The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-27
TIE CH0LERA IN EUROPE.
It's Ravages In SIcily-singuIRr Super.
atittOus,


stitiOns,
An English paper says:-"The most distress
ing news continues to be received OF the spread
shows q total of 66l2 cases and 1921 Deaths
against $3.50 cases and 1888 deaths of the week
before. In Palermo and its suburbs the return
of last week was 80 cases and Is deaths per
diem. The return for twenty-fours in that dis
trict from the lst to the I'd of August is now
463 cases and 32O deaths. Messlna is still free,
and only a few cases are reported at Syracuse.
The disease appears to be on the decline at
Catanta. Ia the latter town the dead were left
to pntreiy in the houses, which had TO be broken
into by the troops and gcndarmes, for the re-
moVal of the fostering corpses.
"a letter from Messlna, received at Malta,
sayS:-'rhe clericals do their b. 81 TO induce the
lower classes to believe, and with some degree
OF success that cholera is manufactured by the
Government, and is distributed by the carbi-
neers and other agents with the view of dimln-
ishing the population, who were to have revolted
AGAINST the present rule In Catania where the
pestilence is committing the greatest ravages,
OF the persons attacked very few recover as the
belief is general that the disease is propagated
by the doctors; and the dying even refuse the
sacrament, suspecting that even the sacred
water may be impregnated with cholera. Here
at Messina the public health is excellent, in
spite OF the excessive heat which has prevailed
for the last week."
THE CHOLERA AND THE vIRGA JESSE OF HAS
SELF.
The Journal dc Liege publishes the following
communication from the town of HasselG
(Francel dated:August Sour town is going to
have strange spectacle The Recollets Fathers
are preparing for Thursday next a great relI-
ElOuS CeremOny-tne solemn CrOWn1nS OF the
miraculous statue of the Virga Jesse. The
crowning of this statue which is in the Church
of the Recolets, will take place in the Grand
Place, on an altar raised specially for this occa-
sion, i'm the presence of NJ. de Merode and
several prelates. According to the Con-
SttutionneG de Ltnlburg, which receives
| its information from The reverend fathers,
| the occasion of this crownipg is as fol-
| lows:-'First-Last year the cholera was APP
preaching Hasselt, when, thanks to a process
| sion through the town in which the miraculous
statue was carried, the terrible disease disap-
peared, and God did not permit IL to make a
single victim amongst the people. Second
This year the cattle disease has caused great
destruction amongst the animals of the dis
tillers. The Inhabitants in their despair had
recourse TO the Nirga JESSE and the same day,
was transferred to the middle of the church,
the fearful ravages of the cattle plague ceased
"Is not this sufficient to have the Virga Jesse
crowned twice instead of once? asks the Jour
nal de Liege). 1t is conceivable that the Recol-
lets, who have an interest in the spreading OF
error and superstition in order the more
securely TO establish their influence, should be
of this opinion; but what is inconceivable is
| that our communal council should publicly
They have in fact unanimously granted seven
| hundred francs towards the expenses of the
| fete, thereby giving sanction to the preten-
ttons put forward on behalf of the statue" The
| Journal de Liege then proceeds to prove thai
| the statue could claim no such merit as the
| register OF the town.house shows that twenty
| six persons died of cholera after the procession
| when one thousand four hundred an nimals were
destroyed, for which the Government had tC
| pay eight hundred thousand francs compensa
| ton.