The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-04-06

never has had another "attack :" but he is
improving every day.
Have you any Tommy at your house
- Lewiston journal.
The Cyclone.
The region where the cyclone of last
October worked most terrible destruc.
ton is the eastern part of the great Gan.
ges delta, where the river Megna (form-
ed by the confluence of the Ganges and
the Bramapootra) pours its waters into
the Bay of Bengal. The volume of wa
ter carried down by this river is great
er than is discharged by any other ASH
astic river into the sea, point which
must be remembered in considering the
circumstances of the late catastrophe
We have here an enormous estuary dis
charging nearly 10000 cubic feet of wa
ter per second southward, between the
low lying districts of Dacca on the west
and Bulloah on the east. Further on il
reaches the archipelago, of which the
three chief islands are Dakhan Shabaz-
pore, Hath, and Sundeep, in order
eastward. Opposite the first-named is
the district ofBaokergungc Qhe Ganges
flowing between); opposite the last
named is the district of Chittagong. On
the evening of Oct. 81 nothing suggest
ed danger. "The weather had been a
little windy, hazy, and hot; but there
was nothing TO excite the suspicious" of
the inhabitants of the three islands and
the districts surrounding the mouths of
the Megna and the Ganges. To use the
acknowledgements words, "a mil
lion or thereabOuts of souls retired to
rest apprehending nothing" AT about
II O'Clock the wind freshened, but not
TO noteworthy degree, and. "the Sleep
ers slept on" Suddenly, at about mid
night, mighty wave, gllttering in the
starlight, was seen rushing in landward
and in a few moments houses and lands
were engulfed. and masses of human
beings and debris were swept away on
the top of the flood. We seem to be
reading of one of those mighty waves
which have been raised in mid-ocean
during the throes of some tremendous
earthquake: but ii was the wind which
had driven before ii this great mass of
water. Driven onward. il rushed into
the estuary of the Megna, spreading ov-
er the surrounding shores and over the
two eastern islands to depth of sever
al feet in many places. The worst was
yet to come, however. The wave which
had come in from the sea had been long
roller, and though il had contracted, in
creasing in height in so doing, as it
rushed through the narrowing estuary,
yet it was not until ii had passed into
the Megna that it acquired its full height.
Pressed onward by the cyclone, il gath
cred volume, until at length its weight
overcame the pressure ofthe wind, when
it swept back in one mighty and deep
wave round the western channel be-
tween Dakhan ShabazpoYe and Backer-
gunge, inundating the island to depth
Of twenty feet in many places, and
spreading inland over Backergunge to
a distance of from six TO twelve miles
from the shore. II had entered the cs-
tuary from the southeast, and now rush
ed outward. almost dead against the
wind, from the north east 4 remark
able illustration of the terribly sudden
nature of the disaster is Afforded by the
experience of Mr.. Higgins, the inspect
ing postmaster at Noakolly. On the
night of Oct. 81 he was in his travelling
barge, in q creek near Noakolly, about
ten miles from the river Megna. 'IIe
had gone to bed at | without any fear
or anxiety whatever. His bOatman had
gone on shore, but four native servants
were with him on board. Shortly be-
fore midnight he was awakened bv II
cry of "The waters are upr Jumping
up, he looked out, and saw high wave
with its crest and top cleaning in the
starlight; II seemed like n flash: in an
instant his boats were rising up on high /;
he fastened on a life belt In few mo-
ments; another wave came rolling on.
and the barge capsized; he padded
about in the water all the rest of the
night with the help Of the llip-balt; the
native servants elung TO spars. Three
were saved and one was lost. The wa
ter felt warm TO the body, but the air
was bitterly cold TO the head or hands
ton oflife probably surpassed any which
has been produced in the same space of
time since the world was peopled. Sir
Richard Temple, after personal inspec-
ton of the afflicted districts, has come
to the conclusion that not less than 2l5,
900 persons lost their lives. He distri-
butes the fatality as follows: Backer-
gunge, with the island of nakhan Shah
azpore, possessing a populatin of l37 =.
600, has lost about fourth of that num-
ber; Noakolly, with populilion of403.
600 has lost $4,000; and Chitiagone.
with population of 22a 900, has lost
10000. So that, out of total popula-
ton of ,O62 900 persons, more than one
fifth have perished.-[Cornhill Maga-
zine.
A Disagreement nf Doctors.
a doctors quarrel has been brought