Colewort

[A. S. cawlwyrt. See COLE.] A young cabbage, cut before the head is properly indurated. part, are among the most general of the external causes inducing this disease. The internal are either from partaking of too much unripe or acid fruit, from an accumulation of undigested food in the stomach, acid drinks, an exce of bile in the system, crude vegetable aliment, the eating of poisonous fungi, worms, and from a long costive state of the bowels. The treatment will, in cach case, depend very much upon the cause; generally, the first object is to procure an evacuation of the bowels by mild and unirritating aperients. Opiates may be resorted to in order to allay the spasms, and the warm bath and fomentations are often of great service. It is usually nece ary to persist in a course of mild aperients for some time, and all irritating substances in the food are to be avoided. Painters ' Colic . See LEAD. Col'ic, Col'ical, a. Affecting the bowels. "Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs." - Milton . Col'icky, a. Affected with, or pertaining to, colic. Colig'ny, GASPARD DE CHAT ILL ON, SIRE DE, admiral of France, and leader of the Huguenots in the civil war, was B. in 1517. His father, also named Gaspard, was marshal of France, and took part in the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII., and in the conquest of the Milanese by Louis XII. and Francis I. His mother was a Montmorency. He entered the army at an early age, distinguished himself at the battle of Cerisole, at the taking of Carignan, and at the battle of Rentz. He was made admiral of France in 1552, by Henry II. At the siege of St. Quentin he was taken prisoner by the Spaniards. On the death of Henry II. he returned to his estates, became a convert to the reformed faith, and when the war broke out put himself at the head of the Protestants, with the Prince of Condé. They were defeated by the Duke de Guise at the battle of Dreux; the indecisive battle of St. Denis followed, and the Protestants were defeated at Jarnac, and Mon contour. In 1570, after the treaty of St. Germain, C. was flatteringly received by Catherine de Medici, and a few days later his a a ination was attempted by an emi ary of the Duke de Guise. The king, Charles IX., visited him and profe ed his regret. On the signal being given for the ma acre of St. Bartholomew, Aug. 24, 1572, De Guise, with a party of a a ins, went to the house of the Admiral; by these he was stabbed and thrown out of a window at the feet of the Duke. The corpse was exposed for three days to the mob, and then hung head downwards. See Besant's Life of C. Colfax, SCHUTLER, an American statesman, and Vice- President of the U. States, B. in New York City, March 23, 1823. He was grandson of Gen. Wm. Colfax, who commanded Gen. Washington's Life-Guard during the Revolutionary war, and losing his father before his birth, was in early life placed in a mercantile store in New York. In 1836 his family removed to Indiana, and set- tled at New Car lisle, in that State, where C. again took Coli'ma, a name of various application in Mexico.-1. employment as a clerk. In this position he remained till 1840, in which year he was appointed deputy county auditor. Afterwards, removing his place of residence to South Bend, he there commenced the study of the State laws, and in 1845 became editor and proprietor of a journal called "The St. Joseph Valley Register." In 1848, C. was appointed delegate to, and secretary of, the Whig National Convention, which nominated Gen. Taylor for the Presidency; and, in 1850, became a member of the Constitutional Convention of Indiana. In 1852, C. was a member of the Whig National Conven tion, promoted the candidature of Gen. Scott for the Presidency, and subsequently strongly exerted himself in favor of Mr. Pierce's election to the same office. In 1854, C. was chosen representative in Congre for his district, and re-elected in 1858. In 1860 he espoused the nomination of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidential chair, Republican principles achieved by his election. In Dec., and largely contributed to the consequent succe of 1863, C. was chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives, and in this office comported himself with dignity and ability. In Nov., 1868, C. was elected Vice-President of the U. States, in conjunction with the presidency of Gen. Grant. D. 1885. Colfax, in Indiana , a post-village of Clinton co. Colfax, in Nebraska , a county organized in 1859. Pop . (1897) about 12,000. Cap . Schuyler. Colias, n. ( Zool .) A genus of Butterflies, family Pie rid a , containing the common yellow butterfly, C. philo dice, seen in great numbers in fields and by road-sides. The caterpillars, found upon clover and allied plants, are green, slightly downy, and form a straw-colored chrysalis.