Miscellaneous Extracts.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 21, 6 April 1870, Page 3

Miscellaneous Extracts.

Messrs C. Koopmanachap and Co., lh» great importers of Chinamen, New York, have contracted with the Texas Land Company to supply them with 5000 Chinese laborers, or emigrants, to be employed upon their lands, which are situated along the line of the Houston Central and Red River Railroad. The company intend to establish towns and settlements along the line of the railroad, and they will give to each Chinaman who will locate himself permanently in Texas, 20 acres of good tillable land.

A correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald gives the following prescription as a certain cure for drunkenness :—Sulphato of iron, 5 grains; magnesia, 10 grains ; peppermint water, 11 drachms; spirits of nutmeg, i drachm. One tablcspoonful in a wineglass of water twice a day. If the love of intoxicating liquor has entwined your very vitals, strictly adhere to the above prescription, and not only the practice, but the very inclination for strong drink will subside in a short time.

A coal-pit at Dundyvan, near Glasgow, has been the scene of one of those disasters to which miners are so frequently exposed, but fortunately in this case the prompt means taken for the rescue of the men were completely successful. About three o’clock on January 15, there were five men and a boy working in the lowest or ironstone seam, and a number more in the higher or main coal. Suddenly the roof at the door-heads of the lowest seam, and a mass of stones and rubbish from the shaft, for a distance of fully fourteen fathoms up, fell down with a crash, burying the six persons below, smashing the cage then at the bottom, and cutting off all means oi communication with the lower shaft for the time being. With all speed a long and slanting narrow hole was made through the rubbish, and the men were carefully drawn up about one o’clock next morning. One of the workmen was severely injured by the falling rubbish, having sustained a severe fracture of the ribs, and other internal injuries. .. At a meeting held at Scott’s Hotel, Melbourne, on the 10th inst., relative to the presentation of a testimonial to Professor Halford for his discovery of the efficacy of ammonia, when injected into the veins, as an antidote for snake-bite, some entirely new theories as to its probable uses in cases of blood-poisoning and other diseases were advanced by some of the speakers. Extracts were read from the Lancet, in which it was shown that the remedy had been employed with great success in England in a case of puerperal fever, and in a case of poisoning by swallowing an aconite lotion, In the latter case it was stated that death had “ occurred at the heart,” but upon ammonia being injected into the veins, the patient rapidly recovered. It had been suggested by Dr Richardson, of London, that this remedy may bo advantageously used in cases of hydrophobia, and Dr Wooldridge advanced the opinion that in cases where death was taking place through an overdose of chloroform, the injection of ammonia would have the effect of counteracting the poisonous influence of the drug; and, in support of his statement, said that Professor Halford, in the course of his experiments, had apparently killed i a dog with chloroform six times, and in \ each case revived the animal with the aw moula remedv.