Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 November 1874 — Page 2

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3RA\T KORllSVll.I.E. SATURDAY. NOV 14.

THE Covington Friend cornea out handsomely for Voorliees for United States Senator. Covington in the Tall Sycamore's old stamping ground.

Secretary of War shows a total of 26,441 enlisted men in the army at the clo?e ot October. The General thinks this number will be reduced to 25,000, the limit of the law, before the close of the year, lie regards the army as altogether too Rinall for the demands of so large a cauntrv as this.

THERE is uiore rejoicing over the defeat of Ben butler than over any other result of the elections. The Democrats would have been satisfied with that re«ult if tfoey had lost every State in the 'Union. They dreaded and hated him with a vehemence only equaled by that ot'the New York Herald, in its fear of

Grant's C-auar notions.

THE Chicago Tribune started out last Monday as a Republican paper under the editorial management of Hon. Joseph Medill, who has purchased a controlling interest in it. The Tribune for the past three years has been one of the ablest of the so called Independent newspapers. It supported Greeley for the Presidency and advocated free trade.

THE fight over the Senatorship is getting warm. A score of candidates have been named, but McDonald and Voorhees seem to be the favoriies. Dan seems to be gaining ground, too. It has lately been discovered that besides being the greatest orator and statesman iu the United States he discovered a clause in the Democratic platform that enabled the party to carry this state. And then he is an advocate of more money, while McDonald is a specie resumptionist.

THE Postoffice Department estimates that the revenue from newspaper postage under the new law, which goes in operation January 1, will be between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. The postage then will be two cents per pound on all printed matter, to be collected at the •office of mailing. A statement has been prepared, showing that under the old law not more than one dollar in twenty was collected^on printed matter. Under the new law all postage must be prepaid.

SENATOR THUUMAN thinks the Democratic party, now that it has a majority in the lower house of Congress, will have to shoulder the responsibility. In his Manhattan Club speech he said

But it should be recollected that the fact of the Senate being against us will not relieve us of responsibility or from the necessity of having a clear and well defined policy for our party. During the greater part of General Jackson's administration the majority of the Senate, were opposed to him in politics, but Jackson never faltered for a moment in presenting the policy which gave him a right to urge it with all the strength of his mighty will.

FROM the annual report of the Secretary of State it appears that the following business has been transacted at his office during the past year:

There have been issued and attested one proclamation, 44 warrants, 42 requisitions, 43 pardons, 30 remissions, 8 commutations, 700 notary public commissions, G5 State and district officers, 318 county officers, f14 Justices of the Peace and 88 patents lor land. Nine railroad articles of association have been filed, representing a capital of $10,950,000, and 100 other articles of association, representing 17,415,(100. Jhe total amount of fines aud forfeitures entered, as shown by the Attorney General's annual report, is *5ti,l9l.76.

ONE of the possible candidates for the Presidency on the Republican side is filihu B. Washburne, of Illinois, now Minister to France. In view of this fact tthe papers have been trying to find out bis financial views. A Nuremburg correspondent of tbeSt. Louis Anzeiger has interviewed him to the following effect:

Mr. Washburne expressed himself moat decidely against increase of pa pet money and could uot find words strong enough to express his indignation at the ignorance and wickedness of those who favor this palliation ot half bankrupt States. He was well instructed regarding the feeling in the South and West on this subject, and looked uppn the confusedness of mind and heresy as the source of great future calamities for the country.

QUITE an interesting discusion in now going on among some of the Democratic papers as to which best deserves to be considered the exponent of Democracy. One day we think the Cincinnati Enqtiiter has fully established its claim. The next day the Indjauapolis Sentinel makes a mighty good showing. Then comes the Indianapolis Union with the assertion that the Sentinel is nowhere. Following this, comes the Logansport Pharot, which professes to be the original sipion pure Democratic paper of Indiana. The Ligonier Banner and the Terre Haute Journal also come in occasionally with pretty good showing. But for the life of us we can't tell what Democracy is papers.

when we read all of these

tflCOTl. t, OR TOBACCO POT-

Darlington.

phenomenon of an inveterate tobacco chewer who began using it when nine years old and continued until his death.

GEN*. SHERMAN'S annual report to the which occurred at the age of fifty-four.

He was of nervo-sanguine temperament, strong physical and.mental organization, without predisposition to hereditary disease. Five years ago he used on an average ten cents worth of plug tobacco per day. He bought it by the several pounds, sometimes by the box. He was never seriously sick. For the past ten years had been subject to attacks, increasing in frequency, oi nausea and vomiting, with cold, clammy extremities. attended with nervous prostration, which naturally -vore off or which he overcame with the free vise of milk and salt taken separately. He was of strictly temperate habits, yet upon these occasions took whisky. And thus the case progressed with an aggravation of all the morbid phenomena consequent upon nicotia poisoning extreme constipation that was only relieved by cathartics harsh cough that was only allayed by morphia. Seven weeks before dissolution he ceased to leave his room, but still used tobacco, though in diminished quantity, and continued to nse it until within two weeks of his demise. He was in the habit of sleeping with it iu his mouth and chewing before breakfast.

Steadily the asthenic condition encroached the death like sallowness deepened the extremities lost their warmth and became slightly a-dematous, with cold, clammy sweat similar to acute poisoning. The heart's action never above its normality no hectic (ever the heart weakc.ied and became irregu-

off its crushing load progressive muscti lar debility increased mind all clear lower and lower sank the patient the heart fluttered and the man was dead.

Now let us ca-it about and review briefly, first its properties, second its physiological (which are wholly toxicological) effects upon the body and mind of man third and lastly its effects by transmission from parent to child.

OK ITS PROPERTIES.

A great deal might be said, yet a little shall now suffice. All medical authorities area unit that tobacco is a danerous poison, and Stille says that nicotia is capable of producing death sooner than any other poison exeept prussic acid. Formerly it had some reputation as a therapeutical agent, but has deservedly fallen into disuse, while by the aid of chemistry we are furnished with a more potent and reliable remedy,

UPON THE LIODV.

It is io youth and before maturity that tobacco exerts its most dangerous effects. For then assimilation and growth are more active, and if the plasma, the mamaterial from which bone, muscle and all the tissues are arranged in such beautiful harmony, be Viti rated how can we expect the great Architect to complete a perfect temple? We live under law. The mortar maker must have his proportion of lime, hair, sand and water. Poisoning occurs in a two fold way. First from absorption. The subtle nicotia is taken into the stomach by the mucuous membrane ot the mouth, and through the saliva that goes to the stomach, and who of us have not been eye witnesses, or perhaps experienced in our own person, that awful nausea, that death like prostration, for our first initiation of "manly indulgence."

Our orginizations.. if begotten in purity, intuitively repel the contaminating influence, and revolt in an effort to throw off the deleterious effects—a vice "first hated, loved and then embraced."

Then his stomach is out ot order. He complains of heaviness after meals, has eructations of ingestia—sometimes acid. Then avain without appetite, feels miserable, no inclination for business. Consults a physician, who says he has dyspepsia. And no wonder. See him now chewing, now smoking. See what copious ejectments of cotiee colored salivary secretion he makes. Is that in harmony with law

Do we see any of the inferior creatures wasting the «alivary secretion so? Are not nature's laws mocked Bidder and Schmidt tound by accurate observation that the daily amount of salivary secretion is almost three pounds. And has tbiB no place in the economy of man? Is not a chemical secretion essential in the process of digestion Look abroad to-day and sec the sallow faced, sunken cheated, lean, lank, tobacco oisoned Young America! Can such beget a healthy progeny? Never! Our firm belief is that the noble type of American manhood suffers to-day a degeneracy from the use of tobacco. Tobacco is known to be a very powerful depressant of the heart's action, of its nerve force, as is observed in the muscular relaxation that it produces. Sir B. Brodie, from long observation, believed that itproduoed paralysis that organ. It may be that, like moat nervous sedatives, its. fijrafc touch upon jierve action is that of a stimulant Restoring the disturbed nervous equilibrium with a

rapid sedative

80*\ IJi G. I destructive of

An Emukjr Mmtd H«r»7f the Noaicom.1 the young, and of tonicity in the maI tuie, may we not rationally conclude. «r

In illustration I recount the morbid ]iearl

owing to the close relaxations of the

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subtle influence of nicotia? Nervous disorders and heart disease are said to be on the increase, and so is the consumption of tobacco.

THE CRAWFORDSV1LLE SATURDAY EVENING JOURNAL,

effect following. Being mu?ciilnr development in

sympathetic nervous system,

that many of the nervous disorders, as palpitation, weakened and irregular action of the heart, are traceable t" the

The lungs sot up their protest. Wc know an inveterate smoker with nervous cough, especially after smoking, that disturbs him till tip comes hall his meal. Then a li.tle whisky is taken to settle things, and outraged nature is temporally appeased.

There is a standard perfect health, and that standard is only obtained and maintained by a harmonious bowing to the laws of health—the laws of God. It is an appetite and bandage all forced unless given by transmission, as every medical man must admit. It is through the media of the blood that the reco^--nized,and the still more unrecognized, e.ffects of nicotia are wrought. If the brain and nerves be supplied with vitiated stimuli how shall they give a perfect res'..It The intimate blending and interhlending of matter upon mind and mind and matter may never be fixed, but can be studied. Science requires that the i.eyden jar generate so much electricity, eUe results are bad. Look into the reports of our insane institutions and see the proportion of tobacco lunatics.

Memory, the passions and the ready co-ordination of the faculties are disturbed by it. Nature is beautifully conservtive in her laws which govern men and I things. We many times intuitively are found doing things or wanting to do I things, and we know not why. Whisky

lar, then rallied as if in effort to throw ,U1^ tobacco have a close association, the

latter always beinir found where the former is sold, though tobacco is sold where whisky is not. Why is this su? I answer purely upon physiological law. The boy who begins to u*e tobacco at from ten to fifteen years of iiirc, anl continues it steadily until his maturity, gets pretty thoroughly poisoned. He now has a dry mouth after smoking, and has headache. His hand is unsteady, and he feels bad all over. He feels that he wants some other stimulus, but don't know what. A friend says, "Here, let's take a little something to drink." lie assents and then coines the feeling that it was just what lis had been longing for. It was but the voice of nature in her own behalf. We hold that alcohol in all its combinations is antidotal to nicotia poisoning, and we assert that all confirmed drinkers and drunkards are tobacco users, and that they first used tobacco. Exceptions to litis rule are very rare in my observation. All tobacco users are not spirit users, though many have the ap petite and only refrain from a sense of moral obligation, as I have had intimated to me. Physicians, as guardians of the public health, and knowing something of its baneful effects upon the human organization, should by prcceptand example denounce its use. If the mothers, wives and sisters of the crusade could but appreciate that the first cigar and the first quid of "fine cut" are but stepping stones to the saloon, to a bonddage that invites the baser appetite, that is wrecking physically and spiritually if they were only hurt as much by the repulsive tobacco breath as they are by the lager beer breath, then we might have hope for reformation upon rational grounds. We often see the dignity of the ministry and the sancticity of the pulpit sullied by men saturated by and smelling of tobacco. Such examples are destructive of even good morals. Their precepts are lost.

OK TRANSMISSION.

That this abnormal appetite is transmitted from parent to child is not now questioned any more than the characteristics of race and the transmission of blood poisons. We have two cases in illustration, but one being a type ot the other we shall only give one: Three years ago a German and his wife came to our place to establish a bakery. They both used tobacco. They had a little boy three or four years old that hungered after tobacco aB he once did for his mother's milk. The little fellow wou fmoke a cigar with as much ease and dignity as the oldest man in the business. Our other little smoker died when a few years old of brain trouble.

The Thirty-Flte-Ton Meant Hammer. The great steam hammer lately built for the royal gun factories, at Woolwich, has been successfully erected and set to work. Being much the largest piece of mechanism ot its kind in the world, considerable interest attaches to its performance. The weight of the falling portion is nearly 40 tons, and its force oi impact is greatly increased by the use of steam to drive it down from the top, the augmentation being estimated to equal the force represented by allowing the hammer to fall, of its own weight, from a bight of 80 feet. It has been allowed a striking fell of 15 feet 3 inches The hammer is 45 feet high, and covers, with its supports, a base of about 120 square feet. Its weight is about 500 tons above ground, and the iron used in the foundation beloiir weighs 665 tons.

The Chattanooga Commercial boasts that the city of Chattanooga is the "only one in the United States that has gone Republican this year.'^

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