
such an act was absolutely impossible
according to Brazilian law. Indeed,
the institution of slavery, by solemn
edict OF the Emperor, was being sub
verted by system Of gradual emancl-
patton, and even were such not the fact,
the children are never made amenable
by the Brazilian statutes for the liabili-
tias of tho parent