, 1866-01-25

| ulet; md Sheridan Wait Stale TruEtee. III. tw
fst named were reelected by the subscribers to III
loan Of 00o on the 9Th Of May, 1855, to boil
tbelr Offices two years from that date. The latte
was appointed By the Governor IN January 1861 I
hold his Office during the same period Of time.
TRlCHlNA.
| Ravases orthe Pork Disease in Prussia
Correspondents MY. Herald,1
| BERLIN, Dec TO- 1869.
The good people Of Berlin arc moi VI very ~: e.
citable race they take things cody, submit
| with philosophical resignation to what can
not be helpea. and only grnmblc little nov
| and then Wien their powers Of endurance ar,
too severely tasked but at the present mo
ment they are really in state Of consfdcrabl,
| aEttAtion. 1t Is not political agitation; tn,
| question that is discussed in pubic meeting
and private circles, In newspapers and pfa
cards, Is neither the annexation OF Schleswfc
| HolsteiD, nor the partition of Belgium, moi
the approaching catacysm Of the Mexican
empire nor tue exploits Of the British Hay
naus and MouraYie1s In Jamlnca-itis IL
THE0REAT TRIC1ISA QUESTION.
Perhaps many OF your renders may moi
know what trichinn arc, although they are
epjrafts Is small microscopic worm or AMI.
malcn1e, which was first observed by the dis,
tipguIshed anatomist, Richard Owen, In 1895
and is found In the muscles and 1niestines oi
various animals, especially pigs and rabbits,
IN such enormous quantities that single
ounce OF pork is said to contain occasionally
as many as one hundred thousand OF these
parasites. By partaking Of the meat Injected
with them they are transferred to the human
body, causing intense suffering, which. in
many instances, Ia followed by painful
death. The first symptoms Of trfchiniis were
noticed some years since In Dresden, but no
particular attention was paid to itttiil the
occurred both here and In other parts NJ Ger
many, which led to medical Investigation
of this novel form OF disease.
AZ usual, the doctors were Of different opip-
Ions some Of them declared that 1t was moth.
ing else thnn what Is commonly called measly
pork, which had been known for ages aud hns
never been thought particularly dangerous,
md although many people reftnined from cat.
ing tile unclean animal, especially in the shape
pf such German delicAciea as raw ham aud
smoked sausaecs, the whole affair was begin
hing. to pass out Of memory. The pork
butchers breathed more freely, and trichina-
thobta waB almost laughed out OF cpunte-
nance, when few weeks ago 1t was suddenly
revived by the announcement that at Hedars-
lcben, q small place In PrussIan. Saxopy. the
mysterious diseaee had broken out with great
ttrulence and WAS spreading over The adjoin-
mg villages, its origin being distinctly trace.
able to trichiniterous hog which had been
klilcd by the butcher Of the place and parcel
KID out among the Inhabitants.
| HORRIBLE RAvA6Es or rnE DISEASE,
! Day by day the accounts grew more alarn,-
Ing. whole families were stated to have died
gu IN e1cruciatlng agony, md by the last
bulletins the number OF cases actuaIlv
amounted to over three hundred and twenty,
OF which e1ehty had already proved fatal II
Is Impossible to describe the CONSERVATION
excited by the intelligence; since the flrst
apraEitlon Of the cholera, uothing like II is
recollected by the Oldest lnhabItant.
PORE At DISCOUNT.
A general strike took place In the pork-eat-
ing line in rain every butcher protested that
bis meat, at least, was sound and unaffected
By the formidable lufnsoria the public turned
from 1t with disgust ham and aaussres were
tabooed, and roast pig itseH was only ven-
standing the most practical trichlnologists
admitted TINT thorough good roasting Was
process which even a tTichina could hardly
stand. In the meantime, physicians crowded
to Hederslebcn from all parts OF the country
to investigate the symptoms OF the disorder,
and communicate the results of their obser.
Iatlons to the newspapers. the publication Of
Fhich Increased the uniYeral panic. The
poorer classes OF the population who {beeioe
potatoes and rye bread, J live chiefly on pork.
either fresh OF salted, were in the worst d.
1cmma Of all, having the alternative OF going
which they knew or suspected to bo nnwhoia.
some, and which the frst medical anthor;tiez
affirmed to be dangerous to bealth and n 1ifc
Itself. y
PRECAUTIONARY NpAerpea
! It was proposed, therefore, that every
butcher should be ordered, under seyera
palms md penalties, 10 hare the animals
npIc examination. md m FHdav ~ 1ost n,rr0 80
6lic meetinr tooI T nIaes n , Will i ~ g,,s
ian wa drhsta,1 md 5ath ~ ~ ana sus 1aes
richinIst- fSc latter consisting nsinc1u.1,a 1a
3ork butchers and thejr refsiners Tera AZ. ~
:embled In great force. ' WAC "s7
! rAr,ra NAV n,s .v,nn
! . r....s-:ts = - ~ 80 "oAo'
se.eIaasg surgeon by the name of Urban,
:, nan a. Mao aeaolfea an nneoviabie notoriety
= : - LuE teto!ution VI 1ots, contended stoutly
nIt at,s .nets "9e 70 suca thinga a. tHchina,
y na one1eo 70 eat any Tint We're given him
!ne[euPon hia antagonists produced slice Of |
flacK puaalne, MADE. they said, Of trlchinif-
Ious pork, ind requested him to dcyour II.
rue unhappy man turned pale, and seemed |
nclned 10 buck out, but, put upon his mett1e |
y Inc aaGhter OF the meeting, he suddenly |
'oitea the na1seous morsel' held out to him,
nd then rushed from the hall-itl-naturei |
'elso9s asse9t-to IN napotnecafy sshop, where
SvnI Ssz;t,e S o.Fssta -. r H. nan non lae
naa'sa sasssa y. nas W lSsh en.espflse
DECIDING TO DO SOMETHING.
The meeting broke up, as Is uanal with such
neetlngs, niter concluding that "somcthlng |
1ust be done;;" but no action has been taken
5 Jct oy the CITY authorities. The butchers,
oWeFer, hndlhg the tide Of opinion against
mem, have given way 90 tar rs to have their
neal examined In the manner proposed, and
Almost ereEy butchers shop you now see
nnEfHd nj hat /
be Joints Of pork, hams, sausages, &C., have
cen chemically analysed by Doctor
och.a-one, and found sfree from
F1chin1.' 4 remains to be seen wheth-
+ THIS VIII suffice TO calm the ap-
5ehensions Of tho public, who Do not
3len y attaen muSh weight to such testimoni-
Is. ln Berlin there have not been many
ases Of disease, about thirty In all, Of which
llrtcen have ended fatally, and It Is alleged
hat OF ten Thousand hogs slaughtered hcro |
OF more than one has been infected with I
ricl,n's but Of course this does not prevent
Sople from being frightened, for asevcry ono
,ho takes ticket IN lottery expects to
ats pork It mar Just happen to- be part Of
hat par}icnlaf representative Of the swinlsh
lnNnnle which forms the single unlucky
Aeepuon among us myriads OF healthy
FetaFcn- -
eoSrISuASeE or THE Tn1cu1NA FEAR.
1he trlch1naphobta continues to rage with
llabated intensity. In Berlin ecyernl casesnf
le sickness have appeared. At Hei1ess5ehsn sss o,
,c number Of deaths amount already to near
hundred, and attacks. Of trfchinItis Nv "ra aea ~
ortea from many other pasts Of The eomntrv mn
he pork dealers are at their wits end aIi
leiE assFerutiDns that every o1mca or that
ares has been microscopfcaI1y cxamfned an1
royed to be perfectly frre frnm fhe ue9,ana aaa
1tma1culR; all the medical certificates in:
'kea N their behalf, are disrcgardcd By the
oHee, WIG stap6ornly refuse to touch any
ing appertaini9g to the porcine genus.
lddenly converted to to Judaism nlss and oGsn Gia
~ religious antipathy to the unclean mi
al whtch must be truly ed1fytng to the fni-
'rk, hams, sausages, black puddipes nnd
gs' lfotiera hare vanished from the RIli, of !
re, AMI IT the butchers want to save Their