The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-31
BY THE NAILS.

Among the deaths at sandusky Rev. Thomas Cooper
Rev. Mr. Ward and Sylvester Ross OF the sandusky ror
PMLApELPuIA, July 80, 1s49.
The cholera report of to- day Is 80 deaths
embracing "a cases and deaths in private practice
cases and deaths in the hospitals cases aud deaths
in the aims house. and and deaths In the coun
ty prison. The and deaths in the latter instu-
tion reported yesterday included the past As hours
the report prepared for Saturday having been received
too late at the health Office to be included in the pro-
per resort To-day the report is much less only two
conyicts have as yet been attacked the great bulk of
the cases having occurred among the varrans
ly committed who are doubt, principally those dis
charged from the amshouse The mortality for the
past week Is 30 less than the previous week. and SO In
cholera alone while the deaths from dysenery has in
creased 10.
within the last few days Carl Pappenburg, Ger
man. who in 1915 tried for the murder of ndreas
an Sa damh Su. sne ITry Ewing t MN rhs
court, however, viewing him as dangerous indivi-
dual ordered him to be committed in default of bail,
and he has ever since occupied n cell in the prison.
He was taken with the cholera on Saturday morning,
and died the same day.
INCIDENTS OF TIE CHOLERA
The Cincinnati Commercial Of the 2Gth isst gives the
following incident having occurred in that city
Officer J. Line gave us yesterday some more singular
facts connected with the old beggar woman Elizabeth
Morelock, whose death we mentioned yesterday. She
died in the night, and in the evening lighted candle
was placed upon stand beside the bed, her idiotic
daughter the hunchback, being the only attendant
though for part Of the time the phyic present
The old woman opened her eyes, and perceving the
burning candle ordered to be blown out saying that
ene coulu not aHOru 10 pay Ior IT, w Hen ursI takeu
sick she ordered the chest which was after her DEATH
found to contain money to be placed beside her bed,
and she kept it within reach of her during the
whole of her sickness and when the death struggle
on, she told that she must die, she flung her.
self upon the chest and clawed at it, in her wild
ricous phrensy until she tore the ails from her
fingers, and thus embracing the i'll gotten treasure,
her spirit took its fight An old stove In the
found, after her death, to contain considerable
amount Of silver and copper coin, carefully slowed
away. The money and ef,cts have been placed in the
hands of an executor appointed by the court In $780,
when small change was scarce this woman made q
handsome speculation by selling five hundred dollars
worth at time to a single indi vidual This money
accumulated by beggary by herself aud her diotic
daughter. The latter generally logged. upon her
return home at night when she did not make a good
days work of it, and always whipped before she
was sent out in the morning The cries of tho poor
creature while under the lash Of her avaricious
Their, have frequently excited the indig nation Of the
neighborhoed The poor idiot herself was yesterday
under attack Of cholera, and is probably numbered
with the dead.