Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-09-28
THE CHOLERA

NEW oRK, sept. 27.-No cholera deaths re-
ported to-day.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25-EIeyen deaths nv
cholera were reported Yesterday.
NASHVILLE Sept. 27.-Twenty -four deaths
from cholera have been reported during the
last twenty-four hours. The disease is de-
creasing and has consequently in fused an ami
nation into business, and ahsentpes are return
ing. 1t is believed the present favorable
weather will entirely remove the disease
MEMPHIS, Sept. 81 Forty five new cases of
cholera and twenty four deaths have been re-
ported during the past twenty tour hours
The disease is confined almost entirely to the
negroes and lower class of whites.
NORTH ADAMS. MASSACHUSETTS,
correspondence of the New York Herald
ROY, N. Y, Sept 26.-The cholera has
broken out with fearful violence in the vicini-
eight cases and five deaths, the doctors say
within twenty-five hours. Briggsville is q
factory village located one and a half miles
north OF North Adams. on the road leading to
Stanford, VT. 1t numbers about one hundred
and fifty inhabitants, and like North Adams
and the vicinity hereabouts, has hitherto been
regarded as being unsurpassed as healthy To-
cation. This Is mountain region, living ne--
tied IN among the ranges of the Hoosac Noun
tains. At nine O'Clock on Sunday night at
Briggsville, a girl aged eighteen years, named
Gulliiland, who worked in the factory, and
who lived in the neigh boring town of Heylin,
was taken with cholera She had Just recoy.
cred from the measles and eat piece of cold
turnIp. In twenty minutes after she WAS
seized with cramps; in twenty-five minutes
went into collapse, and died in three hours
TWO boys brothers, aged respectively ten and
twelve wears, named GaQue or Galka, werf
taken with cholera on Monday forenoon They
were both taken at the same time. and died
within twelve hours, both diving within fif.
teen minutes OF each other. Mr.. Brown
aged forty years. boss dyer in Briggs Vile fac
tory, was struck down with cholera at the
same time as the boys, and died within fifteen
minutes OF the same time OF their demise
These five cases, all terminating fatally oc-
CURED within twenty-five hours. There have
been two cases in North Adams, both occnr-
ring about the same time the above. The
patients were Miss Bracket and Miss Buck
ley, both OF whom have nearly reco vered At
Biackington, n factory village two miles west
OF Adams, factory girl was on Monday sud !.
oehIV Struck down with cholera Prompt
meas ufes We're taken, and the girl is in 8 fair
way of recovery.
The beautiful weather of Tuesday and YES
terday seems to have checked the farther raw
ages OF the disease as no new cases are an.
nounced. There are no wells at Briggsville
and as there have been heavy rains recently
the water used has been surface water To
TINS cause the sudden appearance of the dis.
ease rs attributed Drs Rabbit. Hawks Bur.
rington, Barwell. and Briggs, of orth Adams
ali OF whom attended in the aboye-name
cases, pronounce il cholera Of the most malig.
nant type. The victims Uttered from cramps-
knots as large as hens eggs being drawn up IN
the limbs and the toes and fingers were drawn
down as sharply as if cut off. There is great
CONSERVATION and excitement 8t orth Adams
ana the neighhoring factory villages in conse-
quence of this sudden and fatal irruption of
the dreaded pestilence.