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the short-cake, and judging from the small quantity which each of the children had eaten that the dough had been charged with some poisonous drug, applied several remedies at hand, but none seemed to do much good. Then, after some difficulty, succeeded in getting an antidote, which seldom fails to act where arsenic has been taken into the stomach, and giving it to them, it soon had the desired effect. Did not know what the poison was; could not get any of the cake they had eaten. Dr. J. P. Little--Officer Jenkins brought some flour, two or three papers of powders and a piece of the short-cake about the size of a thimble to me to examine. In one of the papers I found sulphate of zinc, and upon applying the usual tests, I found some of the sulphate of zinc in the piece of bread of which the children had partaken. Sulphate of zinc is used in violent cases as an emetic. It is poisonous, and when powdered is white and resembles soda, as a great many other poisons do. There was no