Locomotive, Volume 9, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1849 — Page 2

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TO CONTRIBUTORS AND CORRESPONDENTS. Woman We think should not be published. Constitution Is under advisement; we would like the privilege of condensing it, as its length is a freat objection. ' Other articles are under consideration.

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. SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 18J9. Permanent agnt for the Locomotive, in Franklin, Ind.,' VV. A. Marks.

See the proceedings of the council in another column. O. K. precisely; "

Warm weather, this, : very at 4 o'clock on Thursday the thermometor , stood 88 deg. above 0 in' the Locomotive Office.

When will "The New Albany Grave Yard Plank Road Company" declare their next dividend ? Can the Democrat tell 1

Death of Ex-President Polk. James K. Polk," Ex-President of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn., about 5 o'clock on the evening of the 15th. of chronic diarrhea, to which he has

been subjectTor several years past.

The Council have stationed a guard around the house where the small pox is, to prevent its spread. Thrre are no new cases, and the young man that has it is fast recovering. . Peas and Potatoes. Peas .are quite plenty in Market now, but they are very green. Potatoes are also coming to market, but they are so young that they are small potatoes in every respect except one, and that is the price, which is big.

Alarm of Fire. An alarm of fire wa3 raised on Wednesday evening, that created considerable confusion in the neighborhood. A candle was left standing an a work-table, by ihe side of a bed, in a room in which some, children were sleeping, at Mr. Graydou's, on Maryland street. A work-basket was standing on the table, and by some means the candle set the work in the basket on fire, and the flames soon spread to the bed. Fortunately it was discovered and extinguished before it had made much progress, and little damage was' done.

The Glorious 4th is near at hand, and Banner men ( i. e. men appointed to have the banners madi ,) and rusk'! men, ( the committee on cakes,) and tin-men (those that buy the tin-cups to bold the water,) arc busy at work doing their duty ; the

marshals and assistants are laying out a line of

march every night in their dreams, and the " little children," arc already feasting, in imagination, and counting over how many "cokes they will get. ' What arc the b'hoys going to do nn that day? ch? If they can't do anything better they should get whec liar rows and ride the g'hals round town to see the (loins, but they must be sure and return them if they do, or they will be " advertised."

Small Pox. In our last No. we spoke of there being a case of Small Pox in our city. There was some diversity of opinion on the case at first, but, we understand, that exists no longer. That several of our principal Physicians have seen the case, and all of them pronounce it genuine Small Pox. Now, we would ask, what ought to be done to prevent the extension of this formidable disease ? We have no municiple authority to acton it is true the city council have just appointed a boar.l of health, but they have not got together yet, to suggest any sanatary measures to the citizens. As we" have frequently given voluntary advise to our city Fathers, much to their benefit, we will now extend our magnanimity to the community generally and we will say that the first, the best, and the most important preventative that can possibly be adopted, is Vaccination. It is worth all other precautions put together, four-fold over. We all recollect the case of John Musgrave and family

a more beautiful, powerful, or convincing proof

of the efficacy of Vaccination could not be produced.

Mr. Musgrave buried Mr. Kennedy, who died of the Small Pox. Musgrave kept this a secret from his family, for fear of alarming them, until he was taken sick with the same disease. Medical assistance was not called in until he had been sick some four or five days; the eruption appearing thickly over his face, neck, breast and arms. When the Physician told his wife and family that it was the Small Pox, his wife observed, "what will become of us; here is myself and seven children that have never been Vaccinated." They were all Vaccinated immediately all took well. The disease in the husband, which proved to be of the most malignant confluant form, progressed regularly on, until death. The whole family were continually exposed day and night to its contagion the wife having hone to help her nurse, the neighbors avoided the house from fear, the little children occupying, sleeping in the same room, and often in the same bod, will the sick father, during the whole period of the disease, even while he was lying a livirg mnss of fester and corruption, and yet they all passed through this trial with impunity not one of them contracted the disease, We could mention other similar instances, though not quite so strong, proving beyond all controvercy the power of Vaccination to prevent the spreading of small pox.

It may be said that persons sometimes take ih

small pox, even after they have been Vaccinated ! We grant they do ! and ihere are instances on re

cord of the same individual having the regular small pox two or three times. But where there is one, there are five hundred who will miss it. So we would repeat, go and get Vaccinated, t hose who

have never been, go immediately to your family

Physician and have it done, and those who have

been, we would say. go nnn have it none over ngrun

if it should not take it will do you no harm, but will

be some satisfaction to know that your system is so

much the less susceptable to the contagion of small

pox.

Fat dogs have hard times this weather. We

saw a little fellow the other da that had rubbed

nearly all the hair off his skin, scratching for fias. and he is so fat he can hardly walk wo shouldn't wonder if he would g.t mad; we should if wc were

in his place.

HORSES. There is nothing speaks so well of the prosperity of a country as the quality of the horses: this fact is proverbial, and this being the case, the farmers in the vicinity of this city must be in a highly prosperous condition. On any day, when the streets are filled with wagons, we could select 100 horses in the wagons from the country, that would be called first-rate in any city, and every young man that rides to town backs a crack nag. We like to see this spirit growing, as it is the right spirit, and one that must tend to keep up the stock in the country, but we merely want to make one suggestion to our country friends about taking care of their horses when in town. There is, on an average, from 5 to 10 runaways in our streets every week, and 9 out of every 10 horses that runaway belong to persons from the country, breaking their wagons and harness, and spoiling their horses. Now it is the easiest matter in the world to prevent

all this running away, by a little care. If persons

would never leave their horses without hitching

them properly, they could not run off. We would not call lying the lines around a post proper hitch

ing, and there are many do this, for if the horses back, the lines draw and throw them, or cause them to run away. Nor do we consider unhitching the traces and tying the lines to the wagon proper hitch'

ing, for the horses get uneasy, turn their heads to the wagon, break loose, and away they go, doing

from $5 to $50 damages. The only secure way is

to take the horses out, and tie them, either to the wagon or a post this is but little more trouble, and it makes them secure, while the owner can go

where he pleases and do his business without feeling troubled about his horses. A man that hitches

his horses in this way will make money by it, for he will not be uneasy about his horsns when he is trading, and can make better bargains. We have had so many runaways lately, that we think it our duty to say . this much on the subject, and to urge every man to secure his horses before he leaves them in the street.

Mail Robber Arrested. Yesterday morning, Win. Baker, who a few month since, robbed the trail between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana, asked for a letter at the Post Office in this city. The delivery window being raised, Mr. Ruffin, the obliging delivery clerk, instantly grasped and held him fast, and obliged him to crawl through the window inside of the Post Office, where he was effectually secured and then taken before Judg McLean, who held him in 81000 bail, in default of which, he was committed. Baker drove the United States mail stage, and is believed to have opened the mail bngs with false keys. The United States Deputy Marshals, Ilogan and Vanausdal, start for Indianapolis with Baker this morning. Cin. Com. Friday. Baker Was brought to this city on Tuesday last, and is lodged in the jail here. . He expects' to give the required bail in the course of a week, or as soon as he can hear from his friends, when he can go where he pleases. Cassius M. Clay, and a man by the name of Turner, in Madison Co., Ky., had a renconter, with pistols and bovvie knives, which was near killing bothThey were alive at the last accounts, but so dangerously wounded that either or both may die in consequence. - P. Su Turner has died since the above was written.