Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-04-28
Tho Washington Hotel poisoninr.

/ The Washington Hotel Poisoning.
we converscd yesterday with a very in.
telligent gentleman of this city. one OF the
officers OF the American Telegraph Com.
pany, who is among the sufferers by the
mysterious disease which broke out in
Washington city just prior to the last
Presidential Inauguration. From condi.
tion OF great bodily vigor and comforts.
ble degree OF corpulency. he has GRADUAL.
~ wasted until reduced TO feeble iuyul.
ld During the many weary days of con-
tnement allotted to him, he has watched
the progress Of the malady till the list
OF deceased victims has reached twenty
seven, including many eminent names ;
and he calculates that out of a total of
three hundred sufferers, at least one half
are in astate Of dcuepitude no better than
his own. In spite Of all the theories
which have been advanced by medical
men and Sanitary committees, he adhercs
to the belief that the fatal epidemic" ." as
It was called was occasioned by nothing
else than malignant mineral poison and
the same opinion is held by other suffer
ers with ~hom he has conversed Tn TO
a recent period, he was treated by physi-
clan of this neighborhood as for malarious
or atmospheric poison, with no percepti-
ble benefit bnt upon the physician and
treatment being changed, substituting an
antidote TO arsenic, favorable symptoms
became at once apparent and he is now
able TO leave his apartment. The conclu-
sions Of the Washington examining com
mittee, which attributed the disease to
uoNious Influenced to some extent by the
desire at that time existing to secure a
large appreciation from the government
for an extensive system Of sewerage, and
has since been obtained
Whatever the oligin Of the disease, it is
very a..igalt 20 satisfactorily account for
all tur phenomena attending il, especially
the low. deadly manner in which it preys
upon the system, year after year, until the
vital principal is destroyed and the strong
man prematurely cut of, unlssS the agen-
cy of malignant mineral pois n is admit,
ted.-Jownalot Commerce.
Tue KossvTT FAMILY IL ANERicA.-Tho'
now II certain degree retired from pub
lie notice. we are certain that the Kos
suths in this country still hold a warm in
terest in the hearts of thousands among
us. We are glad therefore to know that
after many severe trials incident to their
for cd exile and sudden change Of circum-
stances, land and language, they are now
in q great degree sheltered from the cruel
storms that have swept over them
The daughters of the admirable Mad
ame Meslenyi the Nightingale OF the Hun
garian war hospitals, have been most gem
erously cared !orby Mr., Cugcr, O: our city,
and under superior tcachets have grown
up to sensible and accomplished woman
hood, such as would have rejo;ced the
spirt of their departed mother who ex-
claimed on her death-bed that she could
now expire in peace, since Ler children
would be in a better condition than if she
lad lived
Friends of Madame Zuloysky have pur.
chased for her little farm in New Jersey
where she lives in comfort with her two
youngest children. Her second son is
quite distinguished as a civil engineer in
the West.
The gentle, discreet and accomplish
ed Madame Ruttpay has established
boarding school for young ladies at Corn
wall, near Newburg, which promises to be
highly successful. Her eldest son, Il grad
uate of Union College, is in the engineer
of the navy yard at Brooklin;
the second is in the navy agency at New
York. They are gentlemanly uneXcep-
tionable young men.
Sad as has been their lot in the loss of
fortune, home, country, and the cherished
aspirations of devoted patriotism, one of
these ladies has been heard to declare that
she looks with resignation upon what
they have endured, since it has brought 10
her boys the knowledge of practical and
actual republicanism, in the enjoyment of
which they will live here, and the spirit
and science of which they will carry to
Europe with them, should Hungary ever
be able to call back her martyrs.-JOurnGi
u Commerce.
Y NIr CAR 'IsRTT rCs A vnun,r man