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r a cake; it was altogether voluntary on her part. Mrs. Maria Allen--My daughter teaches school. About 10 o'clock she came to me and said that some children were very sick. The little Maule girls board with us, and they were immediately put to bed, when I applied all the remedies usually resorted to for sick stomach, but they did them no good, and I sent for a physician. The children continued extremely ill till about one o'clock next morning, and then began to get better. Drs. Anderson and Haxall visited the children; found them very ill, vomiting violently; suffering from headache, pain in stomach and bowels, and showing every symptom of having eaten something poisonous. Upon inquiry, heard of 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, whi