Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1866-04-18
From the New York Evangelist.
RUN AND CHOLERA.

Has lntemperance anything to do with
! cholera Much every way The connec~
/ ton between the use Of Intoxicating drinks
| and the fearful ravages Of cholera is so
remarked that I wonder no word Of warn
| inc has been lif,td. IN examining this
! fact | find the following facts which New
| York city and every other city in the land
| ought to look at Here 5 the record en-
tered by the best physicians all over the
world In India 81. native physician
declares that people who do not take splr-
its or opium. do not catch the disorder
even when they Are with those who have
it." As the pestilence swept over India
wears AGO It was stated that I'm the armv
consisting Of IS 600 men. more than half
OF the men died in the first ttre2re days
the free use Of Intoxicating liquors was
assigned as the cause.
According to an eminent physician in
China "the disease selected its victims
from among such Of the people as lived in
filth and intamperance.
Mr. Huber, who saw 2l60 perish in
Twenty-Five DAYS in one town in Russia,
slvs at IS q most remarkable circUD7-
stance. that persons Qjren 10 drjntiaq
hare hem s,rrDf n3r1g EEe flies In Tits,
contaiuE 20 coo inhabitants. erery drunk
ard has fallen, all are dea2 Nor ONE RE
2TArNs
a physician Of Warsaw saws that the
disease spared all those who led regular
lives and resided in healthy situations
whereas thew whose constitutions had
been broken down by excess and dissipa-
ton. We're invariably attacked Out Of
100 individuals destroyed by cholera, it
was proved that ninety had been addicted
to the free use Of arden spirits"
"In Paris. Of the 10000 DESTROYED bv
cholera "a few wears ago-.'it Is said
that great proportion were incorporate
and prodiEate It is also stated by COM
putation that "five-sixths Of all who have
fallen by this disease in England were ta-
ken from the ranks Of the Incorporate
and dissolute" 4 physician who visited
Montreal during the prevalence Of cholera
IN the Summer Of 1852 saws "Ihe VIC
Tins Of the disease are the Incorporate
it invariably cuts them of In that CITY,
after their had been 1900 eases Of the
maladv. n Montreal journal states that
"Hof n druuEGr8 rEo has len attacked
Egs rec0rere1. and almost all the victims
have been at least moderate drinkers.
Durinr the same season the cholera rag
ed in New York city. D. Sewall of Wash
inrt0u CITY. after visiting the hospitals Of
y. York. thus records facts-"oC 20I eases
Of cholera in Park Hospital, there were
only six temperate persons. and they had
recovered while 100 Of the others, when
d., wrote. had died ard the facts were
similar in all the hospitals
4 reliable gentleman Of New York civ
saws of that period when the scourCe Wis
tied your city, Facts ahundantlv author
iza the conclusion. that had it not been
for the use Of spirits. there had not been
! cholera enough in the city Of New York
/ to have caused the cessation of business
I for q single dav.
/ 4 gentleman residing in tho CITY MT
/ the time has thus marked the connection
/ between rum and cholera : \ quantity Of
spirits was taken from a certain store
/ in the morning. and distributed 20 q
number 81 -ror-shons. In the evening the
/ workmPn assembled AMI received their
/ accustomed quantity The next morning
! ono. and another, and another were ear
/ riej hv nv door n the hospital and iu H..
/ Crtrrun1a rsre taken q The Paf'e5-s Fed
I The experience Of the city Of Albany
adds testimony ~ tile above "Tt : not
! known shat more than t7ve in Iivi1ua1- ont
/ os the i've thousand members Of the Tom
\ nerance Societies tt0.al ahstaincrsl in
I that c5t-, became lis victims while Of the
! $1,000 ct the rest Of the panu'a-ion the
I number Of deaths Of persons over sixteen
/ wears of ace was 25L"
Dt the ahstainers. one IN $500 5inJ
while q tho moderate and immo6era.e
. drinkers about FORTY N $500 died And
wherever the residence has gone. compu-
ta,.on has shown that rum catches and
binds niDe-tanths Of the victims Chicago
has iuS- undertaken 70 raise 100000 COR
sanitary purposes prepare for the
coming pastiicnce The people viii drain
r,nGs. build sewers. sweep streets. re-
ruoro fIsh. and actually license thousands
II know net how rCanv--ot rum shops,
il prepare victims for cholera.
/ few weeks ago vessel landed IN
New York aagbor with few cases Of
cholera au board The hare possibility
that disease would spread. almost p-od1c-
c8 7 panic the GanE Yarers came ouS
with editorials or immediate sanitary
measures. the family circles ana ruluits
were furnished with themes for earnest
PRAYER. ri-ht enough BGt the great fNre~
runner cf c0ola-a-infe9lvs rGacs-has
hesu ra-I01 iu,the city for Years vet there
Is. no rsnic. nos very much PRAYER or rraa-
ching or The subject The same i true in
anr beautiful peniuzuIar State and in hey
cities Detroit IS b}ostcI, saturated browns
"a almost with beer, ai-, AMI poisoned
liquors oE a. kinds 0ur villages 40 ours
Il with q curse Already we are begin
3'n- 80 call upon God to arrest the COM
M rs@tlc0ce. Is faith without work i
~ Dc = proposed thzs CT ministers Of
L3[ Gospel. all ofI7-e-s in o,,- oh,,r-bas all
>rooatt school teachers all -,-.-;-- r.,,,I.
tass INN e1lCta measures .,f'.,-. : ~