Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


ing death from lydrophobia is reported from
New York. A Ii tie over month ago William
Mccormick, q butcher was bitten on the
hand by q small dog. 1t was mere scratch,
and though his family were anxious about it,
he ridiculed their fears. The dog was one of
those taken to the pound and killed, so that
it could not be learned whether it had the
genuine rabies. On Monday Mccormick was
taken with pains in his neck and shoulders
He said it was rheumatism, and, beyond APP
plying Eniments. paid no attention to it. Two
days afterward he complained of a creeping
through his system. He was
thirsty. His wife brought water.
and on putting the glass to his lips
his teeth closed on the glass, his face became
hvid, he caught his breath, and for some time
could not breathe. The commissions soon be-
came terrible, and succeeded each other with
great rapidity. His jaws snapped together,
froth ran from his mouth in streams and the
perspiration soaked the bed. The muscles of
his throat drew up in cords. His struggles
were so violent that medicine could not be
administered A patrolnan was sent for aid
and strait-jacket. He returned with officers,
and the jacket was put on with great difficulty.
His body bent like bow, resting on his head
and heels. He bit his lips and tongue till the
blood spattered the wall His jaws cenched
so tightly that they cracked. An ashen pallor
spread over his face. and suddenly he was
dead. DIR. Wm- A. Hammond and other cele-
brated physicians examined all the symptoms
of the case, and pronounced it one of genuine
hydrophobia.
THE Governor of Massachusetts, has vetoed
the Liquor-Lcense law recently passed by the
Legislature of that State. A New York tele-
gram of June % says of the Tilton- Beecher
scandal Theodore Tiltons letter to DIR.
Leonard Bacon is attracting the profoundest
attention here. The letter has been variously
interpreted, and few have caught it's true
meaning. Tilton purposely made it vague,
and refused point blank to make specific
charge That part of the document which
troubles people most, is the quotation from a
letter of Beecher to Tilton. under date of
Jan. 1. 1871. in which the preacher says: Il
ask Theodore Tiltons forgiveness, and
humble myself before him as | do before
my God" Tilton says that quotation
is only a paragraph from long letter.
This made many people say to themselves,
though they rebelled against believing it Mr..
Beecher had guilty conscience when he wrote
this He has sin-ed greatly. This accounts
for his refusal to make charges against Tilton,
when challenged to do so in church-meeting.
But the majority of people think that the end
of the deplOrabe controversy is near, and
that Beecher Will come out from it stainless.
At the regular Plymouth Church meeting,
this evening, Beecher presided as usual. He
made no reference to his troubles, but talked
in his oldgenial way, one minute having his
audience in tears, and the next convulsed
with laughter. He refuses to tax on the sub
ject of his trouble at present
THERE is great danger that the Croton
aqueduct, that supplies New York city with
water, will collapse at distant day. and
besides deluging nearly two square miles of
territory, cut of the water supply of the city.
Henry Ward Beacher, in his last Sundays
sermon in Plymouth Church. New York. made
no allusion to the Tilton letter. The position
assumed by the New York press in regard to
the matter is very lenient toward the Ply
mouth pastor. The World vilifes Tilton In
round measures the Post refuses to publish
the letter; the Herald remarks that corpse
has been rcsurrected, and advises that it be
reburied; the Tribune says it may be
thought expedient by Mr.. Beecher and his
friends to make some reply the Sun con-
siders the letter worthy of rely, and the
Times inclines to the same opinion.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, has
School Boards.
THE microscopic examination of the re-
mains of Mccormick, a supposed victim of
hydrophobia, has BEEN concluded at New
York under the direction of DIR. William A.
Hammond. the acknowledged head of the
medical profession in this country. Imme-
diately after the death of Mccormick. Dr.
Hammond made post-mortem examination
of the remains, and took the parts which he
proposed to examine under the microscope to
ascertain whether any structural changes
hitherto undiscovered would reveal a
true lieson-that is, a diseased part peculiar
to hydrophobia. The first section was made
through the spinal accessory nerves, where
the faaments pass from the medulla At
different points in the white and gray matter
which makes up the body of the medulla
oblongata could be distinctly seen, when
highly magnifed, black spots of irregular
shape and various sizes indicative of ex-
travasated blood. At tina origin of the spinal
accessory nerves, this appearance was N ost
marked. and the evidence that this was the
seat of the disease was conclusive. Another
section made through the medulla
oblongata, the origin of the flaments of the
pneumogastric nerve, when magnified showed
the same spots. In this as In the other, the
greatest diseased action was found about the
origin of the nerve fiaments. The finding of
the structural changes ir the medulla oblon-
gaia shows that the disease called hydrophobia
is q true nervous disease and not blood
poison. DIR. Hammond has overthrown the
greatest stumbling block to investigators. and
has cleared up all the mysterious workings
Of the disease. He has traced the course of
the poison in the case of Mccormick from
the point of ingress INTO the system to the
seat of the disease-the Daedulld OblOngdtd.
Ii was understood that the dog from whose
bite Mccormick was inoculated with germs of
hydrophobia had rabies aud was shot. This
was mistake. The dog has been found and
positively identified He has been examined
by scientists, and declared to be perfectly
healthy. and if he had rabies when he bit Nc
Cormick he could not be alive now. This they
accept as conclusive proof that the bite of any
dog, however healthy, may give hydrophobia-
This fact has long been suspected, but never
before SO clearly proved.
f The West.
HIGH and Low Church is as much division
of Episcopalians in Ohio as in Wisconsin
The feeling for and against Ritualism has been
running high in the diocese since the death
of Bishop McIlvaine, and has finally culminat-
ed in division of the diocese. Bishop Be
dell, whose proclivities are High Church, vii
go with the Northern Diocese, and take up
his residence in Cleveland. The temper
ance women of Michigan held their State Con-
vention at Lansing last week, Aplatform was
adopted setting forth their belief and princi-
PIES. The Woman's Temperance Convention
5 of Pennsylvania was also in session at Pitts
burgh, being largely attended. =. The National
Saengerfest at Cleveland, Ohio. has proved q