South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-07-11
CHOLERA In THE WEST.
MADISON, INDIANA, JUNE Is,

CHOLERA In THE WEST.
| MADISON, INDIANA, JUNE rs.
We presume our patrons wiI!requir,
no apology from US. If they do, W.
can only refer them TO the arrangement
distraction, and distress that have pre-
vailed here during the pes. week, oc'
casioned by the ravages Of the Cholera,
Some of cur hands, left the Office; the
sick, the dying and the dead, claimed
our attention; our co.editor amongst
its early victims-.all combined to de.
range our affairs and prevent the issu.
ing a full sheet. From present ap.
pearances, however, we presume, we
shall be able to continue our regular
publications next week. We cannot
at this time announce to our readers
the entire subsistence of the Cholera
amongst us, but we can say, it no lon.
ger prevails as en- epidemic. During
the last two or three days, there have
been few occasional cases, some Of
which proved fatal, bat generally yield.
ed TO medical aid.
We think the disease has been more
violent and rapid in its progress a, its
late visitation, than it was in the fall
Of 1882. AT that time there were 80
cases and 27 deaths reported TO the
Board of Health ; a. this time the mum.
Der Of cases has not as yet been ascer-
taineda but the deaths amount to 80
81 we're announced in our last pa
per, aud the name OF one victim, who
died before that paper was put 10 press
was omitted, making % up to that
time. Since Thursday morning last
up to IL O'Clock on yesterday, ten
persons are reported to US, as having
died OF the disease. Making 80 in all
who have died within the corporation.
We have heard of no new cases to day,
"Wednesday, but the humidity fthe
atmosphere, and the chilliness of the
air, admonish US TO be prudent, and to
watch every symptom Of disease. The
Cholera yields to medical skill, il
promptly applied, but if the premoni.
tory symptoms are neglected, it soon
obtains the mastery.-Banner.
LoUIsvILLE.-A paragraph in q
late number Of the Louisville Ky.) AID.
vertiser, shows in a striking light the
rapid growth Of that city. We learn
from that paper, that the population Of
Louisville was, in 1910, 4,o12, in
1880, it was 1O,SS6; and in 1885, i,
was found TO be lS,966-thus having
increased upwards OF eight thousand
five hundred, or in other words, nearly
doubled its population, within the short
period Of five years.
The venerable JAMES GIBBoN, the he.
70 Of Stony Point, the respected and hon.
ored of all parties, expired at his resi-.
dence in Richmond, Virginia, on Wed.
nesday the list inst, after lingering
illness.
| STEALING AND KILLING A Cow FOR
| THE HIpE.--This dastardly crime was
actually perpetrated, some time since, by
Barney Long, who was convicted of the
offence at the late sitting of the mayors
court. and sentenced to three years i'm.
prisonment at Sing Sing. The villain
went out to the farm of Mr.. Isaiah
Townsend, drove off, killed and skinned
a fine young COW Of the best English
breed, worth $50. He then left the car
cass, and brought the hide into the city
and sold it for about two dollars! Fol
such crime as this, the scoundrel shoult
have been cow-skinned till the hide wa!
off his own back. and then sent to thu
state prison. Longs father was sent tt
the state prison many years ago for rob
bling pedler. ALBANY Eve. Journal.
Mr.. Casper Kline, of this city, ha
placed on our desk head of wheat gath
cred in his field, in this neighborhood
which is nearly EIGHT INCHES Il
lLENGTH! 1t is one of the most beautifu
: specimens we have seen this season.
Fredericktown Herald.
Capt. Alexander G. Dallas has bee
appointed to command the U. States M
= val forces on the West India station.