LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 199, 2 September 1873, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A U S T K ALIA N. Insanity is greatly on the increase. There are sixty-four acceptances for the Melbourne Cup. The Victorian Inebriate Asylum is in difficulties. Madame Arabella Goddard’s concerts in Melbourne are a brilliant success. The Victorian cloth factory at Geelong has been partially destroyed by fire. Mr Sands, of the firm of Sands and MacDougall, is dead. Wardill, the cricketer, and accountant to the Victorian Sugar Company, has absconded. His defalcations are £7OOO. Mrs Daly, widow of the late Police Magistrate, has been acquitted on a charge of false registration of birth. It is decided that New Zealand shall be allowed to compete in the Victorian Intercolonial rifle match. £SOOOO, has been voted by the South Australian Parliament for free immigrants. The Chief Secretary has been anonymously threatened. The Dallam Tower, from London, Captain Davies, for Otago, has put into Melbourne in a fearfully distressed condition. She is under jury-masts, having lost all masts, sails, and even signal-flags, in a fearful hurricane encountered 3000 miles from Australia. She lost her masts by the board, and had her decks swept of boats, galley—everything, in fact. None of her cargo has suffered in the slightest degree. No casualties.

EUROPEAN. London, August 15th. The Queen is at Balmoral. Typhoid fever is prevalent in several parts of London. A contract has been signed for the laying of a cable to the Cape and Mauritius. Sir John Coleridge, the Attorney-General, has declined the Mastership of the Rolls. Cholera is spreading in Hamburg and Berlin. No fresh cases are reported in London. Spanish insurgent ships have fired on foreign frigates. The latter replied, but no damage was clone. A Legitimist deputation offered the Count De Chambord the title of King of the French, which he accepted. Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Hon, Algernon Greville have been gazetted Lords of the Treasury. A Spanish vessel has seized the British steamer Deerhound landing arms for the Carlists. It was the Deerhound that saved the life of Captain Semmes, of the Alabama. The crew are to be tried as pirates. A sailor belonging to the ship Osprey recognises the claimant as Sir Roger Tichborne, who was picked up at sea and brought to Melbourne. Dr Kenealy promises that eighty or ninety of the Carbineers will be witnesses for the defence in the Tichborne case. He says that tattooing only leaves temporary marks.

Cure for Diptheria.— A correspondent of ;i Victorian paper writes Should you or any of your family be attacked with diptheria be not alarmed, as it is easily and speedily cured without a doctor. When it was raging in England a few years ago, 1 accompanied Dr Field on his rounds to witness the socalled “wonderful cures” he performed, while the patients of others were dropping on all sides. All he took with him was powder of sulphur and a quill, and with these he cured every patient without exception. He put a teaspoonfnl of flour of brimstone into a wineglass of water, and stirred it with his finger instead of a spoon, as the sulphur does not readily amalgamate with water. When the sulphur was well mixed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutes the patient was out of danger. Brimstone kills every species of fungus in man, beast, and plant in a few minutes. Instead of spitting out the gargle, he recommended the swallowing of it. In extreme cases, in which he had been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gargling, he blew sulphur through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then the gargling. He never lost a patient from diptheria. If a patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it on a shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful or two of flour of brimstone at a time upon it, let the sufferer inhale it, holding the head over it, and the fungus will die. If plentifully used, the whole room may be filled almost to suffocation ; the patient can walk about in it, inhaling the fumes, with doors and windows shut. This mode of fumigating a room with sulphur has often cured most violent attacks of cold in the head, chest, &c., at one time, and is recommended in cases of consumption and asthma. Holloway's Ointment and Pills. —Shortness of breath, coughs, and colds.—Thousands of testimonials can be produced to prove the power possessed by these corrective remedies in cases of asthma, incipient consumption, and all disorders of the chest and lungs. The Ointment well rubbed upon the chest and back, penetrating the skin, is absorbed and carried directly to the lungs, where, in immediate contact with the whole mass of circulating blood, it neutralises or expels those impurities, which are the foundation of consumption, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, and similar complaints. On the appearance of the first consumptive symptoms Oie hack and chest of the patient should bo fomented with warm brine, dried with a coarse cloth,, and .Holloway’s Ointment then well rubbed in. Its absorption will subdue advancing symptoms, and baffle this formidable foe.