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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
and thus the execution of a criminal can 
be deferred till doomsday. The plea for a 
new trial may be of the most frivolous kind, 
but aright of appeal always exists and exe¬ 
cution must be delayed. This is the case in 
every State in the Union. Congress is 
likely to pass a law promptly to remedy 
this newly discovered evil; but can it be 
retroactive ? 
It is proposed in the N. Y. Legislature 
that the State should print school books 
and sell them at cost. 
Senator Stanford has been unanimously 
renominated by the Republicans of Cali¬ 
fornia, who compose a big majority of the 
legislature. 
The divorce laws of South Dakota are 
more flagrantly scandalous even than those 
of Illinois, and a movement is is vigorously 
on foot looking to a reform of the abuse. 
The negotiations between the government 
and the Indians for the purchase of the 
Cherokee Strip, have collapsed, as the Red¬ 
skins want too much. Probably Congress 
will now “ quiet ” the Indians’ claims. 
In the United States Senate the Federal 
Election Bill has been shelved,at least tem¬ 
porarily, by a union of eight “ free silver” 
Republicans with the Democrats. The Free 
Silver Bill now has the floor and is likely 
to pass the Senate ; but it is reported that 
Speaker Reed will secure its defeat in the 
House. It is also said that the President is 
unalterably opposed to the unlimited free 
coinage of silver and will veto any bill in 
favor of it. 
There’s a big fight going on in Idaho over 
the election of the United States Senators. 
Threats are made of arrests of various 
members of the legislature for “conspiracy 
against the legislative powers’” The new 
statutes declare it a felony for a member 
of the legislature to vote or promise to sup¬ 
port any question or matter in return for 
support of another member on any question 
or matter upon which they may be called 
upon to pass officially. It is said warrants 
will be sworn. There’s been a world of 
Senatorial log-rolling, hence the threats of 
arrest. 
In the Illinois Legislature the House con¬ 
sists of 77 Democrats, 73 Republicans, and 
three farmers. The farmers took their seats 
with the Republicans, much to the jubila¬ 
tion of the latter. By a full party vote, 
however, the Democrats elected Clayton A. 
Crafts as Speaker. The Senate consists of 
27 Republicans and 24 Democrats, and was 
organized by the election of M. W. Mat¬ 
thews, Republican, as president pro tem. 
Voting for United States Senator will be¬ 
gin on January 28. Lively times are ex¬ 
pected, but the farmers hold the balance of 
power. 
The use of Dr. Koch’s lymph has given 
quite satisfactory results wherever it has 
been tried in this country, with few excep¬ 
tions. The same has been the case abroad. 
Prof. Virchow, of Berlin, however, prob¬ 
ably the most skillful living pathologist, 
concludes from a most careful post-mor¬ 
tem examinations of 21 bodies of persons 
who died after receiving injections of the 
lymph, that “the injection increases the 
bacilli in the body, and causes them to 
migrate to previously unaffected parts of 
the body, thus virtually generating a new af¬ 
fection.” He also considers that the in¬ 
tense inflammatory action of the lymph 
endangers the life of any patient to whom 
it is given. 
Dr. Koch is reported to be experimenting 
with an inorganic chemical substance 
which is as easily obtainable as any article 
in the materia medica, and which is to 
have a better effect than the lymph. Dr. 
C. E. Bruce, of this city, is reported, on ex¬ 
cellent authority, to have already dis¬ 
covered such a substance, which is espe¬ 
cially beneficial in advanced stages of con¬ 
sumption. 
The effects of the North River Sugar Re¬ 
fining Company at its big factory in this 
city have just been sold at public auction, 
in accordance with Judge Barrett’s late de¬ 
cision dissolving the corporation. The 
Sugar Trust had gutted the place, and all 
that remained brought only a little over 
$12,000. The shareholders of the company 
originally received Trust certificates in 
payment for their property, and these of 
course are as valuable in the market at 
present as the certificates given in payment 
for other sugar refineries that were not af¬ 
fected at all by the decision, and the Trust 
must, of course, continue to pay the regu¬ 
lar interest on them. The Trust has just 
been reorganized as a company—there is 
considerable legal difference ’twixt tweedle¬ 
dum and tweedledee. 
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HOUSEHOLD PRACTICE OF MEDI¬ 
CINE. This is not a “ Cheap John ” medi¬ 
cal book; but is written by the most 
famous physicians of the age. 
Among the SUBJECTS treated are : 
Accidents and Emergencies —Bruises, 
Convulsions, Sprains, Smothering, Stran¬ 
gling, Drowning. Ruptures, Lightning 
Strokes, Shock, Bleeding, Wounds, Bites, 
Stings, Fractures, Injuries, Dislocations, 
etc. 
Acute Infectious Diseases.— Epidemic 
Cholera. Hydrophobia and Rabies, Symp¬ 
toms of Rabies in the Dog, Glanders, Farcy, 
Mumps, Parotitis, Types, Manifestations, 
Characteristics, Causes, Typhoid Fever, 
Typhus Fever, Yellow Fever, Plague, 
Black Death, Relapsing Fever, Milary 
Fever, Dengue Fever, Hay Fever, Malarial 
Fever, Intermittent Fever, Remittent 
Fever, Influenza, Epidemic Dysentery, 
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, Epidemic Diph¬ 
theria, Small Pox, Chicken Pox, Measles, 
Scarlet Fever, Scarlatina. 
The Bones and Joints.—D iseases of. 
Burns and Scalds.— Chronic Diseases, 
Milk-leg, Bed-wetting. 
Chancroid and Syphilis. 
Deaf-Mutism. 
Disease: Nature, Causes and Mani¬ 
festations. 
The Digestive Organs.—D iseases of. 
The Ear. 
The Eye. 
Hygiene.— Climate, Clothing, Drainage, 
Sewerage and Water-supply, Exercise, 
Food and Air. 
The Hands and Feet. 
Infants in Health.—C are of. 
Infancy and Childhood.— Diseases of 
the Digestive Organs, Nervous Diseases. 
Idiocy, and Nervous Diseases of 
Adult Life. 
The Kidneys in Health and Disease. 
Mineral Springs. 
The Mouth and Teeth. 
The Nose and its Diseases. 
The Organs of Circulation — Dis¬ 
eases of. 
Poisons. —Their Effects and Antidotes. 
The Rectum and Anus—D iseases of. 
Respiratory Organs—D iseases of. 
General Surgery. 
The Skin and Hair—T heir Care and 
Disease. 
Therapeutics. — Modes of Employing 
Remedies. 
The Throat and its Diseases. 
Vaccination. 
Women—D iseases peculiar to, 
Nursing, Diet, Preparation of Food 
for the Sick, Materia Medica. 
