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Proposals in each county should be placed in the hands of the parties herein named on or before FEBRUARY 15. 1878. _ _ CI rion and Armstrong counties, R.R.McGRE GOR, East Brady. Indiana county, J. A. C. RUFFNER. Indiana. Cumbria county. J. G. LAKE, Eben,burg. Blair county, SAMUEL MILLIKEN, Holli daysburg. Huntingdon county,DAVID CALDWELL, Hun tingdon. . Franklin county. West of Kittatinney Moun tain, J. H. W ITHEROW, `pring Run P. 0. Franklin. East of Kittatinney and Cumberland county, G. N R AYSON, Shippensburg. Adams county, Hon. DAVID WILLS, Gettys burg. Carroll county, Md., SMITH tt McEILLIP, West m inister. Baltimore county, F. P. STEVENS, Baltimore, Md., 53 Lexington, St. Feb.S-2t OUTS I'ANDING BALANCES DUE the County, at the settlement with Audi tors, for the year 1877. Ki A • TOWNSHIPS . .3 c ,/ .-3 .3 and H COLLECTORS 9. z 9. ts. BOROUGHS. "- r ! . ~3 ?4 i-3 sel K Carbon lB72,Jehn Canty, $ 114 26 $29 87 Coalmont Brady le73!George Eby 43 91 983 Cass Carbon Jackson. Clay Union Henderson Walker Hopewell. 1875 .George W. Putt. 24 63 Jackson Mount Union IJ. Mclntyre 32 73 Union .. ....... ...... Barree 1876:11 A. Ramsey . 58 1.1 Hunt'g 3d W_.... Hunt'g 4th W IS. W. C011um.... 86 74 2 Juniata. W. Gels.inger.... 72 26 549 Lincoln Orbisonia Tell Union Saltillo Alexandria 1877 C. Grath. 90 8714 65 Barree Brady Broad Top City... Carbon Oasa Cassville Clay Cromwell I B. F. Chilcote 620 32 Coalmont Samuel Brooke.. 46 66 Dublin Franklin Henderson. Hopewell Hunt'g let W Hunt'g 2d W- Hunt'g, 3d W. Hunt'g 4th W.... Jackson Juniata. Lincoln Marklesburg. Morris Orbisonia Oneida Penn Shade Gap ,H. C. Zeigler. 8 351 60 Shirley Shirleysbnrg I M. Goodman. 61 96. Tell Tod Three Springs.... Walker 'Joseph Isenberg *449 37 Warrioremark.... West Saltillo I slosoB 00,301 04 Books. Since paid in part. Judgment against P. M. Lytle, esq., $677.26 Claimed by Lytle and allowed by Commis-ioners $215.17, amicable revival of Judgment f0r5462.09. Account against Benjaman D ivis for $660.79 left off the above outstanding by direction of the Commissioners. COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS. Money borrowed and Bonds igsued by the COMMiB - : Borrowed money Bonds issued Commmowealrb orders unpaid Bridge and Road views " Inquisitions unpaid. . Assessors orders unpaid Election orders " Constables orders " Jury orders THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF PHILADELPHIA . Net Assets January 1, 1877...... ... Premium receipts Interest receipts, etc DISBURSEMENTS. *Losses and endowments paid.— $379,407,89 Dividends to policy holders Surrendered policies, re-insur- ance, etc Commissions, salaries, medical fees, etc 127,342 75 Taxes, legal expen's, adv'g, etc 1t19.218 02 Assets Jan. 1,1878, at cost ASSETS. U S. 5 and 6 per cent. bonds, I'hiladelphia and .ty loans, R. R. bonds, bank, and oth er stocks, worth $2,069,342.75, cost 52.000,448.93 Mortgages, first liens on properties worth 56,90 ,, ,000 Premium notes secured by policies 711,572.00 Loans on collaterals, etc 305,658.82 Agents' balances secured by bonds .... Real estate owned by the Company, cost 367,037 .61 Cash on hand and in Trust Companies 173,374.63 Net ledger foseta, as above Net deterred and unreported pre miums 5105,221.65 Interest due and accrued on loans, etc Market value of stocks etc , over cont 568,893.82 Lees depreciation in real entate Grose assets January 1, 1878 LIABILITIES. Losses reported, but not due $113252.81 Reserve required at 4 per cent. to re-insure risks 5,260,336.00 Dividends on unreported policies, etc 6,898.96 $5,4C8,4i16.46 872.318.00 Premiums paid in advance. Surplus 4 per cent. basis Surplus, at 434 per cent. (estimated) $1,212,0,0.00 •The losses were $114,000 less than those estimated by the mortality table. SAMUEL C. HUEY, President. SAMUEL E STOKES, Vice-Prest. H. S. STEVENS, 2d Vice-Pest. JAs. WEIR MASON, Actuary. HENRY AUSTIE, Secretary. HENRY C. BROWN, Asst. Secretary. R. ALLISON MILLER, Agent. Jan.2s-4t. FRANKLIN HOUSE, HUNTINGDON, PA. JOHN G. BOYER, PROPRIETOR, 430 Penn St., in the Diamond. This is a nine quiet home, with good accommo dations, reasonable rates, and the only strict tem perance hotel in town. GOOD STABLING. , Ang.3,1877.6m. - , S „7: il in _.. 41 . 1 4 -- ,-47.. 4_ , 1 i-il ~ i 1 , 4,7A al - of ~.._ T--i y: , -s. -,_,. ss-4- ii -:-.0 ist. ..„.. -,.. tp.: v. N; :3 ‘ .: , 3 , 4.. e , ~ ~: . 5...,-,-,. . 4 ':' . 1 - ' 1 , - ,-,_ - : 0 4 - - . 1 ; . . , Ic 4- 7 . 1 .t. tll 343 = - ii ...-.. .!..a. *A,- Ao P l e? ' : 0 he New Advertisements FOR JAS. HENDERSON, W. H. REX. Auditors J. J. WHITE. RECEIPTS. $1,179,791.03 378,615.75 231,819.29 45,032.61 23,861.21 Eke Rlusts' cottur. Inventory of a Drunkard A hut of logs without a door, Minus a roof, and ditto floor ; A clapboard cupboard without crocks ; Nine children without shoes or frocks ; A wife that has not any bonnet With ribbon bows and strings upon it, Scolding. and wishing to be dead, Because she has not any bread. A tea-kettle without a spout; A meat-cask with the bottom out ; A "comfort . ' with the cotton gone. And not a bed to put it on ; An axe handle without an axe ; A batchel without wool or flax ; A pot lid and a wagon hub, And two ears of a washing tub; Three broken plates of different kinds ; Some mackerel-tails and bacon-rinds ; A table without leaves or legs ; One chair and half a dozen pegs ; Au oaken keg with hoops of brass; One tumbler of dark-green glass ; A fiddle without any strings; A gun-stock and two turkey wings. 0, readers of this inventory, Take warning by its graphic story; For little any man expects, Who wears good shirts with buttons in em, Ever to put on cotton checks, And only have brass pins to pin 'em I 'Tis, remember, little stitches Keep the rent from growing great; When you can't tell beds from ditches, Warning words will be too late. ~.-4.--- What Can Make Home Happy. Though we may not change the cottage For a mansion tall and grand, Or exchange a little grass plot For a boundless stretch of land— Yet there's something brighter, dearer, Than the wealth we'd thus command. Though we have no means to purchase Costly pictures rich and rare— Though we have no silken hangings For the wall so cold and bare— We can hang them o'er with garlands, For flowers blossom everywhere. W.: can always make home cheerful, If the right course we begin ; We can make its inmates happy, And their truest blessings win ; It will make the small room brighter, If we let the sunshine in. We can gather round the fireside When the evening hours are long ; We can blend our hearts and voices In a happy, social song: We can guide some erring brother, Lead him from the path of wrong. We may fill our home with music, And with sunshine brimming o'er, If against all dark intruders We will firmly close the door— Yet, should evil shadows enter, We must love each other more. There are treasures for the lowly Which the grandest fail to find ; There is a chain of sweet affection Binding friends of kindred mind— We may reap the choicest blessings From the poorest lot assigned. Who Will Care? Who will care ? When we lie beneath the daisies. Underneath the church-yard mold, And the long grass o'er our faces Lays its fingers damp and cold ; When we sleep from care and sorrow, • And the ills of earthly Ife— Sleep to know no sad to-morrow, With its bitterness aud strife— Wbo will care ? Who will care ? Who will come to weep above us, Lying, oh I so white and still, Underneath the skies of Summer. When all nature's pulses thrill To a new life, gay and tender, Full of beauty, rich and sweet, And the world is clad in splendor, That the years shall e'er repeat— Who will care? Who will care ? When Queen Autumn's flowers blossom And she stoops in pity down, With a white flower for our bosom, Taken from her royal crown ; Who will come to kneel in pity By our long and narrow bed, Where the wild winds sing their ditty In the grasses o'er our head— Who will care? Who will care When the Spring-time's glad smile lingers, On the meadows, far and wide, And she drops, from rosy fingers, Bloom and leaf on every side ; Who will come, with tender yearning, To the graves of those they miss ? Who will sigh for our returning To their presence and their kiss— Who will care ? $20,014 64 4,000 00 540 01 C3B 20 83 28 111 50 194 14 4 62 51 61 Who will care? Who will think of white hands lying (in a still and silent breast, Never more to know of sighing, $25,338 00 Ever more to know of rest? Who will care 1 No one can tell us ; But if rest and peace befall, Will it matter if they miss us, Or they miss us not at all ? Not at all. *torp-rEtiltr. $5,L',82,867.59 "TIGER JIM ;" 1,558,406.78 $7,141,274.37 - OR, - JUSTICE IN THE FAR WEST. BY WYOMING KIT. Old Job Dawson had been duly elected to fill the re , p ,nsible position of a justice of the peace, and this was the first case that had demanded his attention, Job. was au old veteran ni , tuntaineer and had lived in the shadow of the lofty pealis, hunting trapping, and fighting Indians, to use his own words, "since Adam war a kid " 1,077,771 15 $6,063.503.22 In that rough region an accusation of great crime against any one is but a fore runner of a •'hanging bee," and a trial even is seldom thought of But in the present instance a wild "cuss" who had been frequenting the settlements had ap propriated a "br..nebo" (Indian pony) be longing to a neighboring ranchman, and had been pursued, captured and brought back. .$6,063,5u3.22 217,220.24 .$6,280.7Z1.46 Old Job was summonod to try the cul prit, and a spot in the rocky gulch near the 'Squire's Cabin was selected as the site for the investigation A motley crowd of hunters, trappers, miners and ranchers assembled, some lying upon the ground and others sitting upon the rocks, and anxiously awaiting the 'Squire's coming Job soon came from toward the cabin, and with a dignified air seated himself upon a boulder, took off his bear skin cap, and said : $6,280,723.46 "Fellers, the court ar' ready to ait down to bis, an' I want yer all to cheese yer racket an' let up on that chin music ac cording to law. Throw yer ha'r in sight and pay 'tention to the court." Every hat came off at his command, and "His Honor," glancing around the circle, said : "Whar is the dam cuss ?" Three mountaineers, armed with Henry rifles and six shooters, stepped forward with the thief, a young man, wearing a BY LLICE CART HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1878 bold, devil way care expression. His hands were securely fastened behind his back with buckskin thongs CI id in buckskin Prow head to foot, he presented a pictur esque appearance as he faced the 'Squire. "ITat do they call you at home 7" asked the court. "Ain't got enny home, leastways in these parts," sullenly replied the prisoner. "Ain't, hey ? Well, wat's the name you tuk w'en you left the States, then ?" "The boys hyer on the hills call me Tiger Jim " "Well, Tige, yer spotted as a horse thief, an' I reckon there's somethin' in it, or the boys wouldn't a brought you in. You can't expect a toney trial like you'd git down to Laramie or in enny o' them tow►:s along the road. We haven't eny paper, pens or ink, or eny o' that sort o' ness up hyer in the hills, an' thar ain't one o' us as could engineer 'em if we had, so we'll jist grind her through an' do the best we kin for you. In the name o' the law I now ax you did you collar that hos,4 . —but stop 'er right thar, doggone it, I forgot to swear you. Cum mitey near for gittin' it. Hold up yer right han'." "Hold up nothin'. flow kin I when they are tied tit,er'n blazes ?" 'That's so. Yer k'rect Tiger, but. I gess euy member o' the body]] be 'eurciin' to law in extreme cases. Steddy him a little, fellers, so's he kin hold up his tight foot." Tige raised his tnocca , .ion covered foot while a guard on each side held him in position. "Now, then, I ain't fly on them 'ar law yers' affydavp, but make her stout enuff to hold a Mexican mule. Titer Jim, do you swar by the holy Moses, accordin' to the laws of ‘Vy3witig Territory, that every time ye chip into my racket ye'll give us the spar' truth. An' of you hope that ye may git thawed up by a grizzly, chopped to pieces by Sioux, strung up to a pine with a rope 'round yer dam thievin' neck, an' fail to connect on Heaven w'en yer lite goes out, to the best o' yer under standing as provided by law, s'help yer God, eh ?" "That's jist w'at I does, pardy." "Now, Tige, yer under oath, an' every time yer speak yer want ter hit the bull's eye Did yer nip that hors'?" "Wall, Uncle Job, there's no use o' lyin' about it, and I'll tell you jist how it war. Las' night, you know. thar war a jamboree over at Al Wilkins' ranche in 3liller's gulch an' I war titan Al. bad bin in to Laramie City and got a keg o' good old budge, an' we all got pry full. Art"r the danein' war over 1 pulled out fui B .wles' ranche, whar I'm hangin' out, an' as I was stagg.'rin' down 'round Mountain Cat Hill I run right onto the brunt ho thet war picketed out in the grass, an' I war jist drunk enough to mount hint an' lite out I. know I'm goin' to swing fur it, an' I'll die game, too. I ain't worth a cuss, anyway, an' of it warn't fur my good old mother back in the States (here the tears began to roll down his bronzed cheeks) who never closes her eyes 'thout prayin' fur God to send me back to her, I'd laugh at death, an' help yer fix the rope, but when I think o' that darling old soul I git wnaker'n a wounded antelope. I tell ye, fellers, I've bin a tuff cuss ever since I struck out fur these mountains, and I sup pose the world'll be better 'thout me in it. My old mother'll suffer, I know that, fur I'm her only kid an' have sent her every ounce o' dust that I could spare, and it's all she's bed to live on. She's bin a good 'un to me. God bless her, an' I'm sorry I heven't lived so's I can camp with her up thar (raising his tearful eyes toward heaven) ; and, boys, won't some o' ye write to her—Tom Kirk, thar, knows whar she lies—an' tell her I got let out by an In jun, or pegged out nat'rally ? For God's sake don't let her know I war strangled ! The news 'ud kill her But then I'll cheese this gab or ye'll think I'm weak eriin', an' the man don't live as can skeer Tiger Jim ! Elevate me, boys. jist as quick as (not a word was spoken for a few seconds) ye please. I'm ready when you are." During this recital Jim's eyes were filled with tears, and a ettse observer would have detected silent weeping upon all sides.— That magic word "mother" had awakened tende . recollections in the breasts of every one of these hardy mountaineers Men who could face death in any shape without a particle or feeling did not try to hide their tears at the menti,in of that sacred name, mother ! How sweet it sounded in their ears ! It carried them back to the happy days in the past when they were blest with the love of parents, before the insatiable thirst for gold had led them in to these mountain wilds. Not a word was spoken for a few seconds, and then old Job drew his horny hand across his watery eye and said, in a husky voice "Tige, ye w'udn't break an oath, w'ud ye?" "No, Job Dawson, not fir friend or foe ! Thar ain't a boy in the Hills as can say that Jim ever went back on his given word I'm a rough 'un, au' do some mighty wicked things. but when I say a thing )e can gamble every dollar you've got on its bein' straight." Well, Tige, we had intend'd to swing ye, an' ye deserve swingin' ; but I can't git rid o' that mother chinnin' ye give us I spect the old lady's sot her heart on seein' ye agin, and is wearin' her old eyes out a lookin' for ye. I've got an' old mother myself an' tho' I haven't sot eyes on her since '49 her picter's right here in my heart, an' it's pleadin' fur yer old 'oman, Tige! It's rough, Tigt. ; it's rough, an'—lewme see—yes. darned if I don't du it ! Jack, cut them ar strings, so's he can git his han's loose. Thar, that's it ! Now. Tige, bold up yer right hand, sand if ye ever swore strong, do it now. Do you swear by the great God an' yer blessed old mother that if this court discharges ye ye'll lite right for the States, and go hum to the old lady, an' love an' comfort. her as long as -he stays out of heaven ? Do you swar to this, Tige, before Almighty God an' this court ?'' "I do, Job, an' thar's my fist on it. Put 'er thar. I swar it an'll pull stakes right off !" "Then ye're released on them terms, an' the boys'll help ye git yer traps down to the station ; but mind, I tell ye, Tige, of yer ever caught in the bills agin ye'll go up a true. Fellers, the court's over an' the pris'ner discharged " And big Comanche Bill, who stood back in the crowd, drew his pistol and said : "Amen ! and eny snoozer that says Job's law ain't level has got to fight we right hyar !" When the Union Pacific train was about to leave Laramie the following day, a num ber of mountaineers might have been seen shaking hands and bidding farewell to a buckskin clad companion who stood upon the rear platform of the train. The citi zens of the place paid II o attention to their movements, as it is an every day occurrence for some miner, who has struck it rich and made his pile, or has had bad luck and be come discontented to embark for the States. The traveler was Tiger Jim ; and as the train flew past Fort Saunders and began the ascent of the Black Hills range he gazed upon the distant peaks, clad in their garments of eternal snow, and his breath came hard as he muttered : "It's hard to leave, old hills, but it's either the States or a neck tie festival fbr we, an' then I'll stick to that castiron oath o' Job's if it takes the hair off !" interesting Netter. Small—Pox, Its Treatment, Etc. The following letter was received by our friend, David Blair, esq., and agreeably to the request of Dr. Senseney, of Chambers burg, was handed us for publication : CHA3IBERSBURG, PA., Feb. 2d, 1878. NY DEAR SIR :—Thanks for your letter and kind expressions contained relative to myself. Since the appearance of the great Pest in your city you have all had my warmest sympathy, and I have always read with mucti interest anything which came under my notice pertaining to the disease in your midst. I would have written more on the subject and given my plan of treat meat but for the fact that it is looked up on as not exactly professional for a physi cian to "air" himself; or rather his method of treating any particular disease, through the medium of the public press. I have had a large experience in that disease, in deed 1 question if any one in this country has had a rougher experience in dealing with small pox than I. I enclose you a copy of the Medical and Surgical Reporter, of 1873, detailing some of my fearful ex periences in fighting small-pox away off in that lone barren country. Only God will ever know the tearful sufferings of body and mind which I then and there expert enced A comparative stranger in that aw ful country, shortly before having left wife, family, and comfortable home, alone and homesick, among a, strange and curi ous mixture of nationalities, all trying to beat each other in their quest for gold, the only physician at the time in the camp, it devolved up in me, and we alone, to meet and face to face wage battle with the pest. Men were dazed, horror stricken, helpless as infants, and ail looked to me for help. To have in the least shirked my duty on such an occasion would then and there have cost we my lite. As it was, my pres• ence in the camp or at any public resort was often checked by the muzzle of a shot gun or six shooter, and I was requested by the frightened miners to '-go the other Nay," ur to or some other expres sion very strong and accompanied with fearful oaths and ugly symptoms of the "barkers " I wade it a point, however, as a matter of general protection not to in trude my presence any more than was ab solutely necessary among the citizens. they had a right too to demand this inas much as they paid me in a princely way for a time. You are at liberty to publish this arti cle from the Reporter, and I feel - confident it will, at this time, be of no small interest to your people. This experience of mine was in 1868, just ten years ago, and com municated, as you will see, to the Medical and Surgical Reporter in 1873. Since my article appeared in the H UNTINGDON JOUR NAL, some ten days ago, I have received quite a number of letters from citizens, both wale and female, of your city and vi cinity, some asking for advice as to treat ment, some wanting prescriptions preven tive of the disease, whilst others wanting prescriptions which will prevent pitting or pocking. I have deemed it prudent not to answer any of these letters, inasmuch as the parties are entirely unknown to me and I did not know but that some of them might perhaps not make proper use of them in case I did send them. I will say this, to you, however, and if you think it worth inserting in your local paper you are at liberty to do 30. I shall be only too glad, if I can alleviate the sufferings of one single human being, save one life or prevent, in a wanner, the terrible scarring which so often follows true or confluent small pox. First. I am an advocate of warm baths, not hot, not cold, but say from 90° to 100° A bath once daily, or twice if the case be a very severe one, can scarcely ever do harm, and in my experience rarely fails to be productive of beneficial results. It at least always secures for the time being comfort to the poor sufferer. In the early stages of the disease the bath carries off largely the heat of the body, lowers the temperature and diminishes the action of the heart and consequent circulation. The bath will also, in the early stage, tend to a more favorable and freer vesieulation by engendering a good skin action. I find them ben,fieial in the latter stage, in that they favor decrustation—that is they facil itate the action of the skin in throwing off the materies morbi, or aiding the skin in ridding itself' of the diseased surface tis sues. crusts and matter, and favor healthy action and formation of new skin tissues. Su much Tor baths. INTERNAL TREATMENT, I have found in my experience of late years good results from the use of the following: . I give the formula— R. Tr. Aconiti Radicle, 2 drachms, Acidi Carbalici, 1 drachm, Tr. °pi', 1 drachm, Spiritus Chloroformi, 1 drachm, Spiriti Nitrosi Dulc, 2 drachms, Acidi Acetici, 1 drachm, Aquae Aurantii, 8 ounces. Sig. In the early stages of the disease, when there is great heat of body and high fe ver, give a teaspoonful of this mixture ev ery four hours until the fever subsides. I also administer, in conjunction with the above, three times daily, a powder as follows : R. AcidiCarbolici, 1 scruple, Sacchar Albae, 10 grains. In giving these formula publicity I beg to assure you that it is simply because, in my hands, I have derived benefit from their use. Ido not wish to appear as though thrusting any new treatment upon your physicians, for indeed there is noth ing new in what I offer, but I only give these forms that they may, if they choose, try them and judge for themselves if there be any merit in their use, and I would indeed be glad if some of your prat. titioners would kindly write me their ex perience if they use them. I hope that my furnishing them may not provoke any medical criticism, for that is not what I seek. EXTERNAL APPLICATION-POCKING PRE- VENTIYES, During the war, and in my "White Pine" experience, I used the following preparations to prevent pitting and to allay the intolerable itching produced by the vesicles in the early stage—and indeed through all stages—of the eruption. I made a mixture or paint, of the consistence of cream, of the following ingredients : Sub. Nitrate of Bismuth, Collodion, Glycerine. _ . This I painted two or three times daily over the face, hands and neck, and bad very good results. It was cooling, and in a great measure allayed the itching and pain consequent upon the maturing of the pucks. It is pretty well established at this time, thatexposure to the air—and indeed some authors contend even exposure to light—adds to the irritability of the erup tion. Eiclude the air, cover up the vesi ales and you prevent this, aye and you will do more. What causes pitting or mark ing Why this. The vesicle as it forms fills with pus-matter—which is generally conceded is not simply a secretion, but is generated from destroyed tissue, i. e. just so much matter is formed, just so much skin tissue is destroyed, and a correspond ingly large pock or hole is produced. Thus, then, if we cover up the eruption on the face and hands, excluding air, we check vesiculation, prevent the formation of pus and also prevent pitting. Well, as I above stated, I used in times gone by the ingredients mentioned. In view, howev er, of more modern researches and experi menting upon this part of the treatment, I will mention that to the baths I would always add a quantity of common soda, enough to render the water decidedly al kaline. Then I would change the local application somewhiit. I would make a paint of proper consistency of the following ingredients : . Sub. Nitrate of Bismuth, Carbolic Acid, Collodion, Glycerine and some Soda. This is to be used only on the face, neck and back of hands in order to prevent pit dug I would use for the general comfort of the patient, particularly where baths can not be had, and unfortunately too many are debarred this comfort, the following : Carbolic Acid, Glycerine, Rose water. To be used with a soft sponge whenever so desired by the patient. In the use of these remedies, each and all of them, the physician will be guided (in preparing them and in their use) by symptoms as they present themselves to him lie will use his judgment as to their applicability. My dearest wish is that what I have written may be productive of some good to some poor suffering mortals, and if, by the use of any of the means pre rented, physicians may be enabled to save life. alleviate human misery or even pre vent the hideous disfigurement which so often follows as a sequel of the disease, why then my efforts will have been well paid. but if it provoke criticism or professional antagonism, I shall be indeed sorry, for in aught that I have said I have had ever in view only the well being of my fellow men, the "greatest good to the many" and all pro bono public°. It is with pleasure I learn that the scourge is well-nigh checked in your midst, that you have it under control. May a kind Providence will it a long time ere your city be again visited by a like expe rience, and may He send the light of His presence to assuage the sorrows of those in your midst whose hearts are bowed down in sadness and eyes heavy with tears. B. RUSH SENSENEY. The following is the article referred to in the above letter, giving Dr. Senseney's "Experiences in Variola," and we cheer fully give it a place in our columns, believ in.g that it will be read with deep interest at the present time : In introducing this subject, I desire to state that I do not lay any claim to origi nality, either in theory or in practice. I am simply anxious to place before the readers of the Reporter the results of my own personal experience, and the long and careful investigation which I have made of this disease, and thus enable them to glean some id. as which may prove useful when carried out. I have had considerable experience in the treatment of variola, both on the At lantic and Pacific coasts, and have seen it not only when influenced by climacteric and other causes, but also in all its other phases. I have combated with it when it pre vailed in mild and modified forms unac companied by great fatality, and I have also grappled with it when it swept over the land like the blast of the sirocco, and when its poisoned breath was almost as surely fatal as the deadly vapors of the upas tree. I had found it the same terrible foe to man alike when, carried upon the breeze, it fastened its loathsome grasp upon the inhabitants of Cumberland Valley, when it left thousands to die in the Valley of the Mississippi, and when it swooped down upon the hardy miners who were labor iously toiling for wealth under the "shadow of the Sierras." Much has been said and written con cerning the origin or causation of variola, yet hitherto but little light has really been thrown upon this obscure subject. Indeed. so vague and unsatisfactory have the in vestigations hitherto proved that the origin of the disease even now remains enveloped in as much darkness as if the first step towards inquiry had never been taken, and those who are called upon to treat the die ease are still as unacquainted with its origin as were the earliest practitioners.— We know how surely it is communicable, both by contagion and infection, and we also know what. measures to adopt to guard against the miasm generated from the of fected body, and the fomites or infectious l i matter that emanates therefrom ; but that is the limit of our knowledge. Whether the disease is only communicable by actual contact with the infectious matter or mi asmatic contagion is a question as yet un answered. It is surely portable, and time and distance seem to give to persons and localities no immunity from the ravages of this insidious foe. In the years 1362 63, I was stationed at Jefferson Barracks Hospital (Mo). At that time small-pox was prevalent in the army of the southwest, and quarantine hospitals were necessarily established in many localities. My experience in this branch of pathology then and there com menced, and was subsequently very con siderably extended. At the hospitals which I have just men tioned the fatality was not very great, at least not so great as came beneath my no tice in after years and in other localities. The maximum of cases which I ever met with at one time in that particular practice was about three hundred, and during the summer season good quarters, good nursing and ample and nourishing food, were al ways provided. These certainly contributed much to palliate and mitigate the severity of the disease, and I am inclined to at- tribute the smallness of the death rate to climacteric causes, or in other words the warmth of the weather and plenty of entilation, the latter being secured with out subjecting the patient to the additional and perilous complications of pneumonitis, pleuritis, etc. During part of the years 1863 64, I was stationed at Chambersburg, Pa., in charge of U. S. Post Hospital. There I bad to contend with the disease under circum stances much the same as upon the Mis sissippi, and there, as in the instance just mentioned, comfortable quarters, the mild season of the year, and good nurses were equally effective. There too the fatality was small, the disease prevailing in a mod ified form and rarely assuming a malignant type or ending in serious complications. It is, however, necessary that I should now speak of a time when I was brought face to face with this terrible disease in its most dangerous and fatal aspect. In November, 1868, I joined a number of miners in the Humboldt Valley, and ac eowpained them to the White Pine Moun tains, in Southern Central Nevada, the locality of the then recently discovered, but rich silver mines. I arrived at the "City" of Hamilton, a collection of' some fifty tents and board shanties, with about five hundred inhabitants. This "City" is situated about 10,000 feet above the level of the sea, and when I arrived, in the midst of a terrible storm, the snow covered the ground about a foot in depth. Pros pectors were arriving at the rate of from one hundred and upwards daily, and only very scanty accommodations were to be had fir man or beast. In the midst of that terrible winter every one was only too glad to secure a covering of any kind; comfort was out of the question Tents and sheds at night gave shelter to from a dozen to a hundred persons who, wrapped in blankets or buffalo skins, were obliged to sleep upon the ground, closely packed together. Provisions were scarce, of peer quality and high price, and while all suffered, more or less, from improper diet, not a few felt cruelly the want of a sufficiency of food Under these circumstances variola began to make its appearance. The first instance which I may mention is that of a miner who died of the disease in an adobe hut on a ranche in White River Valley, some thirty miles from White Pine, Nevada. He was buried and the hut was deserted, but not burned, as it should have been Some two weeks subsequently a party of six prospectors, on their way to Hamilton, camped in the lo cality for the night, and took possession of the deserted hut, of course not knowing anything about the "unpleasantness" of the former occupant. Shortly after their arrival in Hamilton, and when domiciled in a tent "lodging house," together with about sixty other inmates of the same place, two of these men fell ill. At that time I was the only physician in the mines, and my services were, of course, called in to requisition. I found my patients suf. ferina from all the symptoms of...Varied..a , On the following day the nature of the disease was so clearly marked as to admit of no quest-ioe. - - 1 announced the fact to the proprietor of the tent, wbo at once ex claimed, "My God, Doc, that rains me sure !" and so it did for the time, for from having a full house at two dollars gold, "cash down," per night each, in less than fifteen minutes not a lodger was to be sees, with the two patients whom I have just mentioned. His "occupation" was indeed gode Three days after this several others were reported to me as stricken with the same loathsome disease. The miners then held a meeting, and I was elected health officer of the camp at a salary of $250 (gold) per month. Money was liberally subscribed, and the tent (a large duck cloth tent, 25160 feet) wherein the first cases occured was purchased, and I had it removed to a small canon on the outskirts of the camp. I then had all my patients taken to what at once, and a long time after, was known as the "pest house." For several days I attended the "pest - house," having then, I think, six patients. During my journeys to and fro I frequently noticed peculiar looks and suspicious movements whenever I went into the restaurant to get my meals. On the night of the third day I was called on to superintend the removal of three more cases of the same kind from different parts of the camp. A meeting of the miners was again held, at which it was voted to give me, in addition to my pay as health officer, $25, gold, per diem, in order that I might give almost exclusive attention to my unfortunate patients, coupled with the polite request that I would bestow as little of my company as was possible under the circumstances, upon the inhabitants of the camp at large. This I deemed it best to accede to, knowing the uncertain and mercurial temperaments which character ized the people among whom it was my lot to be cast. I obtained a small tent with an attach ment for the accommodation of my horse, and then engaged earnestly in a more ter rible battle than any which, before or since, I had ever waged. In a few weeks I had thirty five patients in the "pest house," the majority of whom were of the confluent type. In these efforts I was almost alone, and for some time had but one man to aid me ; such was the terror which the disease in- spired. My nurse and self were called upon at all hours to remove patients to the "pest-house," which we did by wrapping them up thoroughly, bed and all, and placing them on a "sled," and even then we had to drive them through the blind ing snow and great drifts betbre they could be lodged in oar temporary hospital. This was the time when the fatality of the disease was most clearly demonstrated. Of the confluent cases fully three fourths died ; 'many of them appearing to sink in to a collapse in the first stages of the dis ease. Pneumonitis was an exceedingly frequent complication, and also pleuritis. Many died from sudden and very profuse hemorrhage from the lungs, bronchia and stomach. I soon saw that under the circumstances my best efforts would prove of little avail. The majority of confluent cases which I wa9 called upon to treat assumed that pur ple hue which, together with the, alas, too frequent bronchial or pneumonitic compli cations, generally enabled me to prognos ticate a fatal issue. Ilmmaturia was ex ceedingly frequent, and also hemorrhage from the bowels, and the pustules failing to mature, and having the dark purple hue, gave to this variety of the disease the name of "black small-pox," or, as it is more com monly termed upon the Pacific coast, ' . China small pox," These phases were frequently superinduced by exposure dur ing and before the inception of the disease, and from the rigor of an extremely cold winter to which patients were exposed when being conveyed to the "pest-house." At the time of which I now write, Jan• nary or February, 1869, the population of the camp had increased to about ten thous and souls, and the panic incident to the spread of the disease was terrible. in feet, my life was frequently in danger in the midst of that lawless throng, gathered from almost every nation on the face of the earth. Although always endeavoring to act up to my best ideas of duty, I was often called to a •halt" at the muzzle of a pistol or shot gun, and ordered to steer another way with my poor, miserable, dying freight, the wreck of humanity, which I was try ing to save. — I always endeavored, as good-naturedly as I could, to conform to the wishes of these panic-stricken wretches, and would order my driver to take another route through the snow drifts, so that I might avoid passing the teat or hut, the owner of which was standing on guard with pis tol or shot gun in hand. Indeed, so terri ble were the ravages of the disease that the panic (as might be supposed under the pe culiar circumstances) almost extended to myself. One of my two nurses succumbed to the disease which he was so manfully fighting, and the poor fellow met the same fate which bad sent to their graves so many upon whom he had devoted his kind est care and attention. I tried to obtain other help, but for some days was nnsuo ceseful. My patients were from all classes and many nationalities, Americans, Irish, Get mans, Spaniards, Mexicans, habitat, Chile nos, native Californians and Chinamen. My treatment of the disease was not based upon any premeditated plan, although. of course, I started out with well grounded opinions of my own as to the proper and necessary treatment suitable in such eases. At one time I would treat the disease in the febrile stage upon general principle.. Then again I would act in consideration of each and every symptom which might be presented in individual and particular ca ses. I would attempt to subdue strong febrile excitement, look well to the organs of secretion, see that nature was assisted is every way, and as a matter of coarse, would support my patients as well as I amid with the remedies I had at hand, in order that they might be enabled, if possible, to throw off the terrible disease. I had the usual tonics and stimulants, ammonia, iron, quinine, etc.; I had whis ky, brandy and port wine. At first I pre- scribed with the utmost carefulness, and endeavored to have the medicines adminis tered regularly, but before long unforseen events prevented me from doing what I considered was really best, perplexities multiplied and patients died, and ghat, too, so rapidly that it occupied the greater part . of my assistants' time to see after the dead. Some few would take the remedies pre scribed, and were even anxiously watchful to have them at the proper time, but tht majority not only manifested a decided a atby in this respect, but even refused ex take any medicine at all. All seemed anxious for stimulants, and. wioe was supplied to ma by the thus I was enabled to dispense it u I as I deemed proper. Beef tea, elm good quality, I used freely, as well ell and lemons from Los Angelos, for ► ing acidulated drinks. Some of my patients demanded wine sad whisky in quantities to snit themselves, and in some instances I acceded to the de mand. Others were without any hope at all ; when they came in they had made up their minds to die ; they bad "left all hope behind." Some, however, were hopeful, and said, "Doctor, give us plenty to keep our courage up and we will get well" And indeed in this class of men I found my on ly consolation, for macy of them recovered. Such were apparently the results of a strong will in overcoming the infirmities of the body. As to ectrotic measures, I made no effort at all to abort the disease, and had any of my patients asked me to try to save :`dim as much as possible from "pitting" I shoal certainly have been surprised. One poor fellow, convalescent, but nearly bliad, paid to me, "Doctor ' try to save my eyes 1" m other said, "Can't you give me something to stop my hair from coming out ?" I ad vised a wig when he got well. . He re covered, as he deserved to do, but minus both hair and beard. Erysipelatous inflammation of the face, head and neck with boils and subentaaeons abscesses, were frequent, and in some awes proved fatal. In the majority of ewe, - however, those of my patients who passed safely through the febr le and suppurative stages to that of dessication, I considered in a fair way to a happy convalescence. In fact, in summing up, I think I may say that of those who died fully one half suc cumbed to the shock of the disease in its first stages. I found that in all eases where vaccination existed, no matter at what remote period it had been done, it produced a decided modification of the dis ease, variola descreta or varioloid, but in every instance , except two, that came my notice, where the patient bad been vaccinated, the disease was VI confluens, and consequently nurelentisgly malignant in its nature. Although eases are cited of spontaneous modification, 4. e. independent of inoculation or vaccination, none were met with in my own experience. Two cases, one a Chinaman and the other a Chileno, both presenting well marked facial evidence of baying experienced the effects of the disc se at some previous time, suffered again from rarioloid. In thus laying before the readers of the Reporter n.y experience of variola, I bare necessarily given it in the form of a nar rative, and if throughout it appears to savor too much of egotism, I beg to say that I have presented facts and facia only, for imagination could never picture, nor could the pen adequately describe the bor- rose that confronted me daring my mien= in that plague-stricken charnel-house of the White Pine Mountains. I may, however, perhaps, be permitted, without encroaching upon the reader's pa tience, to present a few facts relative to the contagiousness of variola, and also prophylactic measures. In my own ease I had been vaccinated when a child, and have good marks. At each time when called upon to contend with the plague, was re vaccinated, but unsnooessfully.-- While on duty at the "pest-house," I made use freely of strong tea and coffee without milk, but generally with a good dash of apts. frtsmentvm or spts. via. gall., merely as a spirihealiver , and when for hears forced to inhale the death-dealing, °oats gious atmosphere, heavily laden with in fections matter, I thought it advisable to make a constant companion of my pipe. It is right for me to state that I do not present my experience as just given as as advisable prophylactic measure to the pro fession, unless in cases where the individual may be similarly I. would most 4 ‘ that the same course should' NO. 7.
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