The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-03-03


Fcqrfll Scenes IN q German EiIIaqe ~
lsdareben, one Of the pret1est towns in
Germany, is now filed with mourning and
&c olatlOn. During a month previous to the
9Th ultimO, death had been carrying of the
adult Inhabitants rapidly, until upward Of
one hundred had given up the ghost after
unexampled 7uAeriRgs. There was hardly
Il house IN the village that did not numbers
victim, and upward Of three hundred at the
date above mentioned where awaiting death
which they knewto be Inevitable prey to
fearful sunerings. Physicians say that the
victims OF this terrible plague are. eaten up
awe by legion Of worms hardly SO thick
as human hair that have worked their
way lnto-the tissues Of their. flesh their
muscles and their nerves. From seventy
eighty OF the inhabitants, who, at the outset
of1tIrg epidemic had felt unweli had taken
70 flight, but they had fallen down In the
roads and died without relief The children
zseeTn 10 enjoy an immunity from the disease,
meme having fallen victims TO itur to the
latest accounts
The epidemic, says the eminent Dr. Pou-
pigst vas caused b. tire rayaees Of the worm
called trlchlne, whence the epidemic has re-
celved the nalAe oftrichinOsis. The trichine
IS one Of the eJtt0zoa Of the pig and it Is ca
pab-e OF being transplanted into and thriv-
ing IN the human body. In Germany, pork
flesh impertectly. cured and smoked, in the
shape Of ham and German sausages, IS q
st1Ple article of food and from the human
stomach, where they penetrate with the ham
and S0UciSSOn pass into the blood, their size
abeing 80 microscopic as to enable them to
penetrate even into the miHutest veins they
lodge in the nerves, in the muscular and Gel
lul4r tissues aud feed upon those parts of
tho human organization, causing fearful
agony and great constitutional disturbance
which ends in death.
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The Locust Plague az Syria The locust
of whose devastations we have read from
childhood, is agrasshopper similar to those
that startu from the meadows as we tread
them in the sultry days Of summer. At
times, In the East, they become, as we know,
q scourge This occurred in southern Rus
STA IN the years following 1920 By 1924,
they were very troublesome; IN 1928 and
1929 they came in such clouds as to darken
the sun, Destroy the harvests and leave the
earth as void Of its green drapery, and the
trees Of all signs of life as IN q northern
winter. So great was the perils that the
government sent an army to check their
progress The following shows the mode
adopted in Syria by the inhabitants when
they seek to avert the impending ruin
Nhen the alarm Is given, men women and
children sally. forth, with bells, tin kettles,
firearms, drums, whips, anything, in fact
that will make either noise or smoke, both
things being very disagreeablc to the locusts
Fires are built of all useless materials, but
often in vain. The vanguard Of the enemy
perish indeed in the fire, but their bodies by
thousands eEtinguish the flames, and the
surviving millions begin the work Of devas
tation Where there is concerted action
the people try to drive them to the sea, or t.
the desert, and the battle is fought steadily
for weary days, till mass at least, is driver
where they must light on the-water to drown
or on the sands to perish. Sometimes tht
very swarms Of the dead locusts will breed
disease, the rapid action Of the sun filling
the air with seeds Of pestileuce, and giving
the insects posthumous triumph over then
pursuers, their bodies achieving the work
they failed to do In life.