Litchfield enquirer., 1879-09-04
A queer case is reported in the hospital Ga

A queer case is reported in the hospital Ga
 zette of Paris. A doctor was called to see a
 patient dying from cholera. In order not to
 discourage the man,the doctor prescribed three
 doses of ipecac powder, to be given every half
 hour. The nurse misunderstood the directions
 and instead of giving the drug by the mouth
 gave it as snuff this produced a violent
 sneezing, which was followed by favorable
 reaction. The circulation was quickened, the
 skin was warmed, and the patient was on the
 way to recovery. When the doctor called,
 next day, he was amazed to find how he had
 taken his medicine, and that he was out of dan-
 ger.
 Lord O'Hagan is the only Roman Catholic
 who has ever held the office of Lord Chan
 cellor of Ireland, ssand, with the exception, we
 believe, of Lord Clare, the only one ever raised
 to peerage in the United Kingdom. This
 last reward was the result of his services to
 Mir. Gladstone in the Irish Church and Land
 bills. It is a remarkable commentary on the
 ways of political life in England that while
 MT. Gladstone has given titles and honors to scores of men, he himself has no handle to his
 name other than that common to all members of the Privy Council, nor any decoration what ever. Pitt and Fox were ''the Honorable' in
 right of birth, but neither ever had any order
 of knighthood. Pitt declined the garter, but accepted it for his brother, the second and last
 Earl of Chatham, very weak vessel.
 Captain Dixon, the murdered Democrat of
 Yazoo county, Miss, was only thirty-one years old. He was born in Virginia, and when boy was a member of Mosbys guerilla command in the latter years of the war. He was captured and confined in Baltimore as a prisoner until the end of the war In 1866 he met in Washington and married the daughter of Colonel Dickey, very wealthy Mississippi
 nd oft ,1 wife inherited large landed dproperty in Yazoo county, where they have since lived. Dixon has employed seven hundred negro plantation hands, and was the largest planter in that county.
 Father Hyacinthe is reported to have said to a correspondent of the London Whitehall Review: Il have the highest esteem for M Renan, but 1 must say 1 think he is wrong in saying that French working classes are pro- foundly sceptical, and that they deny the so- called supernatural. have had more experi- ence in these matters than he. M. Renan minges merely with cultivated men; l have been among the working classes know them well. l assure you they are not so profoundly | sceptical as M. Renan assumes and as for not | believing in the supernatural, all I can tell | you is that many of them believe in spiritual | ism !"
 The Earl of Fife, whose death is noticed by | the latest London papers, owned 252, 900 | acres, with rental of 972, 900 year, in Scot | land. His family has been remarkable for its | preeminence in the scandalous chronicles of | the day. One of his daughters is the March | ioness Townshend who some three years ago | eloped to Paris with an uncle of Lord Baths | old enough to be her father. They were pur- sued by her brother, the present Lord Fife, to Paris, and Lord Townshend condoned the ir- Her sister, Lady Ida, married MT. Adrian Hope, of the famous Anglo Amsterdam 1 family, but tiring of him, took up with an Austrian attache, and was divorced. Then the | youngest daughter married Lord Dupplin cid | est son of the Earl of Kinnoall but before two | years were over she, too, found that she liked | some one else better, and was consequently | divorced for adultery with Mr. Herbert Flow | CT, whom she has since married.
 The Vicksburg (Miss.) "Herald," which is fighting SO courageously against political in | timidation in Mississippi, has some opposite | words for the renewed advocacy of the state rights dogma at the South. It would be hard | to put the argument against state sovereignty | in better form than the Herad docs when it | says: ''These doctrines were all discussed | millions of times before the war, and the dis | cusslon brought on the war, and the war set l tied them forever in a common sense, blunt | never-to-be- forgotten manner. It settled them | in a manner that any man of ordinary intelIi gence may understand. The Union was not made as limited partnership and one of it's component parts may not secede from it or break it up, because the whole is greater than any of it's parts. The states, for local con- venence, have all the rights and liberiies guarantied them that it is to the interest of a representative central government for them to have, but in the event of any conflict of authority the power of the national govern ment is stronger than that of any state. The safeguards and projections to the states rest in the representative form of the government, the courts and the ballot. So long as these possess their present power all this whining about states rights and state sovereignty is intolerabe nonsense"