, 1878-01-05
DIPHrHERIA.-The following treat

ment of diphtheria when no physi-
clan is at hand. is prescribed by en-
old physician: "In the commence
ment mix together quarter OF the
fluid extract of lobelia and three
quarters of an ounce of the syrup of
ipecacuanna and give one teaspoon
full every half hour until it vomits.
Prepare foot bath of mustard or
salt and water. and apply friction to
the feet aud legs. If the feet ard
legs are kept cold for six hours. in
a severe case. the throat disease will
have advanced beyond the reach of
medicine. If the tongue is covered
with pasty coat, and lips and
mouth pale; then mix half ounce
of sulphate of soda with four ounces
IF simple syrup. and give one tea
spoonful every hour; but if the lips
and mouth are red then mix one
quarter of an ounce of chlorate of
potassa in six ounces of sweetened
water and give one teaspoonful every
hour. When there is difficult swal-
lowing, instead of the liquid, mix
chlorate of potassa with gumarabic
and sugar, finely pulverized, and
give five grains of the ehlorate of
potassa in each powder. every hour
by putting it on the tongue dry and
the child will slowly swallow it.
ENEMIES AT WORK.-The Snoqual-
mie road, leading out from Seattle.
is reported as impossible. This is
a local road for which the last legis-
lature was asked to appropriate sew
eral thousand dollars, but stubborn
ly refused. The Infeiligencer says
the King county commissioners have
time and again refused to do any
thing toward placing this road in re-
pair, and yet the representatives of
that county in the legislature had
the cheek to ask for several thousand
dollars to be expended on said road
Statesman. Thousands of dollars
have been expended on the Snoqual-
ME road by the county commission
ers. The above misrepresentation
of the hteliecncer would moi. be be-
lieved but by the enemies of Seattle.
In TRoUBLE.-The Richings-Ber-
nard opera company are in trouble
in Virginia City. The wardrobe of
the company has been attached and
removed to Justice knox's court. at
the instance of Harry Gates, the
second tenor of the troupe, for the
sum of $500 due him for salary. Mr..
Gates. claim is S400, but he remitted
800, because $500 is the largest
amount for which suit can be brought
in a Justices court. The members
of the troupe are almost unanimous
in their denunciation of Pierre Ber-
nard and Madame Richings Bernard,
whom they accuse Of defrauding
them of their salaries by means of a
new tangled idea which they had de-
veloped in the troupe and called a
commonwealth"
NEW DODGE AS will be seen by
the letter of Hon. J. j. McGilvra,
the Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany are now trying to silence op-
position to their fraudulent schemes
until the grant is secured for their
local coal road by pretending to con-
slider the route from Tacoma to
Eastern Washington by way of the
Snoqualmie pass. That bait will
only be taken by the subsidized or
gans of the company.
The little steamer Wenat contin-
ues to make regular trips to the
Skagit every Wednesday, notwith-
stand the morning paper announces
that she has withdrawn from this
route.
The Black Diamond will 90 to
Swan Anderson's logging camp ND
Sound this evening, with ten tons OF
hay from Walter Graham Il Sons.
and other supplies.
CONDUCTOR Thorne, of the Seattle
< Walla Walla railroad. reported q
; light fall of snow at Renton last
evening. The storm extended to
Squak and Snoqualmie.
ONE of the Walla Walla papers
suggests Judge Lewis as candidate
at large to the constitutional con-
vention.