The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-08
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olher 10 year OF great crime. Las
year was y year OF disastrous con
tlagratiOns. All evils, miseries, curses
and calamities, physical, social, or mora
seem to combine themselves together Il
the revolutions OF time. as perfectly and
symetrlcally as bits Of glass In kaeido
scope The most curious feature OF this
grouping Is, that II Is confined to the bad
thtngs. The good things Of earth seem
to be Numerically opposed to each 9th.
or, and to have no affinity for combins,
ton. They not only fail IN come al req.
ulAr intervals, but, when they do come
they come alone, as II they had stumbled
upon the possessor BY blind chance. There
Is no element Of chance, however, in the
visitation of the >miSerles. There Is q
mastery method in their combination,
and q mathematical exactness in the cal.
culatlon Of their direful orbits. Having
run through q complete programme Of
fires, food0, tornadoes, and earthquakes,
and an equally complete series otcfiminaf
convulsion during the past four or five
years, the world now seems TO be coming
down with ailments Of various descrip.
tons, and both It's two.legged and four.
legged population are sending for the
doctor with cheerful tinanimity II not
with pious resignation. Persia and
India are sick abed with the cholera, and
are rapidly spreading thir horrible com.
plant oil over Europe. The latest cable
dispatches report Il as firmly seated in
Russia, Prussia and Hungary. In Gum
6lnnen, o town OF Eastern Prussia, near
Konigsberg, It has broken out with VIC
lenee, and several fatal cases are reported.
AT bnda, Hungary, It Is making serious
ravages, and, from the location Of that an.
Client city Of the Danube, 1t must seriously
threaten Pesth and Vienna, the former Of
which Is directly opposite and tho latter
only $50 miles away. Meanwhile, the
dreadful scourge has sent out scouts to
prepare the way for the advance Of the
main body, and one Of these scouts has
appeared suddenly at Wexford, Ireland,
covering Dublin on the one hand and the
ocean on the other, and as Wexford docs
a large shipping business, 1t is not impos.
sible that some of the choleraic avant
co4rrIers may take passage va Dublin and
Liverpool for our shores, and make their
appearance here In the early spring. At
Stonlngton, Conn, there Is a vessel load OF
yellow fever, freshly brought IRON San
Domingo, and blown into that quaint old
port In stress Of weather. A slip in the
quarantine regulations may effect q land.
ing for Yellow Jack, and there Is no better
traveller when he once gets his foot on
terra iirma With the Tavages Of small.
pox the country is already familiar. It
has had its own way iu almost every large
city oithe North, and when last heard
from was in st. Louis. An English wri.
ter, Captain Butler, a fellow Of the
Royal Geographical Society, has lust
published narrative Of his travels and
adventures in British America, in which
he states that the ravages Of the small .pox
among the Indians Of the Saskatchewan,
during the past year, have been terrible.
lie says: "The tribes are fast vanishing
beiore its ravages. British observers who
have seldom passed severe comments on
the fate of the poor Indian in the United
States, are themselves beginning TO look.
with complacencY on the entire disap-
pearaDcc OF the Indians in British Amer.
lea as a solution OF the troublesome cues.
lions which make their existence such an
embarrassment" AS Q proof that all the
world Is sick, what man is there among
us who can step forth, lay his hand
upon his heart, and affirm that he
hasn't got cold, or cough, or catarrh;
that he isn't wearing a compress at night
on bis chest, or plaster by day upon his
back; that his laundry.bill isn't 80 per
cent larger than usual, simply in the item
Of handkerchiefs; that, in TACT, he isn't 10
the condition OF Heine's divinity, who
impiored the tisher-girl to make him a
cup oil tea and rum, for he had the "di-
vinest Of catarrhs, and o cough that might
last him forever" 1t is a pleasant time
for doctors, druggists, and old nurses, and
mint and pennyroyal, rosemary, hons, and
SIENNA, and other good old herbs of grace,
arc the only floral tributes which snItllng,
hacking man can cOnscientiously pay 10
the waning year. At the present rate of
bilurcRted epizootic progress, December
VIII expire between sneeze and bark,
II neu do not expire before December
comes.
But man is not alone in his misery.
That patient, accomplishing, badIy-used
drudge, who ministers to his pleasure and
does the larger share othis work is prac.
tically sympathizlng with him, and bear.
ing his miseries side by side with him.
The onlv
CLEAN Of brightness which has appeared
In this epizootic darkness is the fact that
the oxen have escaped the maIarious in
huences OF the atmosphere, and In most
places they have been impressed into ser.
vice TO do the small 1.-THE Of work thew
can, In their slow, heavy and unwilling
way. But even this small hope seems 10
be badly grounded, as the Treasury De-
pSrtment has Just issued circular to the
Collectors aa tho various ports, instruct.
ing them to be on the lookout to prevent
the importation OF neat cattle or hides
from countries where the hooEand mouth
disease is prevalent, the Department hsy.
ing received information that this disease
has again broken out in the Argentine
Republic. With the cholera in Europe,
the smallpox and yellow fever, and a
universal influenza In this country. with
the horse disease In every stable and a
cattle complaint looming up on the mias.
matte horizon, 1t is within bound to say
that all the world Is sick and wants the
doctor. Even tho wild deer On the from.
tier, according to the testimony of hunt.
ers, Is afflicted with a terrible epidemic,
resembling the horse disease, and large
numbers Of dead and dying deer are found
in the woods, which 10 a bad look. out for
yenison outlets and jelly this winter.
Under the circumstances, we do not see
that we can offer any other advice, addi.
ticnal to what the physicians OF bIpeds
and quAdrupeds administer, except to re.
cogniZe the situation as part and parcel Of
tho eternal fitness Of things, take as good
care as you can Of your own and your
horses nose, and trust to the consolation
oil DlilOgODhV IN Oulnpnaala f0F tho i'm