The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-16
FFO0I de U0nIRseTcial.

How the People OF the City Feel About
it---Life Among the Germans where
the Disease RaSes. ~ or . r. d,
lee'@ From he CbnInseTctGL
AS yet there is not noticeable any par
ticular diminution in the number of
pedestrians on the principal thorough
fares, by day or by night, beyond that
usual to,midsummer dulIness, nor has
retail business materially decreased.
In wholesale streets a liberal business
Is, being done on opders-as much as is
ordinarily done in the dull season of
any year. The hotels have. large ar
rivals daily, but the travelling public
do not stop over night, as general
thing. The business of doctors, drug
gists, and 'undertakers is, of course, ex-
ceedtngly profitable. Every physician
in the city is driven by day and by
night by his professional duties. The
druggists have constant employment
Tor all the capable prescription clerks
that can be secured, and many of these
stores are never closed. The under
takers lind, already that it is impossi-
BILE to supply heafses in every case.
They ARE compelled to carry some of
the bodies in their wagons. Saloon
keepers find butv very little demand for
any drinks save brandy and whiskey,
strongly dosed with JainaIca ginger or
peppermint extracts. Even whisky is
falling into disfavory with constant
drinkers; tho beer and ale business is
virtually y dead this side of the canal; in
fact, the general demand, in nearly all
bar-rooms, is for brandy. ia
"Over the Rhtne," among the hun
dred thousand Germans, many of the
stolid, phlegmatic ones, deter mined not
to take the cholera, by fright, at least,
continue to quaf their lnger compla-
Gently, eat their cheese, sour krout and
green corn lat two cents per dozen, and
some of them to diel Without doubt,
several persons have already allowed
themselves to be frightened into the
disease. We have heard, upon good
authority, of instances in which ex-
ceedingly1 foolish and weak-minded-
persons, instead of earring for them
selves by cleanliness and abstemious-
ness, have eaten and drank as usual,
suffered complete relaxation of the
nervous system by fright upon the ap-
proach of a loosenessa of the bowels,
made mp their minds to die-and died.
We heard yesterday, also, of the case
of a strong, healthful man, a porter in
a wholesale house, who, upon expert
encing an attack of diarrheH, and with
out waiting until he could consult a
physician, went to his home, laid him
selfdown, sent word to his employers
and fellow-worlxmen that he would
never see them more, and resigned
himself to death. He was called upon
soon after, by one of his employers,
who laughed him out of the idea of
dying mmediately-and he isn't dead
yet. iIls-s, 5.,e,ll.- .1rs la31t75.-T
Fully fifty per cent. of those who
have been attacked by symptoms of
cholera, and have immediotely cared
for themselves. have recoyered-some
after great suffering. The idea that the
cholera kills whenever 1t strikes is sim
ply absurd. Prompt attention to the
first stages of a simple diRrrhea has al
ready saved many lives, and this fact
Is beginning 70 be appreciated. tits to
be regretted that among some classes
great deal of carelessness still exists.
1t is among these classes that ninety
per cent. of deaths oecur.s ~ aaf
Some people insisU upon procuring
an experience OF, cholera, orsome other
disease. A fine looking cheese, that
had seriously poisoned two members
of a family, was sent back, recently, to.
the store from which it had been pro-
cured, and was broken up and thrown
into the garbage barrel. A poor wo-
man passing, noticed the cheese, saw
that it looked good, and though twice
driven off by the proprietors, finally
succeeded in stealing 1t. We have not
heard, as yet, how many OF her chill
dren she has buried,