The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-21
WHAT ARE CHOLERA SYMPTOMS {?

The Toledo Ohio Blade, of July 10, 1854
propounds this question and answers it learn
eddy, deliberately and edifyingly. We have
not room for more than the beginning of its
disquisition, which is as follows:
The first symptoms of cholera is mere rumbling
in the bowels. sometimes slight hardly to be
perceptible. If man 10 temperate and regular In
his habits, it may pass off harmessly but very lit
tie imprudence will bring on the next stage-diar.
rh9d-a simple diarrb0a free from pain, and not ne
cessarily attended with rice water operations.
Among the numerous and ingenious devi-
ces of the newspaper press to create dis
turbance in the human stomach, and promote
bowel complaints among the masses, we
think the idea of the Toledo Blade is entitled
to high distinction. 1t has discovered the
fact that rumbling in the bowels"
"mere rumbling," "rumbling sometimes
so slight as hardly to be perceptible," is a
premonitory symptom of cholera This is
important. What is more, it is alarming =
We fancy we see the whole world of newspa-
per readers throwing aside the papers and
listening with the most solemn attention for
that warning voice from the citadel Happy
the man who hears it not who can Law his
hand upon his heart, or just below it, and say
g All is right here But misery, consterna
ion and woe to the helpless wretch whose
cars catch the first football of the approach
Jag foe. Not more terrific was the distant.
solemn booming which broke upon the star
ed jewellers on the eve of Waterloo. and
vas followed by the cry of terror, The
French they come! they come! " Of the
vretched victim, warned by this rumbling
Ieise it may be said, in the language of the
Prophet, that /" dreadful sound is in his
ears
Before we were enlightened by the Blade,
We had supposed that a rumbling in the bow.
tls was an ancient and constitutional priyi
Ige of the human system. We had never
recognised it as a premonitory symptom of
any thing but late dinner we acknowledge
our obligations to the Ohio Blade. We hone
all mankind will look out for those rumblinps
of Vesuvius. Let them at once dou BILE them.
selves up so as to bring their heads in the vi.
cinity of the place of danger, and try if tbev
cant hear something. Fat men, whose bulk
precludes the easy performance of this one.
ration, might obtain the services of a friend
who could put his ears to the threatened Or.
gan, and report progress. Exceedingly sen.
sitive persons might employ a stethoscono
which would give the slightest mutterinus &c
danger, On the whole we regard the ariel
of the Blade as an excellent adjunct to the
other aperient and purgative preparations of
the newspaper press. 1t will do its Dart in
connection with other green and unripe nro
auctions, to propagate cholera extensively
and prevent the earth from being too thiekjv
populated.
ORANGE AND ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD
FEEDER OF THE CENTRAL AND OF RICH.
MOND TRADE
The opponents of aid to the Central Rail.
road have expressed great apprehensions
that the Orange and Alexandria Railroad
would carry trade from Richmond. The best
answer to that objection is the actual work.
ing of the road. Instead of carving trade
rom Richmond, it is bringing trade to it.
We call attention to the following statement
II Mr.. A. j. Gooch, Depot Agent, which is
,etter than all the arguments in the world.