Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-11-01

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siona men and other residents. by disease re
sembling cholera. As in each instance the attack
occurred immediately after the patty had parta-
! ken of lunch or supper of oysters, and The
| symptoms were alike in all eases. II is The uni
vcrsal belief that some poisonous property IN these
! shell fish the cause of the malady. lhis
suppositon is confirmed by information from
Baltimore whore the oysters and crabs of the
Chesapeake seem TO have produced similar cf
fccts. Among the citizens who have fallen vic.
TINS to this strange disorder, are Edwin VII
liams, an eminent s'atistician and forohle News
pnpcr writer james Foster. Jr., ESD, wen
thy shipping merchant. formerly principal pro-
prictor of the old " Dramatic Linz Of New York
aud Liverpool packet ships teurbrncing the
" sheridan" the Garrick +" the a. Roseuso aud
the "Siddohs") and better known in the fish
ionabc world Count Foster" the musical
diHchaatc, John II. Cornell, Esq'r., Cashier of
the Mechanics Banking Association, n most
Unable man Robt. Smith, Esq, formerly Alder
man of the 9TH ward, and Moons H. Davidson
respectable member of the New York bar
There have also been two deaths in Orange coun
ty, in consequence of eating oysters, aud many
persons in this city, Brooklyn, Williamsburg and
IIobokcn, have suffered severely from cramps
and cholera morbus superinduced by the same
cause. All the parties whose names have men
toned were alive and well six days age. Most of
them were elderly men, their ages ranging from
fifty to sixty Mr.. Cornell, | think, was in his
fifty sixth year, aud Mr.. Foster about the snme
age.
Something akin to panic has. Us You may
bppn prputpJ bt iii. al u
Oysters ARE prescribed. aud the large AMI prof,a
bic city trade in these articles is literally brought
to "A stand still No more fries, or stews or broils
or dozens raw The oyster stands ARE deserted
the sacriGcial knives getting rusty, the biya-
YES nre permitted to rest in their beds undis-
turbcd, aud thousands upon thousands of the
sulucious dclicncie, that las week would haye
rctailcd at two dollars u hundred, are now abso-
mtely roting ON the hands Of their purchasers.
| understand that Mr.. Chiffon, the analytical
chemist, who is supposed 10 know everything
from the cause of the milk in the Cocoa-nut 10
the Ingredients of Pcnse's Candy, has been asked
tocAnminc into the phenomenal condition" of
the " Shrcw-bcrrys" and - East Rivers and re-
port thcrcupon. The oyster vendors arc deeply
interested ia II speedy solution of the problem.
and have no doubt that the question the oys-
tors of 1854, poisonous !" will lend 10 "A contro-
v"rsy as exciting and profound rs that on the
great Sultpctrc difficulty.
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