Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1880 — Coffee in Typhoid Fever. [ARTICLE]

Coffee in Typhoid Fever.

Dr. Guillasse, of the French navy, j in a recent paper on typhoid fever. I says: “Coffee has given us unhopedfor satisfaction; aftei having dispensed it, we find, that its action is as prompt as decisive. No sooner have our patients taken a few tablespooufuls of it than their features become relaxed and they come to their senses. The next day the improvement is such , that we are tempted to look upon cos- i fee as a specific against typhoid fever. ; Under i's influence the stupor is dispelled, and the patient rouses from j the state of somnolency in which he j has been since the invasion of the j disease. Soon all the functions take their natural course, and he enters upon conv.aleseence.” Dr. Guillasse gives to an adult two or three tablespoonfuls or strong black coffee every two hours, alternated with one or two . teaspoonfuls of claret or Berguudy wine. A little lemonade or citrate of magnesia should be taken dailj', and i alter a while quinine. From the fact that malaise and cerebral symptoms appear first, the doctor regards typhoid fever as a nervous disease, and the coffee acting on the nerves is peculiarly indicated in the early stages ' before local complications arise.

Senator Voorhces showed his natural generosity and charitable spirit by working hard to secure the confirmation of a son of Gov. Morton, whom Mr. Hayes had appointed collector of the port of San Francisco. The nomination was overwhelmingly rejected, however, because both of the California senators opposed it.

New Jersey is one of the most relia * ble democratic states in the Union. Gen. McClellan is governor, and in his recent message recommended that no state tax be levied, as there was money enough on hand to meet all demands. That is a specimen of democratic government. Was ever any such thiug ever heard of in a republican state?

“Plan” Buchanan appeared before Mr. Voorhees’ negro exodus committee, last week. He said the supply of labor in Indiana was far greater than the demand, and that never since 1873 had a winter passed that many able-bodied men, anxious to work, were not supplied with food by su pervisors of the poor. He opposed the exodus because he knew the negroes were not benefiting themselves by settling in a state where there was no work for them. The leaders of therepublican party were to blame tor permitting the movement to continue. The last annual report shows that 709,701 school children were enumeiated in Indiana, and of this number 503.892 attended school. The total amount of the school fund is $9,080,581,96, and the revenue for the year ending November, 1878, was $2,801,837.48. This sum was applicable to school purposes for the year ending November, 1879. The total value of school property is $11,787,705.37.

Bays the South Bend Herald: Marshal Dudley’s secret circular, inquiring, “How many negroes arc there in your precinct?—what the polities of your school-master? etc., should hoist him out of office if there were any honesty in the civil service reform promises of the fraud Hayes. As it is, here is one o? the United States marshals making a tool of himself for the republican state committee, and Is paid out of the United States treasury for doing it

Then He Snickered! —When Soil top went nome tne outer night, Airs. B. informed him in a stage whisper that she had caught an awful cold, and had lost her voice. And would yon believe it? the heathen Spilton said nothing, but snickered behind his hand. And yet only n few short years ago Spilton thought there was nothing so musical in me world as Sarah’s voice. Boston Transcript,

John Rico, tho mstsurvivor of those who fought with Perry, at the Battle of Lake Erie, was buried in Shelby, Ohio, one day last week with military honors.

Tke Delphi Times says; “Akexdment No. 1” proposed to the Constitution is father peculiar in its provisions. After ret iring at length what shall bo the cp alifioau’cms of voter-, i- says they '‘shall lie entitled to vo o in the township or precinct where im may reside, ij /<g shall have been r<(Wtttred according to laiv.” Now, if the people ol the State adopt this amendment at the ele tion in April the question is will it not disfranchise every voter in tne State until the Legislature meets and passes a registry hiw? The provision of the proposed amendment is clear, whatever may have been the intent of it It says distinctly that such person shall vote when he shall have been registered according to law, and it follows as a logical sequence that after the adoption of that amendment by the vot ers of the State, no man can vote unless he has been iegistered.

Speaking of the registry Jaw the Munoie Observer says: “It is one of no earthly good, and is a fruitful rource of fiaud. Or what use is the law, if the vqter is required to live in the precinct before voting? What is to hinder a person, if lie is disposed, from registering in three or four precincts, and when election day comes vote in each of them? The rich man and the man of leisuro has plenty of time to register; the poor laboring mau has not, and would thus be pre- j vented from voting. Registration i means fraud and honest men should vote against it.”

Speaking of the proposed constitutional amendments, elsewhere pul . lished, the Vincennes Sun says: ! It is aspecious argument, df those favoring the amendments— that, | amendment No. 3 does not ma'.:e t obligatory on the Legislature to pas* a registration law. But n ark the I closing words of the proposed amendment: “and shall also provide for the registration of all persons entitled to vote.” Let not the voters or Indiana be deceived by such sophistry- i the amendments pass we shall most certainly have a registration law with all the fraud and expense and corruption that the name registration implies.

Ralph Fkndig purchased a bankrupt stock of goods at less than cost and is selling them for a song. Try him. SFMessrs. Isaac Hanawait and Isaac Armch r old White county friends, called in to see us Tuesday.