Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-07-28

The accounts from central Germany
and Prussia are of a much more pacific
character than hitherto.
ELECTRICITY AND CHoLERA-SOLU
1IoN OF THE QUESTION.
DIR, Audrand, of Paris, has communi-
Gated to the Academy of Sciences, the
following interesting letter upon the con-
nection between the Cholera and Elec-
tricity, which appears to be decisive So
luton OF the problem:
PARIS, june 10, 1919.
Throughout the varying course of the
rayages of the cholera IN Paris, that is
to say during the past three months near
ly, l have studied the action of the cleo
trical machine daily in order to satisfy
myseIfwhether there is not q fixed con-
nection between the intensity of that
seourge and the absence of the electric
fluid unusually different throughtou. the
atmosphere.
The machine which has been the OBJ.
ject of my daily observation is power
full one--at ordinary times, it throws of,
after two or three urns of the wheels,
DESIGNATING sparks from to Q l-2 inches
in length. / at FIRST observed that from
the commencement Of the epidemic, II
was impossible for me to produce This
result once. During the months of April
and May, the sparks, obtained with great
difficulty, never exceeded seven tenths OF
an inch, and their variations agreed very
closely with the irregularities of the
cholera. This supplied at once a strong
ground OF belief that was close upon
the important fact 1 sought to establish;
yet was not quite convinced, since the
variable moisture Of the atmosphere
might have caused the irregularities of
the machine.
Iawaited therefore, with impatience,
the coming fine weather and heat, to con-
tinue my observations with more GER
tainty. Heat and fine weather at length
came, and to my ahazement, the ma
chine, though often referred to, far from
denoting as should have beeElth case,
an increase of electricity, only gave more
and more feeble indications of it, to such
degree, that during the days of che i4th
9th and 9Th of June, it was impossible
TO obtain anything more than slight crack
ings, without sparks, and at length, on
the 18th, the machine remained entirely
silent This new decrease of the elec.
trio fluid conceded perfectly, as Is well
known, with the violence of the cholera.
For my part, / feltappallcd, rather than
jsufprised, my conviction was fixed, and
saw in it but theresult of clearly estab-
lished face. g'-
It;aay be imagined with what anxiety,
in those critical instants, / consulted the
machine, the sad and truthful witness to
great calamity. AT length, on the
morning Of the 9th, feeble sparks re-
appeared, then intensity increased from
hour TO hour, and perceived with Joy
that the life giving fluid was returning in
to the atmospheric void. Towards even
ing storm, announced to Paris that cleo
tricity had re-entered its domain; in my
view, the cholera was vanishing with the
cause that produces it. The next day,
Saturday, the 9th, my experiments were
os;ssss os;sss $.ss:ssea and every thing had then re-
turned to its proper condition; the ma
chine, at the slightest touch, threw out
brilliant sparks with ease, and il might
almost be said, with delight, as if aware
of hegood tidings It was bringing.
have thought it my duty, Mr.. Presf.
dent. to communieaes these facts inme-
diatcly to- the Academy. The question
now appears to me entirely solved. Ma
fsea sho. snf,ead ;nso tLo osyoce ,Ia,e .,