The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-24


ed with our DIR. Brown E,Ha.t
Doctor JOSEPH F. Brown arrived in Man.
chester few days since, and intended, by
terrifying himself there, to attack the mon
ster, which had assailed our city. He forth
with put up his flaming hand bills, proclaim
ing thus to the world:
$4,000 REWARD
"CHoLERA, CHILLS, Ger
"IaIPORTANT TO THE PUBLIC!-
''Dr JOSEPH r. Brown. the Great Cholera Phys.
stefan. hss just returned from the Western country
and having effected many cures Of this direfui dis
iE St Louis Nashville, and other towns on the
borders of the Western waters offers his services to
to the city of this place As he will remain here
perhaps not more than two or three weeks ne nopea
the citizens Will call upon them. Eyery farn'y 10
the city should have this medicine at ell times:
He also manufactures Pills, WHICH will erect
perfect cure of Chills Dyspepsia and Rheumatism'
"Give me q call, one and all -
Here follow two letters, testifying to the virtues
of Dr. Browns Medicines-these are succeeded
by the directions j
"ET' When you feel any symptoms of the choie
"a, take FIVE pills and in FIVE minutes take the oat.
of them. Each box contains ten pils-aii to be
taken within FIVE minutes after the time you Ia
ken i'll. They will make perfect cure of the
cholera.
price 81 per box of ten pills"
With this grand announcement, or rather
programme of his mode of attacking the mon
ster, including "sl per box Brown got rea-
dy to attend to calls. He shaved and wash
ed himself clean, and replaced his rather IN
different drapery upon his lean, lank and lu-
gubrious person. Calls, however came not,
and the Doctor determined to try the effect
of canvassing the doomed regiOn-doomed
as he hoped to Cholera, and to 81 per boxfor
ten pills He fancied in that way he should
pry into the infected districts, and get some OF
those innumerable patients, which, according
to eminent physicians Of Richmond, were to
be found in every class of society-being at
tackled Independent of board wages, ''rot
| govt" cabbage" and "crabs." Setting out
on his humane mission, after a brief walk in
| the streets Of Manchester to no personal ad-
vantage to himself or any one else, he pene
trated the heart of Richmond armed with his
powerful pills. Dr. d. had prepared a hand
some speech of thanks to the distinguished
doctors by whose timely warning he was at
tracted to spot where his services were SO
much needed He walked and listened for
the voice of distress-he thought he got oc-
casionally a sound of the cries Of some one
writhing in the spasms. But all was in vain;
the persevering member of the healing art
could find no opportunity to make Judgment.
All his efforts were unavailing He went
around large establishments of many laborers
and asked about their health-if nobody had
symptoms, if there was not some rumbling
in the bowels thereabouts; but it wouldn't
very appearance of Cholera, evidently as a
last means of raising panic but it was no
go. At length, failing altogether, and not
meeting case or getting a chance to tender
his thanks, he backed out in disgust-cursing
the place for its extraordinary good health,
and denouncing those who deceived him.
Returning to Manchester as forlorn hope,
he attacked the cotton factories there, but
they too were proof alike against Cholera,
and the rueful visage and alarming interroga-
tories of Doctor Brown!
In dismay our great Cholera physician re-
age those pills which "every family ought to
have and paying his bill at the bar, shook
the dust of the city from his feet, and de-
parted.
Doctor Brown, however, before his depar-
ture complained most bitterly. He declared
that those who made the startling announce
ments in the papers, of Cholera as an cpl
demic ought to pay his expenses, and to pay,
moreover, for all the pills he had gone to the
trouble to compound, especially for Rich
mond. They had seduced him from "a most lu
crative practice''-nay had completely swim
died him. He pronounced them all and the
place they inhabited, humbugs-miserable
failures. He declared that if they couldnt
do up panic better, they ought never to try
again With these last words, and a most
tragic air, he strided through the streets of
Manchester, living personifcation of used,
up and done brown panic.
NIB. We have one of DR.. Browns Bills
in our Office for the qualification of the Gu.
rious.