Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-25

1 the political situation in Tennessee and other parts of the South. He says the Tennessee l House of Representatives will be controlled
 by the Republicans. The Senate has ma
 jority of Democrats though mixed, that is,
 the professed State-credit Democrats and re-
 pudiation Democrats, when combined, make
 a majority of about five. Though there is a
 small Democratic majority on joint ballot he
 thinks that enough Democrats will vote with
 the Republicans to elect{a Republican United | States Senator, who will probably be Mir Maynard. He says further of our north l ern friends would cease to suspect, and in
 stead respect southern Republicans, we
 would soon have party in the South form
 ing such powerful ally to the patriotism of
 the Forth that treason would cease to stalk
 abroad at monday. have great hopes of
 the South. I believe that, divested of the
 issues or sentiments of the war, three-fourths
 of the American people and two-thirds of the South agree with the Republican party in re- gard to a national currency, @ protective tariff, internal improvements by the general government and protection at the ballot-box. They are the questions that ran my majority up to S,122.''
 A skillful physician talks through the Bos- ton Globe against the practice of wearing fannels. He found in his own case some years ago that as he increased the thickness and quantity of his clothing he became more susceptible to change and exposure and he was threatened with pulmonary troubles he concluded that his only safety would be in change of climate but his attention was wearing fannels, and he resorted to change of clothing instead of climate, and the result was satisfactory in every respect. He gained his lost vitality and has since in his practice successfully adopted the same plan of treatment which he applied to himself, and it has worked admirably in all cases, both with adults and children. We quote what he says further:
 There are extreme cases when flannel may be used without injury for instance, persons constantly exposed to great extremes of heat and cold, or whose occupation causes much precipitation, such as foundry men, steve dores, mariners engineers, etc.; also in cer- tain conditions among old people, whose life long habit has been all wrong in this particu- lar, and when a change might prove danger ous The skin is a very important organ, having more functions than any other of the human body. The constant effort should be, by every proper means, to increase, not diminish, its natural action. We may cul- tivate capacity for resistance to cold far clothing may have influence in this regard. I am satisfied the best results are accomplished by wearing cotton in pref erence to any other article next to the person, because of its being vegetable product, fair non conductor of heat to and from the body, and also in small degree an absorbent in fact, possessing every essentially good feature, and none that are objectionable. This is, of course, in conflict with the theory of those who think they must add to the ex- ternal covering so long under exposure they feel any degree of cold; but facts and experience are more weighty than theories. One of my patients, an elderly gentleman, has paid me yearly two hundred or more dol lars to doctor his ever present cold At last he yielded to my persuasion, and changed his thick fannels for medium cotton, and otherwise ceased to overburden himself with clothing. The result was the same as in all similar cases his powers of endurance are increased, and my yearly charges diminished Another case, with the same results, was that of lady quite recently.