The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-10
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
The East


after the death of Mccormick, Dr. Hammond
made post-mortem examination of the
remains, and took the parts which lie
proposed to examine under the microscope to
ascertain whether any structural changes
hitherto undiscovered would reveal
true lesion-that is, a diseased part peculiar
to hydrophobia. The first section was made
through the spinal accessory nerves, where
the filaments pass from the medula. At
different points in the white and gray matter
which makes up the body Of the medulla
oblongata could be distinctly seen, when
highly magnihed, black spots of irregular
shape and various sizes indicative of ex-
travasated blood. At the origin Of the spinal
accessory nerves, this appearance was most
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 filaments of the
pneumogastric nerve, when magnifed, showed
the same spots. In this as in the other, the
greatest diseased action was found about the
origin of the nerve filaments. The finding Of
the structural changes in the medulla oblon-
gaia shows that the disease called hydrophobia
is a true nervous disease and not a blood
poison. DR.. Hammond has overthrow the
great stumbling-block to investigators and
has cleared up all the mysterious workings
of the disease. He has traced the course of
the poison III the case of Mccormick from
the point of ingress into the system 70 the
seat Of the disease-the meduHo Oblongdtd
It was understood that the dog from whose
bite Mccormick was inoculated with germs
of 3sydrophobia had rabies, and was shot.
This was a mistake. The dog has been found
and positively identified. He has been exam
ined by scientists, and declared to be per-
fectly healthy, and if he had rabies when he
bit Mccormick 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 sus-
pected, but never before 80 clearly proved.
New York papers announce the death, at
the age of rs years, of Henry Grinnell. He
was a well-known citizen, but Will be chiefly
remembered for the munifcence which he
exhibited by fitting out two vessels and
placing them under the charge of an officer
of the United States navy, to make search
for the lost Sir John Franklin in the Arctic
regions.
The Social Mills. at Woonsocket, Il. l.,
have been destroyed by fire. Loss, 500, 900.
A movement is on foot in New York looking
to the removal from Office of Mayor Have
meyer.
Allegheny City, Pa, was visited by dis
astrous fire on the 4th, over 100 houses being
burned.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, has
decided the Prohibitory Liquor law constitu-
tional.
The verdict of the Coroners jury in the Mill
river disaster investigation is published. 1t
censures the Legislature for inadequate and
defective legislation on the subject Of reser-
voirs the mill owners, for their parsimonious
disregard of life and property; the engineers,
for ambiguous and insufficient specifications
the contractors for manifest delinquencies and
want OF thoroughness in their work, and, final
". the County Commissioners for accept
ng a dam so shabbily built when they
had the power to order its entire reconstruc-
ton.
The West.
Mich. exploded on the morning Of the 3Oth
ut. with frightful effect SCATTERING the mill
to atoms and instantly killing Joseph Judson,
Benz. Chapman, John Beck, George Wat
son and William Sinnet. Six others were
seriously injured. Pecuniary loss, $35, OOO
Rev. DR.. Weles, of Red Wing, Mimi, has
finally accepted the Bishorric of Wisconsin,
and will at once enter upon his duties.
During a tremendous thunderstorm at
Emerson. Manitoba, recently, 800 horses of
the Canadian mounted police stampeded run
ming over tents of men and officers, and
against and over the wagons, or any obsta-
cles in the way of their flight. Many men
: ere injured and many horses.
Wintermute the slayer of Gen. McCook
has been sentenced at Yankton, Dakota, to
ten years Imprisonment in the Iowa State
Penitentiary at Fort Madison.
The grain trade of Chicago for the month of
June was immense. During the month %, l7G
carloads of grain 6, go, 400 bushes) were in
spected into store, and l, 315, 1876 bushels from
canal-boats. making the total grain receipts
for the month 10. $50, 500 bushels. During the
same time 9,1OS, 334 bushels of grain were
inspected out Of store for shipment to the
seaboard.
A gentleman who has recently returned to
St. Paul from tour in Western Minnesota
says that the grasshoppers have laid waste
section Of country sixty miles wide and ex-
tending indefinitely from the southern border
in the direction Of the Northern Pacific rail-
road. At the present rate of progress, the
destroyers will run over the border some time
before the close Of the season. Dispatches
received in st. Paul represent that there are
1000 people in the devastated region without
food and in danger Of starvation. Legislative
aid is asked.
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific rail- !
road has announced its intention of conform
ing to the Iowa Railway law in letter aud |
spirit In announcing this decision however.
the superintendent Of the road enters a
strong protest against the law and all similar
enactments.
Gross earnings Of the Rock Island road for
1873. s7,0ls, 2O3; net earnings, SO, 256.6s3.
Lemuel Moss, ID. D., of the Crozier Theo- /
logical Seminary, has been elected President