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iThe.;Cholera. on it's Travels.

~sx.s,, The Cholera on It's lTaV6lS. 81
The London Telegraph. OF the 29th ult1mo tin
saws: ssThe cholera IS. ongits travels-th at
fierce and pitilesss plague, which has its resi-
dence in the Hast, sailies forth at 9pemrlodl- m
cal intervals, Ito deeimate West, North, and
South: The last Red.Sea news brought. word
that Mecca and Medina are this year vast
, lazars houses of choleraE Esmitten victims, the
on;lerrls periishings aaalong the road to- the
s16rines from Jeddah land the Isouthern ports,
and Sheikhs who, had come to kiss tue kaaba
aturning gback inahogror, with their trains, to
eInf1obin tents and houses where they had
shut themselves up 9 Already Egypt has been
reached, and the feahs there are perlshll1nlg BY
thousands; so much SO, that the Italian and
French harbors are shut nagainst vessels from
Alexandria Marseiiles has kept. all the. mail
boats in quarantine, ever since two morlbund
passengers were landed IN the jollette L he
newspapers and letters which went out OF the
general lpost office nlTuesday) last were sent
In boxes instead of bagss to prevent Infections
being carried out Of Egypt by yE the = mail pass ng
through The country 90 4so1s s.>sssz4sS :,
All the connecting circumstances enum Grated
and othefs. which mi ght cbe cited, D prove that
the cholera is on its periodical march: lhe
season is, in .manysWays,. an exceptional one;
great Enthusiastically follows cold, smart winds
succeed something Ike atmospherical stagna
ton, andsthe rainfall has been equally abnor-
NAL. lfIt is just such weather as we should
remember afterwards in connection With a
visitation Of the Asiatic scourge, and wonder
: that we had not been forewarned by tt 81
= Wemay as welldcok the danger ln the s.face,
for nothing We can say would take the Inmate
terror away from the countenance@ OF cholera
that pale and lhivid angel OF destruction. that
walks theearth almost unchecked by science;
"A disease 50 horrible, that our neighbors call.
it ia mort des chiens :e'.so fatal, that men I
say It begins death that
Z the spasms and disorg CARNATIONS OF Tong mala
8 dies are condensed iEito5a day or partota DAY,
and tie Victim. trlt hieaitfhyih the morning, per
ishes ID the afternoon wasted and dlscolored-
such disease must ever seem horrible. Even
in the country where it is always present.. less
S,ioor more@eVen IN insIndia-faniliarity with Its,
/ fierce attacks has bred.no lessen1ng -.
. The Hindoo, in trembling terror, has made
goddess 81 sSer and builds temples
to her dreadful power, where he pours ghee
and sprinkles meal and flowers till bis timld
heart brings the plague upon: him. Every
Indian village. has some tale, Of awe and mys-=
terry aboutsthe. curse curse which comes and goes
and comes again, and leaves the river side
crowded. With corpses,, blue and Tghastly,
awaiting the torch 3;}sohne tale such as that Of
horseman, with his head covered, who rides
at night down to the ferry and crosses the
stream, bleaving the ferryman dead in his boat
. with one hot poisonous breath upon his lips,
and disappearing into the districts, Whleh'next
day are full sof mourners,, ringing with the
shrieks Of men, women, and children.lna the
eonvulsions which precede the mercltul coll
lapse Of the frame attacked by the :, cholera: -
Recovery seems to be a. matter Of ,consti tuition
rather than Of medicine. Letting her hands
fall, science watches vainly by the bedside OF
the sufferer, Or tries a dozen reg1mens and
remedies, all equal ii helplessness: Science,
indeed, has not even made her mind up about
salt sifted out Of the blood, and administers
muriates; she cannot. get opium to stay On the
stomach, and she flies to chlorofornl;; she tries
calomel, the cautery, galvanism, alcohol; and
the end of it, at present, is very much that.
those die whose hour is come ..fa
The, Trieste papers publish zadvices from
Alexandria stating that there were two hundred
and fourteen cases of cholora on the 28th ult.,
and at Cairo seventy cases. The Austrian
Lloyd steamer arriving at Smyrna was sub
lected to 'a1quarantine of five days on account
OF one Of the passengers suffering from
cholera y 81.
An official telegram from Alexandria dated
On the 26th, estimates the number Of deaths
hitherto 1884, the. great majority Of which
belong to the native. population. On the 25th
100 persons died, out of a total population OF
10000, Large numbers of inhabitants were
leaving the town.