St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 September 1894 — Page 1

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teegarden. Lemerts have moved their goods into (heir new room. Miss Henry Neville is visiting in Plymouth (his week. The dance last Friday night was attended by a large crowd and enjoyed by all. Last Saturday night a mysterious fire took place in the old saloon building belonging to Nussbaum & Myer, of Plymouth. It burned between seven and eight o’clock. It was unoccupied; probably not insured. The stock inside was mostly gotten out. A few cases of small pox reported in this neighborhood but the facts are there are none. Dr. Neville’s brother, of Ohio, is moving on Mr. Neville’s farm near this place. The church trustees met Tuesday night. The brick work is completed ready for the carpenters. .John Forsyth is putting up a well, house and woodshed for Jacob Stump. Jack. GROVER I’OWN. Quite a number of our people are attending the fair at Knox this week. ■Mrs. J. R. Abner is on the sick list this week suffering with a bilious attack. Geo. Lindley returned to his home in Omaha, Neb., last Monday. Mrs. Lindley will remain a few weeks yet visiting friends. Peter Walsh is on the sick list with an attack of cholera ziorbus. Chas. Millner is also suffering from an attack of the same disease. Mr. and Mrs. Sid Uncapher have reason to rejoice and are exceeding glad over the arn ’ of a big ten pound boy Sept. L All concerned doing nicely. A sad accident occurred at the home of Vito Tortorillo, living a mile ami a half from this place, last Saturday forenoon. A little three year old * ,■ T ,' , , I.-

w:is visiting with its uhcTe7 Wnne hauling sand the little fellow, who was with Mr. Tortorillo on the wagon, in some way fell off of the wagon and broke its neck killing it instantly. A message was sent to the parents at once who arrived on the evening train. The funeral and burial occurred at Plymouth Sunday afternoon. The recent rains have retarded the progress of marsh hay making to quite a considerable extent. Chase. HAMLET. Joe Welsh says he is papa; a 10 pound boy came to tend bar for him the 12th. Mrs. Jhnson and daughter, Alma, went, to eastern Ohio Monday on a visit. Airs. "’in. Carli, of Warsaw, is here visiting her relatives and friends. C. J. Danielson made a business trip to Chicago last week. Dr. Moore went to Knox Saturday on business. H. A. Ellingson is out north selling hay presses and other farming impleniints this week. Peter Gallagher is deputy postmaster while Mrs. Burson is absent. Miss Kate Halley returned from Knox Saturday where she has been attending the normal. Grandma Brow is still very low.

"" WTsrNoore, mother of Dr. Moore, • Vas been very siek but. she is some ( better at this writing, the 12th. Peter Gallagher had two of his ! fingers badly mashed while getting off of a train at Davis last week. Grandma McDaniel is very sick. Mr. and Mrs. George Allen was called to Logansport last week to see their son Frank, who is in the asylum and can't live but a few days. Billy Christoph’s have another boy. That makes seven boys and no girls. Mrs. McCormick and Harrison Moore are on the sick list. Dr. Moore packed his drugs last Monday and took his horse and buggy and started for Medaryville where he t is going into partnership with Dr. H. 1 G. Jones. He will move his family there as soon as he can get a vacant house. SHILOH’S CUKE, the great Cough and Croup Cure, is in great demand. Pocket size contains twenty-five doses only 25c. Children love it. For sale by Bellinger & Williams,

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY,

VARIOLA, OR SMALL-POX. I [From Tilbury Fox on Skin Diseases.] 1 lie eruption in the skin is characterized by the appearance of bright, red, hard acuminated points, the size of hemp-seeds, distinct from each other at. first, and which, passing through the stages of vesicular and pustular iuflammation, arrive at their maturity on the eighth day of eruption. The individual pustules then scab, their contents drying info brown masses, which become detached in from twelve to twenty days, and leave behind in their place permanent cicatrices, or “pits." Small-pox is often preceded, us regards its local state, by more or less erythema, which subsides on the ap pearance of the vari. This has been termed erythema variolosa. Smallpox is said to be discrete, when the pustules are scattered over the surface; coherent, when the eruption is plentiful, and the vari are “closely packed side by side but still distinct;” confluent, when they run together; modified, when the disease succeeds to a prior attack or occurs after inoculation. The disease is also primary or sec oudary, in relation to the number of attacks in a given individual. Variola sine vnriolis is the name given to smallpox when the pyrexia proper to it oc curs, but when at the same time this febrile state is unattended by eruption. The mucous surfaces are affected in like manner to the skin. Small pox is, by universal consent, divided into five stages,—firstly, that of incubation, which is reckoned by the length of time which elapses between exposure to the poison of the disease and the development of the first effects (it varies in duration from 5 to 20 days— Dr. Marston, of the Small-pox Hospital, says its average is 12); secondly, tLe stage of invasion (2 days); thirdly, (hat of eruption; fourthly, that of sup puration; and fifthly, desiccation. The “Period of Eruption.”—Etup (ion makes its appearance on the third day after the first occurrence of con stitulional disturbance, and travels

nhen the fvbnfe condition is gWuiffy relieved. The spots appear first of all on tiie face, about the forehead, and thence they extend to the trunk and limbs. These spots are, in (he very outset, small papules, red, hard, and pointed, and their more or less closely packed or scattered condition affords a good guide as to whether the disease will be confluent or not; if the skin be very red and erythematous, probably the case will assume the confluent form. Ou the second day of eruption —fourth of disease—the papules formed from elevation of the epidermis by an increase of the cells of the Malpighian layer and distension of the vessels in the true skin, but particularly the papillary layer, are transformed into vesicles. If these vesicles be punctured, nothing escapes from the puncture. Now at this stage there is a network of fibres in the rete formed by stretched and elongated cells of that layer, the meshes being filled *ith pus cells, the papilla? being flattened down. Ou the third day of eruption —fifth of disease—nmbilication commences as a central depression, which becomes more marked every day, pari passu with suppurative, which now commences; the pustules are “whitish and surrounded by an inflamed areola;” the fourth day of eruption (sixth of disease). If the contents of the pustule are now turned out, a little “disc” of dirty plastic matter, presc^d-

ing an umbilicated shape, and attached to the cutis beneath, will be noticed. At this stage pus cells infiltrate the curium more deeply, but the main col lection is encapsuled as it were by two layers of the rate cells, which ate flattened out more or less above and below, intervening cells being stretched out into fibres, forming a network as above described. In the confluent form these various changes are not distinctly traced. It is not at all unusual to observe the confluent in one, the discrete form in another part of ♦he same subject. The onset of maturation is observed about the end of the fifth or beginning of the sixth day of eruption, or the eighth of disease. The contents of the umbilicated vesicles soften down into pus, the umbilication diminishing with enlargement of the base of the pustule, and a yellow colour replacing the white. t Maturation, as it is called, is “com- ■ j plete on Ihe eighth day of eruption,” *। or the tenth of disease; between the । eighth and eleventh day, or the tenth

or thirteenth of disease, secondary fever sets in, when the stage of desiccation is reached. This is the period of recovery of resolution, when the local and general symptoms subside, the scabbing dries, and the discharge ceases. The crusts full off in the next three or four days (fifteenth day of disease), exposing raw, red surfaces, which desquamate, and by-audby leave behind red-looking marks, which gradually fade and assume the wellknown aspect of small pox marks. When small pox is produced by inoculation there are some differences. Ou the third day the puncture is inflamed, it is itchy, and surrounded by a little blush of redness, whilst the spo* IS FillpfliHv 1 »<1 tint &<*<?• Ibo fourth OF fifth day the central point acuminates, and a little coming vesicle is seen; on the sixth day there is an early state of pustule, and it is umbilicated; on the seventh day a perfect pustule is formed with an inflamed areola; on the ninth or tenth day, maturation takes place, and the nmbilication of the pustules goes, from the twelfth to the fifteenth day, desiccation takes place, and from the twentieth to twenty-fifth day the scat) falls off. The disease is rarely confluent. MODIFIED VARIOLA. The effect of vaccination is to lessen the severity of variola, and the latter occurring in vaccinated subjects is called modified small pox. There are differences of opinion as to whether there is any relation between it and varicella. The distinction of varicella (vesicular), modified small pox (varioloid, as it has been termed), and variola is well marked in the extreme degrees of either disease, but they shade the one into the other by insensible stages. At times eases are met with which may be called either variola or varioloid—indeed it is not uncommon to observe the vesicular in conjunction with the umbilicated form; at other times an eruption is simply papular and scarcely reaches the vesicular stage, yet is traceable to the acljon of jfie small pox poison. >

pox modified by vaccination, but there is good reason to look upon it as a dw tinct disease. In modified variola, as compared with true variola, the secondary fever is absent; the only stage present are those of primary fever and eruption. As a rule the pyrexial symptoms partake of the character of those of variola, but they are of less severity. The eruption may be papular; in this ease it behaves in the same way us that of variola ut the outset, only it is abortive at the papular stage, and in a few days the papuhv subside; there are a few vesicular and pustular spots generally about the face. At other times the vesicular stage is reached, and lasts five or six days, and, as in the papular variety, there are a few pustular spots on the face. In more marked instances, the modified variola is pustular, and the pustules may be globular (the varicella globularis of Willan, and swine-pox of old authors) or umbilicated, or the characters of these two varieties may be intermingled with those of conical vesicles. In other words, modified small pox may abort in any of the stages which are passed through by ordinary variola. LOCAL BRIEFS. Call and buy one of those nice sideboards at Vincent’s. <

Just received, three car loads shingles which I am closing out at re| duced prices. D. N. Hudelmyer. ■ The democratic township caucul has been postponed to Saturday evening, Sept. 29, as will be seen by the official notice elsewhere in this paper. liemember that you can got all kinds of repairs and needles for the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine at the Globe clothing store. A potato weighing one pound, six and a half ounces is on exhibition at this office. It was raised on Wolfen. barger Bros.’ land near town. They are raising some very’ line potatoes, this year, which average very large. Sufferers from dyspepsia have only • themselves to blame if they fail to test the wonderful curative qualities oi Ayer_s_Sarsaparilla. In qmrifying the bit this medicine strengthens every < an of the body, and even the j | most housed stomach is soon restored ■ i to healthy action, t

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s«« Ulose Imrlw jullß at Vi Ihiiy are fine. line If' & Wi,liams have a full 1 e f r Sc hool supplies. A J?’ a,a head is unnatural and unneceWarj. Hall’s Hair Renewer will prevnUt it. Ake wißhe9 to y°ur memory about those double team harnlp’hat he is selling at <22. A bargalnX B« ken < an Taylor, of the milk train, Ims his family to this place. ThfA^W Gniudmotber Swank’s n^^k^rrrii * Co. would like to knoOf there is anyone who is through withlheir pump tongs, or if there is anyblay.jvbo knows of anybody that is through with them. They have a nur tber of pairs of tongs loaned out but 1 aven’t seen any of them for some time. Ge< rge Flood, representing the Thee lx insurance company, has settle ! with Louis Paul for the loss of his w eat, which was burned in the staot/a few weeks ago. Mr. Paul wa^uid 1100, the full amount of his claiij* DrJW. N. Baer, veterinary surgeon, treatsail diseases of the horse suceessAll calls promptly attended. Oilice nt Wolfenbarger’s livery stable. After 9:30 p. m. customers will find me afmy room at the residence of MarAn Bellinger. Iji Heinz pickle plant, managed by Cl A. Burroughs is on the boom. 1 liisiis its busy season. The supply of lickles is so great that It was nece&ary to put in six more tanks, holdig 1,000 bushels each. Next ywwe plant Is to be considerably enlarged. The worn may be commem^l this fall. A great deal of the l’bß^» ,! U» and Walkerton supply is beiaj cured here.—l at Porte Herald. A* * RA W. will run land-seek- - June 5. July 5, August 7, September 4, October 2, November G and December 4, 1894, at one first-class fare for round trip. These excursions will take in important points in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. For further particulars call on the local agent. Farm for Sale. lam offering my farm of 100 acres for sale at $2,800. Farm located about four miles north of Walkerton. Good buildings, good orchard and good water. Every foot of the land is improved. Fred Wolxe. B. & 0 Excursions On September 4th and 18tli the Baltimore & Ohio railroad will sell 30 Jay excursion tickets to points in Virginia on the Harpers Ferry & Valley Branch, south of and including Winchester, at rate of one fare for the round trip. Excursion tickets will also be sold on September 18tb to points in Michigan at the same rate, good for return 20 days from date of sale.

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