COWEN.

The small-pox scare is abating, and so is the disease.  Cowen is as muddy as ever. All streets are named the same.  W. G. Woods has sold his stock of goods, store and dwelling house to  A. L. Goff & Co.  W. R. Woods has purchased the cattle scales in Cowen; and is prepared  to weigh pigs by the dozen, or big hogs separately.  Welch Glade school is out, and Cowen school has resumed its work. Most schools in Glade district are in full blast again.  The doctors at Camden-on-Gauley erected a hospital "pest house" for small-pox, and one of their "Smart Alecks" said "there is about to be an uprising."  When Dr. A. O. Flowers, of the Health Staff, came up and pronounced the disease  small-pox, "there was about to be another uprising." When the doctors took advantage of the small-pox report and made such hideous charges, 50 cents each, for vaccilnating, "there was about to be another uprising." When the "local board went to Camden, drunk; and quarantined the town," there was an uprising.  It is said that in England every second man you meet is a doctor. It is worse than  that here in Webster county-so many to diagnose "Cuban itch," &c., &c.  They have become so accustomed to itch that they embrace that diagnosis as something rather  to be coveted. Some are still waiting for an angel to come to diagnose the disease.  "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country," &c. Fayette county had her  Smart Alecks, and the authorities had Dr. Spyll, of Newport, Virginia, to come and  diagnose the disease. He pronounced it small-pox or varloloid in every case.  Upshur had Dr. Perry, and Braxton had Dr. Kornmann, all samll-pox experts, who  agreed in every instance that the disease is small-pox. Yet Webster county's  "ignorant doctors" can not "cornteen my house." Some of our fellows would  rather die and go to their "Father, the Prince of this world," and rest in Beelzebub's bosom than allow these doctors to "backsnate" them. Guards are threatenned  with a dose of "consecrated lye." We are proud of some people who are always  on the side of right; for we found them there in this affliction. It is  confidently expected that in one more week the disease will be under perfect control, and business will be resumed as before the epidemic.