| Show urious unious HISTORY OFA ora ora oua reuanna ble mad HAD stane for the first time lime in our life we saw yesterday a genuine mad stone and heard its history from the owner who inherited it from his father the fortunate possessor po sessor is colonel B lee milam of waterford marshall county mississippi colonel milam is a prominent citizen of his county anahis and his statements set get at rest tiny doubts which we may have had about the them efficacy i of the mad stone in curing the bites of mad do dogs cats snakes spiders or other Ive nemous venomous animals or insects colonel lee milam is a native of madison county north alabama from whence hee hed removed in 1835 the family caille ame from virginia and the colonel colon 61 inherits also his middle name being a second cousin of robt E lee 1 the mad stone in his possession is as about the size of a henis hens egg as heavy as so much brick and rather more porous and Is of a light clayish color one end is flat as if it had been sawed off and a grain runs through the stone from end to end as if it had in some former age been so much wood or bone about fifty years ago this stone was s split pa it into nto three or four pieces but was carefully fastened together with ii a wire which still performs its office the stone was brought from china in the year of 1810 by dr baker the doctor died ina lna in a few years and the stone was sold at public sale among his other property mr jarvis milam the colonels father was the purchaser and at his death he willed the stone to the present owner with the condition that all the family should haye the use of it as often as necessary free of charge As to its virtues colonel lee milam states that it has been applied with sues sue cess in over one thousand cases and has only failed in two and in those enose the part affected could not be successfully reached he has used it himself over two lif indrea hundred and fifty times timed I 1 ahen when applied it ife adheres as if by suction and usually remains on ten or twelve hours when the poison Is all extracted the falls during the process a voy vory offensive stench fills the room making in the extreme the sel sef bigno is then soaked in warm water from twenty four to thirty six hours when it becomes cleansed and ia Is again ready for use colonel milam assures us he can cure any case of bf dog snake or ther other bite where madness or dissolution has not already set in cures have been effected even as long iong as two weeks after the bite last week the stone was used successfully in several cases itis luuis ibb is known for many leagues around and the people come from far and near to be healed colonel mila ahas been offered five thousand dollars for this wonderful stone but always refuses to entertain the proposition he said playfully yesterday that be he might sell it t for ten thousand dollars if the buyer would always nil all allow ow him the use of it great is mad stone we are converted W what hat say the medical I 1 world w orld orid 2 1 A french woman has as been arrested on a charge of drown drowning hig eight babies in a bucket of water V i aro wro if |
