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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1107, 30 August 1871, Page 2

A Steam Plough Company is to bo started for the county of Northumberland. Upwards .of £ 1,500, has already been subscribed. We clip the following from the Saa Francisco News Letter : —The first shipment of spring clip of Oregon wool arrived the other day, and was attended with an unexpected mark of attention on the part of our web footed neighbors. We all know how very much real estate has increased in value in Oregon in consequence of Ben Holladay's railroad pro* ject. The wool-growers have affectionately enclosed in each bale, weighing about two huudred pounds, sixty pounds of natural earth, not taken up by the fleece, but shoveled in by the hard hands of the honest Oregoniau wool grower. If the shipments continue to arrive in the same condition, a valuable town lot will have been transported from Portland to San Francisco; but, with the natural prejudice of CUifornians against outride lands, they are stupid enough to prefer wool in their bales. Mr John Lindiey, surgeon, Derby reports the following remarkable case of recurrent hydrophobia in that town : On Monday last, at midnight, I was called to see a poor man at a lodginghouse in Bag-lane, supposed to be laboring under hydrophobia. I fouud him being held down in the bed by four men, barking like a dog, foaming at the mouth, and the whole body in a rigid state. After waiting a few minutes, these syinp« toms gradually gave way, succeeded by hurried respiration. When this had subsided I tried if he could take water, but fouud the power of deglutition almost suspended, the greater part coining away almost immediately; spasma

of the throat and whole body returned, grinding of the teeth, with the raasseter Muscles as hard as stones, attempting to bite and snap at myself and bystanders. Again the barking returned, and lasted some time. I w«nt home for remedies, and on my return, was informed ho had been conscious, and told those who were «ritb him that " twelve years ago he had been bitten by a mad dog, and that he was subject to these attacks in dog days since." There is a large scar on the back of his leg where he was bitten. I was also informed that on a former occasion he had bitten a piece out of his bro ther's arm. When the fit had passed away I administered a large dose of chlorate hydrate, with -in order to repeat the dose should the symptoms return. Only ° De ' however, was required, as the patient fell fast asleep, and at my morn fng visit he had gone for a walk in town. I do not give this case as one of pure hydrophobia* but simply state the facts and treatment for the reflection of others. A Michigan census-taker came across a man who had been married five years, but had never inquired his wife's Christian B atne. He always called her " S<iy ! "