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twelve weeks, discovered on their land, at a distance of about half a 

 mile from this, another bed of exceeding richness, yielding, as Mr. 

 Townsend informed me, about seventy five per cent, of pure ore. 

 It was discovered by the aid of a compass, the needle of which struck 

 upon the dial on being brought over the ground. The ore is a fria- 

 ble, strongly magnetic oxide ; the particles when knocked off adher- 

 ing to the point of the pickaxe. There is no overlying stratum of 

 rock, nor any one contiguous, as far as the excavation has been made, 

 which is to the depth of six or eight feet. It appears to be one great 

 bed of solid and yqxj pure ore. 



22. Hydrophobia, — We are indebted to a highly valued medical 

 friend, for the following interesting communication. The importance 

 of the subject on which it treats, will, no doubt, obtain for it an ex- 

 tensive circulation. The writer is a man of science and worthy of 

 every confidence. — Ed. U. S. Tel. 



At the present moment our fellow citizens are considerably excit- 

 ed by the fear of mad dogs, by whom at least two children, in this 

 city have, within a few days, been bitten. The horrible nature of 

 the disease consequent to the bite — a disease so utterly beyond tlie 

 reach of medical aid, renders it the imperious duty of every one to 

 communicate to the public any thing he may know tending to mitigate 

 or prevent the awful issue. 



By the late foreign medical Journals we learn that M. Coster, a 

 French surgeon of great eminence, has devoted his attention to the 

 subject of animal poisons. He has discovered that chlorine has the 

 wonderful power of decomposing and destroying the poison of the 

 most deadly. 



The saliva of the mad dog, has tlie property, when inserted under 

 the skin, of communicating hydrophobia to other animals, and to 

 man. M. Coster has been able, by the use of chlorine, to decom- 

 pose this deadly poison, and render it harmless, preventing the ap- 

 proach of hydrophobia in animals bitten by dogs decidedly rabid. — 

 There can be no doubt of the accuracy of the experiment on which 

 this statement is predicated. 



From this the most important practical results follow : 



Make a strong wash by dissolving two table spoonfuls of the chlo- 

 ruret of lime in half a pint of water, and instantly and repeatedly 

 bathe the part bitten. The poison will in this way be decomposed. 

 It has proved successful when applied within six hours after the ani- 

 mal has been bitten. 



