The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-01
LATEST FROM CHARLESTON
A Plague Stricken City.
WHEELING TO BE PlTTED.
A Vaccinating Picture
Charleston Courier's Special
A Bad Place For Legislators
HORRIBLE! Horrible Most
Horrible.

A terrible plague reigns in her Dor.
ders.
Her physicians are powerless.
Her streets are desolate and the
voice of the grinders are low.
erlow, sad wall goeth upto Heaven;
for human aid there is none.
And all this calamity has been upon
our fated city and her citizens didn't
know it.
Woe, woe, woe unto thee, thou plague
stricken city, for capital thou shalt have
none.
The smallpox rageth and the vac
cine agent at Charleston refuses to spare
us scab.
Don't get Fighter ed reader. Don't
pack up your trunk and bic to the
land where the blue bird continually
singeth aud perennial summer re'gns,
but stay and read the following special
dispatch which we clip from the Char
lesion Courier. 1t is dated Huntington,
December 90, 1872. Read and then
rush to the nearest physician and get
vaccinated.
1.-THE smallpox has almost entirely
disappeared at Wheeling There were
but sixty-six cases in that city last
week, and only twenty of these beyond
the control of physicians. 1t was for
tunate at the outbreak of the smallpox
epidemic that the Mcclure House was
vacant. 1t was turned into hospital
for the poor, unfortunate sufferers,
hundreds of whom, without means,
were enabled to obtain shelter there.
AS soon as the Capital question was
agitated, however, the sick were re-
moved, and the building put in as
good order as possible for the accom-
mediation OF the members Of the Legis>
lature in the event of removal. 1t is
believed to be in good sanitary condi-
ton now. At all events, the best has
been done tia could be done on such
short notice. The building has been
thoroughly fumigated, over forty bar
rels of tar having been burnt for that
purpose. Lime has been spread foot
thick all over the basement, and eighty
casks Of chloride OF lime and other dis
intectants have been placed in the
vacar chambers"
The author of that dispatch has
missed his vocation. AS the author
of yaller-kivered, Observation-Disclosures
ten cent novels he would be an inn
mense success. There is no need OF
his getting vaccinated for lying, for he
has taken it in the regular way and has
got it bad.
We have been getting along here in
the same old fashion, never dreaming
tn at the Mcclure House was in such a
terrible plight; never dreaming that
there were but sixty-six cases OF small
pox in the city, and twenty of these
beyond all control. How true it is that
when iguoranse is bliss. 'tvere folly to
be otherwise" Well, oow our people
know about it, we hope they will ADOPT
every sanitary measure suggested by
the dispatch. Let us burn millions OF
barrels OF tar. Let lime be scattered
over the city as thick as last weeks
snow. Let us not waste time with
eighty casks OF chloride Of lime. No,
eighty millions OF casks at least will be
needed il the dispatch above printed is
correct. And who can doubt it2 Does
not the Charleston Courier print it, aud
does not Huntington artist
say it? If the dispatch was manu-
fanctured for the purpose of scar
ing come one out Of q vote on
the Capital question, would the artist
have been 90 particular Would he
have said there were but sixty.six cases
when he could just as easily have said
two hundred and sixty-si1? Would he
have been go particular as to the guam
tity and kinds Of tumigators used, when
he could just as well have said the
Mcclure House had been blown up by
three thousand cans Of nitro-glycerine
in order to stop the progress OF the fla
we mean disease? Alb; no. 1t is this
attention to particulars that give the
statement the stamp OF truth, and rem
ders it certain that it is about time for
all of US who are not already as dead as
both Huntington and Charleston to get
out of this village, if we would save our
lives.
There has not been-but why should
we stoop to contradict go plain. fiat pal
pable and disgraceiul lie?
That's too thin, Mr.. Courier. Set EN-
up on some other alley.
GENrLEMAN's very large and fine