The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-15
FROM WHITEWATER

FROM WHITEWATER
Editor Of Palladium:-By your kind
indulgence, I will appropriate small
space in your columns, for the pur-
pose Of giving few items from White
water. In the first place we might
state that the town has changed her
looks to a great extent, this Summer,
caused by the remodeling of some of
her houses, and the free application
Of paint. There are three church edi-
fees in it, the M. E., Christian, and
Episcopal; the congregations of the
first two have church services and
Sunday-school on each Lords Day /;
the communicants of the Episcopal
church, being few in number, services
are only held monthly, by DIR. Wake
field of Richmond; his place was filled
on the 2lst ult. by DR.. Austin, of
Vincennes, Ind. Mrs. Beardsley, a
native of Jamaica, delivered a lecture
at the Christian Church the night of
the 4th inst, subject, A Voyage
Across tile Atlantic" and personal
"reminiscences of the Island of Jamai-
ca. Her lecture, to say the least, was
excellent; she first gave an account Of
two trips from Jamaica to America,
and concluded by giving a description
of the Island and its fruits; after her
lecture she exhibited specimens, col
lected by herself, from the Island.
Mrs. Frame, wife Of Thomas Frame,
after a most distressing sickness, of
several weeks duration, died on last
Saturday, funeral services we're held
at 3 p. m. on Monday, at Goshen, con-
Quoted by Rev. A. Jackson. The
funeral was largely attended. The
death of this lady brings me to SUBJ
ject that shall conclude our letter.
Mr.. Frame, his wife and children,
consisting of three girls and two boys,
have all been down with the same
complaint for the past six weeks, from
which the middle daughter died about
three weeks ago, and Mrs. Frame, as
before said, on last Saturday. AS the
country about Whitewater has be.
come notorious for containing some
vegetable or mineral poison, which
has received the name of milk poison
from it effecting the cows and com
municated to persons using their mill
or butter; it was soon noised abou
that Frames family had milk sick
ness" indeed, so great has been thu
circulation of what we term this false
hood, that people of other places have
an insuperable antipathy against but
ter or beef from this place. Jet III
give the circumstances that attended
the''sickness of this unfortunate family
We cannot give the order in which
they were taken, but suffice it to sa,
that DR.. Jones was called in to sc,
some of the family, and after maxim.
an examination, pronounced the dis
ease typho-malarial fever; after few
days DIR. Taylor of Newport, an ole
and experienced practitioner, was call
ed in consultation, the result of whicl
was again pronouncing the diseas,
typho- malarial fever; after a few NOR,
days DR.. of Richmond wa
called in consultation, with the SAM
result, but our DR.. of Richmond, OF
his second visit, finding so many cry
ing milk sickness, became suddenl
converted, and decided that they hat
milk sickness. We may also add tha
DIR. Griffis made an examination o
some Of the patients, and decided wit
Drs. Jones and Taylor. About thi
time, two cows pasturing on the plac
were seized with some kind of malad
and died; of course this appears a
first blush as settling the origin of tn
disease; but it has always been main
tained that the sucking calf will tax
the disease and die, leaving the moth
er unaffected; both COWS in this cas-
had young calves, the calves were nc
affected at all. Mrs. Frame was nurs
ing an infant when taken down, an
the child instead of being taken i'm
mediately, was the last one attacked
We have written these lines for til
purpose of undeceiving those wh
have formed hasty conclusions frol
unfounded reports.
We will conclude by saying tn:
Mrs. Frame leaves a husband an
four children, who have the symp;
thies of neighborhood of whole sou
ed, liberal christian people, yet til
whole world can not compensate fe
the loss of a mother. G.. T. j.