Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-11
The ~MovRMENTs oE MALAalA

THE MOVEMENTS or MALARIA. q
The Disease Creeping Int Many New
England Places for thee Fffrrsst Tims.9es
That there is really a GERM IN the airT
Ithat produces this depressing and life
~sheapening affection in 81 many regions,
in all parts of the globe;;is Che firm cons
viction of those physicians who are the
best microscopists. The GERM Theory
seems to include d germ for the eausepf
contagious, epidemic, etc, and prodpcAdN
In the Language off Dunglisonj by some
morbid principle acting on the system like
q ferment." They are claimed to be veg
Eetable growth, of al fungoid nature! spddI
the theory is that during the process or
IYperiod'' of each-a Reriednf growthi like
mildew. the victim fs@ass@sttferer frpfnia
Eapore-or less v~iolentfeybEa, that this lPes1
EfIoH Faries5Tin typhoiaiffs assumed y, be
twenty-one days, in other forms of fever
perhaps a shorter term, till the microscope
Iical fungoid growth may Nbe said t6ttef.S
1oresceiand shed itsIspbres2S
Right here appears'ehe of the seeming
mysteries which, however clear they may
E[tnnntag zzssbe to the professional phys
iciank-re-as ways HazAing to the laytaaR&
Observation-Disclosures fever
and ague-these hypothetical SPORES atif'
fotEsrtfq4Eldtled medicinally in the nick
IF tine VIII sapbroutAup anew, unlike their.
aha atef' nsys abSptsf Raf8thits RKeaebi1s the
fsssi5eFsbie pieti Observation-Disclosures it
may be through life, like the ten thou
sands effy1piseraRle ppple who make ss9bbss
a dismahappearancaw the doors of their
cabins in the western and southern stdteS.
Why these alleged spores of malaria"
should behavein this way. while those of
qtheralisaas& dsnst, is gns Of the onun-
farums tia1 HfaaNs dlltaid 1fJs4the profes-
sion" have ever solved,
The disease, whatever it is, has been
creeping into New England "since the
war" and appearing in localities where
its presence never was known before.
Since the days of George Washington
nothing seems to nave been known of it
in Gonnecticutr for instance, until some
time in about the last twenty-five years.
1t was not until some years after the war
| tina 1t began to spread over large parts of
the state-moving in d sporadic and highly
eccentric way; leaping over large areas Of
twenty miles and appearing in other and
totally separated localities, here and in
Massachusetts. People have been in
L INV III SNttl Va w vs.
appearance to some local cause-some de
feet in drainage, some ~neighboring pond
or marsh; but the truth seems to be that
its cause, while it is 40 conbt III the air, is
nevertheless largely generic. 1t visits the
/ top of the Berkshire hills as well as the
levels of the Connecticut valley. A little
pamphlet bearing the title, "The Epidemic
OF MalariaI Diseases in Southwestern New
England, y by DIR. II. Griswold, traces the
curse OF this disorder in Connecticut, and
in parts of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. Ii was known in this state in the
last century; but for about seventy Year,,
down to the outbreak of the
civil war It. saams to have been
unknown in our borders. 1t came,
mostly after the war, but spread
itself over the state in the most leaping,
partial, eccentric way.-Hartford Times.
jefferson Davis and His Father-in-1aw.
sMrs. Clement C. Clay, of Alabama,
whose husband shared Mr.. Davis i'm
~prisonment after the civil war, and who
is n of the most remarkable women the
south ever produced, gave me the sequel
Of this elopement scrape. Gen. Taylor
never forgaye either Davis or his daughter
until the night after Davis led the famous
charge of his regiment of Mississippi rife
men at 1uena Vista; About midnight an
orderly presented himself at Col. Davis,
tent and announced that Gen. Taylor
wished to see him at headquarters imme-
diately. The two men had never spoken
since the one had stolen the daughter of
the other. Davis knew the passionate
temper of the old man, and instantly CON
jeetnred that the sudden and peremptory
summons BODIED no good to him. In deep
anxiety he hnrrlad to the generals tent,
entered the door, and saluted without
speaking or moving a step inside. The
door was closed in d moment, and odd
Rough and Ready with his arms out
stretched, rushed forward and embraced
his l~ong-ignored gon-in-law, exclaiming,
by -, my daughter knew You better
than l did. Forgive mel Forgive mel
aThe reconciliation so dramatically
brought about was a lasting one, and to
the day Of Old Zach's death, sixteen
months and four days after his Inaugural
ton as president of the United States, he
and Mr.. Davis were friends. R--Col. Pat
DOMAIN IN New York Sun.
The Generosity of Wendell Phillips.
Wendell Phillips not only surpassed all